"Hey baby, where are you" Eddie asked coming through the front door about three weeks after their relationship had gone to that oh so wonderful sexual level.

"Kitchen… just put a movie in. I'm coming"

"What do you want to watch"

"It doesn't matter as long as it doesn't give me nightmares"

Alright, what to watch when your scared of your own shadow?Eddie mumbled to the shelf full of DVD's

"Hey, how was your day" Janet handed him his beer and sandwich already knowing he hadn't had dinner yet.

"Long, and thanks I'm starving" He gave her a peck

"So what are we watching?" The previews hadn't come on yet

"Some chick flick you had over there"

"We don't have to watch a chick flick, Eddie"

"Especially this one" She knew when the title came up what movie it was

"I don't care, it's not like you keep your hands to yourself long enough to watch a movie anyway"

"No, really this one isn't going to be that interesting to you and it's just going to make me cry" Of embarrassment maybe.

"It's fine, you get all sappy I get all lucky, now stop worrying and watch the movie" Janet settled in Eddie's lap with her head on his leg right next to his soon to be throbbing member.

They watched the movie fairly quietly and Eddie cringed at every minor dimly lit love scene that lasted just mere seconds but somehow long enough for the I love you's to slip from the actors tongues. That was until it got towards the end of the movie and Eddie looked down at Janet when the leading actor and actress came out of a midnight swim completely nude. It got his attention and he took his arm off the back of the couch and immediately wrapped it around Janet's waist and she didn't miss the feel he cocked off of her breasts, though she didn't say anything.

They were both two embarrassed to make comment about it. Janet briefly entertained the idea of turning it off but that would just raise suspecision so she decided to take the high road and suggest he was just being childish when he reacted the way she just knew he would.

As the screen before them began to heat up Eddie just kept swallowing harder and harder as to will his erection back down. It wasn't working and Janet being her head was resting on his leg was very aware of his reaction to the sex that was taking place on the t.v.

Eddie didn't know how to react with Janet next to him watching two people about to go at it and more yet he couldn't believe she owned the movie to start with. He decided to take the high road as well and force himself to sit though it with out childish comment or behavior. He knew she might be uncomfortable since he picked the movie and not her so fooling around while porn played probably wasn't an offer exactly on the table.

They made it through the dirty language and loud grunts, moans, whimpers and like as well as extremely candied camera angles and when the credits rolled they just sat there watching the names roll up the screen.

"Well that was…." Eddie swallowed hard again trying not to laugh but he was blushing "you were so wrong because I found that very interesting" He chuckled

"Yeah, I noticed" She rolled onto her back to look up at him rolling her head as well to cause a little minor discomfort to his hardened state.

"Damn baby, what'd you think was going to happen" He picked her head up to adjust himself

"It's the screen play of a classic novel. Kind of like Nick's book was made into a movie"

"I don't recall Turtle on a snare drum having any of that in it. What the hell is that rated?"

"You don't rate literary classics. It's a piece of history Eddie"

"History?"

"Not history as in the declaration of independence but history as in cultural history"

"Sexual history I'll go for but I've seen porn that wasn't that hot"

"It's not porn Eddie, it's a story about a great love affair that clearly you don't appreciate."

"Ohh no, believe me I appreciated it. I would just like to appreciate you a little now"

"You want me to have sex with you now that you've been turned on by another woman"

"Can you honestly tell me watching that didn't turn you on" She didn't answer him "Nothing? You didn't get anything from watching that?"

"I got poked in the head while you tired to cock a feel"

"You're breaking my heart…. All my hopes and dreams are shattered now"

"What?"

"I hoped I would get to watch a little fun with you one day and I've dreamed that you did but now ……."

"You want another beer" Janet grabbed his empty bottle and headed to the kitchen.

