Chapter 9
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Tucker
Seeing her soaked through and chilled to the bone I couldn't leave her alone.
I followed her to the back of the boat. The boat was all over the place. Tipping all over the place.
"Lucy, please wear this," I say as I came over and stood beside her, I looked at her feeling so bad for her. She nodded her head I covered her with the raincoat. I stood behind her close but I didn't touch. She grabbed my hands and pulled them around her.
"Better? I spoke close to her ear, she turned around and faced me.
She suddenly goes pale as a washboard and she threw up all over me.
"OH MY GOD!!! She covered her mouth and turned and threw up again over the railing.
I go to her aid but she waved me away.
I head down to the washroom and take my clothes off and quickly have a shower.
Lucy
I was not doing well with the swaying of the boat and drinking way too much I was a wreck. Jasper and Chester ran over and were by my side.
The boat was so tippy that it was hard to hold on to anything and throw up at the same time.
Then the guys started getting seasick. We were a mess. After I threw up every last contest I just lay on the cold freezing deck. Scared to move . . . scared to heave, which hurt throwing up nothing.
My dad came over and picked me up and carried me below deck. He lay me down on a bed.
Tucker came in wrapped in only a towel. He smelled fresh and clean.
"Sorry, I can stay in another room?
"Tucker, would you mind staying with her?
"You sure?
"Yes! I have to steer through the night then in a few hours we need to start pulling up the first set of traps."
"Okay."
"Thank you."
My dad walked out.
Tucker came over and took a seat beside me on the bed.
"How are you feeling?
"Disgusting...embarrassed...I can't believe I threw up again on you."
"I think I'll live." He smirked.
"Do you need anything?
"Will you hold me I can't get warm?
"Okay."
Tucker
I climbed in beside her, she takes my hand and pulled my arms around her, she was shaking so badly.
"I thought you didn't cuddle?
She turned to face me.
"I'm kind of liking it with you."
"I'm so cold." Her lips were practically blue. I brushed her hair away from her face, her cheeks we're frozen.
I move in closer and she turned more into my body and buried her head next to mine.
She was soon asleep, I could feel her breath on my neck. I kept rubbing her and holding her close. She was finally warming up.
Jasper and Chester came in and lay on their beds. They looked green.
"Are you alright?
"Seasick."
"f**k, that sucks."
"Yeah, but she was the worse, I've never seen someone so sick," Chester says.
"Better get some rest we have to be up in a few hours to bring up the first set of cages," I say.
They were already passed out.
.......
Lucy
I wake up feeling arms around my body and a leg threaded through mine. I can feel his soft breathing on my neck. I didn't want to move as I haven't felt this safe...this comfort in a long time, but I was really thirsty.
I slide my arm away and move my leg. I see he's wearing a towel and my eyes sink down to his slight bulge I could see.
My cheeks grow warm when I imagine what he looks like under there.
"Want a peek jolt out of the bed so fast and run out the door. I close the washroom door and lock it.
Holy s**t, I am so embarrassed. He totally knew I was looking at him.
I wash my face and cup my hands and suck water from my hands. I needed more. I licked my dried lips and locked at my reflection. My hair was a mess of crazy, I had sleep in my puffy eyes my skin looked pale beside the rosiness on the peaks of my cheeks.
Boom boom. The door rattles.
"I need to pee Lucy," Tommy says.
I push off the counter and unlock the door. I barely got out before he pulled his p***s out and did his thing.
"Geeze, I slam the door behind myself.
I walked down to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water. I took it up to the main deck. It was dark and still choppy but not as bad as before.
I went up to see my dad. I see him just staring out the window.
"Hey!
"Oh hey, how are you feeling?
"Like shit." I ran my hands through my hair.
"You need to stop drinking. I'll toss all the drinks off the boat if I have to." He said sternly.
"You don't have to do that."
"Lucy, you don't seem to get it, you need help."
"I'm fine. I just needed it for a while. But I'll stop."
"One last chance. If I find out you took a damn sip I'll send you to rehab. Cause I will not lose you."
"Okay, dad."
He swivelled in his chair and faced me.
"I know you had something with Jacob.
But you have to move on."
"What like you?/you haven't moved on from mom."
His eyes welled up.
"That's different."
"No dad it's not, love is love. I loved Jacob. I was myself and I was the best version of myself with him. I don't feel like me anymore. I'm lost."
"I know it's hard, but you're still you Lucy. Your still my Lucy. The sweet girl who loved life and enjoyed her friends, who have so much life to live."
"Maybe someday but right now I'm lost, I'm a broken Lucy."
"Aww sweetheart, come here." He gently holds me as I cried.
