SPREAD FOR ME ✦ Jake

“You always this smug when you’ve got a girl in your lap, or is it just me?” The blonde murmured against his mouth.

Jake was deep into the couch cushions, one arm stretched along the back of it. He wasn’t drunk, wasn’t sloppy, just pleasantly loose around the edges, patient in that way he got when he already knew exactly how his night was going to end.

The girl in his lap, a sorority girl, had her fingers dragging slow up the back of his neck, her hips shifting every so often like she was testing how much of him she could pull out before he snapped.

Around them the party had swallowed most of the house whole, bodies packed into the living room, someone’s laugh cutting sharp over the noise.

Jake let his eyes drag over her face first, lingering on her mouth a beat too long before dragging up to her eyes and holding there until she shifted under the weight of it.

“It’s just you.” He brought both hands to her hips, then slid one down to her ass and kept it there. “Most girls don’t complain when I’m smug. They usually like it.”

“So sure of yourself. But confidence and delusion look real similar on you.” She dragged her tongue over her own lower lip.

The hand that stayed on her hip rose to the back of her neck. “You’re still in my lap, though. Kinda ruins the argument.”

“Maybe I just wanted to see how much I could poke at you.”

“Mmm, bad plan.” His fingers curled in slightly against her nape, tilting her head to bring her mouth closer to his. “Talking’s kind of my whole thing.”

He kissed her then, taking over completely. His hand at the back of her neck controlled the angle before he deepened the kiss like he had all night to waste on it, but the truth was he was already planning the moment he’d dismiss her soon.

He pulled back only far enough to talk against her mouth, hand still curled at the back of her neck. “I like that you’re wearing a skirt tonight.”

“Oh?” She let out a breathless little sound, hips shifting against his lap. Her fingers tightened on his shoulders like she needed something to hold onto. “Why?”

“Easier access.” His thumb dragged slow along her ass, just under the hem. “Figured you knew that when you put it on.”

“Maybe I did.” She pressed closer, her mouth finding his jaw.

“Yeah.” He reached the hem of her short skirt, his fingers moving under the denim to reach her pussy. “That’s what I thought.” He murmured against her ear.

“Barzal!” Jude’s voice came from the opposite couch, loud and deep. “Get a fucking room, man. Some of us are trying to enjoy the party without watching a porn scene.”

Jake didn’t even look over. He just lifted two fingers off her waist in a lazy, dismissive wave. “Jealousy’s not a good look on you, Burrow.”

“Nah, not jealous. Our boy is traumatized ’cause of last night.” Luca passed by Jake and gave his shoulder a squeeze before disappearing toward the kitchen.

The blonde glanced down to where Jake’s hand was and let out a little laugh. “I’d say he has a point, though.”

“He usually doesn’t, but I’m not about to argue with the one time he’s right.” Jake answered, and she responded with another soft laugh. “C’mon.” He gave her ass a squeeze. “Upstairs.”

She stood first and he followed right behind, both of them weaving through the crowd. When the path thinned out a little, she tossed a look back over her shoulder as one of his hands found her hip.

His cock was hard, but he wasn’t in a hurry. He never was, not when this was his usual scenario. He liked the walk almost as much as what came after it.

They made it halfway there.

“No!” A female voice screamed suddenly.

Cold hit him like a slap from the side, splashing across his face and down the front of his shirt.

Jake went still.

What. The. Fuck.

For one full second Jake didn’t even process it as liquid. He heard the blonde choke out a scream and the noise of conversation die. Even the loud music from the DJ on the makeshift dance floor dropped a few levels in volume. Then his eyes opened, and everything else seemed to blur out except for the sting of alcohol, because yes, he recognized the smell.

Vodka.

Cheap.

The cold liquid kept sliding down his face, dripping from his clenched jaw onto the front of his white polo. A thousand-dollar Giorgio Armani fucking soaked in bottom-shelf vodka.

He was going to kill the son of a bitch.

He turned in the direction the jet of vodka had come from, only to see that it wasn’t some guy trying to start a fight. It was a girl.

His blue eyes caught the empty red plastic cup in her hand and the irritation he felt transformed into something very, very far from irritation. He deliberately ignored the people who had turned to look at the scene, ignored even the blonde he’d had his hands on only seconds ago, and also the fact that someone was already filming everything.

