I Don't Love You

Matt lay on the bed, looking again at the all to familiar ceiling tiles. He thought over the events of the last few days. He saw the look on Maria’s face. The anger he felt flooded back into him, followed close by the sorrow. He started getting restless. Flipping from one side to the other then back again.

Then Lacee popped into his head. It calmed him a bit. She really was his best friend. She hadn’t seemed to have changed much. He was very happy she called him earlier that night. He had let her cry on his shoulder many times before… it felt good to do it again.

He loved her all through school, but she always had someone else. Maybe she did like him he thought.

“No, she couldn’t have,” he mumbled to himself with a heavy sigh. It was too late he figured. Then he heard Samantha laugh. He turned off his TV and turned on the music loud enough to drown the two lovers out.

He thought about the day Jeremy asked matt to go ring shopping. It was about a month ago in June when he asked matt. Matt said yes. Jeremy planned proposing to Sam on their 3-year anniversary in august.

Matt got angry again and started tossing and turning. He had planned on proposing to Maria… he was going to wait to see how she acted about Sam and Jeremy getting married and then if she seemed to like the idea, which he was sure she would, he would ask her. Hell he had picked out a ring!

“Damn” he mumbled. He continued to toss and turn falling in and out of sleep.

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“Here Sam get up for a minute… want a beer?” Jeremy asked as he lifted her off of himself. He walked into he kitchen to the refrigerator.

“Yea baby please.” Sam said as she sat on the couch. Jeremy got out two beers and walked over to the couch. He handed one to Sam and opened his own. He took a drink then laid down on the couch with his head in Samantha’s lap.

Sam looked down at Jeremy and smiled. “Hey baby,” she said before she took a drink of her beer.

“Does your bellybutton still hurt?” he asked as he set his beer on the table.

“Yea some, hell Jer its only been a month” she said looking down at him

“I’ll kiss it better,” he said as he lifted her shirt. He kissed it which earned himself an ouch and a swat on the top of the head. “Hey!” he protested

“It still hurts,” she said with an innocent look on her face. He smiled up at her. Her eyes trailed to the TV. “Super Troopers?” she asked.

“Hell yea,” Jeremy said as he looked over at the TV. They watched as Rabbit molested the woman on the top of the car.

“I love this movie!” Jer said as it went to commercial. He paused for a minute when laid on his back and looked up at Sam with a questioning look on his face.

“What?” she said.

“Do you remember that girl Lacee we went to school with?” When all that earned him was a questioning look he added, “Lacee… Green… I think that was her maiden name. She had brown hair… she was in love with matt.”

“Oh yea I remember. She was in love with him. They were always together. God I miss her” Sam said looking into space.

“Well matt met her in the store earlier today.” Jeremy said looking up at his love.

“Really?” Sam said with a big smile. “What did she say? How is she doing? Is she living here, back from LA?” Sam asked

“Yep, Back to big ol’ Ohio,” Jeremy said “but she is married and matt said she was acting weird about it.”

“Like how?” she asked

“Like she said he couldn’t see her with matt. And then Matt saw him grabbing her arm like he was yelling at her. Then she called, because Matt gave her our number. She had a fight with her husband. He didn’t tell me a lot. Just that they got into a huge fight and she was really upset.” Jeremy explained to Sam.

“hmm I hope everything is alright with her. I would love to hang out with her.” Sam said as she pushed herself off the couch. “wanna go watch this in your room? I wanna lay down, you couch hog.”

“I’ll move over.” Jeremy said as he laid flat on his back. “Look baby there is plenty of room for you right here,” he said as he patted his stomach.

Sam cocked her eyebrow and smirked at him. “Yea… I’m going to your bedroom… do you think matt is gonna get up?”

“No… I bet you anything he is down for the night.” Jeremy said as he looked up at his girlfriend.

“hmmmm” Sam said as she thought for a minute. “Alright then” she said as she took of her shirt. She started walking back to Jeremy’s bedroom.

“Wait on me!” Jeremy said trying to pull of his shirt but getting it caught on his head.

Sam turned around and walked backwards down the hallway. “Come on baby I’m not gonna wait for ever.” She took off her bra and threw it at him.

