Never Get Enough (Enough #1) (7 page)

His answer just makes me so happy. I can’t believe that us being together
completes him so easily. He has never even told me he’s in love with me, but I know he’s trying to take things slow with us and do it right. I would tell him everything, but I just feel so raw and vulnerable about him. Revealing all my feelings and finding out he didn’t feel the same way would just devastate me. I can’t handle that kind of uncertainty from one of the two people that truly knows and loves me. It would pull me under, and I already have to deal with feeling worthless whenever my mother talks to me. So I’m just trying to wait and let Bray lead our relationship. I also want to make sure that once we go back to school that he only want me. He used to sleep with a lot of different girls. Bray never had a girlfriend, but he did have a lot of sex without any strings involved. Over six months ago, all the rumors about his hookups stopped. I was terrified that he had started dating for the first time, but he never said anything to me or Keller about it. Now I hope he was just realizing he had feelings for me that he didn’t know about.

We are sitting there eating our
pizza and just talking about football and volleyball when some of the football guys come in. Jace, Cole, and Tanner head over to our table as soon as they spot us in the back. Jace sits down right next to me on Bray’s lap, reaches out his hands and with a straight face says, “My turn! Hand her over.” Bray gives him what I call the Cameron stare and I can feel all his muscles tighten up under me. That look is reserved for when Bray or Keller have been thoroughly pissed off that someone stepped over the line with me. They do not back off with the stare but start with their fists if the other person doesn’t back down. Jace backs off immediately and laughs, “Just jerking your chain, my man. I can’t believe you won’t even let her sit in her own seat to eat her pizza!”

We are all laughing now, and I can feel Bray relax and join in the fun. I have to get used to this new possessive him. He was always protective but now he is physically possessive when we are out together.
Bray shoots back at Jace, “How do you know it is me? Maybe Carter wanted to sit on my lap while we ate.” We all burst into laughter at that because Cole and Jace know Brayden and how he is. Tanner is joining in the laughter but also eyeing me intently the whole time. He chose to sit across from Bray and me, and I am just praying that Brayden doesn’t pick up on anything odd there, I don’t want any drama before our party.

Brayden and I finish our pizza before the others do so we head out. There is still stuff that needs to be set up for the party and we have ordered kegs but we need to pick up a significant amount of alcohol
too. We go into the liquor store, and Brayden flashes his fake id. They have no problem selling us the alcohol, and we head home ready to have a kick ass party. Some of my dance team girls are coming to get ready in my room which has become just the place where I keep my clothes anymore. I sleep in Bray’s room with him now, but I will get ready in my room tonight with the girls so he can get ready in his.

I help him set up downstairs, and Jace
arrives to help too He will be in charge of some alcoholic punch and mixed drinks for everybody since he begged Bray to have the party. We have speakers for the pool area and enough room for everybody to spread out. So all I have to do now is get myself looking hot for Bray and I will be ready to go. The doorbell rings and the girls are here. Hampton, Cara, and Leia are seniors on my dance team and have always been friends just not really close ones. Keller and Bray always seemed careful about my friendships with other girls; I think they were scared I would be used for my money or my connection with them. So close friendships were not encouraged by them, but they were always there to support me in any way I needed. Now though I feel like I want other girls there to get ready with and talk to before a party.

They follow me upstairs to my room. They
all start putting their stuff in different corners and talking while they get ready. This is a little overwhelming for me but wonderful too. I had a lonely childhood without any brothers or sister and a very cold mother. The noise and laughter touches something deep in me, and I don’t feel so different from them all of the sudden. I am not thinking of where my company’s stock sits or how I’m going to do press for my swimsuit line and win the first volleyball game of the season. These girls are just getting ready for a party and right now that’s all I want to do too.

“So what are you wearing tonight, Carter?” Hampton asks. She has long straight brown hair and big brown eyes. She is very popular with the boys, but I think I heard right now, her and Cole are casually hooking up. “You always look amazing, but I thought you might be dressing sexier tonight since word is out that you and Bray are joined at the hip. You two together are the sexiest couple I have ever fucking seen. Talk about the combination of good genetics, just looking at you both makes my eyes hurt because of all the physical perfection.” Now that made me smile and Hampton can be crude at times, but she can say and do the sweetest things. I replied, “You are so sweet. I always feel like Brayden is in a class of his own and I can never
catch up to his sexiness. I’ve gotten used to us being together alone, but now I feel nervous about us being together while we are with other people. He gets unreasonably jealous so easy, and I feel like everyone will see us together and think I come up short when they see me next to him.”

At my statement, all the girls try to talk at
once, but of course, Hampton is the loudest. “What the shit are you talking about, Carter? You are the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. I think you are so hot and I’m not even attracted to women. You have it all and are amazingly talented in volleyball and dance. You are also ranked second in our class and help run your own company. You are so damn untouchably perfect that all the guys worship you from afar. You are their fantasy, believe me. I have been hooking up with more than one person that has accidentally called me Carter. So, please, don’t doubt yourself with Brayden. Just enjoy the thought of how beautiful you look together.” She then winked at me and added, “I know I will.”

