Meant To Be Ch. 02

Kelsey held her hands up. "Ok, you're right. This is mean. I should put my clothes back on."

"Fuck no! Let me look at you. It might be mean, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it. Hell, I've waited a really long time to look at you naked."

Kelsey giggled and put her hands on her hips.

"Well, now we've both seen each other," she said confidently.

"You're much easier on the eyes, that's for sure."

"I don't know, Nate. You've become one handsome man, you know." Kelsey stepped closer to him, placing her hands around his neck. She leaned down and kissed him, then stood and guided his mouth to her lower stomach.

Nathan groaned as he pressed warm kisses against her skin. His hands found their way to her ass and he started to knead it and grab it forcefully. She wanted to know that he was just as excited about this as she was, so she moved against him and straddled her knees on either side of his hips. Her bald pussy started to grind against the stiff tent in his shorts.

His lips immediately attached themselves to a nipple. He sucked and flicked his tongue against her rapidly. Kelsey arched her back and let her hair tumble down to his knees.

"Mmmm. This is going to be so good, Kelsey," he groaned, her nipple still trapped between his lips.

"I think so, too," she whispered.

Just as their lips locked in yet another passionate kiss, they heard the garage door open the floor beneath them, and a burst of headlights briefly filled Kelsey's room.

"Fuck! I need my own place. I don't want to be interrupted all summer," she groaned, resting her head against his shoulder.

Nathan exhaled heavily as Kelsey pulled her naked body away from him and stood up.

"Can I just do one thing before I leave? I'll be quick, I swear," he promised.

Kelsey looked at him with a confused expression. "I suppose? What?"

Nathan stood up and grabbed her by the waist. He rolled her back onto her bed, pressing her shoulders back against the mattress. She expected him to crawl on top of her, but instead he pushed her knees apart and knealt between her legs. She started to sit up, but Nathan quickly placed a hand on her stomach and made her lay back down.

"Nathan...I-I don't know. If you start, I won't want you to stop."

"Well then, it will just give you something to think about until we can do this again, won't it?" He grinned up at her, sarcastically using her own words against her. She groaned quietly, knowing that her parents were home. As much as they loved Nathan, she doubted that they would appreciate hearing them together.

Nathan leaned down and inhaled Kelsey's scent. Her entire body clenched as he pressed his hands into her inner thighs, pushing them apart even further. Kelsey wrapped an arm over her mouth, moaning softly into the crook of her elbow. Her eyes pinched shut and her body quivered, just waiting for Nathan to taste her for the first time.

"Look at me while I do this, Kels," he demanded.

She whimpered and lifted her head. She opened her eyes and saw Nathan's beautiful, ice blue eyes staring up at her, with an obvious smile on his face. He refocused on what he was doing, starting by kissing and licking the insides of her thighs. His tongue traced around her wet, outer lips. Kelsey could feel the wetness starting to leak out of her. She dropped her head back to the bed. Nathan pulled his tongue off of her.

"Kelsey. Watch me while I lick your pussy. Please. I want you to remember this."

His words alone made her start to shake. She lifted herself up onto her elbows and stared down at him.

He returned to her thighs, kissing and squeezing them one at a time. His kisses eventually made their was back, closer and closer to her sex. He looked up at her and their eyes locked, blue to brown, as he flattened his tongue and took one long, deliberate lick against her pussy, ending it with a firm flick of his tongue against her exposed clit.

"Ohhhh, my God!" she moaned, too loudly.

Nathan laughed and grabbed a pillow, pushing it onto her face. Kelsey grabbed it and hooked her arms over it, trying to muffle her laughter and moaning.

Nathan didn't let up. His hands spread her lips apart as he started to explore her, inside and out. She moved the pillow and looked back down her body and watched as his dark blonde head rolled between her thighs. She ran her fingers along his short hair as his tongue lapped up her wetness.

"Nathan, oh my God. This is so...so good," she whispered.

Kelsey propped her feet up on the edge of the bed, letting her knees fall apart. Nathan's tongue continued to dance against her, then he'd stop and suck her velvety lips between his before licking his way back up and around her clit. He never stayed in one spot for too long. He kept her guessing and he kept her on edge, always wanting more.

The blood was pounding in her pussy. She sat up and lifted Nathan's face. His mouth glistened with her arousal. She was shaking with need.

