THE SPAWNS

A Threesome With an Asian

Chapter XXIII—Cole

© DarknessAndLight

“What are you guys doing?” I asked the second I walked into Maika’s room. For a good five minutes, I had been staring at myself in the mirror, contemplating bashing my head against it because of how stupid I’d been. I had majorly screwed things up with Lilibeth and now, I truly had no idea how to fix them, I was at a point where I didn’t even know if it was worth fixing them, and yet, I was planning on going on a road trip with her? Something was obviously wrong with me.

And sometimes was obviously wrong with my two bet friends, lying on Mai’s been, all cozy.

Jayden instantly shut up, sitting down on the bed. “She’s the one who cuddled me! I had nothing to do with it.”

Mai lifted her legs high enough to press her knee against his chest and threw him back on the bed. “You’re a shitty blanket Jay,” she mumbled, trying to settle against him, but it was a lost cause. I had spooked the wild animal.

“I thought Maika was supposed to pack up?” I pointed out, while Jay sat down and Maika just rolled around, making annoyed sounds.

Finally, Maika sighed. “Oh, no I’m fine, I’m planning on only wearing Jay’s clothes. I want to look like I’m constantly doing the walk of shame.”

“We’re not having sex!” Jayden automatically answered.

If only he knew just how easily that predicament could be changed.

Mai slapped his arm, while I leaned against the door, trying not to laugh at them. “AH! But people don’t know that. And any random stranger that sees us three walking about assumes at least two of use are dating. Or like, I’m dating one of you and the other is pinning for me. Or you’re both dating and I’m pinning for you, or hoping you’ll include me in a three way,” she ranted.

I had to give it to them. Sure, yesterday I had been really down. The whole Beth episode hadn’t been pleasant. Actually, that was an understatement. I'd felt completely empty yesterday, the kind of empty that probably drove people to alcohol, or drug or edges of cliffs. Yet, these two always managed to make things better. They made me laugh without even realizing it. They made me see that even if I could never have Beth, I would always have them.

“So, we’re ready to go then?” I asked. Part of me was a little impatient to see Beth again. The other, a much stronger part of me thought I was an utter fool.

Jayden got out of her bed and I opened the door, ready to leave. “Wait,” Mai stopped us. “Okay, I lied. I do want to bring some stuff. Like thongs.” She skipped to her underwear drawer. “Tell me sweet Jayden, which do you prefer, the red thong or the black thong?” she asked him, shaking her underwear at him. I covered my face with my palms, trying not to laugh out loud.

Jay rolled his eyes. “I prefer no thong.”

Mai grinned wickedly. “So, you want me to go commando?”

“That’s not what I said!” he squeaked.

“But that’s totally what I heard,” she pressed.

“Me too,” I nodded.

“STOP GANGING UP ON ME!” Jay whined loudly and stomped out of the room.

I couldn’t help it, the second he was out of hear shot, I burst out laughing. I look at my incredible double jointed Asian best friend, shaking my head in disbelief. I had to give it to her, she was persistent. “You’re awful.”

She shrugged, that wicked grin still on her face. “Hey, I said I was ready to wait but that doesn’t mean I won’t give him a little push.”

I found myself wishing I could be more like her. How long had Maika pined for Jayden? I had no clue, but part of me thought she probably had loved him for as long as I had loved Beth. And here she was, ignoring her own feelings—inappropriate behaviours aside, either way that was just how she was in general, she didn’t act this way only around Jay. And yet, she was still happy. She was smiling, she was making fun of Jay.

She was patient.

I could learn from her.

“Ready?” I asked.

“YEP!” she happily answered, kissing my cheek quickly and darted out of her room, backpack swung over her shoulder.

Smiling I followed her out of the house.

            The next stop was my own house.

I was happy to see that my father’s car wasn’t parked anywhere. That meant I wouldn’t be walking on anything my poor eyes couldn’t take—at least I hoped. My Mum could conjure pretty disturbing things without my Dad after all.

After Jay parked the Jeep in front of the old building that I called home, I told my friends, “you guys don’t need to come in, I can just run in, run out.”

I was sure Maika could use time trapped alone in a car with Jayden wisely.

