Chapter 44

The car pulled back up into the driveway, each of the teenagers started to exit the vehicle, all seemingly in good cheer. “I really umm appreciate you coming, thank you. I loved the whole cheerleader thing.”

Candi wrapped her arms around Jeremy, practically jumping into his arms with a large smile on her face. “It was so much fun, thank you for inviting us. Do you want another cheer before Bailey and I have to like go?”

“We should like totally get going though, we don’t want to be late for the cooking lesson Aunt Megan got for us for our birthday.” Bailey said not wanting to perform again.

“I would love to see it!” David said with a big smile, shifting his leering gaze between the three girls in cheerleader outfits.

“Well at least one of you boys isn’t afraid to voice what he wants.” Candi touched the pad of her index finger to the birthday boy’s nose before giving him a wink and turning to Bailey. “We have like plenty of time. Leah come on lets like do one more!”

“Umm actually.” Jeremy shuffled one of his feet around in the grass next to the driveway. “I was wondering, well see… is Leah going with you or could maybe I bring her home later?” Candi smirked, while Bailey glanced over to Leah.

“Maybe you should ask her yourself, I’m not her babysitter.” Candi said, making Bailey smile more. “I am, but I bet she would love to stay the night with you.”

“BAILEY!” Leah said, almost shrieking, her cheeks gaining a tint of pink from a blush coming to her cheeks, that easily matched what was happening to Jeremy.

Not making eye contact Jeremy shifted his body to face his girlfriend, his hand starting to move out to take her hand in his, but stopped before he reached her. The idea of sleeping next to Leah sounded amazing, but that wasn’t what he was after. Not like his parents would allow that sort of thing anyways. “I was umm hoping you could stay a little later, I have something I wanted to show you.”

“Oooooo” David made the sound to tease his friend, like he was saying something lude.

“Yeah… umm yes. I just have to be home before eleven or my Daddy will get mad.” Leah still hadn’t done what Miss Megan told her she had to do. Though she still found it odd she hadn’t mentioned it again since that one day, or followed up with more punishments. She had been trying to be good and thought it might be an exercise in trust.

“I can do that.” Jeremy said excitedly, finally looking up to peer into his girl’s beautiful blue eyes.

“You love birds can make kissy faces later, come on Leah, time to shake your butt!” Bailey said dragging Leah to the middle of the front yard to start another cheer. The three boys huddled together, watching the girls talk among themselves for a moment before moving to stand next to each other in a line.

“When I say H you say A! H!” Candi yelled thrusting one hand in the air with a pom poms, one at a time.

“H!”

“A!” Leah and Bailey yelled together in almost perfect unison.

“When I say P you say P and Y!”

“P!”

“PY!” The two again yelled not quite saying it at the same time as they shook their pom poms around.

“When I say happy you say birthday!”

“Happy!”

“Birthday!”

“Then you put it all together!” Candi continued to yell moving her arms around and bouncing her head from side to side happily. Following her lead they put the happy birthday cheer together, Candi jumping in the air at the end, Bailey dropping to her knees and Leah kicking her leg up high into the air. Jeremy clapped his hands and hollard his own amusement at the girls. “Woooo!”

While Leah’s eyes bugged out, the high kick that she wasn’t even sure why she did it had caused the sticky material of the tuck kit to peel away and unlike normal cheer uniforms this one didn’t have bloomers under it. Looking between the three males that were watching she didn’t see anything that showed they saw anything. “I umm will be like right back I have to go to the bathroom!”

Jeremy watched the girl bolt off into his house as he started to walk closer to the three girls. “That was great, is umm is she going to be okay?” Jeremy then felt a hand clap him on the back. “You know girls, small bladders, I’m sure she is fine. Anyhow man, I had a lot of fun today, but I gotta head out.” The two gave each other a fist bump, Jeremy much happier with how the day went. Everyone had made the day so much better than his low expectations, considering last year he only had a single friend show up at the pizza place where his dad had rented out a back room.

Inside the bathroom, Leah pulled down her panties and pulled up her skirt to see if anything was salvageable. The tuck kit had peeled away and was sticking to itself much like a bandaid or tape would. Pulling it completely off the fresh air over the area felt good, but looking at what she had in her hands didn’t. Fiddling with it for a bit she balled it up and tossed it into the trash, sitting down on the toilet with her face in her hands. When she had gone to the waterpark she had brought an extra one incase something happened, but here she was sitting in the bathroom at her boyfriend's house with no way to protect the secret between her legs other then tucking it back and hoping for the best. She sat there freaking out a bit, trying to calm herself down with thinking about how Jeremy wasn’t the type to just reach under a skirt and when knocking came to the door she knew her time was up.