"Please, I need you to get me off," she pleaded.

"You sure?" he asked.

"Yes. I need it. Please. Please, Nathan." Kelsey's body was trembling.

Nathan didn't say another word. He pressed his mouth against her soaked flesh and drove his tongue as far into her as possible over and over again. His hands went from her thighs up to her breasts. They were tingling with sensation as he rolled her nipples between his adept fingers. Kelsey's breathing started to speed up as her senses became overloaded with pleasure.

Without warning, Nathan pinched her nipples tightly as his lips wrapped around her pulsing clit. He sucked it into his mouth and beat against it with his tongue. Kelsey breathed short, ragged breaths through her nose, trying to keep from screaming out in extasy. She opened her eyes and stared down at her best friend as he gave her the best orgasm she'd had in a long time. Her hips bucked against his mouth, but Nathan's lips never lost contact with her sensitive bud. She wrapped her hands behind his head and held his mouth against her until her climax slowly started to subside.

Kelsey was gasping for breath as she collapsed back onto her bed. Small aftershocks of pleasure coursed through her.

"Oh fuck, Nathan," she exhaled rapidly. "Oh, God. That was good."

"Good. I wanted it to be good for you."

Nathan crawled up and fell back onto the bed next to her. His left hand caressed her right palm as they tried to catch their breath. Finally, after a long silence, their bodies started to relax and they quietly stared at the ceiling. Kelsey rolled onto her side and nuzzled into his chest.

"I guess there is really no turning back now, huh?" she laughed.

"No, not really."

"Fine by me. Especially if it means that we get to do that again."

He laughed and kissed the top of her head before they both sat up. Kelsey stood up and picked up her clothes, sliding them on as Nathan watched.

"I've got to be honest, Kelsey. This doesn't even feel real yet."

She laughed. "I know. I keep wondering how all of this even happened."

Kelsey walked to her closet and grabbed a short, thin robe and wrapped it around herself.

"Ok. We have to get you out of here before I lose all self control. Let me make sure my parents are in bed. Hang on."

Kelsey quietly opened her door and walked down the long hallway, poking her head through her parents cracked bedroom door. Both were in bed. They may not have been entirely asleep yet, but they were both still and quiet and she knew that she could get Nathan out unnoticed. She rolled her eyes at how ridiculous she felt, sneaking a boy in and out of her parent's house when she was 22 years old. She sighed and reminded herself that it was only for a couple more months, but she silently vowed to start looking for her own place in the coming days.

She walked past her door and motioned for Nathan to follow her. They walked down to the back door, further away from her parent's bedroom. Kelsey punched the code in the pad, disabled the alarm and opened the door. They stepped outside onto the back porch.

Nathan turned around and smiled down at Kelsey.

"I'd kiss you, but-" he gestured to his mouth, reminding her that he probably still tasted like her. She smiled and lifted up on her tiptoes, placing the smallest kiss against his mouth. She dropped back down to the ground.

"Call me tomorrow?" she asked hopefully. He nodded.

"Ok. Night." She grinned and started to walk back in the house.

"Kelsey?"

She turned around. "Yeah?"

Nathan sighed and leaned against the side of the house. "You're really incredible. I'm not sure if I've told you that enough over the years. Even if nothing ever comes of this and all we do is stay friends, I just need you to know that you're the best friend I've ever had," he said sincerely.

His words echoed deeply through her. She let go of the door and closed the distance between them, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down to her for a hug.

"You're the best friend I've ever had, too" She kissed his cheek and backed away from him.

She smiled as she walked inside. He turned and walked away, trying to quietly make it back to his truck and hoping that his family hadn't realized that it had been parked in their driveway for the last hour.

Kelsey closed the door behind her and reset the alarm. She walked into the kitchen and rummaged through the fridge for something to eat. She settled on a pint of vanilla ice cream and sat at the barstool in the dark kitchen, slowly eating small bites and smiling to herself.

Her bites became few and far between as her thoughts wandered back to her eventful day. She sighed and put the melting ice cream back in the freezer and went back to her bedroom. She smiled at her crumpled sheets as she closed the door behind her. She fell back onto the mattress and closed her eyes.

