Falling for Jack

Chapter 14

I wake up and my head hurts like hell. It feels like someone is playing the drums inside of it. I open my eyes and it takes me a bit to focus my surroundings. The first thing I noticed was that I'm not at my place and this is not my bed. I rapidly uncover myself but to my relief I'm still wearing my clothes from last night. Wait! Last night! What the hell happened last night??

I remember going to Cece's, we talked about our sorry excuse of love lives, we did shots, I felt really sick and went to the bathroom and then it's all a blur. I remember talking to someone but I don't know who it was.

Where am I?

I take a look around. I'm in a bedroom but it's sort of empty. There's a bed, a dresser, a vanity and that's it. On the right side of the room there are two doors. I get up from the bed and go check it out. One leads to a small bathroom and the other is a closet. I notice that inside of the closet there are only man clothes and shoes.

Near the bedroom door I find my sandals and my purse. I grabbed them and put them on and left the bedroom.

Now I find myself in a hallway. On the right there is a wall and on the left I can see a couple of doors and in the background, what looks like a living room. I make my way there and the closer I get l, the better I can see that it is a living room and an open space kitchen.

I suddenly stopped. Jack is in the kitchen, by the sink, drinking a glass of water. His hair is sweaty and messy. He looks really sexy, I think to myself. OMG! Is this Jack's house? Am I in Jack's house? How am I in here?

After he finishes his water, he puts the glass in the sink and turns around. My eyes get wide and my mouth dries. His shirt is unbuttoned and I can see his abs, his pecs and I notice that he has a little bit of chest hair. My heart is beating so fast that I think I'm going to have a heart attack.

"Good afternoon sleeping beauty." Jack sarcastically says.

I instantly think to myself: "I have to remember that he is really obnoxious. His good looks are just that. On the inside he is obnoxious. I can not be fooled by his good looks!!! Don't look at his abs!"

"Why am I here?" I ask.

"I didn't know where you lived so I brought you here." He simply states.

"OK… Cece knows where I live, you could have asked her." I try to reason with him.

"Well I did try that, but she was already far too drunk to give me a straight answer so I just gave up."

"You could have left me there, at her place." I try to reason once again.

"Yeah I guess I could have done that, but I didn't want to risk someone taking advantage of you. Especially after you told me that you didn't want to open the bathroom door so that I couldn't take advantage of you." He says and gives me a wry smile.

I blush but still, I kinda want to insist on this matter but I know that if I do so, we will end up fighting again, so I decide against it. "OK then. Thank you for bringing me here. Sorry to have been a bother."

I look at him and now he looks surprised. I give him a shy smile and make my way to the exit.

Jack quickly comes to me and grabs my arm. "Wait! Where are you going?"

I look at him and he looks almost… concerned?! I must be imagining things. "Home." I simply answer. And again I try to make my way to the exit.

"How are you gonna go home?" He asks.

"What do you mean?" I ask. "I will walk." I say it like it's the most obvious thing in the entire world.

He chuckles and says "You know that I live on the forest road right? And besides it has started to rain."

I totally forgot where he lived. I guess it's going to be a long walk home. I looked through a window to confirm that it was indeed raining. "Do you have an umbrella that I can borrow?"

He chuckles again "Are you serious?? It's raining cats and dogs out there. There was a big storm coming this weekend and this is the beginning of it. It was all over the news. Didn't you see it?"

"No, I did not." I simply answered.

I go to a window to look outside. He is right, it's pouring out there. A minute later we see a really bright lightning and almost immediately the loudest thunder I have ever heard. And the lights go out.

Great.

I love thunderstorms.

Not!

Internally I'm almost losing it, but I'm trying to play it cool on the outside.

Suddenly I feel something touching my shoulder and I start to scream at the same time that more lightning and thunder rage on the outside.

I was so lost in thought that I never heard Jack coming closer to me. I looked at him grabbing my chest and breathing heavily. He scared the hell out of me! Nonetheless he is not affected by my outburst and even looks amused. "Someone is afraid of thunderstorms." He states.

"Yes. Terrified." I simply answer. There is no denying. Even if I wanted to, my actions would speak louder than my words.

"Well, worry not. You can stay here with me until the storm passes and then I can drive you home. I have a generator in the back. I'm going to turn it on." He grabs a flashlight from a drawer in the kitchen and goes out the back.

I suddenly feel very anxious without him here and I fight the urge to call him back. My rational side knows that he needs to go get the generator started but this storm really scares me. Although it is 1pm everything is really dark because of the heavy storm clouds. Everytime lightning strikes the whole house gets backlighted. It looks like a horror movie.

10 minutes later the lights are on again. Jack comes back in and says:

"That's better, right? Now let's have some lunch."