“I like that.”
“Good. You’re my Mr. Pleasure from now on.”
“I’m your Mr. Pleasure, and I go all night long,” he said and rolled me onto my back. “Are you ready for round one?”
“Yes, please.” I nodded and cried out as he entered me swiftly with one deep thrust. This was definitely the best birthday ever.
Chapter Sixteen
The Beginning of Wonderful
“Are you home?” Liv came running into my room as soon as she arrived back at the apartment.
“Yes.” I sat up and jumped off of the bed so I could give her a hug. “We got back about an hour ago.”
“Oh, Aiden’s not here, is he?” She looked around with a disappointed face.
“No, Mr. Pleasure is not here.” I laughed as her eyes widened.
“‘Mr. Pleasure’?” She groaned. “Please no.”
“That’s his new name because—”
“No, no, no.” She cut me off. “That is TMI, Alice.”
“What?” I smiled widely. “I didn’t even say why yet.”
“I don’t want to know about the magical things he does with his penis.”
“Very magical things indeed.” I laughed and grabbed her hands. “Let’s go into the kitchen and have some hot chocolate and I’m going to tell you everything that happened this weekend, aside from how many times I—”
“Nope.” Liv covered her ears. “I don’t want to hear about how many times you orgasmed.”
“I was going to say how many times we told each other ‘I love you.’”
“You what?” she screamed and grabbed me. “This is the information you lead off with, Alice.” She jumped up and down and squealed. “I can’t believe you guys said ‘I love you’ already!”
“And he gave me a bear.” I closed my eyes and relived the memories. “It was awesome.”
“I still can’t believe that my brother, Mr. Stick-up-his-ass, told you he loved you.”
“He said that he’s had a thing for me for a while.” I grinned. “Just like me. He said he didn’t want to rush anything or pressure me into getting into a relationship because he wanted to be sure that this wasn’t just a crush for me. He wanted to know that it was an adult Alice making the decision and not an immature Alice.”
“He did not say that.” She rolled her eyes.
“I know. I couldn’t believe it when he said that either.” I laughed. “I wanted to say, what do you mean ‘an immature Alice?’ but I kept my mouth shut.” I grinned at her. “I didn’t want to ruin the bath.”
“The bath? Don’t you mean the moment?”
“The moment happened in a bath after we’d had birthday cake.”
“Oh, that’s so sweet. He got you a cake?”
“Kinda.” I licked my lips.
“What do you mean kinda?”
“Well, he got me the toppings: whipped cream, strawberries, chocolate sauce and then put it on the base.”
“What base?” Liv said and then made a face. “Oh my God, he was the base, wasn’t he?”
“Yes, he was.” I nodded and opened the fridge. “Best birthday cake I’ve ever had.”
“Oh, Alice.” She giggled. “I cannot believe my brother had the audacity to make himself the birthday cake.”
“You can’t?” I asked her with a questioningly look.
“Okay, I really can believe he had the audacity to do that.” She opened the cupboard. “Want some cookies?”
“Do we have shortbread?”
“All the way from Scotland, baby.” She nodded as she pulled out the box of Walkers Shortbread cookies.
“Yay!” I took out two cups from the cupboard and heaped the hot chocolate powder into them. “I’ve never been so excited, Liv. I guess I know what you feel like when you’re with Xander.”
“It’s amazing, isn’t it?” She smiled as she thought of her handsome fiancé. “Sometimes I just can’t believe how lucky I am.”
“I know,” I said as I waited for the water to boil. “You know when you and Xander got engaged, I was a little jealous for myself. I felt so bad about it, but I was thinking to myself, will I ever have that? Will I ever have someone love me back so much that they would want to marry me?”
“Oh, Alice.” Liv made a sad face. “I’m sorry you felt that way.”
“Don’t you dare feel sorry for me.” I took the milk out of the fridge and turned to her. “It was selfish of me to even let myself think that in your moment. But I did, and it worried me. All I could think was that I didn’t even know what I was going to do if it ended up that Aiden didn’t really like me. I know I’ve dated other guys, but he’s always been the one in my heart.”
“Alice, you know how special you are. If it wasn’t Aiden, it would have been some other fantastic guy.”
“Some other fantastic guy wouldn’t have been Aiden.”
“And any other girl he would have ended up with wouldn’t have been you.”
“How did I get so lucky to have you as a best friend?” I asked Liv as I stirred the milk into the hot chocolate mix.
“I think it was fate,” she said seriously. “I think we were meant to be best friends so that you could meet my brother and then we could end up as sisters.”
“That’s if Aiden and I get married.”
“Oh, you’ll get married.” She laughed. “I’m positive of it, sis.”
“Oh God, that means I gain Gabby as a sister, too.”
“Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, Alice.” She laughed and picked up a cup. “Let’s go through to the living room and watch some TV while we chat.”
“That sounds good to me.” I followed behind her and we both settled into the couch and made ourselves comfortable. “I’m going to miss you when you move out.”
“I’m going to miss you, too.” We stared at each other for a few seconds, and we both looked at each other in surprise when the doorbell rang.
“Who’s that?” I asked, my heart skipping a beat, hoping it was Aiden.
“No idea.” She shrugged. “I thought Xander was going home.” We both jumped up and hurried to the door as the doorbell rang again. “It has to be Aiden.” She rolled her eyes. “He’s the only one I know who’s so impatient that he has to ring the doorbell multiple times in seconds.”
“Oh Liv,” I said, but I hurried to the door and opened it. “Oh, it’s Aiden and Xander.” I grinned at Aiden, who looked me over with an expression of desire on his handsome face.
“Hello to you, too.” Aiden swooped in and picked me up and gave me a big kiss.
“What are you guys doing here?” Liv stepped forward and gave Xander a kiss on the cheek.
“We didn’t want to leave our two favorite girls home alone.” Aiden grinned as he put me back down. “Plus, I didn’t want you to get into any trouble.”
“What trouble are we going to get into on a Sunday night, Aiden?”
“Knowing you two, I’d say a lot of different things,” Xander said with a laugh as Liv hit him in the shoulder.
“We were just about to watch TV, actually.” I kissed Aiden lightly on the lips. “And we were just drinking hot chocolate.”
“I love chocolate,” he said and sucked on my lower lip.
“We know,” Liv said loudly and cleared her throat.
“You told her already?” He groaned as he looked at his sister. “Alice!”
“What? She’s my best friend.”
“And I’m her brother.” He shook his head.
“I’ll have to tell Mom and Dad that they deserve an award,” Liv said with a small smile.
“Award for what?” Aiden asked her with a curious expression.
“An award for creating Mr. Pleasure,” she teased, and I watched as Aiden’s face went red.
“I’m going to kill you, Alice.” His fingers came up under my arms and started to tickle me. “I’m seriously going to kill you.”
“No.” I tried to push him off as I started squirming and laughing. “You can’t tickle me. No!” I shrieked as his hands kept up their assault. “Aiden, please!” I caught his hand and tried to stop him. “I won’t tell her anything else.”
“Liar.” He pinched my nose. “If you don’t stop lying, it’s just going to keep growing.”
“I’m not lying.” I giggled. “I mean, obviously I’m going to tell her stuff—”
“I’m right here, guys,” Liv interjected. “I can still hear you.”