Sister Thing
Arriving in Puerto Rico was rough. Brooke was not happy on the flight, it was raining and Brooke's suitcase was lost at the airport.
"This was a bad idea." AJ said walking into the resort room Punk booked. "Maybe not." She said admiring the room. It was gorgeous. Way over the top. The floor plan was open. The kitchen, the living room, the terrace, there was a bar area, a little waterfall inside the room.
"I was thinking about what you said to me last week." He said dropping their suitcases as she held onto Brooke.
"Did I mention I wanted a waterfall in the living room?" She asked stunned and he had to laugh.
"No you mentioned we skipped some steps and we have." He agreed. "I want to woo you."
"You've already wooed me." She smirked.
"No." He said shaking his head. "This is what I've been missing too. The adventure, the spontaneous trips, the romance."
"Romance?" She asked amused.
"Yes. Romance." He confirmed. "I really think I've thought of everything."
"It's going to be hard to romance with this one crying to be held by you at two in the morning." She teased nodding at Brooke in her arms.
"Thought of that too." Punk grinned proudly. "And you know you're my favorite girl ever." He said taking Brooke from her and kissing her cheek. "But I need some time with my other girl, you understand?" He asked Brooke.
"Oh, that will work." AJ laughed.
"She knows what I'm saying." Punk said as Brooke grabbed at his nose.
"I don't think so." AJ smirked.
"That's ok, because I have a backup plan." He said to her. "I've hired a sitter."
"In Puerto Rico?" She asked stunned. "You're out of your mind."
"Relax." Punk said to her.
"Where is my room?" Colt asked walking in from the back.
"Next door." Punk reminded him. "How did you get in here?"
"Our rooms are basically connected!" Colt laughed. "The four of us are going to have a great time."
"Romantic." AJ teased.
"No, no." Punk said shaking his head. "Your room is next door. You were bought on this trip to babysit some nights not crash in my room."
"Your room is ten times the size of my room." Colt argued.
"This is a free trip for you." Punk reminded him.
"Yea, yea." Colt said taking Brooke from him. "See? She loves me more."
"No she doesn't." Punk argued.
"He's so jealous." Colt said to AJ as he kissed her on the cheek hello.
"You really went all out." AJ said fondly.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Punk told her smugly. "Just you wait until you see what I have up my sleeve."
"I'm excited." She grinned.
"Ew." Colt said walking away with the baby.
Before their date night Punk and AJ had to shop for Brooke. She was cranky and tired from the flight so she stayed back with Colt while they hit up a local shop.
"Look how cute this suit is!" AJ smiled holding up a little two piece.
"A two piece? She's not even one." Punk said taking it out of her hand and putting it back on the hanger.
"Oh boy." She smirked.
"What?" He asked. "It just seems silly."
"You're going to be one of those." AJ laughed a bit to herself.
"One of what?" He asked as he watched AJ pick through the clothes.
"Those dads who don't want their daughter wearing anything but long dresses with sleeves and collars." she said to him.
"I mean, what's so wrong with that?" He asked seriously and she laughed.
"Is this ok with you?" She asked holding up a cute little one piece.
"Yup." Punk said to her. "She'll need a hat though."
"You know she'll never keep a hat on." AJ laughed.
"The sun is going to be too strong." He argued lightly.
"She'll need some sleep stuff." She told Punk.
"I can pick that crap out." Punk said with ease and walked across the store.
Punk was simply grabbing anything and everything of high quality.
"Do you need some help?" An older sales woman questioned.
"Oh, no." Punk said waving it off. "I think I have this part covered."
"Does your wife need to approve?" The woman teased with an accent.
"Oh, she's not my wife." Punk said not even giving it thought as he rummaged through the clothes in Brooke's size.
"I thought I didn't see a ring." She smiled brightly but Punk was barely listening. "Shopping for your niece?"
Punk was never sure how to answer what Brooke was to him. AJ always made it clear he was part of his life and a father figure but he didn't want to overstep when it came to Brooke.
"Something like that." Punk smirked.
"Where are you from? I love your accent." The woman smiled.
"Chicago." Punk said as he threw more clothes in the basket. "Is this the best quality you have?"
"This is all designer." The woman practically purred. "You must love your niece a lot."
"I do." Punk said absentmindedly.
"So, how long are you in town for?" She asked.
"The week." He said checking the sizes on some other things. "This hat is good for an almost seven month old, right?"
"Sure." She nodded fondly. "I love this." She said running her hand gently up his arm. "The colors on your arm gorgeous."
"Oh, it's just tattoos." He said looking at her hand on his arm.
