"ADELE! Really! What Julianna and I do is none of your business," replied a very shocked AJ. "Now, what would you like to have for breakfast?"
"Don't ADELE me, baby brother! I know how randy you sailors are and I want you to stay out of her bed and not put her in yours!" she fumed at him. "I'm not hungry!"
"Adele, I'm a grown man and have been for several years. I can control my urges. I'm only trying to be nice to a lovely lady," said AJ, as he left the room and Adele alone with her thoughts.
AJ was looking forward to his date with Julianna; there was just something about her that made him look forward to going out when he hadn't in ages. He showered and shaved and put on a pair of black jeans and a black T-shirt with a jacket. Once dressed he went in to see if Adele needed anything before he left on his date, "Adele, I'm getting ready to leave, can I get you anything?"
"Just assure me that you will treat her like you would want Francesca treated! Please, AJ!" she begged him.
"I try to treat all women like I'd want my daughter to be treat, like a lady," replied AJ, starting to become angry with his sister. "Now, do you need anything before I go?"
"No, AJ, just be sweet to her."
"Sis, I will treat her with kid gloves, so stop worrying. She needs to get out and experience life,
instead of locking herself away with that dog."
"You do know that Shakey stands for Shakespeare, don't you? She is as crazy about that playwright as you are!"
"I would love to take her to a play. Maybe I can find one for tomorrow night or the next. But, she mentioned dancing tonight, so it's dinner and dancing with her, Shakey and me. So you see she has someone to protect her from this wild sex manic."
"And her father will be here tonight!"
"Yes, and I will tell him either tonight to tomorrow morning. One thing I want to find out is why he used my name. That still bothers me quite a bit," frowned AJ. "To let her mother and her think all these years the man was I."
"I can understand that, AJ. Now you better go or you will be late." She held her cheek up for a kiss before he left and waved him away.
Humming as he went out the door he drove the rental car over to Julianne's apart. Knocking on her door he waited.
Shakey heard the knock and was busy greeting AJ through the door as Julianna tried to find her left shoe, that Shakey seemed to have hidden. Finally giving up she opened the door with one shoe on...
"Julianna, you look beautiful tonight, if only a bit lopsided," grinned AJ, looking at her with one shoe on and one off. "Can I help you find your other shoe?"
"You're a lawyer right? Then maybe you can interrogate Shakey as to where he hid it...should I get out a bright light and bamboo shoots?"
"No, I never resort to torture. I will simply dispose him as if we were in court," informed AJ.
"Dispose of him?!" she cried out, "No! He isn't that bad!"
"No, Julianna, I only meant I would trick him into showing me where the other was. Hand me
your other shoe." Julianna took off the shoe and handed it to AJ who knelt down in front of Shakey,
"Hey, Shakey, see this pretty shoe? It smells pretty like Julianna," he waved it around and stuck it
under his nose... "Here boy take it."
Shakey took the shoe into his mouth and ran into the guest bedroom and dropped the shoe in the open closet. There on the floor were both shoes, a pair of panty hose, a bra and a nightgown. When AJ explained all this to Julianna her reaction was more than shocked.
"Good heavens! He has been wearing my bras and nightgowns? I will have to put that mutt in therapy!" she exclaimed, to cover the fact that she was embarrassed to be in a bedroom with AJ and have him seeing those things. He was the first man she had ever been in a bedroom with, but she couldn't tell him that either.
To be continued…