Las Vegas pt 3
"So you coming with us too this morning Chuny?" asked Neela. "Yes, I've not been here before so I want to see some of these hotels too, and I'll have a gamble as I go, are you going to give it a go Neela?" As the girls sat chatting discussing where to go for tonight's meal I sat and watched her, wanting her more than ever. It had been so difficult to resist the temptation last night; but I knew I had too; tonight I don't know if I could. "Listen whilst you go sort out the dinner reservation we'll go to the restroom and then meet you out front" said Danny. "Ok see you in a bit" Chuny replied.
"Did you find the gifts I told you about last night?." I just shook my head, "honestly what were you guys thinking?" " Hey, don't blame it just on Mike and I, Dad and the girls contributed too, in fact they put in some of the fancy stuff . So I take it you two…….." "What?……. Ohhhhh, you mean discussed the merits of ablation therapy in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, yes we talked about that last night ". "Knock it off, you dam well know what I mean" he said laughing. "Not as though it's any of your business, but actually we didn't" "What, after all the effort we put in to get you two together, your kidding me, right?" I just looked at him. "Shit……..your not lying". "And, for your information, this is the only time I am going to say anything about us; you know we never talked about that kinda stuff apart from your wedding morning and its staying that way, got it". "Ok, ok…….I won't ask again".
We took some pictures outside and heard from Neela that it was indeed an exact replica of the Doge's Palace, "the only difference being the Rialto bridge would not be in this location in the actual city in relation to the palace" she said and laughingly added, "one things missing, all the dam pigeons". We took a slow stroll along the Grand Canal, watching the tourists as they took their gondola ride whilst being serenaded by the gondoliers, visited the piazza, listened to the strolling players entertain the crowds, then Chuny decided it was time to hit the casino so we made our way down there to try our luck at the tables and slots.
As I stood with my arm around Abby watching her play I knew I couldn't hold out, I wanted to make love to her so much; it got to a stage where if I didn't leave right now it could get embarrassing. "Abby come with me after this game" was all I said. I took her hand and led her out of the hotel. "Where are we going?" "Just follow me" I said smiling. We hailed a cab and headed back to our hotel; I don't know if the others saw us go; to be honest I didn't care.
We hardly got into the room before we passionately embraced; our hands began to furiously run over each others body as we sought out buttons and zips, laughing as we did between kisses at our enthusiasm as we tried to discard shoes, jeans and underwear; "oh baby I want you so much, so much"; I couldn't control myself, my overwhelming desire to have her threw all precautions to the wind.
"I'm sorry,…..so sorry, I didn't mean to rush like that, but I couldn't stop myself; I know you haven't reached…. forgive me baby, forgive me". I watched her stretch out her right arm and turn the lock on the door, and put the chain into its catch, "you can take all the time you need, I'm not going anywhere" she said before kissing me again.
It was almost as if we were making love for the first time, caressing each others skin with long delicate sensual strokes and kisses, exploring each other's body with our tongues; nibbling, sucking, teasing each other with our mouths; her sighs and moans bringing pleasure to me as I heard her arousal grow. "there's some things in here….., don't laugh, you won't believe what those guys have put in here," "oh my goodness, they certainly don't supply those in the ER, and my god what's this one……geeze". We laughed so much, it almost spoilt the moment.
I could see tears running down her cheeks. "Baby what's wrong,…. did I hurt you?" "No, how could you even think that". "Is it because of what happened earlier, I didn't stop to use anything; I know I was in the wrong but you didn't stop me, I thought you must ….." "It's alright, I only finished a couple of days ago, it will be ok; besides who can stop an express train" "Oh don't mock me please don't, I truly couldn't help it, …. but something's not right, tell me what's wrong, I've never seen you like this before". "It's being here with you like this; I've wanted this for so long; just to hear your voice and that chuckle when you laugh, seeing that smile of yours, I always felt so darn happy when I was with you, and now being so intimate with you again, feeling your warm breath against my skin, the delicate touch of your hands, the softness of your lips as you caress me; no man has ever made me feel the way you do. I thought after the wedding fiasco that we'd never see each other again; I wanted to put things right with you that night but I never did; I felt so awful after that; was I never going to change?" "Abby, we spoke of this yesterday it wasn't only your fault, please don't let this upset you, were here now that's all that matters". "Jake, I never said anything last night when we spoke, and I've never told anyone this; but after you went back to UCSF I decided I had to do something, I couldn't let this cycle continue, I knew if I'd let this relationship that I cared so much about fall apart what hope had I in the future; I knew I couldn't go on jeopardising things. So I did what I should have done years ago, I went to a counsellor. I knew I needed to see someone, a professional, with whom I could be open to help me face my problems instead of pushing them aside thinking I could sort them out myself, which of course I never did; I've been going twice a month since November". "I'm glad you made that decision yourself, if I or anyone had suggested that I think you would have been annoyed thinking we were trying to push you in that direction, you needed to make that choice yourself. To be honest when we spoke yesterday I couldn't believe how open you were with me, it was the first time I'd ever heard you be so candid, I noticed the difference in you straight away. It made me so happy to think you trusted me enough to share your thoughts with, I'd wanted that for so long, but I knew I couldn't rush you into that, you needed to do that in your own time; I'm so pleased that you have". "You know what I planned on doing, I decided I was going to come and see you in Frisco; oh I knew that it would more than likely be a pointless exercise with regard to our relationship, you were bound to be seeing someone, your too special a guy to be single for long, I understood that; but I just wanted ten minutes of your time to apologise and explain to you about that night at County; it wasn't something I could do on the phone, I needed to speak to in person; I wanted to know we could be friends, that if you came to County or if we saw each other at some function with Danny and Chuny we could talk, not try and scurry away afraid to face one another". "I'm glad you thought that way too; I hated that we barely spoke, it wasn't right that our relationship should be like that, we should have been able to talk; we'd share too much to end it that way; as I told you yesterday I too had come to that decision; well lets be truthful I was made to see sense by Laura; she knew how I felt about you even before I told her fully about us; you women and your insight", he said smiling.
