Two Harts – Missing Parts
Chapter 25
"I have another present for you…" Andi whispered to Jennifer as the bride-to-be passed along another lovely gift that her friends had given her.
The bridal shower had been thrown by a couple of Jennifer's aunts. The wedding was now a week away and her mother had insisted on keeping Jennifer's mind occupied with the preparations instead of allowing her time to sulk. She was doing enough of that every night in Jonathan's absence.
Suzanne was blaming both Jonathan and Stephen for that.
Stephen wanted his daughter at home two weeks before her wedding. Jonathan had disagreed. The plans were well in place. He and Jennifer had planned to arrive in Maryland a few days prior to their nuptials. But, in this instance the father's insistence outweighed the man who was taking Stephen's daughter from him.
And so, Jennifer had spent the past week in her old bedroom, under her parents' roof, without the man who had occupied her new bedroom…mainly the bed…for two full months.
Suzanne had likened her to a typical teenager. On the phone until late at night – because the one person she wanted to talk to was on Pacific Time – waking late in the morning and pouting throughout the day.
Mrs. Edwards would be happy when Jonathan finally arrived, although Stephen had the guest HOUSE prepared for this visit, not just the guest room.
"Two weeks," Stephen had pointed a finger toward his daughter. "You will appreciate your wedding night more. Take my word for it."
Jennifer had rolled her eyes, blushed, and turned her back on her father.
"Our wedding night will be a continuation of the past two months," Jennifer had told Jonathan that night on the phone.
And after that their phone etiquette had declined to a… heated… conversation that left both softly moaning and somewhat satisfied.
The next night they talked again, but when Jonathan tried to urge his fiancée to play along with him, she declined. "Jonathan…I want you," she had pouted.
"Jennifer, you have me... All to yourself, alone in bed, clothes, pajamas, few clothes, bare naked… however you want me. Just tell me," he tried to encourage her.
"I… I can't tonight. Darling, I just miss you. I'm addicted to you," she admitted quietly.
"I know," Jonathan agreed. "But it's just a few more days. Look at it that way. Once we are married your father can't keep us apart. And you know, he's just trying to make sure our wedding is a special time for us…not just for him and your mother."
"I know," Jennifer sighed. "It still doesn't change the fact that I miss you… with clothes, without clothes…"
"You're killing me," Jonathan laughed as he heard her giggle, finally. "Are we foregoing our nightly entertainment?" he asked with a bit of regret in his voice.
Jennifer hummed a disappointed response. "Doing…'it'…for myself isn't nearly as fun," she swallowed to wet her dry throat and looked around the room as if someone was listening to their conversation. "It was one thing when I was still in New York and was so keyed up to see you again… But now that I've been able to spend every night with you… Jonathan, the novelty of… phone sex…" she whispered the words, "has kind of worn off. I need the real YOU."
Jonathan chuckled. "I'm glad to hear that."
She smiled and ducked her head back and forth as she realized how desperate she must sound. "I just love you," she tried to back track.
"And I love you, too," Jonathan quickly added. "And I need the real you as well. Don't you ever forget that."
Jennifer sighed. They were addicted to each other. And, she didn't want it any other way.
"Goodnight, Darling," Jennifer puckered her lips and sent a kiss through the phone line.
"Just a little over a week more," Jonathan reminded her and they both paused. "Jennifer?" he beckoned for her attention.
"Hmmm?" she was lost in thoughts about him.
"Maybe not tonight…maybe not every night between now and then…but maybe one or two nights between now and when I get to Maryland…" He bit on his lip, now realizing the desperation he was feeling.
"Hmmm?" She asked again, being a bit more attentive but not fully understanding his request, yet.
"Will you…maybe…at least help me…relieve some pressure?" he glanced down at the pent up 'pressure' that would now require lots of thoughts of Jennifer and his imagination.
"You do miss me." Jennifer smiled to herself feeling a little warmth run through her body as his round-about suggestion soaked into her.
"Yes," Jonathan readily admitted. "I really do."
