Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 93723 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 469(@200wpm)___ 375(@250wpm)___ 312(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 93723 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 469(@200wpm)___ 375(@250wpm)___ 312(@300wpm)
“Why don’t you like it when other guys kiss me and hold my hand?” she mumbled, keeping her chin tucked.
“Because it’s what I like to do.”
Ever so slowly, she glanced over at me and grinned. “Do you want to kiss me now?”
Wetting my lips, I nodded.
“Okay,” she whispered.
Leaning to the side, my lips brushed hers. I closed my eyes. And …
“Collltennn!”
Thunk!
Josie fell out of the tree.
“Oh, fuck!”
It took me a few seconds to move my body and climb out of the tree. I wasn’t expecting her to fall. And I definitely wasn’t expecting her to say the F-word.
“My arm …” She cradled her left arm to her chest and cried.
“Josie! Oh my god. Are you okay?”
“M-my a-arm …” She cried more.
“Is it broken?”
“I don’t k-know.”
“Can you stand? Do you want me to get your parents?”
She sobbed and nodded. I assumed it was a yes to getting her parents, so I ran to the house.
“Josie fell out of the tree and hurt her arm,” I blurted the second I charged into the house, but nobody was in the room. Panicked, I ran up the stairs. Her brother was already asleep in his room with the door cracked, and his white noise machine playing.
I didn’t think. I really really should have thought before opening her parents’ bedroom door without so much as a knock.
Up until Josie asked me if I wanted to kiss her, the highlight of my thirteenth birthday was Chief Watts letting me drive his car. Then Josie said those words, and I forgot about the Chevelle.
Until she fell …
That was the new unforgettable memory from my thirteenth birthday.
Until …
I barged into Josie’s parents’ bedroom and witnessed Chief Watts standing in front of the television with the remote in one hand and Savannah’s ponytail in his other hand. Her on her knees. His penis in her mouth.
The infamous blow job.
I had only heard about it from friends. Never experienced it. Never witnessed it.
“Colten!” Chief Watts boomed.
“Oh my god!” Savannah scurried to her feet and ran into the bathroom.
Me? Oh, I couldn’t tear my eyes from the chief’s larger-than-life penis. He reeled that long thing back into his pants with the swiftness of a fire engine after the last ember was extinguished.
He was angry.
Josie was sobbing in the woods.
Yet, all I could think was will mine be that big?
God, I hoped so.
Benji cried. For some reason that was what brought me back to reality, that and Chief Watts’s big hands on my shoulders guiding me out of his bedroom.
“What the hell are you doing, Colten?” There was a tightness in his voice that I hadn’t heard before. A constraint.
“Oh …”
Savannah, with her flushed face breezed past us to Benji’s room. “Shh … it’s okay, baby.”
“I …” My gaze gathered enough courage to look Chief Watts in the eyes. My new idol. “Josie fell out of the tree. I think she broke her arm.”
He winced. “Shit …” he murmured, brushing past me to the stairs.
“Josie?” Savannah called behind us as I followed Chief Watts to the woods.
With the strength, only a large-penised man would have, he carried Josie straight to his truck.
“Josie …” Savannah held a grumpy Benji while kissing Josie’s head before Chief Watts put her in the back seat.
“We’ll get an X-ray, and I’ll call you,” Chief Watts said to Savannah. “Get in, Colten.”
He wanted me to go. Why? I wasn’t sure, but I had a sneaking suspicion it had something to do with the infamous blow job.
I sat next to Josie, and she leaned her head on me as she occasionally sniffled and whimpered. My hand slid to hers and squeezed it.
“So what exactly happened?” Chief Watts asked as we headed toward the emergency room.
When Josie remained quiet, I cleared my throat. “Well … we were in the tree, and she fell out.”
“Why did she fall out?” He eyed me in his rearview mirror.
“Because I said he could kiss me for his birthday,” Josie murmured.
I felt less intimidated watching Chief Watts shove all three feet of his penis back into his pants than I did as he scowled at me in the mirror. I’d kissed her so many times before that day; it wasn’t a big deal. She showed me her tits. That was kind of a big deal, but not anything Chief Watts needed to know.
Why did Josie rat me out? Was it payback for me not lying to her parents about the funeral home?
“B-but … I didn’t. We uh … we didn’t … Sir.”
Chief.
Master.
King.
Please don’t put me in jail!
He grumbled something indecipherable.
While the nurse took Josie for an X-ray, Chief Watts pulled me aside in the waiting room. “Listen, Colten …”
I had run a lot of bases, sprinted many fifty-yard dashes, but never had my heart pounded so quickly and violently in my chest as it did beneath the formidable man towering over me.