Neutral Green Ch. 02

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The smell of rain was heavy in the air, the ground was cold and damp leaving a pattern of mud stains on my clothes.

"Where am I?" I thought to myself.

I pressed my hand into the ground feeling it sink into the soft earth as I tried to stand up. The higher I rose the more humid the air got were you could practically fill the moisture in the air. My nose brushed into something wet, tickling it, the sharp herbal smell of leaves filled my nostrils. Everything was pitch black, not a trace of light from anywhere. I spun my head around quickly trying to figure out my surroundings when a shade of dark blue entered my vision. I gaze upwards, looking at the sky, hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of glowing specks littered the night sky. A sense of comfort relaxed me even though I'm in an unknown place.

"Is this a jungle?" I thought.

Noises echoed from all around me, from distant hoots and hollers to the chits and chatter that vibrated through the air. I could also hear the distinct vocal sounds of frogs nearby. I reached out forward with my hand and make contact with a thick tree trunk, the bark was hard and wet but easily broke off.

"It must've recently rained." I say to myself.

One foot in front of the other I walk to who knows where, my head brushes a group of leaves which shake and release droplets of water on top of me soaking my shoulders and hair. After a few feet of blind wandering the ground drops about a couple of inches and my foot sinks into a puddle of water.

"Fuck," I whisper and hop out of it on one foot. A glimmer of light shines closely to my face startling me and fades back into darkness, I look up and notice various shines of the small lights flickering on then off only to reappear a few feet away again. They were lazily moving through the air with colors ranging from bright yellow to lime green, all blinking slowly.

"Fireflies." I thought watching the small light show.

My attention looks behind the lights in the background, a twin pair of lights glow the most vibrant green I've ever seen, they were moving in perfect sync blinking slowly from a distant. They were winking on and off and stayed a lot longer than all the others, they almost looked like. Eyes?

They seemed to stare directly at me, I swayed side to side only to determine that I was right. Their focus traveled with my movements staying on me watching me from a distance. The tension rose in the air and anxiety start to bubble in the pit of my stomach, I took a step back directly into the same puddle. A low rumble drifted across the distance from the green iridescent gaze glowing against the inky blackness.

The green orbs shift closer, closing the distance between me and it. I take another step backwards and the eyes leap after me and I turn and run.

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I woke with a start the smell of something burning in the air along with the fire alarms in the house going off one by one in every room and hallway, the persistent screeching made me lumber out of bed when a sharp pain pinched by balls with every slight movement. I was still hard from last night or was it morning wood? The dull ache every time my dick throbbed told me it was last night keeping me pent up. I slowly stood and limped way out into the hallway and downstairs to the kitchen fixing myself on way there. Mom had the sliding glass door that lead to the backyard open and was fanning the smell of burnt toast out the door with a magazine and her apron.

"Oh, Mason I'm glad you're up can you open up a front door and some windows please?" she asked

"Yeah sure thing." I yawned, I traveled back to the living room when my instincts told me to look up and I saw Avery leaning on the banister looking over into the living room at me. I quickly disengaged my eyes from hers and hurried to the front room and unlocked and opened up the front door. I turned around and reluctantly walked back towards the kitchen dreading and hoping to be back in the same room with my sister. Hoping for what, I don't know.

Avery was sitting at one of the barstools to the island counter and mom was still fanning the smoke out of the house. The fire alarms stopped there shouting and house was in eerie silence.

"Whew I'm glad that's over with, we probably woke the entire neighborhood." my mom breathed her face flustered with the energy she just spent. "I have to get to the office a little early today," she said, "I tried to make breakfast for you guys but as you can tell my plan didn't turn out as well as I hoped."

She patted me on the arm and gave Avery a kiss on the temple as she walked out of the kitchen to get ready for work. Yet again I felt the tension roll into the room like a thunder storm. I thought about just acting normal and tried to forget about last night.

"What do you want for breakfast?" I asked casually.

"Cereal." was her one word answer, a sense of relief trickled into me as I thought that she was serious about giving me time and space to think.

I replied with "ok" and stepped towards the pantry and reached for the Apple Jacks which have been her favorite since she was a little kid.

