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Why no one warned me about what i would feel with "We Become We" from Journey To Bethlehem????
Take Good Care of Her, Pt. 3
Pairing: Elvis or Austin!Elvis x fem!reader
Warnings: 18+, LONG, sorta smut but not hella detailed, mostly angst and comfort, period typical ideals, oral
Summary: Returning from Malibu, the reader evaluates her next steps in life. To be with Elvis or to go back to New York…
Part One
Part Two
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You’d gone home. Home, home. Not New York, not Brooklyn, not to Miss Nancy’s.
You went home, back to the farm, back to Mississippi.
You needed the fresh air and the great big greenery surrounding the farm. You needed to see the stars at night, close and clear and sparkling better than ever. You needed your horse and your kitten and your mama. Yeah, you really needed your mama.
You needed her help and her comfort and all the things that a mother provided for their babies.
You needed some peace of mind, something to clear your head out of all the cobwebs that life was creating for you lately.
Between the headlines and the phone calls, the paranoia and the insecurities, you sure were doing your head in, making yourself sore with anxiety. Thinking Joel was using you. Thinking Joel only took you to LA to impress you. Thinking, thinking, thinking. It wasn’t doing you any good.
So, you’d gone home. Asked Joel to change your flight and he obliged happily, pressing a gentle kiss to your forehead that only confused you some more. Were you just his trophy? Was he really trying to help you? Why would he take you to that dinner with all those execs and producers and make you sit there all pretty in a dress you’d never wear on your own?
He changed your flight, let you go home, and you did, flying in the fancy business class all alone, looking out the window the whole trip, feeling deeply out of place, trying to sleep but the pressure on your skull from all of the thinking kept you from dozing off.
You arrived at Memphis International late in the evening and your daddy was there with the pickup truck ready to take his little girl home. But you both were ambushed by photographers and he had to take you by the arm to get you to the car safely. You wanted to cry. You were so startled you couldn’t believe it. Why on Earth were you getting all this attention now?
But you kept your head down and let your daddy guide you to the truck, where he lifted you up onto the bench and closed the door behind you, making sure you were in. The sea of reporters and Elvis fans alike were snapping photos of you, trying to reach out at you, but they all parted when your country-bumpkin daddy in his dusty denim jeans and plaid button-up started yelling at them to move.
No one wanted his picture, and at that point you were shielded by your headscarf and glasses anyway, so they began to disperse. Plus, his gritty voice was enough to scare them away.
When you arrived at the farm, Jimmie was the first one to greet you and it sure was a shock to you because he’s never in the main house anymore. Or, at least not that you knew.
Jimmie was seeing a girl last thing you knew and she was always on his case, begging him to come pick her up or begging him to give his attention to her. You weren’t the biggest fan of hers. She was your age and you could remember her from school being just as annoying as she was now. Clara and Diane liked her but that was fake liking you were pretty sure. They really just wanted to poke fun at her by encouraging her behavior.
But Jimmie started seeing her and that was okay with you despite your personal disinterest in her. He was smitten, tied to her with a leash around his neck, and she really seemed to have deep interest in keeping him by her side. He was always a big ladies man, a big flirt, effortlessly smooth. He had it easy getting girls but when you started dating Elvis, a lot more girls started giving him the wrong attention. They’d ride their little convertibles to the gas station and flirt him up, but really they were just trying to get to you, to get to him—Elvis Presley.
When he started dating this girl, Minnie was her name, you knew it was genuine. She wanted him, not a way to get to Elvis. So, that made you happy enough. You hated seeing your dear brother get manipulated and you knew better than anyone that all that persistent manipulation would only lead to paranoia and insecurity.
Jimmie hugged you real tight when you came in and it almost made you tear up. You were elated to be there with him, who gave you hope that it was possible to get outta the Elvis Presley Blackhole.
You wondered if Joel was like Minnie, genuinely interested in you. For a little bit you thought so, but then he took you on that godforsaken trip and you started questioning his integrity. You knew he wasn’t trying to get to Elvis—at least you sure hoped not—but you were eerily suspicious that he was using you to gain public attraction.
And, unfortunately, if that were true, it was working.
Your life trying to date other people was never a pleasant one. Every experience you had before Joel was only ever inspired by an indecent goal, one contrived of the perceptions that surrounded being Elvis’s ex. Boys wanting you for pleasure because they just assumed Elvis made you into a little lust bunny. Guys curious by a girl that dated a famous rocker, never asking questions about you but questions about him.
It became clear to you when you first started venturing out romantically back when Elvis was in Germany that the men around you weren’t honest men. Your hope for romance outside of Elvis was thin. Realistically, you didn’t wanna even have to hope for anyone but him. He was the only one you hoped for. But your hope for romance with Elvis was waning everyday. All you wanted was him but it seemed impossible.
And even when you didn’t want him, it was still impossible.
You were happy for Jimmie, but jealous of him too. If you could be relinquished from the curse Elvis put on you, you’d be the happiest girl alive.
But you swallowed those thoughts and tucked them away for later, knowing without a doubt that they’d be back that night, when you were curled in your childhood bed watching the moon and the stars scatter against the dark sky wishing for a different life.
When you fell into your mama’s arms, she told you some things you didn’t really wanna hear.
“There’s a new article, baby,” she whispered real soft, holding you gently, like you were fragile and ready to break.
You thought you were doing an okay job keeping composed. Even though you wanted to cry, you hadn’t yet and even though you were shaken up by the scene at the airport, your body wasn’t betraying you like you feared it would.
Surprisingly, your nerves weren’t rattling your limbs and your tears weren’t bursting down your face. Her words made your stomach drop. And she probably knew that they would, she knew you real well, better than anyone even, so she probably anticipated your reaction, and chose to treat you like a glass doll for it.
“Oh,” you said quietly, pulling back to look at her.
Jimmie was in the room chewing on a piece of bread, leaning against the counter, watching you sympathetically. Your daddy was looking flustered, probably evaluating his outburst at the airport, shocked not just by the scene but by his own actions. He was a tough man but a gentle one, not prone to rages, not prone to speaking out much, and you could see that look on his face that he wore like a shirt that said “did I just do that.” He was gripping the back of a kitchen chair, leaning over it, head hung.
He was late to the party. Busy parking the truck and unloading your stuff, and when he came in you were already in your mom’s embrace. He could read the room with ease and quietly joined you all.
“Baby, I don’t know if you should read it,” your mom said, clutching your hands in hers. You glanced to Jimmie but he turned away, something solemn written on his face.
“What is it?” you questioned. Your mom sat you down, motioned to Jimmie. Jimmie left the room and returned with a newspaper. You furrowed your brow, all sorts of confused.
And then he put it down on the table in front of you, saying he’s sorry, sis.
Ann-Margret comments on possible ENGAGEMENT to Elvis Presley disproven. Presley rages over Y/N Y/L/N romance.
It was silence as you stared and read those words. You didn’t even know there was a rumor of engagement but it’s been disproven already?
“He called just before you got here,” your mama spoke.
Your daddy quirked an eyebrow, standing up real straight and protective like, like it was news to him.
“What’d he want?” you asked, your voice firm, solid, unshaken. You were getting good at dissociating when you were given harsh news anymore, hiding your feelings away inside yourself.
It kind of surprised you. How numb you became.
“Well,” your mama started slow and that’s how you knew the story would be long and dramatic in that good old Elvis Presley fashion that you knew much too well, “said there was never an engagement… he had to make sure you knew… was all just outta context… a misquote…”
Her words came in and out, your ears only picking up certain parts of the story, your attention lapsing. You didn’t even know where it was going or what you were thinking of instead, it was like you were blacking out.
“But their relationship was real,” you said, not responding to her words but interjecting your own thoughts.
“Well, honey, he done spoke in an interview about that new boyfriend of yours and… wants to see you… the press keep buggin him… Joel Standard… Colonel Parker… Vernon Presley…”
Once your mama began name dropping, you started processing less and less of what she was saying.
You felt like you could pass out, like the Mississippi heat was giving you a stroke. Your ears were bleeding. Your neck sweating. Your head spinning. Your vision starting to blur. Her words kept coming at you like race cars.
And then, she said it, the final thing to put you over the edge:
“He asked for permission to take your hand in marriage.”
And it all stopped. The whirring sound of her voice, the never ending story, the heat building inside of you. It all stopped once she said those words and you collapsed against the kitchen table, your chin banging harshly against it as you slumped over and fell into blackness.
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When you woke up, it was around four in the morning. You were tucked beneath a knit blanket on the couch in your family’s parlor. The dark of the night was coming through the frilly curtains your mama kept up. The crickets were chirping and singing their song.
Across the room your daddy was snoring in the recliner, his head craned back against the plush headrest, mouth open.
You slipped off the couch and into the kitchen where you could see Jimmie on the back porch through the screen door. He was smoking a cigarette in secret. Your mama didn’t much like the smell of smoke and your daddy’s lungs couldn’t handle it, so Jimmie hid his habit.
“You know you ain’t s’posed to be smokin’, Jimmie,” you said, pushing the screen door open and joining him outside.
He exhaled into the night air and said, “What mama don’t know won’t hurt her.”
You laughed. He’s been saying that a long time now. It was that very catch phrase of his that brought you to Beale Street all those years ago, on your eighteenth birthday, the night Elvis Presley took you by the hand and pulled you close, dancing along to an Ella Fitzgerald song, the night he whispered to you, “Wallflower,” real soft and low, like it was a secret message just between you two.
You wished you could remember it like it was yesterday. You wished you could still manifest the spirit of that young girl that you were back then. Her hope, her longing for life and romance, her ambition and dreams. But you felt far away from her, long gone from that girl. She was buried now.
You felt old. You felt tired. You felt drained from all the obstacles life had made you jump since meeting him.
The memories of Elvis Presley that you once enjoyed, that would come to you fondly, whispering messages from the past like they were still a part of the present, weren’t coming in the same shade of pink you once looked at them in. They were grey now, full of regret and dismay and desire to turn back time.
You bit your lip thinking about it, sad for the little girl that lived inside you that you let down.
“How’s your chin?” Jimmie asked, pointing at your face.
You looked in your reflection in the window and saw a purple bruise forming on your chin, a small bump swelling under it.
“It feels fine,” you said with a frown. You swallowed, turning to your brother. “Y’know, I’m so mad at mama.”
He looked confused. “Why’s that?”
You started stepping away, making your way towards the crickety steps off your back porch, looking out at the miles and miles of land that stretched out beyond it. “I just got home and I’m tired and-and she hits me with this story, immediately, about… about Elvis.”
You step down the first step and sit, pulling your knees close to your chest, resting your chin on top of them.
“Yeah, I know,” he put his cigarette out in a dish and came over and joined you, sitting beside you.
“Sometimes I wonder whose side she’s on, and sometimes I feel like it ain’t even mine.”
“That ain’t true. Mama loves you and she always gonna pick you over him-”
“-she still takes his calls-”
“-no matter how many of his phone calls she accepts.”
You sigh heavily, turning away to avoid his gaze.
“Mama feels sad for him. He ain’t really got nobody real. His mama died when he was young. What goods a man without his mama?”
You groaned loudly. You couldn’t stand all this sympathy your entire family had for your famous ex.
“He has plenty of people,” you said firmly, angrily, rolling your eyes.
His daddy. The Colonel. Jerry. Joe. Charlie. Red and Sonny. Lamar. All of the stupid Memphis Mafia.
Ann-fucking-Marget.
“Now they ain’t real people, Y/N, you know that.”
You did know that. You knew that deeply. Elvis Presley was a lonely man. He trusted few people and he confided in even less.
Before Gladys died, he was a lot more open with his vulnerabilities. He was willing to share his fears with his friends even if he wore that brooding mysterious mug all the time. He was still bright eyed inside. He was still innocent. He was still naive.
Fame was new to him. Hate was new to him. He wasn’t wise yet about where to put his trust. He just wanted to sing and he thought a lot of people were honest to him, letting him sing and dance and just be free.
But a lot of people back then were conspiring for their own gain. He didn’t know it.
Then he found out. It broke his spirit a little bit.
Then his mama died and that broke his spirit entirely.
You were there for it all.
You met in 1956 when he was still pretty fresh. He’d tell you all about his dreams back then, on those long country drives he’d take you on, crossing the Mississippi line everyday to see you. Stopping for milkshakes in quiet roadside diners where only the young waitress working her first job would recognize him. Dancing under the glow of the moon as his car radio played in the back. Kissing as you swam in the creek in just your underwear.
He’d tell you from across the table what he wanted his future to be. He’d whisper under the moonlight how he felt about his life, about the fears he had.
Swimming with him in the creek was like a backroad baptism every time. It was holy, spiritual. He was naked to you and you to him, bearing his soul to you as you swam around together in that Earthly pool.
Oh, he trusted you.
You thought that was why he kept coming back to you every time he was home. Because you were an anchor to him, a diary he could spill his secrets to.
When Gladys died, things were so different. He wasn’t as open. He wasn’t free. His eyes bore a sadness that you knew couldn’t be reversed.
He’d only bear his soul, it felt like, when he was singing and, every time he did, it seemed as though he’d revealed a thousand haunting secrets at once. You could still hear them sometimes, when the radio would play and his voice would fill your ears, all of the pain he was feeling he was letting out in song.
Gladys was only dead for a month before he was due to go to Germany. During that time, you felt so disconnected from him. Like he was surrounding you but so far from you at the same time, and you really loved it when he did sing because those were the only moments you felt like you could still feel the lingering of his soul.
You saw him at Gladys’s funeral. He didn’t speak much to you that day. He didn’t speak much to anyone he wasn’t contractually obligated to. Even his daddy he couldn’t really talk to. Words didn’t feel right on his tongue.
During that time before he went off for Germany, you’d frequent Graceland about once a week. He stopped going out to Southaven to see you; instead he’d call and ask if you’d come see him.
He didn’t much like leaving his home, where he knew he was close to his mama’s soul. And you understood, you did what he asked and came to visit him, whether it was a short drive from your meager apartment in Memphis or an hour ride from the farm.
