"Hey, Josie," I said slyly. "You know what
really
turns Jackson on? It's when you..." I reached over and poked my friend Jackson's sides, "...poke him just like that." I giggled as he ran down the hall to his room and dramatically slammed the door.
Josie and I laughed.
Under her breath she whispered, "But he has a soft stomach! He isn't fat, but it's a little pudgy."
"Oh girl, come on. He's sexy, and seriously, hard stomachs and really rippled muscles skeeve me out," I teased. Fortunately, I finished my sentence as Jackson peered out his door and came barreling down the hall towards me.
I was too slow to react, and before I knew it I was pinned to the gray carpet. Jackson's warm body was on top of me, groping around trying to tickle me. My immediate defense was, of course, to push him off of me. Then I remembered that it was my sexy neighbor on top of me!
Doing the worst impression of a porno film I said, "Oh, no, Jackson. Don't! Stop! Don't....Stop...Oh, don't stop. Ha-ha-ha."
He grinned and I swear his hand "accidentally" grazed my breast as he climbed off of me.
"Good thing you're a good sport," he offered me a hand up.
"Yes, well, when it's you it doesn't bother me quite so much," I taunted as I stuck my tongue out at him.
A group started to form in the hall. Our hall was on 22 hours of quiet because it was finals week. Fortunately, our hall cannot be quiet for one, let alone 22, so being noisy was acceptable. Josie and I glanced at each other and then at Jackson.
My God, he's gorgeous. I'm tall, so at six feet, it's nice to know people who are taller than me. Standing at 6'4" I literally looked up to him. He was kind of skinny, but he didn't look unhealthy. His chestnut hair was still wet from his shower, and the ends curled just a little around his ears, forehead, and nape of his long neck. His black and red workout shorts were new, I noticed, and his shirt was one he proudly had gotten for free. It was black and had some silver words on the upper breast. I have no idea what they said, because I was too preoccupied.
During the past year, Jackson and I had gained quite a history. We had grown from being okay friends and complaining about our roommates together, to hanging out in each other's rooms and enjoying the freedom of having singles. I'd like to think that we got to be best friends of a sort; at least we were on our way to that destination.
I never had a brother, and no matter how much I wished for one, I was so glad that Jackson wasn't related to me. I don't think he understood how attractive he was. His face was very chiseled, with amazing cheekbones, a very pronounced nose and a cute goatee that covered just the bottom of his chin. He was also the most non-metrosexual metrosexual that I had ever seen. He wanted to look nice, and was always experimenting with different hairstyles; he genuinely cared about his appearance, but was by no means a "pretty boy." He also never referred to himself as "metrosexual."
My friends and I made it a point to go outside to the grass and watch him and the rest of my neighbors play Frisbee. Fortunately, Jackson was always on the skins team. How lucky we truly were!
He knew we were there to watch him, but he never said anything about it. I think he silently appreciated our admiration. I always flirted with my neighbor, but it was friendly and flattering, and neither of us thought anything else of it. Okay, that's a lie. I oftentimes wondered what it would be like to cuddle with him, kiss him, but never sleep with him.
Boy, was that about to change!
"Jackson! Get your ass over to your room and put on something sexy! We're leaving for the club in 10 minutes!" I yelled down the hall.
Knowing that I was serious, Jackson peeled off his shirt as he ran to his room. That was totally unnecessary, I thought to myself, but I enjoyed the view anyway.
"There, how's this? Is it hot enough, yet bad enough to let everyone know I'm straight?"
"Yes, that's just fine. Besides, no matter what, if you get hit on by a boy, well, that means you're way too attractive for your own good." I grabbed my keys and we headed out to the club.
Jackson was a little hesitant to dance at first. The people around us were wearing very skimpy, skanky clothes and everyone was grinding on each other. Ah, free love. I decided that if I ever got him up to dance, I'd grind on Jackson a little extra.
"Please, Jackson, come dance with us girls, it'll make you feel popular having three girls dancing around you! This is the best place to find single, straight girls, I promise." I grabbed Jackson's lean arm and tugged playfully, very intent on getting his sexy self on the dance floor.
"If you come dance, I'll be your friend," I pleaded.
"Mel, you already are my friend."
"Well, okay, I'll be your BEST friend!"
"But, you're already almost there on your own merit."
Holy shit. I froze. Jackson just said that I was a mere step away from best friend status. When did this happen? How entirely sweet was that? For a moment, my concentration was gone. Jackson took the opportunity to wriggle back to his bench and began watching the girls shake what their mamas gave them.
Well, I'll show him. I got up and started dancing with my friends, Erica and Macy. Every once in awhile I'd get kind of close to Macy and grind on her, looking over my shoulder to see Jackson's reaction. I swear, when he looked up there was a twinkle in his eye. I almost had him.
After the song ended, I grabbed a water bottle from the cooler and sat down next to him. I took a hearty drink of the cool liquid and handed the bottle to him. My chest was heaving and sweat glistened on my brow as I smiled slyly when he turned back around to return the bottle.
I leaned across Jackson's lap seductively to talk to an acquaintance. How very clever, my full breasts barely pressing against Jackson's legs, his hand slid down from the back of the bench and came to rest in the middle of my back. Impatiently, he drummed his fingers on my spine. I sat up and grinned at him.
"Yes?"
"Oh, what? Nothing." Sly as a fox, he moved his hand back up to the bench.
"Mel! Come dance with us, it's our song!" Two of my friends grabbed my arms and before I knew what was happening, I was thrust onto the dance floor, my shoe going the other direction, into Jackson's lap. Laughing, he picked it up. Not wanting to get run over by people, I went with the flow and began dancing and grinding with my friends.
After the immediate rush of people died down, Jackson reluctantly came over. "Did you lose this?" He teased, holding my shoe just out of reach.
"Give me my shoe before I lose a toe, or my whole foot! You know you'll be sad if I end up footless because of you!"