~*~
Ace had been fidgeting all day on Thursday, the day before the night that rewarded him with his date with Juliette, he wasn't sure what he was being rewarded for, and didn't really care. He couldn't stay still, and that annoyed the rest of the Cobra's, Ace wasn't bothered, and all what bothered Ace was the fact that he had a date with what he believed to be one of the most beautiful creatures on Earth.
Ace looked at his watch, it was ten minutes before 7 o'clock, he should get going if he wanted to make a good impression. So he got going.
"Hey, Ace," Ace's right-hand man, Eyeball Chambers, yelled. "Where ya' goin'?"
Ace continued to walk towards his car, he wasn't ignoring his gang, he just didn't want to be late, not for Juliette.
The other Cobra's stopped working on their cars and watched as their leader strode towards his car, not responding to Eyeball's calls.
"Out." Was all that Ace gave as a reply, he literally jumped into his car and started the engine, he looked at the confused expressions on the gang's faces. Deciding he should explain, he said, "With a girl."
All the gang smirked as Ace drove off, everyone of the guy's enjoyed it when they went out on dates, but what they enjoyed even more was telling the rest of the Cobra's how far they had gotten.
The remaining Cobras went back to work on their cars, knowing that when Ace Merrill went out on a date, he went all the way to fourth base, and always told the guys about it, they all began looking forward to the details they would receive the following night.
~*~
Ace pulled up outside 'The Avalon' residence, the reason he knew where that was is because it was on the opposite side of the street where Eyeball lives, Eyeball's younger brother Chris had become friends with Dawn. Occasionally when the Cobras were at Eyeball's house, if you could call the dump a house, Chris and his friends would be at Dawn's house, talking in the front yard or on the porch.
He climbed up the couple of steps and onto the porch where he rang the bell. He heard a few voices inside, a few footsteps running up and down the stairs and was greeted by Juliette looking incredibly attractive at the front door, she was wearing flared jeans, again, but with white sneakers, and a short-sleeved red t-shirt that was buttoned up from the front and was cut quite low - Ace felt he was beginning to sweat already. He was wearing black trousers, black shoes and a white shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
"Hey," Ace said.
"Your late." Juliette replied, with an angry expression.
Ace glanced again at his watch, it read 7 o'clock. "Not by my watch."
"I didn't mean at night, I meant in the morning."
Ace was paralysed to the spot, he had never been out so early on a date in his life, and Ace Merrill had been on a lot of dates. He turned to her a saw a smile on her face as she tried to stifle a laugh.
"Your face," Juliette cried with a burst of laughter as her mouth opened.
"Huh?" Ace was confused.
"I'm kidding, your on time, don't look so worried," she replied as she punched him playfully in the arm.
"Oh"
"It doesn't matter anyway if you're on time, if you're late or early. I can't go out with you tonight."
"What? This isn't another joke is it?" Ace could handle a few jokes, but if that was all Juliette wanted, someone to make fun of, he was leaving.
"No, its not another joke. Dawn says I can't go out on a date with you."
"Dawn?"
"Yes"
"As in your fifteen year old sister Dawn?"
"Yes"
"You take orders from your younger sister?" Ace said with a smirk. He couldn't help it, Juliette looked so childish, like a little girl who was being told off by the teacher but wasn't listening, but Juliette was listening to Ace. She was standing with her hands behind her back, swinging her body left and right and looking at anything except Ace.
"She says you'd be a bad influence on our children." Juliette said, seeming unusually fascinated by the woodwork on her house's front door.
"Our children?"
"Mine and yours."
"You're losing me."
Juliette looked at Ace, with a solemn expression on her face. "She gave me an hour long lecture about you, she said you'd turn up drunk for our wedding with lipstick on your collar, she said you have more than four affairs and that you'd be a bad influence on our sons, Peter and Jerry, and our daughter Stacey"
"She gave our children names?" Ace asked with a smirk.