After that little pep talk I pulled out my black halter dress and showed all the girls. They wowed and told me I would look great in it. It put my boobs on display like no dress I had worn before, but I wanted Bray staring at them and not anybody
else’s. I made sure all of my hair had curled evenly, and I did my makeup and slid into four inch heels. I was so short that I needed all the help I could get in that direction. Thanks to swimsuit modeling and working as a spokesperson in my dad’s now my company I had a lot of experience walking in heels. I was ready to go. Hampton looked beautiful in a short red dress that she had put her swimsuit under. Leia had her shorter blond hair all done up and she was in purple, and Cara had her brown hair with red tints pulled up and she was wearing a cute jean skirt with a sleeveless shirt. We all looked like we were heading to a party or a club so I opened the door and headed downstairs.

Chapter 7

Brayden

              The football team and a lot of other sports teams from our school started to arrive with their girlfriends and boyfriends. I started nursing a beer and talking to people coming in that I haven’t seen in a while, and Jace who was manning the alcohol. People kept asking me if Carter and I were really together and where she was. I kept telling people over and over again she was getting ready and would be down soon. I think there were a lot of people from our school excited about the thought of the quarterback of the football team and the captain of the dance team who was also the most beautiful girl in school being together. Hey, I was damn excited about it myself so I don’t even really blame them.

             
I started to get anxious and miss her it had felt like a long time since she had gone upstairs to get ready. Jace could tell I was getting tired of waiting for her. “You, pussy! Your girl is getting ready and has not even been gone longer than an hour. What is wrong with you?” I looked at him and said, “Yeah, well at least I’m waiting on her now and we are together. I’m not pining in a dark room just thinking about how it would be if she was mine.” Jace got all quiet and looked away from me. Oh, shit, I’d hurt his feelings. How could he still be so hung up on Carter? He has to know it’s never gonna happen now. She’s with me. I try to think of a sensitive way to go about telling him that he needs to give up hope when he busts into laughter beside me. “Man, you should have seen your face trying to figure out how to not hurt my feelings but tell me to get over Carter. If I am in a dark room trying to get over Carter, it will be between somebody’s legs so don’t worry about me, Brayden. I know she’s with you now.”

             
Just then I hear people start to whisper and talk so I look up to the staircase, and Carter and the girls are coming down it looking like super models compared to all the other girls here. I start walking towards her wanting to stake my claim early at this party so I don’t have to get into any fights with assholes who want to try to touch what’s mine. She moves into my arms easily and we start walking towards Jace to take some shots. Now that my baby doll is here, the party can really start. I lean down and tell her, “You look beautiful, baby.” She is wearing a black short dress with startling amounts of cleavage with super high heels that make her legs look perfect and I just want to pledge allegiance to her ass that’s how spectacular it looks. Her skin looks tan and amazing with the black dress and her blond hair shimmers down her back. I can tell guys are looking at me enviously but I make an effort to forget about their stares and enjoy a shot with my girl. She studies me up and down, then smiles and whispers quietly, “You look good too, Bray.” I just have on a fitted polo shirt and jeans and my hair is everywhere like usual, but I still appreciate her telling me that. Her opinion is the only one that counts for me.

             
We get to Jace who has one shot ready for each of us. We slam them back together and all laugh and do another. Then Carter pulls on me and tells me it’s time to dance. We get out by the pool where the dancing has started and right away Carter starts moving her body in front of me in a way that just makes me want to bury myself inside her. I have to take deep breaths in and out as Carter turns and moves her ass up and down on my dick. I groan quietly and tell her, “You’re killing me, baby!” Smiling, she whirls around and grabs my hand and does a full split which I pull her out of. People are starting to back up and give her space to move as they watch and cheer.  She is just the sexiest dancer I’ve ever seen. She can dance and move on me like nobody else.

I start to move and get into the music with her. We have been dancing together at home since she was fourteen, and now it is suddenly paying off because we know how to move our bodies in sync easily. By the end of the song she has her legs wrapped around my waist and I am just trying to not walk her right back upstairs after she has only been down here for twenty minutes. She looks up at me and asks, “Bray, can we do another shot, please?” I nod and think this would be a good time for my body to have a break from the torture, bring on the shots. “Sure, baby doll, lets head over to Jace and have one.” She adds, “I do want to change into my swimsuit too! I think it will be fun to get in the hot tub together.”

             
Okay, I can already see she is feeling the shots because Carter said hot tub in a sexual way, and she is no prude but normally she would not be okay with fooling around with other people where they could see or hear us. I am going to have to watch her even more than usual if she is already letting her inhibitions go because of the alcohol. I decide to go help her change so I can be right beside her while she could need some help. I need to stay with her when she is this vulnerable, and she is as cute as hell like this and fun to watch with her innocent drunken confusion. Getting to see her change is a bonus too.

We walk to the stairs when Grant and Gray arrive with a new group of people. I stop to welcome them for a minute and they introduce
me to a cousin of theirs that is a high school quarterback in North Carolina. The talk turn to college football programs when all the sudden I realize a few minutes have passed, and I want to check and make sure that Carter made it to her room with no problems. I knock lightly twice and walk on in. “Baby, did you need any help changing. You’ve never done shots before so you might not be able to---” Then I take in the room with Carter in just her bikini bottoms on and Tanner way too close to her.

“What the fuck is going on in here?” I yell as loud as I can. The
n I get a good look at Carter’s face and she is terrified. Not of me but of Tanner and I note that she has her bikini top in her hand. She must have been struggling to put it on when he came into the room. He had to have already been upstairs though because I was on the stairs this whole time not letting anyone up when I was talking to Gray and Grant. “How the fuck did you get up here, asshole?” He looks at me with an expression that says fuck off. He doesn’t look sorry or that my words even touch him. He just looks back at Carter like she’s the only person in the room. His interest has gotten weirdly fixated fast.