Life's Choices

Chapter 14

Last Week of Freedom

AN: Thanks for all the reviews, I own nothing. The chapter title is because when I was growing up the week before going back to school always felt like the last week of freedom, school was a prison seemed like, sorta like in Good Charlottes The Anthem song, the first part of that song. Anyways without farther a due here is the start of there week before going back to high school.

It had taken a lot of pleading with Jamie and Fran, but after they promised to be careful and to call home when they got up to the cabin that Jeff was letting them borrow, Penelope and Derek had taken off up there. The place was nice, and it was right on the lake, but it was nothing like the assholes had been, this one didn't even come close, Derek hadn't been up here since he was ten and his dad was still alive.

Jeff had agreed to let Derek borrow it for the week as long as he promised not to let Penelope near the stove; he had said he liked the place standing. Derek had promised to keep her out of the kitchen less he was the one cooking. It had taken little more convincing on his mom's part though, she didn't want nothing to happen to them.

Jamie had just told them to have fun, and to pack extra condoms just in case, they were supposed to be back the day after Penelope's birthday, it was her present from Derek, week getaway from the real world, before they'd left Rodney had showed back up, two days before, this time with few more guys, however Jeff had been at the apartment this time, and he'd told him if he came back around he was going to arrest him for trespassing. He didn't live there and Jeff owned the building, which meant he was in every since of the word trespassing.

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"What you thinking about?" Derek asked, it was only six-thirty in the morning, but they'd wanted to get a head start his mom had trusted him to drive up here at three this in the morning, since it was a good three hour drive to the cabin. He was shocked when she'd said yes, he liked the fact she was starting to say no again, after the talk they'd had that Saturday, and he'd admitted he'd missed having rules. For once he had a curfew which he had promised to try and not break, she'd set it to midnight, but it was still there.

The only thing she hadn't changed was the arrangement with Penelope staying over, as long as they didn't do anything under her roof, or get drunk, she did not mind them sharing a bed, but she'd given them both a lecture about sex. Derek and Penelope both had liked having somebody that was willing to lecture them, and it felt like Pen had a mother figure, she loved Jamie, but she couldn't give her that lecture she sometimes needed, or somebody who knew what the world was like in their place.

"That we really are doing this, no parents, no guardians, no little sister or cousin to have to baby sit," Penelope said, she was sitting beside Derek in the middle, but she'd behaved so far, even though she'd wanted so much to do more than let him drive.

"We've been alone plenty of times," Derek said with smile.

"Yeah in this truck, in your mom's place, Jamie's apartment, the picnic tables at the Youth Center, but we're alone alone, nobody can interrupt us, that dick head can't show up and harass us," she said referring to Rodney.

"That is true," Derek said, "Okay we're here," he said pulling into the driveway.

"I don't see a house," Pen said.

"I said we're here, I didn't say we could get out yet," Derek joked, they had come a long ways since running into each other back in May, "I hope you have some fun, I know the first time I came up here with my dad, and Jeff for that guys weekend, it was the most fun I'd ever had, Jeff had just gotten the cabin, and he'd invited us up here," he said, "We went fishing and even camped out a night or two," he said with smile looking at her.

"What, oh you think you're going to get me to camp out you are surely mistaking, hot stuff, I don't camp," Penelope said.

"Not even if I'm lying beside you without a single thing on besides you?" he asked.

"Oh you want our first time to be in a tent?" she asked, "I love you, handsome, but I think not," she replied.

"I never said that, I just meant we could, doesn't have to be a tent, we got two sleeping bags in the back, and I thought we could sleep under the stars on night," he said.

"Sleeping under the starts with you, would be wonderful, too bad we can't do that back in Chicago, it would be wonderful," Penelope said.

"There is this place, my dad used to take me to, you can see the stars," Derek said, "Sarah, and mom would go with us, it was wonderful, we'd lay on the back of the truck and look up at the stars and listen to the baseball games at Wrigley Field. I got to go to one game with him, when I was eight, he got two tickets to a game for my birthday, and we had so much fun that day, took me weeks to stop talking about it," he said.

"You think we could go one time, maybe next summer?" Penelope asked sitting up straighter in the seat.

"If you'd like, I'm sure we could do that," Derek said, "So what you think?" he asked putting the truck in park and cutting it off.

