by Maddie Wade
I laugh and nod. “Maybe, gorgeous, maybe,” I say as we walk to the car and I open the door for her.
The drive to the restaurant is easy and relaxed, we chat about our day, I tell her about Jake and Sadie, she tells me about Taylor and their friendship. We arrive and are directed to a booth in the corner. This is an authentic Italian restaurant, complete with red and white checked tablecloths.
I order a beer and Tinkerbell orders a white wine. I watch as she looks at the menu trying not to admire how the dress she is wearing shows of the curve of her breast, or the way she bites her lip when she is concentrating.
“So, what do you fancy?” she asks.
I lift an eyebrow and grin. “Really?”
She sees the look in my eyes and her eyes go hooded. Fuck she is killing me. “Behave yourself,” she teases with a smile, which makes me laugh.
“Okay, okay.” I look at the menu and decide to play her at her own game. “I’m going to have the spaghetti bolognese,” I say and watch as her eyebrows shoot into her hairline.
“Really? On a first date? Isn’t that a bit risky?”
“No, why? You scared of making a mess of yourself Ashley?” She is playing into my hands.
“No,” she snaps the menu closed. “I’ll have the same. I love a challenge.”
“Oh, me to, sweetie, me too.”
The waitress appears, and we place our orders. The food here is amazing and I’m kind of looking forward to her slurping her spaghetti. We chat and then I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket. Ignoring it and a few minutes later it goes again.
“Are you okay?” Ashley asks.
“Yeah, my phone keeps going off, I’ll just turn it off,” I say, as she reaches out a hand to grab a napkin.
“It’s okay check it, it might be important.”
I nod, then slide the phone out.
What the fuck?
Tinkerbell: I’m on the most boring date!
I look up at Tinkerbell, she hasn’t left the table, am I losing my mind? “Just my brother,” I say and fire off a text.
Jackson: Really why?
I place the phone face down on the table and Tinkerbell smiles. I try and smile back but I’m so confused right now. Luckily our food comes, and I can put the thought in the back of my head.
We are both watching each other warily as we look at our respective plates of spaghetti. I pick up my fork and begin to twirl it on a spoon. Tinkerbell does the same and our eyes are glued to each other’s mouths. Everything she does is sensual even eating spaghetti. A bit of spaghetti lands on her chin. She just grins at me.
“Oops,” I laugh and lean in to wipe it away with a napkin.
We carry on and soon, some sauce lands on my nose when the spaghetti flicks up as I suck it up.
“My turn,” she laughs and wipes the tip of my nose. Soon we are both eating like we are at home and spaghetti is all over our chins and we are both laughing like loons.
The waitress takes our empty plates away and brings us the dessert menu. I watch her looking through the menu, I’m hoping that she is dessert.
Tinkerbell: He eats like an animal!
I slam the phone down and look at her. What the hell is going on? How can she be texting me when she is sitting there? I can see her hands.
“Everything okay?” she asks and I’m sure I can see a smile on her face.
“Yeah,” I mumble completely preoccupied. I look around waiting for a TV crew to jump out, but I’m the one that started this, so it can’t be that.
Looking down at my phone, I rub my forehead, then looking back up at Tinkerbell, I see her friend sitting down next to her.
“Hey Jackson, sorry to trash your date, but my girl took my phone by accident.” She looks at Tinkerbell and they both start laughing.
Hang on, what is going on? Then they both take out their phones and swap them over.
“So, Jackson, do you like music?” Tinkerbell asks.
My heart is hammering, all my instincts scream trap. “Yeah, I do,” I answer warily.
“Do you like Love Hangover or When a man loves a woman?” she asks innocently. Ha she is as innocent as Eve in the fucking garden of Eden.
I remember then. Our first text conversation was all about music and I mentioned both those songs. I look up and then grab my phone to check.
“You know, don’t you,” I say resigned to having fucked this up completely.
Tinkerbell is laughing outright now. Taylor leans in and kisses her cheek.