You’d stay and sit in the living room watching him play piano, sing gospel lowly, stare out the window, stare at his hands. He didn’t do a lot of talking to you but you didn’t mind. You knew he trusted you simply because he had asked you to be there.
He wasn’t talking to a lot of people, and he wasn’t inviting over the whole community like he often did before his mama’s passing. It was just you and him, Vernon and Dodger. Junior or Billy sometimes would pass through.
Family only, really.
You were shy about including yourself in that family title, but you’d known him long enough, spent enough time under his arm and against his beating heart that you supposed maybe you were. You never said it out loud, but it was a flame beneath your fire knowing you were connected to him deeply enough to be considered family.
Those nights that he’d invite you over before Germany you’d spent telling Vernon all about the farm and the dogs on the farm. They loved dogs on the Graceland estate, keeping basset hounds and great danes on the lot. On the farm, you kept border collies and great pyrenees, and your daddy had a favorite golden retriever called Benny.
Elvis would sit in the room with you as you’d speak to his dad, playing the piano all sulkily, seldom joining in on the conversation.
Vernon liked you very much; Gladys liked you even more. Southern, Christian, poised, and virginal. Gladys thought you were perfect for Elvis, you were an image of purity and grace. A true Southern bell. She didn’t mind that you were quiet and reserved, never mistaking your shyness as snobbiness but as an innocence that couldn’t be matched. You engaged in conversation with her frequently, always discussing the church and the countryside and the joy in life’s simple pleasures. She saw that you weren’t interested in exploring Hollywood like Elvis was those days, she saw that you preferred the music over the movies. She saw that you didn’t need a big fancy pink Cadillac because every time you drove up the drive at Graceland you were sitting behind the wheel of an old truck. That was before you got your new car and your new life and everything else that Elvis insisted he’d provide.
You even knew Gladys liked you because she’d often tell you. Some nights you’d stop by for dinner after class and she’d sit with you in lawn chairs watching Elvis and the other boys chase a football and say, “You know, Y/N, I’d love it if you joined our family someday.”
You’d blush and thank her for her kindness, but she’d say real quick in a real vehement voice, “Oh, I mean it, Y/N. You’re already one of the family but I truly believe my son ought to put a ring on your finger soon, make you a real Presley.”
Hearing her say that made your heart flutter and later that evening when you and Elvis were kissing out in the fields behind the house, a checkered blanket spread out beneath you, your legs straddling his hips, your long skirt spread out and bunched up, you couldn’t help but recall his mama’s words.
“My son ought to put a ring on your finger soon”
The memory of those words would make you grind down on him harder, his lip in between your teeth as you smashed your mouths together, growing heated, getting hot.
“Make you a real Presley”
That’s what you wanted and that’s what motivated you to rub yourself against him, pressing your clothed heat against his concealed bulge. He’d moan into your mouth, wrapping a hand around your hair, tugging your head back to expose your neck, and you’d grind harder.
During those times, you and Elvis were very much so on and off. Elvis had pursued you steadily for months after he met you, but soon enough he was sent on the road. It was a mutual decision to call it quits. He had a life to live, a career to build, and you had to go through school and build a life of your own. But sure enough, every time he’d come back to Memphis your phone was ringing off the hook with pleas from Elvis to visit him at Graceland. He’d come to your house, you’d go to his, and it’d be like you were never apart…until he’d leave again, then the cycle would repeat and you’d spend your days in an endless succession of loving him, losing him, chasing him, and then getting him again.
Gladys was tired of her son leaving, and she knew that one constant thing always brought him home: you. Even if you weren’t together, it was always you that kept him around longer.
You were sad when Gladys died, and in a way you felt like you had disappointed her. You wanted her to see her son get married and settle into a family life, free her from her worries before she parted from this world. She deserved it after everything she went through. But that didn’t happen, and she’ll have died never knowing if Elvis married you or not.
Being around Vernon without Gladys around was strange at first. He wasn’t ever as interested in carrying on conversation with you as she was. Truth be told, he’s a bit of an awkward man, but he tried his best, especially since he recognized Elvis’s quiet streaks in the weeks after his wife’s death and didn’t wanna make you sit in silence the whole time.
You knew Vernon liked you, but he never outwardly said it. Anything Gladys or Elvis liked, he liked too, so it was pretty automatic with you.
Elvis talked to his daddy a lot, but not as much as he talked to his mother. You knew how hurt he was after her death. You saw how it changed who he was inside.
Those weeks before Germany, he’d hold you tight, real tight, like he was afraid that letting go would lead him to losing you too.
You knew your mama loved Elvis. She loved his music before anyone else in your household did, having grown up on rhythm and blues as a little girl in a poor town much like the one Elvis was raised in. When she found out Elvis Presley stopped at the gas station on that very first night, her head near blew off in anger of not having been there to see it.
But then about a week later, Elvis Presley himself showed up on your doorstep asking for her daughter. After that, he was a pretty frequent fixture on the farm and in her life. She loved to baby him, fixing him sandwiches, and telling him she’ll trim his hair any time he needs, I cut both my kids’ hair, honey, it wouldn’t be any trouble doing yours too.
Your mom and Gladys never met, but Elvis said on multiple occasions that your mom’s nurturing reminded him of his mom’s.
You loved hearing Elvis talk about his childhood, how he dreamt up this superhero version of himself, how he’d round up all the local boys and go running through the dirt streets trying to sneak peaks at the music and the dancing. Your heart would swell a hundred times its size when he’d tell you about his home, how his family was so poor they could only afford one bed, how he and his mama had to sleep in it together. He said he’d have been so embarrassed if the kids at school found out about that, but then felt immediate guilt for saying that, praising his mama for doing everything she could to raise him. She was practically a single mother back then, what with Vernon in jail and all. He said he owed his mama his life for raising him on her own like that, for giving up her life to support him, to feed him, to keep him warm in the winter. You always thought he had resentment for his dad, but you also knew that he recognized that he just had to do what he had to do because they were so poor and desperate.
Elvis said his family was familiar with farming and that he’d spent some time on farms as a kid, that visiting your house was a source of nostalgia for him. He always told you Gladys would have loved your family farm. But she never got the chance to visit, and that was just another thing that would make your heart hurt, filled you with regret.
You knew that having a relationship with your mother was important to him, just as important as having a relationship with your father, who he was determined to get the rapturous approval of.
But with your mom, you knew he was filling a void that was cracked open in 1958 after Gladys died.
You knew he was a lonely man, and you knew that your mother was one of the real people in his life.
But you hated to hear it and rolled your eyes once more at your brother.
“She just wants what’s best for you both. You know she loves him like a son,” Jimmie said.
“I know, Jimmie, I know,” you whispered and he wrapped his arm around you, motioning for you to get up and go inside, saying something like, “I think it’s time you go to bed. It’s been a long day.”
You nodded, following him into the kitchen. “It’s been a long, long day.”
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You’d spent three days on the farm before you’d gotten a call from Joel in New York.
Those three days were filled with avoiding the topic of Elvis and marriage, avoiding stepping off the grounds, and avoiding watching the TV or reading the newspaper.
Instead, you’d tug on a pair of boots in the morning, pleat your hair down your back, and rush off into the fields, find a horse and ride it for hours; busy yourself in the chicken coop and collect eggs; pull on some gloves, set up the stool, and milk some cows.
You were coming in from a day in the stables where you were grooming your favorite horse, Meadow, when you caught your mama with the phone to her cheek. At first you were nervous it was him—Elvis—but then she caught your eye and her face lit up and she said to the phone, “Oh, here she is now. Y/N!”
Your eyes widened as you pulled off your dirty boots and dropped them in the mudroom, shaking your head as to reject the phone. But then she said, “It’s Joel,” and the butterflies in your stomach disappeared.
“Hello?” you said into the phone, unsure where this conversation would go.
“Hi, baby,” he said, polite and charming in regular Joel fashion. “Was wondering how Tennessee was.”
“It’s Mississippi,” you corrected, but he didn’t really acknowledge it.
“Been thinking about you a lot. Miss you tons.”
“I miss you too,” you smiled into the phone, though you couldn’t be sure how genuine it was. You’d spent the last three days doing a whole ton of thinking and not a lot of it revolves around you missing your boss turned boyfriend.
Sure, you were thinking about him in essence, but it was more so the paranoia that his actions had brought out in you, not the affections you shared with him.
“So, when are you coming back to New York?”
You knew that question was coming but you didn’t really want to have to answer it.
You didn’t really have an answer to it, actually.
“I-I don’t know.”
You heard fumbling on the phone and what sounded like a door closing. You wondered if he was in the office at work or at his apartment uptown.
“Well, baby, I think you should come back soon. There’s a big client we’ve been dealing with lately and things are getting hectic at the office. Could use you and your sweet little organizer skills.”
You scrunched your face at that. What does that even mean? Sweet little organizer skills?
Joel droned on and on about how much they needed you, about how the ship will sink without you, about how he wanted to take you out to see a show, how apparently word on the street is Streisand’s Funny Girl was seeing major success and his prediction for future successes were always right and he just was dying to get there before it just explodes.
You didn’t care much for Broadway shows. Joel had taken you to see Hello, Dolly! earlier in your relationship, back when you were still in the intermediate phase of “we’re no longer just co-workers but we’re not quite dating yet.” You could barely keep your eyes open, much preferring a jazz joint or a country jamboree over a musical theater production. But, Joel didn’t quite recognize your disinterest and at first it was fine, you were still getting to know him, still getting to know New York, still getting to know yourself, so you thought it would be in everyone’s best interest if you kept open-minded about it, but listening to him go on and on about some stupid play—well, you were beginning to form true hatred for the art medium.
You could recall long conversations between yourself and Elvis about musicals. All of his movies at that point were movie-musicals and almost all of his movies were a point of shame for him. He always spoke about how silly he felt breaking out into song, on a train, in a plane, on a boat, diving board, bicycle, gondola…the list goes on.
When you saw Hello, Dolly! with Joel, Elvis’s words were all you could think about.
“Now, just how stupid is singin’ on a motorcycle! Takes the cool outta the whole idea… Can’t be singing show tunes in leather.”
You’d listen to him talk about it. The movies were simple, methodical cash cows. Elvis looked cute, Elvis sang good, and there were enough female characters of every hair and eye color for his entire fanbase to spend the duration of the picture self-inserting, pretending it wasn’t Juliet Prowse in his embrace but them instead. Pretending it wasn’t Stella Stevens singing sexily along with him but them instead.
You’d listen, sure. He’d complain, yeah. But then you’d both laugh, you’d poke fun at his character’s bizarre traits—
The mysteries trapeze artist with a dark past.
The karate chopping rebel biker turned carnival roustabout.
—and he’d shrug his shoulders and echo the words of one of the silly songs he wished he didn’t have to sing—
Return to sender, address unknown…
Got a pocketful of rainbows, a heart full of love…
—and it would be okay.
Musicals weren’t serious. Elvis was serious about acting, though, and you’d wished if he was so set on spending all his damn time in Hollywood, he’d at least speak up and demand a serious role, make his time worth while.
But acting a serious part wasn’t in the cards for him it seemed. Even if the studios saw he had potential to be a real good actor, they preferred the money his quick and easy musicals brought in more.
You spent whatever time you weren’t dozing off during your viewing of Hello, Dolly! thinking about Elvis and how he’d probably laugh when they’d break out in song at random points, though he’d probably like it still and give all the flowers to Carol Channing.
Elvis’s lightheartedness made musicals bearable. Joel’s seriousness made them boring.
You began to wonder if marriage to Elvis would be like that. Fun, lighthearted, give you both space to make fun of things instead of getting too serious about them. You loved that part of your relationship with him. While he would pour his soul to you some nights, other nights the pair of you could just laugh like you were high on drugs.
His big toothy grin, those deep dimples, glimmering blue eyes. You’d wonder if it was Elvis that would marry you, not the one that carried on a constant game of hide and go seek, him running off to Hollywood, leaving you to chase him all the time.
Marriage to Joel would probably be easy, albeit it might make you a little cold and irritable. His preferences bored you, but they were safer than Elvis’s, and his conversations rarely ended in belly laughter. But he was a good man, or so you thought.
When the conversation finally ended and you’d hung up the phone, you were more annoyed than you’d already been. You had little to no desire to return to New York already. You just wanted to disappear and stay on the farm, and you knew that you could, really. Your mama and daddy would gladly keep you at home for as long as you needed, but you were the one who wanted this, you were the one who wanted to get out of the South and find yourself.
Well, you’d done it, alright, and you’d wished you hadn’t.
You were tempted to dial Miss Nancy’s, hoping maybe Beth would answer and, being the most reasonable of the girls at the house, she would pack up your stuff and send it to you. But you shook your head at that thought. You couldn’t back out of the life you were trying to build for yourself, so you left the phone on the hook, walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs, and started to pack your suitcase.
Your fingers traced your initials that were engraved on it, nail following the swirly print that was etched onto the leather. You wondered how many times in your life you’d have to pack that thing and wondered how many times you already had.
You wondered if life was always like that for everyone, just continuous and moving and never really settling in and getting comfortable anywhere. But then you thought about your parents and the farm and shook your head at the idea. No, no, life probably wasn’t like this for everyone. Some people are able to just relax into themselves and stop hurrying around trying to get somewhere.
You, regrettably, weren’t one of those lucky people, neither were the people you surrounded yourself with.
Elvis sure as hell wasn’t. The man couldn’t keep still.
Joel, you were starting to suspect, was similar in that way. Always antsy to get someplace. He was a New Yorker, living in Manhattan, and he always took his coffee to-go. He couldn’t wait on the line very long without getting the jitters and he wasn’t one to keep the conversation on a single topic. It was natural for him to be that way.
You thought about Beth, and Annie, and Margie. Well, you thought, they all musta left home for a reason. Even if you never really took the time to ask, you were sure they all had an individual story that all went back to the same common trait: being too flighty and antsy and ambitious to stay content in one place.
Living outta suitcases in temporary spaces was the life, it seemed, you were condemned to live. Already you’d lived in a college apartment, Graceland, and Miss Nancy’s, not to mention your parents’ farm. Each time you’d go, it felt like the new place was never the place you could relax in. Like you were just waiting to leave, like it was only a matter of time before you would.