I heard her stand up from the stool and turned around to face her when suddenly she wrapped her arms around me from behind and whispered "good morning" into my back. I admit that my dick that was currently semi-erect jumped a little at the innocent phrase.

"Good morning Ave." I said saying the shortened version of her name when I wanted to lighten the mood.

She released me from her embrace and opened up a top cabinet and grabbed a bowl from it then reached down right below it into a drawer and grabbed a spoon. I couldn't help but notice her round little butt as it stuck out as she reached into the back of the cabinet to pull the bowl out. She was wearing green shorts that ended right before her butt started, my eyes roamed upward and saw a pale green tank top with a palm tree on the front and the words "cove" written underneath. My eyes traveled further up and her head was turned around gazing back at me with a hint of a smirk caressing her lips and a knowing sparkle shining in her twin emerald pools.

I swallowed, my throat thick and turned back around setting the box on the counter top as she set her bowl and spoon down with a slight clink and opened the refrigerator to get the milk. I reached into the freezer portion of the fridge in search for my breakfast. I silently cheered in my head as there was a box of breakfast burritos with three different kind, I grabbed the ham and cheese and threw it on a plate into the microwave.

The microwave beeped and I removed the plate and placed it on the counter, I sat on the stool opposite from Avery and removed the breakfast burrito from the cardboard pouch.

I looked up to stare at Avery because the tingling sensation on my forehead told me she was already gazing at me, my dick jumped a little when my eyes connected with hers, I silently chastised myself and opened my mouth to speak.

"What are you doing today," I said clearing my throat.

She shrugged and seemed to blink. Slowly. Her long eyelashes falling.

The sound of high heels clicking entered the kitchen as mom was dressed in her business attire and was rushing around the kitchen in the black suit, she grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl next to the sink on the counter and kissed me and Avery goodbye on the head as she rushed out the house.

We finished breakfast in what I thought was stiff silence and cleaned up our mess in the kitchen, putting the dirty dishes in the dish washer and Avery put the cereal back into the pantry. I decided I needed to go into town to go shopping because I didn't bring along that many clothes with me. I was about to walk out of the kitchen when Avery turned and wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed her face into my chest.

My whole body stilled and blood started traveling south to my nether regions. I couldn't help but notice how her breast squished gently between our embrace and I could feel the indescribable softness of them indicating she wasn't wearing a bra this morning. My arms hung loosely at my sides because I feared we were going to have another intimate encounter this early.

She let out a sigh and I felt the heat of it warm me, "It's just a hug." She stated.

"Yeah, just a hug," I thought. I brought my arms up and then hesitated to wrap them around her waist but found the courage and sealed the deal on accepting her hug. She pressed further into me, happy that I returned it.

She pulled back just enough until her hands slid from neck to my cheeks cupping the sides of my face. We locked eyes and once again I was put in a trance.

"What are you going to be doing today?" She asked.

"Going to town." I said breathlessly.

"Do you mind if I join you?" She said stepping closer.

I was surprised I could hear her with the blood racing in my ears. "No, you can come if you like."

A ghostly smile curved at the edges of her lips and she released me leaving me in a daze and left the kitchen climbing the stairs. I shook my head clearing the steam from it and moved towards the stairs when a familiar ache settled in my balls as my dick throbbed.

"Oh boy." I mumbled and left the kitchen climbing the stairs with my pole guiding the way.

I entered my room and laid out a pair of dark jeans and an orange hoodie with a simple navy blue tee to wear underneath. I walked out into the hallway and opened up the closet that held most of the bathroom supplies such as soap, new bottles of shampoo and dry towels. I grabbed a tan towel with a beach embroidered on it, and walked into the bathroom turning on the shower.

The hot water cascaded down my back and I had to fight the tempting offer to stroke myself into ecstasy. I grabbed the soap and lathered my body top to bottom avoiding my prominent problem for the time being and started to wash of watching the soapy water off watching it swirl and collect over the drain.

I reached down and grabbed my already hard rod and slowly lathered it, knob to base. I stifled a moan as I repeated the motion against the sensitive skin. I then lowered by hand and cupped my sore balls and massaged them lightly to ease away the pain.

