Chapter 11: Show Me
Charlie P.O.V
I opened my eyes and as they adjusted I noticed the Brax was not longer beside me, I rolled over onto my belly, and felt the warm air skim over my bare back, seeing the blanket was now riding low on my hips and the heater blowing the warm air directly on me. I sighed and sat up, disappointed that the first time I stay over for a year I wake up naked and in a bed without my boyfriend. My feet hit the carpeted floor as I leant over and grabbed my panties, sliding them up my legs and into place before reaching to grab Brax's shirt.
"Hey, hey where do you think you're going?" I heard him say, I swung my head around and saw him walking out of the bathroom, completely naked and showing everything. I couldn't help it, but I looked him up and down, taking particular interest in a certain place, or part of his body. Blushing immediately and turning around looking at the floor, I couldn't believe I just did that. For some reason looking, or touching him in that particular region didn't bother me at all when we got caught up in the heat of things, but as soon as it was under innocent circumstances I would act like a school girl.
"Back to bed." I said as I continued to put his shirt on.
"Not with that on, I hope." He said cheekily, I stopped as the shirt was half over my head, thinking about it. I pulled it back off my head and let it drop to the floor, before crawling back into bed.
"That's better." He smiled, getting into bed next to me. I couldn't look him in the eye, simply because I knew I was still flustered at the fact that I had seen him naked and acted like a school girl with a crush. His hand fell over my waist and I felt the tip of his finger drawing slow and lazy circles on my back, his touch like a feather, sending shivers up my spine.
Brax P.O.V
I could feel the heat from her cheeks on my chest and I couldn't help but grin at her. She used to be like this, when we were together about a year ago. At first, when I we got together in Leah's kitchen and had sex for the first time she didn't blush or anything, she wasn't afraid of anything, she told me what she wanted with confidence, it was all passionate and erotic. But as soon as I confessed my love for her it changed, she become shy at certain points during it, knowing that what we had wasn't just sex anymore it was something real, and too be honest I started to enjoy sex even more. It was still passionate and erotic but it was also more loving and meaningful.
I slid down the bed so my face was level to hers and I looked directly at her. Her beautiful green eyes staring at me for a fraction of a second before her cheeks turned crimson and she looked away yet. I laughed lightly at her before I kissed her cheek, and worked my way down to her lips. She soon dropped the shyness and leant over me, straddling my waist, I could feel the material of her panties rubbing up against me, I was trying my hardest to contain myself but she could always get to me. My hands found their way to her arse, cupping her tight bum and pulling her further up my body.
Just as things were getting up and interesting I heard a knock on my bedroom door, I knew it wouldn't be long before they opened it up. I pulled Charlie off me and to my side, leaning over her and pulling the blanket up our bodies, just in time to se Heath walk in.
"Woh um sorry, I'll come back later." He said awkwardly.
"No what do you want?" I questioned, he wasn't going to come back later because Charlie and I might be in a position that would not only be embarrassing for him, but both Charlie and I as well.
"You took the keys to Angelo's last night and I figured that you would be busy occupying yourself with other things today then coming into work..." He said, looking me directly in the eye, not daring to look anywhere else. I knew the keys were in my jeans pocket, which could be anywhere in my room.
"Um you'll find them in the pockets of my jeans..." I said, looking over Charlie and searching for them. Heath could obviously see them because he entered the room and picked up Charlie's bra that was laying on top of my jeans, and threw it at me.
"She might need this." He said cheekily. I looked down at Charlie and she was staring up at me her face getting even redder, I laughed quietly and kissed her forehead.
Charlie P.O.V
I walked up the drive way of my house after kissing Brax goodbye and getting out of his ute. I didn't want to leave his place, to be honest I perfectly happy being in his bed with him again, feeling warm and loved as I slept in his arms. It took me about ½ an hour to gain up enough motivation to leave his grasp and get dressed, he offered for me to take a shower at his place but I know if I did that I would have stayed an extra 2 hours at his house, and probably end up back in his bed.
I pulled my keys out of my bag and opened the door, walking in and dumping my bag on the table, heading straight for the fridge to get something to eat, seeing Brax's cupboards we bare and his fridge only full of beer. I told him that if I was going to stay over at anytime he will have to fix the food shortage problem, because I may be skinny but I do love my food. I don't think Heath and Casey ate anything but pizza and drank nothing but beer and protein shakes while Brax was gone, made me laugh that these boys were nearly completely dependent on their big brother.