It made you sad to think about. That first apartment you knew when you moved in that it was just temporary, and Miss Nancy’s you knew too couldn’t be your forever home, it being a boarding house and all. But Graceland—when you moved into that house, that big ole beautiful mansion, you hoped with every fiber of your being that it would be your resting place forever.
Sometimes you felt like you could relax there, like your body wasn’t ready to up and go at a moment’s notice. You felt like it was home. After all, you’d been invited there and encouraged to act as family there more than once in your life.
Why not kick your shoes off and stay a little?
Deep down, you knew it wouldn’t last. Just like your off and on love with Elvis, your residency at the Memphis mansion would be fleeting. That idea never left your mind.
Even when you were pulling weeds out of the grass.
Even when you were pouring lemonade.
Even when you were carrying laundry up the stairs.
You knew it wouldn’t be forever.
Elvis made you feel at home at Graceland, trying his best to make sure you didn’t feel like an alien there.
It was after he got back from Germany, after you both reconciled your feelings and recovered from that rumored stint with that Beaulieu girl, that you moved into Graceland. 1960.
You spent some time resisting his pleas to move in, insisting that it’d be better if you stayed at your apartment and he stayed there, but many of your days at Graceland turned into nights and your nights turned into mornings and it’d happen all over again. Every weekend, all weekend, it was your prancing about the grounds in the clothes that you were slowly filling his drawers with.
Pretty soon, he’d had a room done up special with your name on the door and he’d had all your stuff moved out of that downtown flat into your brand new room. Not that you spent much time in your room other than for dressing. You’d slept in Elvis’s bed, even before you’d ever had sex.
And then once you did have sex, the pair of you wouldn’t leave his room. It felt like one round would turn into two rounds and two rounds would turn into three rounds just about every damn time and then you’d take a nap together, pressed naked next to each other, worn out from your sex marathon, skin still glistening in the post-sex afterglow, and wake up just as hot and horny as you’d been hours before. He’d hold your stomach with his hands, clutching you close, and slip it in from behind. It was lazy the way you liked it, sideways and simple, but it’d always turn into something more.
Elvis liked to experiment and you two were doing all the sexploration in the world in that dark room of his. He’d wake up and fuck you sideways, yeah, but that would become a wake up and fuck you into the mattress from behind, one finger in your bumhole the other wrapped around your throat real
fast, his entire body weight pushing you down.
It’d turn into Elvis Presley pressing that little button between your legs, your throbbing, pulsing clitoris that you coulda sworn had taken on a heartbeat of its own, until you’d squirt all over his face. Which would then turn into the reverse, you swallowing his long shaft down your throat till your nose hit his belly button, tongue smoothed out on the vein on its underside, throat opened up to keep him down and deep.
He taught you about 69ing before the pair of you had sex and in the days before you and him ever did the deed you’d 69 pretty often. Actually, all the time. Every morning it was your routine to strip your panties off and straddle his face, to peel his briefs off and bend across his stomach to take his cock in your mouth. Those days he liked to watch his cum paint your face, your chest, dripping from your tits to your belly button.
Nothing, you had thought, quite compared to the bliss that his wet tongue on your clit and in your cunt gave you.
And then he fucked you for the first time and you just became obsessed with keeping him inside of you. Whether that was in his room or your room while you were getting ready for the day.
Often times he’d walk past your door, see it open just ajar, and poke his head in, seeing your head peek out over the dressing shade and get curious about what was being covered. You’d always bat him away. “Elvis, stop, I just zipped my dress.” “Elvis, stop, I just finished doing my hair.” But you were just playing coy. Once your cunt was full of his thick cock, his strong arms holding you against a chaise, your fresh dress bunched at the waist, you sure as hell weren’t complaining.
That little room of yours was nice to have. Even if you didn’t use it for much, the use you got out of it was fine indeed.
Pretty quickly the staff learned your preferences and your diet.
The couches started to form Y/N shaped dents in them and the TVs you’d often click on and find your favorite programs already playing.
Your favorite records were now on the shelf, your favorite books too.
In the kitchen you’d find your favorite snacks in the cupboard.
Elvis tried to make it as homey as possible for you. Tried to make you feel as welcome as possible. Often times, it worked.
When you’d bound down the stairs on Christmas mornings and find him smiling up at you, standing in front of a tree with a Santa hat on and his hands on his hips, some type of jewelry wrapped up with a bow waiting to be gifted to you.
When you’d kick your feet up on his lap, his fingers in your hair, sitting on those sprawling white couches in the front room, watching as orange flames heat up the fireplace.
When he’d fuck you on the kitchen counter, not caring or worrying or stressing, endless “Fuck, baby”s’ and “Oh, god, Elvis”s’ spilling from your mouths without care for who might hear. Graceland had become your little world, and you even worry about people walking in on you because you were so comfortable there.
But then Elvis would leave for months and you’d stay and you’d walk around barefoot and the rooms wouldn’t feel the same and the air on your skin would be cold and you’d remember that you were his guest and a guest in someone’s house without the person who brought them there was always bound to feel strange.
You’d know it wouldn’t last forever, the feeling of your fingers on your pussy didn’t do the job even slightly, and you’d often take the car he bought you and drive it south for a couple weeks.
Elvis never really knew you’d do that, leave and live on the farm while he wasn’t there sometimes. But then again, Elvis never asked. He’d just assumed you were content alone at Graceland without him, or he’d not even think about it all, which was a thought that depressed you all the more.
So, you pushed his face outta your mind and clicked open your suitcase and began folding your clothes, emptyheaded. He paid you no mind, and you weren’t gonna allow him space in yours for free anymore.
You were going back to New York, and you were determined to make sure you didn’t pack any thoughts of Elvis Presley with you to take this time, certainly not the sneaky ones that were considering accepting his hand in marriage…
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authors note: GUYS THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the literal insane amount of love and support you are all giving me right now during this creative process and release. this story has been so fun to write so far and i’m excited to give you more! i hope you enjoy part three, keep an eye out for part four soon!
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i had to make this
Take Good Care of Her, Pt. 2
Pairing: Austin!Elvis/Elvis x fem!reader
Warnings: not many, a couple of moments of PG-13 goodness but nothing too explicit in this one, angst, fluff, Elvis still in the dog house
Summary: After breaking up with Elvis, reader tries to move on with a new man but is continually haunted by memories of her ex, and continually stalked by the press that desperately want to make a headline of her.
Part One
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Sex kitten. Bombshell. Elvis’s former longtime girlfriend, Y/N Y/L/N, shows off her sun kissed skin while vacationing in Malibu with a mysterious new beau.
You huffed, setting the newspaper down on the table in front of you. You bit your lip, pondering, as your head turned towards the water, looking out over the balcony at the spot where the ocean meets the sand, watching waves collide with land.
Your mind couldn’t stop repeating the headline this time. The image on the page, of you in a bikini standing on the sands of a Malibu beach as the supposed “mysterious new beau” in question jogs towards you, burned in your memory.
He was handsome, tall, tanned, toned. He was clean shaven, and wore the tiniest swim trunks known to man. Striped ones that tied at the top and hugged the top of his thighs nicely.
His name was Joel, and he was your new beau, technically. Actually, he was your new boss. Joel Standard of Standard & Sons Banking. But, now, he was your new beau.
When you and Elvis broke up, things weren’t easy to adjust to. You had changed your whole life for Elvis. Your mind had been warped by your perfect fantasy of life with Elvis. In that great big house, with those beautiful cars, and the dogs, and the garden, and the potential for children and marriage. You were trapped in that house. You were a doll stuck inside. You had no dreams for yourself. Your dreams were Elvis. Being his wife, being his bride, being his baby mama, being his best girl. Pleasing him. Serving him.
You quit your job for him.
The break up was brutal for you, who seemed to have forgotten who she was for the longest time. Who were you before the break up? Were you anyone at all?
You couldn’t remember. All you could remember for the longest time was Elvis.
You met him and life made sense. You did all that growing, all that shaping up to the person you were at eighteen, for him. It was like life didn’t start until you met him.
But even then, did it really? Did you spend eight years living your life? Or did you spend eight years living a life in accordance with his?
Dropping your plans when he was in town. Calling in sick to work to see him. Missing moments with family to spend them with him instead.
It was like everything you did when you weren’t with him was just filler. He was the main event of your life.
You came to realize that reality the day you saw the pictures of him and Ann Margret. The picture they used of you and him made you shudder. You looked so naive, so young, so in love. And him? Did he even look like he was taken by you at all?
It made you really reevaluate everything. Your priorities were not in line, and it made you real upset to think that you’d spent your time living in accordance with his life.
For a little bit, you refused to leave the farmhouse, daring yourself to redo your life from the moment you were born. You started reading your favorite books as a girl, and wearing your old clothes from high school. You did more early morning work on the farm, and spent more time outside with the animals, like you used to when you were a kid.
You even pulled out a box from college and spent an entire evening on the floor of your bedroom flipping through notes you took in class, regretting letting that passionate, studious, ambitious side of you go for some, some, some man.
That man. That stupid man, who showed up at the farm two days after the story was printed to beg for you to listen.
You wanted to be stubborn. You wanted to be strong.
But you were weak and he had beautiful eyes that promised the fantasy you dreamed about. You couldn’t help but still believe it would come true.
You got in the car and let him drive, let him explain, let him make up a story. And you listened. Nodding. Nodding. Nodding.
“I ain’t gon’ lie to you, Y/N.”
Too shy, too reserved, too proud to say how you felt.
“Now, I know those images look pretty bad.”
How you burned on the inside and not for him, not to feel him against you. But you burned like you were starving, like a fire had lit inside your bloodstream and was slowly burning you from the inside out. Like you were struggling to survive.
“Please don’t hold this against me, baby.”
You could feel your organs, your bones, so aware of every inch of your body as they caught fire and burned to ash.
“Baby, I can’t live without you.”
You were a danger to forests everywhere, flames blazing, your whole body engulfed.
You almost fell for it, and you winced when you realized that you had before, multiple times.
Elvis didn’t respect you, you realized.
All of those on again off again moments. All of those “mutual breakups.” He did not do that out of respect. He did that because he was a downright pig. Every time you let him back into your life after you’d “agree to break up while he was away,” you were letting him take advantage of you.
He wasn’t doing it out of respect for your life and his. He was doing it so that he could shake loose of his ball and chain and go live in his little free-for-all rockstar world, and worst of all, he had convinced you that it was your idea too.
You never said this to him. No. During that time in the car, while you were listening to his excuses over Ann Margret, you didn’t say what you wanted.
“Can you take me home now?” you asked real quiet, real calm.
He’d just finished talking and talking and talking. You took it all in, and concluded mentally that you had to get away, that it was over regardless of what he had to say.
“Oh, okay,” he gulped and his knuckles turned white, fingers wrapping tighter around the steering wheel. He took you home, and when you got out of the car, he did too.
But you turned around quickly upon hearing the shuffling of his feet on the gravel, and said, “You can go back to Graceland now.”
He looked down at his feet. He was surprised you didn’t want him to stay. “You don’t want me to-”
“No,” you softly spoke, “I’d like for you to leave please.” Your voice was firm. No quiver, no question. Just flat and soft and solid in your speech.
“Baby, I-” he started walking towards you, reaching out for you, and you could have met him half way if you wanted to, reached out and accepted his embrace, curling into him like he was the home you’d envisioned him as.
But you saw him now as a prison, and you wanted to escape.
“Elvis, please don’t call me anymore.” You watched his head snap back up, eyes furious. “And, and, if you could send someone with my things from Graceland, I would appreciate it.”
The emotion in his eyes changed. You thought you saw fear in his eyes, then came what you thought were the tears that came with it.
“Baby, I love you. Please don’t do this.”
You knew you were gonna cry too. Hell, you were surprised you weren’t already. You were surprised you weren’t blubbering in the car the whole day. You were always good at controlling your emotions, but sometimes, some things hurt too much to refrain from reacting to.
You supposed that was the reality hitting, making you face the truth. And the truth was, you didn’t have many tears left in you to shed over this man.
Until he said that. “I love you,” whispered like a ghost in your mind. “I love you.”
After everything you two have been through, were you sure you could just reduce your relationship to one of convenience for him? He loved you.
So, you did start to cry, and that’s when you let him hold you. But after that you told him he had to go and that you needed to be apart from him for reasons that extended beyond the likes of Ann Margret.
He didn’t do much but nod. He didn’t understand but then again, how could he? He had a life of his own to live. He wasn’t the one trapped inside that mansion all the time, he wasn’t the one delusioned by ideas of grandeur.
He left and it was okay. He’d call a couple times after, but your mama would pick up. He’d ask how you were and she’d say whatever came to mind that day. Sometimes she’d tell him she was concerned about you, when she’d overhear you crying pretty loud in your room like a kid.
One time he came to the farm after your mama told him that you weren’t really happy lately. He wanted to make you happy. He came with flowers, of course, from the garden at Graceland.
But you refused to see him. Your mama put them in a vase by the piano in the window, and you almost stopped breathing when you came down the stairs and saw them there.
You were pretty mad at her for that, wondering whose side she was on.
Other times, he’d call and your mama would ask him how he was doing instead. He wasn’t doing any better, said he broke his toe in a karate lesson because he couldn’t focus.
You hated that.
Karate. He had his life, his career, his girlfriends, and he had karate.
And what did you have? Time to waste while you waited for him.
You told your mama to tell him to stop calling. You were pretty sure he did, or if he didn’t, then she stopped telling you when he did.
Soon enough, you were out of your “I need to reevaluate my life” phase and managed to sink into the “I am in the process of reevaluating my life.”
You never went back to Memphis. You needed to go farther, bigger, better. You mustered up all the courage you could find, packed up your things, and went to New York. You had a whole lot of money saved from your job at the ad firm. Elvis bought you everything when you were together, so you never had to spend anything. Now you were able to make the move of your life.