I cut off the shower and stepped out wrapping the towel around me, I moved over to the sink and opened the drawer and removed a new toothbrush and toothpaste. I looked up into the mirror. The same light blue eyes as my moms stared back at me, and the same dirty blonde hair which was getting a little shaggy sat on my head. I brushed my hand up my neck underneath my chin and felt the light scruff that formed there.

I brushed my teeth and rinsed my mouth and bared them at the mirror to check them, I opened the bathroom door and walked into the hall when I almost ran into Avery. She had the exact same beige towel as me carried over her shoulder, she paused and raked her eyes slowly down my exposed upper torso in a not so subtle way. She returned her eyes back to mine and there was a hint of amusement and hunger shinning in them, she brushed passed me and stepped into bathroom closing the door.

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and walked into my room. I grabbed some deodorant and applied it then dropped my towel putting on my clothes. I picked my phone up from my dresser and journeyed out into the hall, immediately my attention snapped to bathroom door which was cracked open just a little. I had to get pass to grab the keys for the car.

I started moving forward.

"Don't look, don't look, don't look." I repeated the Mantra over and over again in my head.

The closer I got to the bathroom door I could hear the sound of the shower splashing and the hot inside mixing with the cool hallway air causing steam to float between the crack in the door. I was about a foot away from the door and kept my eyes straight but focused intently on my peripheral vision as I passed the door. First, all there was, was the fogginess of the mirror and chrome sink. As I got closer the mirror reflected the toilet and the bathroom shelf, my dick stirred as the shower came into view but the shower curtains were closed, steam rising upward.

I released a pent up breath, "Thank god." I whispered to myself, I was hard in anticipation. "What was I expecting?" I thought to myself as shame heated my face.

I lightly jogged downstairs and made my way to mom's hallway which had the door to the garage. The smell of trash assaulted my nose as I opened the door and pulled my shirt up over it so I could breath. We had to keep our trash barrels inside because we got numerous notes from the neighborhood owners or committee saying "we had to keep them hidden from view." The garage was freezing and I bet that outside was much worse, I turned on the garage light and pressed the garage opener letting the garage rise and walked to the car. Mom must have taken the car which was black and left us with 2010 Kia Soul which was white, I wanted to use the rental car I had got as little as possible in case I had an accident and was obligated to pay for a new car. I got into the front seat and started the car to turn the heat on so I could warm it up. I closed the door and walked back into the house. I still could hear the faint sound of the shower running. I sat on the couch and turned the TV on waiting for Avery to get done in the shower.

About ten minutes have passed and a tingling feeling squirms in my neck, I brace myself and turn around on the couch to see Avery leaning on the upstairs banister looking down at me with her pink lips in a line and a knowing glint her eyes. I swallowed, even her neutral look aroused me.

She walked downstairs and my eyes traveled to the simple clothing she was wearing. She wore a black hoodie with black leggings that had a green strip running along her entire leg on both sides and grey running shoes.

I gestured to the direction of the garage door, "Are you ready to go?" I asked a feeling of awkwardness settling in when I realized we were going to be in the same car together, alone.

She simply nodded and made her way to the garage with me behind her. We got into the car which was now warm compared to the freezing outside, I put the car into reverse and drove out of the garage closing it with the garage opener. The grass was glistened white with frost and the windshield and windows were fogging up so I turned the defroster on. I turned the radio on but the volume was quiet enough were it seemed like background noise.

"Is there any new clothing stores around." I asked.

She shook her head no and switched on her seat warmers.

"I pulled out of our neighborhood and started driving towards downtown, on the way there I saw strip mall with a Kohl's clothing store in it advertised on the building. I switched into the turning lane and pulled into the parking lot. The store was pretty busy for it to be only 11:00 in my opinion.

Stepping out of the car, the cold wind whipped at me and disrespectfully ignored the fact that I had a hoodie on and went straight through it chilling me to the bone. I had forgotten how brutal the falls could be up North. Avery seemed completely unaware of the potential threat of hypothermia, the only indication that she was feeling the cold was the flush in her cheeks and the tinge of red around her ears other than that you couldn't probably tell.