After hanging up the phone that evening a few things wouldn't leave his mind. Thoughts of Jennifer…thoughts of their time together over the past couple of months…and a word she had used, 'novelty,'… that just might buy them both some pleasured experiences while apart.
"Why are you whispering?" Jennifer looked at her maid of honor with innocent eyes as the other ladies passed around the box of monogrammed towels and 'ooo'd' and 'aww'd' at the gift.
"It's not one you can open here," Andi raised her eyebrows. "It's from Jonathan and he wants you to open it before calling him tonight."
Jennifer's eyebrows dipped in thought. "So why are you telling me this now?"
"Because I don't want to forget to give it to you. It's in my car. I had to pick it up for him since he knew I would see you before he does." Jennifer's friend smiled and shook her head with a little pink tinge in her cheeks.
"Why are you blushing?" Jennifer inquired with a quick look around to make sure her guests' attention wasn't focused on their quiet conversation.
"Because 'B-J' I would've never agreed to pick up something like this for you. It never would've entered my mind."
"B-J?" Jennifer wondered.
"Before Jonathan!" Andi answered with a grin. "But…Mmmm…" Andi hummed, "Just thinking about him makes me want to…"
"Andi!" Jennifer's eyes widened as she reprimanded her cohort a little more loudly than she planned.
Eyes turned back to the guest of honor with Suzanne walking back to her daughter. "Everything okay, Jennifer?"
Jennifer smiled easily, looked toward Andi and blinked her eyelashes quickly. "Yes…yes, Mother. We're fine! Andi was just telling me I should spike the punch and drink some more to take my mind off Jonathan."
The ladies in attendance laughed a little uncomfortably at her supposed outburst and explanation. Aunt Martha, Aunt Alice, and friends of the family had yet to meet Jonathan. Suzanne and Jennifer both knew they would all be impressed to see him on her arm.
At that moment, Jennifer wanted to know exactly what Andi had picked up for Jonathan, and why it was making her friend have such thoughts about her fiancé!
Jennifer sat down in the car with Andi after the bridal shower ended. Suzanne had packed the gifts into her car to take home from the church's dining area where the party was held.
Jennifer climbed into Andi's car to head back to the house by way of an early dinner in town. The two spent the next couple of hours talking about wedding plans, last minute details that they would take care of together, and Andi listened to Jennifer's woeful tale of missing Jonathan.
After the dinner they put on their seatbelts and Jennifer sat back preparing to give Andi directions to her childhood home. But before she started the car Andi handed Jennifer a small, wrapped box.
"This is the gift I was telling you about, from Jonathan," She smiled.
Jennifer inspected the wrapping paper. It was simple, golden foil with a little bit of glitter. No bow, no card. She couldn't imagine what would be inside except for some piece of jewelry. Knowing Jonathan had gotten her engagement ring in New York she thought perhaps he had ordered another trinket from the same jeweler.
She tucked a fingernail into the crease and started to unwrap the present when Andi stopped her.
"Oh! No! Wait, don't open it here!" She insisted with a hand on Jennifer's arm.
"What?" Jennifer stopped and looked at her friend. "Why not?"
Andi thought for a moment before speaking again. She knew what was in the box. She knew several reasons why Jonathan hadn't just purchased the item on the West Coast and overnighted it to Jennifer. What she didn't know was what to expect as a reaction from Jennifer.
On the one hand it could be comical. Or, it could be embarrassing. She could only imagine Jennifer's relationship with this man. The two women had shared some revealing conversations over the past few months and in all honesty, Andi was a little jealous. But even more, she was living, for the moment, vicariously through Jennifer and Jonathan.
"What the hell," Andi gave in. "Go ahead and open it. But just know…" she looked directly into Jennifer's eyes, "Jonathan called and gave me instructions on what to pick up. He left the final decision in my hands. He claimed he didn't know of anything specific. Not sure if I believe that or not, but I did what he asked. Keep that in mind."
Andi began backing out of the parking space as Jennifer slowly unwrapped the gift. Her eyes widened when the emblem on the box came into focus. "Andi?" She tilted the entire box toward the driver.