Jake wasn’t giving a single fuck about any of that.

Because he was too busy staring at the little thing with zero sense of self-preservation who thought it was a good idea to throw a cup of cheap vodka in the face of a 6’2”, 230-pound hockey player.

“Shit. I’m so sorry!” Her friend, or at least he assumed it was, yanked her away by the arm, the abrupt movement not even making her drop the cup.

“Are you fucking serious right now?” The blonde thundered, advancing. “Look what you did, you stupid bitch!”

Jake’s brain was still processing the fact that he had just been baptized in the middle of a party he organized, in his own house, but he didn’t need that part to speak to the blonde.

“That’s enough, Bettany.”

“It’s Brittany.” She squawked.

“Oh, my God! A thousand apologies, seriously! It wasn’t her intention. I mean, it was her intention, but not with you, I swear.” The friend lamented in panic, her big eyes darting between the two of them. “Goddamn, {{user}}. Wrong guy.”

{{user}}.

His eyes found hers and held before drifting to her mouth, then back to her eyes again, and stayed there with a patience he hadn’t given anyone in years. If he ever had. Only once he’d taken his time did he speak directly to her.

“Well, you soaked me in bottom-shelf liquor.” He tilted his head slightly to the side, studying her like a wolf. “We’re going to have to figure out how you’re making this up to me, pussycat.”

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“You always this smug when you’ve got a girl in your lap, or is it just me?” The blonde murmured against his mouth.

Jake was deep into the couch cushions, one arm stretched along the back of it. He wasn’t drunk, wasn’t sloppy, just pleasantly loose around the edges, patient in that way he got when he already knew exactly how his night was going to end.

The girl in his lap, a sorority girl, had her fingers dragging slow up the back of his neck, her hips shifting every so often like she was testing how much of him she could pull out before he snapped.

Around them the party had swallowed most of the house whole, bodies packed into the living room, someone’s laugh cutting sharp over the noise.

Jake let his eyes drag over her face first, lingering on her mouth a beat too long before dragging up to her eyes and holding there until she shifted under the weight of it.

“It’s just you.” He brought both hands to her hips, then slid one down to her ass and kept it there. “Most girls don’t complain when I’m smug. They usually like it.”

“So sure of himself. But confidence and delusion look real similar on you.” She dragged her tongue over her own lower lip.

The hand that stayed on her hip rose to the back of her neck. “You’re still in my lap, though. Kinda ruins the argument.”

“Maybe I just wanted to see how much I could poke at you.”

“Mmm, bad plan.” His fingers curled in slightly against her nape, tilting her head to bring her mouth closer to his. “Talking’s kind of my whole thing.”

He kissed her then, taking over completely. His hand at the back of her neck controlled the angle before he deepened the kiss like he had all night to waste on it, but the truth was he was already planning the moment he’d dismiss her soon.

He pulled back only far enough to talk against her mouth, hand still curled at the back of her neck. “I like that you’re wearing a skirt tonight.”

“Oh?” She let out a breathless little sound, hips shifting against his lap. Her fingers tightened on his shoulders like she needed something to hold onto. “Why.”

“Easier access.” His thumb dragged slow along her ass, just under the hem. “Figured you knew that when you put it on.”

“Maybe I did.” She pressed closer, her mouth finding his jaw.

“Yeah.” He reached the hem of her short skirt, his fingers moving under the denim to reach her pussy. “That’s what I thought.” He murmured against her ear.

“Barzal!” Jude’s voice came from the opposite couch, loud and deep. “Get a fucking room, man. Some of us are trying to enjoy the party without watching a porn scene.”

Jake didn’t even look over. He just lifted two fingers off her waist in a lazy, dismissive wave. “Jealousy’s not a good look on you, Burrow.”

“Nah, not jealous. Our boy is traumatized ’cause of last night.” Luca passed by Jake and gave his shoulder a squeeze before disappearing toward the kitchen.

The blonde glanced down to where Jake’s hand was and let out a little laugh. “I’d say he has a point, though.”

“He usually doesn’t, but I’m not about to argue with the one time he’s right.” Jake answered, and she responded with another soft laugh. “C’mon.” He gave her ass a squeeze. “Upstairs.”

