Chapter 11 – The Chase & The Vacation
Jade eyes fluttered open and then widened when a warm body moved. A slightly hairy forearm was around her chest and an even warmer arm around her waist and hips and there was DEFINITELY someone warm pressed against her back. Everything from the night before came rushing back. The ache between her thighs was a delicious reminder of what she and Jon had done the night before.
Karlee felt Jon move around behind her; her hand went back behind her as she caressed Jon's bare thigh. It was awkward…She felt awkward as hell.
"Relax beautiful." Jon's gravelly voice murmured against her ear. "You are extremely tense right now." He deduced.
Karlee relaxed a little. "I'm sorry but this is VERY awkward."
"Why?"
"Well for all intents purposes you are my boss…so to speak." Karlee pointed out.
"No, right now we are not on the road. Technically, you are lying naked in my bed." Jon reasoned as his hands roamed her body; making sure to stay in neutral places to get her to relax a little more. Jon never had awkward moments when it came to the morning after sex, but he also knew Karlee was different.
"What's going to happen when we do go on the road?" Karlee was generally curious. "I mean…I-umm…I don't know what I mean." She was a stuttering idiot.
Jon chuckled softly. "Turn over and face me. We clearly need to have a conversation." He stated truthfully. He lifted the sheet that had been covering them and watched as Karlee rolled over and face him. He smirked before he reached up and pulled her to him. "You are too far away." He leaned down slightly as he softly kissed her forehead before their eyes locked.
"This is not as awkward as you are trying to make it. I promise Karlee." Jon sighed softly. "Look we can get dressed and pretend last night was just a once in a lifetime stress reliever or we can go share a shower, make some breakfast and see where this really goes. I personally already know how I feel about you…actually how I have felt about you for a long time. I hate Colby for what he did to you but at the same time. I'm glad he fucked up because it's going to give me a chance to show you that guys who really like you will NOT hurt you."
Jon watched as Karlee started to say something when he put his hand over her mouth and pulled her closer. "No, don't try to argue your way out of this. Don't even think about anything that you really want to make a decision about; just give me a fast yes instead of a slow no." He more than demanded.
Karlee's hand covered Jon's as she slowly pulled it away from her mouth. "This is going to be very weird…you do realize this right?"
"There are not a lot of people or things I give a shit about in my life, but I can count on one hand how many people I care about, you are in the number one slot and you have been there for quite a while." Jon stated honestly. "Let people talk it never did anything but serve to piss me off because people love to gossip and talk shit about me thinking they know me; when they don't know dick."
Karlee smiled softly. "So that kiss from New Years…"
Jon chuckled deeply. "It wasn't just because everyone was getting kissed…I wanted to kiss you to get your mind off that fuckin idiot for not only not calling you at midnight, but for not being there. He could've joined us and he chose to cut all contact with you. I still wanted you to have the perfect New Year's; even if he didn't."
"It was perfect you know. That whole evening, I never drank so much in my entire life, but I never had that much fun on a New Year's. I was in dire pain the following morning but I could've been missing my head for all I cared. You followed up the evening with breakfast and laughter and it was just perfect." Karlee sighed happily as she staring into Jon's icy blues. Her hands came up and cupped his cheeks as her thumb brushed across his lips. "You were just perfect."
"Beautiful, I'm far from perfect." Jon stated with a chuckle.
"Not to me and I'm the only one that counts right now." Karlee stated in a cheeky tone. "I could use a shower…how about you?" She asked with a smirk.
Jon nodded. "Hell yes." He jumped up from the bed as he reached over and grabbed Karlee's hands pulling her to stand up before tossing her over his shoulder and carting her naked body to his bathroom.
A shower was definitely in need.
Jon had dressed slower than Karlee since her clothes were still in the spare room that she had started in; that was going to change. It was well past noon when they both finally emerged from the bed and shower so his stomach had been growling something fierce. Jon could smell food being cook and allowed his stomach to by the guide to the kitchen.