"I just picked what I thought would serve his purpose…and yours…" Andi shook her head and shrugged her shoulders as she looked down at the Playboy Bunny emblem on the lid.
"I'm not sure I want to open this," Jennifer bit on the side of her lip, several ideas running through her head.
"Jonathan said it was a gag gift…something you'd chuckle about. I'm not sure I believe him," Andi suggested.
Jennifer slowly lifted the lid of the box and breathed in a long breath as she looked at the contents.
"The Rabbit," She read the product name on the plastic wrapper. "Certainly not the necklace I was thinking it might be…"
Jennifer gingerly took the package out of the box to inspect it further.
"Personal…massager?" She questioned with a look toward her friend. "What am I supposed to massage with this?" Her eyebrows furrowed slightly before her face flushed completely. "Oh my!"
"Now Jennifer…" Andi snickered at her reaction. "You're no prude. And with Jonathan I get the feeling you're more adventurous…"
"Andi!" Jennifer blushed even more. "Adventurous…yeah, that's the word," she mumbled somewhat to herself.
"Come on, Jen. This is me over here. You've told me about some of your escapades with him already and you two aren't even married yet. You mean toys haven't been part of the fun yet?"
Jennifer grinned, looking at the device in her hand and growing a little bolder as Andi reminded her about some of their previous chats.
"No. But…"
"Ah! Don't!" Andi shook her head. "I don't want to know. I don't want to know how you plan to use that thing; when you plan to use that thing… Although if you want to tell me how Jonathan reacts to it…"
"Andrea Prescott!" Jennifer laughed whole heartedly.
She looked down at the vibrator and pressed her lips together. She knew exactly why he wanted her to have this. While length nor thickness compared to him, it just might ease her tensions and allow her to ease his even with a few thousand miles between them.
"How was the bridal shower?" Jonathan asked when he answered her call shortly before 9pm on the West Coast.
"It was fun!" Jennifer answered truthfully. "My aunts are here, a cousin or two that I haven't seen in years and my best friends from college came down. I wish you could've been there with me so you could meet them. You'll meet the family at the wedding, of course, but I don't know when I'll see my sorority sisters again. It was nice."
"Did Andi happen to get you anything special?" Jonathan wondered. He had been waiting days to find out if Jennifer's best girlfriend had followed through on his request.
"Why yes!" Jennifer started. "She gave us a beautiful set of crystal wine goblets and matching candlesticks. I cannot wait to use them for a candlelight dinner in our new home once we move in!" She teased.
"Those sound lovely," he attempted to sound excited but she could hear a bit of disappointment laced in his tone.
"And then…" she could hear the grin spreading on Jonathan's face. "She gave me this little box. She had me open it in front of everyone and said it was from you."
"What?" Jonathan's breath hitched.
"My mother was mortified when she saw the playboy bunny on the lid," Jennifer lied.
"Oh, Jennifer, Darling," his tone turned apologetic. "I did not mean…Oh God, I asked her to give it to you privately. I never thought…"
Jennifer laughed, breaking his thought.
"I'm sorry, Darling," she snickered at his reaction. "I apologize, I'm lying. She didn't give it to me until we were in the car, after the shower."
Jonathan let her words sink in for just a moment. "Oh, thank God!" He breathed out, letting her hear his sigh of relief. "I feel like I was making headway with your parents. This little present might set me back."
"Oh, I don't know," Jennifer cajoled. "It's not like you're climbing in through my bedroom window to whisk me away and elope!"
"Don't tempt me," Jonathan breathed in deeply. His thoughts took a quick turn back to the gift, his fiancée, and just how much he needed to be with her.
"Jennifer?"
She knew that voice. A vulnerable Jonathan could talk her into pretty much anything. That much she had already learned about him. "What, Darling?"
"I miss you." Jonathan spoke sincerely.
"And I miss you, too, very much," Jennifer agreed.
"But…" Jonathan nibbled on his bottom lip feeling a little less masculine with what he wanted to say.
"But?" Jennifer raised her eyebrows, holding the phone to her ear and waiting for his response.
