Good to Go

Jake blew on the panties and they dislodged and fell into the bag. "Uh, no worries," he said, his face now flaming red.

Dani grabbed the rest of her stuff, tossed it in the bag, and grabbing the bra still laying across his arm, put it in the bag as well.

"Ready to go," she announced.

Jake zipped the bag up and following Dani, headed back down stairs.

*****

A dozen or so people were already at Kaylee's house when they arrived. It was about a half and half mix of guys and girls. Everyone was laughing, splashing and having a good time. Jake and Dani went into the pool house to change into their swim suits. Dani went into the changing room and Jake went in the bathroom where he changed into his swim trunks and a navy blue sleeveless tee shirt. They came back out at about the same time. Dani had on the turquoise bikini with a white wrap around her waist that went almost all the way to the floor. Jake's pulse tripled in an instant and he could feel himself beginning to get erect at the sight of her. He picked up a beach ball that was sitting in the corner and held it in front of himself, hoping she wouldn't realize what he was doing. He was scared to think of what Dani would say if she knew he was having these thoughts about her. He was her best friend, and was supposed to protect her, but lately he felt like it was him she needed protection from.

They went out of the pool house and Jake jumped immediately into the pool, hoping the cool water would help cool him off, both literately and figuratively. He watched as Dani went over to say hi to Kaylee and Steve who were sitting on the covered swinging chair.

"Hey Dani," Kaylee said as Dani walked up to her. "You remember Steve," she said, patting him on the leg.

"Yes, hey Steve," Dani said.

"Hey Dani," Steve replied. "Hey, I wanted to apologize about Travis. Kaylee told me about what he tried to do with you. He's a freaking idiot and a steroid jock. We went by his Dad's house and let him know that if he showed his face around here, or especially you, that we'd help your boyfriend beat his ass."

"Her what?" Kaylee asked.

"Her boyfriend, the tall guy she's always with." Steve turned to Dani. "Isn't that your boyfriend?"

"No," she said, looking at Jake standing in the pool, leaning against the side, his eyes closed and his head tilted back, his face to the sun, "he's my best friend. He has been since we were six years old."

"He must be a good friend because he messed Travis up. He had busted teeth, a fractured jaw, a concussion. That's the kind of damage done by someone that loves you." Steve said, "in my opinion anyway."

Could that be true Dani pondered? Could he love her the way she loved him? She knew he loved her, but was it the kind of love that would make him want her the way she wanted him?

"He watches you," Steve said, "not creepy stalker like, but like you're very special to him. I noticed it at the lake the other day, that's why I thought y'all were together."

"Dani!" Someone was coming through the crowd toward her.

"Stormy!" Dani exclaimed as the blonde girl made her way through the small crowd of people.

Stormy Davis was the stereotypical blonde bomb shell. She was 5'7", long wavy blonde locks, bright blue eyes that Dani had wondered more than once if they were colored contacts. She had an hourglass figure with large breasts that weren't what Nature provided but were really expensive, a slim waist, and flared hips. She had been the head cheerleader her senior year at their high school. Dani was never a cheerleader, preferring instead to actually play sports instead of cheering for them. She had played basketball, volleyball, softball, and soccer.

Stormy finally reached the small group and gave Dani a hug.

"So, how have you been since graduation?" she asked Dani.

"Just trying to enjoy the summer before starting to college in the fall," Dani said.

"So where's Jake?" Stormy asked, looking around. Everyone knew you rarely saw one without the other.

"He's in the pool," Dani pointed him out.

"Mmm, I wish he'd take that tee shirt off. I can see his big shoulders, arms, and chest through the shirt, but I bet they'd look a lot better without it," she said wistfully.

Dani suddenly had the urge to take Stormy over to the pool and hold her head underwater. Where did that come from? Was she jealous of Stormy wanting so see Jake's body. Short answer: hell yes, she was. Stormy had a reputation that seemed to come along with being head cheerleader. Rumor was that she was very sexually active and that once she set her sights on a guy, that was it. They were conquests to her, and once she got what she wanted, she moved on to the next one.

Dani suddenly wanted to introduce her to Travis, but then immediately felt bad. Sexual-free-spirit or not, no woman should ever be forced to do something they didn't want to do.

