(same day)
7:45AM
It had to be a dream but when Eric opened his eyes with his arms still around
Paige it was the best reality ever. He wanted to shout a glorious "thank you" from
the rooftops, but his tired body was not about to let him.
She came back.
"Morning, Eric." she kissed him tenderly on the lips.
He pushed her blonde strands out of her face. "Hi. Do you want breakfast?"
"Maybe later. I'm sorry for what happened." She rested her head on his chest.
"It wasn't your fault, Paige. I can understand how it must have looked especially with
what happened to you with your ex."
"But I assumed things, Eric. Bad things. I wasn't going to blame you one bit if you
wanted to be done with me."
"Don't think that way. I never want to be done with you." He kissed her once more
before forcing himself up.
"You're a wonderful man, Eric." she kissed his hand
"So are you," he laughed, "Wait, you know what I mean. I definitely need coffee. Do
you want a cup?"
"Yeah. I think I'm going to catch a few more winks until you come back."
Eric smiled as he went to get their coffees and something to eat. His smile turned
into a smirk when he saw that Jacen put his homemade 'Do Not Disturb Sign' on the
doorknob.
"Son, you are going to get it." Eric tried not to laugh as he put the sign on the table.
"Good morning, Dad. I put the coffeemaker on and I made some microwavable
French toast."
Eric took two blue mugs out of the cupboard.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome! How did you like your surprise?"
Jacen even at only thirteen years old was a big romantic softie at heart and Eric
hoped that he would never lose that side of him.
"I loved it." He kissed him on the cheek. "Paige must have used the main phone
because I had my cell with me and it didn't ring at all."
"Yes and then I deleted it from the caller ID incase you were going to use that
phone." Jacen got up from the table to put his dish and cup in the dishwasher.
"You are clever, son. Where are you going?"
"Mindy and Tony and I are going to hang at the mall…that is okay?"
"How are you getting there?"
"Mr. Rodriguez is going to drive us."
"Okay, you can go. Have fun. Just be home before supper."
"I will. Dad, reach for the milano's. Women love those."
"They do; do they?"
"Yeah, Mindy doesn't yell at me if I bring her a whole bag."
"So that's where they go!" Eric took the collapsible tray out of the broom closet.
"I'll wait on the porch, that'll give you and Paige the whole day to have sex!"
"Jacen Eric Forman," Eric tried to resist the urge to laugh, "Why can't you be like the
other kids who don't want to know about their parents having sex?"
"Because I wouldn't be me then. Bye, Dad."
"See you later, son."
Eric put the breakfast on the tray thanking his lucky stars to have such wonderful
people in his life.
"The only thing missing is one perfect rose in a bud vase."
"Nonsense, Eric. This is perfect." Paige couldn't go back to sleep and used most of
the time to brush her hair and teeth.
"Well, I can't take credit for any of it. Jacen made it."
"What a wonderful son you have. Oh milano cookies!"
She reached for the bag. How on Earth did his son know so much?
"That was my son's suggestion too."
She broke a cookie in half and placed it in Eric's mouth as she kissed the crumbs
away.
"Smart cookie, if you pardon the pun. I'm so glad I met Jackie yesterday."
"Jackie? Jackie Burkhart?"
"Yeah. She lives in the same town as my aunt. That's where I went to clear my head.
And I went to the boutique to do some browsing and she recognized me from a
picture and I knew her by name."
"Unbelievable. She's always there when I need her. Remind me to send her flowers
tomorrow."
"Will do. She's great." She kissed his neck and then moved up to his lips.
"You taste like syrup." They both said in unison
"Jinx!"/"Jinx!"
"Stop it!"/"Stop it!"
"No---you."/"No---you."
"I missed you." Eric said
"Me too, honey. You know I don't even feel bad about being fired from the library."
Eric was briefly caught off guard when she said that as Paige cut her French toast
with her fork.
"You were fired from the library? Why? Was that Gwen starting up with you again?"
"No…just a random job cut. Eric, I don't know what I'm going to do. I liked working at
the library. That was the longest job I ever had."
Eric pictured her being stressed out from losing her job that explained why she didn't
show up for lunch at the time she was supposed to only to see him kissing another
woman. Donna was lucky that he didn't well he didn't want to think of what he would
have done if she didn't leave his office.
"I know it's not the same but you could try a bookstore."
"I don't know and right now there are more important things on my mind."
Paige took one last bite of French toast before putting her tray down on the floor.
"I love you, Paige." Eric put his plate down on his side of the bed.
"I love you, too, Eric. I want you to fuck me senseless." She kissed him and then
proceeded to lick his ear.
"Hmm, wait a second," Eric jumped out of the bed and quickly ran to the kitchen to
get his DND sign from the table to place it on the doorknob before closed the door.