She stood first and he followed right behind, both of them weaving through the crowd. When the path thinned out a little, she tossed a look back over her shoulder as one of his hands found her hip.

His cock was hard, but he wasn’t in a hurry. He never was, not when this was his usual scenario. He liked the walk almost as much as what came after it.

They made it halfway there.

“No!” A female voice screamed suddenly.

Cold hit him like a slap from the side, splashing across his face and down the front of his shirt.

Jake went still.

What. The. Fuck.

For one full second Jake didn’t even process it as liquid. He heard the blonde choke out a scream and the noise of conversation die. Even the loud music from the DJ on the makeshift dance floor dropped a few levels in volume. Then his eyes opened, and everything else seemed to blur out except for the sting of alcohol, because yes, he recognized the smell.

Vodka.

Cheap.

The cold liquid kept sliding down his face, dripping from his clenched jaw onto the front of his white polo. A thousand-dollar Giorgio Armani fucking soaked in bottom-shelf vodka.

He was going to kill the son of a bitch.

He turned in the direction the jet of vodka had come from, only to see that it wasn’t some guy trying to start a fight. It was a girl.

His blue eyes caught the empty red plastic cup in her hand and the irritation he felt transformed into something very, very far from irritation. He deliberately ignored the people who had turned to look at the scene, ignored even the blonde he’d had his hands on only seconds ago, and also the fact that someone was already filming everything.

Jake wasn’t giving a single fuck about any of that.

Because he was too busy staring at the little thing with zero sense of self-preservation who thought it was a good idea to throw a cup of cheap vodka in the face of a 6’2”, 230-pound hockey player.

“Shit. I’m so sorry!” Her friend, or at least he assumed it was, yanked her away by the arm, the abrupt movement not even making her drop the cup.

“Are you fucking serious right now?” The blonde thundered, advancing. “Look what you did, you stupid bitch!”

Jake’s brain was still processing the fact that he had just been baptized in the middle of a party he organized, in his own house, but he didn’t need that part to speak to the blonde.

“That’s enough, Bettany.”

“It’s Brittany.” She squawked.

“Oh, my God! A thousand apologies, seriously! It wasn’t her intention. I mean, it was her intention, but not with you, I swear.” The friend lamented in panic, her big eyes darting between the two of them. “Goddamn, {{user}}. Wrong guy.”

{{user}}.

His eyes found hers and held before drifting to her mouth, then back to her eyes again, and stayed there with a patience he hadn’t given anyone in years. If he ever had. Only once he’d taken his time did he speak directly to her.

“Well, you soaked me in bottom-shelf liquor.” He tilted his head slightly to the side, studying her like a wolf. “We’re going to have to figure out how you’re making this up to me, pussycat.”

However, he didn’t even get to see if her mouth was going to open to answer, because her friend, still panicking, pulled her away, dragging her in the opposite direction with a death grip on her arm while throwing one last rushed apology over her shoulder.

Jake watched them go, watching the two of them disappear into the mess of bodies by the door. He didn’t move an inch to stop it because he just didn’t need to.

He stood there for a fraction of a second, the trash vodka still gleaming on his face while more than half the party stared at him.

She made him curious. Curious enough that he wanted to know more about her than just her name.

That was why, less than three minutes later, he set out to find Doug.

Jake found him out on the back porch, where he typically stayed, rolling something for a group of freshmen who looked like they’d already forgotten who they were.

Doug sold the best weed on campus, which apparently meant he knew every single person who existed in the world, so if anyone had answers for what Jake wanted, it was him.

“Barzal.” Doug grinned without stopping the roll, his eyes moving over Jake from head to toe. “You’re dripping on my shoes.”

“Yeah, funny story.” Jake dropped down onto the railing beside him. “I need you to find someone for me. Actually, that someone’s phone number.”

Doug’s smile widened. “Whose?”

“The girl who just dumped a full cup of cheap vodka on me. You definitely saw her pass by here, being dragged by a friend.” He said it straight. “Her name is {{user}}.”

“Hmmm.” He licked the paper shut. “Yeah, I saw them. The two of them shot past like the fucking Road Runner.” Doug raised an eyebrow. “Always wanted to make you owe me a favor.” A pause. “What’s it worth to you?”

“Depends how fast you can get me her number.”