On the way to front of the store Avery reached out and gripped my hand which caused my heart to leap into my throat, she intertwined her fingers with mine and I felt each little cold digit snug against mine. It felt like my heart was going explode right out of my chest. I tried to rationalize an excuse for her that her hands were cold and she wanted to hold mine which actually weren't that warmer than hers. We made it into the store, the doors sliding open and the warm air inside blasting us. I thought she would release my hand once we got inside but only readjusted her tiny finger to fit snuggly with mine. She didn't pull or direct me anyway so I guessed I would be leading this expedition.

I looked at the overhead signs and found the one that directed me to the Big&Tall Section. Avery held my hand until we got to the aisles which were too thin for people to walk side by side in and felt sweet relief flood me from the release of the innocent contact and also the feeling of disappointment when her hand left mine. This is exactly what I thought, the Big&Tall sections were usually small in stores if they even had them at all. I picked out some long sleeve shirts of the exact look and brand and chose different colors, yellow, red, and blue. A grabbed two sweatpants one gray and the other black along with two t-shirts dark blue and dark purple.

There was a tap on my shoulder and I turned to see Avery handing me a dark Green hoodie she found with the word "Predator" on it in white, I nodded my thanks and started making my way to the check out, Avery mumbled her need of the restroom and left my side. I got to the checkout which was in the shape of a circle with two cash registers on opposite sides. There was only one person working there which was a red head that kept her wavy hair in a ponytail and she wore a pink hoodie unzipped with a white polo underneath.

Her face lit up when I walked up to her counter with my pile of clothes. She was cute I admitted, she had a straight nose and her cheeks had a sprinkle of freckles and her eyes were dark green but without the sparkles and shine Avery's had to them, her lips were kind of thin and her smile was white with straight teeth, but put me on edge.

"Hi, welcome to Kohl's will this be all for you?" She said in a cheerful voice.

"Umm, yeah." I replied as she started scanning clothes tags ringing them up.

"I've never seen you around here before, and I know most of the people that come here." She said smiling, "What's your name?"

"My names Mason." I said with a smile of mine also, her smile was sort of infectious.

"Ooh, Mason. I've heard of that name but never met anyone with it, lucky me you were my first." She said giggling.

The double entendre wasn't lost on me, I wasn't sure if it was accidental or on purpose but it did pique my interest in the conversation.

"Yeah, it's not a very common name, at least were I've been." I replied looking towards her bust which she was trying to emphasize in a subtle way my pushing the sides of her hoodie behind them. She was probably a size C but for the numbers you lost me there.

"Oh where are you from?" she asked leaning in closer to me.

"I'm from here but lived in Texas for the last 4 years." I told her.

Her eyes wandered slowly over me, "You make me believe the phrase 'things are bigger in Texas' is true, you're huge." She said with a wink, "What brings you back to boring old Minton?"

"I'm visiting family and friends, the usual." I told her.

"I moved here for college from a place called Missoula, Montana, not that far away from here makes it easier to visit family." she told me.

She stood back up and looked at the cash register, "Your total is two hundred and eighty five dollars and fifty two cent." She smiled brightly at me.

"Wow" I thought, "more than I thought I was going to spend."

"Can I get you anything else?" Her voice was low as she tried being seductive.

I looked to my right and saw the little glass fridge with sodas inside and reached out to grab one and out of the corner of my eye I saw her right something on a slip of paper in orange pen and slipped it into the bag. I turned back the fridge when a hand cupped my cheek and pulled me towards twin emeralds eyes and the worlds softest lips fused with my on in a fiery kiss, it was hard and fierce and caused my brain to malfunction and sent my senses reeling. A tongue swirled around mine before the kiss was broken, if you could call it a kiss I was practically rendered useless when my lips were released. I opened my eyes and was completely stunned, Avery eyes were cloudy with lust and her cheeks were red as she looked at me. She reached into the fridge and grabbed a cherry Pepsi from it and sat it roughly on the counter as she stared daggers at the girl behind it who mouth and eyes were wide open. Avery removed my wallet from my pants and paid what was on the little screen that told us the price. The red head printed off the receipt and stuffed it into the bag and gave it to Avery who handed it off to me and snatched my hand up and a tight grip grabbing the Pepsi and striding out the store with purpose tugging me along while I limped from the hard-on that was brushing against my pants the wrong way from the kiss she gave me.