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VIP-BTC2: Chapter 49
🕑 Added 2023-03-16 19:00:04 +0000 UTC-- CHAPTER 49: Unconditional --
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“Ohhh… fffuuuccckkk… Mmm, just like that. Just like that. Fuck yeah. A little harder. Yeah, just like that. Uuunnnggghhh… So good. It’s too good!”
I gazed down at the beautiful butt in my hands, two compact and yet perfectly shaped cheeks of sleek sexiness with a shallow valley between them perfectly bisected by the sight of my engorged erection disappearing and reappearing from sight within the tight confines of the heavenly Hawaiian girl’s teenage twat.
“So good…” Eva crooned. “So fucking gooood…”
“A little harder, Matty. Drive that big dick deeper into her,” Sam encouraged. “Good heavens she’s so fuckin’ sexy when she clenches her eyes shut and her mouth gapes open like that. Makes me wanna… [mmmmmmph]!”
I groaned gutturally at the sultry, Sapphic sight of my busty blonde bombshell taking hold of the ravishing, raven-haired beauty’s head and pulling it down to hers for an open-mouthed kiss right in front of me. It seemed quite clear to me that Eva very much enjoyed the passionate liplock as she gave as good as she got, both babes tangling their tongues together and moaning in erotic ecstasy with an intoxicating two-girl harmony.
And I fucked Eva even harder for the sound of it.
Sam reclined comfortably on her own bed, her head propped up with a couple of pillows. Eva was on all fours directly above her, knees parked to either side of Sam’s hips but dipped downward so that their big breasts mashed together in a slippery, sweaty, back-and-forth motion that seemed to stimulate both of them. A minute ago, Sam’s legs had been wrapped around my waist while I stood at the foot of her bed, blasting my big dick in and out of the blonde’s wet box. But after Sam had cum from the combined stimulation of my pounding prick and Eva’s nimble fingers rubbing her clit while the hapa babe suckled on her nipples, she was quick to release her legs and groan for me to plug up Eva instead.
“Mmm… fuck, you guys…” Eva groaned after pulling her mouth off of Sam’s. She turned to bury her face into the pillow, muttering, “My head is swimming. I’m super-dizzy. I think I’m gonna pass out.”
“Pass out from pleasure overload,” Sam teased while nipping Eva’s ear with her teeth.
“Well, still dealing with a hangover too,” I reminded while sheathing myself to the hilt and then pausing. “Maybe we should let her rest.”
“Noooo…” Eva complained, clenching her cuntal muscles around my cock. “Keep fucking me. Keep fucking me. If I pass out, I pass out. Good fucking lord this feels so good!”
My eyes met Sam’s, and she gave me a silently encouraging nod. The blonde’s hands roamed around the Hawaiian girl’s naked back, shoulders, and neck: soothing and stroking. At the same time, I resumed my steady thrusting. And Eva turned her face towards Sam’s neck, moaning with pleasure until she leaned in just a little closer and latched her lips onto the blonde’s golden skin, sucking in a way that I knew would cause a hickey.
Sam chuckled and cradled Eva’s head with one hand. Her other hand apparently slid down between the girls’ bodies, because a moment later I felt my former Head Girlfriend’s fingertips grazing my balls. She tickled my testicles for just a moment before adjusting her aim. And I could feel the precise moment when Sam started strumming Eva’s love button from the way the skinny, sexy siren started shivering from the stimulating sensations.
I grinned and gazed down at my Aphrodite, recalling the many times we had done this together with Zofi. Personality-wise, Eva and my darling mój skarbie had nothing in common. But the two definitely had similar statures and svelte body shapes. I had no idea whether or not Sam was thinking the same thing, but there was certainly a tender quality to the way she gently tilted Eva’s face to hers and pressed their lips together in another sweet kiss.
They moaned again. There really was something quite intoxicating about their two-girl harmony of erotic ecstasy, the sound driving me to dig deeper and thrust harder into the lovely girl’s love canal.
And then Eva passed out.
Her orgasm had snuck up on all of us. One minute, Eva was whimpering her carnal bliss into Sam’s mouth while clutching the blonde’s shoulders to simply hold on for the ride - not doing anything to bang her butt back at me whatsoever. The next minute, while I certainly felt Eva’s super-sweet snatch suddenly spasm around my submerged schlong, she suddenly went utterly limp beneath me as her limbs gave out and she collapsed straight down onto Sam’s chest in a sort of frog position with her knees forward and spread to the sides while her elbows had buckled and were tucked in.
