Bittersweet Truths
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Romance › Het - Male/Female
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
6
Views:
5,593
Reviews:
5
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
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Disclaimer:
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A Look Inside
AN: Thanks Manda so much for the review, I added much more detail to their appearances in this one. Everyone; there were a lot of hits, please if you’re reading I would love to know what you think and what kind of scenes you would like added to the story.
Chapter 2
Brennan arrived home in a sour mood; she closed the apartment door and threw her bag in the corner. She felt better to be home surrounded by the one person she knew wouldn’t hurt her.
“What’s wrong Gorgeous?” Alec asked. He was her roommate, sometimes her boss and other times she wasn’t sure. She found solace in his hazel eyes and crooked smile, he was what a lot of girls would call ‘hot’ and yet he spent most of his time with her.
“I can’t wait for school to be over.”
“You just started your senior year.”
“I know, don’t remind me.”
“Come here.” He motioned for her to join him on the couch; she curled up next to him. “Nothing that bastard says means anything in the long run. The way you complain about him I think maybe you have a crush.” He knew of her run ins and altercations with Jack and his friends.
“Oh god. I’m not in the mood for really bad jokes.”
Brennan and Alec had been friends for the last three years since she was fifteen, he had been twenty five. The relationship was unorthodox but she didn’t care, he had been there for her when there was no one else, given her a place to live when the state decided she was old enough at seventeen to take care of herself because the group homes were overcrowded.
She was overly grateful to him and when he asked for her help she gave it, when he had an idea she joined him no questions asked even when she wasn’t overly comfortable with it. She owed him, bottom line.
“I have some new outfits I want you to try on.” Alec said.
“Yeah later, lets finish watching this.” she had no clue what was on the TV but she didn’t want to go to the office, things changed when they were in that room and it was time for business. Here in the living room they were friends, it was easy going.
“Do you have any homework?”
“No,” she lied.
“Ok then we can do it after dinner, I’m gonna cook. Have you taken your pills?” He asked, she was supposed to have taken them by now on an empty stomach.
“I hate those pills.”
“You hate a lot of things.”
“Do I look like I need those pills? No, so go cook I’m starving.” She pushed him off the couch and took control of the TV remote, pouting as she stared at the screen.
“Fine have it your way.”
~*~
Jack was quick to tear his grey eyes away and log off his computer when the door to his bedroom burst open and Todd stepped in.
“Your mom let me in. What’s up?” he asked as he walked over to the bed and sat.
“You tell me.” he knew it wasn’t fair to wish his friends would leave him alone or the fact he was antisocial with them but that didn’t stop him from wishing Todd would’ve at least called.
“I heard Mr. Toms partnered you up with my next conquest.” Mr. Toms handled the tutor center at the school.
“And who’s that?”
Todd’s brown eyes lit with mischief. “Brennan. Hey say whatever you want she’s hot in a just escaped from the mental ward bitchy type of way. I heard she has some kind of disorder.” He shrugged not caring too much for the details.
“Whatever. Mr. Toms is a dick. He me stuck with her since I’m failing and she has the highest grade point average in the subject. I tried to get him to change his mind but he went on and on about how they’re short staffed on tutors and I couldn’t afford to keep failing the material.” The last thing he wanted to do was be stuck with Brennan for a mandatory hour and have to listen to her or else.
“What did she say?”
“Nothing, she stands there all silent and glaring at me like it’s my fault.” Tomorrow after school would be their first session and the torture would begin. He didn’t know how they were going to get through it without trying to rip each other’s head off.
~*~
Brennan was sitting at the sofa watching some sitcom one second and then time went blank until Alec was suddenly in front of her kneeling.
“Brennan, are you with me?” his hazel eyes were laced with concern as he touched her hand.
“What?”
“You’re spacing out, I told you to take your pills.” He knew it wasn’t going to be an easy battle to win. Brennan could never fully accept she needed those pills to help her live in the real world.
“No I was thinking about something that’s all. Those pills are for people with issues I don’t have so leave me alone.” she made a move to get up but he wouldn’t let her. “What now?”
