I'm Here For Eddie

"What a knight in shining armor you are," I mock, "But I wasn't talking about her. Sure you might not do anything to her, but in your mind he is just as liable for your humiliation simply by virtue of the fact that he was standing beside her while she made you pay.

"Eddie, Blake. In case you're too fucking dumb to put that together. I'm here for Eddie's sake. Because I know you enough to know that you're pissed at her and want to take it out on him. So you'll figure out a way to make him pay, to make him hurt. A way to humiliate him the way that she humiliated you, or worse most likely."

"Eddie?" he asks, incredulous.

"Yeah," I say, "All I'm doing here is distracting you so that he can have a chance at a moment for her."

"Wow," he says sarcastically, "For that little dweeb you'd go through all this. What did he do for you?"

Nothing, I want to say. He doesn't have to do anything. In spite of his at times shitty personality and in spite of the fact that he'd been less than decent to me more times than I can count in this body, he'd done nothing to warrant my help.

But that wasn't about that. In this moment the past mattered more, even if the past hadn't actually happened yet or at all.

"Naw that's a lie," he insists, "Gotta be. You don't know that guy."

"Don't have to know him to know that he deserves this more than you do."

"But you forget," he smiles, "That isn't what I'm looking for. That isn't what I want. That isn't what's good for me and I know it now."

I open my mouth but out of the corner of my eye I catch girl-Kim again. Her jaw is set and her eyes are focused on me until boy-Kim evidently distracts her, calling out her name, because she stumbles and stutters as she turns to address him.

And just like that, no one is looking at us.

"You're what's good for me," Blake coos, "Even if you're bad for me too."

I turn to tell him off but all that does is turn me into him. All it does is turn my body towards him and with no one watching that means there is no one around to witness what happens next.

Which is Blake stepping in and around me, one hand wrapped around and cupping my ass while the other tilts my chin so quickly that it takes my breath away.

My lips part as I shudder and his connect with mine, his tongue slipping in fast and subsuming my interest as I whimper and press my hands against the hard solidity of his chest.

But I don't push him away.

Instead I wait and I bask in it. I let him kiss me, let him invade me.

And I let him be the one to break, stepping back and spinning me sideways so we're facing the group once more.

With his hands still on me. With his grip not letting me go.

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