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Chapter 16: Another day in Paradise

Joel and Ellie stay in bed for a while just cuddling together. After that Ellie moves out of the bed and goes to take a hot shower. While Ellie was in the shower, Joel ordered room service food for both of them. The man arrived half an hour later with the food, so Joel let him pass and told the man to put the food on the table. After the guy goes out of the room, Joel takes off the top that was covering the plate and waits for Ellie to come out of the bathroom to eat.

Soon Ellie comes out, Joel looks at her. "Hey… you take your time in there."

"Sorry, but the water was so good, that it made me want to stay there forever." Ellie walks toward the table while drying her heir. She was wearing short pants and a t-shirt. "What do we have for dinner?"

"I order lasagna with a green salad, I hope you like it," says Joel while sitting down at the table.

Ellie licks her lips on the sound of that. "Yeah… that sounds great. I love Italian… well, I have to because that is mostly what my aunt cooks anyway," Ellie giggled at that, then sat on the other chair. She grabbed her cutlery and cut a piece of the lasagna and put it on her mouth. "Hmmm… this tastes good… even better than my aunts."

"Glad you like it," Joel takes a bit of his too. "So, did you like the snowmobile tour?" Joel asked, trying to make a conversation. He can't stop thinking about his bad dreams or what happened to Sarah. And even if he has to tell Ellie at some point, he can't do it right now.

"Joel, I think that was amazing, so thank you." She takes another bite of her food. "So, what are we going to do tomorrow?" she asked after swallowing her food.

"Well, we can go skiing. Is the principal attraction here."

"Oh, okay I like to try that too. But remember I never did it before, so you need to teach me how." Ellie takes another bite from his food.

They talked a little bit during dinner then sat on the bed and watched a movie in Joel's bed cuddling together. After the movie ends, Joel tells Ellie to go to her bed as they are not supposed to be sleeping together in the same room.

Of course Ellie protests, but in the end, she changes her clothes for a sleeping one and goes to her bed. The trip and activities before were tiresome, so she fell asleep in no time. Soon Ellie falls to sleep, Joel changes his clothes and grabs his phone. He dials Marlene's number but she doesn't answer it. Joel didn't want to give her the news about the room on her voicemail. So he just texts her and tells her that he will call tomorrow and let her know about the trip there. After that, he put the phone on the night table and turned off the light.

( Next day in the morning )

Ellie kneeled on Joel's bed just behind him. She was watching him sleep. He looks so peaceful, that she tries to imagine if he is having a good dream right now. Ellie moves a little down and passes her hand softly on his head touching the hair. She only can see part of his face as the rest of his body was covered by the blanket. Her heart starts to beat faster as she continues touching him.

Ellie wakes up early, as she has another dream about Joel. It was almost the same as the one she has before in Joel's house, but lucky for her, this time she won't get to the sex part. It was good because the last thing she needs is to get up in the middle of the night all wet with Joel sleeping on the bed beside her. They were back in that strange cabin, she doesn't recognize, but this time they're talking on a couch in front of a fireplace. Also, the place looks bigger, not like a small cabin-like before. They looked as they still married as she saw the ring on their fingers.

Ellie doesn't know why she is having those dreams. Of course, she wants to marry Joel at one point in her life… and the sooner the better. But will that dream become true? Or all this is not even going to work out? Her aunt seems to be okay with them to be together, but that will remain? Will other people be okay with that too?

Ellie moves her hand and touches his shoulder and continues down his arm. Joel was a little old, but he was still in good shape. She already saw him without a shirt and also back in the old cabin she saw his naked back, so she knows how he looks naked, well his back anyway.

As Ellie continues touching his arm, Joel starts to move, so she quickly takes her hand off him and moves a little back. Joel opens his eyes slowly and turns his head to the side. "Ellie? Is something… wrong?" asked Joel with a sleeping tone.

Ellie moves her hand on her back and smiles at him. "Nope… I just wake up early and… I was… just watching you sleep."

Joel moves the blanket a little low and rubs his eyes with one hand. "Why did you do that… for?" Joel looks at the window and notices that the sun is not fully out yet. "What time is it?" he moves to the side and grabs his watch that was on the night table and looks at it. "Shit… Ellie is… 6:30 in the morning." he put the watch back and lay back to the bed pulling the blanket up to cover all himself with it.