Juliette nodded in reply and looked at Ace properly for the first time that night, looking directly into his eyes. "She basically gave me every single reason why it would be a bad idea to go on this date with you."
"So?" Ace asked Juliette, asking her what she wanted to do about the whole situation.
"She still hasn't changed my mind," she said with a genuine smile on her face. Juliette stepped out of her house and closed the door behind her.
Ace walked down the steps, towards his car and opened the car door for Juliette.
"Nice wheels." She told him as she admired his car while sat in the front passenger seat.
Ace walked quickly to the other side of his car and got in, and drove slowly to the Blue Point Diner, wanting to savour his time with Juliette.
At the diner, Ace and Juliette sat in a quite corner and ate their hamburgers and fries and drank their cokes over conversation about family, education, music, friends and generally life, Ace had even gotten onto the subject of sport with Juliette, he had never enjoyed a conversation about sport with a girl until that night, that magical night where Juliette talked, listened, joked and smiled, that perfect smile. Ace was in heaven, he knew it, she was definitely an angel.
Ace was talking about the Cobra's while he and Juliette had been discussing the topic of friendship, his mind began to wonder, he wondered if Juliette knew how perfect she was, surely she must. But she hadn't taken notice of any of the looks she had received from the other male, hormonal teenagers, she had reserved all her attention for her Ace.
Juliette suddenly laughed while she was drinking her coke, Ace must of said something funny but he wasn't sure what it was. Juliette's appearance was amazing – she was clutching her stomach with one hand and with the other she was covering her mouth, dribbles of coke were slipping down her chin as she continued to laugh into the palm of her hand, her cheeks were a scarlet red and then she actually snorted. The sight must have caught a few eyes, most of the male, hormonal teenagers had probably been put off by her antics now, but Ace was still as fascinated with her as he was when he had first seen her. Juliette was breathtakingly beautiful, even if she was making sounds like a pig and was making more of a mess than a stubborn baby, Ace still found himself drawn to her, and he smiled as she excused herself and practically ran into the girl's bathroom, in the diner with her hands over her mouth, still laughing.
~*~
Juliette and Ace had left the diner three hours ago; they had left at fifteen minutes past eight, and had gone to see a drive-in movie, Ace couldn't remember what the film was about, he hadn't been paying much attention to the film, even when he tried to watch the movie, his eyes kept tearing away from the screen and watching Juliette smile and sometimes laugh at what was going on on-screen, and she didn't mind him putting his arm at the back of the seat where she was sitting in the car. He had guessed it was a comedy they were watching.
Ace was grateful when Juliette didn't ask him any questions about the film, he was even more grateful when she did begin to talk to him.
"Are you taking me home now?" Juliette asked.
"If you want me to I will."
"I don't want you to."
"You don't?" Ace couldn't believe his luck, a date with her that was almost lasting for more than five hours and she didn't want it to end yet, and neither did he.
"No, I'm young and restless, I'm awake and bursting with energy, we need to do something to tire me out." She glanced at him with that mischievous and sexy grin that she portrayed so well.
Ace almost swerved the car, when he heard her utter those words, God, he wanted to tire her out so she wouldn't be able to walk for days. He stopped the car and turned to face her in his seat, she was still looking at him. "What do you want to do?" He asked praying the answer would begin with s and end in x.
"I want you to..." She thought for a moment, wondering what they could do to kill some time. Ace was now praying that she'd finish her sentence with 'ravish me', but instead she finished her sentence with. "Show me some nature of Castle Rock."
"Nature?"
"Yes, you know, trees, wild-flowers, fields, a lake."
"You want me to show you a tree?" Ace asked with a look of disbelief on his face.
"Show me something natural, anything, just something."
Ace thought for a moment about whipping of his clothes, but then reconsidered and began to drive to a nearby field, that contained few wild flowers, and there was a lake at the other side of the trees that surrounded the small field. He parked in the centre, so that Juliette would get a better view of anything she wanted to see.
