"I thought I told you to tell him to trim that ferrett off his face." Nessa said, approaching with Jon at her side.
"Um...I forgot." Lucy said, glancing at Colby, who appeared to be just as confused as Joe and Jon.
"What are you talking about?" Joe questioned, looking at the blonde woman.
"That! That thing that is inhabiting his face." She pointed a finger at Colby's chin. "It needs to be weed whacked, polished up and I am going to do that the moment we get back to the hotel."
"Was the sex that good?" Colby asked, glancing at Jon who shrugged.
"If she's like this, it had to have been."
"Come on, daylight is wasting away." Nessa stated, pulling Lucy away from the three men and towards the hotel lobby doors. "Tell me everything later. I want to know how your date went."
"It wasn't a date, Nessa. We had dinner, and then we came back. You were in the middle of something and I slept in Jon's bed not Joe's. I'm not like you."
"I know and we're going to work on that." Nessa smiled.
The fair they found was not as busy as they had expected. There weren't a lot of people who recognized them, which Lucy was fine with that. Yes she was on television, yes she could act, but then again, she wasn't famous not like The Shield was. Actually it was good to her that she didn't get recognized, not like her brother at least. And it gave Lucy a chance to get to know three men that had slowly started to become her friends, since Nessa was the one that acted like a sister to her.
"Roller coaster?" Joe asked, looking down at Lucy as she stared at one of the rides with wonder.
"Sure. That one." She pointed to one in particular, called of all things The Slingshot. "I've always wanted to go on one of those. And it's better to do it before you eat, you'll loose your lunch."
"We haven't even had breakfast." Colby pointed out, pouting. "I'm hungry."
"Yeah so am I. What about you, Sweetheart?" Jon looked at Nessa, who seemed to be deep in thought.
"Sure."
"And you Joe?" Lucy looked at the man next to her. "We can always come back to it."
"Yeah. Later, I promise." He said, rubbing her back slightly.
The five of them headed to the food court section of the fairgrounds, where all the different smells of the fair food wafted about. It was figuring out what everyone wanted to eat that differed between the men and women.
"This deep fried shit will kill you." Colby said as both Nessa and Lucy eyed the deep fried twinkies.
"I like new things, I like to try new food. It's only going to be one. Want to split it, Nessa?" Lucy asked. "Just in case one of us doesn't like it?"
"Better safe than sorry. Okay, I'm up for a challenge. Then I'm getting a burger and a beer."
Jon smiled at the woman as she flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder. Confidence wasn't waning on her. Maybe he would keep her around longer, not just because she was Lucy's friend.
For the briefest moment Lucy felt brave to say what was on her mind. "Is Jon going to help you work it off later?"
"Oh My God, Lucina Edith Cena, did you really just ask me that?" Nessa shoved her friend slightly, who was smiling at her accomplishment.
Joe began laughing hard, his head back, his chest raising with each laugh he took. Colby was there with him, holding his side and leaning of the food stand. Lucy stepped back and grabbed Joe's arm, resting her head on his arm in a vain attempt to get away from any more of her friend's lashes. She gave Nessa a small smile as Jon draped an arm over Nessa's shoulders.
"Oh Sweetheart, I'll help ya anyway you want me to." He kissed her temple before leading them away from that food stand.
Colby decided that he would film the four of them together. He hadn't intended to but it was something he knew would come in handy later. It's not like they had noticed him pull back from them as they walked around the fairground. Jon and Nessa were sharing cotton candy, and Joe found out Lucy's absolute weakness, onion rings. This was supposed to be for the four of them, once he thought about it, so Colby came up with an idea.
The youngest member of The Shield smirked as Nessa whispered something to Lucy who shook her head no. They were at a wet pool fountain, Colby stood near a set of benches as Joe and Jon had been caught by some small fans. Nessa shrugged and walked up behind Jon when he waved politely to the children as their parents escorted them off. In the next moment, Jon was shoved into the fountain at the right time as a water spout shot up. He got shot straight in the ass, and then in the face. Lucy stood with her hands on her mouth, Joe was near roaring in laughter as Jon spied the blonde woman almost rolling on the ground from laughing.
Jon ran out of the spray of water, Nessa screamed as she tried to escape from Ambrose's pursuit but the smaller woman wasn't able to. He caught her around the waist and hauled back into the fountain. No amount of screaming and thrashing could get Nessa out of this bind. She became soaking wet along with Jon as he shoved her into the wading pool at the center of the fountain.
"Well look at that, he does have a sense of humor." Joe said looking at Lucy.
"She wanted me to do it to you. You're too big for me to move." Lucy admitted, biting her lip.
"Well, you're not for me."
"No." Lucy stepped back from Joe. "Please, no. Please."
The man with the camera phone smiled to himself as Joe picked Lucy up around the middle and ran straight into the fountain sprays. Her arms were wrapped around his neck, her face pressed into his shoulder as water rained down on them. Like a dance, the taller man spinning them around as he held onto the woman he was growing so fondly for.
It was a shock at first, but it felt good as the water seeped into her cloths. Pulling back she smiled at Joe, a real smile as he let her slip from his grasp.
"You big jerk," screamed Nessa as she slipped trying to get out of the center of the wading pool.
"Well you shouldn't have started it, Sweetheart." Jon said standing in a shower of water. "Payback sucks, doesn't it?"
Lucy and Joe stood near the pool laughing at Nessa's watery state. She slipped and fell right back on her backside, if becoming more wet was possible. Not that it didn't do her image any better, but people were filming the four of them behaving like over grown children. Lucy glanced at Joe who wasn't looking at her, he was staring at the blonde in the pool. She stepped back and pressed her hands to the middle of his back, shoving the bigger man into the fountain pool.
"Yeah, Joe, you shouldn't have started it." She smiled down at him.
"Good one, Sunshine." Jon smiled at Lucy.
"I'm going to get you both once I get out of here!" Slip, Nessa ended up falling into Joe as he was trying to get up, only to semi fall again.
"Same with me." Joe's voice grumbled as he was looking directly at Lucy with a predatory smirk.
"Not if you can't find us first." Jon laughed before taking off in one direction. Lucy took the opportunity to run in a different direction, leaving Joe and Nessa to figure out how to get out of the fountain.
Hide and seek in a fair, how hard could that be?
Well there you go, hope you enjoyed this one. Thank you for your thoughts on the Nessa/Jon relationship. I'm trying to think of ways to get them to stick together while not making Jon the sappy love guy. One more happy chapter to go before drama starts to happen again. Thanks for reading.