"Do you want to go down for breakfast? Or want me to call room serves?" asked Ellie while moving the bed to annoy him.

"Ellie… go back to your bed… It is still too early," he said with a tired tone

"I'm not going back to sleep and I'm hungry." Ellie moves forward and starts moving Joel's body on the bed trying to make him get up.

"Ellie… Cut it out… and go back to sleep… you're acting like a little kid," said Joel under the blanket with an irritated voice.

Ellie rolled her eyes and grabbed the blanket and pulled it hard and away from Joel's body. "Time to wake up sleeping beauty," said Ellie while moving out of the bed with the blanket on her hands.

"Ellie! what the fuck?" Joel moved up and sat on the bed. He was wearing a t-shirt and shorts almost the same as Ellie, but Ellie pants were long ones. "Give me that blanket back and go back to bed…"

Ellie smiles at him and moves the blanket in front of her. "If you want it? Come and get it." she moves away and goes to the other side of her bed.

Joel goes out of his bed and walks toward her. "Where are you going to go?" he gets close to her bed and looks at her. "This room is not big enough for you to run around… so why not you just give me the blanket… and go back to sleep?" Joel extended his hand over her bed, so Ellie could pass him the blanket.

"Nope… I am not going to give- Ahhhh," Ellie shouted when she saw Joel jump on the bed and try to catch her. She moves away from him and runs to the other side of the room.

Joel goes after her and tries to catch her again, but she jumps on the bed and goes to the other side. "You will be sorry when I catch you…"

"Promises… promises…" she said while laughing.

After a few minutes of running around the room, Joel finally grabs Ellie by her waist and both of them fall on one of the beds. Soon after that Ellie threw the blanket to the other side of the bed. So Joel can't get it, but Joel looks at her and smiles. "Now you're going to pay for it." Joel starts to tickle her.

"Oh… no, no…" Ellie starts to protest, but after a few moments, she starts laughing hard as Joel continues with his attack. After a few minutes, Ellie starts begging him to stop. "Oh please no… more… no more… stop."

Joel stops when he noticed that he was on top of her. He watches her face as she tries to calm herself. He starts to remember that something similar happened back to his house. And that does not end well for him as he has to run out of the house to take care of his business.

"You're not going to run out this time... right?" said Ellie, remembering the same thing.

"Ellie!..." Joel doesn't know what to say. But he didn't have to as Ellie moved her hands and grabbed his head. She smiles at him and pulls him down to her. Last time Joel pulled out and went out of his room, but this time Ellie didn't let him think much about it. She grabs his mouth with hers and starts kissing him. She knows that they should not be doing that, but can't help herself.

Joel kissed her back with the same passion she was kissing him. He can feel her body under him, and his hip between her legs now. He continues kissing her while moving one hand on her side and passes it softly. Ellie moves her hand behind his head and back to pull him close to her. She can feel his body and also his hardiness. But before the thing goes out of control. Joel stops and moves away from her.

"We can't do this…" he said while taking deep breaths to calm down. He lay beside her and put one arm on his face.

Ellie was breathing faster too. "I will take a shower… a cold one… then we can go down for breakfast." Ellie moves out of the bed and walks toward the bathroom.

Joel looks at the ceiling and takes a deep breath. Shit!

( A few hours later )

After the little incident on the bed, Joel and Ellie took their shower and put their cold clothes. Then go down to the restaurant and order some breakfast. After that, they go to the ski center and rent two pairs of skis and walk toward the sky chairs.

Ellie was walking with her head down. She was feeling sorry about what happened in the room. No about the kiss, but about how things get out of control there. Yeah, she continues telling Joel that she is going to wait until she turns 18 and she really wants to. But sometimes it is too hard to hold herself. She wants to be with Joel now. She wants to feel his touch, his kiss without any restriction, or be hiding to do it. She wants her dream to come true, she wants to be his wife and make love with him and have his children. But she knows that she needs to wait for all that to happen.

"I'm so sorry… Joel," said Ellie while walking beside him. They were lucky that the other people walking toward the sky chair were separate from them.