“You okay in there?” She gave the door a lopsided grin, she never went and checked on someone like this and the boy just instinctually cared. The fact he was doing it for her made her happy, but sad at the idea that when he got a real girlfriends, he would find more than a few taking advantage of his sweet nature. Life had been hard for her, and didn’t want that for Jeremy. “Just a sec!” With time seemingly being up Leah pulled her panties up, tucking away everything once again before leaving the bathroom.

“Sorry, I just like really needed to go.” Leah looked around seeing only Jeremy there and no sound of anyone else nearby. “Where is everyone?”

“I get it, no worries. I feel like you apologize a lot to me.” Jeremy said taking Leah’s hand, running one finger over one of her smooth polished fingers.

“Sorry…”

“No, I’m saying you don’t have to.” Leah bit the inside of her cheek for a second thinking.

“You know, you like do it way more than me.”

“Do I?” Jeremy rubbed the back of his neck feeling like he had been caught in something. “I guess we can both be better about it.” Jeremy looked around the are to make sure none of his parents were lurking before leaning in and kissing Leah. Feeling her soft creamy lipstick covered lips, tasting the hint of bubblegum and smelling her perfume was all intoxicating. He felt her go rigid at the kiss, but as he continued. Wrapping one arm around her waist to press into her back, pulling her closer to him she started to kiss back, almost melting into him as he leaned into her. When the kiss ended Leah could see his goofy grin, it wasn’t his normal smile, it reminded her of a child getting an extra helping of ice cream or candy from a grandparent, but had to keep it secret just between them. A private smile that he only gave to her, her own smile for when he was happy being with her.

Being with a good number of women she had seen smiles, grins in all manner of ways, but Jeremy was the only one that ever looked at her like that. All of that made that stupid, cute, goofy grin that was all hers, special, because it made her feel special. “I don’t think I will ever apologize for kissing you. That is a promise.” Leah fought to keep the smile down on he face as she bit the inside of her cheek again.

“We shouldn’t be here all alone, we should like go by the others.” Jeremy shook his head.

“They all left, Bailey said for us to have fun and Candi said how she knows we will and both went off giggling like they were apart of some inside joke. Know anything about it?” Leah pursed her lips and shook her head.

“They like teasing and like are always giggling about one thing or another.”

“Well I like both of their laughs, especially when I hear you join in. Seeing and hearing you be happy, makes me feel happy too.” Leah smacked his chest, stepping out of his arms.

“Stop being all perfect prince charming, what is it you wanted to show me?” The words of his girlfriend echoed in his mind, making Jeremy feel like he was on cloud nine. He couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have this girl in his life. He wasn’t sure if he should thank Bailey and Candi for coming into the store those weeks ago, that caused Bailey’s aunt to bring Leah into his life or if it should go to a higher power.

“Go out to the car…” Jeremy smirked thinking about the car. “My car!. See you in a sec I have to grab something.” Leah didn’ have time to react before she felt his lips press to hers for just a split second before he ran off to his room.

Before long Leah saw him come out of the house with a black duffle bag, putting it in the trunk before he got into the driver's seat. Something Leah hadn’t sat in for a while now. “Where are we going?”

“Surprise.”

“I like don’t think we will make it back by eleven if we go to Surprise.” Jeremy stopped backing out of the driveway to look at Leah in confusion.”

“It's like over a five hour drive to Surprise Arizona.” That made Jeremy laugh, he threw his head back into the headrest.

“No, where we are going is a surprise you silly thing.” Leah pursed her lips together, she was trying to make a joke, but instead just came across as being ditzy like when Bailey tried to say almost anything. She sulked thinking about that as they drove, thinking about each and every time something like this happened, instead of thinking about what was to come.

The destination wasn’t far, a local park that was divided into four sections. One part dog park, another part forest with a jogging trail, then a grassy area with a playground and the parking lot. When they got out Jeremy got the duffle bag, carrying it over his left shoulder, while holding Leah’s hand with his right as he walked her closer and closer to the jogging trail. When they were almost inside the forest Jermy turned, walking them along the almost wall of trees before stopping about halfway. “Here we are.”

Leah looked around, giving Jeremy a smile. “It is nice, thank you for sharing it with me.” She wasn’t sure what she should be seeing, but it was obviously something special to him. The comment only made him laugh. He put the bag down and motioned to the trees.

