Improvements and Interruptions

“You’re really improving, Jay.” Brooke says, as you and her finish your morning laps around the park. “I didn’t even need to slow down this time.” She adds teasingly.

“Thanks?” You reply sarcastically, before taking a gulp of water.

“I seriously mean it. You’re not even breathing heavy anymore. That’s a good sign. It means you can push yourself further.” Brooke says, tapping you on the shoulder with her back hand encouragingly.

“Do I look like Stone Cold or HBK yet?” You ask her jokingly, making her laugh.

“You look like… a loving boyfriend.” Brooke jokes back.

“I’ll take that as a no.” You react with a chuckle.

“That stuff comes with time. The important part is your training showing results.” Brooke assures you.

“Thanks, Coach.” You say, genuinely encouraged by the pep talk.

“Doesn’t Coach get a reward?” Brooke surprisingly asks.

“What?” You ask in confusion, before Brooke closes her eyes and puckers her lips to show the kind of reward she’s asking for. You chuckle at first, but Brooke maintains her puckered lips to show that she’s not joking about wanting her reward. Since her eyes are closed, you take her by surprise and hug her from behind, before giving her her much deserved reward.

“You know, it’s usually the coach that should be giving their pupils rewards when they do good.” You point out.

“Oh? What kind of reward does my star pupil want?” Brooke teasingly asks, brushing her hand on your crotch.

“Let… me… think… Hmmm~” You teasingly draw out, while slowly grinding your crotch on her hand. “How about you give the girls a proper lesson on the history of 90s wrestling?” You then joke, making Brooke tap you on the crotch hard enough that you have to release your hug while laughing at your own joke.

“You are such a tease.” Brooke tells you, as she hugs you from behind and gives you a kiss on the cheek.

“I’m serious.” You say. “Cassie and Stella barely learned anything from Viv’s history lesson. They need to hear it from the master.” You bring back the joke, getting Brooke to hug you tighter out of giddiness.

“Fine~” Brooke concedes. “God. You were this close to getting an early morning behind a bush BJ in the park.” She then adds, showing you her left hand inches away from your face, while her thumb and index finger being millimeters apart to show how close you were.

“Now who’s being a tease?” You react.

“I’m serious.” She replies, grazing her right palm on your crotch, making you turn around to face her. Brooke has an all-too-familiar teasing smile and look in her eyes. “... this close.” She repeats, while showing you her hand again to tease you.

To her surprise, you grab her by the wrist and forcefully pull her into the bushes of the park and gently push her back onto a tree, before making out with her. Brooke doesn’t seem to mind your forcefulness at all, as she enthusiastically makes out with you, and even ruffles your hair while the two of you swap spit.

“Fuck. I was just teasing. But I’d be lying if you didn’t turn me on just now.” Brooke says, while the two of you take a break to catch your breath. “Not that I mind, but what’s gotten into you?” Brooke says, pleasantly surprised.

“Honesty.” You answer with a chuckle, which Brooke just raises an eyebrow to. “Call it initiative then.” You rephrase to make it clearer, and Brooke chuckles now too.

“About goddamn time.” She replies back, before lunging in for her own passionate kiss, and wrapping her arms around your neck. In the spirit of initiative, you pull down the front of your sweatpants to reveal the bulge in your underwear that she helped cause, before grinding it on her pelvis. Brooke lets out a stifled laugh after feeling the friction you’re causing.

“This is so fucking naughty.” Brooke comments, as she lets go of her hug around your neck and lower her hands towards your underwear.

“I know.” You say, genuinely surprised at yourself for doing something like this as well. Then again, you’re rationalizing it with the knowledge that it is still pretty early, and there’s not a lot of people in the park yet. So the chances of getting caught are slim to none.

At least you thought.

“Elizabeth! Get back here!”

“Shit!” You and Brooke both react in whisper shouts, after hearing a woman shout very near where you and her are making out. You both duck under the bushes in order for the woman to not see either of you, if she hasn’t already.

“Why? So you can berate me again to quit on my dreams? No thanks.”

“Was that Lizzie?” Brooke reacts upon hearing another voice.

“Jesus Christ. That girl has fucking superpowers.” You whisper in agitation, as your perverted escapade has once again summoned her.

Unable to help yourselves, you peek your heads above the bushes, and see that it was in fact Lizzie that replied to the woman earlier. An even bigger surprise, Lizzie’s talking to a woman you’re familiar with too. You’ve seen her at Brooke’s gym before.

“Holy shit! Is that Karen?” Brooke says in reaction as she covers her mouth in shock.

“That’s Lizzie’s mom?” You ask in surprise too, as you can’t see any resemblance between them at all.

“Racist.” Brooke jokes, as you’re sure she can’t find a resemblance between the very Asian looking Lizzie and the most suburban white woman you could think of that befits the slang, that’s also unfortunately her name,‘Karen’.

“Elizabeth!” Karen shouts, as she grabs Lizzie by the arm to prevent her from walking further.

“WHAT!?” Lizzie shouts.

“Why won’t you talk to me?” Karen asks her angrily.

“Because you don’t listen!” Lizzie shouts back with just as much emotion.

“Excuse me for not listening to reasons that don’t make sense!” Karen shouts back.

“And you’re surprised I don’t want to talk to you?” Lizzie sarcastically asks, before trying to turn away, but Karen keeps her hold on Lizzie’s arm to pull her back.

“How about you listen, missy.” Karen tells her with venom. “You are coming home. End of discussion.” Karen adds authoritatively.

“No.” Lizzie bluntly replies.

“That wasn’t a question.” Karen tells her, tugging on her arm to go the opposite direction.

“Make me.” Lizzie continues to antagonize her mother.

“I. AM.” Karen says, no trace of bullshit in her tone.

