Clang! Raddle, raddle. Clang! Pssssss.
“Zach! When are you going to fix this damn car?” Arianna yells as I hop out of the driver's seat to push it to her house. Thankfully, we made it to her street. Just five houses away from hers.
“When I have enough money to pay for a date with my favorite girlfriend and can pay for the car.”
Arianna looks at me with a disgusted face. “Favorite girlfriend?”
“Oh come on, Ari. You knew what I meant. Now close the doors so the car has less pushing against it.” She rolls her eyes but does as I instructed, then pulls out her phone and scrolls through what I think is either Snapchat, Instagram, Tik Tok, or WhatsApp. All of that is wrong. It’s Tinder. I sigh and ignore the fact that my girlfriend is scrolling through a dating app.
I grunt as I try to move the car. I get it to three houses away from Arianna’s when she hops out of the car.
“I’m walking. You are taking forever.”
“Ari.” I plead. “Please?”
“No. Zach. I’m sick of you making me wait in your car while you try and, no offense, take hours to succeed. Bye.” She grabs her purse and walks to her house, occasionally pulling at her mini skirt.
“Dammit, Zach,” I say as I bang my head into the tailgate door of my light blue, rusty truck. Then, my head aching and probably bruising, I start trying to push my car down the street again. I get to Arianna’s house and take a break. She is sitting on their front porch. She sits there with her legs crossed in front of her.
“I was wondering when you would come by.” She uncrosses her legs slowly, showing lots of her upper thigh.
I walk up the front walk with my hands in my pockets. Ari gets up and walks to the bench, which is our spot. Her parents can’t see us because of the angle of their Ring doorbell and my car is always in a spot covering us even more. I walk up to the bench and stop right in front of Ari. She reaches her hands at me. I grab her hips when I sit down.
Ari nestles her face in my chest. “I’m sorry, Zach. I don’t know what I was thinking. I tried to get your attention by going on Tinder and storming off. Lindsay says I should break up with you but I don’t know why and I was trying to get a reason but I just can’t, Zach. I love you.” The last three words were barely audible but my heart heard them loud and clear.
“I love you, too, Ari.” She looks up at me. Before she can put her face back into my chest, I slowly put my lips against hers. She kisses me back then grabs my hands and lowers them down her back slowly, without removing our faces.
Just to clarify, this isn’t new. We aren’t pervs who move that quickly in a relationship. This isn’t just a summer fling either. We started dating in April. Also, it’s midnight so we aren’t completely exposed. We aren’t dumb pervs. Just thought that should be noted.
“You wanna go in my car? It might be cooler.” I say into Ari’s mouth. She nods in response, then gets up. We take our shoes off and climb into the backseat of my truck. It’s a hand-me-down from my cousin who lives in Arizona so all the windows are tinted.
Ari tosses her purse to the passenger seat and lays down across the three backseats. She giggles flirtingly as I lock the car and go on my hands and knees above her body. Then I look her up and down. Her golden hair was in a tight bun, but now is fanned out around her face like a halo and her hairbands are on my wrist. Her eyes are chocolate brown and are sparkling while staring into mine. Her mouth is ruby red from her lipstick and slightly smeared up towards her nose. I feel the sticky paint on my lips too. Her tight-cropped pastel pink cami is so snug on her body that you can see every curve and bump of her chest and shows an inch of her stomach. Her denim mini skirt is pointless now. It’s completely ridden up and shows her lavender underwear, which I’ve seen before. Her long legs reach out behind me and wrap up around my waist.
She pulls the bottom of her shirt up, showing the wire of a black bra.
“Zach?” She says in a mock pouty voice. “It’s getting hot in here.”
“You are so cringy, Ari.” I laugh, laying down on her. She giggles again and walks her fingers down my back, then slips her hands under my shirt and pulls it off.
“Shit, Zach, have you been working out this summer?” Ari studies my bare chest.
“Yeah. I run and go to the gym every morning.”
“Mmmmm.” She responds, caressing my hair with her dainty fingers. I unzip her skirt and she wiggles out of it. “Well, I like your new look.” She places a hand on my chest and kisses me on the cheek. I slip my hands under her shirt and try to pull it off.
“You need looser shirts.”
She giggles. “So I’m gonna start wearing cargo pants and oversized t-shirts.” I look at her and roll my eyes. She laughs, her naked stomach rising up and down. Her eyes locked in mine.
“Take your stupid shirt off, Ari.” This makes her laugh harder.
Together we manage to get the straight jacket of a shirt off of her body. Then she tugs as my swim trunks with her toes. I lay back down on her, feeling her warm chest against my bare one. I kiss her as she pulls my shorts off. Her feet stay on my low back. Urging me, without words to keep going. My kisses start going, slowly, down her face and neck.
“You know, Zach. I think Lindsay’s just jealous. I mean, I was truly looking through Tinder and like none of those dudes are as hot as you.” I pause my kissing and look at her serious face. She sighs. “Don’t stop. Anyway, if we do break up, I want to be the one who does it so that we can still be friends.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I say into her collar bone.
“Then I’ll choose that you are still worth it. I won’t be like Fallon. Fallon was such a baby. Oh my god, she literally cried for weeks when she was the one who ended it.” I kiss down to the clasp in the front of her bra.
“Yeah. Freshman year we were all just trying to get into a relationship and be in high school. We were all kinda babies.”
“True.” Ari giggles. I flip over so that Arianna is on top. She sits on my waist and gives a little tug on my boxers.
“Ari! I don’t have any rubbers.”
“We won’t need it.” I make a face. “My god, Zach. We are just kissing, which you will tell your friends” She makes a smirking face and says, in a deep voice, “definitely didn’t happen.”
“Is that what I sound like?” I ask sitting up. She wraps her legs around me. I start massaging her lower back. She leans into me and I begin kissing the back of her neck.
“Yes. That’s exactly what you sound like. And I will be like no that’s just a burn from a flat iron on the back of my neck.”
“What!”
“You know what you’re doing.” And she’s right. Because Ari is always right. I stop kissing and lean back against the windowpane. “I should go. My parents' bedroom light is off. I’ll just slip through the back door and they will think I came home earlier.” She giggles.
“You’re a little devil.”
“Ooooh. Great Halloween idea. A red bodycon dress that barely covers my ass. Red thigh boots or red velvet heels.”
“Arianna! It’s August! We haven’t even started school!”
Tomorrow we are.” She fake pouts, tracing the lines in my chest with her finger.
I laugh and hand her the small white cami. Then we search the backseat for the rest of our clothing. Once we are fully dressed, I check the time. 1:03 AM.
“We’ve been in my car for an hour.”
“Time flies when you’re having fun,” Ari whispers just before she leaves my car. I watch her walk away. Just before Arianna opens the side gate, she smiles seductively at me and blows me a kiss. I sigh, then I climb to the driver's seat and start my car.
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