Maybe she ran out of oxygen during the lesbian liplock? Maybe her hangover dizziness finally caught up to her. Whatever the case, I could actually feel her pussy still pulsing in orgasmic aftershocks despite somebody turning off the light switch to her brain. And I came to a stop, leaning forward with my dick at full depth, rather than continue to rabbit-hump her cataleptic form.
At first, all of Sam’s focus was on Eva. She studied the unconscious girl’s face, making sure that Eva was still breathing and comfortable. But when I took a deep breath and stepped back, pulling myself out of Eva’s saturated snatch, Sam looked up at me and gave me a smug little smirk while spreading her own legs a little wider.
I arched an eyebrow questioningly. I mean: I hadn’t cum yet and I did want to continue, but shouldn’t we get Eva rolled off her and situated first?
But Sam simply retracted her legs, raised her knees, and perched her heels on the edge of the mattress. She also hugged Eva to bring the other girl just a bit further up her body, giving me plenty of room. And with my little head leading the way, I stepped back into place, tucked my cockhead down to get lined up with the blonde’s bare-shaven box, and smoothly slid myself back inside.
At first I kept my pace quite slow and deliberate. With Eva still out-cold atop Sam’s body, I was worried about jostling the slumbering girl with my thrusts or banging my belly off her butt. But so long as I kept up a measured drilling, I both got enough pleasure for myself and managed to not wake her. And Sam beamed up at me with an expression of extreme amusement at the situation.
“Ungh… ungh… ungh…” I grunted beneath my breath as I steadily shafted Sam’s sweet snatch.
“Mmmm… mmmm… mmmm…” my lover moaned while keeping her lips pressed together, her light brown eyes glowing amber as she gazed up at me.
“Ungh… ungh… ungh…”
Sam giggled and then turned her head to kiss Eva’s cheek, once again letting her hands roam the sleeping girl’s naked back and shoulders.
“Ungh… ungh… ungh…”
Sam’s hands slithered together down Eva’s lower back, palming the raven-haired beauty’s booty and then idly spreading her cheeks apart to give me a perfect view of Eva’s winking anus and still puffy pink labia.
“Ungh… ungh… ungh…”
Sam gave me a saucy wiggle of her eyebrows before pointedly gesturing with her eyes down the length of Eva’s body.
I rolled my eyes and gave Sam a tiny shake of my head. No way was I gonna pull out of Sam and abruptly shove my dick into Eva’s sleeping body. True: I knew that Sam, Naimh, and Belle not only accepted such kinds of unconscious intrusions, they even welcomed them. But Eva and I had never discussed that sort of wake-up call. And come to think of it: I’d never even received an alarm-clock BJ from the hapa Hawaiian girl.
Sam snickered and gave me a look that accepted my decision. She continued to play with Eva’s buttcheeks though, every now and again spreading them apart to give me a fresh look at the unconscious girl’s asshole and pussy – just to tease me. But I closed my eyes for a few seconds, concentrating on the intensely pleasurable feelings of having my Aphrodite’s exquisite portal to heaven wrapped around my prick. And when I opened my eyes again, I found the platinum-haired goddess herself smiling up at me with an expression of infinite love and serene satisfaction.
More than enough to make me wanna cum.
“Ungh… ungh… ungh…” I groaned before picking up the pace a bit. “Ungh-ungh-ungh.”
Sam bit her lip sexily and tightened her eyes, staring up at me at the increased stimulation.
“Ungh-ungh-ungh. Ungh-ungh-ungh.”
Sam’s mouth opened as she started panting, feeling the pleasurable sensations build back up within her brain.
“Ungh-ungh-ungh. Ungh-ungh-ungh.”
My Aphrodite’s eyelids fluttered as she arched her spine and let her skull push back a little deeper into the pillow.
“Ungh-ungh-ungh-ungh-ungh-ungh.”
“Fffccckkk, Mttttyyyyy,” she groaned through gritted teeth, her eyeballs rolling up into her head as her legs shot out to wrap around my waist again.
“Unghunghunghunghunghungh.”
“Wha--?” Eva muttered as she started to stir awake. Sam was still gripping her ass and her entire body was swaying and shaking atop the blonde’s undulating form.
“Unghunghunghunghunghungh.”
“Matty! Matty! Matty!” Sam gasped, quaking out of control.
“Unghunghunghunghunghungh.”
“AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!” Sam started screaming as she came.
“UNGHUNGHUNGHUNGHUNGHUNGH!”
“AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!
“UNGHUNGHUNGHUNGH--”
“EEEP!” Eva suddenly squealed at my unexpected entrance. Seized by some kind of impulse, at the last second I pulled out of Sam’s spasming snatch, grabbed Eva’s hips, and slammed my swollen sausage straight into her soaking-wet box.