Doug stared at him for a long second.

“Give me five minutes.” He stood, tucked the joint behind his ear, and went inside the house.

Jake stayed exactly where he was the whole time, replaying the last ten minutes, until Doug appeared in the doorway with his head down, his thumbs working over the screen of his own phone.

His phone vibrated in his pocket and he pulled it out, seeing the contact Doug had just sent.

Jake whistled, laughing low.

“Remember, you owe me.” Doug reminded him.

“I sure as hell do.” He shook Doug’s hand with his free one. “Thanks.” He walked off and went back inside the house, heading straight upstairs to his room after ignoring Luca and Jude’s questions.

{{user}} still had no idea that she had started something he had absolutely no intention of letting go. Not before he had her in his bed.

The message Jake typed and sent to her was anything but subtle:

yo pussycat ur cheeky stunt got my cock hard. u know what that means? big boy here is ur problem now. n just so u know, it’s a fuckin’ huge problem u gotta handle.

“Are you fucking kidding me right now.” Jude slammed his palm flat against the high-top table, eyes locked on the TV mounted above the bar. “Third and short, third and short, and we’re throwing a fade route into double coverage? Who called that?”

The bar was new to all of them. Jude had picked it specifically because he was owed, collectively, by every single person at the table, and decided the fairest way to settle that debt was dragging them all out to watch his team somewhere none of them had ever set foot in before.

It was slammed for a Friday night, air thick with fried food and spilled beer, some classic rock song fighting to be heard over maybe two hundred conversations happening at once.

Jake had a beer in one hand and his elbow braced against the table, scanning the room out of habit, keeping tabs on what was happening around him before he settled into it.

They’d been there a good half hour already, long enough for the table to get sticky, that specific bar-table stickiness every place in Boston seemed to have, and someone’s abandoned basket of fries sat half-eaten near the edge. The professional football team Jude rooted for was down by four with under two minutes left, and he’d been taking every single play far more personally than a guy watching from a bar stool three states away had any business doing.

Remo didn’t even look up from his phone.

“They’ve thrown three picks tonight and you’re still mad about the play call.” He commented.

“Picks aren’t on the coordinator. That call was.” Jude jabbed a finger at the screen, like the gesture itself might change the outcome.

“Everything’s on the coordinator when you’re losing. That’s how being a fan works.” Remo finally glanced up, sliding his phone into his pocket, an easy shrug in the way he said it, like he wasn’t even trying to start a fight, just stating a fact.

“That’s not how football works, Calafiori.”

“It’s exactly how American football works.” He leaned back, his arms crossing loose over his chest, completely unbothered by the glare he was getting. “You’ll defend this offense right up until they lose, and then it’s suddenly someone else’s fault.”

Luca snorted into his drink, clearly enjoying this more than actually caring about the game itself, chair creaking as he leaned back too far. “You’ve been like this since the second quarter, man. Full doom spiral. Kind of impressive, honestly.”

“We’re one drive away from blowing a ten-point lead.” Jude said it like it physically pained him.

“You’ve said that exact sentence about four different games this season.” Jake finally entered the conversation, and his reply was enough to make Luca grin around the rim of his glass.

“Because it keeps fucking happening, asshole.” Jude grunted.

“Says something about your team, then.” Jake added.

“Don’t.” Jude pointed a finger across the table without looking away from the screen. “Not tonight. I’m not in the mood.”

“The finger thing is really getting worse.” Luca grinned again.

Jake went quiet again, taking a slow pull from his beer, watching Jude spiral with the mild amusement of someone who’d seen this exact meltdown play out a dozen times before. He was mid-sip when Luca leaned a bit closer.

“Redhead by the bar’s been eyeing you for like ten minutes.” He let him know, which was a new thing, considering Jake was usually the type who had that kind of information on his radar in record time.

This time, though, he didn’t even rush to look, taking his time swallowing first before setting his glass down slow. “Which one?”

“Green top. Talking to her friend, keeps glancing over here like she’s working up the nerve.” Luca tilted his chin toward the bar subtle.

Jake found her easily, caught her eye just long enough to watch her look away, caught. He huffed a laugh under his breath, turned back to the table, and picked his beer back up like the whole thing hadn’t registered as worth acting on.

“Not interested.” He shrugged.

