Running

I stood in front of my mirror in my towel, my wet hair dripping all over the floor as I combed through it and the sound of Spiderwebs by No Doubt blasting through my speakers. The windows in my room were open, letting the warm summer air flow into my bedroom. Mike laid on my bed with his phone in his hands, probably playing some game and waiting for me to finally finish getting ready. I was supposed to be done a half hour ago but I made my way into Mike’s head and we ended up having sex. Today was my last day of summer vacation before senior year and I wanted to spend it at my favorite place with my favorite people. But more importantly… today was my birthday and I got to decide what we all did today.

I dropped my towel from my body and smirked to myself as I stared at my reflection. I had two bruises on my upper thighs, if anyone were to see them they would know that they had come from Mike’s hands. There were hickeys scattered randomly on my hips and one dark one on my collarbone. We had been extremely busy the past few days and the way both of our bodies looked could prove that. Mike had a hickey the size of a baseball on his neck that he was completely furious about, but he liked it at the time so I told him he needed to stop complaining. I continued to look at myself and give myself a once-over, taking in my body. My curves were filled out once again… my hips wide and I did still have a good C cup on my chest. My stomach was still flat and my legs were slowly gaining more meat. I was happy with myself… and that was something I hadn’t said in a really long time.

“Are you done checking yourself out?” Mike’s playful voice matched the smirk that sat on his lips. “You have a hickey on your butt.”

“I have a what!” I turned to look at my backside in the mirror. Sure enough, there was a large purple hickey sitting on my butt. A blush crept onto Mike’s cheeks, knowing that I was shocked to see this on myself. “I hope you’re happy with yourself,” I muttered as I rubbed over it. “It’s radiating heat.”

“It looks like the one on my neck so now we’re even,” he grinned at me and then looked back down at his phone.

I walked over to my bed and crawled on top of him, placing his phone to the side and connecting my our lips. Droplets of water fell from my hair and cascaded down my back as I lowered my body onto his.

A groan escaped his lips and he pulled his face from mine, “Cassie, no. You need to get ready. We already had twice this morning.”

I rolled my eyes, “Midnight doesn’t count, Mikey. I leaned in to kiss him and he turned his head from me, “You fuckin’ suck.”

“You’re the one that wanted to go to the zoo! This was your idea! I already had to call the guys once and tell them to wait… I would have been perfectly happy spending your birthday in bed then go out to dinner, but you planned this. So don’t start,” he wagged his finger at me like a father-figure.

“Fine, fine. One more kiss,” I pressed my lips to his as he rolled his eyes. I pulled away and let out a laugh then crawled off of him and proceeded to get dressed. “What’s the weather today?” I asked as I pulled my closet doors open.

“Hot,” he replied with a laugh.

I mentally slapped myself in the forehead. He was such an idiot sometimes. Since today was my birthday I wanted to look especially good, even if we were just going to the zoo. I had no idea what to put on so I just pulled on a bra and a pair of cheekies, then proceeded to do my makeup. I put on minimal makeup since I was probably just going to sweat it off. I had been breaking out a little lately so I had to put on some concealer and foundation, but I just wore mascara and a nude lipstick on top. My hair had gotten so long over the summer and a lot lighter due to the San Diego sun, so in order to stop myself from getting over heated I blow dried my hair and pulled it into a messy fishtail braid. I gave myself a couple squirts of hairspray then looked at Mike through my mirror. I had felt him staring at me while I got ready.

“What are you looking at?” I raised an eyebrow.

He smiled, “You look pretty like that. I like the braid. You usually wear your hair down.”

“Thanks, baby,” I smiled back at him. “You’re the best.”

“I know,” I heard him chuckle.

I walked back over to my closet and pulled out a camo shirt and a pair of olive chucks that matched, then grabbed a pair of shorts from my drawer and pulled everything on. I put on some deodorant and perfume then smacked Mike’s leg.

“I’m ready,” I smiled and leaned down to grab my wallet out of my purse.

He kicked my arm away as he got off the bed, “Put your damn wallet down, I don’t even know why you ever try to bring it with you.” He grabbed his keys off my bedside table and gave me a quick kiss on the forehead, “Let’s go, birthday girl.”

I ran down the steps with my hand in his, yelling to my mom that we were leaving and that I would be back later. Mike and I were picking up Tony and Tiffany (who I was slowly trying to set up because Tony thought she was mad cute). Tony had met Mike the day after he came home and they took a good liking to each other right away. Of course they were both at my house when they met and completely ignored me for hours on end because they just started to talk about music and movies and other guy shit that I really didn’t care to hear about.


“Happy birthday, Cassie!” Vic screamed as I stepped out of Mike’s car. I was quickly engulfed in Vic’s arms and squeezed half to death. “I get to punch you seventeen times!”

“Noooo!” I squealed as he punched me lightly, just like every other year. He set me back down on my feet so that I could get birthday hugs from Abbey and Casey.

