It Was Only Ever Erin

Chapter 11 - Alfresco Dining

Jason’s P.O.V

Well she hadn’t been kidding when she said she was a rolly sleeper – the woman was like a freakin’ rotisserie chicken. For the safety of my injured shoulder, I’d had to move to the couch halfway through the night. I’d managed to get about 5 hours sleep when I woke up at 8:45am and could tell that I wasn’t gonna get any more after that. After a few minutes I decided I might as well earn myself some extra brownie points and make Erin breakfast in bed. Pulling on my jeans, I made my way through to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to see what we were working with, just as there was a knock on the front door.

Looking through the peep hole I could see a woman with long dark hair and a sun dress and guessed that she couldn’t pose much danger. Just as I opened the door however, I heard frantic footsteps running into the room behind me.

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Erin’s P.O.V

I scrunched my face up in my pillow as my phone alarm beeped incessantly in my ear. ‘Why are you yelling at me? It’s my day off!’ I thought to myself. After I turned it off, I looked over my shoulder to make sure it hadn’t woken Jason… where was Jason?

Suddenly I heard a knock on the door and thoughts and memories suddenly flooded into my head.

June’s picking up the chairs

Jason’s not in bed

Jason must be in the other room

June’s at the door

June doesn’t know about Jason

Jason’s gonna open the door

Fuck!

I threw the covers off myself, grabbed the robe hanging on the back of my bedroom door, as I was still very naked and sprinted into the living room just as shirtless Jason opened the door to reveal June. As she looked up and saw Jason her eyes widened from a mixture of confusion and astonishment, clearly wondering who this gorgeous, half-naked stranger was and what the hell he was doing in my apartment. Her eyes then flitted to me, out of breath and looking like a scantily clad deer caught in headlights. She raised her eyebrows having put two and two together and looked back at Jason.

“You must be Erin’s Mom.” As I stood there, words failing to come either into my brain or out of my mouth, Jason slowly turned to look at me with a blank expression on his face and feebly pointed his thumb at June.

“I don’t know how to answer that.” he muttered and, resisting the urge to laugh, I hurried forward, taking Jason by the arm and pulling him back a couple of steps to let June in.

“Um, June this is Jason, Jason this is June, she’s a friend from work.”

“Good morning,” he said with a small smile placing his hand affectionately on the back of my neck and gently stroking it with his thumb.

“Hi,” June replied. I was scanning her face trying to make out what she was thinking. Was she annoyed? Confused? Impressed? All three?

“So, what brings you to my daughter’s place so early on her day off?” Jason asked, thankfully breaking some of the tension in the air.

“Well Jason, I’m glad you asked. Most of our class from medical school are meeting up at the lakes today for a barbecue and, as Erin said she was going to be busy… with her mother, she said I could borrow her fold out chairs.” June said, shooting me a look that caused me to stare guiltily at my feet. “I don’t suppose you’d be able to convince her to come along? You’re more than welcome to join us and there’s enough room in the car for two more people.” At this, my head shot up and Jason looked down at my unwilling expression.

“Sure, that could be fun,” Jason said in a bright innocent voice – yet shooting me his most mischievous grin. June eyed me glaring at him, a small smirk playing at the corners of her mouth.

“You know what, I’m gonna take the chairs down to the car whilst you two talk it over. Back in a sec…” June winked at me as she scurried out of the room, a chair under each arm.

“You know Erin, you may not be too happy about my career choice but I’m not too happy about being your secret mistress you keep hidden away in the attic,” he quipped in a scandalised tone as he turned to me raising his eyebrows.

“Sweetie, with those cheekbones and that hot little ass, if anything you’d be my trophy wife,” to which Jase laughed loudly.

“Why don’t you wanna go?”

“Well, partly ‘cause I hate barbecues and just don’t understand the appeal of al fresco dining. I mean, if I wanted to spend half my meal chasing napkins across the grass and flicking ants off my plate-… you know what, I’m not gonna get into that now. But the main reason is ‘cause I wanted to spend the day with you.” I looked up at him with my hands on his chest and he gently started caressing my lower back. “It’s like you said, I only just got you back after 5 years; I was hoping we could spend the day… talking, catching up and getting to know each other better and… I dunno, cuddling and eating in bed and… doing other stuff in bed,” I finished as I c****d my eyebrow at him knowingly. Jason’s face scrunched up in a look of pure temptation and held me tighter to him.

“Mmm, that does sound good.”

“Great, I’ll tell June.”

“Nope,” he said, holding me in place as I made to run after her.

“Oh come on! Why?”