So, you booked a plane ticket and boarded your first aircraft, fingers tapping the whole way there, nervous as could be. Everyone around you seemed pretty accustomed to flying, wearing business garb and carrying briefcases, snoring out of exhaustion from days of conferences and whatnot.
When you got to New York, you stood at the doorstep of a boarding home for girls in Brooklyn. You gulped looking up at the brownstone but managed to walk up and knock anyway. You’d read in an ad about the home, that it was a nice spot for international girls to live or any girl really who was away from home for the first time. Miss Nancy was the homeowner.
Three other girls were living there when you arrived: Beth, an English girl with a thick Liverpool scouse that was tough to interpret at times; Margie, a girl from upstate whose nose was usually turned up at everyone else; and Annie, a younger Irish girl who seemed unsure of herself and often followed Beth around like a lost puppy. All three were pretty amazed when they met you: Elvis Presley’s ex girlfriend and bombarded you with questions on the daily.
This usually led you to stay in your room when you were in, away from the noise and curiosity.
The apartment itself was a newer one, a nicer one, with a pretty view of the city from the top floor and a nice square cutout in the center of the living room that the architect digest magazines you were flipping through at the salon one day said were called “conversation pits.”
You didn’t have many people to conversate with in it besides your new housemates but you enjoyed the texture it gave to the room. Made it more interesting to look at.
And, you got a new job. You were now a secretary at Standard & Son’s Banking. That’s where you met Joel, one of the sons. There were Standard & Son’s all around the US, where Joel and his two brothers and father all had individual control. At the Manhattan location, Joel was the big boss.
He was charming. Very charismatic. Had a nice sense of humor. A nice smile with very white teeth. He wasn’t married, he wasn’t engaged, he wasn’t dating someone for long term but sleeping around on the side with all of his movie costars. He was recently divorced and single. 36.
You were 26 and also recently single. Sure, he was older, and clearly had more experience with relationships if he managed a marriage and divorce out of one. But you were okay with that. Maybe that was what you needed. Someone who wasn’t a child like Elvis. Someone who could settle down if he wanted to. Someone who could just be normal.
Joel’s marriage ended because his wife cheated on him. You wished you couldn’t relate to that story, but you could.
So, one night, you were late at the office, organizing almost the whole building, OCD flared up and ready to roar, when Joel’s office door swung open. Hands on his hips he questioned why you were still there. It was cute, innocent, awkward, adorable. You blushed and expressed your need to clean, and he surprisingly joined you, rolling up his sleeves and helping.
After that, it was just natural to be together.
That’s when the press started coming into play. You thought you were done for. A month on the farm left the press with no action, no chance to strike up a story. But you leaving the office with a tall, older man, you laughing over red wine at a fancy 5th Avenue restaurant with a tall, older man, you hand in hand with a tall, older man who most certainly was not Elvis Presley struck their attention.
Now, here you were. Two months after the press first printed a picture of you and Joel together. Three months after you officially broke up with Elvis.
Joel had expressed the idea of a getaway. He said you deserved to leave New York for a bit. After seeing how the press harassed you, after seeing how sad you’d get sometimes, after seeing how the mention of the name Elvis would make you curl up inside for a little bit, he thought leaving town for a bit might be a nice distraction.
So, he took you on vacation. Well, more like, to his vacation home. In Malibu. Paparazzi were at the airport snapping pictures of you. Paparazzi were in the streets following Joel’s car. Paparazzi were in the bushes hiding on the beach.
Joel’s idea of a getaway had turned into a full blown event.
You couldn’t understand the hype that this little relationship was gaining. You were simply Elvis’s ex girlfriend, not a movie star or a socialite.
And then one day, after coming inside from a day at the beach, towel in your hands drying the droplets that fell from your wet hair, you understood: Why does the world love Y/N? Inside learn more about the small town girl turned famous ex-girlfriend.
You flipped open the article, curiosity overtaking you. You didn’t want to feed into the gossip. For the last several weeks you avoided it as much as you could, never looking past the stupid headlines they’d print. On occasion Joel would crack a joke and you’d collect more information about the context of the article, or one of your female coworkers would ask a question. “Is it true?” “Okay, I promise I will never ask again but what was Elvis like when…”
But you did it. You opened the article, swallowing your long consuming pride, looking over your shoulder to make sure Joel was nowhere near, embarrassed by your actions.
Everyone seems to love her! But do you know Y/N Y/L/N, Elvis Presley’s long term girlfriend?
You furrowed your brow. Did this article intend to inform the world about you? Because last time you checked, you never told them anything about yourself.
Your eyes scanned the page, skipping to inserted quotes from fans of Elvis that are supposedly praising you.
“Y/N gives fans everywhere hope, hope to someday date him too. If Y/N can do it, any normal person can too!”
Your lip curled. Any normal person can… Is that supposed to be mean? That you were just anybody? It certainly didn’t work well on your confidence and you had half a mind to tell Elvis to tell the press to quit taking your picture and writing about you.
Now, you were being called all these new names. Scandalous names. Sexy names. You couldn’t wrap your mind around it, were you average or not?
Over the last several weeks, you supposed, things had changed. You were noticing a different interpretation of you in the newspapers. They started, before the whole sex kitten stuff, calling you chic and a marvel.
Your claim to fame started changing. You were Elvis’s girlfriend, Elvis’s ex, and now they were calling you by name. You started to wonder how long this fascination would linger for, if they world would stop caring about you anytime soon or if they’d stay stuck on you forever. You were just a girl, a secretary from the South. What was so special about you?
Then the latest article came out. Sex kitten. Bombshell. It caught you so off guard you nearly called Graceland, the phone number still ingrained in your mind, but then Joel walked in the room and you fumbled to put the phone back down on the hook, hoping he hadn’t seen you thinking about calling at all.
What were they trying to turn you into? What were they trying to provoke?
You knew how the press liked to spin a story or write a false one that might instigate a real one. That’s why when you saw these latest head lines, Sex kitten, bombshell, you weren’t surprised. But this headline-
Really? Sex kitten? Bombshell? Really? You didn’t think your bikini was scandalous by any means. It was a simple pink gingham set, the bottoms rose to the top of your hips and the top cupped your breast nicely without displaying much cleavage. Your stomach was out and sure, it was toned and nice. You’d worked out quite a bit after Elvis, and really, it’s true, you were in the best shape ever. Your revenge on Elvis, you like to think.
But still, your lip curled, disgust on your skin. It’s grotesque. The way these papers spoke about you—it was downright criminal. Sex kitten? God, who came up with that one? Bombshell? Maybe you’d accept the compliment of that one sooner than sex kitten but God, to print that about someone in the newspaper?
You were bothered by their words. Disgusted. But realistically, not at all surprised. You’ve dealt with the press since you were eighteen now, meaning you’ve been involved with that world for eight years. The press very rarely bit their tongue with what they wanted to say during the 50’s, but now, it’s 1964 and they sure as hell aren’t following the dated censorships as tightly as they once had.
Saying “sex kitten” in the newspaper may not have been appropriate, but it certainly wasn’t restricted.
You rolled your eyes. After years of being called “the Good Wife,” and “the hometown girl,” both titles far more reserved than the ones you’ve been receiving as of late, you were bothered by the sudden switch up. Not surprised. But bothered.
Seeing those words about you in 1956 would have brought you to your knees in tears praying to the Lord for forgiveness. You were a good girl, a very good girl, who was naive and shielded from the world, vulnerable to the criticisms that came.
Back then the press didn’t write too much of you. They wanted to, but they didn’t have much to say. Your relationship with Elvis back then was pretty quiet. Other than your first spotting at Club Handy, where a reporter happened to snap a photo of you and the rock’n’roller, your relationship wasn’t in the limelight. Elvis left the city to see you on the farm most of the time, where you were secluded and removed from society’s claws.
Or, when you were in Memphis, you were either at Graceland or at work. When you were at work, you did just that: work. Nothing scandalous ever came of it. The press didn’t have much to write about a secretary. When you were in college, you didn’t go out much. You were in an on again off again relationship with one of the biggest musicians in the country. You couldn’t be bothered with the mediocre boys your school had to offer. You’d already tasted the best, why would you settle for less?
Really, you didn’t give the press much to talk about. Elvis came back from Germany and the pair of you were pretty permanent. You were also almost a permanent structure at Graceland—barely leaving the grounds for purposes other than work (which you only did twice a week) or for travel (which was only to the farm in Southaven). You didn’t leave Graceland often when Elvis wasn’t there, simply because you had no one to share any experiences with.
Sure, you could’ve phoned Clara or Diane or even Jimmie if you were really desperate. But you’d felt long and disconnected from the girls you once called your friends, and you didn’t have the heart to burden your dear brother with your boredom.
You’d stay at Graceland and garden, or cook, or read, or swim.
Even when Elvis was home, you barely left Graceland. The only times you could remember leaving was when he’d rent out a cinema house for an evening and screen some of your favorite films. You couldn’t do much without making an event of it, and after months in Hollywood being made an event of himself, Elvis really just wanted peace… and to make love to his favorite girl.
The pair of you would stay at home, with the curtains drawn, and your clothes strewn across the floor more often than not. Elvis would fuck you through the night, turning the pair of you into nocturnal animals that didn’t see the sun until well into the afternoon.
Now, if the press knew that, they’d have called me these names back then and not know, you thought, lips pursed at the thought and brow piqued at the memories.
You can remember waking up next to Elvis. A sliver of sunlight coming in from the curtains and lighting up his cheek. He liked to keep the curtains drawn in his room at Graceland, and you didn’t mind it much. The darkness kept you two from the real world, it was a space where your fantasy life could be easily maintained.
Growing up on the farm, you’d wake up before the sun most days. When the roosters would cluck and the cows would moo. At Graceland, you slept in, your body a part of the mattress, your body a part of him.
He’d draw you in, humming into your ear, awake but feigning sleep, long thick eyelashes gently drawn closed. His arms would surround you, fingers on your naked stomach, chin in the space between your neck and exposed shoulders.
It was innocent and you liked it that way.
You’d turn in his arms, pressing your head into his chest, holding him closer. The warmth between you was more than physical heat. It was a type of cosmic love and it was all consuming.
Both of your eyes closed, him pretending to sleep, you pretending to sleep, you’d stay there forever if you could. No words spoken, just the two of you lying heart to heart in silence said more than words could.
But it wasn’t always innocent. You’ve woken up to his morning wood many times, a special treat prodding your behind. Without speaking words to each other, you both knew what to do, and he’d slot his cock between your folds, still wet from the night before, or the early morning hours, and you’d rock back and forth lazily.
That was some of your favorite sex. The morning sex where neither of you felt like fucking but still ached to touch. The slowness, the gentleness, the softness of his touch, of his strokes, of his thrusts, turned you on in so many electric ways. It wasn’t animalistic, it was like small waves crashing to shore.
If only the press knew that Elvis would keep you up in his bedroom for weeks when he was home, cock buried inside of you every chance he could get. Then they’d have a real reason to call you a sex kitten.
But with Joel, Joel who was nice, Joel who was your boss, Joel who was your distraction, things didn’t get very far. Beyond heavy petting and kissing, you and Joel weren’t a very sexual couple.
You weren’t really a couple, but rather two adults who were seeing each other. He wasn’t your boyfriend.
But the press didn’t know that, and the press didn’t know that you two didn’t have sex, and the press thought that because you looked sexier than ever that you had to be fucking someone.
But the only person you ever fucked was Elvis, and you missed it.
If there was one thing you were certain about, it was that Elvis Presley would be the one you wanted forever…. at least sexually.
Right now, at three months out of your relationship, you were pretty convinced, by no one other than yourself, that there would be no getting back together romantically. After everything he put you through, you finally pulled it together and realized the weight of his actions and the name of his game.
You needed to respect yourself. No more falling for his eyes and your dreams.
But sexually—God, you missed him.
You woke up from a dream one night, it was the first night in your new new room in New York actually, and it was a quiet early night. You slept in a big cold bed in a big unfamiliar apartment and in your dreams, he came to you. And he came in you.
It was raw passion. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I love you, I love you,” as he pounded into you. You were sticky against him, your hands around his neck holding him as close as could be. His hand in your hair, woven into the long locks, tugging. Kissing urgently, tongues clashing, teeth smashing. Hand on your hip holding you steady.
“I wanna make you a mama,” he said in your dream. You nodded repeatedly, hips bucking up to meet his, begging for him to release inside of you. “I wanna make you a mama so the whole world knows you’re mine and I’m yours.”
You growled, animalistic.
“I’m coming, baby,” he groaned, spilling his seed deep inside of you.
But then you woke up, sweaty and unfamiliar with your room, completely forgetting where you were. You patted the bed searching for Elvis but the covers were untouched on his side, and there was light from the city coming through your blinds that didn’t feel like the mid day sun on Graceland. You swallowed and realized where you were and wished you hadn’t woken up at all.
After that, you thought about going out and finding someone that you could flirt a nights worth with and then take them back, but you knew you weren’t the type to do that, no matter how much you wanted to change.
You were too shy, too reserved, too proud for that kind of behavior.
You rolled your eyes and huffed dramatically. Sex kitten my ass.
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Later that day, after hiding the embarrassing headlines from Joel and dressing for the day, you and Joel head south to LA.
You were anxious about the trip, a pit in your stomach. Los Angeles was sure to be far from distracting for you. That’s where you knew Elvis to spend most of his time these days, and where you knew the paparazzi would find you first.
But you didn’t want to throw a wrench in Joel’s plans, which he had apparently schemed up before the trip began because he really wanted to show you around.
You went along with it all, despite the dread consuming your body.
You had to admit, after driving for a bit, that it was very sweet, and began to relax as he drove up the drive towards the Griffith Observatory. You were in awe at the view. It felt like you could see all of California, all the US, the whole world. You were liberated in that moment, astonished and amazed. But also angry and confused.
How could he never take me here? Him. Elvis. How could he keep all of this from you? How could he keep you trapped inside that house in Memphis?
You tried to push it down and enjoy your excitement but then you turned around and saw that big sign, the huge one, the white one with all those letters. The Hollywood sign.
Your lip curled. You hated Hollywood.