“And leave you alone to face your crazy parents, please, that’s what we’re here for,” Jayden said, stepping out of the car, while Maika made grimaces at him from behind.

I chuckled and added, “It’ll probably only be my hippie mother.”

“Even better!” Mai squealed, following us towards the building.

“I don’t understand your love for my mother,” I said, shaking my head.

“Hey, she’s my god mother!”

“You take too much from her, it’s almost creepy,” I shuddered saying that. Some things Maika said made her sound exactly like my Mum. It was very disturbing sometimes.

MaiMai grinned at me. “Wouldn’t it be awesome if I was you mother’s love child with an Asian?”

I closed my eyes, and stopped walking, shuddering again. “I don’t even want to think about it.”

She clapped while Jayden laughed. “Or maybe not love child, maybe your parents wanted to do a threesome with an Asian guy and he got your mom pregnant and your dad decided that they’d give me up because I obviously wasn’t his. And then my dads just offered to take me up.”

“No, just no.”

“Until this is proven false, I think we need to take this hypothesis under consideration,” Jayden pointed out.

At this point, we were inside the building, up the stairs and had pretty much reached our apartment, so the second I stepped through the door, I yelled, “MUM! IS MAIKA YOUR LOVE CHILD?”

My Mum came out of the kitchen, frowning. “What?”

“Is Maika your love child? Or the result of a threesome between you, dad and an Asian guy.”

She frowned a little, pursing her lips. “No, your father and I only ever had sex with Asian girls. So, she could be Josh’s love child, but not mine.”

I threw my hands in the air. Too. Much. Info. Ew. My best friends just laughed hysterically beside me. “Oh my Buddha, you’re definitely not helping me.”

“What? Can’t a girl like an Asian girl?” my Mum asked.

“A girl can like an Asian girl, but my mother can’t stay stuff like that,” I shook my head, trying not to think about anything she had just said. Just. No. No. Ew. No.

“You have a very restrictive vision of what a mother should be. It’s not because you wrecked my vagina that I can’t have a libido anymore.”

At that point, Jayden and Maika had pretty much stepped away from my Mum’s line of sight and I could see them laughing hysterically, though silently, behind her.

I groaned. “I seriously wish I was adopted sometimes…”

Mum rolled her eyes. “So, are you here just to remind me of your scarred childhood or there’s a purpose to all of this?”

Yeah, changing subject that was good. We should definitely to that. “Jay, Mai and I want to leave on a road trip, with Beth too. So, is that alright with you?”

“When exactly did you want to leave? And for how long?”

The answer took my off guard. I had assumed she’d say yes, add some kind of pervy comment and leave it at that. “Seriously?”

“What?”

“Both of Mai’s fathers said yes, with like, no questions asked,” I informed her. In what kind of world was my mother more protective than Maika’s fathers, the men that had duct taped pillows all around her body the first time she had roller-skated?

“Hey, I’m your mother, I can do whatever I want,” she answered.

I snorted at that one. “Obviously.”

She ignored it though. “Your dad and I just wanted to have dinner with you tonight so we could talk about a few things.”

Dinner with my parents? The last time they had sat me down for dinner, like a plan dinner, where we were supposed to talk, it was to tell me that I’d be staying at Jay’s all week long because it was bondage week.

I still had nightmares about that. “It’s okay Mum, I don’t need a shrink to deal with all the disturbing images you’ve forced into my young gullible mind. I’ve learned to look pass them.”

“I’m serious Coleridge.”

“So am I.”

She sighed, obviously giving up. “Fine, we can talk about it when you come back.”

“So, you’re okay with us leaving for a road trip?”

“If mother-hen-Alex said yes, I’d be crazy to say no.” I was about to thank her but then she added, “You can leave, but you have to bring Dakota with you.”

I froze. But then I regain motor control and all but shouted, “What the hell Mum? No.”

“Either you go with Dakota or you don’t go at all.”

What the… seriously? This was seriously not my week so far. First I mess things up with Beth and now my mother is forcing me to spent time with my insufferable cousin?

No, just no. “And why exactly have you suddenly decided to play the strict mother card?” I asked, mad.

“There’s a first for everything.”

