The Best Year - 37. Chapter 37

After leaving the school, I turned towards town not wanting to go to Lily’s right now. I already told them we were going to be by later. Lily’s parents must be on a trip, they liked to visit family now and then. Unlike the rest of us though, Lily wouldn’t throw a party in their absence, mostly because her mother was pretty anal about cleaning and would know if anything was out of place.

“Where we going?” Luke asked after we got to the town’s welcome sign. I jumped when he spoke, not expecting him to. My mind was on trying to find somewhere for us to park, keep the car warm, and talk. I wanted to talk to him about last night and what that meant for me to hear him say that he loved me. Being around friends after such a thing passed between us made me feel weird around them. Like I had a sign on my back, but they hadn’t treated me any differently tonight. Still, every time my mind fell on the, ‘I love you,’ part of last night I couldn’t help smiling. It was only a matter of time before I was caught.

“I don’t know,” I answered, glancing in his direction.

“It’s getting late,” he said and seeing the park’s entrance quickly approaching I turned the wheel, feeling the tension of the seatbelt. I saw out of the corner of my eye Luke reaching for the dashboard.

“Sorry,” I said as I drove all the way down the parking lot to the dark corner where the street lights didn’t reach. There were a few people out riding around, but I suspected most of them were seniors involved in the prank doing the same thing we were doing. Refusing to go home and end the night after the high of knowing the entire school would be reacting to what we did. Even if some of them were probably pissed that it seemed to focus around me.

“The park?” He asked and I looked over to see him glancing out the window. With us not moving the windows were already fogging over, but they were tinted anyway. The only sound was the quiet engine and the heater on high.

“Why not?” I asked, shrugging my shoulders. “Unless you want to go home.”

“No,” he answered and I saw him tense in his seat.

“Do you feel weird?” I asked, unfastening my seatbelt and let it slide off my chest. “After last night I mean.”

“No,” he answered and I watched him reach over and unfasten his own seatbelt. I watched it slowly slide up his chest and I watched him shrug it off his shoulder so that it could roll back up and out of the way. “I knew for a while, but didn’t think you wanted me to say it.”

“Oh,” I said, swallowing. I wanted to lean over to kiss him, but there was a console and a gear shift in my way.

“What?” He asked and I shook my head.

“I want to kiss you so fucking bad,” I groaned tightening my grip on the steering wheel.

“Okay, come on then,” he said and I watched him open the passenger side door. Not wanting to fall behind him I grabbed the handle and bolted from the car.

I thought he was going to take me on another stroll through the woods, but instead he just slid the front seat as far up as it would go and slid into the back. Following his lead I pushed my seat up and closed our doors behind us. Having our bags of clothes back here I grabbed mine and slung it towards the front of the car and when I heard Luke laugh I awkwardly crawled across the seats and sat half on both of them in the middle. He let out a breath when his back came into contact with the cold window, hearing him I moved my arm up around the head rest then I reached over with my other hand and grabbed a handful of his shirt. I pulled him to me and when our lips only half connected I felt him smile. Slowing myself down I let his shirt go and guided his face to the best angle for me to kiss him. When our lips met properly I let out a sigh, closing my eyes until I felt him grab my thigh just below my cock. It was already pressing painfully against my jeans, but I didn’t think we would be going this far, not really.

“Is this okay?” He asked as I fought to find room for my legs in the middle of the back seat. I ended up just shoving one on either side.

“Fuck yes,” I answered as I kissed his jawline feeling the stubble that I didn’t notice before. He had fair facial hair and it took more than a couple of days of not shaving for it to show.

Hearing my answer he moved his hand up and I leaned my head back when he pressed his palm against me. Still being confined to my pants it was more painful than anything so I reached down with my hand and swore under my breath a few times until I got the button undone and the zipper pulled down. Now free, I felt him opening my fly and when his hand slid across my cock through my boxer briefs I opened my eyes to see him looking at me. He jacked me off through the soft fabric for longer than I wanted him to, but when his hand finally slid up and behind the waistband I moaned and leaned forward kissing him.

His hands were cold, but after the initial shock that made me jump and him laugh, I got used to it and his hand warmed. I rested my hand on his elbow, tightening my grip when I thought I was going to go too far over the edge. I didn’t want a handjob in the back of the car, I wanted Luke, but the fucking tight space had me second guessing the back seat of a car. The only other option was the cold night air though and I didn’t want to leave the warmth.

