Chapter 31 - Deacon

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My eyes follow her up, before parking myself in front of her at the bar. It’s one hell of an angle, and I’ll be damned if anyone else has this view right now.
  
Although, I suspect it’s about to get a lot worse...

Dom and the guys have the same idea as me, as they parks themselves beside me, blocking off a large section of the bar from anyone getting closer to the girls.

If this is going where I suspect it is, I’m not going to survive this..

Despite the protest and comments before Dom carried her off, a smile lights up her face, before she kneels to grab the cowboy hat from the bartender’s head. Cheekily winking at him, while she come to stand back up. The look is complete, and I have never meant my words more than I have before tonight.

I will thoroughly fucking enjoy peeling that outfit off her..

... and perhaps leaving the hat on...

.. Yeah, I’m stealing that fucker.

Brooke’s hand raises and points to the DJ, her other hand grasping the hat to tug it a little over her face before it stays to linger there. She’s grinning down at me, her eye twitching to wink before the wicked smile I love shines brighter.

Oh, I am seriously not going to like this, or I’m going to like it far, far too much.

The music starts to play, Jessie J blaring about ‘giving it to you all the time, booties and Cadillac’s’, and I am fucking glued. Her hips roll around, her head swinging side to side, while her knees bend a little. Every movement is slow, steady, and bloody hypnotising. My mouth presses hard together to keep my jaw from wedging itself into the floor, as I almost completely forget my own damn name watching her.

Especially when she drops in front of me, her knees stuck out wide to the sides, before she pokes that ass out as she comes back up.

Hell...

The bloke next to me steps forward, cat calling at the girls and I clench my fist, forcing it to stay by my side to stop myself from punching him in the face.

“.. Oh yeahhh, fucking shake it, baby. Take a little off..”

Her hands raise above her head, before swinging her hips wide to turn herself around, and letting Penny shine for a moment. My eyes are still on Brooke, her ass swaying side to side, before rolling her hips. The chorus picks up, and the girls move together, their arms threading to shape around one another, and draw the eye even more.

She’s the sassiest thing I have seen when dancing usually, and even though you can still see that side of her up there, she’s also by far the sexiest thing I have ever had the honour of laying my eyes on too.

Her eyes find mine, as she mouths the next bit, thoroughly convincing me that I do indeed need a bad girl to blow my mind.

But fully knowing, I found her already.

The song changes up half way through, picking up into what you would more expect to be playing in here, and Penny’s head falls back as she yells.

“It’s going down. Timber!!!

The routine they kick into next is one they have done before, and most likely done often, the bartender already having cleared the rest of the bar from clutter. They move together in a line, their hands on their hips, while their boots heavily stomp down the bar as they go along. 

Brooke’s hands come to cup her chest, before she quickly throws one hip out, the boot swivelling as she smacks her ass. Before I can stop it, I bite out a curse, ignoring the way Dom’s head spins to look at me.

I mean, fucking hell woman..

If I thought that was bad, her next move is much, much fucking worse. Removing the hat for a moment, her body rolls as she drops to her knees. Her head flicking her hair to fan out and sail back, before she places the hat back on, and skids herself on her knees along the bar. The crowd picks up, and both Dom and I have the same thought as the bloke next to us cat calls to her once more, our heads swinging to stare at him for a moment. This time loudly and more explicitly on what he wants to do with her, and I’m thankful she doesn’t seem to be able to hear him. The anger bubbles away under my skin, but I stay where I am, knowing that I really shouldn’t just punch a stranger out cold.

Dom, however, is another story.

He’s around me in second, reaching out to try and grab the guy roughly by the collar, proving that Brooke may not have been kidding earlier.

He’s bloody quick, I'll give him that.

My hand grabs his arm as I tug him back, my head shaking slightly as his head whips around to face me. I’m not entirely sure myself why I’m even saving the guy, as I more than feel like joining Dom to ram my fist into this guy’s face, but I more feel like Brooke would want me to stop her brother. Dom still looks pissed, his jaw clenching as he stands stiffly beside me once more. His eyes flicking between the jerk and the girls, as both his hands come to grip onto the bar.

Penny’s arm finds Brooke’s stomach as they swing each other round and round like the song suggests, before hanging on to Brooke’s arm as Brooke fully drops herself back. Her back arching as she completely lets Penny take her weight, and proving how flexible I already know she is. She comes up slow, and I mean damn slow, before Penny spins her and the two of them dance together once again. Brooke’s head turns, her eyes finding me as she grins wickedly and I grin back, knowing she is going to pay for every moment of this torture from the very second that I can get her alone. I’m hard as a fucking rock right now watching her. They finish up their routine with one more body roll, her hand coming up to point at me, before hunching over as they both loose it laughing. And I find myself agreeing with the song, as that woman up there, is one I won’t ever forget.

Hooking my finger towards her as soon as her head comes up, she steps closer while her hands reach out towards my shoulders to help her down. The jackass that was calling out to her steps in, his hand coming to brush her leg before sliding higher to catch her, and I snap. My shoulder shoves into him hard, knocking him the hell out the way while I grab Brooke down, her body coming to lean into me as she watches the other guy warily.

