Deceiving Protocol

Chapter 17

Chris' POV

After school got out, we have golf practice. Lex and I were put on a golf cart alone together so she could practice before the meet.

On hole five, frog pond as we like to call it, Lex hit her ball right next to the pond where the frogs could be heard croaking.

"You wanna go swimming?" I smile as I drive across the bumpy grass.

"Sure." Lex says agreeing to my joking question.

"But I don't have my swimsuit." I play along with this little game.

"Oh, you don't need one." Lex smirks then sticks out her tongue while getting out of the golf cart to chip the ball perfectly onto the green. "Come get the pole for me, Mami."

I answer her call and stand at the pole on the green so I can pull it before the ball reaches its destination. "Dance for me" she laughs while putting the ball in the hole. I shake my head and don't do what she asked.

Once back in the cart I drive a little bit before stopping so Lex can catch up. When she is just within reaching distance, I drive a little forward again.

"Get over here." Lex unamusingly tells me.

"As you wish." I smile and wait for her.

Then we head to hole six which we call the long back hole, Lex tees off and makes it all the way to the "luv shack" which is a small hunting shack almost all the way to the green.

"You took me to the luv shack." I laugh.

"I will for real sometime." She seriously tells me focusing on where she wants her ball to go. She pops her sunglasses on my face when she gets in so I can drive her to the fringe where she hit the ball.

"You know Carolin was telling me about the sexual preferences of zodiac signs." I tell her when we make it onto the green.

"Yeah, what did they say?" Lex asks while putting. She misses and nods for me to kick the ball back to her so she can redo it.

"That Leos like ear biting, giving and receiving." I say referring to her zodiac sign. She hums sensually. "And Capricorns like slow rubbing." I say quickly and quietly as she puts it in. I say it that way so she won't hear me clearly enough to use it against me. I open the bag of chips that I had bought before coming out and when she settles into her seat I place one between her lips. She bites it and as I stop at the next tee she jumps out to grab her wood.

"You know we've only been here for like fifteen minutes right?" I ask.

"Really?" We had already gone through more than half the course.

"Yeah." I confirm putting my phone back in the cup holder after checking the time.

"Just a quickie game." Lex commented while we continue to drive to where her ball landed. A few moments of silence overcomes us before she speaks more to herself than me, "I wouldn't have enough time to do what I want with you in a quickie."

I swear my breathing stopped at her comment.

Lex get out to putt but I stay where I am. The words had no effect on how she played. She spoke to me like she was only speaking a thought out loud to herself. She gets in and I go to the next tee box. The bumpy ground makes it hard to maneuver the cart to where I want it so I have to make a tight turn to get close enough to the tee.

"Tight, tight, tight." I say quietly to myself.

"That's like saying hot, hot. Hot." Lex says while getting her tee in the tee box. I think we are talking about two different things at this point.

"Yeah?" I ask.

"Oh yeah." she confirms.

On the last hole Lex had to put on some music. "I'm serenading you, 'You say we're friends but friends don't know the taste of your tongue.'" She sang Senorita by Camilla Cabello and Shawn Mendes.

Lex hopped in the driver's seat after the last hole, "Get in, hot stuff." She patted the seat next to her. I shake my head and smile while getting in.

"Let's go find the other girls." I say while leaning back against Lex's arm that was draped on the back of the seat. She makes a sharp turn to where we estimated where they would be.

Anna and Carolin were finishing up their sixth and last hole. Lex pulled up between the sand trap and the green where our couch had told us not to drive on. I gripped her arm while leaning close to her against the golf cart that was on a hill. It made me feel uneasy. After Anna and Carolin had finished we drove to the golf barn and put their clubs away before separating to different parent cars that had been waiting for us. We headed in like a pack, never leaving each others sides. I wish at this moment as the warm wind sweeps my hair behind me, Anna and Carolin in the cart next to Lex and I that we can stay just like this forever. Laughing in the coming fall air on the golf course where we always come back.

.......

When I get home I'm sticky with sweat and am exhausted. I grab some pajamas before going to the bathroom. I take off my clothes so I can take a shower to take away the grime I'd accumulated through the day. I turn slightly and there is a dark palm-shaped bruise that is coming in with a few finger shaped one coming in.

Great.