His icy blues watched as her jean covered rear-end moved around his kitchen with ease as she continued to cook. He walked up behind her and gripped her hips. "What's cookin good lookin?" Jon mumbled against the side of her neck.
"Chicken tacos, anything special you want with these?" Karlee asked as she enjoyed Jon's lips on her neck.
"Other than you…no." Jon stated in a raspy tone. He looked over Karlee's shoulder and could tell the chicken was going to take a minute to get it cooked thoroughly. He moved her around the kitchen to the counter the furthest away from the stove. He spun Karlee around to face him before he gripped her hips and lifted her, before sitting her on the counter. She was almost eye level with him, but didn't care because she was high enough to where he didn't have to break his neck to kiss her; which he did next. Her lips were addictive against his. He could stand there all day kissing her and be completely content.
Karlee was equally addicted to this man. There was just something about the way he touched her, the way he kissed her, the way he made her feel. She knew that in the beginning he didn't much care for her being his babysitter; in fact he HATED the idea. The longer she stayed with him and the company and stuck it out the more she grew on him and after 6 months they formed a friendship. Now she'd been his assistant for a year and a half and there was definitely more there…clearly.
Karlee was pulled from the fog that Jon filled her brain with when kissing her as she slowly pulled back. "The chicken is going to burn." The kissing never ceased. "Seriously Jon, lunch is going to be ruined."
"I don't care." Jon mumbled against her lips as he continued to kiss her. "Screw it we'll order pizza."
Karlee pulled all the way away from Jon's lips as she swatted him on his jean covered ass. "Jonathan Good! We need a nice home cooked meal; that fast food crap is going to kill us." She chastised. She laughed when Jon mocked her; which he received another swat on the ass again.
Jon chuckled hard. "You know that turns me on right." He stated more than questioned.
"Don't you even think about it Jon. We need to eat and then we can do whatever your little heart desires." Karlee tried reasoning with him, but as soon as the filthy smirk appeared on his face, she knew she was about to lose the argument. "No! Don't even think about it." She scolded as a last ditch effort.
Jon slid over to the stove as he killed the fire and moved the skillet the chicken concoction was cooking in to a non-heated burner and turned to look at Karlee…smirk still firmly in place.
Karlee shrieked as she spun on her butt around the counter and hopped off on the other side and took off running through the living room and could hear Jon's laugh as he pursued her. Jon stepped on the cushions of the couch and heaved over the back as he landed on his feet like a cat directly in front of Karlee.
Karlee's socks made it difficult to stop as Jon landed in front of her and she ended up sliding straight into her captor's arms. She couldn't stop the giggles as they erupted from her lips as Jon lifted her over his shoulder and took off through the house to his room.
Food was forgotten.
"I'm sorry…how did you go from assistant to sex assistant?" Jade asked as she was enjoying the vitamin D the sun was providing. Her sunglasses were perched on her nose.
"I am not his sex assistant Jade Marie! I can't believe you said that." Karlee scolded.
"I'm just trying to figure out what the hell happened." Jade exclaimed.
Mark rolled over on his towel as he looked up at his wife. Clearly something was perturbing her. "What?" His deep voice asked.
Jade shook her head negatively at him. "Can you give me more than 'Jon and I slept together'." She stated in a high pitched girlie voice. She smirked when Mark's eyebrow went up silently questioning what she was talking about; she just shook her head again.
Karlee was sitting in the hotel room waiting for Jon to get back from the gym with Joe. "You know how I get when thunder and lightning storms go down." Hearing her sister groan she knew exactly how frightened she was of them. "Jon basically talked me through it but had me stay in his room…and well – one thing led to another and we ended up – ya know…"
"Ewww no details wench." Jade reprimanded. "I don't need to know all the freaky details. The last thing I need to hear is how my baby sister got her grove on with one of Mark's co-workers."