Eddie had barely had time to sit back down when she came strutting back through the living room nearly slamming the bottle down of the table behind the couch and headed straight to the bedroom. Eddie watched her thinking he had upset her terribly but he still laughed. That was until she came back to stand in front of him. "Fine, lets go" she tossed the condom she got out of the nightstand that was a left over in his lap before he could respond. He did however manage to grin provocatively.

Janet crawled into his lap pulling his shirt off as fast as she could and he quickly returned the favor then rolled her over onto the couch working to shed their pants and obtain penetration.

"Wait a minute" Eddie stopped just short of making his connection but not sitting up

"What's wrong?" Janet so was hoping he didn't stop to think about anything

"Are you going to be embarrassed and pissed at me later?"

"Embarrassed no, but you're working on the pissed part at an alarming rate, Dude"

"Sorry I had to make sure"

"Now you decide to get a conscience" Janet asked kissing him back

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"Anyway I can talk you into giving Janet a few days off" Eddie asked Sully having come in for no other apparent reason than to do so. He didn't even take his stool at the bar

"Which ones" He kept wiping down the bar making Eddie squirm.

"The 14th and 15th"

"So what do you have up your sleeve for L day"

"I'm pretty sure it's V-day"

"No, it's love like it or not" Sully chuckled

"You going to let her off or not"

"If you tell me what she needs to be off for"

"I'm taking her to dinner"

"She needs two day's off for dinner"

"You're a nosy old fart aren't you. If I tell you you'll just go tell Richard and he'll ruin it"

"I want tell her daddy on you trying to get lucky"

"I'm taking her to the bay for the weekend, but she doesn't know it and if you tell Richard and he drives around all night hunting my truck I'm never going to drink in here again"

"Lair but it would be nice to actually get some work out of my bar maid once in a while" Sully was just giving him a hard time

Janet refused to ask Eddie about Valentines Day and he hadn't said anything yet. She hadn't seen him in two day's and barely spoken to him other than a goodnight phone call the last two evenings. She was starting to get mad and it showed as she stomped around the bar biting Rooster and Sully's head off for the smallest things.

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"I need to ask you something that's really embarrassing so if you could for once in your life, my life please don't make fun of me" Eddie was dead serious talking to his mom

"Ohh god, Janet's pregnant isn't she"

"What! No! I'm not an idiot we use protection and she's on birth control." She looked disappointed

"You two still…"

"Still what?" He was clueless

"Still use condoms?"

"Never mind forget I asked" He started to leave "Wait why would you think we don't" He turned back around

"Because you've been in a serious and committed relationship for a while, I'm pretty sure neither of you have anything undesirable, I just figured you'd probably took that step" Eddie looked at his mom in shock and confusion as she continued clipping her coupons

"To start with, we just took the step of using them right after Christmas and I honestly can't believe after all the lectures you've given me you're telling me to forget about them"

"I didn't say forget, and if the two of you aren't comfortable enough with the idea then keep doing what you're doing."

Eddie sat at the table mulling over what his mom just said.

"So you two waited a couple of months before you made love?"

"Seriously, just forget I said anything." He put his head in his hands and looked down at the table

"Tell me what's going on, I promise not to laugh or make fun of you"

"Or tell Richard?"

"Or tell Richard, though he's not going to be happy when he finds out you two didn't really break up."

"His problem, the last month has been paradise with out him sticking his nose in the middle of things. Even though he's trying to push us apart all he's doing is forcing us to speed things up faster than we're comfortable with going."

"So how fast are you going" Lana continued to act like it was everyday conversation and it took a while before Eddie gave in and talked to her.

"It was pretty much just foreplay, and now sex but it's different with Janet."

"Do you love her?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Have you told her?"

"Not exactly."

"What is not exactly, exactly"

"The week Janet stayed at her dad's I met her and we spent the night in a little Inn" He was hesitant and Lana knew is reluctance and all so his embarrassment "and we had a lot to drink then one thing led to another and we admitted we weren't just fucking" He waited for her to slap him up side the head for his language.

