Author's Note:
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED! I love you guys so much. I am really glad you like the story so far.
FF.Net has been being weird for me for the past week or so, and I haven't been able to upload my updates, so here is your treat, some description of a mansion that would even have Bill Gates in awe, and a super duper (yes I just said super duper) long chapter. I looked and it is like over 3,500 words, so enjoy.
Let me know what you think, as always, I love getting reviews. If you have any ideas about the future of this story let me know. I have the bones of it, and a little bit of meat, I write it as it comes to me, so if I had help that would be awesome.
K, thanks again lets get to it.
~~~Flash Forward~~~
"Go Julie, Go Julie, Go, Go, Go Julie, Go Julie, Go Julie," everyone was shouting in unison.
"You guys are nuts! I am not doing that!"
"Go Julie, Go, Go, Go Julie"
"Aaaarrrggg!"
She closed her eyes plugged her nose and began on the line of 21 shots.
"Woooooooo!" They all shouted.
SLAM! "I cant do anymore!"
"Yes you can, you only have 5 left, Go Julie!"
"Julie, Julie, Julie, Julie."
"5......4.....3....2....1! Wwwoooooooooooooo!"
"Oh my god you guys I feel so sick!"
"I can't believe you just did that Jules! That was awesome! Come 'eer babe"
Dean grabbed her around her waist and pulled her close to him and laid a big fat slobbery kiss on her.
"Ewww gross Dean!" She yelled at him playfully and pushed him away.
"No one has ever complained before!"
"Well, I'm complainin' now! That was gross!" She laid a fake punch on him.
"Oh let me try again!" He pulled her back, with even more tongue than before he laid a sloppy kiss on Miss Julie.
Everyone started laughing hysterically.
She laid it on him just as messy as he did her, and they both got "eewww"'s and "you guy's are nasty" "Get a room!" they broke apart laughing at each other and their friends.
"C'mon you guys, let's go swimming, before I get sick." Julie called out to her friends.
Dean carried her to the swimming pool she was in no condition to walk.
"Good thing, I already had on my suit." She said stumbling toward the rail throwing off her shirt to walk down the stairs and get into the water.
"Hold on Duchess, you forgot something."
"What?"
Dean pointed at her pants while looking in another direction.
"Oh, right. My bad." She said and unbuttoned her pants.
"Here let us help." Fulton said.
Fulton swooped her up and Dean pulled her pants off.
"Thanks guys!"
"Sure no sweat."
"Ok I as queen demand to see some cannon balls tonite! You two," she said pointing at Dean and Fulton, "amaze me." She said pointing at the diving board.
Dean and Fulton went over to the diving board and both did equally retarded cannon balls into the pool.
"Wooooo!" She cheered.
They played around in the water for a little while, then Julie went to go stand on the platform.
"A hem... HEY! YOU GUYS!"
Charlie, Connie, Guy, Fulton, and Dean, turned to see what she wanted.
"I just wanted to say thanks for coming and sharing the fact that I am legal, with me at my house. Have fun, drink, and if you are going to be sick just make sure you go to the..."
She turned and had to high tail it to the bathroom.
They all started laughing hysterically. After they calmed down a bit Fulton and Dean went to go make sure she made it all right.
By the time they got there, she had already passed out on the floor.
Fulton and Dean cleaned her up, and carried her back to her room. They put her in dry clothes and tucked her into bed. Fulton kissed her forehead, Dean put a sweet kiss on her lips and both said
"Goodnight Duchess." Smirked, turned out the light and shut the door.
~~~Back to Present~~~
"So what do you guys want to do today?" Julie said.
"I don't know about everyone else, but I could stay right here all day." Goldberg said with a stretch. He was sitting on a couch in the sitting room of Julie's room with the remote in one hand and a Harvest Power bar in the other.
"You know Goldberg, for that Power Bar to be the most effective, you should only eat one not three, and it is meant to be used as part of a balanced diet with Exercise." Julie commented.
"Hey, I exercise cat lady!" Goldberg said and received snickers (not the candy bar) from his teammates.
"Well it is sunny and I want to do something guys." Julie said closer to a playful whine.
"Well too bad your pool isn't outdoor." Said Connie.
"Why didn't you just say so, I am down for swimming outside, lets go!" Julie said.
"Where? Do you have a hidden outdoor pool too?" Fulton said.
"Ha, ha very funny. No, the roof over the pool is retractable silly."
"Oh now why didn't I think of that?" Said Portman mockingly and slapped his hand to his forehead.
They all went downstairs to the swimming pool.
"Is there a hot tub we should know about Jules?" Asked Guy.
