Romance

"You look beautiful." Punk smiled as he watched AJ walk out of their room the following night. Dominic had volunteered to watch the girls in the apartment to let AJ and Punk have a night out by themselves. He didn't mind and the girls loved their uncle Dom.

"Oh, stop." AJ waved her hand modestly. She was wearing a black dress which looked good against her recently dyed black hair. When he met her she had a black hair and it brought him back to all those years ago. Her dress was plain but showed off her curves, and she wore a leather jacket alongside.

"Mommy you look good." Jo climbed off from the couch and wandered over once she spotted her mother come out of the room. They were already in their pyjamas, "You look like Batman." She looked her mother up and down.

"Hey, I'm Batman." Punk shook his head.

"Ok, Batwoman then." Jo shook her head, "Where you both going?" She asked sweetly.

"I'm taking mommy out for the night." Punk said.

"They want away from us." Jessica told her sister from the couch as Dominic just laughed beside her.

"Oh." Jo frowned, looking up at her mother and father who shook their heads.

"No, we don't." AJ said, crouching down, "We're just going out for a little while on our own so you can spend time with Uncle Dom. We might even be back before you go to bed." She said, knowing it was quite early.

"Oh, ok." Jo nodded, "Well have fun." She told them as AJ smiled and gave her a hug as did Punk before she wandered back over to the couch with her monkey under her arm.

"We're not getting a hug from you?" Punk asked Jessica who looked at him, sighing to herself as she got up off the couch and wandered over to them, "You could pretend you like us, at least." Punk shrugged, giving her a hug as she hugged back.

"Don't be long." Jessica told them as AJ and Punk smiled. She was at an age where she liked to parent her own parents. AJ and Punk found it sweet.

"We'll try not be." AJ smiled, crouching down and giving her a hug and planting a loud kiss on her cheek as she ran back off to the couch, "Ok, and you behave too." She pointed to her brother.

"I always behave." Dominic gasped as AJ just made a face, "Go have a nice night." He told her as she nodded and smiled, taking Punk's hand as they left the apartment and headed out into the street.

"So where are you taking me?" She smiled.

"It's a surprise." Punk said. He wanted to do something nice for her after her being so upset the previous night. He knew when they flew out here that things wouldn't go smoothly. He knew the tough and hesitant relationship she had with her mother, but he didn't want her to be upset over it.

"You gotta tell me." AJ nudged him as he shook his head.

"No way. Not until we're there." He said as AJ smiled.

"Can I guess?" AJ asked him.

"If you wanna." Punk laughed a little.

"I bet you're taking me… to that cute little restaurant with the fish tank in the window." AJ nodded, "I saw you eyeing it up." She smiled.

"Oh, yeah. The place where they eat their pets." Punk nodded, "No, not there." He said, "Hey, what would you do if I said I was taking you to your parents for dinner?" He laughed a little.

"I'd literally run away from you." AJ nodded seriously as he smiled.

"Well lucky that's not where I'm taking you." Punk said as AJ smiled.

"C'mon, tell me." AJ said.

"No." Punk said, "Cut through here." He pointed to the road on their right which led down to the beach as AJ smiled.

"I didn't bring my bikini." She looked up at him as he just laughed and nodded.

"Don't go in the water then." He said.

"You made me dress up all nice just to get sand everywhere?" AJ said.

"Well this is gonna be the most romantic date you'll have ever been on." Punk nodded as AJ smiled.

They continued to walk down the strip until they got to the beach front. AJ watched as Punk then disappeared over to the little drink shack that was opened at night, and laughed as he brought out a picnic basket handed to him by the man in the shack, walking back over to her.

"I didn't know you had friends here." AJ smiled.

"Dominic knows him." Punk said.

"What you got in there then?" AJ smiled.

"You'll find out when I open it." Punk said, taking her hand and walking down the steps onto the sand. There wasn't anyone on the beach which was ideal.

Punk shook out the blanket for them to sit on as AJ took off her shoes before sitting down on it beside Punk. She then watched as he opened the basket up and brought out some of her favourite foods.

"You're way too much." AJ smiled and shook her head.