“Babe, whenever I ask you about work you always talk about how much pressure there is and how you hardly get a chance to spend time with your friends. Well, this is your chance.” At his words my heart melted just a little, hearing how much he cared and how he’d noticed the little things that had been bothering me. “We can still spend the day catching up and cuddling. Plus, hanging out with you when you were with your friends is something we never did in high school, so we’ll still get to know each other better.” At this point my cheeks were aching from grinning at how cute he was being.

“What about the things in the bed?”

“Well, I agree al fresco dining has its flaws, but I gotta tell you I’m not so keen on a bed full of crumbs either.” I laughed at his words, then he leant in close and whispered “as for the… other things,” I could feel him grinning against my ear “I’m sure we could find a moment to sneak off for a bit, not to mention we have all night as well.” I tipped my head back and breathed out a heavy, resigning sigh before looking back at his expectant face.

“Fiiine, you win. You made a good case counselor.”

“Thank you, your honor.” he said chuckling and gave me a chaste kiss on the forehead as June came back into the room.

“Well?” she asked excitedly.

“We’re coming,” I drawled and June bounced up and down clapping.

“Babe, she didn’t need to know that, TMI. But thank you June for the encouragement,” Jase joked as he walked into the bedroom to get dressed. June laughed beside me then back handed me hard on the arm looking like she was about to explode from excitement.

“Ow!”

“Seriously Erin, what the hell?! Who is that guy?”

“He’s just someone I knew in high school and we… ran into each other a few days ago.”

“Oh my God, that’s who you’re been texting all this time?! Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because you would’ve wanted to know all about him and I haven’t seen the guy in 5 years, I wanted to get to know him first! Anyway, if you want me to come to this thing you need to let me get ready – gimme 10 minutes.” I rushed around my bedroom getting ready whilst Jase sat on the bed, watching me as he put his shirt and shoes on. I pulled on a turquoise bikini set, white tank top and short blue jean shorts. I tugged my unruly hair up into a messy bun and applied a little mascara before turning to the man on the bed and opening my arms wide. “Ready?”

He stood and gripped my hips firmly in his hands, pulling my crotch against his, leaning his face in to hover over mine and gave a low, hungry moan. “You look gorgeous.”

“Thank you,” I smiled and snaked my arms round his neck, placing our foreheads together. Suddenly I pulled back a little and looked down realising… “Hey, two hands! Hey there leftie!” He chuckled and lifted his left hand slightly, wiggling his fingers.

“Yeah, I’ve been able to start moving the arm a bit more recently – doing my exercises like a good patient.”

“Well color me impressed!” I said, taking his good arm and walking out to join June.

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Jason’s P.O.V

As we made our way out to the front of the building, we spotted a Jeep with two other people in the front seats.

“Hop in,” said June as she made her way round to the other side. Erin sat in the middle seat so my shoulder wouldn’t knock against anyone and the two people up front turned round simultaneously to look at me.

“Ah, Jase, this is Max and his girlfriend Lizzie. They’re also on our course and live with June. Guys this is Jason.” Max and Lizzie raised their hands in greeting and smiled brightly. Max turned back round to start driving but Lizzie remained determinedly twisted round in her seat.

“So Jason, how do you know our Erin?” she asked with a wiggle of her eyebrows.

“Well, we actually know each other from high school, we shared a Chemistry class.” At these words Lizzie gasped dramatically and June slammed her hand down on Erin’s arm.

“What?! You’re the hot, bad-boy Chemistry crush?!” shrieked June.

“The one who kissed her on the last day of school?” Lizzie asked, practically bouncing up and down in her seat.

“Oh God,” Erin groaned, hiding her face in her hands.

“Well I’m already enjoying myself thoroughly,” I said giving Erin a playful smile and a nudge in the ribs. “You told your friends about me?”

“It was one drunken night-” started June,

“No!” yelled Erin holding her finger up to silence her friend. June pushed her arm back down with one hand and covered her mouth with the other and carried on as though there had been no interruption.

“-during our first year of medical school and we were all sharing our ‘best s*x’ stories and little miss grumpy face here said that one kiss with you had given her more s****l excitement than any lay she’d ever had.”

“After that we got her to tell us all about you,” concluded Lizzie, laughing at Erin’s now bright red face which she was once again trying to hide as best she could. By now I was beaming. I slung my good arm around her and pulled her in close to my side, giving her a quick kiss on the top of the head.

“Oh sweetie, it’s okay.” I looked back to the others, “Well, little did she know I’d felt the same way about her the whole time, so when we found each other again it was like starting back where we’d left off.” Erin finally looked up at me and gave me a swift peck on the lips as the girls ‘Awww’ed.

“Alright, alright, enough girly noises for one journey; we got another hour n’ a half of this s**t,” said Max, rolling his eyes.