Finally I growled and just pulled my jeans and boxer briefs down past my ankles knowing that if someone was to get nosy and come see what we were doing, that I was too far gone to be saved any embarrassment. I then kicked off my shoes and pulled everything completely off. Having my legs free of my jeans I scooted back to the other side of the car so that I could turn long ways. When I was comfortable, I pulled my right knee up and motioned for Luke to come to me. I heard him unzip his own pants and in the limited light I watched him pull them down to rest on his thighs. When he crawled between my legs I let my right leg relax against his side.

“Hold on,” he grunted when I reached down to find his cock.

“What is it?” I asked half expecting to see headlights appearing and us scrambling to look like we were doing anything else than what we were doing.

“I have some lube,” he said and I watched him awkwardly rise up until his head touched the roof of my car. He fumbled for his bag that was shoved into the floor and when he found it, I laughed when he rested it on my chest.

“Do you always carry some?” I asked reaching between us, to his cock. He tensed when my cold hands came into contact with him again, but he relaxed when I started jacking him off.

“I thought I might need it tonight,” he answered as he found it and zipped his bag. I watched him shove his bag back into the floor of the car then open the bottle. I chewed lightly on the inside of my bottom lip when I watched him apply some to the tips of his index and middle fingers then rub them with his thumb to coat the rest of them.

“Go ahead,” I urged when he hesitated long enough for a cold droplet of lube to hit my lower stomach. He only nodded as he leaned back down, my hand falling from his cock no longer able to reach it in the cramped space of the car. He slid his free hand between my side and the seat as he moved to hover over me and I jumped when his hand slid below my cock to my ass. I had to spread my legs wider so that he could reach me. He made one little circle around my hole before I felt him pressing his index finger against me. Trying to relax and fall into the back seat of the car I leaned my head against the door somewhere above the armrest and the window. My legs were curled slightly, being too tall, but when his finger slid inside of me all of that went away and my eyes found his. Seeing me looking at him he leaned lower and kissed me as he slowly slid his finger in and out of me. I sighed against his lips when he added his middle finger and I reached up and cupped the back of his head.

“Where’s the lube?” I asked when he stopped kissing my lips and started kissing down my jaw line. We both still had our shirts on, which made the warmth of the heater still running seem hotter in here than it was earlier. I could feel myself sweating underneath my hoodie and the t-shirt I had under it.

“Here,” he said and he pressed the small bottle into my hand. I had to do some shuffling to free both my hands enough to open the cap. When I got it open I squirted some in my palm and reached between us. I felt the lube running from my hand, but I didn’t care where it went after that. I found his cock and slid my palm over it, then I jacked him off watching him close his eyes tightly and I smiled when a small moan escaped his mouth.

“Ready?” I breathed and when he nodded I lifted my ass and guided his cock to me. When it pressed against my ass I felt him move his hips and when I relaxed enough, the head of his cock slid inside me.

Only being the second time, I winced gritting my teeth as he kept going until he was all the way in. Only then could Luke relax some of the tension he held onto from being in the cramped back seat of a car. Now he was laying completely on top of me, my own hard cock pressed against his hoodie and my stomach. When he started moving his hips back and forth he sat up and grabbed hold of the head rest of the back seat. I watched him grit his teeth as he slowly started fucking me and when his eyes found mine I moved my arm and rested it behind my head for added cushioning.

“Go ahead,” I breathed when he started going faster, but hesitated. “Fuck me.”

When he sped up and deepened his thrusts I reached down with my free hand and started jacking myself off. Luke kept up a harder pace than the first time we had sex, his eyes on me with one of his hands painfully digging into my chest. It took a little longer for the pain of having him inside me to ease to the pleasure of being with him. I had to focus on relaxing, but when I finally managed it I grunted and when I saw him smirk and speed up I felt myself about to cum and I didn’t stop jacking myself off quick enough, but not wanting to cum yet, I tensed up. I looked up when Luke sucked in a breath, his eyes surprised. He kept going as I came all over my hoodie, closing my eyes feeling some of my cum hitting my neck no longer trying to fight it. Then I felt him tense inside of me, but he slowly pulled out and I opened my eyes to see him jacking himself off and when his eyes shot open with a shuddered breath I watched him add his cum to my hoodie. When it was over he collapsed, leaning against the back seat.

