Violet"I feel like I'm going to explode," Leighton complains a week later as we clean up from a crazy breakfast rush at The Café."You're pregnant and due in a few weeks. You're supposed to feel that way," I remind her as I pull out a chair for her. "Have a seat, prop those feet up, and let me do the work.""Funny, sometimes Holden says the same thing, only not about cleaning up." She has this naughty look on her face that is one hundred percent my friend.I've been worried about her since they positively identified her mother's body. Especially with the holidays fast approaching, I'm wondering how she's going to handle it. Hopefully with a baby to care for, she won't dwell on it too much. I've watched her since she was given the information, and except for the first few days after it happened, she seems to be doing well. Leighton's a fighter, and I expected nothing less from her."Have you thought of a name yet?" I ask as I go around, wiping off the tables."You just want
AceI grab hold of her shoulders, pushing her back into the hallway, leading to her bedroom. There's one thing I need right now, and that's to know she's mine. I need to bury all these feelings in her and let them come out as something better, something not tainted by the ugliness I see every night."What do you need from me?" she asks as we enter the bedroom, and I'm reaching down to undo the belt at my waist."You," I groan when her fingers push mine away. "I need to know this ugliness I see and experience is for something good. I need to know this won't beat or break me.""It won't, because I won't let it." Violet drops to her knees before me, shoving my pants and underwear down around my ankles. Before I know what's happening, her warm heat has circled my dick, taking it down her throat.I had been hard before, but now I'm granite as she slides her tongue up and down my length. There's no finesse tonight, nothing that remotely reminds me of the loving and caring guy I've
Violet"This weather blows." Leighton grimaces as we watch the rain come down in sheets outside The Café. It's made for a boring shift for both of us. "Since there's been no one in here, all I've done is eat." She puts another fry in her mouth, liberally dipped in ketchup. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone eat as much ketchup as she has since she found out she's pregnant. I laugh, leaning my head against her shoulder. "You're doing great things, like growing a human. You're gonna be hungry. Plus, you're gonna have this baby very soon. You've already dropped.""But if I gain a hundred pounds, Holden's not going to want me anymore." She pushes the fries away, but grabs another anyway."You're crazy, Leigh. I wish you could see what you look like right now. Like really see it." I turn to face her, ready to lay down some truth for her. Since she had to get a pair of maternity jeans, she's almost been having an identity crisis."Like a whale?""Absolutely gorgeous." I put my
AceHalloween"Come on, we gotta hurry up and get these done before they start showing up."Violet and I are racing against the clock. Trick-or-treating starts at four p.m. and it's three-thirty. We're both changed, and Leighton's already here, helping us fill up the treat bags we'll be handing out. We'd starting filling them up when Violet got off work, but we'd gotten distracted when we got dressed in our costumes. If I'd known she was going to look as good as Wonder Woman herself, I would have had her try it on for me before today."You're a damn slave driver," Leighton grumbles as she situates herself on the couch. "If I knew you were going to be this bad, I would have said leave my ass at home."Violet snickers, handing her friend a piece of chocolate. "Here, eat this and you'll feel better."Leighton does as told, and then grimaces, putting a hand to her back. "I've felt like shit all day. I didn't want to come, no offense to you all, but I'm just so uncomfortable. Ho
VioletThanksgivingMost of my adult life I've been nervous. Nervous about what I would do to piss Brent off. Nervous about starting a brand-new job, nervous that someone would see right through the lies I wove around myself and my situation. What I've never been nervous about before is meeting parents. Back when I met Brent's, I was so numb to everything going on around me, I don't even remember it. Then after we high-tailed it out of town, we never went back.Today, though, is a very important day; I'm meeting Anthony's family. The entire MTF crew has opened up their base of operations for everyone's family to share in the holiday together. Spearheaded by Blaze and Whitney, it's the first get together of its kind, but I can tell that most everyone is very excited about the families getting together. Anthony had to go help set up, so I'm grabbing the sweets I baked and the turkey we deep-fried last night that's now been sliced, for anyone who would prefer to have a cold sandwich
Ace"Did you have a good time today?" We're lying in bed, on my side of the duplex, snuggling together after working off some of the calories we consumed in the huge meal we ate."A great time, which surprised me, because I was so nervous about meeting your parents."A grin spreads itself across my face and a happy warmth takes up residence in the middle of my chest at the pleased tone of her voice. "You and Mom got along like gangbusters as soon as the awkwardness wore off.""The awkwardness didn't last as long as I thought it would." She stretches beside me, hooking her leg around my waist. Lifting it up with my hand so that it rests comfortably, I relax against the comfortableness of the bed.She yawns as I push my hand through her hair, cuddling her up next to me. "When I first saw you, I imagined this," I whisper."What did you think when you first saw me?" she asks as I feel the smile against my shoulder."I'm starving." I rub my hand across my stomach as Havoc and
AceChristmas"Is it okay that we decided to wait to exchange gifts until we got back here?" Violet asks as she enters my side of the duplex. "It seemed so private, and I wasn't sure I wanted to do that in front of your parents.""No, I'm okay with that." I pat the couch beside me, beckoning her to come sit beside me."You know this couch has held a pretty special place in my life since we made out on it that one time." She cuts her eyes over at me, desire and passion in them."Oh really?" I chuckle, slipping my arm against the back of the couch, pulling her closer to me."Yeah, that night was one of the first nights I felt like I could be myself with you, and you got me so hot." She closes her eyes."You got me hot too, but let's not talk about that right now. We're supposed to be exchanging gifts.""Okay." She sighs. "You wanna go first?""How about we go together?""I'm good with that."She hands me what looks like a gift certificate of some type, and I hand he
VioletNew Year's Eve"Abs of steel, did you eat the cookies?" I glare at him from the kitchen of my side of the duplex.Next month we'll be packing it up so I can move into his side, but right now, I'm thinking about banishing him. "Those weren't for me?" He gives me an innocent look."Not the whole container, what am I supposed to take to Holden and Leighton's?""There's a package of Oreo's up in the cabinet. I mean nobody's gonna give two shit's, Vi. They were amazing, by the way."Unbelievable. "Okay, but when we get there empty handed you can tell everyone you ate all of them."He struts over, opening his arms up to me, crushing me to him for a hug. "I'll tell them it was all me, nothing to do with you. I'll brag about how good they were, and then laugh inside because they won't be able to eat them.""You're awful." I laugh, slapping him on that fuckin' ridged stomach of his. Which I still can't figure out how he maintains. "Only awful for you." He dips his h