Right at that moment Matt’s door opened. He stood there in shock for a second. Sam covered herself.

“Baby was that your bra?” he asked her still not able to see from his shirt. He finally got it off and looked at the situation at hand. His girlfriend topless and red as can be from embarrassment and his best friend about the same hue as her.

“I don’t need a midnight snack after all” matt said as he turned around and walked straight back into his bedroom and closed the door.

“Samantha how dare you!!!” he tried to say in a shocked and hurt voice, not succeeding very well. “I mean my best friend?” he couldn’t hold it in anymore, he busted out laughing.

“Jeremy stop!” Sam said as she ran to his bedroom.

“Baby stop… its just matt. I mean he has walked in on us before. Come on!” Jeremy pleaded with her. The door was locked!

“Oh come on open the door,” Jeremy said with is head on the door.

“Why?”

“Because I’m sorry…” Jeremy said with a pleading tone in his voice.

Sam opened the door a little she had a “lost Puppy” look on her face.

“But it was pretty funny” he said to her softly

Sam smiles weakly and ran into Jeremy. He put his arms around her and they walked back into the bedroom.

“ It was so embarrassing. He must think we fuck like rabbits” Sam said her face still in Jeremy’s chest.

He looked down at her and she looked up at him. He cocked his eyebrow and smirked that handsome smirk of his. “Oh but don’t we?” he said slyly. She laughed at him and pushed away.
“Your such a big pervert” she said as she turned around towards the bed and took off the rest of her clothes. She turned back to him after she was done to see him out of his clothes as well. She looked up and down his body. “But I love it” Sam said as she bit her lip.

“It or me?” He said looking down at himself. He flexed his muscles “I am the perfect male specimen” he stated his voice laced with cockiness. He was quite a handsome man. He was in pretty good shape and tan. Sam couldn’t resist him.

They had all been friends through school, Lacee, Matt, Jeremy, and Sam. Jeremy and Sam had never really been intimate till after school though. They had dated once in 9th grade but… It didn’t last long. At the time she just didn’t feel anything for him. Nothing happened when they kissed. But now as she pushed him against the door she felt oh so much more then nothing.

She kissed him and grabbed two big handfuls of his dirty-blond hair. She loved his hair. They way it just laid across his forehead. And they way his green eyes lit up when he saw her. It drove her nuts.

She loved this man more then any other woman could love a man. They had been together 3 years. He was 23 and her 22. Matt had ditched Jeremy one night because he was sick.

So Sam ended up going to the concert the two men were going to go to together. After the concert was over with they ended going and getting food. They never really spent much time together alone. They really hit it off. Sam’s dryer wit and Jeremy’s goofy and loveable personality went so well together. He knew just how to get her out of her bad moods.


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Matt woke up the next day at noon. He climbed out of his bed and stumbled into his bathroom.

After he was finished he walked to the sink and looked in the mirror. He washed his hands and looked for a towel to clean his hands. He couldn’t find one. Walking into his room he picked up a clothesbasket off the floor that was half full.

He slowly made his way through his room and bathroom picking up all the dirty clothes. His stereo still playing he didn’t hear the knock on the door.

After he finished putting his clothes in the basket he walked to his door, unlocked it, and started to walk out when he ran into Jeremy who was wearing only his blue boxers. He dropped the basket and the clothes went everywhere.

“God Jeremy!” matt said as he picked up his clothes

“You have a phone call,” Jeremy said sticking out his hand with the phone in it.

“Who is it?”

“Some girl,” Jeremy said as matt took the phone and grabbed the basket into one hand.

“Hello,” matt said

“Hey matt,” Lacee replied in a cheerful voice.

“Hey lace what’s going on?” matt said as he walked into the laundry room

“Not a lot… I was wondering if you wanted to hang out?”

“What about your husband? You said he didn’t like the idea of you with me.” Matt said concerned.

“Oh he is gone. He will be gone for about a week.” Lacee said. “He left about an hour ago. Can I come over there though?”

“Yea but I have to leave for work at 2 with Jeremy. But Sam will be here probably, I’m thinking about paying her to clean the house, it’s such a mess” matt said laughing.

“Sam?” Lacee asked. “Sam from school?”