“UNGH!!! UNGH!!! UNGH!!!” I groaned as I slammed forward one final time and began spewing what felt like gallons of sperm straight into the back of Eva’s womb.
“Holy FUCK!” Eva swore as that final shove knocked her forward so that she nearly butted heads with Sam, although her face had already been tilted to the side so that she merely got her forehead planted into the pillow. I’d instinctively reached under the Hawaiian girl’s bent-over body and clamped down with both hands on her big breasts, gripping them tightly as I kept my pelvis pressed down against her compact butt, still spewing semen deep inside her.
“Aaaauuuugggghhhh!” Sam still screamed, although the volume and intensity of her howl petered out towards the end as her climax passed.
“UUUUNNnngggghhhh…” Likewise, my final grunt diminished in power and pitch as all of my energy fled and I collapsed forward, sandwiching Eva between Sam and my heavy body.
“Aue. Well THAT was a crazy way to wake up,” Eva quipped between us, gasping for breath. And then she started giggling.
“It was Sam’s idea,” I grunted, breathing hard myself.
“Don’t blame me,” Sam protested with a giggle. “You did that one on your own.”
“You were the one inviting me to slam it into her,” I replied.
“I wanted you to slam it into her while she was still out cold.”
“As if that’s really so much better. I was never gonna do that,” I insisted. “Eva and I never had the consent discussion about that.”
“The bit where you wake up a girl by pushing your morning wood into her?” Eva asked. “Oh, you’re welcome to do that whenever you want. Did we really need to have a consent discussion? I thought that sort of thing was just part of the standard BTC contract.”
“There isn’t any standard BTC contract,” I insisted. “Just like there’s no actual cup-size requirement, you’re not obligated to let girls suck creampies outta you, and--”
“Ooh, that’s a good idea,” Eva interjected. “Wanna suck out the creampie, Sam?”
Sam blinked in surprise, although she still replied quite eagerly, “Really? You’ll let me do that?”
“Of course. We’re The BTC, right? ‘One for all’ and all that jazz? And this sort of thing makes me feel like we’re even closer friends.” Eva grinned and nodded. But after a moment’s thought, she added, “Just keep it to yourself, though. I don’t think I’m ready to try snowballing just yet. Unless Matty wants you to snowball some to him.”
“Pass,” I drawled immediately, and then smirked at Eva’s teasing grin.
Sam grinned. “More for me.”
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“Oh fuck… oh fuck… I can’t… I’m gonna cum again… I’m gonna cum again! I-I-I… AAAIIIYYYEEE!!!” Eva screamed as her thighs suddenly clamped together around Sam’s head like a Venus flytrap slamming shut. But Sam’s moans and audible slurping sounds still emanated from within.
Eventually though, Eva’s orgasm waned and her head lolled limply to the side while her legs split back apart. Her eyes were closed and for a second, I wondered if she’d passed out again. But her breathing remained steady and a minute later, she opened her eyes and reached down with one hand to gently but firmly push Sam’s face out of her crotch, where the blonde had continued idly licking up whatever else her agile tongue could find.
I sat up against the headboard and muttered, “We should probably get up and go outside. The others probably heard that last scream and started thinking, ‘How much longer are they gonna keep going?’”
Sam tucked her elbows beneath herself and pushed herself up a bit, sighing. “It’s what Neevie gets for sending you in here to wake Eva up. One way or another, you’re not leaving the room for a long while.”
I chuckled and shrugged. “You’re probably right.”
“Then again, I’m sure she knows that, actually. That’s just Neevie doing Head Girlfriend things: selflessly making sure all the other girls are taken care of, especially since she had you to herself last night.”
“Neevie’s a great Head Girlfriend,” I stated seriously.
“I wholeheartedly agree,” Sam confirmed.
I sighed. “Any way you can help me help her believe that?”
Sam pursed her lips and exhaled slowly. She shook her head slowly and then looked up at me. “I’ve tried to. Really, I have. She’s just so full of insecurities and fear and she’s constantly second-guessing herself. Like last night at the party? I honestly thought she was gonna spend the whole time bitching about Charlie putting his hand on my waist in front of you and how disrespectful that was and how I’m being such a shitty, neglecting girlfriend to you and all that.”
I blinked in surprise. “That’s NOT what you two talked about?”
“Well… she DID tell me I need to shape up or get the fuck out,” Sam admitted. “But that was just for like five minutes at the very beginning. The rest of the conversation was about how she doesn’t feel like she can handle being Head Girlfriend and wants me to come back and take charge again.”
I blinked twice. “Really?”
