Ugh, I am such a bad updater! I apologize to all of you for taking this long. I've been getting back into the swing of school and still fighting some writer's block. I was having some real trouble with this one. I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with it. On the upside, it turned out so much better than I had actually hoped for! Yay!

Hopefully the next update won't take three weeks.

Please enjoy and review when you've finished.

Not mine.

"Hmm, I must be dreaming." I said when Ranger put a grape to my lips.

"Why's that?" He asked, munching on his own grape.

"Because you're feeding me tasty food." I opened one eye and saw him smirking. "Except you're usually naked. Why aren't you naked?"

His smirk turned to full on grin. "I can get naked if you want."

I liked the sound of that. "All in due time."

He laughed and put another grape to my lips. I took the grape, closed my eye and relaxed back onto the blanket he had spread on the beach.

Ranger had surprised me with date four by making a picnic lunch. Date two was dinner and a movie. I'm not sure what the movie was about because Ranger spent most of the time distracting me with his tongue down my throat.

Not that I'm complaining. Personally, that was the highlight of the evening.

Date three was probably my favorite date so far. He took me mini-golfing. I know, Ranger and mini-golf in the same sentence is pretty funny.

"I'm not sure I'm holding this right." I said, pouting over my shoulder at Ranger. He just grinned at me. "Can you help me?"

Ranger came up behind me and I wiggled my butt into his crotch. "Careful Babe, don't start something you can't finish." He said huskily.

"Oh, don't fret, I have every intention of finishing it. Just name the time and place."

He nipped at my ear. "I'll keep that in mind." He placed my hands on the club. "This is how you hold it."

I turned and looked at him. "Thank you."

He grinned and backed up. I took my first shot and wiggled my butt again for him. I heard him chuckle.

I won by a few strokes, but I was sure Ranger let me win.

"I'm not sure you can top this." I said, smiling at him.

He grinned at me and leaned down for a kiss. "I'm sure I'll think of something."

I rolled to my stomach. "Explain something to me. How'd you get everyone out of the house?" Whenever me and Ranger try to have some alone time, one of our chaperones manages to find us. I'm pretty sure they thought cock blocking was an amusing way to spend their day.

"I bribed them."

I sat up on my elbows. "You bribed them?"

"Sure," he said, shrugging. "How else was I going to get them to leave?"

"With what?"

"The guys took cash. I gave the girls a car and a spa day."

I pouted. "I want a spa day."

"I'll give you a massage any time you want."

I shivered. "I like the sound of that."

He leaned in for another kiss when we felt the first droplets of rain. "Time to go in."

We packed the things and ran back to the house to beat the rain. Unfortunately, the rain came faster than we anticipated and when the clouds opened, it poured. I stopped on the porch and Ranger looked back at me.

"What are you doing?" Ranger asked from the door.

I looked up the sky and laughed. "It feels nice."

"You're crazy. Come in before you catch a cold."

It would be worth it. I looked at him. "Come here."

He shook his head.

I laughed. "Chicken?"

He mock glared and joined me. "This is a really bad idea."

"When did you become such a hypochondriac?" She huffed. "Close your eyes and feel."

He did and a small smile graced his face.

"See? You know it feels nice."

"Smart ass."

"You love my ass."

"That's not what I love most."

I grinned up at him. "You want to broaden my horizons right now?"

Ranger gave me his wolf grin. "How can I do that?"

"Kiss me."

His brow furrowed. "You've never been kissed in the rain?"

I shook my head.

He cupped my face. "Well, let's remedy that." And he pressed his lips to mine.

The kiss was delicious. His soft lips caressed mine as the intensity shot up to a whole new level. He nipped at my bottom lip and I gasped, giving his tongue room to enter my mouth. I moaned as his tongue stroked mine.

Ranger's eyes were black, pleasure written all over his face, when we came apart for air. I gasped and my belly warmed, knowing that my face was mirroring his. Ranger gently nuzzled his nose near mine with our lips barely touching, silently asking permission.

This was it! I was finally going to have Ranger back in my pants! My doodah started to sing the Hallelujah chorus.

I smiled, turning my head and…

I sneezed.

Ranger grinned. I blushed. After a second, I opened my mouth to apologize when I sneezed again.