"I'd love to hear about them. The stories behind them." She said eyeing him with doe eyes.
"Phil." AJ said behind him.
"Your sister." The worker nodded and Punk looked towards AJ and let out a chuckle.
"That's not what it sounds like." Punk said knowing AJ was pissed.
"Sister?" AJ asked coldly.
"No-" Punk began as AJ turned around and walked off. "Ape!"
"She seems upset." The woman noted and Punk just followed after AJ.
"You can't even tell that woman you're with me?" AJ asked him as he tugged on her arm gently so she'd turn around.
"I wasn't even paying attention to what she was saying!" He laughed.
"It's not funny! How would you feel if I told a man hitting on me that you were my brother?" She asked.
"I'd feel nothing." Punk shrugged. "He'd feel the punch to his face tho."
"Double standard." AJ huffed. "That's too much for her."
"She needs more stuff." Punk shrugged. "Don't be mad."
"Don't be mad? Your sister?" AJ asked still annoyed. "What you do to me would be illegal if I were your sister."
"I wasn't paying attention she asked if I was married." He argued.
"Women only ask if you are married if they want to sleep with you." She informed him.
"That's not true." He laughed.
"You think this is so funny." She said shaking her head.
"It is a little." he teased.
"If a man came up to me and asked me if I was married he would be doing so because he'd want to sleep with me." She informed him.
"Yea but that doesn't really matter because you're technically married and I'm sleeping with you." He pointed out and she just rolled her eyes and walked away. "Ape! Come on!" he sighed chasing after her.
Half an hour later Punk and AJ walked back into their resort room with bags filled with stuff for Brooke, AJ was still not speaking to him.
"What happened?" Colt asked.
"Phil was flirting with the woman in the shop and then told her I was his sister." AJ told Colt for Punk.
"Dude." Colt said shaking his head in surprise.
"I didn't say that. The woman just thought it." Punk told him.
"You're messed up." Colt said to him and AJ nodded behind him.
"Come on." Punk said amused. "I wouldn't try to pick up another woman with AJ standing right there!"
"So if she wasn't right there you would have?" Colt asked before AJ could.
"That's not what I meant and fuck off." Punk said to Colt.
"If it's not what you meant why did you say it?" AJ asked him. "I mean I thought we were together."
"We are!" He said with a loud laugh. "I'm not with other women!"
"Because I'm around too much." She mumbled under her breath.
"No, because I love YOU." He said to her.
"I told you if I wasn't enough for you-" She began.
"Dude, you suck." Colt said to Punk.
"Go watch Brooke." Punk snapped at him. "That's why you're here."
"She's sleeping like an angel." Colt said waving it off.
"Now." Punk said and Colt rolled his eyes and walked away.
"You are enough for me." Punk said grabbing her hands. "I love you."
"She was pretty." AJ noted.
"Was she? I didn't even look her." He told her and AJ eyed him. "Come on, don't let this ruin our vacation." he pleaded lightly and kissed her cheek. "Please?" he asked kissing down her neck now.
"I guess." AJ forced out.
"I have such a fun night planned for us." He said as he played with her blouse.
"Yea?" She asked as she let him untie her top from the front.
"Oh, yea." He said looking down at her breasts as he exposed them. "Really fun stuff."
"Can we have fun right now?" She asked grabbing onto him over his jeans and he hissed a bit. "Maybe I need to mark you up with hickeys." she said as she didn't ease her grip but he gently backed her into the wall.
"I wouldn't complain." he smirked as he felt her playing with his zipper and he reached under her skirt and tugged down her panties.
Punk lifted AJ up and wrapped legs around his waist as his jeans fell around his ankles.
"That's it." Punk groaned as he pierced her against her the wall.
In-between gasps and moans AJ would battle his tongue as he pushed her to the edge.
"Right there." AJ moaned as she let her legs drop and the only thing keeping her pinned to the wall now was Punk inside of her.
"Fuck." Punk groaned as he moved faster and faster into her body.
AJ grabbed his face and kissed him deeply as her orgasm rocked through her soul. She knew there were people in the next room and had to keep it down and thankfully Punk stifled some of her moans. He went next into her body and kissed her but not to silence himself but to thank her.
"I love you." he told her in a whisper.
"I love you too." She said cupping his face and kissing him again.
Later that night Punk and AJ were at the resort restaurant. Her hair was pinned up in a loose bun on top of her head with a few strands falling out, black cocktail dress with heels and he was dressed in all black as well.
"I feel guilty eating out here while Colt is just sitting back in the room." AJ told him.