“Yep her and Jeremy are together. She is always here. She should just move in.” matt said

Lacee laughed and said, “I never figured they would get together.”

“Yep, me either. But they are. You have a ride over?” matt asked her.

“Yea I have my car. Umm but the address would be nice to have.” Lacee said laughing.

“Oh yea I guess that would help,” matt said. He then gave her the address and directions. After he was done he hung up the phone and walked out to the living room where Jeremy and Sam where lying on the couch.

“Hey Lacee is coming over. She said she should be here in like 15 minutes if she doesn’t get lost.” Matt told the two lovebirds on the couch. He walked over and sat on the chair.

“Awesome,” Sam said, “I want to see her. Jer told me about it last night. I miss her!”

“Umm baby I am gonna need to get dressed. You may wanna put those puppies away,” he said as he wrapped his hand around her breast. She swatted his hand.

“Would you stop?!” she asked “god we have traumatized matt! I am sure he never wanted to see what he saw last night.” She said as she sat up

“Ehh I didn’t mind,” matt said then he looked at Jeremy. “Your girl has nice tits,” he stated flatly.

“Why thank you,” he said again grabbing her breasts again. “I think so too”

Sam got up and walked to her right down the hallway to the room at the end.

“Damn, am I in the dog house again?” Jeremy said standing up.

“Oh hey Jer. Umm you think Sam will stay here after we go to work? To hang out with Lacee?”

“Yea I asked her to clean the house… I had to do her a few… favors though,” he laughed. “I didn’t mind at all,” he stated with a sly grin on his face as he walked back into his bedroom.

Matt sat in the green recliner with his feet up in the air while he watched judge Judy. After about 10 minutes he heard a knock on the door. He walked over to it and looked out the peephole. It was Lacee… but her right eye was black and blue.

He quickly opened the door and asked her what happened.

“Oh after I got off the phone with you I started thinking about the fight and stomping around… I’m so stupid” she said rubbing her forehead with her hand.

“I feel like an idiot. I was in the bathroom and I slipped on a plastic bag I forgot to pick up and bit the bathtub. I had a big knot on my cheek all night. I am happy I didn’t pass out or get hurt really bad.” Lacee said getting a little red.

“Oh I’m sorry. You need to be more careful. You could have killed yourself” matt said as he walked over to the living room. “You can sit,” he said motioning to the chair.

Lacee walked over to the chair and sat down. “How are you doing today?” she asked still feeling really self-conscious about her eye. Matt sat down on the couch.

“Good just woke up. I need to do laundry and get dressed for work.” Matt said with a heavy sigh. “ I don’t want to go. But I need to… Grrrrr.” He said. Lacee laughed lightly.

“I don’t work. So I don’t know that feeling. I do want to get out of the house a lot though,” she said looking at matt.

“Well come on over here any time. If Jeremy and me aren’t home then Sam is normally here. Or” he stopped himself. He almost said Maria. Me closed his mouth and said “anyway you can come over here anytime.”

“Or who matt?” Lacee said questioningly.

“I was going to say my ex Maria.” Matt said looking obsessed with the fibers of the carpet.

“Oh I am sorry,” she said then after a long pause she added, “How long have you been broken up?”

“Since Saturday afternoon.” He said quietly. “Well I guess for about 2 weeks.. But I didn’t know till Saturday”

“Oh I am so sorry,” she said. Then after a long awkward pause she added “well I guess she doesn’t know a good thing when she sees it.”

Matt smiled weakly at her then said, “thanks” in a soft barely audible tone.

“No problem” she said. Then she stood up and walked over the couch. She sat down by matt.

He looked up to her face. “What really happened to your eye?” he asked quietly.

She looked down at the ground. “What I told you happened. I slipped on the bag.”

“ But you should still at least have a lump Lacee. Did he do this to you? I saw the way he grabbed you yesterday at the store.” Matt said looking at her watch the floor.

“I fell alright.” Lacee said looking him in the eye finally. She soon looked away knowing she couldn’t lie to matt much longer.

“All right Lacee,” matt said looking to the ground. “But if something like that ever happens… you can come here and hide.”

Just then Jeremy and Samantha came in.

They all said their hello’s and then matt went to get dressed.