The Undergrad Years: Always And Forever Vive Part 8

Pepperdine University was only two miles away. Taddy insisted we tour the campus and meet with academic advisors about transferring.

"It's a beautiful college," I muttered to Lex, Taddy and Blake as we sat in the admissions office. "So pretty."

"Sure is. I've never seen so many tan, gorgeous people with white teeth in my entire life. Are they all...straight?" Blake asked the woman wearing a pant-suit behind the desk, whose nameplate read 'Midge Rawlings'.

"Pardon?" Midge asked.

"Mrs. Rawlings, where are the gays?" he clarified.

Here we go...

Her face turned bright red as Lex started to giggle.

"Mr. Morgan, while we have a diverse student body from all over the world, let me be the first to remind you that our university is consistently ranked as one of the top twenty conservative colleges in the country." She beamed.

"What exactly does a conservative college mean?" I asked, hoping to get some clarity.

"We provide an important counterbalance to the progressivism and liberalism which pervade so much of American higher education."

"Pervade?" Taddy snapped. "Mrs. Rawlings, do you know how I paid for my tuition at Columbia this semester?"

"Your parents..." She smiled.

"Playboy," Taddy corrected. "My pictorial was pretty fab."

"That it was," Lex agreed. She chomped on her gum loudly before asking, "Speaking of parents, Mrs. Rawlings, any idea who my folks are?"

Midge leaned back in her chair. Taking Lex's challenge, she reached for her application and read top to bottom. "Easton. Ohhhh." She snapped her fingers. "You must be the granddaughter of Easton Sports over there in Van Nuys. We use some of their athletic equipment with our teams."

Taddy snorted. I bit my lower lip.

"No, not quite. My parents are Eddie and Birdie...Easton."

"The rockers?"

She nodded.

"Oh, dear..." Midge sighed.

I reached for Taddy's hand and gave a gentle squeeze. "We don't belong here."

"Nope." Lex popped her gum.

"Thank you for your time and the tour. You truly have the most beautiful campus I've ever seen," I complimented Midge and stood. "Let's go."

As we headed to the parking lot, we all started to laugh. Tears filled our eyes as we put our sungla.s.ses on.

"You do realize we're stuck in the Big Apple, right? Like forever," Blake admitted.

"Don't you dare say that," Taddy scolded.

"There are over a million people who live on our island of Manhattan. It's the only town in the world where we can reinvent ourselves, over and over again, and no one will keep score or try and push us down."

"Oh, really?" It sure as s.h.i.+t didn't feel like it.

"Yes. Looks like Jay Austin will be locked up for life. And Poppy and you are becoming fast friends. I think our soph.o.m.ore year could be our best ever." Lex nudged me. I'd never heard her be so optimistic before.

"We got a good thing going, us Manhattanites. All besties forever." Taddy hugged me.

We sure do.

On the last night in Malibu, Seneca and I retreated to our sleeping quarters early.

"Are you ready to go back home?" he asked, taking his s.h.i.+rt then his pants off.

I stood there, admiring his tan muscles for a second before replying, "The California weather sure does look good on you."

"Come here." His voice was harsh with arousal.

Admiring his l.u.s.t-filled tone, and the way he stroked himself, I stepped out of my pink sundress, naked, and crawled onto the California King bed.

I cupped his low-hanging b.a.l.l.s. Mmm. Then I flicked my tongue over his sensitive flesh.

"That's it, Luyu." His lips quirked as he groaned then, ever so gently, he put his hands on the back of my head, pus.h.i.+ng me further onto him.

"Mmm." I loved having him in my mouth. All of him. Abandoning myself to the pleasure of pleasing him, I enjoyed making him happy.

His hands found their way between my damp legs and played with my swollen c.l.i.t. My flesh throbbed against his fingers as I stopped sucking and gazed up at him.

Focused and in control, his tongue caressed my nipples as he slid effortlessly inside me. First gently, just the tip. Then a bit more.

"You feel so good," I admitted eagerly.

"You want it all?" he asked, holding on to me.

Narrowing my eyes, I licked my lips and whimpered, "Please."

"Beg for it, Luyu." His voice was firm, hoa.r.s.e as his raw sensuousness carried me to new heights.

And so I did. I panted, "Seneca. Mine. Now," in his ear as he f.u.c.ked me good and hard.

"I'm deep and thick inside you." His hardness electrified me as he picked up speed and rhythm, pumping, thrusting, f.u.c.king.

The fire spread to my heart. "I love you, Seneca!" Unable to control the outcry any longer, my breath came in long moans. I dug my nails deep into his shoulders, breathing so hard. Colors, bright and neon, burst behind my eyelids. "I love having you inside of me. I love how you make me feel."

