Parker

Chapter 20: Aggie

Author's note:

Sorry, kind of a short chapter this week. Promise next week's is way longer.

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Aggie woke to sunlight light streaming through dirty windows. 

She was confused momentarily.  The windows in her room were clean, and they weren't angled at her face. 

She tried to sit up, and that was when she realized that two arms were wrapped tightly around her.  Parker felt her stir and pulled her into his chest again, and suddenly she didn't mind the light in her eyes so much.

Things had begun innocently enough the night before.  He had offered to drive her home, and she had pulled him into the backseat of the truck, thinking maybe they could sit there for a bit and look at the night sky through the sunroof.  But the second the door closed, the atmosphere between them changed.  Suddenly, things were escalating quickly; suddenly he was on top of her, and she was tugging his shirt over his head and he was kissing her neck and she was making sounds she had never heard heard herself make before.

He paused suddenly, hovering over her, watching her intensely.  No one had ever looked at her in that way before.  It was as if his desire was so overwhelming that it was bringing him physical pain. 

She realized that he was waiting for permission; giving her the opportunity to stop him before they progressed any further.

She giggled nervously.  Actually giggled.  That's what he did to her.  She bit her bottom lip, "Have you ever done this before?"

He looked uncomfortable for a moment, then nodded 'yes'.  She saw a sudden understanding come over his expression, as he realized why she had asked it, "Have you?"

The truth was, she hadn't done anything even close to this.  She had drunkenly kissed a few boys at parties, and usually only because Mira egged her on, calling her a 'forever virgin'.  With a sister like Mira, how could she not be?  Aggie had never particularly liked any of them, and had never felt the desire to do anything more than that.  But this was different.  He was not some random boy she had met that night.  He was Parker.  And she trusted him.  And the way he was looking at her scared her a little, but she liked it.  She liked it a lot.

She was still for a few moments, breathing as evenly as she could given the situation.  Then slowly, she shook her head 'no'.

"We don't have to...we don't have to do anything, Aggie," he said, "I didn't mean to make you feel like-"

"No," she said, stopping his ramblings, "I want to."

He bent down, his face an inch away from hers.  His hands ran over her waist delicately.  "You're sure?" he said.

"Very sure."  She couldn't remember ever before feeling so sure of something.

She hadn't been sure what to expect.  She knew it was going to hurt, and it did.  But  there was something behind the pain, a white light that came front and center.  it was the most intimate thing she had ever experienced.  His eyes were like the portals they had been in her dream.  Galaxies inside them.  She could have searched them forever.

There had been no discussion of him taking her home after that.  She had fallen asleep in his arms as he whispered, "I want to stay here forever."

They were still lying on the collapsed backseat of Parker's truck, his jacket draped around them as morning sunlight streamed through the windows.

She thought Parker looked kind of adorable when he slept.  His long hair had fallen to the side and she got a better look at his face than she did most days. She remembered thinking that he was a bit funny looking when she first met him.  A bit too tall, face a bit too long, smile slightly too lopsided.  She ran her eyes over a few of the more prominent freckles on his pale face, and then over his slightly too long sandy blond hair, and wide nose.  Now he was just Parker.  And everything about him was just as it should be.  Aggie recognized the slight pounding in her head as an impending hangover, but she couldn't bring herself to care.  For the first time in a while, nothing was wrong.