December 2010
Avery bit her lip as she stood with Ethan in the kitchen. They had just finished decorating their apartment for Christmas and now they were baking Christmas cookies.
Though, in reality, Avery was sure they were getting more of the ingredients on themselves instead of in the cookie recipe.
“I was thinking earlier today,” Avery started carefully watching as Ethan looked at her then. “I went home with you for Thanksgiving and maybe you can come with me to Tulsa for Christmas and New Years,” she said with a shrug. “I know I can’t go to my parents or anything but I can go to the thing my adult siblings have every year. And Zac even said he’d let us stay with him instead of a hotel but to be honest I think a hotel would be best since Kate will have a newborn by then,” she continued as her mind went to her sister-in-law.
Kate was pregnant with her and Zac’s second child who was due any day now and Avery knew it would be too much for her and Ethan to stay there while Zac and Kate had to deal with a newborn.
“If I go will this be a new coming out to your family then?” Ethan asked with a hint of amusement in his tone. “As the girl who only likes one boy even though she still likes girls?”
Rolling her eyes Avery shook her head, “Maybe,” she said as she looked back at the cookies they were making. “It’d be my coming out as your girlfriend,” she admitted though, knowing she did intend to tell her siblings and of course she was sure one of them or their spouses would tell their mom.
But Avery knew even her dating Ethan now wouldn’t change anything. Not since Avery did still like girls. Ethan just happened to be the outlier in her life. The one exception that she hadn’t seen coming but she liked it nonetheless.
“My girlfriend,” Ethan said and without even seeing him Avery could hear the smirk in his voice. “I still love hearing you say that word and I think I can come with. I just have to tell my mom.”
“Will your mom be mad if you miss Christmas and New Years with her?” Avery asked him not really wanting to make Caitlin mad at her.
She had finally it seemed gotten on Caitlin’s good side during Thanksgiving and she didn’t want to ruin that already.
“I don’t want her to be mad,” Avery chimed in again before Ethan could say anything else.
Ethan hip bumped her softly which made Avery look at him again.
“She won’t be mad,” he told her giving her a reassuring look. “Norah has missed it before when she was still with her ex. I think mom always expected once Norah and I started dating and having our own lives that we may miss major holidays with her. She’ll be okay.”
“And you’re positive on that?” Avery asked hating how hopeful she sounded but it was only in her worry that she realized how much she wanted Ethan to go to Tulsa with her.
How excited she was for her family and friends to find out about their relationship even if that meant that when she told Juniper and Calliope that Paisley would find out.
Maybe Paisley deserved to know she had moved on. That she was getting over the girl who had broken her and chose someone else.
Avery was in some ways actually starting to feel whole again. Something she hadn’t felt in so so damn long.
“Absolutely positive,” Ethan muttered as he leaned in to leave a brief kiss on her forehead. Avery smiling at the action and after that she let herself bask in her happiness and the fantasies of Ethan joining her in Tulsa.
Her mind reeling in that even as she finished working on the cookies with Ethan.
“Well it’s official,” Ethan spoke after the second batch of cookies were done. “Our apartment officially smells like gingerbread and looks like Christmas threw up everywhere in the living room.”
Swatting at Ethan playfully Avery turned to leave the kitchen, “I never knew you were such a scrooge,” she retorted listening as Ethan followed behind her out of the kitchen.
“And I never you were so into Christmas,” Ethan muttered out as he wrapped his arms around Avery’s waist from behind. Avery stopping in her tracks. “You weren’t like this last year at all.”
Pausing at his words, Avery turned in his arms to look at him then a smile on her face, “Last year I don’t think I had much to be happy and merry for,” she answered honestly as she let her arms wrap around his neck. “I was stuck in a dead relationship and still grieving the family I had lost.”
“And this year is different?” Ethan asked her but it was more of a statement really.
“It is different,” she said as her smile turned into a grin. “I have you and I’m picking up the pieces of my old life. I’m putting myself together.”
“I think you would have eventually picked up your pieces even without me,” Ethan told her obviously getting what Avery hadn’t said. That she equated him with her moving on. “You’re stronger than you realize.”
Avery made a face because she wasn’t sure she believed that. She wasn’t sure she had the strength that Ethan said she did.
“I wish I could believe that,” she told him not wanting to dwell on this conversation. “But I guess if you say it, it must be true.”
“Everything I say is true,” Ethan teased her and once again he left a kiss on her forehead. Avery feeling her heart skip a beat in her chest.