“I’ll leave you to it.,” She then turns to me. “Catch you later Jackson,” she says, and I nod.
I can’t believe I’ve been played like this and for a second, I’m angry and then I remember who started this and realise this is all my own doing. I don’t know what to do. Then I do. Tinkerbell is looking at me with her head tilted.
“I’m sorry, I’m a total douchebag. Can you forgive me?” I ask and hold my hands out in a prayer position with a big puppy dog eyes look.
“Well, I don’t know. You did lie to me and I don’t like playing games,” she says with a stern look that is as sexy as fuck.
“Pretty please, I’ll even sit on the grass,” I say teasing. I see her mouth twitch and I know she is relenting.
“Well there might be a way?” she says.
“Anything,” I say a little too hastily.
“Well maybe if you get a henna tattoo I might be persuaded.”
“Done!” I say completely forgetting what happened last time.
“Annnnd.”
“Yes?” I say impatiently.
“Maybe if you show me that sexy V abs thing you have going on,” she says and before she can change her mind I have thrown some notes on the table and I pull her towards me as she is giggling.
Now I can show her the real Jackson.
Chapter 10
Ashley
Walking out of the restaurant, Jackson grabs my hand in his, my sides are hurting so much from laughing at him. His face when he checked his phone was better than I thought it would be. It was written all over his face that he had no idea what was happening, then when he saw Taylor it was perfect, brilliant.
“You know you can stop laughing now.” Jackson pulls me closer wrapping his arms around my waist.
“I know I should, but I can’t, you looked so confused.” I turn around to look at him, my hands on his shoulders. “You know that this is going to be a story to share,” I tell him as he pulls me in closer.
His beautiful blue eyes look between my eyes and lips. “How about we keep it between us,” he tilts his head, “and Taylor,” he says, which makes me laugh. I know she is going to tease him about this as much as she can.
“You going to kiss me, or just stare at my lips?” I ask him. I want him to kiss me the moment I opened the door to see him standing there. I’ve wanted nothing but for him to pull me in and kiss me like he did before.
“Been thinking about it since the moment I saw you.” And without a second thought he brings his lips to mine. He pulls me closer to him, and my hands move around his neck. I feel his warm breath feather light on my skin and I try to suppress the shiver that runs through me. I feel the zing of electricity flood my body as he touches his lips to mine in a soft sensual kiss that makes my heart stutter.
Slowly he masters my mouth, his tongue softly invading in a rhythm as old as time. I press my body closer, needing to feel him against every inch of me. His body is hard in all the right places and my hands wander on a journey of discovery over the soft silkiness of his hair.
His mouth leaves mine as he nips a trail of heat towards my ear. He is intoxicating, and I feel as if he is sucking the air right out of me in this dual.
Pulling away from me, he leans his forehead on mine. “You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to get you this close to me,” Jackson says, I look down at our bodies touching. “Well maybe you do.” He starts laughing and pulls away.
Opening the car door for me, I give him a smile as I get
in, then watch him walk around the car to the driver’s side. I watch him as he pulls out of the car park of the restaurant. “Are you just going to stare at me or say something?” Jackson asks, giving me a quick look then he focuses back on the road.
“Just looking is good with me.” I mean why wouldn’t I just want to look at him, has he not seen himself? He’s not my normal type, far from it. I generally for indie musicians, tattooed men, the bad boys, but there is something about him that from the moment I bumped into him at the bar, I’ve wanted him.
“It’s good with me too.” Stopping at the traffic lights, he leans over and gives me a kiss. “Do I…” the car behind us starts honking at us, making Jackson pull away from me so fast.
I love the scent he wears, Chanel is always a winner for me, and it suits him. Jackson parks outside the shop, the advantages of having the shop so close to the city I can get everywhere quickly. I don’t own a car; don’t see the point I can get everywhere on the tube.