"This Laura you keep mentioning, was she your girlfriend at UCSF, I don't really have the right to pry I know; you were single, but…...lets just say curiosity has got the better of me". "I wondered when you were going to ask" he said laughing, "you know when we went camping you asked if there had been anyone serious, I told you one, Laura; we lost contact after we broke up, but it turned out she was at USCF, I had no idea, she's a good friend of the girlfriend of one of my best friends there, actually it was a bit of a shock seeing her; but we get on really well, we go out, but nothing happened Abby, we're just friends (I could hardly tell her about that night at Laura's). I'd mentioned you briefly when we first met; she asked if I was married, I told her I had been in love with someone, but things had ended awkwardly……well over the course of time she realized I was still in love with you, she told me to go and talk to you, straighten things out between us." "Why did she suggest that, because she was in love with you and you were not committing to her? Come on you can tell me, as I said we were not in a relationship, you had nothing to be guilty of ". "It wasn't like that….." "Then why are you blushing?" "Yeah gods Abby, your doing this on purpose just to wind me up, ……..listen, when you come and visit me I will introduce you to her, she will tell you there was nothing going on between us, honest, were just old friends, ok we were involved in the past, but it was a long time ago; it's great to think that she and I can still be friends, it's what I wanted for us if things were not to be in other ways, you can understand that, you've just said so". "I'd like to meet her, if for no other reason than to thank her for her insight in making you see that we needed to clear the air between us and that the only way to do it was by facing one another and talking, it's funny that she and your Dad could see that, yet we were blind to it; were supposed to be intelligent people but when it came to our own relationship we were complete idiots at times as to what to do". "Well I know what's the right thing to do just now……" I started to giggle as he began to kiss my neck , "Jake we really should go get some lunch before we go on the excursion, your blood sugar will drop……." "I know, ….. that's why I thought I'd just try that appetizer again", he said winking. "Jake stop it, stop it, ……. Jake…..hmmmmm".
"We'd better take two taxi's, it's the Papillion helicopters check in you want, see you there" said Sean. "Ok, " said Chuny. We girls took one, the boys the other.
"So where did you two run off too, as if I couldn't guess" said Danny grinning. "We went to the Liberace Museum, we'd talked about going there last night" I replied as seriously as I could. "Good try Jake, but if you must lie at least don't pick somewhere Dad and I went this morning, you two were nowhere near there, or did you just happen to go into one building as we came out to go into the next, was that it?" "Lucky timing, what can I say". "You bloody liar Jake, besides you give the game away by that smug look on your face " said Danny. "Boys pack it in, geeze your worst than kids; besides I really don't need to hear the topic of this conversation". "Hey remember who started all this, you've got no one to blame but yourself Dad" Mike said grinning. "It's a good thing I'm broadminded then " he said smiling; "just remember to stop teasing him at the heliport, you'll embarrass Abby". "Com'on, we know that, besides were only getting our own back on him for all the times he taunted us when he was a kid" Mike added. "Too darn right" said Danny. We all just burst out laughing.
"So where did you two run off too, as if I couldn't guess" said Chuny. "Jake suggested going to the Stratosphere to see "the Strip" from a different prospective, it was brilliant, it was just so clear this morning". "Bloody liar Abby, you knew we'd see that on the helicopter flight, in fact we see "the Strip" both in the daylight and all lit up that's why we choose this departure time" said Neela. "We forgot about that until we were up top and we saw some choppers pass by". "Good try Abby, but it won't wash with us" laughed Susan.
As we stood on the Canyon's floor all of us awestruck by it's sheer size and beauty I said, "I wouldn't have missed this trip for anything, it's totally amazing; to see it from this prospective is overwhelming, thank you so much Sean for including me I would have been gutted to have missed this". "I know what you mean Abby, you really cannot appreciate the immensity of this place until you're here and you fly over it, and down here on the canyon floor you truly see what a wondrous place this is. Look at all the different hues cast by the sinking sun against the rock face there, it's breathtaking." " Films don't do this place justice do they, it's really humbling being here" said Neela, As we had taken the last tour flights out of Vegas we had an extended stay on the canyon floor to take in the sunset; as we sat having the picnic watching the setting sun, I thought to myself I couldn't wish to be seeing this with anyone else; I'd never been happier than I had these last two days with Jake's family and my friends.