She relaxed into the bed and closed her eyes, drifting off to sleep with nothing but the faint smell of his cologne on her sheets and the memory of what it felt like to have the delicious weight of Nathan Lowe on top of her in bed for the very first time.

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Kelsey's phone alarm went off and she immediately groaned as it jolted her awake.

She sighed heavily and swung her legs over the side of her bed. It was still dark outside, but the coffeeshop opened at 6 am. She had to be there at 5:30 to get everything ready for the inevitable Monday morning rush.

Kelsey got up, showered and got dressed in her uniform. She leaned against the kitchen sink and ate a banana as she scrolled through her phone, checking the weather for the week. Kelsey's dad was just getting up as she was leaving.

"Have a good day, sweetie."

"You too, Dad." she replied, grabbing her keys off the kitchen counter.

"Hey, I wanted to tell you something real quick, Kels. You got a second?"

Kelsey glanced at her phone. "Yeah, I'm a few minutes early. What's up?"

Her dad poured himself a cup of coffee and leaned against the counter.

"I just want to tell you that I'm sorry if all of us...Mom, Dave, Nancy, me...have ever made you or Nathan uncomfortable. You know, joking about the two of you getting together and all that. We know that you're adults and are perfectly capable of being friends without it being anything more than that."

Kelsey smiled. "It's ok, Dad. Really."

"It's just, we've all seen the special friendship that the two of your have shared over the years and I'd be lying if I said that we didn't all hope that you two would end up together. We all see how happy and comfortable you two are around each other. It just always seemed meant to be."

"Yeah," Kelsey paused. "Dad? Why are you telling me this now? I mean, why on a random Monday morning are you telling me this? I'm not offended or anything, just curious."

He shrugged as he sipped his coffee. "I'm not sure, really. It's just something that I've been meaning to tell you for awhile, I guess. My whole point is that I want you to know that we all love you and we love Nathan. The only reason we joke about you two getting together is because we all just want you kids to end up with someone that makes you as happy as you make each other. That's all."

Kelsey smiled and walked up to her Dad. She kissed him on the cheek.

"Thanks, Dad. I love you." She turned and walked to the front door and out to her car.

She pulled out onto the street and made the short drive to work, the whole time, wondering what made her dad choose that morning, out of the last 23 years to tell her all of that. Was it fate? Was it coincidence? Did he somehow know that she and Nathan had officially crossed the line from friendship into unknown territory that weekend?

Was it really all meant to be?

Kelsey sighed as she pulled up to the back entrance of the coffee shop. She pulled her apron out of the backseat and headed inside.

Alison was leaning against the wall, waiting on the espresso machine to start.

"Hey Kelsey," she mumbled sleepily.

Kelsey smiled. Alison had never been a morning person. She was often grumpier than the majority of caffeine addicted customers that they dealt with in the morning.

"Hey Alison, you're not mad that I left 449 early the other night, right?" she asked as she tied her apron around her slender waist.

"No, not at all. Did you get Nathan home alright?"

"Yeah. I dropped him off then went home and passed out, too. Clubs just aren't our scene, you know?"

Alison snorted. "Yeah, I can tell. Can't say the same for Miss Amy, though."

Kelsey cocked her head to the side. "What do you mean?"

"As soon as you two left, she was all over every guy there. Dancing, making out, grinding...the works. She really is a little slut. Nathan's a nice kid. He deserves better."

"I agree. Which is why I'm really happy that they split up on Saturday."

"Good! Now you can swoop in and show him what he's been missing all these years!"

Kelsey tried to keep a straight face.

"We're friends, Alison."

"I know, I know. Really though. Two people. Both good looking...both unbelievably nice...best friends their entire lives. Don't you think that it's just...I don't know. Meant to be?"

Kelsey's head flipped around and she stared at Alison. In the last 20 minutes, two people had told her the exact same thing: that a relationship between her and Nathan just seemed meant to be. She shook her head at the coincidence and got busy with her opening routine.

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Kelsey ran the register during the morning rush. Customer after customer filed through the line, desperately waiting to get their coffee fix for the day. The first two hours of her shift went by like a blur. Just before 8 am, her latest customer shifted down the line to wait for her order and a familiar face stepped up to place his.