The rest of the day was a similar rollercoaster. You were excited and then angry, excited and then angry. Every time Joel brought you some place new, you realized Elvis had been there before, without you.
For Joel you masked the pain, but inside you wanted to wire Elvis’s neck.
Joel booked a hotel in Los Angeles. A nice one apparently, that a lot of famous people frequented apparently.
You groaned internally. Seeing famous people was the very last thing you needed, especially since the most famous person of all was your most recent ex.
You swallowed, worried, unsure. You told yourself they won’t even recognize me. Will they? You’ve seen all the tabloid covers of all the Hollywood stars and watched the pictures they stared in and listened to the records they produced. You were famous adjacent. Back home in Tennessee everyone knew who you were. The pool of people that spotted you wasn’t very big. You were somewhat of a local celebrity, and you were even one in New York too, where people recognized you on your block. You could blend in there a bit more because it was so busy and so full of people, but the places you frequented always recognized you.
But here, without Elvis holding your hand, would they even give you a second glance? Did you even have anything to be nervous about? If no one knew you, would it be that bad.
You thought that it would. What’s worse than people recognizing you, is you recognizing other people and not being able to express that you know them because they don’t know you and just watching them the whole time, pretending you don’t know them.
Your stomach turned. Why was Joel bringing you there? I thought this was supposed to be a getaway from all of that. As he drove, the sun setting just behind his head, you glanced at him, taking in his handsome appearance.
Was he trying to impress you? Show you that he can be a part of that life too?
That would be naive of you to think.
Was he using you to get close to fame? Did he want the paparazzi to show up everywhere you went? Did he like the headlines and newspaper articles?
That would be wrong and awfully accusatory of you to think.
Surely you weren’t that big of a deal that some guy would only date you for your mediocre fame… right?
You swallowed your paranoia and followed him into the hotel, where you were immediately overwhelmed by the opulence that surrounded you.
The farm wasn’t like this. The apartment wasn’t like this. Hell, even Graceland wasn’t like this.
You felt very out of place. Sure, you were dressed fine enough for it. In your ivory accordion shift. Your hair was done fine, with subtle volume and bounce, a small white flower tucked behind your ear. Your short slingback heels were classy, you thought. Your makeup was done nicely, in a classic 1960’s style that you knew to be popular, and you were carrying a nice round handbag with a wooden handle, your sunglasses removed from your eyes and held in your small gloved hand.
But around you, you felt so small. The ceilings were high and trimmed with gold. The plants were tall and leafy, making it feel like you’d entered a jungle of sorts.
The receptionists were in matching black dress suits, the concierge was in a bow tie, the bellhops wore golden epaulets.
You weren’t sure if the woman at the desk had recognized you or not. If she did, she didn’t say anything, and for that you were grateful.
Maybe I could have a life without Elvis Presley.
But that thought only made you feel sick to your stomach. Was a life without Elvis what you really wanted?
You could remember a time before Elvis, when you were just a girl on a farm. Then, life with Elvis, when you were a young woman deeply in love with the most serendipitous man you could ever meet. You had no expectations for your relationship, shocked to the core that it’d even begun at all. Hell, you were shocked to ever even have met Elvis Presley.
That night he stopped at the gas station was a one in a million chance situation. You never thought you’d see him that night and couldn’t imagine ever seeing him again. But then you did, and it felt like all of the pieces were falling into place.
You didn’t want a life without Elvis. You wanted a life without Elvis Presley, you thought. You just wanted your Elvis, not the world’s Elvis and not the one he pretended to be all the time.
That’s a selfish thought to have. You were constantly reprimanding yourself and your thoughts. Immediately regretting thinking them.
You thought maybe you were going crazy. Always paranoid, always questioning and imagining scenarios. But you couldn’t help it. You wanted to be selfish.
You remember asking him once what life would have been like if he wasn’t famous. Would you ever have met?
You were in bed. It was quiet. The only sound was the soft hum of the night beyond your window. The curtains were drawn per usual and the pair of you were lying against one another. Your head on his chest, his fingers twirling strands of your hair.
“E,” you cooed real quiet, real sweet, not lifting your head to look at him.
“Baby,” he replied, his voice quiet too, low and soft, matching yours.
You gulped. You didn’t want to upset him with your question, but it had been sitting on your chest for quite some time now and you really just wanted to get it out.
He was back from Germany, back from filming G.I. Blues in California, he was yours entirely. Your relationship in its state of permanence, the one you agreed to finally maintain even while he was away, was a new concept to keep up with. All the times he’d leave for tour or filming before, you’d break up. Now, you were working on keeping it permanent.
Your relationship felt different than normal. Before, it felt like a friendship that allowed kisses and touches and words of affection.
But now, you were together together, and it felt different, like you didn’t quite know how to act with each other the same way you did before. Eventually you’d get over it, but at that very moment, it felt fragile and fresh and something you wanted to protect, so this question that you had, this silly little thought that was nipping at your neck, you were nervous to ask.
There must have been something about the silence of the moment, about the purity of the relationship, of the sweetness in your stance. You two weren’t having sex yet, but you were sleeping together, and you weren’t thinking of having his babies but you were thinking about marrying him. You wanted to know what your future together would look like, and that made you think about a lot of things.
Like, for instance, what life would be like if Elvis Presley wasn’t Elvis Presley.
“Do you-do you think that,” you paused, voice softening, composing your thoughts, “do you ever think about what our life would be like, um, if you weren’t, y’know, famous and all?”
You could feel him stiffen under you, his fingers stopped twirling your hair. Your heart rate picked up, and it took a minute before he started wrapping your hair around his finger again, clearly deep in thought.
“Well, baby,” his voice low, careful, “I think that if I wasn’t famous it woulda been a little different how we met.”
“Right, of course,” you replied. “You never woulda been in that car on the way to Memphis stoppin’ for gas at my daddy’s station.”
“That’s right,” he nodded, sighing. There was a moment of silence and then: “But we probably woulda met at Club Handy.”
You nodded, hopeful this time that he would imagine yourselves soulmates; no matter what timeline you were in, you’d wind up together.
“On my birthday,” you smiled.
“On your birthday, baby,” he said. He pressed a kiss to the top of your head. “Think we woulda been married by now.”
Your heart sank into your stomach. You were twenty-three and your heart was set on marrying soon. You were raised in the South with Southern ideals and beliefs ringing in your ears. You went to church every Sunday and you wanted to get married. At twenty-three, you were surprised you hadn’t already been, but you knew the reason why you weren’t clear as day: you were holding out for Elvis. There wasn’t anyone else you would even think about marrying, and you knew deep down that Elvis wasn’t the marrying type, at least not yet. So, you’d wait until he was ready, save yourself for him, and it was okay.
But that thought—what he had said. “Think we woulda been married by now.” It really did break your little heart. To think that to Elvis Presley, you would be married if it weren’t for fame made you just want to break down and cry.
Your life surrounded him. You would’ve married him no matter what. But he would only marry you if it weren’t for the fame.
You felt real crummy, real ashamed and embarrassed, but you didn’t want to say anything or bring it up or confront him on it. Too shy, too reserved, too proud to do that. So you let him keep talking and it seemed to you that he wasn’t even conscious of the implications of his words, because he just kept talking, talking like he was drawing up some splendid imagination that would make you melt in his hands instead of wrench at the gut.
“Get married in your church.”
“Maybe B.B. would sing.”
“Probably stay on the farm. Build you and I a small cottage on the grounds, away from your parents and Jimmie. Maybe start a milk stand on the side of the road… or a corn one during the right season.”
“Or maybe we’d stay in Memphis, and we’d get a little groove going, you and I, teaching choir lessons to kids at the church. Singing at Beale street clubs on the weekend.”
“Probably have a baby by now.”
You were pretty sure that was the sentence he spoke that triggered your baby thoughts and desires. In another life, another version of you already had all that. You were intensely jealous of her.
“Name it Annabelle or Cassie.”
“Or, Danny if it’s a boy.”
He was having these thoughts? Was it on the spot he’s making up these baby names? Or was he really having these thoughts for some time now, imagining them in his head?
You kept listening to the life you’d have together if things were different and with each sentence he spoke, a new pang of pain pinched your heart. You wanted to keep in good spirits, maintain his energy and spark of joy as he drew out these scenarios like a little kid. But it was hard to keep up when all you wanted to do was cry and beg for him to disappear from the industry and run away with you.
So, you listened instead and grew envious of the couple that lived in his scenarios, wishing that you had met Elvis before he was Elvis and that you coulda kept him all to yourself.
You were happy, though, that even in these scenarios that you two had met. For a while, you were nervous he would have said you’d probably not even be together at all.
Now, walking through this opulent hotel with Joel, you were imagining life without Elvis again. Would you ever have met Joel? Would you ever have been in this hotel? Your life without Elvis was a scary place, one that you didn’t want to imagine anymore. But life with Elvis without the allure and glamour of Elvis Presley was your happy place.
You sighed, following Joel to the elevator, hand in hand, head down to avoid eye contact with anyone, and thought, I wouldn’t ever be here or anywhere but Southaven, Mississippi, if it weren’t for Elvis Presley.
You were happy for that reason. Happy you made it out to Memphis. Happy you made it out to New York. And happy even, despite all the turbulence that led you there, to be in California, though you wished deep down that it were with Elvis instead.
Joel was nice, though, you had to remind yourself, you were grateful for him, attracted to him, happy to be there with him, and he brought you here out of the goodness of his heart.
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Or so you thought.
Joel Standard, you learned, knew a whole lot of famous adjacent people. Producers. Friends of producers. Casting directors. Friends of casting directors.
No actors or singers or musicians directly, but the friends of them, or the agents of them, or, what you knew to be a personal experience, the ex-girlfriends of them.
The night with Joel at the hotel in Los Angeles started out nicely. Your room was gorgeous and he kissed you softly as you gazed out the large window overlooking Hollywood.
There was a bottle of champagne waiting for you and you sipped it slowly as he changed into a suit and tie.
He’d had a dress delivered for you to wear. An elegant, low cut dress that just shouted Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. You were okay with wearing it, but slightly uncomfortable at the same time. You’d worn curve hugging, figure accentuating dresses before; Beth showed you her collection and begged you to try them on during your first week at the girls’ house. When you were younger, Clara used to bring home dresses from her aunt’s shop on Beale Street and you two would play pretend in them for hours.
But you never really wore one of them out. At least, not until now. Your going out dresses were usually modest but fashionable shifts, or hoop skirt dresses that cinched at the waist.
You were sitting at dinner with Joel in a dress that you never would have picked out before at a table full of backstage Hollywood heads worried that maybe Joel’s intentions weren’t really all that good.
Every conversation at the dinner table was over some new feature or the latest Beach Blanket Bingo picture or talk about the budget on that one, eh?. Joel was in the financial world and he always liked to talk investments and funding and all types of money speak you didn’t understand. With these guys, who were looking to get loans from the bank to make some noir action spy flick, he was talking business nonstop.
And you, you were sat there real pretty with your dress cut low and your hair pinned and your face powdered like a doll. Eye candy. A mannequin. No thoughts or contributions to conversation.
You wondered if Joel brought you there to make you happy or to seal the deal with a guy with the producer with a wondering eye. Kept looking at you, distracted, ready to say yes to anything.
Then, a reporter stopped by your table, asking to take a picture. You frowned at the question but smiled at the camera, and the next day you woke up to find your face in the papers again.
It was bothersome to say the least, that you went through all this trouble, all this travel, just to remain in the headlines, the exact space you were hoping to run away from.
It didn’t get much better come night time, when Joel pulled out another dress for you: a soft pink one with a tulle skirt. You thought it to be more your style and were pleased at least by that, but when he took your head and led you out of the car, you were beyond anxious. He took you to a nice lounge where people sat in private booths and a singer came out every half hour. It was swanky and busy and loads of people were there. Every person you passed, it seemed, held a long stare at you, immediately recognizing you. Press were there, snapping pictures as you stepped out of the car, following you to your table, invading your privacy.
Then, the next day, you went back to Malibu. It was your final day in California and you were ready to go home. You were all packed and ready and spent the day avoiding Joel, who was perfectly content making business call after business call.
He’d left around noon for a business lunch when the phone rang. You thought about letting, Rose, the housekeeper, answer but for some reason you were drawn to its ringing and picked up.
“…Y/N?”
Your heart stopped.
“Elvis?”
How the hell’d he get this number?
“Hi, baby.”
You were still, silent, peeked over your shoulder to make sure no one was around and pressed your body against the wall to lean into the phone call.
“How did you get this number?”
“Been seeing your picture all around me, Y/N. Who is he?”
“Elvis, how’d you get this number?”
“Baby, who is he?”
“Elvis… I’m not your baby anymore.”
It hurt to say that out loud. After months of not speaking, all you wanted to say was I love you but instead you resigned to maintaining your pride, self-respect, and forced hatred of Elvis Presley.
“Can I see you tonight?”
Your heart leaped. Your blood pumped faster.
“That’s not a very good idea.”
You gulped. You needed to stay strong.
“I need to see you.”
“Elvis, I can’t do that. I’m-I’m-I’m here with…someone else.” You didn’t want to mention Joel’s name. You couldn’t bear saying another man’s name out loud right now.
“You’re in Malibu?”
“Yes, I’m in Malibu.”
“I’ll drive out there right now. You sneak away from him and come see me.”
“Elvis, no.” Your voice was more defiant than it was before.
“You ain’t never been to California before. I wanna show ya something.”
Those words made your blood boil, and you started pacing the hall so long as the wire on the phone would let you go.
“You ain’t never invited me to California before, Elvis. Kept me locked up in that house. Kept me at an arm's length away.” You didn’t know what came over you but you couldn’t keep it in anymore. You had to fight for yourself, stand up to him, tell him how you felt for once in your life, not afraid of breaking his fragile image of you. “I’m not letting you back into my life, Elvis. Not for you to mess it all up playing your little games and making me look all stupid. You can keep livin’ your Hollywood movie star life and I’ll live mine, but we ain’t gonna live ‘em together ever again. I’m done playing second fiddle.”