Everyone at the table heard it. After all, they all went dead silent. Even Remo. Even Jude, in the state he was in, tore his eyes off the game on the TV for the first time all night, twisting in his seat to stare.

“I’m-fucking-sorry?” Jude asked.

“What. You heard me.”

“No, I really don’t think I did.” Jude leaned forward, fully invested. “’Cause it sounded like you just said you’re not interested in a hot girl who’s obviously into you, and that’s not a sentence that’s ever come out of your mouth in the four years I’ve known you.” A pause. “I don’t think it’s ever come out of any Barzal’s mouth in your entire family tree.”

“First time for everything.” Jake shrugged again.

“There’s not, though. Not when it comes to you.” Jude shook his head. “That’s the whole point. You don’t have firsts for this. You’ve got a documented, historical pattern of zero standards and even less restraint.”

“I have standards.” Jake pointed his beer bottle at him, mock-offended.

He didn’t.

Actually, he did. He’d developed them recently.

“You made out with a girl on a damn pool table at Tristan’s party because, quote:” Jude put on his best imitation of Jake’s voice, using his fingers to make air quotes, “‘Her panties are the same color as the boxers I’m wearing.’”

“I didn’t lie.” Jake said it completely straight-faced, which only made Luca more incredulous.

“Há! Dude, that’s not a goddamn standard.” Jude jabbed a finger at him, because yes, the finger thing was even more present tonight. “That’s a pulse. If I’m being generous.”

Luca was fully cracking up now, wheezing into his glass, and even Remo had a small, knowing curve pulling at his mouth, watching the whole thing settle in like he’d seen this exact fight play out before, more than once.

“Fuck, man.” Luca managed between laughs, wiping at his eyes. “Somebody bring a thermometer, because our number one manwhore is definitely running a fever from hell and fully delirious.”

“Bullshit. I’m allowed to not want something.” Jake rolled his eyes, but there was no real heat in it.

“You’re never not wanting something when that something is a girl. That’s the bit.” Luca shot back.

“Things change.” Jake shrugged for the third time.

Remo looked at him this time, speaking calmly. “You had a threesome two days ago.”

“Things don’t change that much.” Jake clarified. “Leave the man —me— alone, fuckers.”

“Yeah. He’s right. Leave him alone.” Remo took a sip of his own drink. He sat more relaxed against his chair. “Doesn’t mean it’s not weird, though.” He added it easy, almost as an afterthought.

Jude and Luca both lost it.

“You had one job.” Jake snorted.

“I did my job. I defended you.” Remo shrugged, entirely unbothered by the outrage. “I also told the truth. It happens.”

The conversation stayed on that subject for a few more short minutes before Jude was frothing at the mouth about the game again, making Remo shake his head and Luca roll his eyes before allowing himself to head to the bathroom at the exact same moment the brunette who’d been exchanging glances with him got up to go.

Jake grinned.

Then he stopped. Then grinned again. Wider.

“No fucking way.” He murmured to himself.

Even though it took a second to place the female figure who had just made her way behind the bar, thanks to the current lighting that was very different from the light at the party he’d thrown the night before, that face he would never forget again. Not after what happened.

Small fucking world.

Jake was already sliding out of his chair, his beer left forgotten on the table. “Be right back.”

“Sure.” Remo went back to his phone.

Jake cut through the crowd like he owned the place, weaving between bodies without breaking stride, and reached the bar. He set his arms on the counter and looked directly at her, holding off until she was close enough and there was no version of this where she hadn’t already clocked him there, before he finally let himself speak.

“Small world, I’d say.” His eyes dragged over her, lingering just long enough to make the point before dragging back up to her face. “Still throwing vodka in strangers’ faces out there, or did you finally find the victim you’d been wanting to do that to from the start?” He teased, letting his provocation sit for a second.

“You know, you ruined a very expensive shirt of mine after you baptized me with cheap liquor. In my own house. At the party I organized. Nothing similar, for the record, has ever happened to me before in my life. And look, I’m a pretty big bastard.”

He tilted his head slightly to the side.

“And the way I figure it, the only fair thing left to do is let me take you out.” Translation, crude and naked: he wanted to fuck her. “Make it up to me properly, yeah?” His eyes never left hers. “So. What do you say, pussycat?”

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