"Wellllll…" she said with a smile. She walked back over to the dial that retracted the roof and pressed another series of buttons, and the concrete moved in a corner near the pool.
"What?!" Said Guy.
"Anyone up for some water polo?" Julie asked and pressed another series of buttons and a net emerged from the water and a few balls floated up as well.
They played for a while and messed around.
"Okay who wants to play Marco Polo?" Guy asked.
"Oh c'mon, that is a game you don't play after the age of 12 Guy!" Adam yelled from his lounge chair.
"I'm with Banks," said Julie and headed for the stairs to get out of the pool. "Besides I am over due to work on my tan, you guys have fun."
"You guys are weak, I'm down wit you Guy." Said Russ
"I think I am going to sit this one out guys," said Portman.
"Yeah whatever, you know you want to work on your tan too!" Teased Fulton.
"Yeah whatever man, you're just jealous cuz all the ladies want this." Portman said.
"Ok, someone is giving themselves airs!" Said Connie.
"Oh please, Jules knows what I'm talking about, isn't that right Jules?" Portman said.
"I don't think you need validation from me, your ego seems pretty up to the job." She said.
"Yeah whatever Duchess, you are just too shy to admit it."
"Too shy to admit what? That you're hot? No I'm not, I am just letting you know, you don't need stroke your ego. You do that enough."
"Hahahah, she dissed you bad G!" Russ laughed.
Portman got out the pool, and walked over to where Julie was laying out.
"Do you mind moving, you are standing in my light," she said meaning to blow him off, just to get a rise out of him. "And drip on me either!" She said turning over.
"Oh don't worry I won't 'drip' on you, Duchess."
He scooped her up in his arms.
"Dean put me down now!" She shrieked.
Every one started laughing at the sight of Julie kicking while Dean carried her over to the pool.
"Oh you want me to put you down?! Oh, ok, here you go!"
He spun around and threw her into the deep end of the pool. After she surfaced laughing, she looked up to see Dean flying threw the air in a cannon ball from off the diving board.
She ducked down under the water and disappeared. Dean came up wondering what happened to her.
"Where did she go?" He asked.
"I don't know. She disappeared when you came down off the board."
Everyone went under water to try to see where she went. They couldn't see under the water so they got out to look from up above. While they were getting out, Dean noticed something against the wall of the pool at the deep end.
He came up for air, and dived down to where there were a few odd looking squares in the wall. He touched the smallest one and a bigger square slowly opened. He swam through it, and it shut behind him. The little pathway turned into tube slide, and he slid down and around through a few corners and was dumped out into another pool. Where he found Julie, getting out of the other end.
This room was beautiful. It looked like an atrium, but not any atrium. It looked like it was out of a tropical island. There were tropical flowers, (the most beautiful Birds of Prey Dean had ever seen) and climbing vines. Lots of ivy climbing the walls and paths leading through the jungle like surrounding.
There was a waterfall with rocks and a slide. In order to access the slide you had to walk up a path that took you through the Jungle surroundings.
"Nice move Duchess."
She whirled around.
"Oh my god Dean!"
"This place is so beautiful."
"You scared the crap out of me. How did you find me?"
"You gave us quite a scare there too Duchess." He said walking over to her.
"Oh, yeah that, I'm sorry."
Dean got closer. "It's okay. Just don't worry us like that anymore."
"Did I really worry you?"
"Yeah! Well. You worried, you know, us. Everyone was worried." He said clearing his throat, turning a little red.
"Do I sense some uneasiness Dean?" She said turning her head to an angle.
"Me? Uneasy? NO! Why would I be?"
She smiled and turned to walk away.
He slowly traced her arm down to her hand and stopped her from continuing to walk away. She looked down at her hand in his and then up to his face.
"Is there something wrong?" She asked coyly.
"Wrong, no. Nothing wrong." He said pulling her closer to him.
She turned her head to an angle again as he slowly stepped to her. She looked down his neck, (he stepped one step closer). She looked to his (oh so perfect) pectorals, down to his abdomen and beautiful lats, (he took another step closer) then back up to his face, which was right in front of hers. She looked into his eyes and tilted her head up. Her eyes dropped to behold his lips then closed.
He slowly pressed his lips to hers, her soft, warm, pink lips. He parted her lips with his own and continued to tenderly kiss her. She slid her hands up his arms feeling each rippling muscle tingle and react to her touch. She circled her hands around his neck, and ran her fingers up into his hair. His arms encircled her waist and held her close. His tongue begged entry, and she let out a little moan and granted entrance. She found herself lost in the moment and his embrace and never wanted to let go.