Neither of us said anything as we untangled our legs and got back into a sitting position. I watched him rise up off the seat and pull his pants and underwear back up over his ass and cock before I searched out my own clothes.

Not having the room to get dressed I gritted my teeth and leaned over the back of my seat, watching to make sure I didn’t get cum everywhere and opened my door. The cold air hit my sweaty body immediately and I huffed, swearing under my breath as I grabbed my underwear and jeans as I scrambled out of the car to get dressed. Pulling them both on, my toes going numb against the frigid asphalt I reached up and carefully pulled my hoody off me, using it to clean the cum that lingered on my neck threatening to run down onto the collar of my t-shirt.

Luke slid out of the back seat and watched me dress and when I found my shoes and toed them back on we both got back into the front of the car. I looked at the time and saw that it was approaching half past two in the morning. When I looked up at him he smiled.

“When I saw Ally laying all over you, the only thing I could think about was doing that,” he said and I stifled a laugh shaking my head.

“Luke Clarke, did you just angry fuck me?” I asked, trying not to laugh. I had noticed his insistence not long after his cock slid inside me, but now I knew why.

“Well you also looked hot in your dress clothes,” he said as I held my hands closer to the heater to bring life back to them.

“I think it’s too late to go to Lily’s,” I said as I reached behind me and pulled my seatbelt back around and fastened it.

“I guess so,” he said and I noticed his face was still flushed.

“We’d give ourselves away as soon as we walked through the doors anyway,” I added and when he smirked and looked through the windshield I put the car in reverse and backed out of the parking lot.

“Have we gotten trashy?” Luke asked, reaching for his seatbelt. “Mom said only trashy people do grown up things in the backs of cars.”

“I guess we are,” I answered laughing at the very innocent way he described what we just did. “Where do you want to go?”

“Not home,” he answered and I nodded as I eased the car down the paved parking lot to the exit.

We rode in silence as I drove to the only all night gas station. The clerk was surprised to see us, but I needed gas and after I paid and filled the car up we were back on the road. Not having a general direction it surprised me when I approached the lake entrance on the other side of town. Slowing down, I pulled onto the road. The road itself was a poor excuse for a paved road and was curvy as fuck, so it took us awhile to actually get to the lake.

Glancing at the clock it was now almost four in the morning and when I looked over at Luke his eyes were closed and his head was relaxed against the headrest and his shoulder. I could just hear his deep, even breathing over the hum of the heater and when I stopped where the paved road forked for the boat ramp and the beach he didn’t wake up. So I turned the radio on low and let the car idle, turning my head to watch him sleep as I put the car in park and slowly released the break.

I didn’t ever really fall asleep, not wanting to turn the car off knowing that was the only thing keeping the chilled air at bay. I was still surprised when the darkness lightened from a uniform blackness that I couldn’t see through past my headlights to a deep blue. Looking out I saw three deer at the edge of the forest, they were looking at the car thinking about going for a drink or bolting. It took them a while to finally make the decision and one by one they lined up side by side, only taking a few seconds to drink in one go. I didn’t understand how anything could live as scared as they did, but I guessed they needed to.

The digital clock also read forty five minutes past five in the morning. I knew Cindy would be waking up any time now if she hadn’t already. I half expected a chopper and sirens to sound any moment. Knowing that people were starting their Monadys, I sent a text to Mom telling her that I was fine and that I spent the night at Toby’s after pranking the school. I hoped Toby had the sense to lie to Troy, but I doubted Troy would miss him before he got up. Glancing over at Luke, still relaxed and sleeping I smiled and turned to look at the lake. The soft waves were visible at a distance now and the sky added pinks and purples as the sun started to rise.

“Luke,” I said, my voice sounding hoarse from being thirsty, and tired. I watched him stir immediately and when he blinked against the brighter light he stretched and looked at me.

“What time is it?” He asked, his voice caught between a groan and a whisper and I smiled when I noticed that his hair was sticking up from being slept on.

“About six,” I answered and I saw the early morning light brighten his face and light up his eyes.

“I guess I better get home,” he said, leaning his head back against the headrest. “Don’t expect to hear from me for a bit.”

“In that case, let’s take our time,” I countered and he shook his head as he reached up and rubbed the lingering sleepiness from his eyes.

“You’re going to get me homeschooled,” he said smiling when he turned back to me. “And I’ll have to throw my tantrums and nearly flunk again.”