"Wow." Came Juliette's reply.
"You like nature?"
"I already told you, I grew up in the city of New York, I rarely got to be this close to wild things," she answered glancing at Ace, "and nature," and made and gestures to their surroundings.
"You think I'm wild?" Ace asked flirtatiously.
Juliette didn't give Ace an answer; all she did was move closer to him in the seat, sliding her body towards his. Ace put his arm back around the seat but more specifically, Juliette. They never broke the intense gaze that was driving both of them crazy, and Ace leaned into kiss Juliette, before he lost his nerve.
Their lips touched each other's softly, eyes closed, as if they were both nervous, and they both were. Aces left arm remained were it was, his right arm slowly wrapped itself around Juliette's waist and pulled her closer to him, her chest against his. Juliette's arms were around Ace's neck, pulling him even further towards her, losing her hands in his strawberry blonde hair. Ace deepened the kiss when Juliette parted her lips and let Ace enter his tongue into her mouth, their tongues entwined, and danced a dance that was full of passion that never wanted to end. But, the kiss had to come to an end eventually, and when it did, Juliette and Ace were left breathless, looking at each other with a stronger intensity than before.
"Yes," Juliette answered Ace's earlier question about him being wild in a voice that was barely a whisper, almost a gasp.
~*~
Author's note:
This took me 2 hours to write, it is now 1:30 in the morning, I know, I'm stupid for starting it late, but I just finished reading one of my mother's romance novels and was in the mood to write a lovey-dovey chapter. Here ya go, praise the brilliance that is my talent and lust for Ace Merrill, but seeing as he's a fictional character, I'll say Kiefer Sutherland.....don't ask, I have a thing for older guys. Hehehe.
By the way, I've loosely based Juliette on me, and I actually do occasionally, sometimes, rarely, hardly ever, not often - snort laugh, but only when something is really funny, I'm such a nerd, nobody admits to snort laughing.....oh well. Review!
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Ace had been fidgeting all day on Thursday, the day before the night that rewarded him with his date with Juliette, he wasn't sure what he was being rewarded for, and didn't really care. He couldn't stay still, and that annoyed the rest of the Cobra's, Ace wasn't bothered, and all what bothered Ace was the fact that he had a date with what he believed to be one of the most beautiful creatures on Earth.
Ace looked at his watch, it was ten minutes before 7 o'clock, he should get going if he wanted to make a good impression. So he got going.
"Hey, Ace," Ace's right-hand man, Eyeball Chambers, yelled. "Where ya' goin'?"
Ace continued to walk towards his car, he wasn't ignoring his gang, he just didn't want to be late, not for Juliette.
The other Cobra's stopped working on their cars and watched as their leader strode towards his car, not responding to Eyeball's calls.
"Out." Was all that Ace gave as a reply, he literally jumped into his car and started the engine, he looked at the confused expressions on the gang's faces. Deciding he should explain, he said, "With a girl."
All the gang smirked as Ace drove off, everyone of the guy's enjoyed it when they went out on dates, but what they enjoyed even more was telling the rest of the Cobra's how far they had gotten.
The remaining Cobras went back to work on their cars, knowing that when Ace Merrill went out on a date, he went all the way to fourth base, and always told the guys about it, they all began looking forward to the details they would receive the following night.
~*~
Ace pulled up outside 'The Avalon' residence, the reason he knew where that was is because it was on the opposite side of the street where Eyeball lives, Eyeball's younger brother Chris had become friends with Dawn. Occasionally when the Cobras were at Eyeball's house, if you could call the dump a house, Chris and his friends would be at Dawn's house, talking in the front yard or on the porch.
He climbed up the couple of steps and onto the porch where he rang the bell. He heard a few voices inside, a few footsteps running up and down the stairs and was greeted by Juliette looking incredibly attractive at the front door, she was wearing flared jeans, again, but with white sneakers, and a short-sleeved red t-shirt that was buttoned up from the front and was cut quite low - Ace felt he was beginning to sweat already. He was wearing black trousers, black shoes and a white shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
"Hey," Ace said.