“My Mom and Dad have lived here in Nevada their entire lives and met here actually. They were trying to give back and were doing community service planting these trees. My Dad likes to say, like these trees his love for my Mom has only grown.” Jeremy rested his palm on one of the tree’s trunks.

“Aww, that is really sweet.” Jeremy nodded, giving the tree a little pat before unzipping his bag, being careful with its contents to pull out a white and red checkered blanket. Unfurling it he sat down on the blanket so that his back was on the trunk of one of the trees. Kicking off his shoes he patted the blanket next to him, feeling the soft, thick grass under. “I wanted to share this with you.”

Getting down next to him Leah followed his example, taking off her white sneakers before getting down and leaning more into him than the tree. “This is also something I wanted you to see.” Jeremy pointed off in the direction he was facing, the sun was setting over the mountainous horizon causing the sky to gain hues of pinks and purples. Putting her head on Jeremy’s shoulder Leah sat there watching the sky while she listened to the breeze move through the trees and Jeremy’s breathing, neither saying a word.

“I don’t think I have umm like watched a sunset before, I mean I have seen them, but never watched one.” Leah said after the sun passed over the horizon, the sky filling with stars and the warmth of the day fading.

“I’m glad you liked it, but I have one more thing for you and I had to wait till it was dark.” Leah pulled away, sitting up as he reached into his bag again, pulling out a black box before handing it to her. It was one of those shadow box things, a black box almost like a picture frame and inside this one had a scene that caused her to gasp. The front edges on the inside of the glass were covered in branches, twigs and leaves making it look almost like she was looking through a bush. Beyond that were little white Christmas lights made to look like they were fireflies, each one giving off a little bit of light and at the center a yellow and blue butterfly standing on a tulip flower that looked like it was just starting to open.

Butterflies, tulips and fireflies, all things she had told him were things she liked. He had created a little memory box of the things he knew she liked. It might have been the sweetest thing she had ever gotten as a gift and it brought tears to her eyes. “Jeremy, you get gifts on your birthday not give them away.” She said sniffling and trying to keep her emotions under control.

“Maybe, but you don’t know one important fact.” Leah turned her head away from the box, between it and the starlight there was plenty of light to see his smile.

“Yeah, what's that?” The question was answered with a kiss, not a quick one or a long lingering one, but something in between.

“That I’m in love with you Leah.” Leah’s eyes went wide in surprise as Jeremy wrapped his arms around her to pull her in for a much longer kiss. “I love you Leah and I wanted to share all of these things with you.”

That phrase, I love you was so simple, but it hit Leah like a brick. She had told people she was falling for them, but it was a lie. Looking at Jeremy’s face she couldn’t see any falsehoods. She wasn’t even sure the last time someone said those words or something really like it to her. Her brother and her used to lean on one another, but they never voiced their feelings and her dad certainly hadn’t even said he liked his children. Those three simple words, words she hadn’t heard, nor felt for so many years made her feel scared, scared they were the truth. They also felt incredible, but he couldn’t love her, she was nothing but a lie. “You like, can’t love me, you don’t like even know the real me.”

Shifting his position Jeremy put both of his hands on his girlfriend’s forearms, who was clutching the gift he made to her chest. “I can, and I do.” She shook her head, causing her hair to swing about. “You… you can’t, no one does.”

Leah felt one of the warm hands move from her arm and then gently cup her cheek, making it so she had to look into the young man’s eyes. “I don’t know about no one, but I can say that I…” Jeremy’s stomach was somehow both in knots and flip flopping around as he confessed his love, not sure how to handle her rejecting it and everyone that cares for her. He thought his self esteem was low, but who could think that no one loved them he wondered. “I… love you Leah Megan Summers.” Leah felt her lip quivering, this wonderful, stupid, special man didn’t know what he was saying, but it felt just right. She had kissed him before, she had even initiated a little peck here and there, now for the first time Leah leaned into him, wrapping her arms around his neck to kiss him.

“Mmmm” Jeremy felt his girlfriend pull herself into him, dropping his present to the blanket. Her breasts pushed into his chest as she kissed him. He opened his mouth to let her tongue into his mouth, she was normally more passive in their make out sessions and he was very much enjoying this. Their lips were parted, their tongues rubbing on one another, he moved his hands to her hips and hoisted her onto his lap. With each passing second Jeremy got hornier and hornier, his manhood pressing on his jeans. Unconsciously he slid one of his hands under his girlfriend’s skirt, holding her ass and pressing her down as he pushed his pelvis up.

