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Quite a short chapter, but I hope you enjoy it!
Double Dating
Chapter Seven- Dreams and Nightmares
Jess was wearing a lurid bright green short dress covered with sparkling diamonds. Her hair was done up Princess Leia style, but with little plaited buns all over her head. Becker grabbed her with chocolaty hands, leaving chocolate hand prints all over her dress, and twirled her around and around in time with the music. Jess laughed crazily until suddenly small blocks of Becker began to break off and she picked them up, giggling, and stuffed them in her mouth one by one…
Jess woke up with a start. The dream had been so vivid! The music was still echoing around her head and she could still see the vision of the huge chocolate bar with Becker's face that had been dancing with her. As she sat up, she could almost taste the chocolate from her dreams, and gulped down some water from the glass on her bedside cabinet. She glanced at the clock- it was only four in the morning! She'd had so much trouble sleeping that night. She really needed to control herself- she couldn't keep obsessing over Becker. She needed a drastic plan to get him to notice her. She flopped back down on the bed and groaned. She turned on her side and closed her eyes tightly, smiling, the words stealing from her lips... "Oh, Becker!" as she dreamed of a life in a lovely house with three children who looked just like Becker playing in the garden…..
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Becker tossed and turned. He was finding it difficult to settle. All he could think about was Jess. What was wrong with him! Darn Abby and this double dating malarkey. He'd been fine before that. OK- he finally admitted to himself- he had fancied Jess for ages, but had been quite happy just being friends, and laughing and chatting with her at the ADD. He'd enjoyed their contact and hadn't felt so…crazy about her. Well, at least he hadn't admitted to himself that he was. Now he couldn't seem to stop thinking about her- the bright short clothes she always wore. On anyone else, they'd seen too much, but on Jess they were perfect. The colours suited her personality perfectly, and he couldn't imagine her with drab commonplace skirts or suits. Her clothes were very short, and that drove him mad! Her legs seemed to go on forever, and he couldn't take his eyes off them! Her hair was sleek and gorgeous…'STOP!' He thought to himself – he was driving himself insane. There was no more pretending- he wanted Jess. He wanted to get to know everything about her. He wanted to feel her soft skin against his- her lips against…
He groaned, aching in parts that hadn't been awoken for some time with such intensity. Time to stop being- well, like Temple! He was! He suddenly realised- he was as bad as Connor had been with Abby, and Becker had always laughed about Connor's inability to make his feelings known to Abby when everyone else could clearly see they were crazy about each other! It suddenly became clear what he had to do… He had to stop being such a 'soldier boy' masking his feelings, and tell Jess he cared about her and wanted a relationship with her! He'd ask her out on a proper date, just the two of them. He really hoped she wouldn't turn him down…
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Abby was feeling very restless and very, very tired. She was still worried about Connor. He seemed a bit quiet and kept staring into space as if he was thinking hard about something. The last time he'd been so distant was during New Dawn. She was scared he was blaming himself again for everything that had happened. He was still very attentive and loving though, so it wasn't that he was going off her or anything like that. She just couldn't put her finger on it. She looked over to where he was fast asleep, a smile playing on his lips. He snored slightly but not too loud that it bothered her- she liked to hear it, actually and found it quite comforting. It meant he was there beside her and not working all hours in his lab. She curled into him and he automatically put his arms around her and pulled her close, even in his sleep. She smiled then, maybe she was reading too much into it - he was probably just thinking about some new project he had up his sleeve or something. She closed her eyes feeling safe and secure, and instantly fell asleep.
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Connor was in paradise. He was on a beach with sparkling yellow sand and glistening blue seas. Abby was there in the distance wearing the bronze coloured replica metallic bikini. It was tiny and showed off her curves in all the right places. Connor groaned in his sleep, a smile playing on his lips at the sight- she looked wonderful! He pulled a ring out of his pocket, and she was suddenly right there in front of him. Before he could give it to her, a pteranodon swooped down and grabbed it straight out of his hand. He tried to chase the bird, but it flew high into the sky, and the faster he ran, the higher it went. He ran too fast, and tripped. His knee was scraped, and blood trickled down his leg to make droplets of red among the golden grains of sand where he stood. Connor murmured in his sleep, and suddenly felt Abby in his arms. He pulled her closer to him, and suddenly- there it was- back in his hand! The ring! In his dreams he put it on Abby's finger and she kissed him….They fell to the ground, cushioned by the sand and began to make love…. He sighed happily and finally drifted off into a deep dreamless sleep. Everything was going to be OK…
To Be Continued…
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