"You're going to get through this, and I will always be here."
"Can I tell you something? I lean out and look at him.
"Anything, you know that."
"Dad, I was pregnant...
"Was?
"Well, yah was cause obviously, I'm not now."
"Sorry I was just caught off guard."
"I'm so sorry."
"Did Jacob know?
"No." I shook my head.
"I lost it about a month after Jacob died."
"Why didn't you tell me?
"It just hurt too much on top of Jacob and dying and then our baby I was crushed."
"Just don't sink too low Lucy. Let these guys in. They're not bad guys."
"I know I just worry that if I let my guard down one will get in and they'll be taken down away."
"Oh, Lucy unfortunate tragic things happen but it doesn't mean it's going to happen again." He rubbed my arm.
"I just can't let go of that feeling that if I let someone in something bad will happen."
"I've seen the way Tucker watches you he's into you, Lucy."
I am surprised that my dad has noticed.
"Really dad?
"What I'm not blind."
"But you hate guys that look my way."
"Just the bad one's honey, Tucker he's not bad."
"How do you know? Do they have some handbook that says which guys are good and bad? I tap my foot on the floor shaking my head trying not to laugh.
"Just a feeling." He says he then takes a seat and is back focused on his task.
"Thanks, dad, so you're ok with some guy with his hands all over me?
"Get out! He chuckled.
I skip down the stairs and lose my footing at the bottom step and fall hard ob my ass.
"f**k!!
"Watch that last step is dozy." He was now in full-body laughter.
"Glad you find my pain so funny." I stand up and walk out onto the deck. It was spitting rain at me. I went into the galley and grabbed a raincoat.
I stepped back out and went over to the edge of the boat and looked out at the dark sea.
"Don't jump." I hear Tommy behind me.
I turn and see him and Chester walking over.
"I'm not jumping."
"Good cause you'd be on your own."
"Thanks."
"Look I'm sorry for being a freak earlier. I've just been through s**t. But I shouldn't take it out on any of you."
"Aw, look you can be sweet."
"Watch it, Tommy, I could through you overboard."
"Well guess the sweetness didn't last long."
"I'm going to get you, I charge at Tommy and my foot slides out from under me on the wet deck and I fall on my ass again.
"For f**k sake." I roll onto my side the guys help me up.
"Do not laugh at me."
"Not laughing." Tommy turned his head and I could clearly see a smile.
"Fucker."
"I'm sorry it was funny.'
"Fine laugh it off."
Both guys laughed as we tried to walk and we all fell over as the boat tipped.
"Hahaha, losers can't stay on your feet either."
We all just laughed as we lay on the deck floor. The others come over and see us.
"Are you guys ok? Tucker, Dylan and Jasper came over.
Tucker helped me up.
"f**k my ass is so sore."
"That's what she said." Tommy chimed in howling as his own teasing.
I smacked him in the arm.
"You all will be alone doing these cages."
I walked off limping. Three hard hits to my ass were hurting me something fierce. Tucker followed me to the kitchen. I laid down on the bench seat.
"What happened?
"I fell down the stairs leaving my dad's porch then I fell twice on the deck."
"Do you need me to check?
"Oh good one, never heard the one before."
"I could inspect it make sure nothing broke."
"Well since you offering sure."
"Really?
"No, f**k off," I smirked as I saw his face goes from happy to sad in a fraction of a second.
"Tucker, can you get me some ice for my ass?
"Sure." He walked over to the freezer and grabbed a thing of frozen peas."
He tossed them to me I caught them then placed it on my ass.
He walked over and took a seat beside me.
"How are you feeling? His fingers brushed over my cheek.
"My body was aching before now its like a 10 for pain. It's like my body was jarred or went through some battle."
His hand trailed down my back and rest just under my ass. His fingers dance over my round humps. He moved the peas off, then he brushes his fingertips over each cheek. I looked up at him.
"Do you want me to stop? He leaned down and whispered.
"No." I shook my head. His hand softly rub my ass. This other hand ran down the back of my thigh. Tingles were alive and damn he had my body waking to his touch.
I rolled onto my side and grabbed his face.
"Do you want to kiss me?
He nodded his head.
"Then kiss me." I grasped my face with his hands and ran his thumb over my bottom lip.
"You're not ready Lucy." His finger ran over my cheek.
"I thought that's what you wanted? I sit up and wince as I sit on my sore ass.
"I do, I really do but you're not ready. You're still in love with Jacob I can't compete with him."
"So then what we just dance around this s****l tension that we both have?
"Guess so."
He stood up and walked away.
"Tucker, what the f**k??
What the hell just happened?
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