"He has a sensitivity to the sun," Dani said, repeating the story that had been made up years prior to explain why he never took his shirt off in front of anyone. "His back and chest break out in an awful rash if they get too much sun."

"Well that's just a shame," Stormy said, watching Jake in the pool.

Dani took her wrap off and set it on the seat next to Kaylee. "I'm going to go jump in for a bit," she said, walking off toward the pool.

Jake saw her coming and smiled. She took three running steps and jumped, right at him. He tried to catch her, but her momentum took them both to the bottom of the pool.

Jake came up for air, and saw Dani had already surfaced, laughing. He couldn't help but smile as the reflections of the sunlight off of the water danced across her emerald eyes.

She swam over next to him and whispered in his ear. "Somebody's been checking you out."

"What?" he asked, surprised.

"Yep, Stormy Davis was just up there asking me all about you," Dani teased.

He looked up and spotted Stormy, and she did appear to be looking and smiling at him.

"Why would she be asking about me?" he asked, confused.

"Well, apparently she thinks my best friend is a hunk," she said, winking at him.

Stormy was beautiful in a movie star sort of way. Her folks came from old Texas Oil, so she was rich, and could afford the best of everything and she was used to getting her way. Dani wondered if Jake might be interested in Stormy.

Jake had never dated. He would talk to the girls in their circle of friends, but he had never sought out a girl in a romantic sense. She had attributed that to his past, and not trusting intimate relationships, but as they got into their teens she expected hormones to take over and that natural drive that seems to exist in every man to reproduce the species to come forth, but for Jake, he had never pursued anyone that she knew of. Was he truly so broken that he might never have a loving physical relationship?

"Yeah, right," Jake said. "She could have any guy in our class."

"I think she's already had most of them," Dani quipped with a wicked smile.

Jake just grinned. His best friend had a caustic wit when she wanted to.

"Maybe you should ask her out," Dani suggested.

"Uh, what?" Jake asked, stunned.

"I know she'd go out with you."

"Well, I can't," Jake said.

"Why not?" Dani pressed.

"I just can't." Jake suddenly had that look in his eyes, like a trapped animal. He turned, climbed up the ladder and headed straight to the pool house.

Dani stood there, watching him practically run into the pool house. What had that been about? Had she pushed him too far? Was he really that afraid of intimacy? She felt horrible for making him scared like that. She got out of the pool, got her towel to dry off, and collected her wrap.

She decided to give him a little time and assumed that he would be back so she mingled, speaking with friends here and there, mostly Kaylee and Steve. After nearly an hour had passed and Jake was still not back, she began to get worried.

She went to the pool house and looked around, but Jake was nowhere to be found. She looked where he had put their bags. Her bag was still there, but his was gone.

She went back outside and looked around but couldn't find him. She walked around to where they had parked the truck. His truck was there, but when she opened the door, she saw his keys laying in the seat. She knew he hadn't left them there when they had arrived, so she assumed that he left on foot, but had left her with the truck to get home.

Dani quickly went back to the pool house, threw her shirt and shorts on over her swimsuit, and headed out. She drove his truck toward his house, expecting to see him before she got there, but he was not on the road. Had he walked the whole five miles back home this quickly?

She parked the truck and mounted the front steps of the house. The front door was locked, but she had his truck keys, and knew where the hidden key was on the front porch. Unlocking the door, she ran up the stairs to his room. The door was open so she looked in. Jake was laying on his back on the bed. His arms folded over his face. His chest still moving up and down rapidly from the exertion of running all the way home, his blonde hair was plastered to his forehead from the swimming and the sweat. His face and arms were flushed.

Dani padded over on bare feet and eased herself down on the bed next to him. Laying her head on his chest and stretching her arm over his stomach. She felt his body tense at her touch. He had always avoided physical contact with everyone, except for his parents, and her. She was afraid that she might suddenly lose her place in this exclusive club. She started to remove her arm when he reached down with his left hand and stopped her. Holding her arm across his stomach.

"Dani, I'm sorry," Jake started out.

"No Jake, I'm the one who's sorry. I shouldn't have teased you like that."

"No, it's not your fault. I know you didn't mean anything by it, it's just that the thought of asking out a girl, while I'm already in love with another girl; it just wouldn't be right." He said it in a low whisper.

"What do you mean, you're already in love with another girl?" She was both thrilled and terrified of what his answer might be.

