Hey 😁, glad to see you back here! Just a quick note to tell you to be attentive to the dates at the beginning of the chapters because there will be flashbacks, and yes, this is the first one. 😘

*ASHER'S POV*

October 10, 2016

Your future.

I stared blankly at the letters on the blackboard and the question marks the teacher had drawn all around before going to his laptop. An effort for what? Oh yes, represent all the questions we had to ask ourselves in this last year of high school.

What were our favorite subjects? Hobbies? Our strong points? What fields could we be interested in? Curious about? And many more that were written on the sheet of paper I was tempted to crinkle and shoot to the trash can near the teacher's desk.

Even from the far back, I could have easily scored a three-point, and that would have brought some action in the half-asleep classroom.

No, to be real, more than half were dozing off, including the old teacher, while a few were chatting or playing tic-tac-toe. That was what happened when phones weren't allowed in the school building, and between that and the guidance lessons every Monday morning for the next semester, they really wanted to torture us and waste our time.

All the things I could have been doing right now...

I let my gaze trail to the window on my left with another heavy sigh as I spotted instantly the white basketball hoop in through the green and concrete of the schoolyard.

That, that was my future, and I didn't need those stupid questions to know it.

I would get into UCLA with an athletic scholarship and get into the NBA as soon as I would be 19, to then, become one of the best players of all time.

I had everything planned.

I could even tell I would get a blowjob by the end of the day, maybe even before lunch break, seeing how Christina was puckering her lips together right in front of me, drawing my attention inside again.

"Ashy, I need your help." Her manicured fingers landed on my bicep, clasping it through the distance that separated my table from her seat as if I were her lifeline. "Which one?"

Averting my gaze away from her low-cut neckline—which she flaunted right in my line of vision—I blinked at the two lipstick tubes in her hand like an enigma, as both were the same: pink, garish, and they would end up smeared.

Actually, the real enigma was why the fuck was she asking me?

It was the reason I usually didn't fuck the same girl twice. Never fetch in the same bowl twice.

But Lotus Bay wasn't that big, and Christina was good with her mouth, at least, when I didn't hear that screechy cheerleader voice.

"Ashy baby, are you listening?"

Fuck, I really needed some new meat, new faces, new—

"Hi, I'm sorry. I'm late. Is it the senior guidance class?"

The door opened so perfectly on time I had to pinch myself as my eyes shifted to the other end of the room and I let out a 'peachy...' under my breath.

Though if I'd been dreaming, I wouldn't have still heard Christina's voice.

"What? No, it's sensual bubblegum or French fuchsia."

No, it was peachy, a mix of soft orange with just a hint of pale pink on plump lips the mysterious girl was rolling together. As she walked nervously towards the teacher's desk, I could even see that it wasn't the only part of her body that was juicy, yummy, and peachy.

A dizzying hourglass figure, long legs, and a round booty to fit perfectly my big hands, she had it all, and she didn't even need to show off. Her denim overalls and khaki tee shirt gave only a subtle glimpse, and the few inches of dark skin peeking here and there already whetted my appetite.

My mouth was stretching into a wolfish grin when I came back to her lips and found them still pursed together, but her eyes looking straight at me. Deep doe eyes behind a pair of large glasses.

The images crossing my mind, mamma mia... If she could have seen them...

In fact, with the intensity of her gaze, I was sure she could pierce through them and beyond.

Even if just for a second, the world stopped around us, and when she quickly looked away, and everything rushed back to normal, it felt like it was spinning differently.

"Everyone, we have a new student: Althea Vesper from Detroit, so please be nice and give her a warm welcome!"

Oh, I would gladly give her a warm welcome, and like a nice classmate, as soon as she was seated, I crossed the room and slid onto the seat beside her, which was conveniently empty. Not that it would have stopped me, otherwise.

"Hey, welcome to Lotus Bay." I started with my smoothest smile as she snapped her head from her bag to glance up at me like a doe caught in headlights.

Once again, the images it arose in my mind and body... even if, once again, she averted her gaze away, not acknowledging me with more than a quiet 'thanks' as she straightened and turned towards the board.

Playing hard to get, alright.

She would soon learn that I never lost.

I was already gaining her attention as I leaned closer, resting my elbow on the edge of my table, and if her gaze was 'focused' on the sheet of questions, her body was showing another story. Those delicious peachy lips were still pressing together, and her fingers missed a flip of the pen she was spinning, sending it flying in a perfect throw, which I caught instantly.

Now, it was my shot, as her gaze followed the pen and the hand I held out with it.

"I'm Asher, and I know this place like the back of my hand. So I can show you around."

"Thanks, that's really nice of you. But they already assigned me a class representative for it. Troy, I think."

The lucky bastard.

Though I wouldn't let her slip through my fingers, literally, when her hand wrapped around the other end of the pen, and as she pulled, I tugged, bringing her closer.

"I can show you much more than him, give you a tour of what's really interesting."

"Let me guess... It includes a full tour of you?" She inched closer, hints of her perfume reaching my nose, sweet, fruity, peachy... while her eyes finally settled on mine from above her glasses, and fuck, with nothing but a few inches between us, I could really take in their intensity.

It was the darkest brown I'd ever seen, almost black, but at the same time, it was as dazzling as if her irises held all the colors of the rainbow. Maybe because of that mischievous sparkle that lit up in them.

Just like with her outfit, she was hiding a lot behind those doe eyes.

"That's the main attraction, baby." I winked as she took a peek down my body, none of us moving.

Still, without even touching each other, the sparks were flying everywhere, the length of the pen becoming a conductor between our energies, and I could feel the micro-inches her fingers were edging slowly until...

"Thanks, but I'll pass. I'd rather leave the ride to your girlfriend." She jerked the pen again, snatching it out of my grasp and turning back to her paper. All of that so softly. With the same smile.

That was the smoothest whiplash ever, as she'd just knocked my breath out, but like a strong wave coming out of nowhere, I could only choke, while she continued with her flow, scribbling on her paper.

Children's fashion designer, if possible in the famous firm Kiddom.

She'd already written with no waver when the bell finally pulled my head above water, and I processed her last words.

'Leave the ride to your girlfriend.' Glancing to where she'd nodded and finding Christina's glare piercing through the other students rushing out of the classroom, it didn't take me long to understand.

But Althea was faster.

"She's not—" When I turned back, her seat was already empty, and I just had time to catch a glimpse of her peachy lips stretched in an impish smile before she disappeared out of the door.

That was when I knew I had to have her.

What I didn't realize, though, was that it would be so hard to let her go.

That last line... 😭😭

What do you think of their first meeting? Young Asher was even wilder lol, but Althea isn't easily impressed 😉.

I hope you liked this first flashback, and you're not too mad at me for making you wait on the cliffhanger 🙈? Trust me, we all needed this lightness before the next chapter, which is by the way coming next Tuesday!

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