“We’re not bringing her.” I said, leaving no room for discussion. “We’re going to pick up Beth afterwards and you can’t road trip with five people.”

But to my Mum, this was still up for debate. “Of course you can, there’s usually five seats in a car.”

“Yeah, if we were pre-adolescents.” Five in a car for a road trip? The three sitting on the back would kill each other. The one sitting in the middle would share sweaty intimacy with the people sitting beside, thighs and arms pressed against each other. Okay, maybe Maika could take advantage of that if she was pressed against Jay, but there’d always be a third awkward person in that equation.

“You’re bringing your cousin and that’s the end of it,” my mother announced.

“I can’t believe this,” I groaned. What had I done to have a mother like this? When I needed her to be motherly, she was inappropriate and when I needed to be her liberal accepting self, she had to be a pain in my butt? Life was unfair. “Guys, help me out here? We don’t want a redhead in the car, do we?”

“I wouldn’t mind?” Jayden offered, but it sounded more like he was asking.

“Stop thinking with your pickle.” I said, narrowing my eyes at him while he just grinned. “Mai?”

“Five in the car wouldn’t exactly be practical,” she automatically stated. I could always trust her to be on my side for that argument.

“Nonsense! The more the merrier,” Mum exclaimed happily.

“You just want her out of the house because you want to have sex with dad on every surface of the apartment,” I stated, glaring at her.

And with that, Mum just waved and walked back to the kitchen. “Have fun kids!”

I stared after her in disbelief. “I hate my parents.”

“I don’t exactly like your mother at the moment either,” Maika agreed.

Jayden just smiled goofily. I could already see him picturing my delinquent cousin naked. “You guys should stop complaining.”

“Hey, do you know what red head and extinct dinosaurs have in common?” Maika asked him.

“What?”

“No enough!”

“That’s a crappy joke.”

We all turned to see Dakota sitting in the stairs, grinning at us like a villain in a cartoon that knew something we didn’t. I didn’t know how long she had been there, but I just knew my annoyance with her kicked up a notch—if that was even possible.

That girl was going after my best friend, in turn hurting my other best friend. And she had upset the girl I loved. Her chances of me ever liking her were as low as the chances of my parents ever practicing abstinence.

“Hey, speaking of the devil.” I grinned at her too, fakely, of course. “Have you collected any more children souls lately?”

“AUNT DAPHNEE?” the red head yelled.

“Yes?” my mother answered back.

“If I don’t go on the road trip with them, does that mean Cole can’t go?”

My eyes bulged at this. What was she doing?

“Yes, that’s what it means.”

“Thank you aunt Daphnee.”

That conniving little…

So, basically, if she didn’t come with us, I wouldn’t be able to go? If there was a god out there, he must really hate me. “You’re evil, pure evil.”

“What gave it away? The red hair?” She grinned at us. “I’ll be ready in five minutes.”

“She’s wonderful,” Jayden said after her, staring at her ass as she walked away.

Maika slapped the back of his head and said, “She’ll be cattle fodder by the end of this trip.”

“The end of the trip?” I snorted again. “I’ll be impressed if she makes it to the car.”

            After that, I sprinted up to my room and grabbed the backpack I had ready for this kind of occasion. No point in glaring at my cousin. She was going with us and that was obviously the end of it.

            We could always throw her out of the car when Jay would be asleep. Accidents happened so often.

            A couple minutes later, I was downstairs again and waiting for the devil to join us. When she finally got out of her room, she walked up to us, her satisfied grin never leaving her face. “Ready?” she asked.

            “Kill me,” both Maika and I mumbled at the same time in reply.

            Unfortunately for us, the redhead made it to the car. She actually had the nerve to sit in front beside Jayden.

I could almost see the steam coming out of Maika’s ears. Her dislike for Dakota had been obvious since the beginning but she always kept her cool, because that was how Maika was. She never lost her temper. Yet, I could see how she had planned to use this road trip to help Jay reconsider his feelings about her.

The redhead was ruining all her plans.

And she would probably ruin mine. Beth didn’t like Dakota either. Maybe she wouldn’t even want to come with us then, when she’d realize we’d be five, Dakota would be there, and she wasn’t ready to spend any length of time, trapped with me in a car.