A bright flare sprang into his eyes. "I love you more," he replied, moaning. His hips jerked back a bit before thrusting forward with a final release, harder, deeper, coming inside me.

After Seneca and I made love and he was asleep, I savored the feeling of satisfaction from being with him for a few minutes. Then I crawled out of bed, threw my robe on, and got out a sheet of stationary I'd picked up at a nearby gift shop earlier.

I still had my homework a.s.signment from Charmaine to take care of. I'd realized why the apology letter had been so hard for me to write. I had been addressing it to the wrong person. So I wrote...

Dear Vive, Hey, you! Having known you for eighteen years, I can say that I owe you one h.e.l.l of an apology. While I've been faithful to your life's eccentricities, deep down inside, I've taken you for granted and have never forgiven you for the bad choices you've made over the years. I've not treated you with the respect and love you deserve.

Having recently realized that you are not only capable but also deserving of happiness, I intend to give you more to be happy about. That's right, Vive. I said you deserve to be happy. I'm sorry it's taken me this long to understand that you have the right to forgive yourself. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. Granted, your errors are huge, but still, they are forgivable.

Over the years, I've let you fill your life with sub-par things-clothes, shoes, money, booze, pills-and expected you to be happy. In reality, I deprived you of love, laughter, and peace. Don't obsess over what you've done wrong, but reflect more on what you've done right. Judge yourself on your strengths and what you give others in your life who love you dearly.

I'm sorry I've compared you to other girls at school, like Poppy. I'm sorry I didn't think you measured up to them because you had a bad past. Everyone has their own cross to bear, they just might not wear it on their sleeve the way you do.

If you can love Seneca and your friends, then you can most certainly love yourself. Getting to this point of forgiving you has not been easy. I won't lie. Admitting I didn't love you at first was very hard.

However, as Mama pointed out to me once, folks often treat things they cherish with love and respect. They honor those things in their life. Let's be clear here, I haven't always done that with you. But today, all that bad behavior stops. Today, I will not only forgive you but love you.

One day, I hope to have a second chance at being a mother. And I'd like to think that I'll be the kind of mother every little girl or boy wants to have. One who gives and receives love unconditionally.

So, me, with this sincerest of apologies, I'd also like to thank you for putting me through these life challenges. They have made you (me) the woman you are today. You are beautiful. You are kind. You are loving.

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-A l.u.s.t for Reading Warner Truman (33): A billionaire widower who owns Truman Enterprises. He's tired of gold-digging, hanger-on types.

Tabitha "Taddy Brill" Adelaide Brillford (27): An obsessive masturbator who is Lex, Vive, and Blake's lifelong friend. She's a self-made millionaire and owns Brill, Inc.

Alexandra "Lex" Easton (27): Fas.h.i.+on designer to the stars and founder of Easton Essentials. She's the late rock-n-roll legend Eddie Easton's daughter.

Blake Morgan III (27): A gay, gorgeous top who is estranged from his husband. He co-founded Brill, Inc. and is the brains behind many of Taddy's accounts.

Viveca "Vive" Farnworth (28): A party girl who met Lex, Taddy, and Blake in boarding school. Vive is the editor-in-chief of Debauchery magazine and liquor heiress.

Kelly "Kiki" Ivy Kailyn Izatt (21): A virgin Mormon a.s.sistant to Taddy Brill. She moved to New York from Provo, Utah with dreams of making it in the big city.

Countess Irma Brillford (51): Taddy's estranged mother. She's married to Joseph Graf and abandoned Taddy when she was thirteen.

Birdie Easton (48): Lex's pill-popping mother, recovering from s.e.xual compulsive disorder. She's a former '80's playmate, heavy metal icon and former friend to Irma.

Sheldon Truman (32): Warner's younger brother. A retired male fas.h.i.+on model, he travels the world, jumping from one circuit party to the next.

Aunt m.u.f.fie (age unknown): Countess Irma's sister who remains the only relative Taddy keeps in contact with. She was on the socialite scene in the '80's with Birdie.

Truman Enterprises: The third largest hotel and resort chain in the world, with properties on every continent ranging from upper mid-level to luxury.

Brill, Inc.: A Fortune 500 company and New York's eminent fas.h.i.+on and beauty public relations and branding firm, which co-created Easton Essentials.

Easton Essentials: North America's fastest-growing women's luxury apparel brand.

Debauchery magazine: Read by four million people weekly, covering all things salacious in the fas.h.i.+on, beauty, and celebrity arena.

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