Blooming (22 page)

“Opposites
attract?”

“Like me and
you,” his hand slipped from her fingers and he cupped her chin and traced her
lips softly with his, the barest hint of tongue tantalised her.

Todd felt a
shift in Jen’s mood, “You ok?” he asked gently.

“You are not
going to believe this; people are filming us on their mobile phones!”

****

Their once
idyllic evening went downhill from there, during dessert several diners
approached them for autographs or just to say hello and Todd could feel Jen
squirming with discomfort all while she gritted her teeth, pretended everything
was ok and put on a smile. As soon as she could Jen got up without a word and
left the restaurant.

She walked
down to the dock and waited by the boat. Todd came up behind her and put one
huge hand to the back of her neck and massaged, rubbing all the tension away. Her
chin dropped to her chest in surrender, “I’m sorry Todd.”

“Why are you
sorry? You haven’t done anything wrong.”

“I just feel
I’ve spoiled the evening now, but this whole thing is so weird.”

He sighed, “Let’s
get out of here, I need to kiss you and I don’t want someone filming it for
posterity.”

He steered
the boat away from the dock and got them about half way home before he cut the
power and left the boat to drift in the middle of the calm lake.

Reaching
underneath Jen’s bench seat he pulled out blankets and a couple of waterproof
cushions and made up a little bed with life preservers for extra cushioning, on
the floor of the boat.

Jen watched
him curiously, in the next instant he was taking his jacket and tie off and unbuttoning
his shirt slowly. He looked at her and wondered if she knew her lips were
parted in expectation.

Her breath
caught as his gorgeous chest appeared, the sight of his taut waist drew her
forward in the half light to get a closer glimpse of the abdominal muscles she
found so devastating.

Todd shucked
out of his shoes and socks and got under the blanket, he held out a hand to her
to join him, she was no sooner tucked up next to him than his mouth was on
hers.

He kissed her
deeply, devouring her lips and thrusting his tongue up inside her mouth,
licking and sliding into every crevice until she was completely breathless,
letting her up for air he ran his tongue underneath her jaw and slicked it
behind her ear, sucking on the lobe softly while her fingers crept up to hold
him in place at her throat.

Todd ran his
hand over her abdomen and cupped her breast through her clothes, stroking her
hardening nipple with delicious pressure causing her to arch up into him as she
panted sweetly into his hair.

A minute
later he wasn’t so amused when running his hands all over her he couldn’t quite
figure out how to get her clothes off.

“What the
hell is this thing, you might as well have a chastity belt on.”

Jen chuckled
in his ear, “Lily helped me get it on, I think I’ll have to turn over, there’s
a ribbon that ties round the back of my neck.”

Todd sat
upright while Jen turned onto her front and forced herself to breathe out and
relax. He flipped her hair away from her back and took a deep breath in.

“Oh Jen, I
think you were meant to tie your hair up when you wore this,” he said as he
stroked the naked upper half of her back that had been concealed from him. He
was delighted to rediscover her barely there freckles and lily white skin.

He pressed
hot wet kisses lazily along her back, the blunt fingernails of one hand tracing
her spine while he slowly undid the brown satin ribbon at her neck with his
other; he taunted her with the ends of the ribbon using them to tickle her
until she was writhing underneath him.

He surveyed
his next move - it was still no clearer to him how he got her out of the
blasted thing.

“Where the
fuck is the zipper? I’m going to kill Sean.”

Breathing
heavily Jen raised herself on her elbows, “It’s down the side here under my
arm, I had to step into the legs, put my arms in the sleeves, then zip up and
fasten it behind my neck, that’s why I needed Lily’s help. Now you know why I
don’t bother keeping up with fashion it’s too much effort.”

His fingers
went to Jen’s underarm finally finding what he was looking for and he inched it
down to her waist before stopping because she’d gone so quiet.

“Have you
stopped breathing Jen?”

“No I’m just concentrating
on not thinking too much.”

“Oh good hang
on a second,” instead of pulling the zipper the rest of the way, he slid his
hand through the gap he’d made, and stole under the front of the garment and
caught a handful of luscious warm naked breast.