It was so nice to just be this domestic with someone and she hadn’t had it in so long. After all, it was hard to be domestic when you were the other person in someone else’s relationship. So to have that again was freeing and nice.
Made her feel that what she had right now, that it was real. That she could get used to it and maybe if she let herself she could fall in love again.
She could fall in love with Ethan.
“Yea, yeah whatever you say,” Avery retorted finally as she stuck her tongue out at him before pulling out of the embrace. “How about a shower together though to get the smell of gingerbread off us since you are a scrooge tonight?”
Smirking Ethan nodded his head, “I’ll never turn down a shower with you in it,” he said and before Avery could even reply Ethan was walking down the hall.
Avery only watching him for a few seconds before following him down to the bathroom.
Avery who was pressed against the wall, kissing Ethan with the water of the shower coming down over both of them, pulled away from the kiss as she looked into his eyes. His green eyes reflecting nothing but lust for her right now.
Lust that she knew he had in other ways too thanks to his erection which was poking into her leg.
“I want to suck your cock,” she told him feeling bold as she felt her cheeks heat up at her words. She wasn’t just embarrassed because of her bold request. She was also nervous because she hadn’t given him a blow job ever and what if she sucked?
It wasn’t like she had experience. This would be her first blow job.
“Are you sure?” Ethan asked her. “You don’t have too.”
“But I want too,” Avery told him with a small smile. “You go down on me and I think it’s only fair that I return the favor now.”
Nodding his head Ethan leaned in to kiss her briefly, “Then if you want, you might as well,” he whispered after he pulled away from the kiss.
At Ethan’s words Avery left one last kiss on his mouth before dropping to her knees slowly, her hand going to wrap around his cock as she stroked him some more. Getting his cock just a bit harder.
Once she was satisfied with that, she let her mouth wrap around his cock. Loving the moan that he let out as she began to move her mouth on him.
Her eyes falling shut when Ethan’s hands tangled in her hair.
“Your mouth feels so good,” Ethan muttered out as Avery kept her mouth moving on him. “So fucking good.”
Opening her eyes Avery looked up at Ethan, basking in his praises for her mouth. Having a small thrill that at least she wasn’t doing a bad job of this. That Ethan wasn’t complaining because Avery was sure she was being sloopy. That some of what she was doing couldn’t be that good.
She doubted anyone was ever good at blowjobs their first time.
After awhile of moving her mouth Avery heard Ethan telling her that he was close and she knew from the way he looked at her, he was telling her that in case she didn’t want to swallow but instead of moving her mouth away she moved it faster on him.
She wanted to make him come and she wanted to taste it.
When he did come she closed her eyes again and kept her mouth on him, swallowing all of what he had to give her.
Standing up Avery wiped at her mouth to wipe away some of the come that had landed on the side of it after she had moved off him and she let her hand go under the water to wash it off.
Ethan taking that opportunity to wrap his arms around her waist. His naked body moving into her own.
“Remind me when we are in bed tonight to repay you double with that. Going to make you orgasm with my fingers and then with my tongue.”
“I think I’d like that,” Avery said with a smile before slowly pulling out of Ethan’s embrace and slipping out of the shower then to get dried off and ready for bed.
Tomorrow after school and work she’d have to wait to enjoy the cookies she had made with Ethan. Tonight she just wanted to get into bed so he could repay her for the blow job.
“I think we should officially share a room,” Ethan muttered his voice full of sleep now as they both lay in bed clearly exhausted. “We use my room all the time anyway and I don’t think there is a use to have a room set up for you when you’re in mine.”
Avery who had her eyes closed, opened them as she turned her body slightly to look at him. “Are you sure?” she asked him wondering if he was sure or if this was something he was just saying in the moment while sleepy and still coming down from a sex high.
“I’m sure,” Ethan told her as he let the hand on her waist slowly rub circles into her skin. “I mean I’ll have to cut down on clothes since I think I have more than you but I’m sure. I want to share a room with you and we can just turn your room into a guest room for when we have friends stay over or something.”
Avery had to bite her lip to keep from saying he’d have to downsize on more than just his clothes so they could combine her stuff with his in the bedroom.
Instead she smiled and nodded her head, “I can do that,” she said, knowing she had no objections to sharing a room with him. After all they had been doing that for a month now and maybe it was time to just go down to one room.
Leaning in she left a kiss on his lips briefly before turning back around and drifting off into a peaceful sleep.