Sam glanced at Eva, who watched us both quietly without having moved from her position, flat on her back. When Sam brought her gaze back to me, she shrugged and said, “You probably noticed me going out of my way to demonstrate that I was part of The BTC, that this was my primary circle of friends, and that I didn’t need to go socialize with the Pre-Laws.”
I arched an eyebrow. “Wait, did you agree to come back and be Head Girlfriend again?”
“No, of course not,” Sam refuted. “For one thing, I know that if I did so I’d be cutting off her self-confidence at the knees. Neevie’s always been afraid she was just a placeholder girlfriend for you until I came back, and for me to just pop back into my old position like nothing had changed? No way.”
Eva sat up, raised her knees to her chest, and wrapped her arms around them. “Even though Neevie expressly invited you to?”
“I don’t want to say it was a test, but I do think she wanted to know if her worst fears would come true,” Sam speculated.
I nodded, confirming, “Neevie told me she was afraid of Sam waltzing back into our lives and reclaiming the top spot. She’s torn. There’s a part of her that would welcome no longer having the burden of responsibility, but there’s a part of her that fears losing her elevated place in my heart.”
Eva shrugged. “So let Sam have the burden of responsibility as leader of The BTC while Neevie keeps her place as your primary girlfriend. You DO remember that the term ‘Head Girlfriend’ doesn’t necessarily have to apply to both roles.”
“I know that.”
Eva arched an eyebrow. “Do you?”
“It’s a moot point. Sam’s not coming back to be either The BTC’s Head Girlfriend OR my romantic primary. She’s succeeding in her academic career and I’m going to do everything in my power to help her achieve her goals.”
“Well…” Sam hedged slowly.
I sat up straight in surprise. “Wait, what?”
Sam held her hands up. “You’re right; you’re right. I’m not coming back to be either The BTC’s leader OR your romantic primary. But I AM coming back to The BTC.”
“You never left The BTC,” I insisted.
“Kinda did there,” Sam muttered.
“She kinda did,” Eva confirmed.
“I lost control of my priorities for a bit,” Sam admitted. “I let myself get swept up in the busy-busy world of Pre-Law socializing and networking and schmoozing with professors and alumni and all that. It’s not that I necessarily feel like I did anything wrong or need to apologize, but I’ll readily admit that I haven’t been a very good friend to the BTC girls lately. And I haven’t been a very good girlfriend to you. I can be better. I want to be better.”
“I don’t need you to be ‘a better girlfriend’,” I insisted. “I love you, will always love you, and will always support you in whatever you choose to do.”
“I know that, and I love you for it,” Sam said warmly. “It’s precisely because I know how incredibly awesome you are and because I know with absolute certainty that I could never find a better boyfriend or partner who would so selflessly support me that I was never remotely tempted to cheat on you with Charlie or any of the other dozens of guys all trying to get closer to me.”
“I know that,” I confirmed. “Still, I’m glad to hear it.”
“Not remotely tempted?” Eva inquired. “I was at the party last night. There were a LOT of handsome, charming young men there.”
Sam smirked. “Sure, there are lots of handsome and charming silver-tongued devils in the legal world who would love to get into my panties and then drop me like yesterday’s dry-cleaning to move onto their next conquest. Lawyers are self-centered people. I’m a self-centered person. You kinda have to be to get ahead in this field. You think I’d risk the kind of lifelong love and loyalty I have from Matty for one of those assholes? Hell no.”
“Charlie didn’t seem like such an asshole,” I pointed out.
“Unless you consider the guy putting his hand around your girlfriend’s waist to be ‘assholish’ behavior,” Eva remarked.
“That part I should apologize for,” Sam sighed. “I’ve admittedly let Charlie get a little more… touchy/feely than I should have. I explained before that letting Charlie ‘establish his turf’ actually helped keep other guys away. So I got in the habit of letting him do that sort of thing with me as a sort of shield. But I shouldn’t have let him do that in front of Matty.”
“It’s fine,” I assured her. “Granted, I’d be happier if he didn’t put his hand on your waist in general, but I totally understand your reasoning, and I was always confident enough in your loyalty that I didn’t freak out about it.”
“Yes you did,” Eva contradicted.
I frowned at her.
“When we first arrived and Sam wrapped herself around Charlie’s elbow, you were squeezing my hand pretty hard,” Eva pointed out.
I rolled my eyes. “It was a momentary thing. And you never complained about me squeezing your hand too hard again.”
“But you still squeezed my hand pretty hard the first time.”
I sighed and gave Eva a mild look of annoyance at her betrayal.