Jen let out a
shocked moan as he fondled her, flicking his thumb over her nipple and then
pushing his hand further to capture her other breast, his right hand was
massaging her bare back in broad sweeping circles, she gasped loudly when he
pinched her nipple and then relaxed back against him giving in to it.

Coming to her
senses slightly she asked what she needed to know, “What are we doing Todd; how
far...?”

“I’m still
flying by the seat of my pants,” he admitted. “I don’t have protection on me, I
know that’s ridiculous but I wasn’t sure what your reaction would be if we were
in this kind of situation and I produced it. Right about now I’m feeling like a
total idiot.”

“It’s ok - I
have a problem with that anyway. I hate anything rubbery or plastic, it sets my
teeth on edge. I don’t want to use condoms.”

Todd tilted
her chin so he could see her face to see if she was making a joke, but no she
was totally serious he could tell.

Jen looked
into his eyes; she thought if he was any tenser there’d be steam coming out of
his ears. When due to his total bafflement he failed to speak, she tried to put
him out of his misery.

“I’m not
trying to torture you; your mom is taking me to the doctor tomorrow. She
doesn’t know the specifics but I’m going to see about birth control, and I want
to have a general check up. Then I was hoping you’d accept that I haven’t got
any diseases and you might want to sleep with me without condoms.”

Todd sunk to
his side and started grinning, a minute later he was almost apoplectic with
laughter; he reined it in before it became too painful to continue.

He sat up and
wiped his streaming eyes, “I feel like I’m 16 again and having to negotiate for
sex. Let me see what my choices are? On the one hand no sex at all because you
have an irrational fear of condoms, or choice number two I get to have
incredible fully naked sex with you but I might have to wait a little first.”

He pretended
to study his choices before uttering a mock groan, “I guess I’ll just have to
settle for option 2 but I’ll expect you to make it worth my while when we get
to it.”

Jen had
sobered slightly, “You had sex when you were 16?”

“No the girl
in question made me wait until I was 17.”

“Kind of
reminds me how backwards I am.”

“Your
backwards alright let me flip you right over.”

Todd spun her
onto her back and started yanking at the jumpsuit sleeves, “get these off for
me will you?”

When both of
them together couldn’t get the chiffon to clear her cast, Todd simply tore the
flimsy sleeve apart and Jen gasped,”Shit I’ve just remembered it had a button
to unfasten.” It was too late she was bare-chested and Todd was on top of her, his
hot mouth suckling at her breast.

“Oh my, that
feels so lovely.”

She could not
believe what Todd was doing, the fingers of her right hand were clutching into
his soft hair and pulling tight in ecstasy and her left hand was thrown over
her head, arching her up into his deliciously greedy mouth.

He lifted his
head and crawled up her body to kiss her open lips, she groaned as the crisp
hair on his chest scratched against her nipples sending further sparks
everywhere.

His hands
slid from her waist to her thighs easing her legs apart and he sank into the
gap he created resting his erection along her groin, and he groaned himself.

“Todd, Todd,”
she gasped pulling her mouth away reluctantly, “what are you doing?”

“We’re going
to have sex through our clothes, something you missed from high school. That ok
with you? – I already committed to paying Sean for this outfit when I
obliterated the sleeve anyway.”

She didn’t
get chance to answer because at that moment he rocked his erection up into her,
holding tightly to her butt and she stifled a scream. She already had a perfect
idea of the size of what he was pressing into her and now she knew what it
could do for her.

Todd shifted
his weight to his elbows and kissed Jen’s neck, sucking and licking at her
until she thrust her hips up against him, and then he resumed stroking and
squeezing her breasts.

Encouraging
her with his hands and his mouth they found a matching rhythm and both were
soon breathless. Todd rocked against her harder, grinding and thrusting and minutes
later, when he thought he couldn’t take anymore, he took hold of Jen’s leg and
hooked it over his elbow, altering the angle of the friction and she screamed
out, coming and shaking uncontrollably. He allowed himself a couple more rolling,
exquisite thrusts and followed her orgasm with his own, when he finally caught
his breath he simply held her there beneath him. She kissed his chest softly
and he realised he was wet from her tears.