He was silent on the other end, listening to you go on.
“Now, you have a good day, Elvis. And tell the damn press to leave me alone.” With that, you hung up the phone with a slam and tore the newspaper down the middle.
The press, of course, did not leave you alone…
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authors note: hi yall!! thank you so crazy much for all of the love and likes and reblogs on part one. i was definitely not at all expecting this to blow up like it did but am eternally grateful to see you all enjoying it. thank you all for waiting for part two and i hope you enjoy. there will definitely be a part three to this as well so look forward to that in the future
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Take Good Care of Her (PT.1)
Pairing: Elvis or Austin!Elvis x fem!reader
Warnings: 18+, smut, angst, fluff, comfort, LONG, sexual intercourse, oral (female receiving), nipple play, fingering, virgin reader, loss of virginity, breeding kink, horny ass reader, 1950s period typical ideas, elvis being a hound dog, naive reader, innocent reader, people overhear, caught but they don’t realize, jealous elvis, possessive elvis, possessive reader, domestic life
Summary: Reader recalls moments during her relationship with Elvis from her newfound spot as one of Elvis Presley’s many exes.
Part Two
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Being an ex of the one and only Elvis Presley was no rare thing. The man has had his share of women in his life. More than he’d like to admit as a good Southern boy, a believer of the Lord, a singer of gospel tune.
You were just one of many, as the tabloids would proclaim and the rumors around Hollywood would say.
All those actresses. All those models. And you, you were just another number.
Are Elvis and Y/N calling it quits after their longtime romance in Memphis? you remember the article read, and then it continued to say: Small town girl, Y/N, can’t compete with the likes of Ann Margret.
You remember reading that article clear as day, a lump lodged in your throat, your stomach sick as a dog. Sitting at the breakfast table, trying to enjoy your meal, when your eyes found your face on the front page of the entertainment section. It was buried to the bottom of the newspaper pile, and you’d spent a minute digging around for it, wondering what your mother’d done with it. But once you laid eyes on it, you knew exactly what she was trying to conceal from you and you immediately regretted poking around for the trashy article.
You knew it was just that—some silly gossip page with no sound proof. It was all just bait, right?
That picture of you Elvis was sweet, taken during a trip to the cinema house. The paparazzi had stopped you and asked for a picture and you were so nervous you didn’t know what to do. You were looking up at the star, your hand clutched in his, and he was looking out at the crowd, protecting you. The headline surely didn’t match the image. You resounded that there couldn’t have been any truth in the title.
But then you flicked to the next page and found a picture of Elvis—your Elvis—with actress Ann Margret in his lap, his face buried in the crook of her neck, toothy grin wide as could be, and you grew worried that there was some truth in what the article’d said after all.
Your hands let the paper gently down on the table, shaking as you pulled them down to your lap, and took a long breath, a long, shakey, uneven breath. I’m not gonna cry, I’m not gonna cry. This ain’t even real. This is not happening again.
You’d like to believe it wasn’t. Your eyes burned holes into the paper, staring at her, that beautiful, flawless, long legged Hollywood star. And him. Smiling that toothy grin that you adored so. He looked absolutely enamored by her.
Slowly, you reached back up and closed the paper, only to find your face, small and baby-like, Y/E/C eyes wide and naive, staring up at Elvis like he was God. You gulped real hard.
Reality was hitting.
You looked at Elvis like he was the sun and that picture really proved that you may have adored him more than he ever could you. He wasn’t even looking at you, staring pensive in the distance, but you were looking at him with stars in your eyes.
Another long shaky breath fell from your lips. You flipped the newspaper over entirely, exposing to your eyes only the drive-in listings and coca-cola ads. If you can’t see it, it’s not real. You can convince yourself so, just as long as you cannot see it.
But… it was real. It was real this time.
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That very same day you received a phone call. Well, your mama did. You weren’t in but they’d asked for you. You’d gone to get some air, driving along somewhere in the country, clearing your head out.
When you came home, your mother was walking about like the floor was made of eggshells. She grinned real strange when you opened the front door, removing your driving scarf and placing your keys on the hook.
“Elvis called,” she said, never not smiling, a sympathetic glimmer in her eyes.
You smiled tightly, humming in response. “Oh?”
“Yes, yes, honey. Said he’s comin’ back to Memphis next week and would like it if you’d be at Graceland when he gets there.” The way she said it, real prim, real proper, concise and closed—you knew she knew. She wasn’t leaving much room to wiggle.
You nodded simply, not daring to look her in the eyes, and began for the stairs. “If he calls again, tell him I moved to Bermuda please.”
Your mama laughed. “Y/N… Bermuda?”
You swallowed your sadness and said from the top of the stairs, “Yes. That way if he goes looking for me, he’ll get sucked into the Bermuda triangle forever.”
You heard her sharp inhale and knew some type of scolding was coming your way but you didn’t care much for whatever she was going to say. You needed to be dramatic, and so you did, quickly rushing into your room and closing the door before she could say a word.
That was nearly three months ago. Now, you’re officially just another ex of Elvis.
You weren’t expecting all of the attention that dating him in the first place had attracted to stick around after you’d split up. You thought your little life would snap back into place, that you’d stretched your rubber band just enough to break, and that you would go much further than you’d gone. The height of your life and fame was when you were Elvis’s woman. The normal girl. The farm girl. The small town girl. The Memphis girl.
You weren’t even from Memphis. You weren’t even from Tennessee. You and Elvis didn’t meet in Memphis, but the newspapers didn’t know that. They just saw you as some chick he met on Beale Street. They didn’t know nothing about your relationship, really, but they loved to put your picture in their papers, make sure the world knew what Elvis’s ex looked like.
You were from Southaven, in Mississippi, where your family had a farm, there was one small grocer in the small strip of town, one school, one shop, and you were the prettiest girl for miles.
Your daddy ran a gas station on the farm and that was also the only thing for miles. Elvis was returning to Graceland after a long few weeks performing and touring. He was coming off a show at West Point, where he sung for an airshow in support of the troops.
His car’d stopped for gas at the only place they could find: your daddy’s station. It was your brother, Jimmie, pumping that night and you were told by your mama to deliver him sandwiches and coca-cola to keep him up.
So you prepared his sandwiches, peanut butter and fluff, and snuck some caramel candies into the bag, coke bottles clinking in your basket, and made your way from the farmhouse down the path to the gas station.
The sight you saw when you arrived you could not comprehend. You had to blink twice, thrice, four times to be sure you were seeing straight. Is that Elvis Presley?
Sure enough it was. He shook your hand and smiled at you softly. That night neither of you said much. They were in a rush to get back and he wasn’t really supposed to get outta the car even, he just needed a breather and did it anyway.
“Cars so stuffy could hardly breathe,” you heard him cracking on with your brother, who you knew to be a goofball. He was easy to joke with. All his friendships were automatic.
You were harder to crack, and it proved so that night, when Elvis ducked back into the car and smiled at you and you could hardly bring yourself to smile back.
You beat yourself up over that one. You were probably never going to see him again and you ruined your one chance to talk to him because you were what? Shy? Reserved? Proud? You didn’t know.
What the papers and the world think happened didn’t happen until a week after that. It was your birthday. Ironically, it was also the fourth of July.
You were turning eighteen. Your friends, Clara and Diane, knew the best place to go, and so blindly, you went. You packed your bag and kicked back in the backseat of Diane’s Chevy convertible. It was a road trip, the three of you would stay overnight, which your mama didn’t like, which was why your brother and his friends were following behind. You’d all get rooms at a hotel in a nice neighborhood. That’s what you told her.
Really, Clara and Diane had plans to take you to Beale Street, a strip of town that your parents would most definitely not approve of. Jimmie wasn’t even sure it was a great idea, but once he heard the music and saw the women, he was swiftly persuaded.
And that was the night you saw Elvis again. It was called Club Handy. Clara knew someone important there apparently, cousins with the owner or something. You didn’t quite know and you didn’t quite care. Your eyes had opened for the first time that night, it felt like, as you watched the singers sing and the people swing, the music roar to life.
You hardly knew how to dance, so when Elvis came in, eyes dark and angry, whispering something to the man Clara knew, you were standing real small against a wall.
Jimmie was dancing with some girl. His friends were chatting up the bartender. Clara and Diane were smoking and drinking, acting like they knew what they were doing. You were taking it in from a far.
“What’re ya doin’, wallflower?” was the first thing he said to you that night. His voice low, charming, his Southern drawl thick.
Your eyes flicked to him. Your mouth ran dry. You didn’t know what to say. Suddenly you were on fire, anxious butterflies in your stomach.
“How’d ya escape the farm?” he asked, humor in his tone.
Your smile broke out, soft and polite. “It’s ma birthday, Mr. Presley. I’m here with my friends to celebrate.” You blushed, nodding to your friends.
“Well, happy birthday, Miss…”
“Y/N”
He nodded, smiling, “Happy birthday, Miss Y/N. And please, call me Elvis.”
“Okay. Elvis it is,” you said looking down to your feet to avoid his burning gaze.
He laughed. You were awkward, but he kind of liked that. “Let me get you a drink, Y/N,” he offered, and your head immediately jerked up.
“Oh, you don’t haveta,” you bumble, “I mean, I don’t even-I’ve never-I”
“You’re a pretty girl, Y/N, don’t tell me you ain’t never had a man offer to buy you a drink before.” He chuckled, still amused. You had to explain to him all about your lack of exposure and human shield of a mother. You’d never drank before, much less been in a place that you could get a drink, let alone been in a place where a man could offer to get you one.
But Elvis Presley called you pretty and you were sure you were blushing fiercely, so you allowed him to get you one nonetheless. “Something easy to start me off, please,” you’d asked him, and he chuckled again.
For weeks after that, Elvis would either come to your family farm “for gas” or because he “just happened to be driving in this direction and thought what the hell, a visit won’t hurt.” He was pursuing you.
It played with your nerves a bunch. He was a rockstar, you were just somebody’s daughter. You helped pack crates with milk bottles and planted flowers along your family home. You were planning to go to college. You really wanted to go too, for clerical studies, so you could get a job in a city and be somebody’s secretary in a big building anywhere you wanted. You weren’t sure what you could do with your life as a woman beyond that, so your dreams weren’t plentiful and they weren’t mighty either.
But Elvis Presley wanted you, and so you followed him to Graceland where he wooed you until you finally agreed to going steady with him, despite your mama’s worries and your brother’s warnings. Elvis had just performed at Russwood Park, where he rebelled against the world and wiggled. It wasn’t that your family didn’t like his dancing; they just didn’t think all those herds of girls throwing themselves in his direction would benefit you at all. “Men are easy to tempt,” your brother’d said. “Speaking as one…”
You wish you listened. You stayed with Elvis for some time. But it was on and off really. He got busy. He got more famous. And you got busy too, you went to school, started working in downtown Memphis at an ad agency. You were very into your studies, plus on the weekends you’d have to work on the farm. When you found time for each other, you were surely with each other.
Then, he went to Germany. Shipped away, wrapped in dark green. They cut his hair, shaved his chin real close. You saw him the night before he left. He asked you to stay at Graceland with him.
You thought maybe you’d give it to him that night—you know, it.
You hadn’t done it yet, even though you’d been going together off and on for years.
You’d done other things, sort of. Mostly it was above the belt, him groping you, heavy petting, lips smacking, tongues licking, teeth biting. He’d left a large hickey on your left breast once, right above where your bra cup was. His hand had slipped into your right bra cup, his fingers tweaking your nipple, pinching it, while his lips sucked the flesh of your left breast into his mouth.
You were really hot and bothered that night. He’d never, no one’d ever, touched you like that. You didn’t know pinching your nipples could even get you reacting like that, or that the feeling of his lips anywhere other than your mouth would feel so raw, so real, so unearthly.
That and the feeling of his crotch grinding against your thigh, a hand clutching your waist, you were feeling spiritual.
When you woke up the next morning to find a large bruise-like shape on your breast, you were shocked. Kissing could do that?
You called Elvis and asked him about it. He did nothing but laugh.
After that, he was committed to showing you new things while preserving your honesty.
Genuinely, he wanted to keep you pure, so every time he’d stick his fingers in your dripping hole, he’d make sure you’d keep your skirt on, covering his hand so that you wouldn’t see any of the dirty ministrations he was playing on your soft cunt.
Your sweet eyes didn’t deserve to see the pumping of his fingers inside of you, the stretching of your little pussy, the rubbing of his thumb on your sensitive bud, but he wanted to make you feel good, especially after seeing how hot and needy you’d get every time you’d make out.
He never intended to let it go any further than making out. Okay, he knew he was going to touch your chest, but the way you squirmed against him, like you truly needed it, had him getting dirtier than he should have been.
But the under the skirt stuff only happened a handful of times. Really, it mostly was above the belt.
The night you saw him off to Germany, you went in thinking it would happen. It. You’d make love in his bedroom upstairs at Graceland.
But it didn’t.
There was an intimate family dinner, but it felt more somber than you’d liked. His mother, Gladys, had passed away just one month before. There was an empty seat at the table where she should have sat.
After dinner, you spent a quiet evening in the living room. He played something nice on the piano, singing softly. One song he asked you to join him on, and you were reluctant but did so anyway. His family never heard you sing before. No one ever had but the people at church, and even then they never heard you solo. You were a part of the choir and knew some hymns and that was it, nothing powerful or fierce. Just some soft church songs. It was beautiful to sing together, you felt like your souls had intertwined.
Then his family went to bed and you and him sat in the living room singing.
“You wanna stay the night?” he asked, low. His voice was kind, familiar.
Your heart ached in that moment, realizing just how familiar he had grown to you. It was comfortable and it was habitual at this point to be near him, just natural. When he wasn’t around, it felt like you had to relearn how to operate.
“I’ll stay,” you whispered back, nose touching his, foreheads pressing against each other. His lips were hovering just above yours, parted very slightly. Your bodies had melted into each other, right there on the piano bench.
And so you stayed, and you followed him up the stairs that night, your heart beating and ready to leave behind a part of you that you’d kept caged up for a long time. You were twenty now, and you were sure you were ready. You thought your innocence would stay on that piano bench forever. You took a deep breath as he pushed open the door to his room.