"No I'm not." Punk scoffed, "If I had more time I would have tried to get a piano man down here." He teased as AJ smiled, leaning over and giving him a unexpected kiss.

"I love you." She smiled, cupping his cheek as he smirked. He loved seeing her happy, it was like a natural high for him, "You have all my favourite finger food." AJ smiled happily, "You know I'd much rather eat all of this than a meal." She said.

"I do know." Punk nodded, "I brought candles but I didn't know there were a few lights down here." He said.

"Light the candles." AJ said as he pulled them out and lit a few around the blanket.

"Let's just hope we don't go on fire." Punk said as AJ smiled.

"The tide will be in some it'll put us out." She waved her hand as he laughed and nodded, "Why do I feel like you want something from me." She laughed a little, crossing her legs in a basket, taking a breadstick.

"I don't know." Punk said, leaning on his side on his elbow, "Because I don't." He said, "I can't do something nice for you?" He wondered.

"No, you can." AJ nodded, "I guess we don't have this kind of setting in Chicago." AJ said, "I always loved the beach here." She said as Punk nodded.

"It's nice." Punk agreed.

"I worry that… Jessica and Jo see how sweet you are to me and… and they expect that from all boys out there." AJ admitted.

"Don't… we're not talking about my girls having boyfriends, you know it ends with me either crying or screaming." Punk said as she smiled, "Plus, maybe they'll have a girlfriend." Punk shrugged as AJ looked at him, watching him smile at her as she shook her head.

"Alright then, give me all your questions." AJ nodded, taking a grape from the bunch and eating it.

"Well what was her name?" Punk asked.

"Casey." AJ said, "She was a friend in high school." She nodded, "It really… wasn't a huge deal." She said.

"What age were you?" Punk asked her.

"Seventeen." AJ nodded, "I thought because I… because I hadn't found a boyfriend yet that maybe I liked girls." She shrugged, "And I really liked her." She nodded, "But I… I liked boys more." She said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with… trying to find who you are."

"There isn't anything wrong with that. I just thought maybe… you would have told me about it." He shrugged, "I'm not mad you didn't, and I'm certainly not mad about it." He said as she nodded, looking over at him getting agitated. She knew he wanted to ask more questions and he knew what it was about.

"You wanna know if we had sex?" AJ asked him as he nodded immediately, "No." She said, "We did things, fooled around, but… it never went that far." She said.

"How far is too far?" Punk wondered as she just shook her head and smiled.

"Don't be the guy who has a fetish over girls being with girls." She rolled her eyes, "There's nothing worse."

"I'm not." Punk laughed, "I just… it's all new information to me. I'm sure if I told you I'd been with a guy you'd be interested." He said as she nodded, "And like I said, you're a free person, you can do what you like and I think it's good you… you made sure you found out who you really were, and you weren't afraid to do it either, judging by your mom's comments, she wasn't too happy about it?"

"No, she wasn't." AJ said, "Believes that woman was made for man." She rolled her eyes.

"Oh no." Punk sighed, "She's entitled to her wrong opinion I guess." He shrugged.

"Yeah, I know." AJ shook her head, "I didn't care, though."

"How long did it last?" Punk asked her.

"About a year." AJ nodded, "Maybe a little less." She tried to remember, "I just… I started realising I would rather be with a guy. I started looking at guys way more and… something just didn't feel right." She said, "But I didn't regret it. She was a sweet girl and we got on." She nodded.

"You speak to her after?" Punk asked.

"I bumped into her whilst you were in prison actually." AJ nodded, "She's got a wife and they had recently adopted a baby." She smiled, "So that was nice to hear." She said as Punk nodded, "I didn't keep it from you for it to be some big revealing secret, I just… I don't see why it should matter."

"Well it doesn't." Punk said, "I think it's a good thing. You were unsure and you… you wanted to figure things out. Nothing wrong with that." He said as she smiled.

"Not a lot of people would be as understanding as you I guess." AJ nodded.

"Well that's because they're not as great as me." Punk smiled, throwing a grape up and catching it in his mouth as she smiled.