“Well at least get breakfast with me,” I countered and when he nodded I did a slow u-turn hating that we couldn’t stay and enjoy the morning a bit longer.

Neither one of us were morning people it seemed and as I drove back through the curvy assed lake road and back into town, Luke closed his eyes. He was asleep again when I pulled into the drive thru and I had to nudge him so I could get his order.

“Just a chicken biscuit,” he said as he stretched again.

“Alright,” I said and I rolled down the window and waited for the drive thru worker to notice us. There was a bit of a line to wait through and an even longer one behind us. Breakfast was the only real rush restaurants had here, most people just didn’t wake up in enough time to fix their breakfast before work.

After placing our order and getting our food I drove to the high school and grinned when I saw people gathered on the lawn taking everything in. Welker had Rick out directing students to actually enter the school and in the light of day, the field stood out a lot better. Rick had to have seen it and he was always picky about the field in his better moods and downright anal about it when he was pissed. Driving around to the student parking lot, we sat in the car until we were finished eating.

“Ready?” I asked watching people rushing to get into the school for once.

“Yeah,” he answered, offering me a tight smile. I knew his mind was also on his mom and what she would do. I wanted to see how she was taking all this in too.

Once inside I was actually surprised that nothing was in the process of being removed. Welker was inside reminding people that we were all supposed to be in the cafeteria waiting for the dismissal bell. Seeing me he stopped pointing his finger at a group of students that were trying to ignore him, he handed them off to a teacher and started in our direction.

“Your mother is looking for you, Luke Clarke,” Welker said, still eyeballing me. Hearing his name, Luke’s shoulders slumped and I turned to see him walking towards the freshman English room on the other end of the main hall.

“You like what I did with the place?” I asked, trying not to outright laugh in his face.

“Actually, I do,” he answered and I caught myself before my mouth fell open. “Nothing is damaged, there is no evidence of fire, and nothing missing or too obscene that I had to scramble to find the custodians to clean up.”

“Really?” I asked, crossing my arms. I was hoping for a better reaction than this.

“I do want to know where you put my nameplate,” He said and I hated the smirk playing on his face.

“I dropped it behind your bookcase,” I answered, not really feeling up to dragging this out after anal assed Welker seemed fine with the most epic prank in school history. “Can I have mine when you replace it?”

“Yes,” he answered, looking at me a little closer and for a brief moment I wondered if I had dried cum on my shirt collar. “You look dead on your feet, you’re not drunk or anything are you?”

“No, god,” I said, taking a step back. “I’ve just been up all night.”

“With Luke Clarke?” He asked and I grimaced feeling my old stubbornness creeping back up.

“And Allison,” I answered hoping Ally would be in a forgiving mood after Welker cornered her later before he calmed down. Hearing her name he ruffled up like a pissed off rooster and went purple. I almost wanted to list everyone else, but finally seeing him the way I expected to see him brought me up short.

“Get to the cafeteria,” he growled, waving his finger at me.

“I was with Lily and the usual crowd I hang out with, too,” I muttered after turning away from him.

The cafeteria was full of people and when they noticed me people applauded and I smirked as I made my way through the rows of green topped tables. Some of them had been ripped in places, but for the most it still looked good. Connor hadn’t told anyone that it was his plan and his materials, that we were just the labor that took the time to pull things off. When my eyes scanned the back row and found him, he was smiling leaning back in his chair. Everyone else at the table looked about as dead as I did and when I found my seat I collapsed into it.

“Tell them it was all you, Connor,” I said, turning to hold out my fist for him. When he knocked his against mine I let it fall back to the table.

“Where were you?” Derek asked and I shot him a look.

“If anyone asks, I stayed over at Toby’s,” I answered, not meeting anyone’s eyes as I slumped down in my chair. The high of seeing everyone reacting to the prank was beginning to be completely lost on me.

“Really,” Derek said and I hated that he managed to stretch the word out to five syllables. It earned a slap from both Toby and Lily and I smirked, crossing my arms on the table and leaning down to rest my head on them.

I ended up falling asleep in first period not long after roll was called. That earned me a detention for the day and a stack of busy work. I frowned when I saw that Welker was the one that was in there for the day and for the rest of first period we were the only two still in there. I didn’t bother doing my work and he didn’t bother trying to make me. On other days it would have amused me, but now I just found the quiet relaxing. Then Lily walked through the door, wide-eyed with her yellow slip of paper that explained that she too was given detention. Seeing me sitting in the dead ass middle of the room, she relaxed.