“Happy birthday, best friend,” Abbey gave me a kiss on the cheek. “Your hair looks so cute like that.”

“Mike said the same thing,” I blushed. “Well… happy birthday to me! I want to go see my hyenas!” I yelled and took off in the direction of the zoo entrance, grabbing Mike’s hand and dragging him with me.

Once we were in the zoo, Mike had to explain to Tony that I always wanted to see the hyenas first. They may have an exhibit that is smack dab in the middle of everything, but it was always necessary to go to them first. They were my absolute favorite animal - everything about them - from their laugh to how cute their little noses are. Approaching the exhibit made my cheeks heat up. I thought back to Mike’s birthday when he and I just so happened to do the dirty where the hyenas could see us. I guess he felt the same way because he let out and awkward laugh and squeezed my hand with his. I never imagined myself doing something like we did on that day, but love makes you do crazy things.

“They are actually really cool looking,” Tony spoke up. “Whenever I think of hyenas I picture the ones from the Lion King.”

I scoffed, “They are nothing like those idiots! They are the cutest little things in the world.”

“Oh god, Cassie is swooning,” Vic muttered behind me, causing everyone to fall into a fit of laughter as I propped myself up on the barrier bars to get a better look at my favorite little things.

The pack of hyenas in the exhibit broke into their usual laughter and chatter, making a gigantic smile break out on my face. I really wanted to be a biology major so that I could work with them, either in the zoo or doing field work out in Africa. I just watched them with a smile on my face, ignoring whatever my group of friends was talking about.

Arms wrapped around me and hands were placed on mine. I looked down to see two hands with the words EVIL DEAD on them and sighed happily. I leaned back into Mike’s chest and placed my feet on the ground instead of the barrier, rubbing the back of my head against his shoulder.

“Have you seen enough hyenas for now?” He spoke softly. I nodded and he pressed a kiss to my temple, “Let’s go, come on.”

“I wish I could have something like that,” Tiffany said as I turned around, linking my fingers with Mike’s again. I winked at her and then started walking on the visitor path once again, waiting for everyone to follow me.

“Dude, could you imagine if I rode an elephant?” Vic said as he stared at the giant creature like he had never seen one before.

“I always knew you were secretly Arab,” Casey joked, earning himself a punch from Vic and a laugh from the rest of us. “Come on, dude. You know that if you hopped up there with a turban on your head you would look just like one.”

“You’re just mad I’m tanner than you,” Vic flashed his pearly whites in Casey’s direction. “I’m tanner than all of you.”

“Because you’re Arab,” Casey cackled. “Aladdin…”

I choked on my Sprite, trying to laugh and drink at the same time. Vic really did look like Aladdin, that was fucking great.

“What are you laughing about, Mulan?” Vic pursed his lips and put his hands on his hips.

“Mike looks like the little boy from the Jungle Book,” I giggled as Mike shot me a dirty look.

“Mowgli,” Abbey screamed out in between laughs.

“You look like fuckin’ Rapunzel!” Mike shot at her.

“At least she doesn’t wear a loincloth and hang out with a singing bear,” I threw my arm around Abbey’s shoulder laughing with her.

“You hang out with a dragon!” Vic tried sticking up for his little brother.

“Vic, are you going to fly us home on your magic carpet?” Casey smirked and Mike bursted into laughter.

“Fuck all of you,” Vic grumbled and turned on his heel, walking away from the elephants.

“Where are you going?” I asked as he stomped away.

“TO HANG OUT WITH MY ONLY FRIEND, RAJAH!” Vic shouted with a laugh, meaning that he was going to look at the tigers.

Mike smiled at Tony and Tiffany, “You guys will catch on and get used to it.”

“I am totally appalled by the fact that you guys know all about Disney movies,” Tiffany laughed.

“What do you expect when our girlfriends are Disney fanatics?” Casey smiled and grabbed Abbey’s hand, pressing a kiss to her knuckles.

“Tony knows,” I smiled. “I made him watch Snow White with me.”

“You called me Sneezy,” Tony frowned.

“You sneezed like forty times that day!” I laughed, “I call Mike Dopey, but I think Mowgli is a much better name for him.”

“I do not look like him,” Mike grumbled from beside me.

I gave him a small smack on the ass, “Yeah you do.”


Walking through the zoo with all of my closest friends and the love of my life made it a really happy birthday for me. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. We all had a great time from what I gathered. Slowly, Tony and Tiffany both started to joke around with the entire group. Tiffany usually just hung around when it was just me and Abbey, and she was a little on the shy side so I knew she was going to have a difficult time really getting comfortable around them… especially when she knew Tony had a thing for her (I really need to work on keeping secrets). Vic had somehow managed to feed a monkey some french fries today by throwing a few into the exhibit, and of course the monkey started coming closer and closer. Vic was in total and complete love because as we all know, he is monkey obsessed, but it was actually pretty creepy that it was coming so close just because of salty food.