"Dani," he confessed. "I love you. I always have, and I always will. I love you as my first and best friend, but I also love you in another way."

"And what way is that?" Dani asked, feeling light headed and giddy.

"In a way that I want to kiss you, and hold you in my arms forever. In a way that I want to make love to you if someday you loved me too."

"Well," Dani whispered in his ear, her hot breath causing an almost instant erection. "Welcome to someday Jake, because I do love you, too."

Jake moved his other arm and looked down at Dani who was looking up at him. She slowly moved up, never taking her eyes off of his, and placed her lips softly on his. Her right hand slid up his chest, up the side of his neck before moving to the back of his head, drawing his head down even further. Her mouth opened ever so slightly and her tongue reached out tentatively and touched his lips. At first she felt him stiffen, but then he opened his mouth and let her tongue enter. As it touched his tongue it was like an electric shock that flowed through his whole body. Jake's arms tightened around her body, pulling her on top of him. He could suddenly feel her breasts pressing into his chest. As he kissed her more passionately she started to move her hips in such a way that she was rubbing directly on top of his rock hard erection.

"Mmmm," they both moaned in unison.

"Oh Jake," Dani said as she kissed neck, "I have wanted this for so long now."

"Me too." Jake whispered, nuzzling her neck and ear. "I have loved you, really loved you for so long now. I was so scared to act on it because I was afraid if you didn't feel the same way that you wouldn't or couldn't be my friend anymore and I just couldn't bear to think of that."

"Oh, baby. I thought the same thing. You have never expressed any interest in girls so I didn't know if that was something you were even interested in. I know the terrible things that you lived through, and that could mess someone up for life, and I'm not saying you're broken, but I wouldn't blame you if you had some reservations about getting in a physical relationship. I know how you are about being touched, and I know you tolerate it from me, but I didn't know if you actually liked it."

"You're right. I did have a rough go at the start. I know that since I came here that I'm safe, and cared for and loved, but I know I still have an issue about being touched. There are some memories that I don't know if I'll ever be able to repress, but that first day that you climbed the fence into my back yard and we played cars, and then I gave you that old car and you hugged me. The fear that usually accompanied physical contact wasn't there. Instead, your touch seemed to wash a calm over me like I had never felt before. It's been that way ever since. Just the touch of your hand on my arm, or when you hook my arm with yours, or when you lean your head on my shoulder like you did in the truck that night after we went to the lake. The slightest touch from you calms my mind, but of late, it also excites me."

"Well if the touch of my hand can do all that, you're gonna love this," Dani said with a wicked grin and a flash of her green eyes.

She reached down, grabbing the bottom of her tee shirt and pulling it slowly up her body, dropping it on the floor next to the bed. Looking him directly in the eyes, she reached behind her neck, found the string holding her bikini top up, and pulled. As the strings fell down her chest, she pulled the top down, revealing her perfect breasts. They were tan like the rest of her body. Her areola were a dark brown and about the size of a 50 cent piece, with dark pink nipples protruding from their center.

Jake could only stare in awe at her body. "Dani, you are so beautiful." His voice husky with emotion.

She reached down, pushing his shirt up his chest, then she laid her body down on his.

It was like an out of body experience. The feelings he had were overwhelming. It was like every nerve ending was on fire. It was almost painful. As she kissed him, she rhythmically slid her nipples around his chest before reaching down and taking his hands and moving them to her breasts.

His first touch was tentative, just barely touching with his finger tips. Slowly, he increased his pressure, kneading the flesh before running his thumbs over her erect nipples.

"Oh my God," Dani breathed into his neck.

Jake stopped immediately.

"Oh no baby, don't stop on me now," Dani pleaded.

Jake returned to massaging her breasts. Dani was again rubbing her crotch against his and the sensation was incredible. This was nothing like masturbation.

Dani was grinding against Jake's erection and getting hotter and wetter by the second.

Dani sat back up, still sitting on Jake's erection which she could feel pulsing beneath her. She suddenly got up and stood beside the bed, crooking her finger at Jake to join her.

Jake swung his long legs over the side of the bed and stood up in front of her. She grasped the bottom of his tee shirt and starting moving it up his body. By instinct, he reached to quickly grab the bottom of his shirt. Dani looked into his eyes. The love there was evident. Jake released his hands, held his arms up, and let her continue. When his shirt was removed, she slowly moved her hands around his waist tracing her fingers over his scars. She turned him away from her, sat on the side of the bed, and kissed each welted scar across his back. When she turned him back around, she saw a single tear coming down his cheek, she wiped his tear, then kissed his cheek where the tear had been.