"Thought you said Brax wasn't staying the night...?" Ruby said as she walked in, her hair tangled and her pyjama's still on.
"He didn't, I stayed at his." I said sarcastically as I pulled out a container that by the looks of it contained chicken stir-fry and grabbed a fork, peeling off the lid and beginning to eat.
"So are you too back together...?" She questioned, leaning against the fridge.
"I don't know..." I said, which wasn't untrue, we didn't seem to take about what we wanted, although it was clear we both wanted each other we still hadn't really made it official.
"But you slept together." She said, she didn't question it. I was so shocked by it I nearly choked on the mouthful of food I was chewing.
"Excuse me!" I managed to choke out.
"You and Brax had sex..." She said slowly and smartly, as if I was dumb or confused.
"Oh my god Ruby!" I yelled, completely shocked she said that.
"It's true though, I can tell by the red of your face." She said sheepishly. I looked away and put the lid back on the container, placing it in the fridge and walking towards my bedroom.
"I'll take that as a yes!" Ruby yelled from the kitchen.
Heath P.O.V
I was at the bar serving up lunch time drink orders, and placing them on the silver tray that I swear you'd see your own reflection in, before handing it to the waitress and telling her which table to deliver them to. As I bent down to get another receipt book I heard one of our phones vibrating against the wood on the shelf under the bar itself. I looked down and sorted though the array of employee phones and wallets before finding the phone that's light was still lit up and displaying.
1 New Message
It was Brax's phone and seeing we always opened each other's messages when the other was either busy or not in the same room, only to see if it was important, I clicked 'Open' and sentences flashed up onto the screen.
Hey Brax,
Last night was great; it felt like old times again.
Although I think we do need to talk about things...
We should meet up sometime?
Charlie xx
These two didn't take long to get back in the jist of their own relationship, thankfully last night I had fallen asleep early due to the hard day at work, so I didn't have to hear them 'catching up'. I closed the till and locked it, placing the Be Back Shortly sign on the bar and walking with Brax's phone to his office, where I knew he would be sitting behind stacks and stacks of paperwork, the ones he failed to teach me how to do and the ones he failed to complete while taking an unscheduled 3 month holiday.
"Message for you..." I said as I opened the door and put my head in, her looked up from the paperwork and nodded as if to say 'go on'.
"Hey Brax, Last night was great, good on you mate you've been back 1 day and you've already hit her up in the sheets." I said, I was about to continue but he cut me up.
"Heath just read me the message." He said threw his teeth.
"It felt like old times again. Although I think we do need to talk about things, we should meet up sometime? Charlie. Oh and P.s I'm pregnant." I said, adding in the last line. His head shot up and his eyes were wide with fear.
"I'm just kidding I added that last bit in." I laughed, he picked up what could have been a stapler and through it had my head, I laughed as I threw his phone onto his desk before ducking out, missing the stationery object.
Charlie P.O.V
I left the house after shoving my keys in my handbag and headed for my car, Brax has rang me and said he'd come over to talk about things but I told him I'd go to his, seeing that Ruby and Leah would be home soon and I didn't want to talk to him with an audience, it needed to be done in private. And when he told me that Heath and Casey were working late shifts tonight I thought his house might have been a good place to talk about everything. Just as I went to get my car keys out of my pocket my phone rang, I pulled it out of the back of my jean pocket and answered it straight away.
"Hey Charlie, its Ruby." She said, I knew she was near the surf club, I could hear the oceans waves in the background.
"Hey Rubes, what are you ringing for?" I questioned, she never usually rang me unless she was in trouble, or wanted something.
"I am just outside of the Surf Club and I was thinking I might get something for dinner..." She said, I looked down at my watch, 6pm, usually we had dinner at 7, so if everything was running smoothly, by then I should still be at Brax's.
"Aw Rubes I've actually got plans for tonight..." I said, feeling horrible that I was shoving off my own daughter.
"Oh... It just feels like we haven't seen much of each other of late..." She said, and too be honest that wasn't true. Since the first day I've been back I was attached to her hip, but I guess she just wanted to spend time with me, after all for a whole year she thought I was dead and gone.
"Yeah I know Rubes, but this is important. Brax and I are going to talk about everything, and see where we stand." I added, looking down the street, only to see Brax's Ute turning down the road and heading towards me.
"Oh okay that's alright then." She said, her voice picking up in tone.