"What did she say" He didn't understand her being so calm about it all

"Eddie, you should know I'm not just fucking you"

"How did you respond to that?"

"I told her it'd never be just fucking with her" "Ooouuuch" Lana finally hit him. He knew it was coming soon enough

"That's what you told her, seriously you said that and she is still sleeping with you?" Lana let her temper show, the one Eddie was familiar with

"What ? She said it first, what was I supposed to say? It's the truth!"

"How about I love you, that didn't cross your mind of things to say before you had sex with her"

"Well of course it did but I don't know how to tell her that, what if she doesn't feel the same way. I don't want to mess this up and we were technically past the first time thing"

"Technically you're an ass, baby"

"I may not of said it, but I did make love to her and she knows it because she cried"

"You let her cry and still didn't tell her you loved her" Lana was even more disappointed in him

"I cried too and she didn't tell me"

"You cried after making love to a woman" She went all sappy on him knowing he'd hate it

"It was more like my eyes got watery and she doesn't know nor does she know that I know she did"

"Tell HER you love her, son. Don't wait until she's given up on you."

"I want but we're just not ready to go there yet, things are good right now and I would like to keep it that way which is why I needed you to do me a favor to start with."

"What?"

"I can't shop for women clothes, when the only thing I wear is flannel so will you please go pick out Janet a dress to wear to dinner for Valentines Day"

"She might not appreciate you dressing her."

"It's not like that, I'm taking her to the bay for the weekend and it's going to be a complete surprise and it's a really fancy place and I don't think Janet keeps all that much in the way of little black dresses."

"Did you think of that line all by yourself ?" She made fun of him and he just pouted

"You owe me"

"I'll give you Easter , Both of us the whole day if you want."

"Deal, now what kind of dress are we talking about?"

"I'm taking her to that French place I screwed up so bad on."

"What are you wearing"

"A suit I guess"

"Wear the black one, I'll find her a dress to match you"

"I don't want to look like prom" He was sarcastic

"You want, but you don't want to look like strangers either. Have I ever dressed you badly?"

"No, but get something she'll be comfortable in, please. I don't want her to be a nervous wreck all night."

"You want something you'll enjoy or something she's comfortable in because women are never comfortable in anything you men find sexy."

"Just pick something out, please" Eddie watched the game while she shopped. He kept looking at the clock waiting for her to get back.

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Lana handed Eddie the receipts when she got back from shopping. "What the hell did you buy, I sent you after a dress." It wasn't the first shopping trip he'd financed for his mom.

"You can afford it so relax"

"So where's the dress"

"In the box, but it's already sealed so you can't open it"

"There's no way, I'm sending her a dress I haven't seen"

"Unless you want to go pick one out yourself you are"

"You so better not be doing any of your little match making tricks to speed things up"

"Here"

"What's this"

"A new shirt, and a tie and some new pants, that fit."

"We're just going to Dinner and then all of that is coming off if everything goes as planned anyway"

"Which is why you should put in lots of effort to make sure it does"

"I'm assuming you've made reservations for a room and the restaurant"

"I have, 7:00 for Dinner and we're staying at a Bed and Breakfast"

"So, have you checked with them to see if they'll do anything special in your room"

"Like what?"

"Wine, candles, rose petals….something romantic"

"I got massages for the next morning"

"Good, but you're not going to need a massage if you don't get anywhere the night before, sweetie"

"Since when do you help me get laid?"

