Run Away Forever

Chapter Seven

Avery

We had been on our road trip for five weeks now. We were now in Santa Monica, California. I loved it here. I loved the sandy beaches and the pier that jetted out into the sea.

We had been here for three days. On the day we arrive we met a couple, Zoe and Travis who also were travelling, they were our age, however they were together unlike Jack and I. They were really cool, we had spent most of our time here with them. They seemed to know the area better than either of us.

"Let's go to vegas!" Zoe squealed was we lay on the beach soaking up some rays.

Somehow, we all decided to go to vegas for a couple days. We had decided to leave the next morning. I was excited to go even though I was under-age for most of the stuff we could do there, I just wanted to experience it.

The next morning we headed for Vegas in Zoe and Travis's rental car. Unlike Jack and me they had actually for the whole summer, we just flew to the places we wanted to go to.

It took us a six hour drive to get there but we had a lot of fun on the way, we played loads of kids' games to fill the time and we sang along to the radio stations whenever a good song came on.

It was late in the day when we arrived so we booked ourselves into a, one we had booked the previous evening, and headed up to our rooms. Jack and I had shared a room the whole trip because it made it so much cheaper and I hated sleeping alone in strange places.

In this we had a double room, it was the last one available at the last minute. I didn't mind sharing a bed with him, I mean we'd done it plenty before but I guess this was different. This would be the first we'd properly slept next to each other since last summer. I was nervous.

That night we went out after having a few drinks which we had found in the mini-bar in out room. I was tipsy to say the least when we left, Jack wasn't much better. I could already tell at this point that tonight was going to be amazing. That is if I remembered it.

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I woke to the feeling of my head pounding against a smooth warm chest. The last thing I could remember from last night was drinking at some bar with Jack. Somehow, we had managed to get in with our fake IDs, Zoe and Travis had real IDs unlike us because they had turned twenty-one a few months back.

Slowly, I sat up and stretched. This caused the covers to fall from my body, I felt a sudden breeze across my breasts they hardened in the cold. I looked down and there in all their naked glory were braless and topless breasts.

Carefully, I lifted up the rest of the covers, I really didn't want to see what I was about to. Under the covers the rest of me was also naked. I never slept naked. I pulled the covers over me, I couldn't look any more.

I turned to the body I was previously lying on and swore profoundly. It had to be him didn't it?

Jack lay fast asleep beside me. I felt so dirty.

I knew I'd have to wake him up and tell him what we had done, it wasn't like I could escape it, he would just know.

I shook him awake. His eyes fluttered open slightly. baby?" he grumbled.

"Jack!" I yelled loudly. "Wake up now!" I needed him to wake up, we needed to talk about this as soon as possible. "Jack!"

Suddenly he shot up in bed. He turned to be with a confused look on his face. After a few seconds I see clarity on his face, he had realised what we had done last night.

"Shit! We must have got so drunk last night, I don't remember anything. I wish I remember everything," he moaned in to his hands as he threaded them through his hair

"It's probably better if we don't; you have a girlfriend and all."

"Yeah," he said to my disappointment. I wished I could remember last night but for one thing I knew was that it was good. "Nothing is going to change between us this time though, you are my best friend sweetheart."

"I know Jack, you are too," I sighed wishing there was more between us. I wanted him even after everything I went through last year.

Jack

I knew as soon as I woke up that I had made a mistake last night. I was right when I saw Avery sitting up above me with the covers pulled over her. The look on her face just told me that we had messed up.

My body had felt like it had been through an intense workout and my head was pounding, I had a hangover.

I knew that we had slept together last night, I could feel it in my body. Last night was a blur, all I remember was that we went to a bar and had lots of drinks. I think a lot of dancing was involved too and I think I saw Elvis at one point.

Avery looked a little disappointed when I said that we were just best friends even though I wanted something more with her. She had been amazing to me for the past four years, she had always been there when I needed her but I hadn't always been there for her. I still really wanted to know what happened to her last year, she hadn't told me what happened.

"You broke your rule," Avery muttered with her hands pulling tightly on the cover around her beautiful body. I would love to kiss that body again, I thought as I stared at her.

"What?"

"Your rule: you're not allowed to have sex until you're in a committed relationship," she explained. That was true but Avery was my exception, I'd always want to sleep with her, she is my girl after all.

"Oh right," I sighed. "This time isn't any different from last time." I really didn't believe this but she had too, I didn't want to hurt her.

"But you have a girlfriend," she cried.

I thought of the girl that I had occasionally dated, there was nothing serious going on with us. I was with her so I could get over Avery. "Yeah she's not really my girlfriend, we've only been on a couple of dates. I think she's more interested in me than I am with her."

"Well I'm getting up and dressed, we only have two more days here before we have to catch our flight to Arizona." We were going to go visit the Grand Canyon for a week, we were staying in a hotel in the middle of the canyon.

"Fine," I sighed. I watched her climb out of bed, her beautiful body was still naked from last night, I wanted her again. She didn't bother holding the cover over her as she went to find some clothes, it wasn't like had hadn't seen her body before, there was no reason for her to hide from me. Somehow, over the last year she had become more beautiful, there was something different about the way she moved but I loved it all the same.

I knew I could never get enough of her.