On the ride home, it was just Mike and I. Tony and Tiffany were going to go back to Casey’s with the rest of them. Mike was taking me out to dinner tonight, just the two of us, and he said that I needed time to get ready and make myself as pretty as I would l like. The ride back to my house was nice. Mike drove with his knee, his left hand bringing a cigarette back and forth from his lips to the rolled down window and his right hand intertwined with my left. We both sang along to The Offspring’s album Conspiracy of One.

I screamed as my favorite song came on. My hand quickly pulled from Mike’s and turned the volume all the way up. “I want you, all tattooed. I want you bad. Complete me, mistreat me. Want you to be bad, bad, bad, bad, bad,” I sang loudly and smiled in Mike’s direction.

“I want you, in a vinyl suit. I want you bad. Complicated, x-rated. I want you bad, bad, bad, bad, bad,” he sang back and linked our fingers again, throwing his cigarette out the window.

“I want you, all tattooed. I want you bad. Complicated, x-rated. I want you bad. I mean it, I need it. I want you bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Bad. Really, really bad,” I finished the ending of the song and pressed my lips to his cheek roughly. He let out a laugh and a sigh and I smiled, “That song always reminds me of you.”

I watched Mike smile out of the corner of my eye, then bring my hand up to his lips, kissing it multiple times. “I love you, baby. I can’t believe you’re seventeen.”

“I’m catching up to you,” I joked and squeezed his hand as he set ours back down on my thigh. “I love you too, so, so much. Now I just wish you would tell me where we are going tonight so I would know what to wear.”

He pulled his hand from me and put his car in park, seeing as we were in my driveway. He looked over at me and grabbed my face with his hands, holding onto my chin and pressing his lips to mine. I felt like complete putty, melting at the feeling of his lips. I was really so in love with him.

He pulled away, looking into my eyes and keeping his face close. He rubbed his nose against mine, “Stop worrying about what you’re going to wear.”

I rolled my eyes and opened up my door, stepping out, “I always worry, Michael.” He just laughed and followed me into my house.

“Happy birthday, sissy!” Frankie squealed and attached himself to my hips. He was seriously growing like crazy and it didn’t help that I was so short.

“Thanks shithead,” I laughed and kissed the top of his head.

“Cassie,” my mom warned and crossed her arms.

I blushed and smiled, “Sorry, Momma.”

“Go on upstairs and get ready,” Mike rubbed my side and leaned in, kissing me again. “I’m showing Frankie some stuff on the drums and then going home. I will be back at six.”

“Alright. I love you… Come up before you leave?” I asked while looking into his big, pretty, brown eyes.

“Of course,” he smiled and pressed a kiss to my forehead.

I bolted up the stairs to my room, noticing that my door was closed. My mom must’ve come up and closed it so that Frankie wouldn’t wander in there throughout the day like he had been doing recently. I opened up my door and nearly shit myself. Sitting on my bed was not only an outfit for tonight - a romper and sandals that Mike obviously picked out for me, but there was also a little gray persian kitten. I screamed at the top of my lungs and scooped the kitten up in my arms, running back out of my room and down the steps.

“MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER!” I screamed as I got into the living room.

He was standing right there in the same spot I left him, obviously waiting for this moment. His arms were crossed against his chest and a big grin was on his face. “I named her Lucy.”

I held the little kitten out in front of me and shook with excitement, “My little Lucy-fer! You are such a little cutie!” I held her close to me and listened to her purr with content and happiness. “I love you so much, Mike. She is so adorable. Thank you… I never expected this in a million years.”

“I had been working on convincing your mom since June… Finally, she cracked and Vic and I went to the Humane Society and there she was.” He uncrossed his arms and scratched the little kitten’s head, “I’m glad you like her. I had your mom pick her up while we were out.”

“Like her? I love her! She’s our little baby,” I smiled and stood on my tip toes, kissing him for the thousandth time today. “This is honestly the best birthday I could have ever asked for. You are so good to me.”

“You deserve it,” Mike smiled at me with a really genuine smile. “But, I still want you to go get your pretty little butt upstairs and get ready for tonight… and no, Lucy can’t go out with us.”

I frowned, “I’ll hide her in my purse.”

“Go upstairs,” Mike patted my butt to shoo me away.

“Come on, Lucy. Daddy is being mean and says you can’t come out tonight. You can sleep on his side later,” I hugged my little kitten close and walked back up the stairs.

Notes

I hope everyone had a fabulous New Years!
I know I did - I puked my brains out....

Thank you all for the feedback from the last update.
As I said before, I apologize if it was too detailed for some of you.
This chapter should make up for it - it's just funny and cute.

So school is starting back up... is that good or bad?
What do you think about Mike getting Cassie a cat?
What about all of the sex they've been having?

Cassie's Outfit
Lucy the Cat

Next update will be in a few days.
I'm stuck with writers block for Sam's Town.
Urgh.
xoxoxo