“You shouldn’t have to hide your true feelings,” Sam stated softly, interlacing her fingers and clenching her hands together while staring down at them for a moment. She took a deep breath and then looked up at me. “The girls have been telling me for months all the times they noticed you feeling… off.”
I blinked. “They have?”
“Belle and Neevie? We’ve been co-girlfriends since the beginning. Of course they’ve been trying to keep me in the loop. Burnt breakfast. The time you called after me but didn’t hear my reply. General occasions where they’ve seen the pain in your eyes whenever you miss me. Belle, obviously, was a little more blunt about it, but Neevie’s had her own way of letting me know you missed me.”
“Knew and did nothing,” Eva muttered.
Sam sighed. “Like I said: I know I haven’t been a very good girlfriend to you. I haven’t been the kind of girlfriend you deserve. I’m sorry for that.”
I shook my head. “You don’t need to be sorry. You made clear from the beginning that your academics would be your priority, and I always knew what I was getting into with this relationship. I really don’t need you to change.”
“But -I- need me to change, for MY sake as well as yours.” Sam took another deep breath to collect herself, and she swallowed thickly. “-I- want to be with you more often. I want to be with my friends more often. This first semester has been really hard, and it’s not even over yet. We still have to get dressed, get out of this room, and go study for Finals.”
“Finals…” Eva groaned like it was the filthiest word in the English language.
Sam nodded and kept her attention on me. “I’m really glad you’ve been so supportive for the last four months or so, and I’ve only been able to accomplish as much as I have because of it. But something’s gotta change. We can’t keep doing this. Our love is a rose bush that’s not getting enough water. I know that. The flowers are withering without attention. Slowly, and perhaps so subtly neither of us notices, but it’s happening all the same. I can’t keep letting you swallow your pain for my sake. I can’t keep letting you try to hide from me how much you miss me.”
I winced. “I’m not… hiding how much--”
“He’s totally hiding how much he misses you,” Eva interrupted.
I started to protest, but Sam shrugged and gestured at Eva. And I sighed and shot the hapa girl another look of annoyance at her betrayal.
“I know you’re hiding how much my absence hurts you. I’ve always known,” Sam stated wearily. “I know you’ve been slowly crumbling, little by little. I told myself that if you were still strong enough to lie to me, you and I could get through this. I love that you’re forever loyal. I love that you’ve committed to always being my home. But if I keep going the way I’m going, we are going to lose what made us special.”
I sighed and pursed my lips, unable to deny what she was saying.
“There’ve just been so many things to do and so little time,” Sam sighed.
“There are always gonna be too many things to do and not enough time to do them,” Eva warned.
“Subject to the choices I make about what things need to be done and the time I choose to spend on them,” Sam insisted. “I know that balance has been a little out of whack. These last few months have been really hard, but it’s almost over. This has been a rough patch, I know, but it won’t last forever. The semester ends in five days. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
“And then what?” I asked dubiously. “Everything magically changes after the semester ends?”
“Everyone says the first semester is always the hardest: meeting new people, adjusting to college life, figuring out new routines. But next semester doesn’t have to be the same. I’m established now. I’ve made new friends – and yes, they’re friends. But I’m getting used to the pace and I’m less worried about building new connections and will be able to scale back to just maintaining connections, you know? Think of it like a startup company: there are a million things to do at first, but once you get operations running, the daily grind won’t be nearly as bad as the startup phase had been.”
I waggled my head, mulling that over.
“I mean… if Mari decided to transfer here from Caltech and join us for second semester, you’d welcome her back with open arms, right?” Sam reasoned. “You wouldn’t hold it against her for choosing to go to a different school and focus on her own thing for a few months, right? When she was here for Thanksgiving, you enjoyed the precious moments you had, and then you let her go again. Has what I’ve done for this semester really been so different? I had to go and do what I needed to do, just like we agreed on, but at least you and I had more time together these last few months than you’ve had with Mari, right?”
My eyes narrowed, measuring that comparison.
“I love you, Matty. I’m coming back. I know it’s been tough – tougher than I imagined or expected.”
“For me too,” I sighed.
“But I’ve thought this through,” Sam stated fiercely. “I have a plan.”
“I know you do.”
“And that plan includes you in it.”
“Be still my beating heart.”
Sam snorted and shook her head. “I’m sorry. That came out wrong.”
“I think it came out just right,” Eva muttered.
Sam glanced at Eva but then gave me a wan smile. “I know you’re bitter. I know you’ve been swallowing your bitterness, and I couldn’t love you more for it, but I’m glad it’s coming out right now.”
“You want me to be bitter?”
“I want you to be honest with me,” Sam insisted.
“Says the girl who admits she’s always known he was hiding his true feelings,” Eva scoffed.
