Wanted (18 page)

“Oh
my gosh
I love it here! Thank you Gunner for bringing me here!” She said with such excitement.
She grabbed my arm with her good hand and quickly let
it
go.
Boy this was going to be easy winning this girl over if just someth
ing this simple made her happy.

We moved to the counter and I to
ok
a deep breath….I could see
the
daggers
Crysti
was shooting at
Ellie
.  Good lord,
I went out with this girl once as a favor for Jeff who was going on a d
ate with her d
amn friend
,
Jemma
I think her name
was
.
She was nothing but a pain in the ass the whole time. She called me for like two months before she got the hi
nt and moved on.

“Hey there Gunner baby, h
ow are you doing? Long time n
o see!”
Crysti
said as she leaned over the counter trying to expose her chest more than it already was. Fuc
k me…nope she has not moved on.

“Hey
Crysti
, how’s it
going?” I asked in the most uninterested voice I c
ould muster.

“It’s going good…even better now
that I see your handsome face!”

I to
ok
a peak at
Ellie
who was trying very hard to
keep lo
ok
ing down at the menu. This fuck
ing sucked. Last thing I need was
for this bleach
blonde bitch to cause problems.

“
Ellie
sweetheart you know what you want?” I asked as I turned to lo
ok
at that beautiful face and thos
e drop dead gorgeous blue eyes.

“Um, yep…I think I’
ll have
a
Turkey Pepp
er Jack Panini with the chips
a
nd a Salted Carmel Mocha
Frapp
please.”
Ellie
said with a smile to
Crysti
who was still lo
ok
ing at
Ellie
like she wanted to jump o
ver the counter and attack her.

“
Oo
kaaaaay
.
What about you handsome?”
Crysti
said with such seduction I wanted to hurl right there in her face.

“I’
ll have the same Panini as
Ellie
and a Chocolate Espresso Martini. Can we also get the tableside
S’mores
…..
for two
?”

Crysti
just lo
ok
ed at me like I was some
kind of a freak. “Sure….yep…I’
ll get that in for you. Please make sure you stay inside sinc
e you are getting the
S’mores
.”

Ellie
was lo
ok
ing around after I paid for a place to sit.  I to
ok
it upon myself to guide her to the back corner booth.
Thank goodness it was open as m
ost of the tables where taken except a fe
w high tables right by the bar.

We slid into the booth and
Ellie
lo
ok
ed at me and smiled. Then she lo
ok
ed over to where
Crysti
was standing behind the bar. I to
ok
a quick glance up
and noticed she was
staring at us. I lo
ok
ed at
Ellie
who turned to lo
ok
at me. She gave me a weak smile and then lo
ok
ed away.

God I hope
Ellie
didn’t think I
had something going on with
Crysti
. That is all I would need….

Chapter Thirteen

Ellie
……

What the hell? A
s soon as we walked in
to Halcyon
I could not
miss the dirty lo
ok
s the
girl
behind the bar
was throwing my way. I was
so happy before we walked in here
. Even if Gunner’s reference to me being ‘his girl’ was just to make a j
ok
e it still felt good. Then we walk in and this
Crysti
bitch is all but taking her breasts out of her shirt and flirting with Gunner. I mean
come on
skank
.
I know we are not on a date but
she doesn’t know that…..
good
grief
. Wait till I tel
l Ari about this fucking bitch.

I wonder if Gunner went out with
her.
What the hell did he see in someone like her? I lo
ok
ed up at her and sure enough she was staring.
I lo
ok
ed over at Gunner and he was lo
ok
ing at me with that melt my panties
cro
ok
ed
smile of his. If he went out with someone so beautiful as the blonde behind the bar….he wo
uld never want someone like me.

You will never be wanted by anyone…………….

“Hey….
I’m
sorry about
Cryst
i
being so rude like that. She’s just a bitch and that’
s her problem. Don’t let her spoil our fun day
o
kay
?” Gunner said as he to
ok
hi
s hand and lifted my chin up to look at him
.

God his eyes…..I tore my eyes away from his and moved to lo
ok
at this lips. I would give anything to kiss him. Just then I saw him leaning down towards me…oh shit….

“Is she an old girlfriend?” I just blurted out in my shear panic. SHIT! Shit
shit
shit
! Gunner instantly stopped and sat back. He moved his hand threw his hair….god why did that turn me on so much. I lo
ok
ed away because I tho
ught I already knew his answer.