Feeling Jeremy’s hard on pushing against her didn’t pull Leah out of the moment, she continued to kiss his, enjoying the moment as she felt the hand that wasn’t on her ass start to massage her chest. Her nipples were already hard when they started to make out, but the waves of pleasure that ran through her from his hands were something she never really felt before, it was like that feeling of bliss just before she would cum, but it continued. Like she was floating along in the bliss, riding it like a wave. She slid one of her hands under his shirt, pushing it up, running her fingers along his toned stomach. She could hear his breathing change, she could feel how aroused he was and all because of her. Jeremy, the person who said he loved her was having a physical reaction to her touch. Knowing it was because of her was euphoric to the point she felt herself growing hard. She pulled away from Jeremy, sliding off his lap, she had ****. Without the tuck kit he would feel her secret and once he found out about that he would hate her, right now she wanted to keep feeling his love before it turned to the hate. Touching the hardon through his jeans she justified what she was doing as she lowered his zipper, unbuttoning his pants. Thinking how she had to do this, it wasn’t because he said he loved her, it wasn’t because she was into him. The sight of his thick cock didn’t send excitement through her, she wasn’t attracted to cocks, but seeing the thing that was much bigger than she had did make her feel a little proud, knowing it was like this because of her.

Taking it in her left hand she ran her hand up the shaft slowly once, stopping to press her thumb to just under the base of the cock. Hearing the moan come from Jeremy told her he was loving what she was doing and even if she had spent years being with woman, right at that second she wanted nothing more than to hear more of that from him, she wanted to give pleasure to the man that foolishly loved her.

Her own member grew incredibly hard as she loved herself down, mouth open and taking just the tip of Jeremy’s cock into her mouth. It felt completely different than her dildo and almost right away as she slid it just a little deeper into her mouth she felt a small squirt in her mouth, followed by the feeling of something goopy and salty. On instinct she pulled off him, a little pit of the precum coming out of the corner of her mouth. Cum in her mouth was part of the point, it was the goal of a blowjob, but she still hadn’t been prepared. It wasn’t the first time she had tasted cum, she had tasted her own many times now, but having it squirt and drip into her mouth was different.

“Oh my god that feels so good, oh my god Leah.” Jeremy said, running his hand across her cheek, pushing her hair behind her ear. She gave him a smile, kissing the tip of his cock before opening her mouth again, sliding her tongue from side to side at the tip, knowing just how good that felt and wanting him to feel it. Leah sucked on his dick gently as she took more of it into her mouth, taking just a little more and a little more with each bob of her head. He was almost the same size as her toy and from practice she knew she could take it all in, but she wanted to draw it out, wanting Jeremy to feel as much pleasure as she could give him. He was so kind to her, he deserved the best she could do, even if she had **** but to do this. She had only taken him in half way into her mouth, one hand holding the base while the other slid up his legs, running her nails over his hard stomach when she felt a much bigger gush shoot into her mouth. Some of it going down her throat, she was **** to swallow as it kept coming and coming, like a damn had been breached. When it stopped she suckled on it for a few more seconds as Jeremy let out a loud groan.

“Oh Leah, Leah…” He tried to catch his breath, beside himself with joy after getting his first blow job. He never expected anything like this to happen tonight, and he couldn’t wait to do it again and again. “That was the best thing I have ever felt.” He let out another breath, wishing he could have lasted longer, he held out as long as he could, but it was the best thing that ever happened to him so far in life he just couldn’t contain himself. Leah tried to contain her smile, she knew she shouldn’t be happy or proud of doing a good job sucking his cock, but she did feel those things. She had been congratulating herself as she felt the member grow stiffer in her mouth, knowing what was about to happen, knowing it was because of her it was happening.

“Really?” Jeremy nodded, sitting up as he smiled at his girl, pressing his forehead to hers.

“The best, and I want you to feel that too.” Jeremy moved his head to start kissing her neck, moving down to base, hearing and feeling with how close he was the sound coming out of her almost like a cat's purr. He leaned more forward, pressing her back so that she would lay down on the blanket. His hand touching her thigh and sliding up under her skirt. The kissing on her neck almost caused Leah’s eyes to roll back in her head, she had one girlfriend that liked to do that to her, but she was more of a biter than a kisser. Jeremy’s tender kisses to that area was driving her wild, so much that she paid little attention to his hand on her leg or when it went under her skirt. “Ahhh” She breathed out feeling the warm hand touch her dick through the silky panties. Suddenly her eyes snapped all the way open, realizing what had just happened all too late as it gripped and recoiled.