Sam pursed her lips and kept her focus on me. “So long as you were still making the effort to hide your true feelings, I felt reassured that things weren’t that bad.”
“So Neevie tells me,” I muttered.
“It’s easy for me to tell myself everything’s alright when you’re putting up such a good front. Maybe you should be needy every now and again to remind me I should pay more attention to you.”
I sighed and shook my head. “You know I don’t want to be a burden on you.”
“And -I- don’t want to be a burden on you. I love you so much for putting up with me this semester, but I promise you that things will be better after Finals Week ends.”
“With that promise and a nickel,” Eva drawled, “Matty’d have a grand total of five cents.”
Sam pursed her lips and shot Eva a weary look.
Eva shrugged. “Hey, if Matty’s not gonna look out for his own best interests, someone should, and at the moment it doesn’t seem likely to be you. Something-something lawyers are self-centered people.”
Sam snorted again and smirked at the Hawaiian girl, with Eva smirking right back. And then Sam reached forward to squeeze my hand. “Please have faith in me, Matty. Have faith in us.”
I squeezed her hand back and took a deep breath. “I do. I have faith in you and will continue to have faith in you until you give me a reason to lose that faith.”
“I won’t.”
“I want to believe you, but as Neevie told me earlier, it remains to be seen whether or not you’ll follow through.”
“You’ll see,” Sam assured me. “When have I ever NOT followed through on one of my promises?”
I thought about that and nodded my agreement. “I love you enough to believe.”
Sam smiled. “That’s all I ask.”
“But I’m not the only one you have to convince,” I warned her.
“Totally. Belle’s always been the skeptic, but I thought Neevie understood, at least up until last night.”
“She said she gave you an earful.”
“Shape up or get the fuck out,” Sam confirmed. “But again, it wasn’t only about my relationship with you, but about my commitment to The BTC. We’re supposed to be a team: three girlfriends dedicated to giving you everything you need in the same way you’ve always been dedicated to giving us everything that we need. But I haven’t been pulling my own weight. I haven’t been keeping up my end of the deal, and I’m not used to being the one who lets people down. I owe it to them to be a better girlfriend as much as I owe it to you. And for me to continue doing the same things I’ve been doing would build up even more resentment from Belle and Naimh about them doing the heavy lifting in supporting you.”
“You can’t really argue with that,” Eva pointed out to me.
“I can’t,” I agreed.
“So that brings us back to what Neevie and I spent most of our time talking about,” Sam stated with renewed enthusiasm. “I’m coming back to The BTC. I’m making this special group of girls – and one very special guy – the top priority in my life. I know that all of you have put up with me being a shitty girlfriend for too long as it is, and I’m going to make it up to everyone. You’ll see.”
“Be careful the promises you make,” Eva warned. “I know your heart’s in the right place, but don’t overpromise and underdeliver.”
Eva’s voice cracked at the end of her statement, which gave me pause. And from the way Sam sat up straight and frowned, I wasn’t the only one to catch it.
“Spoken from personal experience?” Sam asked with raised eyebrows.
Eva waved her off dismissively. “The usual. You don’t need to hear another sad story about me and Kai. Besides, the focus of this conversation should be on you and your relationship with Matty and The BTC.”
Sam and I glanced at each other, and Sam smiled while replying, “Probably, but now you’ve got us both curious.”
Eva’s eyes got a little moist and she looked away from us. I instinctively scooted close to her so that I could wrap my arms around her midsection and draw her in against my side before cuddling her close. And when she continued to pointedly look away from us, I murmured softly, “Don’t worry about it. There’s no need for you to talk about him if you don’t want to.”
“No, it’s alright,” Eva muttered before exhaling wearily. She patted my arm before extending her hand out towards Sam.
The blonde looked momentarily confused, but she put her hand into Eva’s. And Eva immediately drew her closer until she could put Sam’s hand into mine and squeeze them together.
“I’ve told you before that I know what real love is, and that what you and I share isn’t it,” Eva said quietly while looking back at me over her shoulder. “But what you two have? This is real love.”
I blinked in surprise while Eva squeezed my hand and Sam’s together again, glanced at my Aphrodite questioningly, and returned my attention to Eva.
The Hawaiian girl focused her attention on Sam. “I know Belle and Neevie have been complaining that you don’t spend enough time with Matty, that you’ve been a shitty girlfriend, and that he shouldn’t have to swallow his pain at missing you. All that stuff I can agree with. You have been a pretty shitty girlfriend.”
I blinked twice. “Is there a ‘but’ coming?”
