Chapter 22 - Tasting Frustration
They heard Kat and her team get home from their back yard while they were getting ready to Barbeque. Leon went to ask her if she wanted to come over, Mia told him to invite her guys too since there was lots of food. As Leon walked over to their house Kat was unloading beach stuff from the trunk of her convertible. He walked up behind her just as she bent over to set a cooler on the ground. He tried to not be too obvious about enjoying the view. She was wearing boy cut bikini bottoms and her same stars and strips bikini top.
She was carrying on and laughing with her friends. Her hair had that kinky, curly, messy look the salt air and water tended to give and she was a little pink, like she got a bit of burn. She looked so happy, Leon found himself hoping she still looked that happy when she saw that he was there to see her.
"Hey Kat." He opened.
"Leon!" She gave him a big smile. "I didn't expect to see you again so soon." The tone of her voice and the look on her face let him know it was a good surprise.
"Yeah well, Mia wanted me to invite you to a BBQ at our place for supper. She always cooks for an army. She said to invite your whole team if you wanna come."
"What do ya think guys? I don't really want to cook." Kat looked at the guys. "But we could go out if you want."
"We can go hang out with the neighbours if you want Kitten. Sounds like it might be fun." Sean told her. "Just let us change and wash the sand off." Sean went into the house muttering about the god damn sand. Kat laughed.
"I need to change too; you wanna come in and wait?" She asked Leon.
He figured she wouldn't want to walk up to his house on her own. "Sure." They headed in.
"Come on, you can wait in my room while I get ready in my bathroom." Kat told Leon and he followed her up to her room. He sat on her bed and she started to grab clothes. "So how dressy do you people get for backyard Barbeques?" Kat asked Leon.
"What ya see is what ya get for me'n the other guys. Same goes for Letty. Mia always dresses up." Leon wanted to tell her to wear as little as she wanted. She went into the bathroom with something, he didn't catch what. He guessed he'd just need to wait and see.
Kat took a shower but didn't wash her hair. She knew it looked good the way it was, all wavy and kinky from the salt air. She got out and put on the outfit she picked. It was a white pair of shorts and a red halter top. She was more covered up then she remembered being in the recent past unless she was on her way to work. She did some basic makeup and left the bathroom.
"Well, will I do?" Kat asked, somewhat shyly. She'd never been invited out to dinner with someone else's friends before.
"You look so good." Leon drawled and stood up. He wanted to touch her. He'd schooled himself that he only wanted to be her friend the whole time she'd been in the bathroom but he didn't know who he though he was kidding. Not himself and not anyone else it seemed. She blushed and walked closer. She was such an enigma. She could talk trash better'n anyone Leon knew and it didn't bother her at all. She could dance in the most suggestive ways to the most blatantly sexual music he'd ever heard, but pay her a simple compliment and she blushed. It only added credence to the theory Leon had that she had no idea she was pretty. She even did the other things she did because she thought she wasn't, cause she though she was just one of the guys.
"Thanks. I'm ready if you are." She took a step toward the door.
"There's just one thing before I'm ready to go." Leon told her.
"What's that?" She had the cutest little furrows on her forehead while she tried to figure it out.
"This." Leon pulled her against him and kissed her. She kissed him right back; her arms were around his neck in a half a second. After a minute he stopped, by some superhuman act of self control. "Now I'm ready to go." No he wasn't. He was ready to take her to bed, but not leave. He didn't want to pressure her and he wasn't sure where he a relationship between them going. He still had his arms around her waist; her arms were around his neck.
"I'm not sure if I am." She licked her now slightly swollen lips. It almost made him start to kiss her again. Everyone would know what they'd been doing, Leon though, by the look of both their faces. "If I wasn't so hungry I'd be tempted to tie you up and keep you here." Kat looked shocked to have said that.
"If my team and yours weren't expecting us I might haveta let you." Leon winked at her and she blushed deeper. "Let's go eat some'a Mia's cookin' before Vince beats us there and eats all the food." Kat threw back her head and laughed.
"I'ma tell 'im you said that."
"Go ahead, his stomach is legendary." Leon opened her bedroom door and motioned for her to proceed him out the door. She did so and they headed down the stairs.
They had a remarkably good time at the Torreto's. Mia had made lots of food and even the guys seemed to fit in ok. Dom was still a bit frosty but Letty seemed to sense the bond between Kat and Leon and wasn't so uptight with Kat. It was very clear that Kat and Dom didn't get along so Letty figured she didn't have anything to worry about there. Letty was still mad Kat beat her at racing but then again Kat's car was serious business, it was designed to be a race car where as Letty's was a souped up sport compact.
Kat insisted on helping Mia clean up and then Jesse said they were gonna watch a movie. Sean, Stacy and Kale all went home at that point because they had some sort of sporting event they couldn't miss coming on. The Torreto's were not big into sports like her guys. She decided to stay for the movie and she ended up in Leon's lap in the chair again. She wasn't complaining and neither was he.
Leon had Kat curled up in his lap, he had his arms locked around her waist and her head was on his shoulder. She was still awake three quarters of the way through the movie, surprisingly. When the movie was over it was almost 12. Kat let go of his neck and stretched, arching her back and stretching her arms back over her head. It made her neck look incredibly long and even the presence of his whole team almost wasn't enough to make him not bite her on the neck. But he restrained himself. He caught Vince looking at her chest while she stretched and gave him a dirty look. Vince just grinned back. The arching motion she made brought her bottom in contact with a certain part of his anatomy and he almost groaned. If he didn't get her off his lap they were gonna be talking about the next thing that popped up.
