Stay Peachy

Chapter Seven - Rendezvous

A small gasp escaped my mouth as lips pressed against my neck. Soft, plump lips trailing kisses down from my neck to my collarbone. She drags a tongue against my collarbone as she slips the straps of my dress over my shoulders. The top of my dress fell down exposing my breasts.

The corners of Sierra's lips lifted as she gently grazed her teeth over my nipple, causing a strangled moan to sound from my throat.

This seemed to encourage her more as her hand moved to my front, pressing against me so they dipped into me.

I begged and begged until she looked up and me and opened her mouth, "Come on American, you've got to be taking a shit right now."

I raised my eyebrows in shock as I stare down at the toilet I've just flushed. My eyes move over to the bathroom door that is being pounded on.

"Eden, please hurry up before I just walk in." Sierra groaned from the other side of the door.

I look around the room flustered.

No way have I just had a daydream about Sierra. I'm still in shock when Sierra pushes the door open and squeezes in. She sat on the toilet bowl and looked up at me cautiously.

"Are you alright?"

I nod my head quickly, almost too quickly and make myself a bit dizzy. It's as if I can't breathe. This room is suffocating. I can't be this close to her even if she is pissing in my toilet.

"I just felt a bit sick, I'm okay now." I manage to say breathless. I quickly squeeze out of the room and sit down next to Audrey.

Even if I'm everything far from okay I will gaslight myself into believing I am. Audrey squeezes my thigh and offers me a can of flavoured cider. I gratefully take it and chug the liquid.

There's no way that happened. I can't- no I won't believe it. That was not what happened.

For the rest of the night I try my best to push passed the dirty dirty thoughts my mind had evilly conjured up.

In other news, my parents had very quickly warmed up to my friends, they all decided they were going to my father's birthday party. I smiled gently watching everyone get on so well.

It pained me seeing how good Sierra was with them. She had completely won over my dad.

I look over to Zack and Sofie who are dancing together, moving along with the music. A warm smile showed on my face. I love this. This was meant to happen.

I raise an eyebrow at Sierra who held a hand out for me.

"Dance with me?" Her tongue quickly darted across her lip and I cautiously take her hand, trying to ignore how my heart fluttered at the contact. She pulls me up before guiding me to dance.

Doja Cat begins playing and I try to hide my smile as she twirls me about.

"This isn't really ballroom level music is it?" I laugh and she has that really attractive smile plastered over her face.

A chuckle escapes her lips, "Any music can be ballroom music." she is 100% wrong in that fact but it makes me laugh either way. Her eyes widen as they search in my eyes.

"Get a room you two, jesus!" Holland groans from my coach and I pull away from Sierra, clearing my throat before going to the kitchen and grabbing another cider.

I sit back down next to Holland and he rests his head against my shoulder. I bring a hand to caress his cheek, comforting.

I look down at him as he starts to speak, "Thank you for inviting me over, Eden. I appreciate it," he squeezes my arm.

"It's no problem at all, you're part of the family now." He sits back up and looks into my eyes, he's wanting to say something but he just shakes his head and gets up from the couch.

"Do you want anything while I'm up?" he asks and I shake my head before thanking him.

When I look around, my dad is sitting there watching me with a sad smile. I look at him curiously and he shakes his head chuckling.

My brother comes over to me, guiding me over to my room. Once we're inside he laughs. He laughs as if he's discovered the funniest thing in the world. I was worried he was gonna hack a lung up.

"Oh my god!" he finally exhales, I watch him wipe a tear away from his eye. "You are so into Sierra."

"What? No!" I feel my body grow hot and I love over to sit at the bottom of my bed. My brother joins me.

"You can move on from Julia, you know?" I nod in response, "then why are you holding yourself back? It's not as if she's sitting back home single and alone."

I sigh and shift to face him better, "Will, when did you get so wise?"

"I don't even know." he chuckled and we sat for a minute in silence. "Dad's worried about you."

"Why is dad worried about me? I should be worried about him," I tilt my head when I look over at my brother, his smile still there on his face.

"You've had to have a complete new start. At least with us we already known people here." He intertwined our hands and I sit staring down at our hands, "Dad's thinking about staying her for a few more years... he loves it here."

I take a deep breath in as I realise what that means, "So I'm going back without you?" He nods and it felt like the air was knocked out of my lungs.

"What if you don't go back?" I snap my head towards my brother as if he's insane, "It's obvious you're so much happier here... you left your people behind you can't handle it another time."

"I need to go back to Julia."

"No you don't, she's moving on Eden! It's time you do too," he squeezes my hand, apologising for raising his voice. My head spun slightly as the alcohol took over me.

I need to drink more.

Julia's going to come find me, and then we'll go back to New York and everything will be how it was.

A bitter taste filled my mouth as my bedroom door opened up and Sierra stood there looking between us.

"Your dad brought... uhm, cake." She cringes at ruining the moment, "I can go and give yous a minute if you-"

"We'll be right out thank you." I smile at her and she stands at the door. William stands up and exits. Leaving Sierra and I alone.

"Are you alright?" her hand drops from the door and she walks over to drop onto the bed next to me.

"Yeah," my voice was quiet. It felt as if there was something stuck in my throat, it was almost impossible to swallow. I feel every willing part of me scream out as Sierra's warm hands intertwined with mine.

"Is this alright?" She whispers and I nod my head. This is more than alright. "I just like holding your hand."

Every thought in my mind was moving at a million miles an hour, "We should probably go."

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