“I fell asleep,” she whispered as she sat down in the row beside me.

“Quiet Miss Henson,” Welker barked, but it was so half-hearted she took it in stride. Lily was a favorite of a lot of teachers and staff, being eager to answer questions and behave herself. This was probably the first detention she ever had and I was proud, despite knowing the only reason she got it was because she fell asleep.

The room was filling up with seniors by lunch. Welker gave up and let us do what we wanted. A lot of people elected to fall asleep at their desks. I suspected an impromptu party somewhere that I didn’t receive an invite to, but I didn’t really care.

By lunch, Heather, Toby, and Derek walked through the doors and before the dismissal bell rang for the end of the period Luke was sitting in front of me. His face was flushed from being lectured by Welker about having better friends, but he shot me a smirk over his shoulder once he recovered enough.

“How bad is it with your mom?” I asked after sliding my finger up to peck on his back between his shoulder blades.

“Angry,” he answered, turning in his seat to face me. “Mom was also paranoid that you all did something to her room.”

“Really?” Heather asked from the seat beside him. She sat in front of Lily and Toby was in front of her. Derek was on the other side of me, but Lily and him were texting on their phones. No one was doing the busy work sent along with us, so I knew what I would be doing when I got home from practice later, if I didn’t fall asleep before then. Knowing how busy my Mondays were, my plan to stay out all night was a shitty one, but still, I thought it was worth it.

“Yeah, she was checking her desk and stuff as she yelled at me,” he answered, his smirk falling short as he yawned.

“Missed opportunity if you ask me,” Toby said as he played with Heather’s hair. The light touch was slowly putting Heather back to sleep and when she crossed her arms and rested her head on them, it wasn’t long until she closed her eyes.

“Quiet,” Welker bellowed, finally having enough. “You all do realize you’re in detention, get some work done.”

Last period, Ally walked through the door. Seeing her dad she slowed her pace, but handed him her detention slip. All the chairs around us were occupied and there were only a few spare seats left in the room. Seeing all the seats taken she sighed and took the open one in the front of the room. Unlike the rest of us, she opened a book and started working. I looked up to see Welker glaring at me, so I smiled before looking down at my desk.

The only drawback about having detention is that I didn’t get to be part of the excitement about the senior prank. None of us here that were seniors got to enjoy the high-fives and fist bumps. The congratulations and the attention. It was a large part of why the tradition began all those decades ago. In here all I had was Welker getting more annoyed as his room filled up and him too stubborn to go get Rick. He at least would’ve had us cleaning everything up while he lectured us about harming the expensive grass on the football field. Even though it was very much dead until spring.

Welker did surprise me with my engraved nameplate at the end of detention. I thought after naming Ally earlier he wouldn’t have honored our deal. I wouldn’t have blamed him, but I offered him a tired smile as people shuffled past me to get out there and probably finally go to bed.

The trouble that I got into didn’t end with school. As soon as I entered the house Mom lectured me about keeping Luke out all night. It only made her more determined when I told her it was his idea not to come home afterwards. Cindy had sent Henry over to look for him. Mom told me he looked like a scolded puppy. She sent word back with him that everyone seemed to have stayed over at Toby’s. That I was a lucky little asshole, her exact words, that she saw the text before Henry showed up. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the text I had sent was also a lie and that she had lied to Henry. It wouldn’t have done either of us any good to know that information. We were lucky though and I knew Luke and I had dodged a bullet that could have made last night into a mistake.

During practice I ended up doing laps in the secondary pool with Emily. One look at me pretty much told Tony that I was going to be useless, but he refused to send me home. I almost wanted to beg to be excused, but I didn’t want to lose any of my new swims or have any added punishments that Tony was already threatening me with. He also didn’t spare me by taking me into his office before the lecture started, Aiden and Matt weren’t even trying to hide their amusement by the end of it. I was also pretty much guaranteed to be more of a problem child than the two of them now. By the time practice ended my back and shoulders hurt and I was more awake than I had been the entire day. The feeling didn’t last long after I got home. After having a quick dinner of leftovers from the microwave and reading a few sneaky texts from Luke about how long he was grounded, which was until the end of the school year. I collapsed on my bed fully clothed on top of the covers and I thought last night was still fucking worth it.