"Your late." Juliette replied, with an angry expression.
Ace glanced again at his watch, it read 7 o'clock. "Not by my watch."
"I didn't mean at night, I meant in the morning."
Ace was paralysed to the spot, he had never been out so early on a date in his life, and Ace Merrill had been on a lot of dates. He turned to her a saw a smile on her face as she tried to stifle a laugh.
"Your face," Juliette cried with a burst of laughter as her mouth opened.
"Huh?" Ace was confused.
"I'm kidding, your on time, don't look so worried," she replied as she punched him playfully in the arm.
"Oh"
"It doesn't matter anyway if you're on time, if you're late or early. I can't go out with you tonight."
"What? This isn't another joke is it?" Ace could handle a few jokes, but if that was all Juliette wanted, someone to make fun of, he was leaving.
"No, its not another joke. Dawn says I can't go out on a date with you."
"Dawn?"
"Yes"
"As in your fifteen year old sister Dawn?"
"Yes"
"You take orders from your younger sister?" Ace said with a smirk. He couldn't help it, Juliette looked so childish, like a little girl who was being told off by the teacher but wasn't listening, but Juliette was listening to Ace. She was standing with her hands behind her back, swinging her body left and right and looking at anything except Ace.
"She says you'd be a bad influence on our children." Juliette said, seeming unusually fascinated by the woodwork on her house's front door.
"Our children?"
"Mine and yours."
"You're losing me."
Juliette looked at Ace, with a solemn expression on her face. "She gave me an hour long lecture about you, she said you'd turn up drunk for our wedding with lipstick on your collar, she said you have more than four affairs and that you'd be a bad influence on our sons, Peter and Jerry, and our daughter Stacey"
"She gave our children names?" Ace asked with a smirk.
Juliette nodded in reply and looked at Ace properly for the first time that night, looking directly into his eyes. "She basically gave me every single reason why it would be a bad idea to go on this date with you."
"So?" Ace asked Juliette, asking her what she wanted to do about the whole situation.
"She still hasn't changed my mind," she said with a genuine smile on her face. Juliette stepped out of her house and closed the door behind her.
Ace walked down the steps, towards his car and opened the car door for Juliette.
"Nice wheels." She told him as she admired his car while sat in the front passenger seat.
Ace walked quickly to the other side of his car and got in, and drove slowly to the Blue Point Diner, wanting to savour his time with Juliette.
At the diner, Ace and Juliette sat in a quite corner and ate their hamburgers and fries and drank their cokes over conversation about family, education, music, friends and generally life, Ace had even gotten onto the subject of sport with Juliette, he had never enjoyed a conversation about sport with a girl until that night, that magical night where Juliette talked, listened, joked and smiled, that perfect smile. Ace was in heaven, he knew it, she was definitely an angel.
Ace was talking about the Cobra's while he and Juliette had been discussing the topic of friendship, his mind began to wonder, he wondered if Juliette knew how perfect she was, surely she must. But she hadn't taken notice of any of the looks she had received from the other male, hormonal teenagers, she had reserved all her attention for her Ace.
Juliette suddenly laughed while she was drinking her coke, Ace must of said something funny but he wasn't sure what it was. Juliette's appearance was amazing – she was clutching her stomach with one hand and with the other she was covering her mouth, dribbles of coke were slipping down her chin as she continued to laugh into the palm of her hand, her cheeks were a scarlet red and then she actually snorted. The sight must have caught a few eyes, most of the male, hormonal teenagers had probably been put off by her antics now, but Ace was still as fascinated with her as he was when he had first seen her. Juliette was breathtakingly beautiful, even if she was making sounds like a pig and was making more of a mess than a stubborn baby, Ace still found himself drawn to her, and he smiled as she excused herself and practically ran into the girl's bathroom, in the diner with her hands over her mouth, still laughing.