"Since I realized I'm never going to get grandchildren if I don't"

"Okay, I never said anything about picking out your grandchildren and I should have known the condom protest was for a reason"

"Can you see yourself having kids at all Eddie"

"Maybe, I don't know…… yeah but not now , later"

"You're almost 30 jackass, it's now or never. Either grow up, get married and have children or leave that woman the hell alone because she's not feeling the same way as you when it comes to your ridiculously over zealous time-line"

"Men in their 80's can still have children"

"That's because they don't have clocks ticking away "

"Janet's a few years younger than me"

"I've got two points about that statement and then I'll shut up about it for a while"

"No you want"

"You're right I want. The first thing, she's already 26 so in a few years she'll already be past prime child bearing and then on top of that she'll be lucky to have one before her chances of getting pregnant start declining, RAPIDLY, you don't want to have them one on top of the other. Hold on I'm almost done." Eddie was rolling his eyes and making a point to show he wasn't listening. "The second is you've already thought about Janet being the mother of your children and there's no point in denying it because you didn't even hesitate saying her name" Eddie just stared at his mother not wanting to hear her famous I told you so speech

"What'd you get her" Lana was true to her word she let it go for now.

"Ear rings" Eddie dug the box out of his pocket"

"Their beautiful but I would have preferred to of seen a ring"

"No where near there, so no pushing or putting ideas in Janet's head."

"Like she needs me to want a commitment out of you"

"She has a commitment out of me, no one knows my history with women like Janet does and I'm there with her and have been since October, FAITHFULLY if you're wondering. I asked her if she'd let me really see her and she said yes, with a twirl actually"

"That's cute... ... but not enough, you've got to give more of yourself Edward, leave her with something when you leave her bed or your just leaving her to wonder every time you kiss her bye"

"You're making a big deal out of nothing"

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"Ohh great" Janet barked walking back out front from having been in the kitchen " Every ones just so full of Love it makes me sick"

"Before you break off all the thorns and put em in Latekka's bed, they're for you"

Janet picked up the huge bouquet of white and red roses moving them to the back of the bar and reading the card. Tomorrow night 5:00 sharp, wear it, pack a bag

Janet quickly opened the box that accompanied the flowers, it was a dress. She would've never picked it out and called Hannah knowing she had to help him out.

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"I'm going to kill you"

"What's wrong?"

"Like you don't know, I'm sure you're the one that picked it out for him"

"Janet, sweetie take a deep breath and start from the beginning"

"I'm talking about the dress you picked out that Eddie just had delivered for me to wear tomorrow night"

"Eddie bought you a dress?!!!!"

"You didn't pick it out"

"No, I wouldn't have been able to keep that a secret and you know it"

"Well if you didn't, who did?"

"Lana/Lana" They both said at the same time

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"Thank you, it's beautiful"

"Your welcome dear but don't give him to hard of a time for me picking it out. He asked me that earns credit in itself."

"I know, but what does he have planned"

"He didn't say, but I wouldn't let him see the dress so he's a little anxious to see you"

"I'm doing a little shopping myself , he'll be rewarded for his effort but I sorta need to know what kind of mood to shop for" Janet was about ten minutes from Lana's house already in a boutique.

"I couldn't really tell if he was shooting for a romantic evening or something a bit more explicit"

"Knowing Eddie both" Janet laughed

"How does he manage to get both"

"I get my goodnight and he gets his good morning."

"Stop spoiling the boy, it's not like he's not guaranteed to get something out of it either way unlike women"

"No with Eddie I'm pretty much guarrented what ever I want as many times as I want"

"In that case I know just the place, meet me at corner of 5th and Dalton"

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" Where are we going"

"To a place that opens up a world of possibilities" To Lana that meant sex with a chance for a grand-baby

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"You know it's Valentines Day right" Phil asked cleaning up the house

"I know" Eddie was making a mess faster than he could clean it as if propped his feet on the table

"So, you know Janet might expect a little face time"

"Yeah"

"Your going to put in an appearance right?"

"I thought I might"

"You thought?"

"Relax, Phiz I'm not going to be home tonight. You and Pizza Girl and pepperoni yourselves to death where ever you want"

"So what do you have planned for your very first Valentines?"

"Dinner and a night in a room on the beach. What are you and Pippy doing."