"It's wonderful, I've never seen cabin before, and it's made of wood," she said.

"What did you think a cabin was made of?" Derek asked before he opened the door of the truck and getting out, before taking her hand and helping her out his side.

"You want to unpack the truck now?" Penelope asked.

"Nope, take your shirt and jeans off," Derek said, "We're going swimming, wanna watch the sunrise, it's about to come up over that horizon and it's going to be wonderful," he said before he tossed his shirt on the hood of the truck before kicking off his boots then jeans.

"Well Derek, you might have to ask nicely," Penelope said crossing her arms.

"I found out last night you like to be spanked, never thought I'd get moan out of you from that," he said moving closer to her putting his hands on each side of the truck door, which she'd closed, "I can spank you, or I can toss you over my shoulder fireman style and jump in that lake with you fully clothed," he said.

Pen smiled before she started taking her clothes off leaving herself in nothing but her bra and panties, "Lead the way, hot stuff," she said.

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Derek chose the shallow end, not knowing if she knew how to swim or not, "I promise not to let go," he said.

Penelope smiled before tightening her grip on his hand and letting him lead her into the lake, "I must warn you, I have no clue how to swim," She replied with smile as they got farther into the water.

"Oh now you tell me," Derek said with laugh, "I think here's fine," he said once he'd helped her get to the stepper part of the lake and she arms wrapped around his waist now, "Don't think about where you're at, pretend you're standing in the living room, and we're dancing," he said, "Well I'm trying to get you to dance, and you keep saying no," he teased.

Penelope closed her eyes, "I got this picture in my mind, when I was sitting on your couch Sunday and you walked in the door with your mom and Desiree, you had on dress pants and shirt, you had that tie on, and Desiree was wearing that pink dress," she said, "I dreamt to that, except it was Desiree, it was our child, later down the road, and you were holding them," she said.

"Just asking for future reference when we're older, how many have you thought about, if you thought about it?" Derek asked, he knew that Sarah had always talked about it, four kids' two boys, two girls.

"One to start with, then we could have more, but I want to live in the now, I just really had to tell you that dream, but you never did tell me why you were so dressed up?" she asked.

"Church, the only thing my mom makes me do, every Sunday, well except this weekend of course, since that is when your birthday is," Derek said before he kissed her. She was against the bank, and he was holding her waist making sure she didn't go under. He licked along her lips until she opened her mouth, as much as they'd been kissing each other, they had gotten good at it, he nipped at her bottom lip before going after her tongue.

She moaned letting go of his waist forgetting she was in the water before wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him back with just as much passion. Her heart was beating faster now; being so close to him, did that to her, she could remember still that first kiss, she'd just given in to what she'd wanted and she was going to do it again now.

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The sun came up over the horizon a few minutes later shining right on them, "Told you it was going to be amazing," Derek said with a grin looking at her, he wasn't even paying attention to the sun.

"The sunrise is that way, handsome, Pen said.

"But you're my sunshine, so I don't have to look any farther than you," he said, "I would like to teach you how to drive while we're up here, because I found something for you, gotta fix it up if I can get Jeff to help me out, but you gotta know how to drive first," Derek said.

"How do you know that I don't already know how to drive?" Penelope asked.

"Jamie told me, she has been trying to teach you, but apparently, you think the brakes are the gas, and the gas pedal is the brakes," Derek said, "I thought I could teach you how to drive my truck, it's stick shift, but I thought since what I have you is too, you'd need to know," he replied running his hand over her side.

"I'd like that, and I promise that I won't kill us," Penelope said.

"Good to know, because I'd rather not go over this bank," he teased, "What you say we get out of here, and we can swim later, I think I need a nap, and then we can unpack the truck, I got a surprise if you want to try something, just don't tell my mom, she'd kill me," Derek said.

"What do you got?" Penelope asked.

"You'll just have to wait and see, Princess," Derek said before he took her hand swimming back to the shallow side of the water to get out.

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Two hours later, while Penelope was still sleeping, Derek had unpacked the truck, turned the water on, since Jeff kept it shut off less somebody was here, and he hadn't had chance to come up this summer. It had taken a good ten minutes to get it running right, but when it did it was perfect. He took quick shower before going to make them something to eat. He mostly had to heat the food up on the stove, he'd already made some of it, except for the macaroni and cheese that was her favorite. It was for her birthday however, along with the cake he was planning on baking Saturday.