"Yeah, that's it." AJ laughed to herself and nodded.

They carried on talking the rest of the night, eating the food that had been brought, having the best peace and quiet they'd ever had in their life. The sound of the waves crashing back and forth was calming.

"Try this." AJ said, kneeling on her knees and reaching over for a cracker, putting a few things on it, "Open your mouth."

"That's my line." He gasped as she made a face, watching as he opened his mouth and allowed her to feed him with whatever combination she'd made. She knelt in front of him between his legs, "Ok, and then a grape." She nodded, picking a grape from the nearly empty bunch and putting it in his mouth as he nodded.

"Nice." Punk nodded as she smiled, "How'd you come up with that combo?" He asked her.

"By being greedy and shoving it all in my mouth at the one time." AJ shrugged as he nodded and smiled.

"Fair enough." He laughed as she smiled, kneeling in the space between his legs, looking on at him as he looked back. The candles had burnt off and it was getting late but they just didn't want the night to end.

"This has been… perfect." She whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck, "Thank you." She smiled.

"You don't gotta thank me." Punk smiled, "I wish I could do this for you every night." He said.

"Oh, but those children we have get in the way, don't they?" AJ teased as he nodded.

"I guess they do." He smiled as she looked at him, inching her face closer before pressing her lips against his softly, caressing her hands around his neck as he kissed back and deepened the kiss further, lacing his fingers through her hair whilst his other hand supported her waist and turned them around to lay her on her back.

"Are we… are we gonna do this here?" She asked breathlessly as he kissed her neck and ran his hand up her leg above her dress, pulling her panties down as he looked into her eyes the entire time he pulled them down. She assumed that was a yes.

"What if someone sees us?" AJ asked him with a laugh.

"It's pitch black." Punk said, "If you want me to stop I will." He nodded, cupping her face as she looked up at him and shook her head.

"No… no, don't stop." She said, pressing her lips back against his passionately as he smiled against the kiss and trailed it back down her neck, his hand still under her dress, this time, parting her folds and massaging her clit as he kissed her neck.

"Fuck." AJ whispered, looking down and seeing his shorts bulging and smiling to herself, rolling her head back again on the blanket as he continued to touch her, getting her wetter by the second.

He then undone his shorts and pushed them down just a little with his boxers, enough to free his hard length. He positioned himself between her legs, her dress bunched up as he pushed himself inside of her wetness.

"Fuck, April." Punk moaned to himself.

"You're so deep." AJ whispered, her forehead pressed against his as he began to move inside her, her mouth gaping as he done so, rolling her head back away from him as he smirked.

"You're so fucking wet." Punk moaned. He didn't know if it was the setting or if it was the spontaneous decision, but she felt incredible and the whole thing just felt a lot more intimate than it normally did.

They carried on in their own private world until they both reached their peaks. She held him close to her body, legs pressed against his sides as he came inside of her in sync with her own orgasm, her back arching off the blanket as he kissed her throat and chest. It felt amazing and special, but a part of her was still conscious they were on a beach.

"What would… what would you have done if… if someone came down during that?" AJ laughed to herself as he lay on top of her.

"I would have kept going." Punk chuckled to himself.

"No you wouldn't have." AJ gasped, wondering what he really would have done.

"We could go to jail for that." AJ nodded.

"No one is around." He gasped, running his hands through his slicked hair as she smiled with satisfaction, "That was just a little warm up for later." He waved his hand as she laughed.

"Oh, was it?" She asked as he nodded, "What's happening later?"

"It's all surprises." Punk said as she smiled.

"You're crazy." She smiled, fixing her dress down and sitting up, "Where are my panties?" She looked around.

"In my back pocket." Punk muffled against the blanket as he lay on his stomach beside her, "You can leave them there if you like." He smirked at her as she shoved his face back down.

"You're full of it tonight." She nodded as he just smiled, "We should get going." She said as he nodded and sat up, "Thank you for the most romantic date I've ever been on." She said, leaning over and pecking his lips as he smiled.

"You deserve it." He nodded as she smiled softly as they tidied themselves up and cleared away their things to head back to the apartment.