Sheep's Clothing Gary Lewis (best books to read in your 20s txt) 📖

Vance went and David found himself once again alone with Janice. They turned to look at one another and she shook her head with a smile.

"Jan, sorry about all that,” he said, lowering his eyes. “I guess I should have-"

"You..." Janice said slowly. Her smile stretched further across her face. "You were... absolutely..." She stepped into David's space, hanging her wrists on his shoulders and leaning onto him until her face was close enough to taste her breath. "Amazing," she whispered. He could almost feel her lips against his as she spoke. David slid his hands around her lower back and pulled her in. He pressed his mouth into hers. His tongue twisted with hers in a singular motion that gripped him with desire as firmly as he squeezed her sides before caressing her waist.

His heart thumped in his chest as he took a breath before bringing his mouth to her neck. Every time he squeezed her smooth skin between his lips, her head tilted back further. He grasped her firmly while sliding his hands up and down her waist in a slow, circular rhythm that moved with its own momentum.

She started quietly gasping in his ear as he took slow steps, guiding her back against his car before pressing himself against her. His mouth worked its way higher, nibbling at her chin. Janice suddenly tilted her face to shove her opened mouth against his. One of her hands slid down to rub his chest and she started kissing back with ferocity while they both gasped one another's breath. Their tongues massaged harder into one another and David squeezed her firm, plump butt as he pulled at her tightly, pressing the hard pressure in his blue jeans against her. Moaning into her mouth, he rocked her slowly up and down the side of the car door.

As he tasted the soft skin of her face, he slipped his right hand beneath the tight shoulder strap of her red dress. He could feel her fingers pressing into his back. Her hands slid up and down in a long motion while he tried pushing his hand further down through her tight dress.

"Here," she whispered before reaching her hand across to the shoulder strap, only to freeze still.

"What is it?" David asked, noticing that her eyes, fixed behind him in a solid stare. The cold chill of impending danger wrapped the back of his neck and shoulders, preventing him from looking behind.

"Did you hear that?" Janice asked.

"All I could hear was my heart," he said.

Her glistening green eyes returned to his and a warm pressure urged him to continue. David eased his lips back into her neck. He moved his face further down as he pressed his face between her breasts, still pressed together by her dress.

A loud rustle moved through the forest behind him and he jumped back to turn. Janice stood upright to fix her dress while David looked side to side through the woods. Another sudden swish came from the sea of bushes and foliage just to the right, about thirty feet away.

"That's close," she said before jogging around the front to the passenger side. David hopped into the driver seat where they sat together in the car, watching for movement.

"Let's just go," Janice said as she leaned forward with her hands laid across the dashboard.

David started the car and began to back up. Just as he got the car turned around, the bushes opened up to something dark. He stopped the car, heart still thumping in his head.

"Hurry," Janice said with more urgency in her voice.

"Hang on," David said, still waiting. His sight examined every hanging leaf for the slightest movement. "I have to see."

A long snout poked out from the bushes. It hung low before venturing further from behind its cover onto the gravel. A black bear emerged from the forest and her two cubs stumbled out just behind.

David blew out a sigh of relief, a breath he'd held for over a minute while Janice covered her face to laugh.

"That was… interesting," she said, still giggling. Her eyes squinted above blushed red cheeks, pressed up by the smile she still concealed behind her fingers.

"Oh. And you weren't scared, huh?" David said with a smile

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Laughter and jokes filled the breeze that rushed through their hair from rolled down windows during their drive back to town. David was sure to take the other route back, avoiding Vance's neighborhood altogether as they decided on going back to Janice's home. But as they got close to her house, Janice became quiet.

"Want to talk about Peetie?" he asked as they pulled onto her road.

The passing houses and trees slowed with his car and Janice looked out the window as he approached her driveway.

David began to think that maybe he shouldn't have brought it up. "Look, we'll get that thing, whatever it is and then I'll buy you a brand-new pup."

Janice sniffled and wiped her nose. "I don't care about all that." She turned her round eyes to stare back into his. "I just want things back to normal."

David slowly parked his car beside her mom's silver minivan and looked over at Janice's beautiful hair that spread across her shoulders.

"I had an..." Janice paused with brightening eyes and a tightly concealed smile. "...interesting time."

David laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. "Tell me about it." He relaxed into her long, warm stare, awaiting where the moment may take him next.

Janice finally leaned her face into his and their lips softly squeezed together for a brief kiss and she leaned back over to her side.

"So..." David said.

Janice, still tightening her lips into a hidden smile, raised her eyebrows and looked back at him.

"Mind if I come in?" David asked.

Janice's smile stretched, becoming more apparent. "No..." She began loudly, getting quieter with each word as she raised her finger at him. "No… funny business, mister." She laughed with a roll of her eyes while opening her door to step out.

As David got out of the car, he wondered if she regretted