LXX

LXX
My heart started to race as fast as it could. Fear gripped my veins and turned my blood ice cold. The time seemed slower as she walked towards me, suddenly the distance between the door and where I stood became incredibly huge, I could not wait till she crossed it and walked up to me. So I walk to her instead, meeting her halfway.
I cup her face in my palms gingerly, peering into her terrified eyes as they looked left to right.
"What is it?"
She opened her lips to speak but the words seemed stuck in her throat.
I felt like tearing myself into pieces. My heart was beating so quickly it sounded like a thousand horses were running around inside my chest.
"Speak to me Mimosa, what happened?" I pressed gently, but there was urgency in my tone.
"I..it is.. uhm.." she stuttered quietly.
My mind was racing a million mile per second as I thought of everything at once, trying to figure out what she was saying.
From the corner of my eye, I see her index finger raise and point at something outside the door she just walked through.
Laughter followed, it was Clarissa.
"Oh my goodness!! You guys could have seen it!"
I frown in confusion.
I look back to Lisa, she was my major concern here. Now she looked embarrassed. Her face was as red as a tomato. That threw me into an even bigger whirlpool of confusion.
"Oh my! I cannot believe you did that." Jonathan guffawed.
I turn to face him, his wife, Cam and him were choking on their laughter. All of them red faced.
"What the hell?" I ask to no one in particular.
Lisa was pouting, her lower lip tucked out and was quivering.
"They are laughing at me." She informed me.
Relief mixed with even more confusion poured into my veins, I was grateful she wasn't in any form of danger as I had previously thought.
"What happened?" I try one more time.
"What happened was, Lisa sweetheart here, met the real Clarissa Jones. And boy, her expression was something we should have taped." Clarissa explains as she laughed.
I frown at them and face Lisa, she was still pouting. She looked so cute and kissable in that moment that I smile and place a kiss on her forehead.
She blushed an even darker shade of red. I was tempted to smother her with kisses.
"I wanted you to meet her to, so you'd see the real Clarissa Jones. If I knew you would react like this, I would have said something. I'm sorry." I quickly explain.
She smiled a bit.
"It's fine, I was just caught off guard, literally caught. I guess I didn't expect to see the woman with the name I used. I can honestly say it was embarrassing and I will not be lying about my name ever again." Lisa concluded with a laugh.
I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. Now I was sure if I was cut open what would gush out of me would be relief, before blood would escape out of it.
"Go get dressed man, you are shooting literal hearts out of your eyes." Jonathan pointed out.
I roll my eyes and walk back to the bed to wear the shirt I laid out earlier.
"Ready." I say after slipping my feet into the slides Cam got for me earlier. Suddenly I was grateful he forced me to get it.
"You look.. amazing." Lisa complimented. Her eyes glued to my body the entire time. The lust that always draws me in was present in her eyes. I almost rain checked on the bon fire.
Until Cam cleared his throat too noisily into my ears.
"I got booze!!!" He yelled, producing two bottles of alcohol from God knows where.
Jonathan and Cam made whooping sounds, while Clarissa looked jealous.
"I can't even with you guys, you know I'm pregnant." Clarissa whined.
"Awwee, don't worry babe while you'll be having orange juice with the baby, I will be having a drink for both of us." Jonathan responded before kissing the tip of her nose. Believe me I could never get used to seeing my brother in love, if someone came from the future and told us this would happen when we were still teens, we would have laughed and called them liars.
"Don't worry Kenny, I got you your single scotch." Cam winked as he displayed it.
"I don't know what you drink, I hope you enjoy what Jonathan and I are having." Cam told Lisa.
"Anything's fine."
"Now, who wants to party?!!!!"
Before we got to the bon fire Cam was already drunk. He could never go past a sip before getting drunk.
I promised Jonathan I would keep an eye on him, but I'm sure we both knew it was an empty promise.
"I don't know what I was expecting from a bon fire, but definitely not this." I tell Lisa before taking a sip.
She chuckled from beside me.
"Me too, I don't think anything I could have imagined would have measured up to this though."
We were walking around the bon fire, it was so noisy. There was a huge fire in the middle and a lot of people dancing around it, singing a little too loud.
A few people sat by the side roasting marshmallows, while another group of people were making out. I didn't want to get any ideas so I turned away from them.
Lisa tripped on her own feet, immediately I struck out my arms to steady her.
"Whoa. Whoa. Slow down a little."
She was on her second can of beer after drinking a cup of whatever Cam gave to her. I almost commended her stamina, until now.
She laughed a little too loud.
"Sorry, didn't mean to trip and fall for you." She punctuated her sentence with a hiccup.
I chuckle a bit.
"Let's go sit down by the fire." I say and start to steer her to the direction of the chairs.
She resisted. Her fingers hooked on the neckline of my shirt, and she pulled me close to her.
My breathing started to get heavy. Her skin on mine made all my nerve endings sensitive. I felt my skin tingle with want, and her lips seemed to beg me to slam mine against hers.
"I don't want to sit.. infact I do want to sit. But no there.. " her eyes didn't leave mine.
The tips of her fingers started to trace an invisible line on my fore arm, the places her finger touched felt alive.
I swallow.
"Kiss me."