Although everything inside me was pulling me to the left, I swiftly left the room and scanned each face for Mary’s. After minutes and what seemed like hours, I found her sipping wine out of a glass and talking dreamily to an older guy. I muttered for him to excuse us and dragged her away by her elbow. Once we found a spot where not too many people were mingling, I rasped, “How do you know Jason Steeler?”. I couldn’t tell if I was angry, upset, happy, or distressed.
She frowned and tapped her chin, holding her glass in her palm facing the ceiling between her index and middle finger. “Oh, Jason! Why, do you know him?”
“How do you know him, Mary?” I asked more loudly, becoming frustrated. I thought I was finished with this.
She frowned, hiccupping and swaying back a little. “I met him last year through my roommate that moved to Scotland. Her brother’s friend, I think.”
“What’s he doing here?” I asked more calmly, trying to look more curious than desperate.
Her mouth made a little ‘o’ of surprise. “He’s here?!” She started to stumble away as if searching for him, but I caught her arm and repeated my question. “He lives a couple hours away from here, and I didn’t think he’d accept the invitation. We must catch up...” she babbled.
My heart was pounding. I walked quickly out of the room, snaking through people and more rooms, looking for his face again. It took me a couple minutes before I recognized the back of his head. He was standing next to a small group of people, more and more coming over as whoever he was talking to got more boisterous. I only hesitated for a second before I walked up to the group, realizing with a sinking feeling that he was talking to Mary. She literally had to have stumbled out of the room and bumped into him.
Their faces were laughing and relaxed, but as I came to stand beside Mary, Jason’s face tensed up and his chest rose and fell quickly. The whole ambiance of the room seemed to change, everyone else continuing to talk without noticing. All the images I’d tried to store and destroy in my mind of him came back in a flood. The way he lay, tensing his abs as he moaned and running his hand down my torso and hooking his legs around my waist...
I’d never wanted someone so badly in my life. I wanted to lunge across the circle at him and fuck him right there, in the middle of the room. After staring at each other for a few seconds, breathing curiously heavier than we should’ve, Jason seemed to snap out of it and swallow, “Will you excuse us for a moment, I haven’t seen this guy in a long time.” He walked through the circle smiling, patting me playfully on the chest, pushing me back towards another room. It took everything I could muster not to reach out and touch every part of him back.
Every room seemed to be full of people, and in frustration, he grabbed my hand and pulled me roughly towards the stairs, taking them two at a time. We’d all been told not to even think about the top floor, but it was either this or public sex. We all but ran down the hallway, bursting into the guest bedroom. Before I could even shut the door behind us, he slammed me into the wall and started to violently kiss me. I let whatever restraint I had on myself go, placing my hands on either side of his hips as they ground into me.
The blood was pounding in my ears and I started kissing him everywhere, tugging feebly at the waist of his jeans. He already had his hand up my shirt, feeling my abs tense up as he slid a hand into my boxers.