Jeremy pulled his hand out from under Leah’s skirt like it had been bit by a snake, he felt it and wasn’t sure what he was feeling. He had never done anything like this before, but the feel of the hard dick under her skirt… there was no mistaking that. He backed away from Leah till it was pressed back up against a tree. “Wha… what?”

“Jeremy I can explain!” That happy moment was gone, the look on his face was like one of betrayal, he even looked scared of her. She knew it was a matter of seconds before it all turned to hate. This wasn’t her fault, she desperately didn’t want him to hate her. Them not being together would be for the best, but not hate, she couldn’t take that right now.

Glancing down at his hand, like he could almost still feel what he felt, he second guessed himself at what he thought he just encountered, but seeing the tent in her skirt told him it wasn’t his imagination. “Leah… Leah, are you trans?”

“Trans?”

“I never would have guessed you were transgendered.” Jeremy’s eyes shifted from left to right trying to come to grips with the new information. He felt horrified, betrayed, his mind asking him if he was gay for being so attracted to this girl… no, not a girl.”

“Ahh, ahhhh. I’m sorry, yes.” Leah said, that lie being much better than the odd truth of who she was and how this came to be. “Please don’t hate me…” She pleaded.

Jeremy tilted his head slightly to the side, his facial expression softening, as he looked at her face. He could see she was afraid, this wasn’t a moment of betrayal, she was scared of him rejecting her. Her comment about no one loving her suddenly felt so much clearer to him. He had had only a minute to process this, and he might reconsider, but at the second. Sitting here in front of Leah he knew his feelings for her hadn’t changed. This was still the same person who likes to steal bites of his food, the same person who ran their fingers through his hair as he laid his head in her lap. This was the same person that acted so reserved, till she lost herself in moments like when she jumped on his back at the waterpark or was snuggling a kitten. This was the same person, the same girl who came into his store. Nothing had changed, he had just learned more about her and he wondered if this was why she would say things like she wasn’t a good person.

Sitting up straighter he tried to give her a reassuring smile, motioning with his hand for her to come closer. “I don’t hate you, I can’t hate you.”

Leah shook her head slightly, like she was trying to deny what he was saying. Of course he did, there was no reason why he wouldn’t. Daddy hated her, it was because of him that all this happened and he hated her for it. She tried to win him over, show him how it didn’t matter how she had to act or dress, but he just ignored her more or acted colder the longer she was around. So there was no way Jeremy would be any different. It was never said but she was sure daddy loved her, he had looked out for her for all her life… till now.

“Leah, come here, please” Leah meekly moved closer. “I don’t know what has happened in your past, but you and me. There is no hate here, there is love. You didn’t say it, but I think you love me too.” Not looking him in the eye, Leah shook her head. She couldn’t love him, it wasn’t right.

“You don’t? I think you do.” For the second time he saw her shake her head, but he could also see a tear running down her cheek. It was heartbreaking for Jeremy, he was sure he was right, but he didn’t really know for sure, he really only had hope.

“Well, I still love you Leah.” His words were gentle and soft as he picked up the black box and put it in her lap, where she was looking so the light of the fireflies would light up her face. Leah gripped the box, not saying anything, the seconds dragged on as she thought about the man. He was goofy, nerdy, a mommas boy, considerate, thoughtful, romantic and one of the best people she had ever met. She sniffled, feeling a few more tears run down her cheeks, she knew she must look like a mess. The desire to fix her face was almost overwhelming, but there she sat, looking at the gift in her hands.

“I love you…” Her words came out as a whisper, a confession she didn’t want anyone to hear. She ran her fingers over the glass front, the butterfly, the fireflies and flower where things Miss Megan made up, but she could remember chasing fireflies as a kid. Laughing and running in a field as the sun set, she didn’t remember who she was with, she was so young. The things in the box looked so nice, and looking at them made her smile, if only slightly.

Sitting there in silence after confessing his love for her again, Jeremy gave her time to think. It felt a little unfair that she had all her life to come to terms with who she was, but he only had seconds, but life wasn’t fair and from her reaction that might have been particularly true for her. So he gave her the moment, he would give her all the time in the world he knew, he loved this girl. No matter who she used to be. After some time, he wasn’t sure how long he watched her gaze shift up to him. She had a weak smile on her face, the smile growing a little more as they held each others gazes, neither saying a word for another few seconds. “I love you too.”

Lunging forward he held Leah in his arms, the box making the embrace a bit uncomfortable, but his heart felt so full. Today was his birthday, and right now today felt like he got everything he could have asked for and much, much more.