American Honey

“I heard that.” Tanner yells from the kitchen.

“Let’s go, lover boy.” He yells back.

Knox drops us off at a hotel not far away, we could have walked really. I lean over and kiss him on the cheek, “Good luck. Call us tomorrow. Love you.”

Knox kisses my cheek, “Thanks and love you too.”

“Dude,” Tanner shoves Knox’s shoulder. “Keep your lips off my girl.”

“Get out, jackass.” Knox retorts.

Tanner laughs, “Good luck, man.”

“Thanks.”

Tanner and I check in, we get the key to our room and we take the elevator up to the top floor.

“You know,” Tanner stands directly in front of me and tilts my head up to him, “I wasn’t kidding about the babies. I want them. One day.”

I stand up on my tip-toes, “In the meantime let’s go have some fun. I think Knox pulled out all the stops for us tonight.” I wink at him just as the doors open.

“Did you bring lollipops?” Tanner asks his voice husky.

I look behind me, smiling, “Of course.”

“Damn, baby.” He pants and practically runs to our room.

Chapter Six

~ Age 21 ~

Tanner

Rhea is laying in the middle of the king size bed naked with only a sheet covering her ass and legs. She’s sound asleep after the intense hour of love making that started the second I pushed the hotel door open.

I take a bottle of water from the fridge that Knox had stocked for us and took a seat out on the balcony. The breeze coming from the ocean is cooling off the hot summer day. The sun set hours ago casting a midnight sky and the moon to reflect brightly on the ocean, it’s eerily quiet. The only sounds are coming from the waves crashing on the shore when normally hearing the ocean sounds plays along with all of the party-goers who consider this town Party Central. The solitude of being here with my girl completely sated in the room behind me affords me the luxury of just being happy, nothing else…no drama, nothing but me and her against the world.

Knox is probably leading a pregnant Savanna up to his room right now asking her to spend the rest of her life with him. Savanna is good for him, settled his wild days. Knox was like a firecracker just waiting to light. He didn’t do things the normal way like picking up a girl from her house, meeting her family then taking her for a nice dinner and maybe dancing. No, Knox did things daringly. He’d pick up a girl later than he should, he’d take her to a friend’s house and get her drunk, if he was lucky he’d get her to his bed and then drop her off in the middle of the night with a promise to call the next day knowing he never would. The girls love him though, draws a crowd where ever he goes. He’s burned a few bridges over the years making it harder on himself then necessary as well as making things awkward for all of us, well, sometimes to our benefit though, when they’d ask why he never called.

Chuckling, I take a sip of my water as I recall one such particular instance when his latest fuck buddy showed up.

“Knox,” Miranda says with venom dripping from her voice. “I thought you said you were goin’ to call?”

“Sweetheart,” Knox says. He calls all of his conquests sweetheart because he never remembers their names. “I went back home right after I dropped you off.”

Our friends, Cade and Jeremy, from Myrtle Beach were all sitting around the bonfire with us. We all started snickering, even Rhea; Miranda can’t be that dumb to think that Knox was actually going to call.

“

Come on over here, sugar.” Cade draws.

That jackass got more girls with those words then I’ve ever seen. Fucker has the moves and he lays it on them thick. And they flock around him like flies to horseshit. He turns that southern charm on at the drop of a hat and they literally melt like chocolate on a hot summer day right in front of his eyes. Some are born with that talent, with others it’s acquired and perfected. I think Cade had achieved “Master Level” over the years and was now teaching others the ways of the ladies.

Miranda turns towards Cade with a cocked eye brow. “Whatcha say?” she says chomping on her gum and twirling her hair.

He winks, “Let’s go take a walk.”

Miranda nodded and bit on her bottom lip. Cade stood up and handed Knox his beer.