He closed the door behind you, cupping your cheeks in his hands. You pressed your hands to his chest, looking up at him through your lashes. He kissed you with such passion in that moment, his lips soft and plump moving so perfectly with yours. His tongue slipped into your mouth, opening yours up and allowing him inside. He bit down onto your bottom lip, pulling it back.
“Elvis,” you whimpered.
He kissed you hard. His hand moved to your neck, his long fingers splayed across it. His other hand traced down your arm, then to the small of your back, where it fell and grabbed your ass. You moaned into his mouth, unexpecting of the sudden touch. He smiled into the kiss at your reaction.
He pulled back, hand still massaging your ass, other hand clasped your jaw, forehead pressed to yours. His eyes bore into yours, his lips hung open, breaths tumbling heavy out of his mouth.
“I love you.”
You two had said it before, during a fight after some jerk tried to chat you up at a baseball game and Elvis punched him. The guy was the shallow type, checking you out the whole game, waiting for Elvis to leave your side so he could swoop in. When he came up to you, you tried to wriggle away but he’d had you nearly cornered against the stands. Elvis found you like that and nearly chewed the guy's head off. You weren’t dating during that time, it was one of those “let’s just be friends” moments in between your spurts of being a couple. He was in Memphis only for a brief period before he had to go off and shoot some movie in Hollywood. He called you and invited you to a Memphis Chicks game. You got off of work and went, dropping everything to see him.
He said it that night, in the parking lot, in the car, after you yelled at him for getting in a fight with that guy.
“You can’t fight other guys over me, Elvis!”
“Like hell I can’t, Y/N! No guys gonna talk to my girl like that!”
You knew already that he was the possessive type. He’d been jealous before with you, angry when some guy would try to flirt with you, he’d hold you too close at Club Handy, making sure no guy had the opportunity to grab you even though everyone there already knew you were his girl, but it was never as it was in this moment.
“Elvis, I am not your girl. We are not together right now,” you shouted back. You immediately regretted it. There was hurt in his eyes.
He hung his head low. Nodding slow. His jet black hair fell over his forehead. Your reaction was immediate.
“I’m sorry,” you whispered. “I’m sorry,” you grabbed his hand and moved closer on the front bench of his cadillac. Your hand reached around to hold his cheek and move his face so he was looking at you again. His sad brooding eyes that you knew too well were enough to break a girl’s heart. You were certain yours had.
“Elvis, please, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t-I didn’t mean that,” you cupped his face. His hand reached up and wrapped around your wrist, gently pulling your hands off of him. He placed his large hand on your face, pulling it closer to his. His nose brushed yours.
You could feel his breath against your lips. Steady breaths, the rhythm of his breathing in tandem with the beating of his heart.
“Y/N, my wallflower, I want you to be my girl. I want you to be my girl forever, and-and I’m afraid the more we keep doing this, this, this on again and off again thing, it’ll blow up in our faces. I keep going further and further away from you and I’m-I’m afraid the distance is gonna drive us apart for good, baby.” Your mouth went dry, your heart stopped beating. “I love you,” he said. “I don’t ever wanna be apart from you.”
You said “I love you,” too, and that night you agreed to go steady. You had faith that it would work out this time, and it seemed like it really would, until he was forced to enroll in the army.
It hurt Elvis. The world didn’t love him for who he was. They wanted a different him, and going to the military, putting his life at risk, was the way to get into their good graces. He broke up with you because of it, though you knew he didn’t want to, but you knew it would be for the better. It was complicated, but Elvis was complicated.
On the night before he left for Germany, after he said those three words, he crumbled. He was crushed by this twist of fate, he didn’t want to be a soldier, he didn’t want to leave you. His mama had just died. His soul was taken from him. But he had to, and so you held him close to your heart and slept curled into one another, clinging to each other like your life depended on it.
And then the sun rose and you waved goodbye to him and didn’t see him again for two years.
That was the first time you were really deemed “Elvis’s ex.”
Opening the newspaper and seeing the name Priscilla Beaulieu in connection with Elvis Presley really threw you for a loop. He found someone else?
It hurt really bad that time. It was the first time ever you saw him with another girl since the pair of you met all those years ago, in 1956, when you were just seventeen bringing sandwiches to your brother. Sure, he was with other girls in movies and you were forced to see him kiss them, and sure, he was dancing on stage with throngs of women at his feet and you were forced to watch it happen. But those weren’t real. He was acting and performing.
You were certain that even when you weren’t “dating” that he was still with you at the heart. Whatever he did with his hips during your off again moments you didn’t want to know, and you really never did. The papers didn’t print hook ups, so you never experienced this feeling before.
What might The Good Wife, Y/N Y/L/N, do without him now?
The Good Wife?! You weren’t his wife! And that’s all they could come up with? Sure, you weren’t more than a secretary who cooked for her family, who were growing old and more than deserving of a warm meal mind you, and gardened on the weekends and cut sandwiches for her brother, but that didn’t make you some homemaker, stay at home, little housewife.
Did it? You gulped when you put the paper down. Was Elvis bored with me? For being so… simple?
Who was this Priscilla Beaulieu anyway? Some exotic French girl? You flipped the page over and your eyes bulged out of your head at the sight of her. Fourteen?! You felt like a heart attack was approaching as you slammed the paper shut, crunching it in your fist, and stormed off. What the hell could a fourteen year old have that I don’t?
“Screw Elvis Presley,” you fumed, shoving the paper into a bin.
That night you went out with friends looking to recover from the blow to your gut that was finding out Elvis—your Elvis—had a new girl. You weren’t exactly looking to find someone else, but you knew you were trying to seek revenge on Elvis, even if he would never know it happened.
You were tagged “Elvis’s ex,” though and too few men saw you as the girl you really were. They’d assumed that because you were Elvis the Pelvis’s girlfriend for so long that you’d for sure be one to lay. Most men you came into contact with during that time thought that, and you were livid each time when what you thought was a nice conversation would turn into an invitation back to their place.
Soon after, Elvis returned. You weren’t keen on seeing him right away and took every measure not to let him catch you on the phone or walking the streets of Memphis on the way to work. But it was inevitable. He came to your work and flirted his way past the front desk to get inside to you. That’s when he begged your boss to steal you for lunch early, his charm and celebrity sealing the deal. Against your will, he sat you in a booth at a diner and explained it all.
“Priscilla is just a little girl with a crush.”
“Those photos are out of context.”
You tried to be stubborn but his very presence pricked tears at your eyes. Besides, you were well aware that the press was good at spinning stories.
You agreed to seeing him for a date, and then another, and then another, and soon enough you were back to your normal life together.
Him jetting out to Hollywood to film a movie. Him getting on a bus and traveling for a show.
You putting on a blouse and blush in the morning, packing a lunch, and catching the bus into town. You were living at Graceland at this point, no longer living on the farm in Mississippi or at that shabby little apartment you rented during school.
Elvis wanted to come home to you, so he moved you into his home and it was quaint, for the most part. You moved into his bedroom, filled the drawers with your clothes, left your scent on the pillows.
He loved to sleep beside you. He loved to feel your body next to his. He loved to wake up next to you. He loved to smell your hair. He loved to put his head in the crook of your neck and kiss you lightly.
Living with Elvis was escape from reality. Living at Graceland was heaven. Especially when Elvis was actually there.
During that time in your life, Elvis was very busy. Like, very busy. He was making films left and right, performing shows left and right, completing every obligation that the Colonel and his friends requested of him. Elvis wasn’t home very often. He lived a lot in Hollywood, which saddened you, because you really did miss him much.
One time, you remember being alone at Graceland with no one but the staff, spending the day gardening, living in the big house, wishing he would just be your boyfriend, not the world's boyfriend.
But it couldn’t be possible. You knew it couldn’t.
But you could imagine what it would be like, to keep him to yourself, to wake up every single morning to his face, to his soft hair, to his arms around you. You imagined what it would be like to feel him embrace you from behind as you cook breakfast, lips on your neck, hands on your hips. For a split second your mind even dared to imagine a round belly on your body and a baby kicking inside it, his hands splayed across it, rubbing your pregnant stomach.
You swallowed that thought down quickly, fumbling with the watering can you were holding. You blushed. There’s no way that fantasy could come true. You weren’t gonna get pregnant any time soon, not with you still being a virgin.
You fumbled with the watering can again, wobbling as you stood up from the flowerbed you were kneeling down in. God, you didn’t want to be a virgin anymore. Thinking about having Elvis’s babies was something that you didn’t envision turning you on like it did, but it certainly worked.
You grabbed the can and started making your way to the front of the house. You flattened out your dress, shaking the thoughts of Elvis impregnating you out of your mind.
But your thoughts quickly came crashing back when you saw him, your man, your Elvis, leaning against his Cadillac, long black trouser-clad legs crossed over the other. The watering can was the first to fall, then the spade and shovel. You dropped all of your tools at the sight of him, too stunned.
His smile grew ten times the size. “Hi there, little mama.”
Your stomach turned. God, you missed him.
You ran to him, jumping into his arms, legs wrapped around his waist. His hands fell to your bum, holding you up.
“Woahhh, there, wallflower,” he chuckled, almost falling back at the sudden impact.
You placed kisses all over his face.
“Well, I missed you too, baby,” he cooed into your ear, pressing a big kiss to your cheek. He set you down and ran his hand through your hair, the other firm on your hip. “Let me get a look at ya, make sure this is all real.”
“I’m real. Are you real? You’re the one who’s been away so long.” You nearly cry, your eyes watering and lip quivering.
He pulls you in for a tighter hug. “Oh, baby, don’t cry. I’m home now, honey.”
“I know,” you said and nuzzled your head into his chest. “I just missed you.”
He pressed a gentle kiss to your forehead, humming against your skin. “Let’s go in.”
You nodded and untangled yourself from him. He grabbed a suitcase in one hand and yours in the other and guided you into the house in gentle silence.
The door clicked shut behind you. He turned to you, holding your hand, backing you against the wall slowly. You smiled up at him, eyelashes batting.
“Hi,” you cooed.
“Hi,” he replied just as soft. His hands gripped your hip, bunching your dress up a bit. You bit your lip, eyes flashing down to his perfect pink bows.
“So pretty today,” he bent his head down to your ear, whispering.
“Thank you,” you blushed, shivers sending down your spine at the feeling of his lips on your ear.
“What you been up to all pretty like this?” his lips touched the skin behind your ear, pressing a kiss to it before bringing his head back up to look at you.
“Just gardening,” you gulped.
He nodded, a smirk on his lips. “Yeah? My wallflower planting flowers.” He bent his head to the other side of your head now, lips touching your neck, wet and hot on your skin, barely touching, just grazing. You let your mouth hang open as his hips started slowly gyrating.
“Oh,” the quiet moan fell from your lips.
“Oh?” he repeated, mocking you softly. His kisses became more passionate, no more grazing. His tongue swiped across your skin, marking the spot he wants the most, before he opened his plump lips and began to suck.
“Gah,” you moaned. His hand tightened on your hip, his crotch pressed into you. You could feel the wetness in your panties, which were already damp from your previous thoughts. You rolled your hips against him, desperate for more. “Fuck,” you moaned. “Fuck, Elvis.” Your pussy was so wet.
He chuckled, sucking your neck one last time and then tugging it with his teeth before letting it go. “What’s got you so eager, baby?” His eyes looked into yours and he could see the desperation in them. Wide, dilated, hungry. “Fuck, baby, you need me, huh?”
You squirmed against him, nodding fervently. “Yes, please, Elvis. Need you please.”
He nodded, kissing you passionately, madly, deeply. Your hands wound their way into his hair, pulling him as closely as you could to you, needing to feel him. He bunched your skirt up some more, sneaking a hand beneath it and clamping down on your thigh.
“Up,” he whispered into your mouth, and you lifted your thigh to wrap around him. He nuzzled his body in between your thighs, opening your legs up around him. His hand felt up your lifted thigh, the other one holding you steady at the hip. Your skin was so soft, so smooth, so delicate. He hasn’t forgotten what it was like to be buried between your legs at night, lapping your sweet juices up, neck warmed by your thighs. His body between them was hot and urgent, his cock hard as a rock, he wanted to taste you. He’d longed to taste you, to lick you, to eat you for the past several months now. He’d take his cock in his hand at night and imagine you sitting on his face, small hands gripping his shoulders, hips moving uncontrollably and he kisses your cunt again and again, tongue tucked away into your tight hole.
He kissed your lips hard and passionate, moving them along down your jaw and neck. He dropped to his knees, letting your leg fall on his shoulder, your dress covering him. You felt his finger prod at your panties, deftly swiping them to the side. One single finger slid up your cunt, from your hole to your clit and back, swirling your juices around. Your body twitched, shivers down your spine.
“Oh, Elvis,” a moan came right from the back of your throat, so coarse, so thick, so coated in sex. You could feel wetness on your thigh, kisses trailing their way up to the top, to meet the apex that called for him.
You didn’t know what to do with your hands. He was under your dress, the wall was barely grabbable.
You began to bunch the dress up, trying to collect it so you could weave your fingers in his hair, see him on his knees for you, see his lips on your skin.
When you pulled your skirt up, letting the cold air grace the back of his neck, Elvis growled, biting down on your thigh. He pushed two surprise fingers into your cunt and began pumping without letting you adjust. You gasped out loud, dropping your dress instinctively.
“Elvis, oh my god,” you mewled.
He kissed quickly up the rest of your thigh, hand gripping the underside of your knee and holding it up to create more space for his head, and then he kissed your clit, fingers still pumping relentlessly into you. His tongue flicked out at it. You bit your lip, head falling back against the wall, eyes slammed shut.
“Oh my god, that feels so fucking good,” you moaned loudly. “Elvis, oh my fucking god.”
You couldn’t believe it. There you were in the foyer of the Graceland mansion, barely through front door, pressed against the wall with Elvis Presley on his knees eating you out like a man starving for food. Your leg propped up and over his shoulder, your body barely able to stay upright, turning more and more into jello by the second.