“TRY. HARDER.” Lizzie replies with the same tone, before easily pulling her arm away, and storming off again. Lizzie’s forceful display of resistance stuns Karen, who has her mouth agape as Lizzie continues to walk away from her. It takes her a moment to shake off the trance, before trying to catch up to Lizzie once more.

“Elizabeth! Get back here!” Karen shouts again, echoing the original shout you and Brooke heard from her, as she tries to chase Lizzie again.

“Where are you even going!?” You hear Karen shout in the distance.

“Damn. That was intense.” Brooke comments.

“What the hell were they doing having a shouting match in the park for?” You wonder.

“Well, thankfully they were so engrossed with their own drama they didn’t even notice our own thing we shouldn’t be doing in a park.” Brooke comments.

“About that thing we weren’t supposed to be doing…” You say suggestively.

“Continue it in my room? Break in my mattress finally?” Brooke suggests instead.

“Because we might summon those two again?” You ask, and Brooke immediately nods, making both of you laugh.

You and Brooke proceed to dust off the leaves and dirt that stuck to your clothes, before making your way out the park.

“By the way,” Brooke says, restarting your conversation now that you’re both on the way back to the apartment. “I didn’t really get why you answered ‘Honesty’ first when I asked what’s gotten into you.” Brooke tells you.

“Oh, that. Stella and I talked about a few things. One of them being my seeming **** to just ‘do’.” You try to explain.

“What did she mean by that?” Brooke asks to clarify.

“Something about second guessing myself and waiting for you guys to give me the ‘go signal’ every time there’s something to do. Well, in her case, someone to ‘do’. Like, she thinks I’m always having this internal battle of wanting to do something but stopping myself because I think you’d think I’m an asshole for wanting it. That’s why she told me to be honest with myself. I think that also implies that as long as I’m being honest with myself, I’d be more honest about what I want with you guys too.” You clarify.

“Ohhh~” Brooke says in reaction. You wait for her to add anything more, but she seems content enough already with your explanation.

“So you agree with her?” You ask.

“Well, yeah~.” Brooke answers like it’s obvious, and you both can’t help but chuckle. “It’s nice that you listen to our opinions about everything first, but she’s not wrong about it being obvious how you seemingly beat yourself up over every decision like you’re going to do something wrong for doing what you want.” Brooke adds.

“I mean, it is mostly about stuff that involves fooling around with other girls. I know you girls are okay with it, and that’s probably mostly because of the magic, but a part of me still thinks I’m taking advantage of your affection for me.” You tell her.

“Then don’t do it.” Brooke tells you, leaving you stunned.

“What?” You ask confused.

“Disappointed you, didn’t I?” Brooke asks with a chuckle. “See, Stella’s right, Jay. If you didn’t want to do any of the things you did, it wouldn’t have happened. I think that’s why Stella said to be honest with yourself. Not just with what you want to do in the future, but what you’ve done previously too.” Brooke points out.

“Like Courtney?” You ask guiltily, and she raises her eyebrow in offense.

“The hell are you talking about?” Brooke asks with a laugh.

“I may not have outwardly thought it at the time, but subconsciously, maybe I did want to just shut Courtney up a bit and show her I’m no pushover. Points or no points.” You ask.

“And you think I mindlessly went along with it like I had ****?” Brooke sarcastically asks. “I’m a grown woman, Jay; and I’m pretty sure, at that time, I’m the one who convinced you we should do it.” Brooke adds.

“You’re saying I didn’t help influence that?” You ask.

“We were discussing it, so you obviously had some influence.” Brooke replies.

“Did you see it? The way I wanted to shut Courtney up? Stella said she could even hear it from how my voice sounded. The way I treated Courtney that day.” You share.

“I saw you were having doubts about going through with it for sure. I didn’t know what it was you had doubts about particularly, but I wouldn’t have suggested pushing through with it if I openly saw that you strongly had no interest in doing something with Courtney.” Brooke answers. You take in Brooke’s words, contemplating everything you’ve heard from them as you both neared the apartment.

“Oh, and by the way, we all agreed to that before you even bought that magic that made it okay.” Brooke adds to emphasize her point a moment later.

“How is she by the way?” You ask Brooke.

“Courtney?” She asks to confirm, and you nod. “Haven’t talked to her directly. Chad’s updates aren’t much to go by. He’s always been smitten by her, so I take it with a grain of salt when he says she’s being nice to him. I don’t know what nice means for those two, but it sounds like they’re going strong.” Brooke answers. “Why do you ask?” Brooke asks.

Why did you ask?

“You want to talk to her?” Brooke guesses, and you take a moment to think about what it is you really want to do.

“I do.” You answer honestly. “But not yet. You were right when you said she needs time to recover from what she remembered when we did it with her. I won’t push that. Just… maybe ask her if she’ll be open to it one of these days?” You ask Brooke, and she immediately answers she will.

The two of you make your way up the apartment building; and once you reach the floor of your units, Brooke stops and asks you, “Now, be honest. What do you want to do right now?”

You give her a teasing smile, and reply “I want to break in that new bedroom of yours.”

“Good answer.” Brooke says with a smile, before leading you towards her apartment.

As soon as she opens the door, you turn her body towards you and pull her into a kiss. She immediately returns it, and the two of you start making out, trying to mindlessly walk inside her and Viv’s apartment. You push her up against her bedroom door, and your hands meet trying to find the door knob. The coincidence makes the two of you break away from each other to laugh, only for the two of you to notice something in your periphery immediately.

“Don’t stop on our account.” Viv jokingly greets the two of you. Her greeting isn’t what’s shocking to you and Brooke though, it’s who she’s with…

“I’m sure you’ve met my boyfriend before right, Lizzie?”