"I miss having you beside me in bed. I miss being able to kiss you at night. And…I miss making love to you. I miss hearing…" he hesitated slightly, "I miss hearing you reach that peak…" his voice cracked.
Jennifer swallowed a bit roughly as she began to feel his words deep inside.
"I'm hoping…my little gift may help…us?" he wondered. "What did Andi pick, by the way?"
Jennifer's nose twitched. Oh how she wished there was an instantaneous way that she could share a picture of The Rabbit with Jonathan.
"Well, it's called The Rabbit…" she pulled the gelatinous little creature out of the box on her bedside table.
"A rabbit?" Jonathan questioned.
"What'd you send her to buy?" Jennifer wondered as she began rubbing her thumb over the device.
"Well, I…"
"Oh, please don't get shy on me all of a sudden," Jennifer's voice sounded more assured. "You sent my friend into a sex shop to buy a vibrator for me. Is that what you asked her to do?"
"Well," Jonathan started again. "I asked her if she would pick up a gag gift for the shower. But she reminded me that your mom and aunts would be there and asked if I still wanted her to get something. She kind of guessed that it might not really be a gag gift."
"So now she thinks we need help in the boudoir?" Jennifer touched the rabbit to her bottom lip as she thought and then realized what she was doing. She rolled her eyes at herself, at Jonathan and at the hot pink 'thing' in her hand.
"No," Jonathan almost whined. "Just you."
"Jonathan Hart!"
He laughed. "No, Darling, I'm kidding. I admitted it had been a long few days already and that we missed each other. I told her I just wanted something that might cheer you up and yet have a… practical… use as well."
"Well, at least she didn't attempt to get something to match…you," Jennifer wrapped her hand around the vibrator and gently pushed a button to make it buzz in her hand.
"So, it's not one of those…hard plastic…rod shaped…" Jonathan felt a touch of embarrassment creeping up his neck.
"No…" Jennifer smiled. If he wanted her to use this little gift, they would enjoy it together. "It's not a dildo, Jonathan."
She heard him swallow. "It's about the size of Jon Junior…before I start playing with him. Only it's already as… hard… as it's going to get. You have nothing to be jealous of, believe me."
"Oh, I'm not jealous. I just want to know that you can enjoy it. And, maybe I can help you enjoy it sometime when we're together."
Jennifer's breaths grew short as she looked at the device and wondered how Jonathan might use it to please her.
"I think that can be arranged," Jennifer felt the moisture between her legs begin.
She was wearing one of Jonathan's pajama tops and a pair of bikini panties.
"Jonathan…what would you do with it…if we were together right now?"
He groaned slightly. "I would set it on low and use it to bring you right to the edge."
Jennifer slid the vibrating ears down to her chest slowly. "Would that get you excited? Using this little fellow to touch me…"
Jonathan slowly slid his hand below the waistband of his silk pajama pants that matched the top Jennifer was wearing. "As long as he's the only other 'little fellow' who touches you…it's already exciting me."
Jennifer was smiling the next morning when she came to breakfast. Her father looked at her skeptically. Her mother noticed a glow on her face but absolutely didn't want to know any more about it.
"You seem chipper this morning, Sweetheart. Did you talk to Jonathan last night?" Stephen wondered.
"Mmm-hmmm," Jennifer nodded and smiled as she took a sip of coffee.
"Did Andi say Jonathan had sent a gift to you for the bridal shower?" Suzanne questioned.
Jennifer sat silent for a second as she wondered exactly what Suzanne had heard, or what Andi might have told her.
"He did," she answered carefully. "But it was just a little something to remind me of him." She thought about her words before saying them. "He's my lucky charm, you know, so he sent me a rabbit's foot."
"A rabbit's foot?" Stephen rolled his eyes. "That seems a bit silly for a wedding gift."
Jennifer looked at her mother and thought for another second before turning back to her father.
"Oh, Pa, I don't know. I think I got pretty lucky last night after opening it."
Suzanne practically spit coffee through her nose. Stephen guffawed trying to ignore his daughter's words. And Jennifer? Jennifer grinned her most priceless, mischievous smirk, telling her parents that she meant exactly what she had said.
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