“But I distinctly remember Luna questioning what you’d done to deserve Matty’s love and loyalty last night, and I remember scolding her and saying she doesn’t know either of you two well enough to hold that kind of judgment over you,” Eva continued. “I’m not saying that -I- know you well enough to judge you, either. But I know real love, and you two definitely have it.”
Sam smiled at Eva, and then her smile brightened as she turned to look at me. I imagined I had a similar expression on my face.
“From the day I met you guys, I saw the way you two looked at each other. I felt the bond you had. Love was the bedrock foundation beneath every single action you took together. So when Belle explained that you were Matty’s Head Girlfriend, my first thought was, ‘Yeah, that makes sense. They belong together. They’ll be together forever. The two of them against the world.’”
Eva had long since let go of our hands, but Sam and I still squeezed them together as we continued smiling.
“I never once thought you two would break up. I always knew you’d find your way back together again. I saw what Matty was doing for you, the dedication he put into being as supportive of you as he possibly could, despite the neglect – despite the time you chose to spend with other people instead of with him. He’s special like that. That’s love. That’s unconditional love – the key word being ‘unconditional’,” Eva insisted. “Matty’s love for you has never been conditional on the amount of time you two spent together. It’s never been conditional on pulling your own weight. It’s not even conditional on you keeping Charlie’s hand off your waist. Unconditional means unconditional. Matty will love you until the day you die and even beyond, no matter what. And I recognize that because that’s exactly the same way I feel about Kai.”
Sam blinked twice and then arched an eyebrow. “‘Feel’ about Kai? Or ‘felt’ about Kai?”
Eva’s face fell, and she swallowed thickly. I still had one arm around her and gave her a gentle hug while she took a deep breath. Sam and I waited her out. Eventually though, she spoke.
“‘Feel’. I still ‘feel’,” Eva said quietly into the middle distance, staring back into memory, into her recent past. She pursed her lips and rather bitterly added, “I hate his guts for no longer being the man I fell in love with. But the part of me that promised to love him unconditionally for the rest of his life? Yeah… that part is still there. Always will be. Unconditionally.”
I felt Eva curling in upon herself and let go of Sam’s hand so I could hug Eva with both arms. When I looked up, I found Sam smiling at us – well, smiling at me – until her attention returned to Eva as she reached out to gently give Eva’s forearm a reassuring squeeze.
But Eva was already shaking her head in the negative, her gaze still far away. I could see the shimmer of moisture covering her open brown irises, see the haunted expression on her face.
“You two have unconditional love,” Eva muttered quietly. “But unconditional love alone won’t solve everything. Unconditional love alone can’t keep you together. I’ll always unconditionally love the Kai I fell in love with. The only problem is…”
“Kai’s no longer the man you fell in love with,” I finished for Eva when her voice trailed off.
“Drugs took him away from me. It happened slowly. I didn’t realize it for a long time. I was the ‘boiling frog’, as Belle put it. Our parents saw it. Our bandmates saw it. But I was blind. I didn’t want to believe it.”
Eva shuddered, but rather than break down, she sat up straight and wiped the tears from her eyes. She took a deep breath, straightened her spine, and pivoted in place to both remove herself from my grasp as well as turn to face me instead.
“You know the moment I finally looked at Kai and realized I didn’t recognize the man I’d fallen in love with? His parents had kicked him out and he was staying with me at my house for a bit. He was emptying the dishwasher and pulled out a big steak knife. I saw him hold it up in the air and just sort of… stare at the blade for a second, you know? There was a gleam in his eyes, and that was it. That’s when I realized: I had no idea what Kai was capable of anymore.”
Sam’s hand slipped into mine, more clutching it for reassurance than affection, and I was quick to squeeze it back three times in a silent ‘I love you’.
“A normal human being putting away the dishes? Nobody ever thinks they’re gonna start stabbing people, or stabbing themselves,” Eva continued quietly. “But all of a sudden I couldn’t breathe. My heart was pounding. It was like that fight or flight instinct or something, triggered by him, as if he were a rabid animal. And I’d braced myself to either rush in and save him if he tried to hurt himself or run away in terror if he suddenly turned and came after me.”
When Eva’s voice trailed off again, Sam mumbled softly, “That’s a horrible feeling.”
Eva’s haunted eyes stared vacantly into the middle distance again – into her all-too-recent past. I let go of Sam, slid alongside Eva, and hugged her again. She shivered and clenched her teeth. I could see her walking the razor’s edge between collapsing into sobs the way she’d done before and keeping her shit together. She was trying hard – really hard – to not lose it. I wanted to tell her it was okay to let herself go and break down in my arms, that I would always be there to hold her. But I sensed her inner determination to fight through. And in the end, she took a deep, shuddering breath…
… and then lost it anyway.