After a few minutes, she broke away, we should really * kiss * get back * kiss * to the *kiss * others, because they * kiss* don't know what * kiss * happened to us * kiss*.
Dean chuckled. * Kiss * I guess your right * kiss *.
She looked into his eyes.
"We should have done that a long time ago." He said.
"We could make up for lost time you know." He pulled her in and started kissing her again.
She broke away laughing again, "Dean, we really should go back."
"They are already worried, a little while longer wont kill them." He said in a low whisper and pulled her close again.
She lost herself in his eyes again and turned into his arms, he tilted her back a little bit and they started kissing again.
*******
Poolside
*******
"Hey you guys!"
"Julie! Oh my god what happened to you?!"
"Nothing."
"Dean! Where have you been?"
His face turned a little red. "I…uh.."
"He came with me, he had to go to the little boyz room so I showed him the way."
Dean looked a little puzzled at her.
"You guys hungry?" She asked in a nonchalant way.
"Sure!" Said Goldberg.
They headed to the kitchen and Dean walked near Julie, he tried inconspicuously to take her hand and she shrank away like he stung her.
After she got the gang some food. They sat around the table.
"I hope you enjoyed your little diversion Jules" said Charlie "but you haven't made us forget that you completely disappeared underneath the water and were gone for…how long was she gone for guys?" They looked at each other and shrugged, "Ok, I don't know how long you were gone, but you were gone for a long time, and you didn't come up and out of the water. We want an explanation missy!"
"Okay ok, ok, it will take a while, there is no way to explain it to you so I will just show you. When you have finished eating. Geez, I can't get away with anything around here."
Jules started to clean up, and Dean got up from the table and went to help her.
"I got it Dean."
He put the dishes down.
"Are you mad at me?"
"No Dean, why?"
"I was just wondering."
She continued to clean up the dishes and he sat back down.
"Ok, you guys, you have to wait for about 30 minutes, because you have to get back in the pool for me to show you what you are about to see. All right? So what do you want to do in the mean time?"
"Uh, we can go back out there, and sit in the sun." Connie suggested.
"Ok, sounds good."
They went out to the pool and situated themselves a few in the sun, a few in the shade.
Julie went and quietly disappeared behind a large plant. This time she wasn't alone.
She touched a pad on the wall, and a keypad appeared. She pressed a series of numbers and the wall moved a little bit, just enough for her to slip through the crack into another room.
"Oh no you don't missy!" Said Charlie behind her.
"Crap! Charlie! That is the second time today! God!" Julie said all freaked out… again.
"What is the second time today?"
"Oh nothing."
"Jules, what is going on, you are acting funny? And for God sake, what is up with all these doors?"
"You should have guessed by now, there are doors and doors and doors." She winked at him.
He looked around the room… "Wow, what is this place?"
It was an atrium; much like the hidden pool…in fact it looked like they were connected.
"This is my 'garden'."
"Your Garden?!"
"Hahahah not really, this is something that I thought would be cool, so my daddy had it built for me. My parents come in here too, rarely, but it was mainly because I wanted something like this."
"So what is going on Duchess?"
"I don't know. Just stuff."
"You know you want to say something, so get it off your chest."
"I know Charlie. It's nothing really. It's just my imagination messin with me. Don't worry about it. C'mon, lets go, before I get in trouble again."
She jumped into the water and Charlie followed. "Take a deep breath and follow me." She said.
She dove down the side of the wall, and touched a small circle, and a pathway opened. They swam up a slight incline and another door opened in front of them letting them out of the floor of the middle section of the main pool.
"Hey you guys ready?" She said from in the pool.
"Oh my god, where did you guys come from?" Said Adam.
"I'm gonna show whoever wants to know."
They all got up from their lounge chairs and got in the water. Dean wasn't too interested in going. So he stayed seated.
"You coming Portman?" She said. She gave him a look that made him forget whatever he was thinking about and just get in the water. "Okay everyone, when we get to the end over there (pointing at the deep end), take a deep breath, and follow me."
*******
After she showed them her secret pool, they got dried off and headed back to their rooms to shower, and get comfortable. Seeing as how it was going to be dark soon.
"You guys want to watch a movie or something?" She called to her friends on the way back to the rooms.
They all agreed it was a good movie night. So meet me in my room when you are ready to decide what we are going to see.
"Hey Connie, you wanna come with me and get dressed in my room?" Jules asked.
"Sure."
"So what do you feel like wearing? Anything you can think of, I've got it." Julie asked.
"Ummmmm, how bout stone wash, low rise, Levi's in a size 4, with a black half see through peasant top, stiletto heels and a black, leather belt with a silver buckle." Connie said mockingly.
