The Other Earth Read Free

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    I walked over and gave him a hug, rolling my eyes at the line he had been giving me since we were about ten. "What the hell is going on? Why is everyone here?" I asked him.
    "We are all celebrating the space bot. It is back in orbit and should be landing sometime tomorrow" he said, leaning in and whispering into my right ear. I pulled back quickly, happy that he hadn't whispered that way into my left ear, or I might have had to change my panties.
    "Why didn't anyone invite me?" I yelled at him, lightly punching him in the shoulder, wh ich I was not surprised to feel was rock hard.
    He shrugged his shoulders, "I thought they did, isn't that why you're here?" he asked.
    I shook my head and turned as Stacey poked me in the ribs, "Hey I'm going to go get a drink, do you want anything?" she asked me.
    "Okay, no way. What kind of man would I be to let you girls go up there and get your own drinks? I'm so stupid! Please let me buy you both a drink, what would you like?" he asked Stacey.
    Stacey smiled and twirled her hair through her fingers, "I would love a hurricane" she said.
    Brandon looked back over to me, "Vodka on the rocks?" he asked me. I smiled and nodded my head, happy that he had remembered.
    I watched as he walked away and admired how tight his jeans were on his sculpted ass. I rarely saw him in jeans, as he wore dress pants to work every day, but always loved the way he looked walking away in jeans.
    "He's really got a nice ass doesn't he?" Stacey said loudly over the music to me. I looked over at her and saw that she was also watching him walk away. I knew then that she had already set her sights on him. She had that look in her eyes that I had seen way to many times in our friendship.
    "So tell me again, why have you never banged him? You've known him since you guys were kids and you have never wanted to fuck him?" Stacey asked me.
    I rolled my eyes, "I told you we are just friends. Besides, look at him and then look at me, I am nothing if not in his league."
    "Please you are so full of shit. Is it okay if I bang him?" she asked me without even the hint of a smile on her face. I knew she had an idea that I had a crush on him and she was honestly worried if it would hurt me if she slept with him.
    Every inch on my mind and body was screaming to tell her no, she could never sleep with him. But, I knew that I had no right to tell her not to sleep with someone who had never even shown an ounce of interest in me. I looked back over to him and saw that he was standing at the bar and looking back at us with a smile. Well, he was more than likely looking only at Stacey anyway.
    "I told you, we are just friends, and you are both free to bang whoever the hell you want, you don't need my permission." I told her, trying to keep my face blank and without any emotion.
     
    ***
    Hours later, I unlocked the front door of my apartment slowly, trying to see the lock through the alcohol haze I was looking through. I knew I shouldn't have drunk so many drinks, but it seemed like they just kept materializing in front of me. Every time I finished one another full one would take its place without my ever having to ask for it.
    "Yay she got it!" I heard Brandon yell behind me, holding himself up by the wall.
    I rolled my eyes, "Shut up, I am not that Brandon drunk" I said.
    Brandon and Stacey both started to laugh and I realized what I had said and started to laugh too, "Okay, maybe I am just a little bit drunk, but leave me alone you are just as drunk" I told him, trying to punch him in the stomach but missing and hitting his leg, almost punching his package instead.
    "I am so glad you missed that, I would have been out for the count tonight" he said, gasping with laughter.
    Stacey pulled on Brandon's arm, "Come on, let's go to bed Brandon, I am ready to get this dress off" she told him.
    I felt my heart start to race as I wanted to slap her away and pull him into my own bedroom. "Okay then, I am going to bed, good night you