From Mountains to Lone Stars

"So, how was the sex?" Brian asked, flicking the back of my head.

I turned to face my guitarist. "What makes you think I had sex?" I tried to hide the blush that was forming on my face. No one had ever made me blush because of sex before.

"It's written all the fuck over you, Sanders." Jimmy laughed. "And you're fucking blushing?"

My dimples popped. "Yeah, that's never happened before. Look, Maverick... she just does something to me. And for someone who has never had sex before, she's fucking amazing."

Four pairs of eyes looked at me. For the first time in years, the room was dead silent. I had never seen the guys this quiet before. Quiet was not a term in our vocabulary. So this was all kinds of fucking strange. Zacky was staring at me like I had grown horns, Jimmy was sitting there with his mouth agape, Brian looked like someone had hit him, and Johnny was staring daggers at me.

"Maverick's a virgin?" Johnny asked. There was a kind of anger in his voice that I had never heard before. "And you slept with her?"

"Well, yeah, Maverick was a virgin. I thought I told you that. Why is this such a big deal guys?" I was really confused now. "You've all slept with virgins before."

"Yeah back in the fucking high school days," Brian said, "I can't believe you found a virgin in college!"

Folding my arms, I looked each of these fuckers in the eye. "Why are we making such a big deal, seriously? Is it because you can't believe Mav was a virgin? Or are you surprised that I slept with someone who was a virgin? Seriously, why is this such a big god damn deal?"

"Look, I can't speak for the other three, but Mav is my resident assistant. I'm just pissed she didn't tell me she was with you last night." Johnny kept glaring at me. "She talks to me during our one-on-ones. It... I'm just surprised she felt ready for sex after four months of dating."

I furrowed my eyebrows at him. "JC, what do you know that I don't?" I motioned for him to follow me away from the other guys. They didn't know everything about Maverick.

"Matt, what all do you know about Mav?"

I bit my lower lip. "I know she was sexually assaulted. Is there something else I should know?"

Johnny rubbed the back of his neck. "Look, I don't think I should be the one to tell you. It's just... if she had sex with you, I thought she would have told you."

"Told me what?" Now anger was starting to course through my body. What the fuck was going on?

"Maverick... her cancer came back."

I felt my heart drop through my stomach. The way that Johnny said that concerned the shit out of me. It was like he knew something I didn't. What the hell did he mean?

"What do you mean?"

"I think you should talk to her." He sighed. "Just... she's going to kill me for telling you."

Pulling my phone out of my pocket, I immediately dialed Mav's phone number. The phone rang and clicked over to her voice almost instantly.

"Matt, is something wrong?" She sounded out of breath.

"Maverick, did your cancer come back?"

Silence sounded on the other line. "Who told you? I'm gonna kill that little short shit."

"Why didn't you want me to know?"

She sighed. "I was going to tell you later today when I knew what stage it was in. But the gnome had to ruin it for me."

"Alexa, how bad is it?" It felt like if I didn't get an answer I was going to die.

"Bad, Matt. It's really bad."

Notes

CLIFF HANGER!!!!!!