"Hum. Let me see." Said Julie.
She walked over to her closet and opened a cabinet, which displayed a computer screen. Below it a keyboard extended and she started typing. Her closet opened to reveal a walk-in room filled with clothes. Racks started to rotate and Julie went into the room with a thoughtful expression on her face. She reached up got a blouse, walked over to another rack and pulled a pair of jeans. She walked closer to the entrance of the closet to beam, pushed a button and the face removed to display a mini rotating rack of belts. She pulled one, then went came back to Connie.
"Hold this I will be right back." She said. She walked over opposite the clothes closet and opened a similar display. She typed briefly at the keyboard and a smaller room opened full of shoes. She walked in and came out with a pair of stilettos.
"Is this what you had in mind?" Julie asked an astounded Connie.
"I have always wanted to do that." Julie commented at a still speechless Connie.
"HELLO! Connie! Snap out of it."
"Huh? What? Oh. Sorry about that Jules." Said Connie a little bit embarrassed.
"Hahahah don't sweat it. Here you go, let's get dressed before everybody gets here."
"I can not even believe your closet Jules! That is like the most awesome thing I have ever seen in my life!"
"Yeah, I like it a lot, it is fun. What is really fun, is when I have no clue what to wear, and I can look through the catalog on my computer."
"How did you talk your parents into this kind of set up?"
"Well they like me to look good, and it helps that my mother is absolutely obsessed with clothes and designers, and fashion. Since she is a designer herself, or was, she retired early, I have all the best clothes and have access to all the great clothes. It's a lot of fun. Even though it is just something else to make up for her not being around while I was growing up. And my dad is into technology, and building gadgets. This was more of a hobby for him during some of my boarding school time. So between both my parents they came up with this for me."
"Oh my gosh Julie, I wish I had parents as cool as yours."
A distant look came over her face…
"No you don't."
**********
"Ok what do you guys want to see?"
"Well there is nothing at the theater besides…some stupid Disney movie" said Averman.
Everybody turned to laugh and Jules said "Hey Disney movies aren't dumb!"
They all stopped laughing immediately and hid their snickers. (No not the candy bar)
She immediately felt dumb for bursting out like that.
"Well we can watch something here." Charlie said.
"What do you guys want to see?" Asked Julie.
"What do you have?" Charlie asked.
She smiled and looked at Connie and winked.
"You name it I got it."
"Hahahah very funny. Seriously."
"How bout you boyz follow me." She said smiling.
Connie was grinning beyond control.
"What are you laughing at Connie?" Asked Guy.
"You'll see. She wasn't kidding. You name it, she probably has it."
"Right on. I didn't mention," he looked his girlfriend up and down, "you look totally hot!"
"Thanks!" She said still grinning.
"Okay were, here." Said Julie entering a dark room.
"We're where?"
She turned on a light.
The room looked like a closet with a computer in it. She sat at the station. And opened a program and said "okay, someone choose a movie. Here is the database."
"Database??" Asked Russ. "Look at her acting like she has a ton of movies."
"Don't diss!" Said Connie.
"Ah-ight." Russ sat down at the station and scrolled down the list.
"You will be sitting there for quite a while there Russ if you search that way." She said.
"Oh yeah why?"
"Because I have every title available on DVD and Other select Title on VHS, and what I don't have on a hard copy I have available as a download. So like I said, you will be sitting there for quite a while. You probably want to search by genre. So I ask again, what do you guys feel like watching?"
"Russ sat in amazement and couldn't speak. No one could, except Connie.
"Is that what I looked like?" Asked Connie laughing.
"Yeah pretty much, except your skin is more golden."
"Hahahah, true, true."
"Once they come to, it will be a while let's go listen to the radio." She said to Connie.
"HEY GUYS! SNAP OUT OF IT!"
"Huh, what?" asked Russ.
"You guys choose a movie, we are going to go in the theater and listen to some music."
She pressed a keypad on the wall and walls parted (yes more doors) to reveal a full size theater screen with about 40 seats.
"Wow, Jules, this is awesome."
"Yeah pretty much, this is a screening room. My dad uses it for business a lot, so it was a good 'business investment'." Julie said rolling her eyes, "yeah right, betting on football then watching is not exactly what I call good business."
Connie laughed.
She walked over to a stereo and turned it on.
"That's it Jules, I am a bit disappointed."
"What?! You gotta have some simple things around here! Besides the sound is awesome."
"What is it wired to the theater sound system?" Connie said looking around.
Then she looked back at Jules, "NO!"
Julie just smiled.