"Good morning, what can I-" Kelsey stopped when she looked up. She couldn't help but laugh. Nathan stood in front of her, dressed in his work clothes, ready to get to work on the new medical building on the other side of town. This coffee shop was completely out of his way and Kelsey knew it.

"What are you doing here? There's a Starbucks right by your worksite," she giggled.

"I'd rather give my money to a local business," he said. He lowered his voice and leaned forward. "Besides, the staff is much nicer to look at here." Kelsey felt herself blush.

"How nice of you. Well, Mr. Lowe...what can I get started for you today?" Kelsey said with a flirtatious grin.

"I thought I'd be nice and take some coffee in for the guys, so I'll need 8 medium regulars, lots of cream and sugar on the side, please."

"8 medium regulars to go!" Kelsey called out to the barista. She turned back to Nathan. "$14.42, Nate." She gathered the cream and sugar and handed him the bag as he handed her his debit card. She swiped it and handed it back to him along with his receipt.

"Thank you for stopping by."

"No problem. I figured there was no better way to start my Monday," he grinned and started to walk down the line when Alison walked up and wrapped her arm around Kelsey's neck.

"Well, Nathan Lowe. Good morning! We don't usually see you this early."

"Hey, Alison. Just getting some coffee for the crew," he replied with a grin.

"So, I hear you're single now."

"Alison!" Kelsey blurted.

"Well, I just think he needs to be reminded that his best friend, Kelsey, is also single," she explained. She turned back to Nathan. "Nathan, you do know that Kelsey here is single, too, right?"

Nathan laughed. "Yes. I'm aware of that. We're just friends, though."

"You don't want some other guy swooping in and snatching this beautiful girl out from under you, do you?"

Kelsey and Nathan's eyes locked.

"I just hope she ends up with someone that knows exactly how wonderful she is, Alison. Whoever that ends up being will be a very lucky man." He smiled and tucked his receipt into his pocket, just as the barista held up the two, stacked towers of coffee.

"Bye ladies." He smiled and walked to the door, backing into it to open it, then holding it with his foot to let an older man enter behind him.

"God, Kelsey. How can you be best friends with him and not want to jump his bones? He gets better looking every time I see him!"

Kelsey shook her head and cleared her thoughts. She looked at Alison. She still had her arm hooked over her shoulder. She continued to stare at Nathan, who was pulling out of the parking lot, balancing the coffee on his dashboard.

Kelsey dug the heel of her foot into the top of Alison's.

"Oww! What was that for?"

"For sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong!" she laughed.

"Give me a break. You two will end up together. I just know it."

Kelsey took a deep breath and smiled to herself as Alison returned to work. She knew that the only reason Nathan showed up at the coffeehouse this morning was to see her and that filled her with a giddy excitement. She didn't realize that she was still staring into the parking lot, long after Nathan had pulled away until her thoughts were interrupted.

"Hey! Young lady! I'm ready to order!"

Kelsey jerked her head back to the counter and found the old man that Nathan had held the door for.

"I'm so sorry, Sir. What can I get started for you today?"

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Kelsey walked out the backdoor of the coffee shop and walked to her car when her Monday morning shift ended. She got in and started the engine. Just as she was about to pull out of her parking spot, her phone vibrated.

Nathan: I'm sitting here on break, and I'm pretty sure you are leaving work right about now?

Kelsey: Perfect timing, I was just about to drive home. What's up?

Nathan: I get off work at 5 pm. My parents are going to my brother's summer baseball thing. Want to come over and swim...and stuff?

Kelsey: And stuff? What kind of 'stuff'?

Nathan: That's entirely up to you.

Kelsey: Yeah. I was actually going to lay out for a little while this afternoon, anyway. I'll see you a little after 5, then?

Nathan: Can't wait. Gotta get back to work.

Kelsey grinned as she tucked her phone back into her purse and drove home. Her parents were still at work, and so were Dave and Nancy, but she knew that she was always welcome at the pool, day or night. She went to her bedroom and changed into her favorite pale blue bikini. She tied the top around her back and neck, then secured the ties at each hip. She grabbed her lotion, her phone and her ipod, and headed out the door to the Lowe's pool.

Once Kelsey got everything settled, she walked to the pool and dipped her toes in. The water temperature was perfect. She went to the deep end and dove in head first, swimming a few laps before climbing back out so she could soak up some much needed sun and warmth.