"Don't you mean another one of Mark's co-workers?" Karlee asked in a cheeky tone.
"That skunky piece of shit it NOT one of Mark's co-workers. He could be on fire and I wouldn't piss on him to put him out. All his arms and legs could fall off and he could be dry humping the ground to get somewhere I would RUN him over like a snake in the middle of the road. Fuck him. He's worthless." Jade spit out.
Karlee couldn't help laughing as her sister let the venom roll off her tongue in her distaste for Colby Lopez; not that Karlee couldn't stand the thought of him either. She was repulsed by the man…serpent. He was the largest form of a reptile that there was on the planet.
"Believe me, I fully agree." Karlee scoffed. "I really don't want to be reminded when I was weak and dated that thing."
"You weren't weak…Some entity took over your body and you were possessed into thinking that you were into some weird fuckin guy with a quarter of his hair dyed blonde." Jade laughed. "The power of Christ compelled you, I threw some holy water at you and puked the ghost out and that's it." She mused. "Of course I don't have any good excuse as to why you decided to have sex with Jon; that's all on you my sis."
Karlee shook her head. "There's something different about Jon. I don't know if I can explain it in one phone call…or even over the phone. First off Jon is a thousand times different when he's not on the road. I understand when he's on the road he's more in character for the fans and the live events, but when he's home he's completely different. And you have to admit the way he treats me, even before any of this happened over our days off. It's way better than skunky did." Karlee laughed softly.
Jade sighed heavily. Even she couldn't deny it. She'd seen the way Jon and Karlee acted around each other during the New Year's Eve celebration and even more the following morning in the lobby of the hotel. There really had been something there for a long time; she'd actually noticed it a few months prior.
Truth be told – Jade and everyone else noticed it after Karlee had been employed with WWE for about 6 months; Jon was starting to warm up to her and was able to joke around with her and of course when she started a food fight by splating Jon right in the face with a spoon full of mashed potatoes while they were all sitting in catering it really changed the balance of everything between the two of them.
Jade was sure Jon had NEVER expected his sweet little assistant to EVER start a food fight; least of all when she appointed him her target. She would FOREVER remember the look on his face as he slowly wiped away the potatoes and the laughter that echoed around him told him everyone had witnessed the interaction.
"You know Karlee I've always managed to stay out of your relationships, with the exception of the skunk. I didn't like him and he always gave me a bad feeling. You call it intuition, hell you can call it whatever you want to, but from the moment you told me you were dating him, I knew he was going to break your heart. I kept my mouth shut because I wasn't going to have a war brewing between the two of us, because you're my only sister. I have to say…I don't get the same feeling with Jon. In fact the feeling I get from Jon pales in comparison to the way skunk head made me feel. I think as long as you and Jon don't let anyone else interfere with what you've got going – there won't be any problems. It may actually last longer than you think as well." Jade explained softly into her cell as she looked over the rim of her sunglasses admiring her husband's half naked form lying sprawled out on a towel next to her.
Mark was laying on his back with his legs crossed at the ankles and his arms up and folded under his head as he too enjoyed the vitamin D. His acidic green eyes would periodically look over and admire his wife's bikini clad body. That royal blue against her tanned skin was suddenly his favorite color on her. The fact that it was crocheted and let tiny pin hole pricks of flesh peak through the material to his gazing eyes was enough of a tease that he was just about ready to show her what effect that tiny bikini was having on his bog body.
Mark sat up as his lips began sliding along her arm and bare shoulder and he could already see the goosebumps forming on her skin. His lips continued their journey to her neck before his tongue swiped her ear that wasn't occupied by the cell phone. "Darlin' you gotta go." Mark's voice murmured.
Jade could feel herself melting into a puddle next to her husband. "Karlee I gotta go."
The last thing Jade heard before her husband captured her lips was Karlee's laughter through the phone.
"I heard. Enjoy your vacation."