Joel got closer to her and put his arm around her shoulder. "You don't need to be sorry… that was not your fault… I'm the one that needs to be in control here," said Joel with a calm voice.

"Yeah, but I started it… and I know that I'm not supposed to do any of that."

"But I'm the adult here… so I'm the one that's supposed to not lose control of this. I know it is hard for a girl you age, but for me, it is supposed to be easier."

"But… I don't want to fuck-sorry…" correct Ellie while looked at him. "I don't want my aunt to find out and try to push you away again."

Joel pulls her closer and smiles. "Everything is going to be fine Ellie. Let's just forget all that for now and enjoy the day…. okay?"

Ellie smiles at that. Yeah, they come here to pass a good time, so it is better to leave the worry for another time. "Okay… let go and do this," she said with more enthusiasm in her voice. 10 minutes later they arrive at the building where the sky chairs can be ordered. But they have to wait in line for 20 more minutes before they go on the chair.

When their turn arrived, Ellie got excited and got on quickly. A few minutes later they were up in the sky going up the mountain. "Wow… I never go up in one of these…" said Joel looking down. The chair was not too high from the ground, but high enough to hurt you if you fell down from it.

Ellie looked at him. "But you said that you dad took you to ski a few times… right?"

"Yeah, but our father only takes us to the mountain to teach us how to ski. So it wasn't in a place like this."

Ellie got close to him and put her head on his shoulder. "I think this is very romantic. The view is incredible too." Ellie grabs his arm and enjoys the ride. It takes them 15 minutes to get to the first stop. Soon they get down from the chair Joel takes Ellie to the part where other people were teaching their children.

Joel helps Ellie to put her ski on and start to tell her how to use the stick and how to keep her balance. He helps Ellie to move around, so that way she gets a costume to ski on the snow.

"Okay, do you think that you can move forward now?" asked Joel after teaching Ellie to ski for like one hour.

Ellie moves her sticks a little while trying to keep her balance. She already fell down more than 20 times. "Okay… I think that I'm getting the hang of it."

Joel let go of her arm and let her move by herself. "Okay just move forward slowly, this is not a slide so you will be fine. Ellie starts to move forward. Okay… good, you are doing fine… baby,"

As Ellie continues, Joel starts to ski behind her. After a few minutes Ellie was skiing without falling down, so that was great progress. "Hey… Joel, I'm skiing!" she yells to Joel as she starts to go faster.

Joel quickly moves beside her. "Try not to go too fast, and keep you balanced." he was instructing her when he noticed that they were getting close to the trees.

Ellie saw them and quickly started to panic. "Joel?"

"Just move to the left as I told you!" Joel watches how they are getting closer and Ellie barely moves to the side. "Ellie!" Ellie tried to move to the side but she was going faster now and was going towards one of the trees. But before she crashes with it, Joel moves faster and tackles her down to the snow. Both of them fall into the snow, but Ellie makes a scream of pain and soon they touch the snow. "Ellie is… are you okay?"

"Is my foot… it hurt a little."

Joel takes off his ski quickly and kneels beside Ellie and proceeds to take off Ellie's. "Okay… what foot is it?"

Ellie grabbed her right foot with some pain. "I think this is one."

Joel moves her legs and grabs the foot. "Let me know how much it hurts okay?" Joel slowly started to move her ankle a little. "Is this hurt?" asked Joel while looking at her face.

"A little…" answer Ellie while tightening her eyes a little.

Joel continued for a few minutes, making sure that it was not broken. I think It is okay, It will hurt a little, but is not broken. Just give it a few minutes and you will feel better." Joel starts to give her a little message on the foot, making sure that she can walk.

"Okay… Ellie lay down and looked at the sky while Joel did that. "How I did?" asked Ellie while putting her arm behind her head.

After Joel finished with her foot, he lay beside her and looked at the sky too."I think you did great for your first time. Don't worry you will do better with more practice."

"Really?" Ellie turns her head and looks at him. "Because I fall like 20 times."

"Everybody falls at the beginning… this is not as easy as some people think. You need a lot of practice before you can do it right."

"Did you fall a lot too? I mean when you… dad teach you?"

"Of course I did… and my dad wasn't too patient when it came to teaching you something. I took a lot of time before I got."