“Hey, are you
ok?”

“I’m great;
I’m really great, I just feel so stupidly happy.”

“Me too, I’m
embarrassingly soggy but happy, that was fun wasn’t it?”

Jen nodded,
afraid to speak she ran her hands along Todd’s chest twirling her fingers in
the hair there and said quietly, “I can’t imagine I’ll ever get tired of
touching you like this, every time I do I can’t believe I’m so lucky.”

“Well you’re
going to be a very lucky lady for as long as you’ll allow it.”

Todd bent to
her and kissed her scar, running his tongue along the raised skin then he
dropped soothing kisses on both her breasts cupping them gently as if he were
storing them in his memory, before helping her get her top back in place albeit
minus one sleeve. He sat her up to tie the ribbon round her neck and then to
cover the evidence he draped his jacket round her shoulders.

Todd stood up
plucking his trousers away from his crotch with a groan, “Yuck, I’d forgotten
how this bit went, come on sit up on the seat and I’ll get us home.”

****

Todd sighed
as he tied the boat up at the dock, “They’re all outside playing cards, now
we’ve got to do the walk of shame.”

“Should I be
ashamed of anything?” Jen smiled shyly at him and leant forward for a kiss.

Todd kissed
her back possessively, “Yes making me delirious, now cover me,” he joked.

The two of
them walked up the grass Todd sticking close behind her hoping the state of his
trousers wasn’t noticeable.

“Hey you two
how was dinner?” Seb asked then his face changed when he registered their
dishevelment.

Sean looked
at Jen suspiciously his trained eye attempting to calculate what was amiss
about her ensemble, “what have you two been up to?”

“Nothing,”
Jen lied none too convincingly, “Todd thinks there may be a few design flaws in
my outfit though.” She struggled to keep her face still as the words left her
mouth.

Marshall
began to laugh when Sean started sputtering in protest.

“We’re going
to turn in, goodnight everybody,” Todd bent to kiss his mother on the cheek and
she smiled knowingly at him.

All eyes were
on them as they went into their cabin, Todd let out a sigh of relief once they
were safely inside.

“Join me in
the shower? Just to wash, I promise.”

“Ok.”

Ten minutes
later with Jen’s arm bundled up in saran wrap, done a little over
enthusiastically by Todd, they were taking turns with a soapy sponge. Washing
each other and enjoying the simple intimacy.

“I can’t wait
until I can do everything I want to you without thinking about what’s safe or
what’s allowed,” Todd admitted. He turned her round to do her back and noticed
a little white mark on her back he’d not seen before, when he flipped back to
her front he realised it corresponded with the scar on her chest, “Jesus it
pretty much went right through you didn’t it?”

Jen nodded,
“the doctors told me I could have been killed outright.”

Todd reached
for the shampoo checking the label carefully before lathering her up.

He couldn’t
think of any reply fit to convey what he was thinking - that he might never
have known her, it made his heart lurch and immobilised him for a minute.

Jen stuck her
head under the faucet and rinsed her hair, nudging Todd to get the conditioner.
When they were finished they spent a long time just drying each other, patting
and touching and exploring. Before things got out of hand Todd demanded he be
allowed to have hair sex with her which made her laugh and lightened the mood.
He was deliciously gentle while he untangled her hair, and rough dried it with
the ancient hairdryer he’d unearthed in a cupboard.

“Look at
you,” Todd sighed indicating her reflection in the mirror, “your hair is all
Julia Roberts
Pretty Woman
hair.”

“Yes,” she
laughed, “it’s all huge and bouffant, I told you not to dry it on high speed.”

“I like it
like this, you’re always criticising my skills woman,” he grumbled happily then
turned to root in his chest of drawers and picked out a t shirt for her to
sleep in.

When she put
it over her head it dropped easily to her knees and she looked completely
endearing. The more time he spent with her, the more beautiful she became. That
had to mean something momentous didn’t it?