"He's getting a ton of room service, he's ordering movies, he'll live." Punk said reading over the menu.
"Thank you for coming with me." She said to him.
"I love coming with you." He replied casually without even taking his eyes of the menu.
"I meant to Puerto Rico!" She blushed brightly.
"Oh, right." He smirked. "I didn't want you to face your family alone and I wanted to spend some time away from Chicago with you. When you came to LA with me I was working most of the time. This is going to a fun filled trip."
"I agree." AJ said looking at her menu innocently. Her chin resting on her hand as she looked at the menu laying in front of her and Punk looked up and eyed her.
"Be nice." He said to her.
"What am I doing?" She asked sweetly.
Under the table AJ was running her foot gently up and down his leg, clearly kicking her foot out of the heel.
"I really need to eat and you're trying to cut this dinner short." He smirked and she smiled slowly. "Candles lit, beautiful ocean view." he pointed out. "Flowers and music."
"It is romantic." AJ agreed. "But not to kill the mood but I keep thinking about what you said at the shop."
"Jesus, the sister thing again?" He asked annoyed.
"No!" She said quickly. "The dig about me being married."
"That wasn't meant as a dig." He said putting his menu down. "I was just teasing."
"I was just wondering if you don't consider me real to you because I am still legally married? If that was the case I completely understand-"
"You are real to me and what we have is very real." He said to her. "The marriage thing does bother me though."
"I'm sorry." She frowned.
"It's not because of you." He said to her. "I'm old schooled, I'm jealous, I just- I hate that another man has claim to you. And it's not just emotionally but legally. If something happens to you he calls all of the shots."
"First of all Cal has no claim to me emotionally." AJ told him seriously. "I haven't loved Cal since a month after our wedding."
"What went wrong?" he asked her.
"What do you mean?" She asked. "We've talked about Cal."
"Yea but what happened? I know no one wakes up one day and says 'hey, I don't love this person anymore' so I'm just curious." Punk said to her.
"That's exactly what happened." AJ told him. "It was a month into our marriage and I was laying up in bed and he asked me to get breakfast ready. I don't mind cooking and I know a wife has duties to her husband but it was every single day, not one day did he say 'hey let me cook you something' or even just let me sleep. It had become this routine for him. He never thanked me." she told him. "It used to make me so mad." She said thinking about it. "And that fourth week of marriage is when it hit me. If he's this bad now he'll only get worse. This one morning he was leaving for work and he dropped he flung his coffee mug against the wall because I prepared it wrong and then used his booth to step on the glass and crush it more just to spite me. I picked up a bigger piece of glass and I remember wanting to cut him with it." she told him. "Please don't think I'm crazy-"
"No. I get it." He assured her. "It kind of sound like-"
"-prison." She finished for him. "I couldn't see my friends he always had chores for me to do."
"Why didn't you just leave?" He asked her.
"Because he was all I had and no one had ever loved me before. He's a horrible monster but I believed him when he said he loved me." She told him honestly. "I didn't have my family, my friends moved away then we ended up moving away and I didn't make enough money to just go."
"I'm not judging you." He promised her.
"I know you're not and you have every right to ask." AJ told him. "Ask me anything you want."
"I just find it so hard to believe that someone like you who is strong and independent took that crap from Cal." he admitted.
"I didn't know any better." AJ told him honestly. "You helped me grow. You helped me understand my worth."
"You're worth everything." He told her without missing a beat.
"You have no idea what you've done for me." She told him grabbing his hand. "It hasn't just been the obvious stuff like taking me in and helping me with Brooke you've taught me a lot about me."
"You don't know how much that means to me." He said to her feeling his heart swell.
"I mean you took a random chance on some chick from a diner." She said to him. "You're pretty amazing."
"You weren't random." Punk told her. "Do you think I liked going all the way across town to that diner?"
"I thought you didn't want to be recognized." She said remembering what he told her last year before even really knowing each other.
"I did go in there the first time by chance. I didn't want to be seen but I wanted to eat out I needed out of my house for a meal. I went back the next day because I kind of liked the dorky waitress waiting on me." he told her and her whole face lit up.
"I told you I was married." She reminded him. "Have a thing for married women?"
"No." He laughed a bit. "But for some reason I just didn't care. You didn't wear ring and you didn't seem happy so I thought I'd go in there every day and at least get to talk to you. I liked you for you." he told her honestly. "You made me laugh for this brief minutes of the day, you didn't know me, you didn't want anything from me but my order. It was refreshing."
"I've never been called refreshing before." She teased.
"You are." He told her and kissed her hand.
"This is going to be a good trip." She smiled as he held onto her hand.