"Well, this place is fantastic… and I'm having a great time.'' After a few minutes, Ellie looked at Joel and saw that he was with his eyes close. So she sat up and started to form a snowball. After she does a few of them she stands up beside him. "Hey…" said Ellie looking down at him.

Joel opens his eyes and looks at her. Then he notices what she has on her hands. "No!..." he just said before one of the snowballs landed on his face. "You little…" he moved to the side to cover himself while Ellie threw another snowball on his back. He grabs some snow and makes a ball and throws it to her. Ellie moves away from him as the new snowball fight starts.

Joel and Ellie spend half the day up there, playing around and doing more skiing. Ellie gets better with time and goes longer distances on the way down. When they finally get to the lower part where the rest of the people were. They take their skis off and go back to the shack that rents them. After that, they walk around the place watching things and enjoy each other's company. After a few more hours, they go back to their room.

Soon they get into the room, they take out their coats and boots and sit on the beds. "I know it is a little early to ask, but do you want to go to the restaurant tonight and have dinner with me?" asked Joel, while he stood up and walked toward the window.

Ellie turned her head and looked at him. "Are you asking me on a date?" she said with a giggle in her voice.

Joel looks at her and smiles. "If you wanted it to be like that… yeah, I'm asking you on a date."

Ellie's face was reddish at the image of Joel and her on a date. Noone asks her before, so this will be her first date. "Oh… Joel that will be lovely… but I don't know if I bring something to wear for that," she said, a little excited.

Joel stands up and goes to where he put his bags. "Don't worry I have something for you…" Joel opens one of them and takes out a flat box. This was going to be part of your Christmas gift, but I think you can use it today." Joel moves close to her and gives her the wrapper flat box.

Ellie smiles at him and grabs the box and looks at it. "Oh… Joel you don't need to…" some tears start to form on her eyes, but she hides it. "You coming back here was a gift enough for me."

"Just opened…" Joel said with a smile on his face.

Ellie looks at him and smiles again. "Okay…" then she started to open the gift. Soon she finishes with the wrapper paper, Ellie opens the box. Her mouth is wide open when she takes out the nightdress. "Oh my God… Joel this is so beautiful…'' Ellie stood up, went to the mirror, and put the dress in front of her. The dress was black with some gold color design on the neck part at the end of the dress. It was long enough to pass her heels and sleeveless and had a tight belt on the waist in the form of flowers on the front part.

Joel smiled at her reaction. "Do you like it? I have never seen you in a dress before… so I not-"

Ellie put the dress on the bed and walked to him. Soon she was closer to Joel, she hugged him. "I love it… thank you."

Joel hugged her back. "Glad you like it... And now you need to go down to the beauty salon they have on the first floor and get ready for tonight. They're waiting for you with the rest of your gift."

Ellie moves her head away from Joel and looks at him. "The rest of my gift?"

"Yes. you have an appointment in half an hour to get facial makeup and hairstyle. They have the shoes that go with the dress, so I pick you up when they have done with you."

"Oh… my… God. Did you already plan all this…? when?"

"Yesterday after you fell asleep. I already bought the dress and the shoes, but when I saw the salon, I thought to add something extra. So I went in and made the appointment, and decided to ask you for dinner tonight."

Ellie hugged him back again and buried her face on his chest. "Oh… Joel, you don't know how happy this makes me… how I can make it after you?"

"Your happiness is good enough for me. Maybe this is a way to fix all the shit I did before." Joel hugs her tight and kisses the top of her head. "Now… they're waiting for you, so take the dress and go. I'll pick you up in a few hours."

Ellie moves away from him and looks into his eyes. "I love you… so much."

"I love you too… now go…"

Ellie moves to her bed and grabs her dress and walks to the door and opens. But before she gets out she turns her head. "Not that I don't want to do this, but are you sure that going on a date here is a Good Idea?"

"Well, we have to leave the kissing part in this room, but besides that, it will be fine."

Ellie smiles at him. "Okay… I will see you down there later then." With that, she goes out and closes the door. Joel looked at the door thinking about what she said. He planned the surprise for her and he is glad that she is happy about it. But now that he thinks about it, he is not so sure that all that was a good idea after all.