He opens the door for me. “Thank you.” Walking up the stairs to my apartment, I open my door and walk in. Turning around to face him, I lean on the door. “So, Jackson, is this where our date finishes, or…” Before I can finish his hands are in my hair pulling me in for a kiss, and I hear the door close behind him.
“I would love some coffee,” he says as he moves down my neck.
“I didn’t ask you...ohhhhh,” I moan as he kisses my neck. How does Jackson turn me on so much? My hands move to his shoulder to take his jacket off and he lets it fall to the floor.
“Bedroom?” Jackson asks panting for air. I point to the door making Jackson pick me up and I wrap my legs around his waist.
As we get to my bedroom, he places me back down, and my hands move down his shirt undoing buttons. As I undo the last one, Jackson takes his shirt off. His hands are in my hair again pulling me in for a kiss, my hand moves along his hard abs, up his chest to his shoulder. The only thing running in my head right now it that I just want to touch him all over. His body is perfect I can feel every muscle under my hands.
His removes his hands from my hair, and places them on my bare thigh, and slowly moves them up my dress…
KNOCK KNOCK.
“Ignore it,” I say against his lips.
KNOCK KNOCK.
“Ash, I know you’re home, the lights on. Open the door.”
Jackson looks at me as he hears the man’s voice shouting through the door. “Don’t look at me like that. It’s my little brother.” I playfully hit his shoulder as I walk past him, Jackson goes to put his shirt on. “Hey, I’m getting rid of him. I’ll take that,” I tell him as I take his shirt from him.
I open the door to my brother. “About time I need to pee,” Finn says walking straight past me, I look at Jackson leaning on the door frame, and I mouth the word sorry to him.
Giving me a wink, he walks over to me. “Can I have my shirt now?” Jackson asks bringing his mouth closer to mine.
“No, stop. I don’t want to see my big sister doing the naughty,” Finn says walking over to us.
Jackson starts putting his shirt on and I look at him, sulking as he does one button at a time.
“Stop sulking, Ash. I can leave then I’ll tell mum and dad that you kicked out your younger brother because you wanted to do the naughty,” Finn shouts at me from the kitchen.
My apartment is all open plan, so I can see him smiling at me. I look over at him giving him an evil look. “What are you doing here anyway?” I ask him.
“I lost my wallet while we were out, and have no money for a taxi, so I thought my sister only lives walking distance away, and her couch is very comfy,” Finn says jumping on top of my couch, and pulling my throw over him.
“I hate you,” I shout at him.
“You love me, and the best part is I know you will make pancakes in the morning,” Finn says closing his eyes.
Jackson walks over to me. “So this is the look of, ‘I hate when I don’t get want I want’?” he asks.
“No, this is the look of someone very pissed off and…”
Jackson leans closer to my ear. “Very turned on,” he whispers in my ear.
“Yes.” I pout. This was meant to be our night. Little brother you will pay for this.
“Bank holiday tomorrow. I have the day off so how about we spend the day together, and the night naked?” Jackson brings his lips to mine, gives them a soft kiss.
“The shop is closed too, but I have an order which will be picked up at eleven, then I would love to spend the day with you.” I walk with him to the door, as he steps into the hallway, he pulls me with him.
“Now, I wasn’t going to kiss you in front of your brother, was I?” Jackson kisses me hard, he is dominant and controlling just the way I like it.
“See you tomorrow,” I say and watch him walk down the stairs. Closing the door behind me, I look at my brother fast asleep on the couch.
Having a shower, and getting ready for bed, I check my phone I see Sexy Singer as sent me a message.
Sexy Singer: Thank you so much for a great first date :)
Ashley: I take it this is your real number then.
Sexy Singer: It is, the other is my work number. So, are you still turned on?
I smile, thinking about what to write, in the meantime I change his name on my phone, now I know who he is, I only want to picture him.
Ashley: Nothing BOB can’t take care off. How about you?
Jackson: Who the fuck is BOB?!
I start laughing, do I tell him about my friend, or leave him wondering? But then I think it would be more fun letting him know who BOB is.
