Playing Adult | ✔ | 18+

Chapter 23 - It's a Lock

Author's Note:

And now, without further ado, here's that - uninterrupted - sexy, sexy scene we've all been waiting for (with a little lead-in first) ...

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I didn't hear from Roza again the rest of the night. When I got to church, Ivan was waiting for me in our usual spot at the back of the church. We had a few minutes before church started and my family hadn't arrived yet, so we had a few minutes to talk.

"Dude," Ivan said, looking and sounding exactly like my gossip-hungry sisters, "I've been texting you all weekend! What happened with the viagra on Friday night? Did you end up cancelling your date?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," I said, shrugging noncommittally.

Ivan looked at me levelly in the eye. "Try me."

"Do you promise not to tell anyone?"

"On my grandmother's grave," he said, crossing his heart. This wasn't an oath he would make lightly. I was there when Ivan found out that his grandmother had passed and I knew that Ivan loved her very much.

I lowered my voice (after all, we were in church) and said, "The viagra really didn't turn out as bad as it could've. Things actually started off pretty good, in fact. We were ... close for a little while when we were alone together before we went to the restaurant. But then when we got there, our waitress was this girl that used to live with Rose and eventually, everything just went to shit."

"One thing at a time," said Ivan, "First, how close?" Then, Ivan gasped and I practically knew what he'd say next. "Dimitri, did Rose take your cherry?"

"That's really none of your business, Ivan. But no, she didn't 'take my cherry'."

"I'm gonna guess it'll become hers, and soon. Here's a couple condoms," with that, he pulled three condoms out of his pocket and held them out to me. I stood there gaping at him. "You ought to be prepared," he said.

I rolled my eyes, but took them and put them in my pocket before anyone saw him handing them to me at church. "I don't even want to know why you have three condoms in your pocket at church."

"It's actually five," he said with a shrug. I looked at him with my mouth hanging open again and he asked, "What? Did you really think I'd give you all the condoms I had with me? After all, Vika's gonna be here today."

I didn't know whether to punch him for making plans to take advantage of my sister or throw up in my mouth thinking of Ivan and Viktoria having sex. I gave Ivan another eye roll, but he continued. "Second, though, what happened to make everything go to shit with the ex-roommate girl as your waitress?"

I hesitated, not sure how much I should tell. Ivan got a lot of information from me due to best friend privileges; sometimes more than he should have, but there was a lot about what happened on Friday night that I just wasn't sure he should know. I quickly mentally edited what happened to a format I could feel alright telling Ivan.

"Rose was super-uncomfortable and trying to sort of stake her territory with me," I said, "She was kissing my neck and touching my leg under the table and stuff while we were sitting there. At first, it was all sexy and I was really enjoying it, but then she started throwing back drinks the way Randall does, and she just started giggling at nothing and nearly fell out of her seat. And it just sort of seemed like the reasons she was getting all flirtatious were more about the roommate and the alcohol than about us. And she wasn't herself."

"Oh man! Did you talk to her about it afterwards? Or is this just it?"

"Who do you think I am, Ivan? You know how I feel about Rose! Of course I talked to her about it! We went out again on Saturday and she more-or-less made it up to me. Oh, and guess who Lissa's step-sister is?"