You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Harper

 I'm exhausted.

Mom and Dad have finally gone to bed, but I wouldn't put it past them to do room checks like they used to at summer camp.

I'm still downstairs with Easton bingeing some murderous documentary about a crime of passion, and some creepy stalker who always pretended to be her work friend but secretly cut pieces of her hair and slept with them in his pillow.

Ryan and Sadie are upstairs doing who knows what in the kitchen.

The creepy man on the screen continues his stalking.

Gross.

I shudder.

"Are you cold?"

Easton asks, pulling me close.

I frown.

"Is it just me or are you way too into the part where he almost gets away with it.” He shakes his head like he's disappointed in the mass murderer.

"I mean, he's an idiot, he could have made it, but noooo, he has to go back for one of those creepy pieces of hair like he didn't just kill her for rejecting him."

I scrunch up my nose.

"Weird that the husband ended up living."

"Poor guy probably wishes he were dead, imagine someone standing over you while you sleep with a butcher knife."

"Yay, what a great Christmas, so merry and bright,"

I tease and give him a hard shove.

“I'm going to have nightmares tonight about knives.” He laughs.

I turn to him and grip him by the shirt.

"I will end you if you sneak into my room, hover over me with a knife and scare the shit out of me.

I'll take that same knife and chop off both balls.” "Wouldn't that make me a eunuch?"

"Yes,"

I seethe.

"With the giant dick but a severe lack of testosterone and desire to have sex."

"Should I be scared that you just gave me an exact definition?"

He smiles.

"Chill, I won't scare you, I actually like my testicles and um..."

and whispers in my ear,

"Do not."

sniff and look

hard the other day I was afraid you were going to

His smile is devastating.

wild animal in bed, not that

up

"In fact..."

so hard it almost makes my chest

lips meet in

These kisses?

of this, that one day we really will make it

our legs tangle with each other and the

and I want this to

he says between kisses.

knife, I can't stop thinking about your dad

groans and kisses me

messing with

messing with your erection, that's new,’ I tease,

shorts quickly unbuttoning his

my future, I was too afraid to hope for it as he

for how big his dick was, but now my body instantly

control my own body as

stairway like he's afraid

I was going to go but fuck,

baby, you have

there is to

the pressure shift just enough

don't know what

It's

know is Mom can never find out that the couch has joined the soon to be long list of

almost embarrassed as Easton pulls

mess, like a way bigger mess than we've ever

"I got it."

the downstairs wet bar with an

he

"Gonna have to not do that...the only reason

tugs my shorts

shotguns that he probably doesn't

"Perfect."

tossing them in the trash in the corner, taking one look

your prophetic story actually come true.”

drops the towel and

pulls me into

feel

hot against

with the reflection of the

I'm here, by your side, no