𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞.

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Mercedes POV:

I push him onto the soft mattress, climbing on top. My skirt rises as his hands trace over my bare thigh. "I've wanted this for so long." I say, placing my hand underneath his neck for a better angle to kiss him.

Him.

Jake Rhodes. My boyfriend—for only 79 days, but who's counting—who I have come to adore very much. He is the only person to make me feel happy and not like trash.

Finally, the time has come. I am going to have sex. With the man I love. Love is a strong word but come to think about it... it's not enough to describe the amount of love I have for him.

With his lips slightly parted and my fingers tangled his hair, Jakes watches me move down his body. I reach for the hem of his shirt signaling for him to take it off and like his mind read mine, he does. I begin kissing him, tasting his bare chest and fiddling with his belt to not waste time until he stops me with his uncomfortably blue eyes.

"I'm sorry baby... but I don't want to have sex with you." He croaks.

"What do you mean?" I ask him, clearly hurt by his avoidance. Maybe he means he wants to wait 11 days... so I can get birthday sex.

"Well... it's just that your type of sex isn't mine." Jake props himself up by his elbows.

Birthday sex is out the line then.

"My type of sex?" I'm getting kind of pissed right now. "I've never even had sex yet! But your categorising it anyway?"

"Baby, I-"

"This is unbelievable Jake. I can't believe your categorising MY TYPE OF SEX, when I am most definite a FUCKING VIRGIN so you wouldn't even know!" I say, raising my voice a teeny tiny bit. Okay maybe that's an exaggeration.

At this moment, he's making my anger-meter all the way at red, usually on a good day it's orange or yellow. (Never green.)

"Mer-"

"Goodbye Jake. I hope I never see your ugly ass, rat looking face again." I say, sticking my middle finger up, and leaving him by himself. Maybe dissing him wasn't a nice idea but in my defense this is actually the second time he rejected having sex with me.

Music fills my ears as I make my way through the horny teenagers grinding their ass together, blocking the door to exit. "Could you please move." I ask, wanting to leave this place before Jake catches up with me and does his usual pathetic apology. None of them move, and you guessed it—my anger-meter is rising even higher. "Can you please just fucking move."

"No need to be rude." One of the girls tells me, giving me a dirty look—well that's what I think she was attempting.  I roll my eyes and shove myself out of the door and hop inside of my car.

• • •

The drive back home was dragging so much, I genuinely thought that I was going the wrong way, but luckily I didn't and I pulled into the familiar driveway, covered in small rocks on edge and near the patio leading to the front door.

Twisting the key through the hole I open the door and throw all my things onto the small table beside the door.

"ARGHHHHHH!" I scream on top of my lungs, slamming my head with the door—which would probably leave to me having a brain damage, that I'm praying would make me forget about Jake. "FOR FUCK SAKE! WHY ME? WHY AM I UNSEXABLE?"

The thought of no one wanting to have sex with me, makes me want cry and die. Not that I'm a slut and tried to hook up with a lot of guys which is not the case because I've only kissed Jake—and this random kid from the park when I was four.

Slowly dragging myself towards the stairs and up to my room. I fall on to my bed, that has a pile of clothes from this morning when I was choosing my party outfit.

This is all Madi 's fault. She just wanted a reason to see Theo. They've been hooking up for a while but she says it's nothing serious it's just for fun. But then, they never hook up with anyone else except for each other.

That is basically all I need.

Someone committed to have sex with me and would never get bored of me.

Please send that unholy man my way.