"You're wacky, you know that?"
"Ick…"
"What is it?"
"I stepped in maple syrup."
Paige pulled him on the bed. "Eric! I can't wait any longer. When I get down there, I
will lick every trace of it off."
"You just want me for your sex slave." He took her; well it used to be his, t-shirt off as
he kissed her bare shoulder.
"You know it," Paige gently got on top, "But you are my soulmate and sex slave so
it's all good."
"I thought you wanted me to fuck you senseless?"
"Oh, you shall! When it's your turn…as the elevator operator asked the patron—
going down?"
Paige giggled like a teenager in loves bloom as she undid the white drawstring of
his jogging pants.
4:30PM
They were a weave of tangled body parts and dried perspiration and other fluids
stains.
Eric looked at the clock and nearly jumped out of his skin.
"Shit!"
"What is it, Eric?"
"Hi, beautiful. I always wanted ask about the shy good girl wanting to go bad
librarian myth."
"I think I proved that to you awhile ago."
"Yes, you did."
"Now what was so pressing that you had to wake the both of us up?"
"It's four o'clock."
"Really? Holy shit! What were we doing all day?"
"You weren't being ladylike." Eric didn't realize he had put his shirt on inside out.
"And you weren't being gentlemanly."
"Only between the sheets, my dear."
"I need to take a shower."
"That's not going to make me want to leave the bedroom. I won't do the dishes,"
Eric said as he picked up the plate he put on the floor, "I'll just put them in the
dishwasher. You need to take a hot shower."
"I will---I'll be thinking of you the whole time, Eric."
"Likewise, m'lady."
Eric finished putting all the dishes in the dishwasher and was putting the
collapsible tray back in the broom closet while Jacen was pretending to read the
newspaper trying his best to stifle a laugh.
"All right. What is so funny, Jacen?"
"N-nothing…"
Eric caught a glimpse of himself.
"Oh," he took off his shirt, "Is this what you are laughing about?"
"Yeah."
"And you never put your shirt on backwards?" Eric put it on the correct way.
"Not after having sex!"
"You are definitely getting too much enjoyment out of this."
Eric felt his cheeks blush all different shades of red.
"I'll change the subject. What's for dinner? Hot dogs and pickles?"
"Is that supposed to mean something, Jacen? Because I'll so make it and you'll
have to laugh your way through the whole meal."
"You know what, Dad, you've got yourself a dirty mind."
"And you don't?"
"No."
"Hmm, well I'm going to brush my teeth and then I'll get started on supper."
"Don't forget to close your bedroom door!"
Eric grabbed a dishtowel from the counter and threw it at his son.
"Later on you can tell me about the mall."
"There's nothing to tell---Mindy and I did not test any mattresses."
"Jacen, before this night is over you are going to get it."
"I doubt that, you're probably going to be too tired."
All Eric could do was shake his head.
Eric decided to take his mother's long ago advice and throw all leftovers in the
corning wear and make a casserole. Jacen's mood shifted from happy jokester and
was quiet as he broke the lettuce for the salad into the serving bowl.
Paige entered the kitchen and put her arms around Eric as she gave him a kiss on
the neck and grabbed a carrot stick.
"I hope you don't mind that I borrowed your Return of the Jedi shirt?"
"No, it looks great on you."
"Do you need any help?"
"No, its all taken care of dinner will be ready in ten minutes."
"Hi, Jacen."
"Hi."
"Thank you for making breakfast this morning, it was great." She put her hands on
his shoulders and kissed him on cheek.
"You're welcome. The salad is done."
"Put it in the fridge, son."
"I'm going on the computer. Call me when dinner's ready."
"Is Jacen all right?" Paige asked
"Yeah, he was cracking jokes at my expense while you were in the shower."
"I'll pour the iced tea."
"Jacen's on a lemon lime soda kick." Eric replied as he got the glasses out of the
cupboard.
"Eric does he really like me? Maybe, we shouldn't have done it in your bed this
afternoon."
Eric took the pitcher out of Paige's hands and placed it on the counter so he could
hold her hands.
"Of course he likes you. And I'm not about to apologize for having sex in my own
private bedroom and he wasn't even home for most of the day."
"I just don't want him to hate me."
"He doesn't…trust me he made that Do Not Disturb sign for my doorknob and he
kept making sex jokes. Plus, he's always saying that he wants me to be happy. So
don't worry, honey. Rest assured that everything is all right."
Paige kissed Eric on the nose, "I love you."
"Me too."
Email from
jforman :
Mindy,
Meet me on my porch tonight around 7PM. It's not part of the plan.
It's not part of the damn plan.
Jacen