Ashley: BOB is my battery-operated boyfriend, he comes in very handy.
Ashley: If I promise not to use him, will you make it up to me?
Jackson: Trust me I will. I’ll make you scream, I’ll make you beg, and in the morning, you will be smiling.
Ashley: Well I best get to sleep then sounds like I’ll need my energy. Good night Jackson x
Jackson: Goodnight Tinkerbell.
*~*~*
Jackson and I spoke this morning and he asked what I wanted to do today. He was up for anything, so I told him that I’ve always wanted to go to the Icebar and thought we would see where the day would take us. We both agreed to meet up outside the Icebar, and then go from there. I would be lying if I said I’m not excited about seeing him today, it might be because this is new, I don’t know, but I’m going to have fun with him.
I walk up behind Jackson as he looks at the menu on the wall, he’s wearing jeans and a polo shirt, that fits him nicely. I notice he has a really nice ass in jeans. I went with a dress as the weather was nice this morning.
“So, I thought, me and you naked in the bar,” I whisper to him.
Turning around he gives me a smile. “I like the idea,” leaning down he gives me kiss on the lips. Every time he kisses me I feel a tingle through my body. “Ready to get cold?” he asks wrapping his arm around my waist as we walk in.
“I booked us a slot this morning, so we wouldn’t have to wait.”
Jackson talks to the women behind the desk and I watch him. He wasn’t happy that I had already booked them when I told him. He wanted to pay but I told him that I’m not the type of girl that’s going to cry if he doesn’t pay every time.
We sit in the waiting area, and I look through the menu.
“Want anything to drink?” Jackson asks, as he sits next to me.
“I would love the KING OF THE JUNGLE.” I give him a wink, putting the menu on the table.
“Oh, would you?”
“Well, you did say you would make me scream,” I say teasing him.
“Oh, I will, don’t worry about that,” he says walking away from me to order our drinks. I take my phone out to see what we can do next, as we won’t be here long.
“What are you looking for?” Jackson says sitting back down next to me.
“What to do after this. You want to do anything?” I ask him.
Leaning back into him he wraps his arm around me so that his hand is placed on my upper thigh. “I really don’t mind, walk around, theme park, zoo, food,” Jackson says giving my neck a kiss.
I start scrolling through my phone to see what we can do, I want something fun but at the same time it has to be something where we can get to know each other. “How about the zoo? I’ve not been there for a while now.”
I look at him looking at my phone. “What’s your favourite animal?” I ask him.
“The Falcon, they are free, but still go for what they want. What about you?”
“The giraffes…” I stop as the man calls our time slot and a group of us walk over to him.
I look at Jackson wearing the massive blue winter coat, then he starts laughing as I wear mine. “I think you could fit three of you in there, shall we?” Again, he opens the door for me, he really is a gentleman.
I follow Jackson into the bar, oh fuck it’s cold in here. I look around at the ice chairs, and statues, this is amazing. Jackson pulls me closer to him, then pulls out his phone to take a picture. We spend the time slowly walking around to get some pictures with everything, it’s not very big at all, but I have to say this is amazing, and I have to bring Taylor next time.
Arriving at London Zoo, Jackson takes my hand in his and I can’t help but smile at him. The Icebar was so much fun, and at the end of the forty minutes I was starting to get really cold, but it was worth it, as Jackson cuddled with me for about half an hour to warm me up, totally worth getting cold for.
“So which animal first?” Jackson asks as I look down at the map to see where everything is.
“We have to stop at the gift shop, but first we can go left or right and just walk around,” I say looking back down at the map.
“Let’s go right.” He starts to walk pulling me along with him. We walk around the Zoo and Jackson takes pictures of us with the animals and tells me how he can’t tell Maisy that he came here without her as she will not be his friend, which makes me like him even more. He thinks about his family a lot. I tell him that we would have to bring her next time or go to Chessington Park as they have rides there.