“Please take them?” he laid his head in his lap and gripped her leg. “Please?”
“Ok.” She knew arguing with him would be pointless because like every other time she’d eventually cave. She could count on one hand and still have fingers left over the amount of times she denied him.
“Come with me to the kitchen.” he took her hand and in the kitchen on the counter were her pills.
She grabbed the two tablets and put them in her mouth and drank some water. “There, now let’s eat.” When he turned his back she quickly took the pills from her mouth and shoved them in her pocket. The pills made her only feel worse, like a stranger in her own body.
Alec liked to stick to routines so it was no surprise after dinner it was time for work. “Go wash all that off your face and meet me in the office.” He said, he always hated her heavy make-up.
With a nod she followed his commands and five minutes later she was in the office striping off the outfit she had worn to school. She would’ve done it when she had been in the bathroom but Alec liked watching her undress.
He sat back in the chair and watched silently until there was nothing left and then handed her the panties and teddy he wanted her to try on. It was blue and sheer around the waist. “It matches your eyes.” He commented.
“My eyes no one ever sees.”
“I see them.” his voice was soft and ever so suggestive. There in the office he acted as if he liked her but outside if the office they were best friends with nothing to hide. Maybe it was because she was stark naked, she wasn’t sure but something changed when they were in there. “Let’s take some shots.” He grabbed his camera and motioned her to the bed behind them.
She got on the bed and tied the red stash around her eyes. She stood on her knees on the middle of the bed and waited for him to direct the scene and she’d follow like the perfect puppet.
The first picture she was lowering the teddy down her body baring her breasts, the next picture it was gone with her hands moving down her waist and so on until she was fully naked again. She laid back on the bed for the next shot, her hair was across her face masking her identity.
“Open your legs.” Alec instructed for the final photo. “And touch yourself like this.” he manually placed her hand the way he wanted it and softly caressed her before moving back and taking the picture.
Brennan hated that she couldn’t stop her body from reacting to his warm fingers and hated even more that he had touched her, it threw everything off balance. The confusion left her dizzy or was it the withdraw from those stupid prescribed pills?
When they were done she made up some excuse about being tired and headed to her room before he noticed something was wrong and found out she had lied.
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Chapter 2
Brennan arrived home in a sour mood; she closed the apartment door and threw her bag in the corner. She felt better to be home surrounded by the one person she knew wouldn’t hurt her.
“What’s wrong Gorgeous?” Alec asked. He was her roommate, sometimes her boss and other times she wasn’t sure. She found solace in his hazel eyes and crooked smile, he was what a lot of girls would call ‘hot’ and yet he spent most of his time with her.
“I can’t wait for school to be over.”
“You just started your senior year.”
“I know, don’t remind me.”
“Come here.” He motioned for her to join him on the couch; she curled up next to him. “Nothing that bastard says means anything in the long run. The way you complain about him I think maybe you have a crush.” He knew of her run ins and altercations with Jack and his friends.
“Oh god. I’m not in the mood for really bad jokes.”
Brennan and Alec had been friends for the last three years since she was fifteen, he had been twenty five. The relationship was unorthodox but she didn’t care, he had been there for her when there was no one else, given her a place to live when the state decided she was old enough at seventeen to take care of herself because the group homes were overcrowded.
She was overly grateful to him and when he asked for her help she gave it, when he had an idea she joined him no questions asked even when she wasn’t overly comfortable with it. She owed him, bottom line.
“I have some new outfits I want you to try on.” Alec said.
“Yeah later, lets finish watching this.” she had no clue what was on the TV but she didn’t want to go to the office, things changed when they were in that room and it was time for business. Here in the living room they were friends, it was easy going.
“Do you have any homework?”
“No,” she lied.
“Ok then we can do it after dinner, I’m gonna cook. Have you taken your pills?” He asked, she was supposed to have taken them by now on an empty stomach.
“I hate those pills.”
“You hate a lot of things.”
“Do I look like I need those pills? No, so go cook I’m starving.” She pushed him off the couch and took control of the TV remote, pouting as she stared at the screen.
