Thirst: The First Collection (Completed)

5. Drunk In Love

RJ woke up with a pounding headache. He had too much to drink last night. The sparkling champagne tasted so good that he didn't realize the volume that had already made its way into his body. He also failed to notice because Maine was drinking with him and he's pretty sure she was the one who kept refilling his glass with the one from hers.

He lifted his head to assess his surroundings because he felt he wasn't in his room. It was familiar but the headache he was experiencing was adding confusion to his already confused self. That's when he felt that he wasn't wearing anything. He was completely nude under the blankets that enveloped his body.

"Shit. What happened last night?" He murmured these words to himself as he tried to remember what happened a few hours earlier. Before he could even begin to process, he felt someone moving beside him. Fear crept up to him. He was nude, someone was in bed with him and he couldn't figure out what happened before he got so wasted.

He prayed that nothing happened between him and the body lying next to him and he also prayed that if something really did happen, it would be Maine sleeping beside him and not some other chick who could have drugged him and brought him home. He turned his head slowly and was relieved with what he saw.

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"Oh Richard. Bakit nandito ka?" Direk Pat asked RJ when she passed by him on her way to the comfort room.

"Wala naman. May iniisip lang." RJ said. He rolled the glass of sparkling champagne between his fingers.

"Eh bakit di mo samahan yung jowa mo dun sa loob? Di pa ba kayo bati?" Direk Pat giggled at the silliness between the two.

"Di naman kami nagkatampuhan." He laughed softly. "Mamimiss ko lang siya kasi ilang araw din siya mawawala. Kaya nagiisip ako." He looked at Direk Pat.

"Gusto mo sumunod pero di pwede no?" Direk Pat said matter of factly and RJ nodded. "Hayaan mo na. May next time pa naman kayo para manood ng Coldplay together."

RJ smiled.

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The events that happened started flooding back into RJ's memory. He started remembering what happened earlier that night. He sat beside Maine at the party after talking to Direk Pat before they started singing together on stage.

The body beside him moved again. This time, it faced him. Maine was still sleeping soundly. RJ stared at her angelic face as she slept and he remembered how she looked at him last night. There was hunger in her eyes. Something he had never seen before.

He also remembered how her body felt against him, moving in sync as they made love in the moonlight. He remembered how she kissed him all over his body and how she touched him in places that no other person has ever touched.

He ran his hands on the cheek of the person lying beside him. He caressed it with love and tenderness. He couldn't believe how beautiful she is as she laid there, bare, everything for him to see. He ran his fingers through her hair and through her shoulders, remembering how it felt as he held her last night.

"I don't know what I did to deserve a person as amazing as you." He whispered to her as she slept. "I love you, Maine."

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"Love..." RJ looked at Maine and stared at her for a minute. She something in RJ's eyes that night. He was longing for her and it was nothing like the longing in his eyes she had seen before. This US trip the she was having was affecting RJ in ways she couldn't understand.

"Love." She intertwined her fingers with him as they sat in his car in the parking lot. RJ was in no shape to drive and neither did she. They were still waiting for his driver to get to them.

RJ looked at Maine again and in that instant he had the urgency to kiss her, but it wasn't him who initiated. Maine grabbed him by the neck and kissed him. He kissed back and soon enough, the soft kisses turned into passionate ones, their tongues battling like there was no tomorrow.

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Maine heard what RJ said and it was like she was falling in love all over again. Of course she didn't respond right away because she still pretended as if she was in deep sleep.

She remembered every little thing that happened last night, how she kept pouring some of her drinks on RJ because she didn't want to get drunk, how RJ babied her throughout the night, how he held her hand as they were resting inside his car.

She also remembered the vivid details when they got to RJ's home, how he carried her to his bedroom, how he took her clothes off very gently, how he peppered her skin with kisses, how he probed her delicate areas with his lips and his tongue, how they laughed when he fell from removing his not so skinny jeans, how he looked at her as he made love to her. The night they had was something so beautiful, she loved every part of it.

She was surprised by the sudden movement beside her when RJ started kissing her shoulders. She didn't mean to but it ellicited a moan out of her, breaking the "I'm still asleep" act she's been doing.

"Good morning, love." RJ whispered. He bit her earlobe sexily and it was turning her on even more. She knew that the morning after wasn't supposed to feel that way but he's doing things to her that she couldn't pass up. And being much more sober than before was making it a lot better.

"I want you again. Right now." Maine grabbed RJ's face and mashed his lips with hers. It was his cue to do what he had to do.

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RJ brought Maine home. He carried her to his room like a bride, but with her lips toying with his neck and his stubbled jaw.

They were both in their drunk stupor but not drunk enough to make bad decisions and poor judgement.

As RJ laid Maine on his bed she grabbed the bottom gem of his shirt and removed it with ease.

"Sigurado ka ba?" RJ said it with worry in his voice. Maine didn't answer. She just held his face, smiled then pulled him by his neck and kissed him again.

A few movements later, both their clothes were gone and their bodies were intertwined on his sheets.

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"I love you." Maine said after recovering from the orgasmic high that she just reached.

"Mamimiss kita." RJ replied before intertwining his fingers with Maine, kissing it ang placing it on his chest. He, too, just recovered, his heart still racing and chest still heaving.

"Saglit lang naman yun." Maine hugged RJ then kissed him on his cheeks. "If it makes you feel any better, mamimiss din kita."

"I love you. Mag fefacetime naman tayo diba?" He looke at her with his cutest puppy dog eyes.

"Sige, paghahandaan ko. I'll buy the sexiest lingerie for you." Maine teased then giggled softly.

"Promise yan ha." They both laughed before RJ got serious again. "I love you." Maine smiled at RJ and he returned it.

He kissed her again then they held each other until they fell back asleep in each other's arms. They wouldn't need to worry about being late. The baranggay was just an hour drive from RJ's home.