In the other room, one of the cooks, Mary, quietly poked her head around the archway, eyes widening in astonishment at the sight of you and Elvis, you gripping his head, spread against the wall and devoured, and quickly darted away.
Neither you or Elvis heard as the back door opened and closed, he couldn’t hear anything with the earmuffs that were your thighs wrapped around him and you couldn’t possibly think straight. All of your senses were disabled at the moment. The only thing you knew was Elvis Presley’s tongue on your clit and fingers deep in your pussy.
Elvis removed his fingers, your juices dripping out with them, and licked a long stripe up your cunt. He swirled his tongue around your clit, flicking it twice, before licking into your hole. He stuck his tongue completely in, your thighs trembled, and he used his hand to press you against the wall even more, slamming your risen thigh into it to keep them open.
“Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, gahh,” you moaned loud and unashamedly.
Outside, Mary’s eyes were still the size of marbles when she discovered Joe Esposito and Red West striding up the back lawn.
“No, no, no, no,” Mary ran to them. “Do not go in there, boys.” She shook her hand up at the house, eyes crazy.
Red laughed down at the older woman, clapping a hand on her shoulder, and asking with a tongue that drips in sarcasm, “Everything alright, Mary?”
Joe was about to let out a loud laugh when he heard it—the exact thing that sent Mary running, “Ohhhhh fuck me, Elvis!”
It was you crying out, moaning so loud your voice echoed through the whole damn house.
Red and Joe shrugged at one another, both breaking out into grins. “Good for him,” Red said casually.
“I think you mean good for her by the sound of it,” Joe said laughing.
Meanwhile, in the house, Elvis was upright against the wall, hands clasping your waist, rocking his hips against yours as you tried to stay standing. Elvis just brought you to one of the strongest orgasms you ever experienced and you could barely tell where you were as you rode it out. Your vision nearly left you and you needed to pull Elvis up quick to support you. He immediately started kissing you, pulling your body into his, grinding his rock hard cock against you.
“You mean it?” he groaned into your ear, rutting against you. You nodded fervently, pushing your hips to meet his, craving his crotch on yours. “You really want me to fuck you?”
You groaned. You were practically still riding out your orgasm, the after waves running through you. Your wetness was still there, juices dripping down your thighs, and the more you and Elvis stayed there gyrating, the more you needed him.
“I need you, Elvis. I need to be close to you. I need you inside of me, please, baby, please give me your cock. I-I-I need it-I” he smashed his lips to yours to shut you up and roughly bunched your dress at your hips.
You couldn’t even process his movements, his hands falling under your dress, strongly ripping apart your panties, letting them drop to the floor with ease. You moaned loud at the action.
“Oh, fuck,” you mewled.
Then you heard his belt clinking, his zipper unzipping. You were getting more and more hot and wet the closer you got to him fucking you. With every step of the way you were growing more needy for him, more desperate.
“Please Elvis.”
He shook his head, placing a passionate kiss on your mouth. “Fuck, baby, you’re so hot for me, aren’t you.” You nodded quickly, too quick. It made his ego large, his dimples forming with the cheekiest of grins. “You make me so horny, baby.” You could cry the way you needed him.
He pulled his pants down till they were around his ankles and stepped out of them quickly, removing his shoes and kicking them somewhere in the process.
“Elvis, faster… need you inside a me.”
He clenched his jaw, pulling his underwear off, and gripping your ass so that you were steady. Your legs were wrapped around his hips, back against the wall.
“You ready, baby? S’gonna hurt.” He looked into your eyes and swallowed thick. He really did not want you to say you weren’t.
The way you looked, so fucked out, so desperate, you were heavenly. He wasn’t sure he’d be able to stop himself.
You nodded. “I know it’s gonna hurt, but I’m ready,” you whispered. He nodded, dropped his head to your neck, one hand wrapped around his cock, pumping slowly, prepping himself.
“You wanna go upstairs?” he asked
You shook your head, nose scrunching.
“You wanna get fucked against a wall for your first time?” he chuckled and slipped a finger into your pussy, scissoring your hole a bit to stretch you out.
You groaned and threw your head back again. He added two more fingers and you moved your hips in desperation for friction.
“Just wanna stretch you first, baby. S’okay, just be patient for me.”
“Mmmm, Elvis, please.” He could feel your walls squeezing him and knew he would need to warm you up some more. You may have just come on his tongue and he may have just used two slender fingers to fuck your hole but he could feel how tight you were and wanted to make sure things would go well.
You were dripping. Your juices, your cum, his saliva, so many fluids were mixing on his fingers as he scissored them inside you.
He brought his thumb to your clit and rubbed soft circles on it. If he didn’t think you were wet before, you were gushing now.
“Okay,” he brought his forehead to press against yours. “I’m gonna put the tip in.” He pulled his fingers out from you with a pop, and wetness leaked out. He looked down at your glistening cunt and smirked. Fuck he could not wait to be inside there.
And so he didn’t, he guided his mushroom head to your hole that he tried to stretch and pushed it in. He needed to inhale at the feeling, readjusting his hand on your ass to keep you up.
“Open your eyes,” he whispered. You did as he requested and your fiery eyes were met with his blazing one. The wanton passion shared between you could not be denied.
He pushed into you, and you nearly rolled your head back, eyes threatening to shut again. “Keep them open, baby.”
You nodded and kissed him, moaning as he bottomed out into you.
“Holy fuck,” you moaned. His hips stilled inside you. He was completely inside of you now. You two were connected completely for the first time.
He rolled his hips to test the waters and you gasped.
“Fuck,” you groaned. “Hurts.” Your eyebrows knit together and water formed at your eyes. “Hurts, Elvis, fuck.”
“I’m sorry, wallflower. I know, I’m staying gentle with you.”
He wanted to ravage you.
He wanted to buck his hips against you and break you in half with his cock. He’s wanted to do that since he met you, really. But he has exhibited the most self restraint over the course of your tumultuous relationship.
He looked down to see where you were joined, his cock speared into your cunt. After all this waiting, all those years of keeping her pure and clean and honest and innocent, he thought, this is the way it happens. Pinned to the wall, mewling like a little kitten.
He had to admit, being loyal to you was a challenge, and perhaps that was the reason he finally decided it was time to throw in the towel and stop resisting you. He refused to cheat on you and he wanted to stay with you, he really wanted to try this commitment thing with you full time this time, no breaks, no pauses, no on again off again.
But it was difficult, and Elvis is a man with needs. The amount of women that want him, that express this very desire to him every single day, he was a strong man just for saying no.
Since he came back from Germany, he was loyal. It’d been only six months, sure, but he was loyal.
But by god, he was horny. It didn’t matter to him if you weren’t a virgin on your wedding night anymore; he’d still dress you in white anyway. No one would need to know.
“Okay. I think I’m ready,” you spoke, your voice soft and pretty.
Elvis nearly lost his head. Truly he could have watched it roll away at that moment because the sound of your angelic voice was too much to handle.
He kissed you delicately, remembering that you’re his angel, and lifting you off the wall, he carried you to the couch, cock still inside of you.
You furrowed your brow, confused.
“What are you doing, Elvis? I said I was ready.” you looked up at him with the plumpest, poutiest lips and the widest, roundest eyes and he had to clutch his heart to stop it from coming out of his chest.
He bit his lip quick then grinned reassuringly. “I know you are, baby, but I want you to be comfortable and I want it to be good and I wanna make love to you, wallflower. Don’t wanna fuck you rough against a wall right now.”
You swallowed, not sure what to say. He was slowly rocking his hips against you, cock sliding in and out, in and out, slick coating his shaft.
“You don’t?” you said, sounding sad.
He chuckled, kissing your forehead. His hand held your hip.
“Oh, I do, baby, trust me, and I will, but tonight I’m making love to you and making sure you know you’re mine.”
You nodded, agreeing. “I love you.”
That night was the first time you ever made love to Elvis Presley, and certainly not the last. During the next several months after that, you and Elvis had sex whenever you could, wherever you could. In the bathtub, in the shower, on the kitchen counter, on a pool chair, in the pool, on a hill in the grass, down at the creek, in his car, on his car, at the drive in, in the cinema house. It was relentless. You were addicted to each other. Graceland became one big sex zone and you loved it. The Memphis Mafia barely showed up unannounced anymore, to your pleasure, in fear that they’d find you fucking. It was like you and Elvis were truly living your little fantasy, playing house like you’d dreamed with no one around to stop you.
You felt like a goddess and each time you made love, he made sure to tell you that.
But all good things come to an end and Elvis Presley had to go off and be Elvis Presley again.
And so you went back to your life of seeing him for a little and seeing him for none at all, working a little at the ad firm. You’d reduced your hours. Being a secretary was no longer your dream. You wanted to be a mom, really, but you couldn’t say that just yet. So you became a gardener, just around Graceland really. But a gardener nonetheless.
Magazines would post pictures of Elvis and his co-stars. Always female and always flirty and always long legged. Every time you saw it intense jealousy would come over you. It burned a hole in your stomach. Don’t they know he’s taken?
He’d come home and he’d mention it before you’d even ask. “The girls are for publicity, baby. Colonel wants us, you and me, quiet so the movie can sell. I have to act that way.”
You’d shake your head but accept it anyway, and as a treat he’d eat you out for hours. Sometimes when you were getting makeup-sex, or reward-sex, or forget-about-the-problem-sex, you’d think maybe it would finally be the time he’d come in you—that way you could get pregnant and let those girls in those movies know that your man is your man, not theirs. Make him a daddy and your relationship will be permanently permanent was your thought process.
But that plan never came to fruition, as much as you wanted to, and as much as it almost did. Elvis stopped using condoms at some point during your relationship. Really, he didn’t start with it. The first time you had sex he didn’t use one, but that was because he knew taking it slow would allow him to pull out in time. But after that you two fucked like rabbits and he knew he wasn’t quick enough to pull out every time. But then when he left and was gone for a while, he missed you and wanted to be as close as possible. He ditched the condoms and promised to pull out, assuming you were the one that didn’t want to get pregnant.
One time you told him it didn’t matter and that he could if he wanted to, but he pulled out anyway. You kept your desires to yourself, not wishing to scare him with how badly you wanted to be pregnant with his baby. Still, every time you had sex, you’d wish he would just forget to pull out.
Another way to get the tabloids to stop putting pressure on him to appear interested in his co-stars was to get married. You knew you wanted to and you thought he did too. After all, he’d always tell you that he wanted you forever. That you’d be together always. You thought maybe becoming his bride would change things, but you knew that was a more difficult topic to present to him than the baby thing. So, again, you kept your mouth shut, too shy, too reserved, too proud, to bring it up.
Then, 1964 came. Ann Margret was cast alongside your long term boyfriend, who was finally your true boyfriend without pauses, in a film called Viva Las Vegas.
It would be just like the others, you thought. Some beautiful actress, they’ll pretend like it’s a backstage thing too, blah blah blah.
But then, came the tabloids.
You were home for the summer, helping your mama and daddy with crops and cows and the like. Elvis wasn’t at Graceland during the time anyway, so you felt it was a good time to go home. And it was, because finding that newspaper in the house that you shared with him would have been more heartbreaking, more cruel, more embarrassing than anything else. At least, in Southaven, you wouldn’t have to face the Memphis Mafia and their smug faces. Or Mary and her sympathy, or see the furniture that he loved you on or the doorway that he walked through or the towels he’d dry his hair with.
You knew it was true this time. You just did.
After years of rationalizing the photos of him and some girl, you knew these were real. They were spotted in the background of someone else’s photo… they weren’t posing for the picture, they weren’t meant to get caught. They were truly like that.
Your heart had sunk to the bottom of your stomach.
You were going back to being one of Elvis Presley’s exes.
But this time, the press was more interested in your side of the story than they were the last time, and you found yourself the center of much unwanted attention.
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authors note: hi guys!! i know this was super duper crazy long but thank you so much for reading! there is most definitely a part two for this coming soon as we will see what life is like for Elvis and the reader after the break up. makeup sex? maybe you’ll just have to read to find out
also, feel free to read my stories as both austin and real elvis! i have both in mind all the time so doesn’t matter to me
oh shit time to move on to my elvis obsession, buckle up
the hair, the smile, the fit, the necklace, THE EYES everything looks so good
HE LOOKS SO GOOD
#boyfriend material
i am obsessed. that's all.
NO. NOPE.
JOSEPH QUINN as EDDIE MUNSON in STRANGER THINGS 4.08 “Papa”
ALTERNATE STRANGER THINGS 4 ENDING <3
Imagine if when the gang was in the upside down Chrissy just crawled out of the woodwork suddenly and helped them defeat vecna!! And then her and Eddie could have had a badass battle scene and then in the end when they’re safely back in Hawkins they share a kiss while they’re covered in dirt and then when school starts again Chrissy dumps Jason and then the episode ends with Chrissy skipping over to the hellfire club lunch table wearing Eddies’ guitar pick necklace instead of her “86” one, and scoots in beside Eddie.
“So this is where the cool people sit.”
I like this ending better.
can you imagine having a crush on the same cute, sweet little redhead since middle school and you’re totally convinced she’ll never see you as more than a freak but then she actually opens up to you in a private moment of vulnerability so you do your best to level with her and show her she’s not alone, while also shooting your shot (because you really really like this girl, god it’s always been her) and actually get so far as driving her home to your shitty little trailer after the championship game and you’re both about to actually get high alone together, when by all accounts she’s supposed to be out celebrating with her douchebag boyfriend who definitely doesn’t get her like you do and you know you can help her, you know your brand of non conformity is exactly what this girl needs before she breaks, you can show her just how good for her you are, you can show her how to take that mask off and just be herself and that she’s not just good enough she’s everything and it’ll so have been worth the years you spent hopelessly pining and-
and then everyone online decides you two are just friends 🙃
The cast of Stranger Things (hellfire club) played DnD and OMG you guys Joe gave us some crumbs we can use for our Chrissy x Eddie ship 😁
Thanks for telling those who insist on not understanding the obvious, Joe.
Joseph and Grace matching stories 🥺💗
Art by @bloomsbury