1. 24 hour YouTube Challenge Pt. 03


    Date: 5/26/2024, Categories: Interracial Love, Author: byFirsttimewriting

    ... the van a couple of minutes earlier.
    
    Back inside, the three of them soon divested of their outerwear, Jay and Deke huddling in front of the heater while Elli pawed through the supplies, claiming a bar of chocolate and the half-drunk bottle of Jaloviina for herself. Neither man pressed her for details and Elli certainly wasn't in the mood to open up about her private life to these two, so for a few minutes a silence, not uncomfortable but with a tinge of awkwardness, settled on the trio.
    
    Elli could feel Deke's eyes on her as she drank freely from the bottle. For the first few minutes it was annoying, feeling his gaze, unwavering, on her. After five minutes or so, annoying shifted into bloody irritating. She took another swig before closing the bottle and turning her face to meet his stare.
    
    "What? You are staring. So, what do you want to say?"
    
    "Nothing'... just maybe drinking like that on just a few bites of chocolate, good way to make yourself sick, drunk an' sick" Deke answered her, still not looking away.
    
    "Fine, I wont drink anymore of your precious bottle," Elli huffed, tossing it to him, Deke snatching it from the air smoothly. "Stop judging me! I've had enough of that for today."
    
    "It aint judgement, just concern, a'ight?" Deke opened the bottle to take a drink himself, passing it over to Jay afterwards. "Look, I get you're upset about Ahti, just running off into the woods, drinking like that... mebbe you'd feel better if you talked. Eh?"
    
    Elli thought ...
    ... he sounded genuine in his offer but a part of her, a small spiteful part, held Deke and Jay to blame for her fight with Ahti, after all it had been their challenges that had enraged her boyfriend. So right now, she didn't feel like talking to them about her life. Instead of answering, she just gave him a curt shake of her head.
    
    "Well offers there anyhow," he said, finally settling back and taking his gaze off of her.
    
    The heat had built up in the van again, uncomfortable to Elli but apparently bang on target for the two men. Elli undid her jeans and pulled them off, not oblivious but currently uncaring about Jay and Deke ogling her bare legs as she pulled the jeans off.
    
    That gave her a little relief, so Elli didn't request that the heater be switched off... yet. Again, a silence stretched out for a while, the two black men sitting quietly, eyes closed as if dozing, Elli staring fixedly at the bottle of alcohol now sat beside Jay. She knew getting drunk wasn't the answer but it wasn't like there was a large tub of ice-cream handy for her to consume in a fit of misery. The quiet of the van made a random thought pop into her head.
    
    "Did you record many women?"
    
    Jay's eyelids flickered open as Elli spoke, his eyes darting towards Deke as he sat up a little straighter before replying.
    
    "Yeah, some. Like I said before, souvenirs of our European tour is all. Why?"
    
    "I guess I am curious how many women you slept with before me," Elli replied honestly. Jay again looked ...
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