When We Were Young - George Daniel

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE (cheap thrills)

September, 2009

A week later I was getting ready to head to George's for a movie night with the gang.

The afternoon I had spent with George had proceeded to turn into a night that I spent with him. He stayed over and we'd had sex a few more times during the night and early hours of the morning.

Each time he had managed to blow my mind even more. He was an outstanding fuck for a boy who'd just started having sex in recent years.

Before he left the next morning we had a talk. We'd decided not to tell any of the others about what had happened and especially not Matty. I'd thought about telling him but had decided against letting George know about Matty's feelings towards me. I didn't want to lessen the meaning of them by spreading it amongst our friends. It wasn't fair to Matty and I owed him at least that.

George had also told me some information I wasn't too pleased about. Jessie. Ugh. I couldn't even say her name. His girlfriend. He was going to bring her back around the group now that things had calmed down between everybody. Apparently she hung around a fair bit before I came back but George had kept her at a distance since all this had been going on.

I asked him if she knew about me and he said well, she did apparently. She had no idea about me and George or anything that had occurred between us in the past and most certainly she knew nothing about what was occurring between us currently. All she knew was that I was an old friend of theirs who had just come back from boarding school.

"She said that she'd seen you walking into the party the other week," George had told me. "Said that you were really pretty."

"Well, what can I say?" I flicked my hair dramatically behind my shoulders and winked at him. 

"She's not wrong, you're phenomenal." 

And we proceeded to have sex again after that.

Thanks Jessie!

My vans were bothering me as I meandered up the steps of George's house. I think I had a stone in them or something. I stood on one foot, trying to fish out said stone while I knocked on his door with my free hand.

"Hey," I looked up and saw George standing in the doorway. Judging from the cautious way that he spoke to me I gathered that she was already here.

"Hey you," I winked at him before pushing past him and into his house.

"GENEVIEVE!" Matty shouted when he saw me. "There you are my darlin', get over here!"

I saw her sitting in the corner of George's couch, her hair even bigger and curlier than what I'd remembered when I saw her at the party. I smiled at her quickly and said hey to Adam and Ross before Matty grabbed me and pulled me into the kitchen where he was pouring some drinks.

"I already feel awkward," I whispered as I watched him carefully pouring some tequila into shot glasses.

"What, coz of Jessie?"

"Yes Matty, because of Jessie. You know this," he rolled his eyes at me with a smirk and slid a shot over to me. 

"Have some shots it'll make you feel better."

"I thought this was just a movie night?" I asked him, licking my hand and pouring the salt onto it.

"It is, but I figured you more than anybody would need alcohol so I brought it upon myself to supply it," he spoke proudly.

"You're a good friend Matthew," we clinked our glasses together and threw the alcohol back.

"So, have you and George spoken?"