"Yeah me too... Anyway I have to go but I reckon we should have brunch tomorrow?" I questioned, putting my keys back in my back and walking towards the curb.
"Okay sounds great, have fun and I love you." Ruby said, Brax pulled up beside me and I opened the door and got in, smiling towards him.
"I love you too." I said, then hanging up the phone and putting my seat belt on as Brax put his Ute into gear.
"Who was that, and who do you love?" He questioned, looking at me from the corner of my eye.
"Oh that was just..." I said, trying to think of something quickly. "That was just Darren, my other boyfriend." I continued on with.
"Oh really... So do I have some competition...?" He questioned, a smile forming on his face. I felt his warm hand touch my knee, it rested there for a few seconds, before he moved it back onto the gear stick to change up a gear, then moving it back onto my leg, sliding his large hand up my thigh.
"No... of course not." I laughed, grabbing his hand in mine.
Brax P.O.V
I opened the door and held it open as Charlie walked through and dropped her bag on the coffee table; I closed the door and fished my keys and wallet out of my pockets, throwing them in the orange bowl on the table near to the door. I stood there unsure of what to do, it felt awkward I didn't know if what she wanted to talk about was going to make or break me. From the text message I received she sounded happy enough with us, and the phone call sounded like nothing out of the ordinary. But women are women are they are hard to decipher at the best of times.
"So what did you want to talk about? Casey and Heath managed to swap shifts so they'll be home in about 40 minutes... No point delaying the inevitable." I said dragging the last sentence out.
She walked up to me, standing less than a metre in front of my body, her small hands reaching out and taking mine. Her hands were cold, she was nervous, the coldness actually reminded me of the time I sat in her hospital room after we 'flicked' the switch, her hands grew deathly cold in mine for after about an hour after she had 'died'. It brought my stomach up into my mouth, and I couldn't speak.
"I... I just want to know where I stand..." She said, looking up at me.
"What do you mean?" I questioned, now able to speak.
"Are we together, or are we not together?" She questioned, I nearly snickered, I can't believe she even had to think about that. A held back the snicker but I could help the smile that spread across my face.
"Brax, stop with the grin, take this seriously!" She moaned, pushing my chest with her hands.
"I am babe; it just amuses me that you even asked me this." I said, my face still riddled with my smirk.
"Just answer the question..." She whispered, looking down at the ground.
"Charlie I spent the past year thinking that the love of my life was dead, I thought I had buried her. I spent the entire time drowning in the smell of alcohol, sleeping with random sluts, no offense to Bianca and trying to find something to fill in the hole in my heart. Then out of nowhere you turn up, in the town we fell in love in, the place we used to go to eat at and as soon as I laid eyes on you the whole was no longer present. Charlie in the past 2 days that you've been back I haven't let you go, after we had sex last night I watched you fall asleep, I didn't sleep at all last night I didn't even blink I was too afraid that if I did I'd wake up in my bed, by myself again. I'm not even going to answer you question." I laughed, grabbing her hands. She looked up at me, her cute forehead crinkled with confusion and annoyance, Charlie was always a direct kind of woman, and I loved that. She'd tell me what she wanted, from dates to mucking around in bed she'd tell me what she wanted from me, and I'd always answer her, but now I'm not it pisses her off.
She already knew the answer, I knew that but she just wanted me to say it. She looked back at the floor, and as I looked down at her I saw her smile. She looked back up at me and dropped my hands instead, placing her hands on my hips and looking up at me cheekily.
"Well show me then." She said, she knew I wouldn't deny her of that. I was always playing this game but unfortunately I was always 2 steps behind and her 3 steps ahead.
I laughed slightly, looking her up and down, dragging this out as long as I could. I leant down towards her, my nose grazing her ear, breathing in the scent of her hair. She started to grow impatient, her hands snuck under my shirt, I leant my forehead against hers and I looked down at her.
"Brax..." She groaned, sick of playing games.
I smiled and leant down, my lips grazing hers slightly but she was getting more impatient by the second, and instead of me making the first move she did. She pressed her lips against mine, and kissed me. My gut flipped as my lips moved with hers instinctively, her tongue edged into my mouth and I grabbed the side of her face with one hand and I grabbed her hip with the other. I pulled away and began kissing her neck.
"Bedroom...?" She questioned, her breath hot on my neck.
I didn't answer I just started walking her backwards to my bedroom.