"A candle light dinner" Phiz was nervous "On the back porch"

"Good for you man"

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"Lana, there's no way I'm wearing that"

"Why not, you have sex with him don't you"

"Not crotchless panty sex I don't" Janet was straight up about it "I can't believe I'm shopping for lingerie with my boyfriend's mother"

"Would you stop, I'm not judging. It's perfectly normal for you to have sex. The two of you aren't children anymore and it's time to stop acting like it"

"Fine, but can we find something a little less sluty" Janet died when Lana got herself a pair

"Why don't you just go with out?"

"Because"

"Because, why. I'm willing to bet you want get any complaints"

"No, I'll just get bent over the table during dinner"

"No you want, but trust me it's nice to know they want to"

"I knew I should've bought lingerie for you while I was shopping"

"I can just imagine what I would've gotten. You know I haven't actually worn the dress yet"

"Okay, I've got an idea then, you want more coverage there you go" Lana turned her around to face the mannequin.

"That I think I can do "

"So how much lingerie do you have"

"More than I've ever needed before, nothing Eddie hasn't seen"

"Honey, we need to do some shopping"

"This place is expensive"

"Eddie's paying so what do we care"

"I can't go on a lingerie shopping spree with Eddie's money"

"Yes you can, we are and trust me he can afford it sweetie"

"How, they are just getting the shop going"

"My son would have my head on a platter if I told you so just trust me when I say, the man ain't broke"

"Even if that's so, I can't"

"I may not be able to tell you what kind of mood he's trying to set but I will tell you with a hundred percent certainty that he's expecting to get laid"

"and I'm sure he will but lingerie with Eddie mostly consists of his flannel shirts"

"Do you wear any lingerie for him"

"I have a few things, but Eddie's. This is really weird he's your son."

"So, I got over him not being my little boy a long time ago. Now I'm more concerned with helping him be a grown needs a push from time to time. I should have taken those damn training wheels off long before I did."

"Fine, Eddie's more of a bra man which I totally don't get since I have like walnuts for boobs"

"Have you ever heard that saying it's not the size but how you use it"

"Yeah and it's so not true"

"That's because a man said it about a woman, not the other way around. Now shop find something that will hold his attention"

"But…"

"Look honey, he's the one that is going to get the pay off so indulge the boy a little."

"I'm pretty sure I'll be the one getting the payoff"

"That's very true but don't ever let a man hear you say it, if it get's out we're just screwed" Lana could make her laugh.

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"What are you doing here."

"I just thought I'd come see how my son was doing" He was trying to tie his tie and Lana helped him out

"What did you do?" Eddie knew her guilty face of course he was talking about other than his new boxers she felt the need to buy as well everything else he dug out of the bags when he got home.

"Now why would you automatically assume I did anything wrong."

"Did you do something"

"Maybe"

"Any chance it was right and will have absolutely no effect on my plans for tonight?"

"I'm afraid it's going to have a major effect on your plans tonight."

"What?"

"Relax, I've been shopping with Janet."

"She didn't like the dress"

"No, she loved it"

"Then what were you shopping for"

"Do I really need to answer that question."

"Mom, did you say something to Janet about grandchildren, love, marriage or condoms?"

"No, we just went shopping baby."

"What are you not telling me, then?" Eddie took one look at his mothers smile and grabbed his wallet realizing his mom didn't give his card back to him.

"How much did you spend?"

"Enough to get what she needed"

"Does Janet know you paid for it with my money"

"Yes, and she's fine with it though it took a hell of a lot of convincing."

"What did the two of you buy?"

"Janet needed a few things and seeing how she's your girlfriend you should be seeing to it that she gets what she needs."

"Janet's got more clothes than she can wear now. I've seen her closet and she doesn't wear most of it. And the girl makes a fortune in tips she's just cheap"

"My sweet baby boy. I'll love you no matter what but don't push it by screwing this up" Lanna held his chin and stuck the receipts in his pocket the patted it down.

As soon as she kissed him on the cheek and left he pulled the receipt out to look at them. He could tell enough to know it was lingerie and enough of it to keep him busy for a while.