"Good morning, sunshine," JJ said gleefully as Alex cracked one eyelid open. Upon the sight of her grinning blonde bed mate, she closed her eye again. God, her head felt like it was going to split. She reluctantly had to admit that JJ had been right; that last scotch had been a bad idea. A terrible one, to be brutally honest.
"How's your head today?" JJ continued, with absolutely no pity whatsoever in her voice.
"My head is fine," Alex lied and sat up.
"Mm-hmm," JJ hummed sceptically. "In that case, I could put these painkillers back into the bottle, right?" she grinned. Alex quickly reached out a hand and snatched them from JJ's palm before she could put the pills away.
"Shoulder hurts though," she said as if to explain her eagerness. JJ shook her head a little, deeply amused.
"What was that thing you tried to ask me last night?"
"I don't remember." But she looked away, and there was a definite blush colouring her cheeks with pink.
"I think you do, and I'm curious," JJ said and kissed one of those rosy cheeks. "I also happen to have a recording of you snoring and I may use it any way I see fit to get the truth out of you."
"Now I don't want to make that suggestion," Blake muttered and rubbed her temples with both hands, sniffing loudly. JJ glanced at her and realised that she actually was a little hurt, causing JJ to drop her little game right away.
"Sorry sweetie."
She grabbed her phone and poked at it a few times. "There. I've deleted the sound file. Sorry. I'm still curious though. Was it about…" her eyes glittered mischievously; "some kinky sex?"
Blake stared at her, wide-eyed, for several seconds before starting to laugh heartily.
"Oh my God Jennifer!" She laughed so hard small tears formed in her eyes and her head throbbed worse than ever, but this rather seemed to make the laughter even wilder - the whole idea seemed absurd. "No!"
"I wouldn't mind, though. I mean, if there's some kind of fantasy you'd like to try out, or anything like that."
Alex tilted her head to the side. Earlier in life, she had ventured into some lighter bondage, but that had mostly been due to curiosity and a pursuit of any kind of authority role rather than an actual sexual desire for bondage in itself. What she had on her mind at the moment was something on a much more emotional level.
"No, I'm incredibly content with our sexlife as it is," she said, still chuckling a little although the fits of uncontrollable laughter had died down. "It's very satisfying."
"Mmm, good."
Alex stroke her hair then got out of bed before JJ could question her further. She wanted a shower… and brushing her teeth. Why did she always end up smoking when she got drunk? It was like the bad habits she had once kicked came back with a vengeance as soon as she got a tad too much alcohol in her system. Luckily, at least she no longer felt the need to call Erin every time she got tipsy, which proved remarkable progress.
An hour later, as they sat down for breakfast, Alex spoke up again. She sounded a little hesitant, nervous even, but not as avoidant as she had been earlier.
"There was something else on my mind. Well, I shouldn't have brought it up when I had been drinking and that's why I didn't want to talk about it, and now I feel a bit silly…" she admitted. JJ reached across the table and put her and over Alex's, waiting until the other woman looked her in the eyes.
"You're not silly. I love you, honey."
"I love you too. Which is the reason I was going to ask if you think it's a good idea to…" she cleared her throat. "…exchange rings?"
JJ was stunned.
"If you think it's too soon to get engaged…" Alex began, but she was silenced and nearly knocked over by a deep, intense kiss that left her breathless and trembling.
"No, it's just about time," JJ whispered against her lips. "Wow. Just… wow."
"Wow indeed," Alex replied, overwhelmed by the reaction. "Watch the coffee," she added, as JJ was dangerously close of sending it tumbling to the floor. Some of the dark fluid splashed onto the table cloth.
"Who cares about the coffee?" JJ said and pulled her lover up in a standing position, gently enveloping her in a tight embrace. "Let's go out for breakfast instead. I'm buying. And then we can pop by at a jewellery store?"
"Sounds like a plan," Alex replied. For some reason she no longer felt hung-over. She only felt blessed and the strength of her love was so powerful it almost made her feel unreal; like a woman out of a dream world.
JJ was so happy she had to make an effort to keep from jumping around like a kid on Christmas eve. She tried to keep calm because she didn't want to appear quite so childish in front of her more mature lover… although she had just more or less jumped her on the kitchen table, which was a rather uncontrolled, immature behaviour if you thought about it.
While both knew at the back of their minds that if they both suddenly wore rings when neither of them had before, people were bound to notice. But it was a little bit too late to consider that now, besides, the only people who mattered already knew.
Almost all of them. There was still that tiny little issue about telling their families…
A/N
Sorry to the guest whose review I deleted, but you got the idea a little bit too soon and I didn't want the plot (such as it is) to be revealed before I could do it myself! LOL Yeah.
So, hope you guys still think it's a decent story… well, okay, decent maybe isn't the right word, but since I can't write sex scenes it won't explore Blake's liking to bondage or their great sexlife. That is one thing I leave to reader's imagination. ^^