"Now this is something I'd like to wake up to for the rest my life," Penelope said coming into the kitchen, she was wearing on of his shirts and just her panties, her hair was down and ruffled a little.

"Dear god, your stunning," Derek said turning around, he hadn't seen her like this before, they couldn't exactly walk around without half their clothes with two little kids around them, and few adults.

"What, you like this, I just grabbed first thing I saw," Penelope said looking down at what she had on.

"Yes, if we were living on our on, I'd want you to dress like that forever," Derek said, "I don't know how to describe you, beautiful doesn't begin to cover it," he replied before walking over to her and kissing her, he felt like if he didn't kiss her, then he was going to drown in what he was feeling. He still hadn't gotten used to telling her, so he showed her instead.

Penelope smiled into the kiss wrapping her arms around his neck she moaned feeling his hands move under her shirt, "Derek," she gasped when his fingers ran over her nipples, they were already hard, and when he touched them she felt like that fire was starting low in her stomach.

The week before she'd been cranky and miserable, she'd finally gotten her monthly gift or hell as she called it, but Derek had brought her ice cream and they'd cuddled up watching movies, and he'd tried to comfort her as much as he could, he'd even given her a massage when her stomach had started cramping. It had felt so good having his hands running over her stomach.

She'd been a bitch few times, but he'd kissed her, and said he was sorry and told her he loved her, she couldn't believe he hadn't ran, Jamie's boyfriend sure did, Randy was okay, but he wasn't Derek, and Jamie had been little jealous.

Derek started unbuttoning the shirt kissing her neck, he'd tried keeping the hickey's out of sight so nobody would see, but it was just the two of them here now, and he wanted to leave them where he could see and just thinking about that turned him out, "Take the shirt off," he said against her ear, "I wanna see your breasts," he said before stepping back just enough so she could take the shirt off.

Penelope let the shirt drop to the floor standing in front of him, she didn't know why, but she felt nervous for the first time since the first time in his bedroom, "Like what you see?" she asked, "Jamie said I finally filled out, but they're too big, I liked them when they were smaller back in June," she said.

"You're still beautiful," he said, she'd mostly been wearing lose shirts lately, nothing that had showed any cleavage like she had few weeks ago, back then he'd been able to see the tops of her breasts, "I was wondering why you stopped wearing those tops, I liked them, I got my own private show," he said.

"Well you don't have to walk around with people looking at you, I feel like a freak," Penelope said, but she saw something in his eyes, pure love she thought.

"I like, it's natural, you didn't have anything done, does it hurt, I mean I don't know how it feels, to have boobs, or something sticking out my chest, that can grow," Derek said before he finally touched them.

"No, it doesn't hurt, last week they were sore, but I think that is just monthly thing," She said, "Have you started growing, I mean I know guys go through different things, than I would, but it's been like two weeks since we've seen each other naked, well probably three weeks for me being completely naked," she said.

"You said you weren't in the mood, and I didn't want to push, I was fine with just holding you," Derek said, "I hope you know that when we do have sex, I'm not going to push you all the time, you can decide when we do it if you want," he offered.

"Saturday," Penelope said, "We can again Sunday, but I want to do it Saturday," she said, "And I never thought you'd push me, for so long I thought you were going to change your mind," Penelope said.

"Never," Derek said, "I love you; I just don't want to screw this up for you,"

"You can't screw it up, hot stuff, you're my one and only, I got nothing to compare it to, and I don't want to either," she said cupping his face, "We've been working and baby sitting the last month, I thought maybe we could make out again later, after breakfast of course," she said.

"I just gotta do one thing first," Derek said before he kissed her, "I don't think I will ever be able to stop kissing you, I love it,"

"Who says you have to stop," Pen said with a smile, six and half days here alone, oh the things they could do to each other, good thing they had no TV, just each other and the lake, well and maybe a night under the stars.

TBC

AN: Just the two of them alone up there will be about two or three more chapters, then it will be them starting their junior year of high school, and like she said few chapters back, they're going to the same school.