How embarrassing. I didn't want to look at him, fearing the worst.

He put a finger on my chin and forced me to look at him.

"Bless you." He said, still grinning.

"Jeez." I rolled my eyes. "How sexy was that?"

He shrugged. "I've had worse."

I punched him in the gut. "Not funny."

"But true." He grabbed my hand and we rushed inside.

"Ack, I feel gross now." I said, trying to wring out my now soaked clothes.

"Well you wouldn't feel that way if you hadn't stood in the rain." Ranger had gone into the kitchen and started to put the remnants from our picnic away.

"Sure, but then I wouldn't have had one of my top ten kisses. I would've missed that."

Ranger peeked around the corner. "Top ten?"

"Sure," I said, shrugging. "It was good, but I've had better."

Now I know it is very dangerous when I bait the tiger, but something inside of me didn't care. Bad Stephanie was out to play.

Ranger wiped his hands on a towel and came out to where I was standing. "Well what's number one?"

"When Eddie Gazzara kissed me for my first kiss. I was six."

He smiled at me. "I'll give you that one. But if Joe is number two…"

"Well…" I smiled at him.

"Smartass." He grabbed me around the waist and pulled me close for a deep kiss. The kiss was hot and sexy, just like Ranger.

"Hmm, definitely number two worthy."

Ranger chuckled. "Good to know, Babe. You want to know what my number one is?"

"Is it with Joe?"

He smacked my ass. "You think you're so clever."

"Nah, I know it."

He kissed me again. "My number one is our first kiss. That's when I realized I'd do anything to get you naked."

"And you tried pretty much everything."

"Thank God the deal worked because I was running out of ideas. It was tough to get into your pants."

"Please." I scoffed. "If you had known the thoughts I had about you. It really wasn't so tough."

He grinned widely. "I had my suspicions. But what you were thinking and what you actually did were two different things."

"I had to keep you on your toes, Batman."

"Well you did a very good job of that." He started to kiss me again, each one hotter than the next. I moaned into his mouth when he unsnapped my jeans and caressed the skin underneath.

Oh boy!

Only… not.

"Damn, it's really pouring out there!" Lester said when he opened the door. He was shaking the water off of his hair.

Ranger sighed and put his head on my shoulder. "I want to kill him, but he's the best at his job."

I giggled.

He kissed my forehead. "Soon. I'm not sure how much longer I can go without touching you."

I nodded back. It was getting harder every day to not walk up to him and just rip his clothes off.

"Hello? Anybody home?" Lester called. He peeked his head in. "Found them! We were going to order in. Any preferences?"

"Chinese?" I said, not taking my eyes off of Ranger. His sparkled and danced, clearly remembering the last time we had Chinese.

"Sounds good to me."

"Great. I'll get the menu." Lester said.

"I have something to show you." Ranger said, pulling out his wallet. It was surprisingly dry. Not that I wasn't surprised. Like water would dare dampen Batman. Inside, he pulled out a small piece of paper. "I kept it." He said.

I looked at it. It was his fortune from that night. I laughed and Ranger's brow furrowed. I shook my head. "I kept mine too."

Ranger's face smoothed into a smile. "Like minds…"

"Very true." He put it back in his wallet. "After you left, I would pull it out sometimes and look at it. It was nice having something that reminded me of you so close."

"Like me and your soap." I said before I could stop myself. I slapped my hand over my mouth.

Ranger just grinned. "I knew about that. I made sure Ella stocked up for you."

I sighed. "She's too good for me."

"I say the same thing about you."

Aww… "Sometimes I wonder what you're doing with a spaz like me."

He tucked a curl behind my ear. "You have your own style. That's what drew me to you."

Again, aww. "That's what drew me. Your big heart." I stopped him when he opened his mouth. "You may not think it, but you do. All of your men do. Because if you didn't, you wouldn't waste your time on me, helping me when I needed it. Making sure I'm okay even when I blow something of yours up."

He caressed my cheek. "You'll always be my first priority. No matter what's going on."

"Good to know."

Lester popped back in. "We're watching Tropic Thunder. You guys in?"

"Oh I am so there!" I said, grabbing Ranger's hand and running all the way to the living room.