His hands made their way down my sides, grabbing my hips and bringing me closer to his body. I traced the line of his shoulders and threaded my fingers through his dark hair, pulling his lips to mine. I could feel his sigh as our lips met.
I never thought would ever feel this way again and now that it was happening I couldn't get enough. I felt as if his touch was consuming me and I needed more or I wouldn't make it.
The feel of his lips moving away from mine, leaving a burning trail down my neck made every one of my nerves feel alive. I was lost to the sensations he was creating, and felt the sharp sting of teeth as he bit the spot that made me writhe against him. His tongue smoothed over the spot as I pulled at the strands still in my grasp causing a low moan fall from his mouth.
I pushed us towards the bed wanting to get as close to him as possible before anything would happen. I pulled his face up to mine and looked into his eyes. He opened his mouth to say something.
…DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THE VOODOO THAT YOU DO SO WELL IT'S A SPELL, HELL, MAKES ME WANNA…
Almost falling off the edge of the bed, I was more than disoriented to say the least. The sound of my ringtone woke me up out of my dream, and I was disappointed I would be unable to hear what he had to say. I grabbed my phone off the end table answering it before it went to voicemail.
"Hey bitch, good morning." James shouted into my ear. "Nice to know you're alive." I groaned and leaned my forehead against my mattress.
"What time is it? Is the sun even up? It's Saturday right? I can't believe you woke me up, I was having a very important dream." I replied. "Can't I have one day to sleep in? Gabe is at a friend's house, this is my free day!"
"First of all dear, it's only 9. Second, it may be Saturday but we have plans all day and you are not flaking out on me, especially over a dream as sexy as the one you were having. And before you freak, you sound frustrated I know that tone. So no I'm almost to your door, I'll be right-"
"Here." The door shut behind him and I could hear him walking into the apartment dropping things off on the kitchen table. "Wow how much did you drink last night?"
I flipped him off even though he couldn't see and crawled my way into a standing position. "I can't believe I gave you a key. I'm regretting it so very deeply now."
"No, you aren't I brought cinnamon rolls. There's no way you could truly feel that way." He replied, I could hear the smile in his response. I pulled on the closest pair of pants and went to the kitchen. Okay so maybe I didn't regret anything.
"So what are we doing today? I mean instead of sleeping like I was planning to." I reached for a roll and a cup I knew would contain my favorite coffee.
He looked around at the mess I forgot to clean up last night. "Was it just you here last night? No one was with you?"
I nodded, my mouth full of food. Swallowing, I explained. "I was alone and I was feeling meh. And there may have been a number of half-opened bottles in my fridge. I felt entitled to finish them especially since Gabe wasn't here. I mean I'm not really used to being alone."
He gave me a sympathetic look, "I understand, and so that's why I'm here. We're going to eat all this food, drink all this coffee, then get ready because the Love Never Dies show is tonight. Don't tell me you forgot?!"
"No I didn't forget, I just have been busy lately. Gabe has been going on and on about it since you first told us." He wouldn't stop talking about it really which was odd because it definitely isn't his first show. One of the perks on being in shows is being able to see them, but for some reason this one was really different for him.
"Well like I said, let's eat and drink. I have the whole day set up so that you can get pampered and ready. You are going to feel like a goddess by tonight."
We laughed our way through breakfast and he brought me up to speed on what the day was going to hold.
"I know you can do all this on your own before you go but this was a better and more fun way to do so, while also allowing you the chance to do something you normally wouldn't. Gabe can get ready later too, but he doesn't need nearly as much time as you would." I nodded in agreement.
He was still talking as I walked back to my room to get dressed, "Sooo, Lorraine."
"Sooo, James." I laughed in response to his tone.
"Have you talked to that guy from the store the other day, you have a date with him coming up don't you?"
I was in the middle of smoothing down my dress and froze, "How'd you know about that?" I hadn't told anyone about it and I was trying to think about how much I really wanted to go on the date in the first place. It was fun and exciting in the moment, but with time to think about it I wasn't sure it was what I really wanted to do.
"Sean texted me pretty much as soon as you left work." I slipped into my boots and walked out to him grabbing purse.
"Well you and Sean need to chill, I might go on the date I might not. It depends. I mean I don't know anything about him really. I'll think about it, okay?"
He wrapped his arm around me and we made our way out of the apartment, I locked up behind us as we went to leave the building. The distance to the first stop for the day wasn't very far so we would walk, but then we'd catch a taxi to the next stop. James would then take me to work where he got one of the makeup artists to do my makeup in return for him covering for her one night. Gabe's friend's father would be bringing him to us at the theater later since we would be leaving from there to walk to our show. It was actually well thought out, James could be very organized and on top of things when he wanted to.
"Gabe's tux is at the theater, we left there so it would be easier than transporting it everywhere. Now let's get started we have a big day ahead of us." James took my hand and picking up our speed lead me to the first stop.
