*author's note*
Please be aware, that I am writing this-beyond the whole, that a writer who literally lives to write, HAS to write-for someone I have had a special, strong friendship with for close to a year. We never really got beyond some heavy sexual flirting, innuendo because...we just didn't. I'll prolly post the next, 'tween his knees and knocking him flat on his back chapter very soon. I sooo wanna get to licking those dents, even if it's just in my mind!
I really didn't know what to do with myself. Gavin was working on the house and I didn't want to distract him or get in the way. He'd picked me up from the bus station at like two in the morning and I'd been so tired that I was tripping over my feet and staggering like a drunk. I'd only ridden on a Greyhound once in my life before. And that just a three hour trip, when I was sixteen and off to Wisconsin to be a camp counselor for the summer.
Daddy had marched me down the aisle and plumped me into a seat next to a fierce but immediately cooing at me woman in her sixties whom I doubt even Hitler would have gone up against. And sent such a fierce look around at all things male with in my vicinity that any cock threatening to stir at the site of a nubile, leggy, under age blond, must have withered aborning.
It was a little different this time.
I had a seat to myself. The bus wasn't badly crowded and I'd made certain of keeping the second half of the seat unoccupied by plopping my carry on bag squarely on the empty seat beside me. Then I'd buried my nose in a book and refused to look up even when the bus headed out of the terminal. But wow, there were some scary people riding that bus and even though it was over a seven hour trip I was afraid to even think about closing my eyes, figuring I'd either get molested or somehow lose my luggage.
I hadn't slept much the night before-too excited and wondering just how certifiably crazy my doing this meant I was. So yeah, I was punch drunk, bleary eyed staggering when I got off the Greyhound. And almost water works grateful that Gavin was waiting right there, safe and solid looking.
He took my bag from me, and after I bounced off the wall for the second or third time, put a casual, guiding arm around my shoulder, something else I was grateful for.
He lead me out to a truck, tucked me into the passenger side, even doing up my seatbelt for me, then tossed my bag into the back and got behind the wheel.
"Take a nap if you'd like."
I think I said something wittily brilliant like "huh wha?" or maybe I just gaped dim witted. (Hope I remembered to shut my mouth before I started drooling.) And that's pretty much all she wrote, so to speak. I don't know how long we drove, and I just vaguely remember him helping me out of the truck and into a house, then tucking me-alone, and still fully clothed in my pretty little sleeveless dress-into bed.
When I woke up I was alone in the house. There was a note on the kitchen table telling me there was food in the fridge and clean towels in the bathroom. And that he'd gone over to the house and would be back later. He'd added that I should feel free to wander over and keep him company if I wanted to.
But like I said, I didn't want to be a pest or get in the way. And I didn't want him thinking I was going to expect him to entertain me when I knew he had work to do. I'm pretty good at being unobtrusive and not getting in the way. So I had breakfast, and then a shower, and decided to go lay out in the sun to help my hair dry. Somehow I'd managed to forget my hair dryer, and hair as long and thick as mine takes hours to air dry. The heat of the sun would speed that up at least a little.
It had been about three hours...and my hair was almost fully dry. Plus my skin was giving me that little hint that it was maybe a bit PAST time to get the hell out of the sun. And to be honest I was a little bored.
And me bored is never, never, EVER a good idea. I always seem to get in trouble when I'm bored. Sometimes it's deliberate, on purpose(BUTTONS...oh shiny let's push and see what happens!) Other times it just happens-I'm not looking for trouble. Trouble just has a bead on my Irish ass.
It was late enough in the day that I figured it wouldn't hurt to go searching for Gavin, he was probably getting close to finishing up for the day, so I got to my feet, staggering a bit, slightly sun daft, and went inside to change out of my swim suit.