Eva broke down in sobs, bowing her head as the tears burst forth. I waited her out while holding her tenderly, stroking her spine. Sam scooted over to hug her as well, and Eva broke down even further. She started bawling her eyes out as she buried her face into Sam’s upper chest – which was still naked by the way. And together, Sam and I kept our arms wrapped around her, content to do so for as long as she needed.
But Eva didn’t need that long. Once past the initial bursting dam, she went suddenly quiet and still. A few seconds later, she started panting hard, as if she’d been holding her breath for that entire time.
Still, she picked her head up and clenched her teeth together, fighting to collect herself. Her lower lip quivered. Her gaze was wild. And there was an unexpected… fear… in her brown eyes as she stared at me.
Terror, even.
“Promise me, Matty. Promise me,” Eva whispered, her raspy voice barely audible.
I blinked. “Promise you what?”
“Promise I’ll never have to feel that way about you,” she whispered desperately.
I looked down at her seriously, nodding slowly. “I promise,” I told her with clear, confident sincerity. “You will never have to feel that way about me.”
Eva gave me a weak smile. I could tell she was trying to make herself believe me, clearly still traumatized by that incident with Kai (and many other incidents, I was sure). But I knew that she wanted to believe me, and I could feel her racing heartbeat start to slow down. I went back to stroking her hair and cuddling her close. She turned to bury her face into my neck, snuggling herself as close as she possibly could to me while cinching her arms and legs around me in fierce desperation. And Sam continued to hug her from the other side as well.
I knew she was in pain. I knew she was still thinking about Kai.
Which is why her next words came as such a surprise.
“Don’t let the same thing happen to you and Sam.”
I blinked in surprise and pulled my head back to look down at Eva, my eyebrows furrowed in confusion. I glanced at my blonde girlfriend for a moment and then muttered, “Um, I’m not really worried about Sam coming at me with a knife.”
Eva shook her head like I didn’t understand. “I’m not saying she’s ever gonna come at you with a knife. But…”
Her voice trailed off as her lips quivered, she glanced at Sam, and then returned her gaze to me.
“I know you love each other. I know you always will. Your love for each other is unconditional. That I’m certain of. For all eternity.”
I smelled a ‘but’ coming, but I didn’t say anything.
“But unconditional love alone can’t keep you together,” Eva repeated. And then she sat up and turned to face Sam. “Matty will never betray you. It’s in his DNA. He will be loyal to you forever, even if it kills him. But if you keep doing what you’ve been doing this semester – if you don’t keep that promise you made about changing and making him a priority in your life – one day he’s gonna wake up and realize he doesn’t recognize the woman he fell in love with.”
Sam blinked, looking a little pale, the normally über-confident blonde suddenly looking rather unsure.
And then Eva’s eyes narrowed as she said quietly (and rather malevolently), “Break his heart, and you may very well need to worry about me coming at you with a knife.”
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Eventually, the three of us got up to get dressed. While I would’ve been perfectly content for Sam to spend the rest of the day wearing nothing but my t-shirt that just barely managed to stretch around her expansive bosom and rode high enough in the back to expose some serious butt-cleavage, she made the practical decision to fetch some actual clothes from her dresser instead. Eva had brought a bag with a change of clothes as well. But all of my clothes were upstairs.
So long as Sam and Eva were both naked, I stuck around ogling all the T&A I could before paradise was removed from view, and only then did I get off the bed and put on my pajamas. The three of us then sallied forth from Sam’s bedroom, expecting to find the girls waiting for us in the living room with dry remarks about the noises we’d been making this morning.
But the living room itself was empty. So was the kitchen. It wasn’t that I necessarily expected the lives of the other girls to go on pause while Eva, Sam, and I had gotten into a threesome or anything. Still, I found myself glancing around in confusion, wondering, Where is everybody?
“They all left,” Naimh spoke up from behind me, a weariness in her voice that spoke of a weekend that had gone on far too long already. And I turned around to find my personal redhead leaning against the open doorway to her bedroom with her arms folded across her chest.
“Including Belle?” I queried in confusion. I wouldn’t have been surprised to learn that Isabela and Luna had gone back to their dorm rooms, but I couldn’t think of a good reason for why Belle wouldn’t have stayed here in the house.
“From your tone, I’m guessing you don’t mean they went to fetch coffee and pastries for the rest of us,” Sam drawled.
Naimh shook her head and sighed. “While the three of you were in there… talking… the rest of us were having our own discussion.”
“About what?” I asked.
Naimh sighed again with a look of resignation. “Isabela wants out.”
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