Our lives were such messes sometimes.

Dakota automatically went to sit in Jay’s car, the one we’d be using for the road trip when we got to Jay’s house and Maika stayed with her too—since the redhead was a grand theft auto convict and all. No one should trust her with their cars.

“I’m hoooome!” Jayden yelled when her walked into the house.

“Hi Jay,” his father answered, coming out of the kitchen. It smelled like something was burning, so he was probably trying to cook something and failing miserable—as always.

“Soooo, I was wondering… would it be okay if we left for a road trip? We could totally use my car, it’s in good shape and we shouldn’t have any problem with it.” Jayden immediately asked.

“As long as you’re careful and keep us updated, sure.”

AH! Why couldn’t my mother have been like this?

“Thanks!” Jay grinned at him.

“You’re welcome,” his father smiled back and it was kind of eerie, how alike they suddenly looked.

“Where’s Belly so she can come with us too?” Jay asked.

“Huh… Jay…” his father trailed.

I don’t known why, but I suddenly looked around and saw her shoes missing by the entry. She didn’t have dance classes right now. And if she was in her tree, she’s be barefoot.

So, where was she?

“What?”

“Lily left a little earlier. Your mother dropped her off at the bus station, that’s why she isn’t here now.” Blake explained to us.

“Left? Where?” Jayden pressed looking as confused as I was.

“She went to stay at your cousin, Nikki.”

            The news was like a bucket of ice water in the face. But like, frozen water, like the chunk of ice hauled in your face, knocking you to the ground. It was silly because it wasn’t like she had died or anything. But she was gone. She wouldn’t come with us and she hadn’t even waited to tell us. She hadn’t told me. She’d just up and left, not even telling her brother.

            I could feel my heart achingly beating in my chest. Sure, I had sort of dismissed any romantic possibilities with Beth, for now at least, and sure she had said she never wanted to see me again, but I hadn’t imagined I actually wouldn’t see her. I had assumed she’d still be a constant in my life, the way she had always been. Whether she liked it or not, Lilibeth Eaton was an anchor in my life, as much as her brother and Maika were.

Yet, I drove her away. That was all I could think about. By forcing her to admit her feelings, by pushing her, I made her leave. It didn’t matter that I genuinely loved her and that she probably did too. It didn’t matter that she had kissed me—I shouldn’t have tried to force her to admit things she wasn’t ready to admit.

Beth was gone.

And it was all my fault.

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A/N:

Hey guys! So. I just wanted to apologize for uploading this later than I had planned. Usually anything Eaton related is uploaded on Sunday. But Mommy Kay's been pretty busy. Mommy Kay works too much and she's tired. -_-

Anyway, hopefully I'll be forgiven with this upload! ;P

While I'm here, I might as well shamelessly advertise a new story of mine. It's called 'In Between Dallas and Austin' I'm personally slightly in love with Austin, so I hope you guys can check it out and love him as much as I love him. I'll leave you with an excerpt from a fuuuture chapter of IBDaA, so you can get a sense of Dallas, the narrator and also of Austin.

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He throws himself dramatically over the sheet of paper. “ Don’t loooooook,” he drawls. It’s a funny sight, him sprawled over his desk, his hands holding on to both corners in front of the desk, his cheek pressed against the poem.

“If you look, you’ll ruin it,” he whines.

I narrow my eyes at him. “I’m offended.”

“You should. You’re a jinx magnet.” I glare at him this time. “Don’t take it personally, as Lady Gaga said, you were born this way.”

“You’re an idjit.”

Austin chuckles. “Yeah Bobby, I’m an idjit.”

And then for no reason, I want to kiss his neck, the spot that’s exposed because of the way his head is laying on the side of his desk. His skin looks soft there (okay all of his skin looks soft) and I have this obscene desire to smell him too, but not from just standing beside him, but up close, the only way I could if I was kissing his neck. And it’s crazy because I really shouldn’t want to kiss him or smell him. He’s my friend and friends don’t pick each other’s noses and they don’t smell each other, or kiss each other on the neck, I certainly never had the urge to kiss or smell Kurtis’ neck.