“Whoo, what the fucks your problem? I was just trying to help the little lady.”

He shoves me in the side, and dropping one arm, I whip around to face him, getting right up in him. I’m much more angry than I should be, but I’m also damn pissed off after everything I’ve just had to stand here, and endure. Explicitly hearing what he wants from her, what exactly he wants to do with her... The words are out my mouth, so fast I don’t even register them. The anger in me, yelling them louder than I mean.

“What’s my problem?? You’re trying to grab at my fucking girlfriend, not to mention all the things I heard in detail that you wanna do to her. Quite frankly, I'd back the fuck up man before my fist finds your face.”

It isn’t until my hands shove him in the chest, that I hear the gasp behind me, and realise what I’ve just said, what I’ve just called her.

“Wait, you guys are together? Like actually together? Not this just this messing with each other playfully kind of business?... Brookie?

My head whips around once more to find Brooke, ignoring Penny completely. My mind’s going too fast. Half wondering if I should be back tracking, to maybe say that I made a mistake.. or if I actually really meant to call her that.. The fear, I know, is evident on my face while I try to sort through it all.

I know she’s inside my heart, but I also know it terrifies the shit out of me that she is. The people that hold that place have the power to easily snap you.

Her eyes are studying me, her chest falling bloody slow, before she shakes her head and bolts past me.

Fuck.

I’m two seconds behind her as she weaves damn fast through the thick crowd, calling out to her while I try and grab her arm. Her hands hit the door to outside, and I manage to catch it before it slams in my face.

“Brooke!..”

She’s still moving, her face furious when I finally catch her forearm, and manage to stop her.

Screw this, I don't know much right now, but I know one thing for sure, and that's I can’t let her go.

“.. Fuck, Brooke. Wait!..”

Seriously? Wait for what exactly, Deacon? Wait for you to finally let me in? Wait for you to finally admit that you actually feel something real for me? Because I think I’m done waiting! I’m done giving you time. I’m done letting you in enough, that you crush me every time you freak out... I know you’re a risk, a complete mystery, a damn flight hazard with actual relationships, but I still stupidly fell in love with you anyway.. as you’re ridiculously, the most certain thing I have ever known in this world..”

Her chest is heaving while she tries to twist her arm from my grip, and my hand opens slowly to let her go.

She’s in love with me?..

Instead of running, she stand tall in front of me.

“.. I don’t know what you’re so afraid of.. or what happened to you.. but I am not that person... but I am tired of being punished as if I was!.. I want more than just your touch on my skin. I want more than just your voice filling my place with conversation. I want more than just your lips pressed to mine. I want you!! I want the complete package, every last drop, and if this is something that you can’t do then I’m about t...”

I don’t let her finish.

Stepping in to her, my hand rounds her cheek to hold the back of her neck before she can think to step away from me again, and brush my lips lightly on hers.

I can’t take it.

I can’t take the thought that she’s trying to work herself up to say goodbye to me, to let me go, or even worse to move on. Because that’s the farthest thing that I want to do...

She’s holding herself still, her arms hanging limply by her sides when I pull away. This time the words are thought-out, they’re from the heart, and I mean them in more ways than I could ever explain to her.

I can't loose you , Brooke..”

Her breathing hitches as her head leans back slightly, almost not believing what she’s hearing, and fuck it, I don’t blame her.

“.. I just couldn’t say it out loud before now, as frankly I’m an idiot at times..”

The corner of her lips twitches into a small smile, and I chuckle very lightly at that. I deserve that sass too.

“.. You’ve asked me a lot about why I said I didn’t date, and what happened there...”

Her hand comes up, finally moving as she slides it to hold against my chest, and over my heart. The place she’s wound herself so tightly in.

“Deacon, I’m not going anywhere, and you don’t have to tell me right n..”

I cut her off again, as I’m never going to get this out if I just don’t do it now.

I’ve spent years dodging and avoiding this question, but I know that if I don't let her in, I'm going to loose the first person who I've felt something for in a very long time. Maybe even the only person I've ever felt so strongly for.

“Brooke, shut it, I’m trying to tell a story here...”

Her eyes roll, but I smile as her hands move again and shift to slide around me, half hugging my body.

“.. The last time I actually dated someone... was during collage, and yes before you ask, I did go.. It was a whole lifetime ago really, and one that I’m not sure you’d ever recognise me in... She was everything I thought I wanted, and as the years went on, I thought she was the one I wanted to be with forever. I had it all planned out, my proposal... and one day I ducked home after work to change before racing off to set things up...”

The nerves should be raging, barrelling out of control as I finally open up to her, but the only thing I feel at the moment.... is fear. 

Fear that she might walk away, that I'm too late in letting her in, and that all this is going to come crashing down.

“.. She was already there, and it should have surprised me when she came stumbling out of the bedroom, but I didn’t think to click and connect the dots at that stage... Her words knocked the world out from under my feet, and I remember scooping her up into my arms, clinging on tight to the fact I was going to be a dad..”

She leans back to really look at me, the surprise clear on her face, and I pray that none of this makes her run from me.

I can’t handle the thought of not having her here with me anymore.

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