Page 28 of Everything Is Yours
Chapter 15 Invisible Obstacles
Three hours later we had learned a lot about our two fans, debated guitars, our favorite bands, songs and musicians, and we were all stinking drunk, even the girls. Our waiter arranged taxis back to the cabins, and we bid our farewells to Malden and his buddy, John.
Lenny fell in the snow when he tried to get out of the taxi and took several attempts to get up. He staggered towards his cabin with a backward wave of his hand. He was so drunk he couldn’t even articulate where he was going. Rick, Jack, Cody and Dave all headed for Rick’s cabin, and the girls followed Lily to ours.
“You coming?” Rick asked shoving his hand in one pocket and taking several attempts at finding the other one as he swayed on his feet.
“Naw. I’m heading for a nap, dude. I’m wasted,” I replied weaving my way towards my cabin door.
“I’ll leave the door unlocked, in case you change your mind,” Rick said as he tripped over his own feet and landed flat on his back in the snow.
“Fucker. Who put that there?” He mumbled.
I tried to focus and looked around him for what he’d stumbled over but the ground was completely flat, and I guessed it was an imaginary obstacle he’d fallen over. I made sure he was on his feet and watched as Jed appeared and placed Rick’s arm over his shoulder to help him inside. Turning around I did my best to stay on my feet and headed inside to Lily and the others.
Dita had obviously been there again, having piled a buffet dinner of beef, chicken and what looked like ribs, and the smell of baked potatoes could be identified from the moment I’d opened the door.
Wandering into our bedroom, my intention was to take off my shoes and pull on some sweats but I sat on the end of the bed and can’t remember anything else from that point. I must have passed out. When I woke it was an hour later, and I was bursting to pee, so I eased my way off the bed and wobbled unsteadily to the bathroom, hanging onto the furniture like a small child learning to walk. I knew I needed to drink water, so after relieving myself I headed to the fridge in search of a bottle.
All the girls were sprawled out on the sofas and floor, but they were slightly more with it than us guys were. I pulled two bottle’s from the fridge and wandered over to Lily handing her one as well.
“Drink,” I smiled.
Lily tugged the hem of my t-shirt and pulled me down to flop beside her.
“Kiss me.”
Cupping my hands to frame her beautiful face, I gazed into her bleary blue eyes and grinned at how drunk she was.
“You sure I won’t be taking advantage of a drunk woman?”
“Hmm, Alfie, that’s kind of what I was hoping might happen.”
Tenderly, I moved a wisp of her hair away from her face while our eyes were still locked in, and our mutual gaze grew in intensity.
“Thank you for picking me.”
Lily’s choice of words tugged at my heart. At the beginning, when Lily and I had a less than committed relationship, I had tried to reassure her during an argument when she’d seen me with other women. I had remarked honestly to her, ‘They chose me, but I picked you.’
I knew that Lily hadn’t put any slant on her comment, but it still squeezed at my heart that I’d said something like that to her. She was the one woman I’d never want to hurt, and at the time I knew I had.
Before I could apologize again for that, Lily pulled me closer and licked her lips as she studied mine then reached up and pressed them to my closed lips. In a split second her tongue was tracing the seam of my mouth, and I hurriedly poked my tongue inside hers to clash with her tongue. My senses became more alert. No matter how drunk I was, Lily’s touch or kisses always stirred a reaction from my body. Tonight was no different.
Lily moaned into my mouth, then broke the kiss. I noticed the other women in the room had fallen silent, and I turned to look at them.
“I’m not apologizing for kissing the love of my life, ladies,” I stated, as solemnly as a drunk man could. Emma’s face flushed a little and shifted in her seat.
“I think it’s amazing, Alfie. My only wish is to find a guy like you. I love how you aren’t afraid to show people what Lily means to you.”
Meeting Lily’s gaze again, I grinned and rested my head on her forehead. “I’d ask you to dance, but I’m not sure we wouldn’t fall over.”
Her eyes searched mine, and she gave me another soft kiss and pulled back. I tried to kiss her again but she dodged my lips, her head skimming past my face as she moved away.
“Don’t, Alfie. I want to spend some time with the girls here. If you don’t stop, we’ll be in bed, and us girls only have a little time together.”
I tried not to show my disappointment at her rebuttal and lay down on the sofa facing the ceiling. Lily took my head in her lap and began to stroke my hair while Emily began to talk about Dave and how their unlikely relationship as a couple had gone from friends to much more. I lay listening to her talk affectionately about him and was surprised to learn that it was Emily that instigated a night of passion between them at the beginning of their relationship.
Somewhere during her explanation I fell asleep again and as I was waking for the second time since we’d got home it was Mya’s voice that intruded into my consciousness and began to drag me out of my semi-comatose state.