“Fine have it your way.”
~*~
Jack was quick to tear his grey eyes away and log off his computer when the door to his bedroom burst open and Todd stepped in.
“Your mom let me in. What’s up?” he asked as he walked over to the bed and sat.
“You tell me.” he knew it wasn’t fair to wish his friends would leave him alone or the fact he was antisocial with them but that didn’t stop him from wishing Todd would’ve at least called.
“I heard Mr. Toms partnered you up with my next conquest.” Mr. Toms handled the tutor center at the school.
“And who’s that?”
Todd’s brown eyes lit with mischief. “Brennan. Hey say whatever you want she’s hot in a just escaped from the mental ward bitchy type of way. I heard she has some kind of disorder.” He shrugged not caring too much for the details.
“Whatever. Mr. Toms is a dick. He me stuck with her since I’m failing and she has the highest grade point average in the subject. I tried to get him to change his mind but he went on and on about how they’re short staffed on tutors and I couldn’t afford to keep failing the material.” The last thing he wanted to do was be stuck with Brennan for a mandatory hour and have to listen to her or else.
“What did she say?”
“Nothing, she stands there all silent and glaring at me like it’s my fault.” Tomorrow after school would be their first session and the torture would begin. He didn’t know how they were going to get through it without trying to rip each other’s head off.
~*~
Brennan was sitting at the sofa watching some sitcom one second and then time went blank until Alec was suddenly in front of her kneeling.
“Brennan, are you with me?” his hazel eyes were laced with concern as he touched her hand.
“What?”
“You’re spacing out, I told you to take your pills.” He knew it wasn’t going to be an easy battle to win. Brennan could never fully accept she needed those pills to help her live in the real world.
“No I was thinking about something that’s all. Those pills are for people with issues I don’t have so leave me alone.” she made a move to get up but he wouldn’t let her. “What now?”
“Please take them?” he laid his head in his lap and gripped her leg. “Please?”
“Ok.” She knew arguing with him would be pointless because like every other time she’d eventually cave. She could count on one hand and still have fingers left over the amount of times she denied him.
“Come with me to the kitchen.” he took her hand and in the kitchen on the counter were her pills.
She grabbed the two tablets and put them in her mouth and drank some water. “There, now let’s eat.” When he turned his back she quickly took the pills from her mouth and shoved them in her pocket. The pills made her only feel worse, like a stranger in her own body.
Alec liked to stick to routines so it was no surprise after dinner it was time for work. “Go wash all that off your face and meet me in the office.” He said, he always hated her heavy make-up.
With a nod she followed his commands and five minutes later she was in the office striping off the outfit she had worn to school. She would’ve done it when she had been in the bathroom but Alec liked watching her undress.
He sat back in the chair and watched silently until there was nothing left and then handed her the panties and teddy he wanted her to try on. It was blue and sheer around the waist. “It matches your eyes.” He commented.
“My eyes no one ever sees.”
“I see them.” his voice was soft and ever so suggestive. There in the office he acted as if he liked her but outside if the office they were best friends with nothing to hide. Maybe it was because she was stark naked, she wasn’t sure but something changed when they were in there. “Let’s take some shots.” He grabbed his camera and motioned her to the bed behind them.
She got on the bed and tied the red stash around her eyes. She stood on her knees on the middle of the bed and waited for him to direct the scene and she’d follow like the perfect puppet.
The first picture she was lowering the teddy down her body baring her breasts, the next picture it was gone with her hands moving down her waist and so on until she was fully naked again. She laid back on the bed for the next shot, her hair was across her face masking her identity.
“Open your legs.” Alec instructed for the final photo. “And touch yourself like this.” he manually placed her hand the way he wanted it and softly caressed her before moving back and taking the picture.
Brennan hated that she couldn’t stop her body from reacting to his warm fingers and hated even more that he had touched her, it threw everything off balance. The confusion left her dizzy or was it the withdraw from those stupid prescribed pills?
When they were done she made up some excuse about being tired and headed to her room before he noticed something was wrong and found out she had lied.
-
AH88