~*~
Juliette and Ace had left the diner three hours ago; they had left at fifteen minutes past eight, and had gone to see a drive-in movie, Ace couldn't remember what the film was about, he hadn't been paying much attention to the film, even when he tried to watch the movie, his eyes kept tearing away from the screen and watching Juliette smile and sometimes laugh at what was going on on-screen, and she didn't mind him putting his arm at the back of the seat where she was sitting in the car. He had guessed it was a comedy they were watching.
Ace was grateful when Juliette didn't ask him any questions about the film, he was even more grateful when she did begin to talk to him.
"Are you taking me home now?" Juliette asked.
"If you want me to I will."
"I don't want you to."
"You don't?" Ace couldn't believe his luck, a date with her that was almost lasting for more than five hours and she didn't want it to end yet, and neither did he.
"No, I'm young and restless, I'm awake and bursting with energy, we need to do something to tire me out." She glanced at him with that mischievous and sexy grin that she portrayed so well.
Ace almost swerved the car, when he heard her utter those words, God, he wanted to tire her out so she wouldn't be able to walk for days. He stopped the car and turned to face her in his seat, she was still looking at him. "What do you want to do?" He asked praying the answer would begin with s and end in x.
"I want you to..." She thought for a moment, wondering what they could do to kill some time. Ace was now praying that she'd finish her sentence with 'ravish me', but instead she finished her sentence with. "Show me some nature of Castle Rock."
"Nature?"
"Yes, you know, trees, wild-flowers, fields, a lake."
"You want me to show you a tree?" Ace asked with a look of disbelief on his face.
"Show me something natural, anything, just something."
Ace thought for a moment about whipping of his clothes, but then reconsidered and began to drive to a nearby field, that contained few wild flowers, and there was a lake at the other side of the trees that surrounded the small field. He parked in the centre, so that Juliette would get a better view of anything she wanted to see.
"Wow." Came Juliette's reply.
"You like nature?"
"I already told you, I grew up in the city of New York, I rarely got to be this close to wild things," she answered glancing at Ace, "and nature," and made and gestures to their surroundings.
"You think I'm wild?" Ace asked flirtatiously.
Juliette didn't give Ace an answer; all she did was move closer to him in the seat, sliding her body towards his. Ace put his arm back around the seat but more specifically, Juliette. They never broke the intense gaze that was driving both of them crazy, and Ace leaned into kiss Juliette, before he lost his nerve.
Their lips touched each other's softly, eyes closed, as if they were both nervous, and they both were. Aces left arm remained were it was, his right arm slowly wrapped itself around Juliette's waist and pulled her closer to him, her chest against his. Juliette's arms were around Ace's neck, pulling him even further towards her, losing her hands in his strawberry blonde hair. Ace deepened the kiss when Juliette parted her lips and let Ace enter his tongue into her mouth, their tongues entwined, and danced a dance that was full of passion that never wanted to end. But, the kiss had to come to an end eventually, and when it did, Juliette and Ace were left breathless, looking at each other with a stronger intensity than before.
"Yes," Juliette answered Ace's earlier question about him being wild in a voice that was barely a whisper, almost a gasp.
~*~
Author's note:
This took me 2 hours to write, it is now 1:30 in the morning, I know, I'm stupid for starting it late, but I just finished reading one of my mother's romance novels and was in the mood to write a lovey-dovey chapter. Here ya go, praise the brilliance that is my talent and lust for Ace Merrill, but seeing as he's a fictional character, I'll say Kiefer Sutherland.....don't ask, I have a thing for older guys. Hehehe.
By the way, I've loosely based Juliette on me, and I actually do occasionally, sometimes, rarely, hardly ever, not often - snort laugh, but only when something is really funny, I'm such a nerd, nobody admits to snort laughing.....oh well. Review!
Pip Pip!