"Everything about you is beautiful," she said. "Your crazy blonde hair, your sexy icy-blue eyes, your perfectly kissable lips, your broad shoulders, your muscled stomach, your super fine butt, your long legs, and yes baby, your scars. Now there's something else I want to see."

She smiled as she reached for the button on his shorts. She dropped his shorts to the floor and looking up into his eyes, pulled the band of his boxers out to clear his raging hard-on before dropping his boxers as well. Jake drew in a sharp breath when she reached out and took a gentle hold of his shaft.

"Oh Jake, it's so beautiful." She leaned in and licked the bulbous head. Jake's eyes closed and he stood rock still. Leaning back down, she took him into her warm wet mouth, sucking gently.

"Oh Dani, that feels so good," Jake said.

"Mmm," she moaned while he was still in her mouth. The vibrations were exquisite.

Dani continued her rhythm, as pressure began to build for Jake.

"Dani, Dani, I'm about to come," Jake tried to warn her.

Dani just looked up from those emerald eyes and continued her bobbing. She felt the first jet hit the back of her throat so she backed off until just the head was trapped between her lips as he pumped load after load into her waiting mouth.

"AAARRRGGG!" Jake growled as he came. Forcing his eyes open he looked down where Dani was still staring up at him, her cheeks drawn in as she was milking every last drop from him. She finally released him from her mouth, and swallowed before looking back up at him, smiling.

"Dani," he said pulling her up to him, "That was amazing. I'm sorry I didn't give you much warning."

"Don't be sorry Jake, I wanted every drop of that, and it tasted so good. I'm definitely gonna want more of that."

Jake took her in his arms, kissing her with all the emotions that he'd bottled up over the past 12 years. As he kissed her, he slowly turned until Dani's back was facing the bed. There he slowly lowered her down on the bed as he got on his knees in front of her. He backed up and slowly moved his hands down her sides until he got to the waistband of her shorts. Dani looked him in the eye and nodded slowly. He unbuttoned her jean shorts and unzipped them. He reached back up to her waistband and started to slowly pull her shorts down, off her hips. Dani raised her butt up to help him pull the shorts down. He took the bathing suit bottoms with her shorts so they were soon all pooled around her tiny bare feet.

Once her shorts where off, Dani slowly spread her legs, allowing him access to her most private place. Jake wanted to just jump in, but he also wanted to appreciate every part of her beautiful body. He reached down and picked up her foot, as she laid back on the bed. Jake started gently massaging her foot, pressing the sole of her foot with his thumbs. Dani moaned, as she found this highly erotic. Jake kissed the soles of her feet and the pad of each toe. Every kiss sent an electric shock straight up her legs and right to her clit, which by now was pulsing with need.

Jake continued his trek up her long athletic legs, kissing and licking a trail, finally arriving between her toned thighs, he got his first ever look at a woman's pussy. He saw a small, close cut patch of jet black hair. Below that her already swollen and shaved lips showed moisture seeping from deep within. The smell of her sex suddenly reached his nostrils. It was intoxicating, drawing him in. He was working on pure instinct when he reached out with his tongue and licked her lips from the bottom to the top.

"Oh! Do that again please," she begged.

Jake went back and this time he stiffened his tongue and pushed his tongue between the lips. Dani began to squirm, but the sounds she was making sounded happy so he continued. He moved his tongue from side to side, up and down. On one of his trips he felt a little bump near the top of her slit, hearing the sudden intake of Dani's breath. He started painting small little circles around the nub and her movements got more exaggerated, her breathing got faster, and she now had both her hands tangled in his hair, pulling him harder toward her. Jake noticed that she really liked it when he stuck his tongue deep into her pussy, but she also like it when he licked and sucked on her clit, so while he was licking her clit, he decided to substitute his finger, easing it into her soaked folds, he slowly continued in her hot and tight tunnel until his knuckles were against her folds. He started withdrawing his finger and felt a slightly textured patch on the inner wall of her pussy. He rubbed his finger across it and noticed a definite increase in Dani's breathing and her moans.