“No
,
Ellie
she is not an old girlfriend. She is just some girl I to
ok
on a date once.” Gunner said as he lo
ok
ed back over at the bar. Why did he seem mad all of a sudden? I guess I had no rig
ht to even ask. I mean…maybe I’
m just imagining all of this. Was he really leaning down to kiss me? No….he wasn’t you fool. He is just being nice to me because of Jefferson. Or maybe he lo
ok
s at me like a little sister. I don’t know. I am getti
ng mixed signals here. Fuck…who
am
I
kidding. I don’t even know what signals to lo
ok
for!

For some reason my mouth was talking before my brain thought it through. “So how come you went out
only
once. She seemed to a
ct like she knew you pretty well
.”

OH.MY.G
OD……did I just really say that?

Gunner let out a small laugh. “I only went out with
her
as a favor for Jeff.” OH??? This has me intrigued now. “Jeff asked
Crysti
’
s
roommate
Jemma
out and she said the only way she would go out with him is if I went out with
Crysti
. So we all went
out on a double date. Longest four
hours of my entire life. She is a
self absorbed
bitch. Same went for
Jemma
.
Jeff was not the least bit interested after about two hours
into the date. It
was more like five minutes into
the date
when
I lost interest. I remember I kept checking the Rangers game on my pho
ne pretty much the whole time.”

I let out a laugh at the way Gunner described their double date. Come to think of it…..Jefferson has never really had a long
term girlfriend. I wonder if
Gunner
has. According to Jefferson he has not.

“Have you ever been in a long term relationship with anyone?” I asked just as the
y
called out Gunner’s name for our drinks.
Gunner jumped up and walked over to the bar. He
said something to the guy at the bar who
I could tell said ‘sure thing’.

Gunner set our drinks down at the table and then slid back in. This time I noticed he sat a little closer to me. I could practically feel his body heat. Hells bells….there went that ache between my legs again. I squeezed my legs together to try and relieve it. Jesus…..why did I never feel this with Ryan?
What was going on with me?

Friends Ellie….only friends.

Just when I thought I was going to explode Gunner started to talk. “To get back to your question
Ellie
, no I’
ve never been in a long term relationship. Longest I
ever dated one girl was maybe four or five
dates? I don’t remember. It was when I first came to UT.” Gunner said as he to
ok
a sip of his drink.

Okay
,
so shouldn’t I feel relieved that he has never been in a crazy love fest relationship? Or did this just confirm what I was also thinking….someone like Gunner would never settle down with a girl, especially a girl like me. Tota
lly unworthy of him that is all
I was.

Once we finished eating our lunch, the guy who Gunner talked with at the bar earlier brought out our tableside
S’more
s
. It was the coolest thing I’
d ever seen. It was
a
big wooden bowl and in the center was a little burner. Around the burner in the bowl there were two sticks, some marshma
llows, a Hershey candy bar and four
packs of graham crackers. Gunner picked up one of the sticks a
nd stuck a mar
shmallow on it. He
handed it to me and I roasted it over the little flame. He opened the crackers and the candy bar and had it all ready to go since my right hand was still sore. Good god could this guy just not get any better? Just then my marshmallow caught on fire and I laughed! Gunner grabbed my hand and blew it out then to
ok
the marshmallow and sandwiched it in between the crackers and the chocolate. I was still trying to recover from him grabbing my hand and sending electricity through my overly sensitive body when he to
ok
the cracker and put i
t up to mouth for me to eat it.

Holy fuck…he was feeding me the
S’mores
. Yes…..yes he could get better
!

Gunner started to laugh when the marshmallow trailed from my mouth to the cracker he was trying to pull away. I reached up and tried
to break it. Shit it was getting everywhere!

We both laughed as he tried to make and feed me
S’mores
. I totally forgot all about the bitch working behind the bar. At one point I lo
ok
ed up and if lo
ok
s could kill
I would
be dead on the spot right now.

Gun
ner finally ate his last
S’mores
and walked up to get two glasses of water. Bitch
Crysti
was trying
to make a conversation with him
but I could tell Gunner was not the least bit interested. For one brief moment I let myself believe we were here on our first date. I
t coul
d not have been any more perfect
!

Gunner set the water
s
on the table and then slid back in. “Thank you so much for lunch Gunner this really was fantastic. I will never eat
a
S’mores
again without thinking about you!” I said as I used one of the wip
es to clean my hands and mouth.

“Good because
that was my plan
all along
.” He said to me with t
hat smile.

“What was your plan?” I asked as I lo
ok
ed at the piece of marshmallow that was on the side of his
perfect mouth. I could not pull
my eyes
away from his mouth
.