Loved & Loyal | 1

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It's been a week since I talked to that guy on the phone when he made Abby upset. We spent every day together since then and I didn't want to let her out of my sight. I hated seeing Abby crying like that. I hated to see her so broken. All I wanted to do was fix her but I knew that she wouldn't appreciate it. She's so independent. She always wants to fix her problems on her own.

I wish she would just let me help, though.

Right now, we were playing my xBox in the living room, sitting on the floor, and I was beating her ass. We were racing in Forza and she was going down.

"Watch out for the sand, Abby," I taunted. She's hit the sand several times now and it takes her a while to get out.

"Oh, shut up, Elliots!" She punched my shoulder but immediately regretted it when her car spun out of control.

I slowed down so she could catch up a bit but when I saw her coming around the last turn I had just taken, I sped back up. I underestimated her because her car was slightly faster than mine and we were on a straight away before the finish line. It was the last lap. I tried to move in front of her and knock her off the road but that only succeeded in making me spin around.

"Awe, shit," I cussed, trying to turn my car back the right way and get back on track.

"Woohoo!" Abby cheered. "I won, I won. You lose, you lose!"

I tackled Abby to the ground and pressed my body into hers so she was stuck between me and the carpet.

"No, I believe I do," I leaned down, closer to her lips. My own were an inch from hers but before they could connect I jumped off her and ran into my bedroom. I jumped on my bed and sat with my legs crossed, trying to look innocent for when she came in.

Abby stormed into my room a few seconds later and laughed when she saw the look on my face.

"That is the worst look of innocence on someone I have ever seen. You look constipated!" She said between bursts of laughter. It's one of the best sounds I have ever heard, her laugh.

"Hey! I thought I was doing a pretty good job!" I said, indignant. I pouted out my bottom lip and she calmed her laughter down to chuckling.

"Yeah, so good. Great job, Ben." Her chuckling turned to laughs of evil and soon she had tackled me on the bed. She pinned me down by sitting on top of me, just below my hips, and she attacked my sides with her fingers. She knew exactly where my ticklish spots were and used that to her advantage.

"I give, I give!" I said between my laughs.

"Say you're sorry, Benjamin."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm -... so NOT... - sorry!" She tickled my sides harder.

"I take it back, I'm sorry! Now stop tickling me!" I laughed out.

"No. Not yet. Say that I won and I'm the best person in the whole wide world."

"OK! You won! You're the best -" I laughed specifically hard here, "- person in the whole wide world," I managed to get out. She stopped tickling me and I tried to catch my breath, my chest heaving up and down.

Abby remained sitting on me and I realized where she was positioned. My dick started to get hard as I focused on our position and she noticed. She was sitting right on it. Abs looked into my eyes and I gave her a wink, then, quick as I could, I flipped us over. Her knees were still on either sides of my hips, her hands were on my shoulders, and mine hands were on either side of hers. My breathing picked up again and so did hers. I couldn't help but look down at her chest, heaving up and down with every breath.

When my eyes flicked back up to her face, she licked her lips and that was when I realized what we were doing. I rolled to the side, pulling Abby with me, and brought her into my chest for an unexpected cuddle. She gasped as I moved us so quickly, but accepted the cuddling and nestled into my body. I kissed the top of her head and let my breathing go back to normal.

Too close.