"You wanna go home or go for a drive first?" Leon asked Kat when she leaned back against him after her stretch.
"Drive please." Kat answered quickly.
"Let's go." Leon told her with a smile. He stood up before she could get up and went to carry her to the car.
"Come on Le, set me down. I can walk." She giggled at him.
"Ok then." He let her slide down to the ground. He gave her a knowing smile. They got in his car and sped off. "Where to?"
"I don't care, just drive." Kat answered as she settled back into the comfy Momo seat of the skyline.
"Yes ma'am." Leon laughed at the bossy tone of her voice, he knew it wasn't intentional, and headed the car to a little mostly private beach he knew of. He pulled the car off the road and down a smaller dirt road halfway down to the beach. "You wanna go for a bit of a walk?"
"Sure." She answered him and started to take off her shoes. Leon got out of the car, kicked off his boots and walked around to her side of the car. He opened her door and offered his hand to help her out of the low slung sports car. She took his hand and carefully stood up. Leon didn't let go of her hand, he just started down the beach holding it.
"This is a pretty beach. How'd you find it?" Kat hadn't ever been here before. It was sort of remote.
"An old friend owns it and she won't mind us walking here." Leon answered.
"An old, female friend eh?" Kat wondered what sort of friend. She was jealous of a woman she didn't know anything about because she held the position of old friend in Leon's life and Kat wasn't sure where she fit in at all.
"Yeah, 'member that girl I told you Vince use to see? This is her beach."
"Oh." Kat felt silly for having been jealous over Leon simply mentioning another girl. They were on the sandy part of the beach now, beside the water. Kat pulled her hand free. "Race ya." And with a laugh she was running off down the beach.
"Fat chance." Leon called as he took off after her for all he was worth. He had to work but he caught her eventually. His legs were longer but Kat could really run. He finally got very close to her. She was running flat out. Leon would swear she wasn't even winded yet and he was reaching the end of his endurance. Where had she learned to run like this? Didn't she spend most of her time behind the wheel like him? He had to stop running soon, he was getting to the breaking point. He put on the last bit of speed he had and made a dive for her. He caught her around the waist and made a dive. He planned it so that she ended up on top of him and he took the brunt of the fall. The sand cushioned it and he was strong enough to take it. Plus he was so glad to have stopped running. He was sure out of shape from when he use to play basketball and do martial arts. He'd have to work on that. He still wondered where Kat kept in shape. "Caught ya." He sort of gasped out. She laughed down at him. He was right, she wasn't even winded. She was in great shape for a racecar driver.
"So you did." It seemed to dawn on both of them at the same time that they were all alone at night on a private beach. And now thanks to Leon they were lying in the sand together. She laughed down into his face. He laughed back at her. He felt so free here with her right now. It was like there was no Dom, team rivalry, no reason why he shouldn't be with this woman. He ran a hand up her back and into her hair. With his hand on the back of her head he slowly brought their lips together and kissed her.
Kat didn't know what was wrong with her. She couldn't resist him. Didn't know why she should. She was kissing him back and she felt his hands running down her back and then back up while they kissed. He released her mouth and kissed down her throat. He nipped her collar bone. She bit his neck and he growled at her. She slid her hands under the basketball jersey he had on.
The touch of her small hands on his bare stomach was almost the breaking point for Leon. He almost rolled her under him and finished what they'd been working up to since they met right there on the beach in the sand. But instead he groaned and buried his face in her neck. Her hands were still under his shirt on his stomach.
"Le? You ok." She sounded concerned.
"I'm better'n ok Kitten, but if we don't stop I'm gonna.well, you must have a fair idea what I'm gonna do, right here. I want you so bad I can't take much morea this." Leon groaned again. "We should probably head for home."
"If you're sure." Kat moved her hands down his sides and tickled him. He started to laugh and squirm around. He was quite ticklish on his ribs. He had tears running down his cheeks but he finally flipped her over and held her down. He got her back by tickling her. "I give. I give." She gasped out. He laughed and stopped. He stood up and helped her up. Then he crouched in front of her.
"Get on and I'll piggyback you back to the car."
"Ok." She agreed with a laugh. No one had piggybacked her in a long time. She wrapped her arms tight around his neck and her legs around his waist. Leon mentally groaned. He hadn't thought this through when he asked her to do this he forgot her legs would be wrapped around his waist like this. They arrived back at the car and he set her on the hood of his car. He turned around and couldn't believe how sexy she looked, leaning back on her elbows on the hood of his car. He stood between her legs, leaned over her, his hands on either side of her head and kissed her again.
Kat had never felt anything like the feelings she had for Leon. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back. She wanted to feel his bare skin, it was a desire she didn't understand but she couldn't help herself. She hauled his jersey up and Leon helped her take if off him with a growl low in his chest then he was kissing her again. He slid his hands under her shirt and up her back. He was about to start to work her shirt off her when he realized how close he was to taking her on the hood of his car like some desperate teenager. He didn't want to do that to Kat. She deserved better. He stopped kissing her with a groan and stood up, taking her with him, keeping her pressed to his chest. Kat didn't want him to stop.
"What's wrong?" She asked, nervously. She didn't know if she did something wrong. She hadn't wanted him to stop doing what he was doing.
"Nothin' baby girl, but you deserve better then this." Leon panted out, his breathing harsh while he tried to get his hormones under control.
"Better'n what?" She asked innocently. She didn't know what he meant.
"Better'n a quickie on the hood of my car is what." He answered her honestly.
"But I didn't want you to stop." She didn't care if he thought she deserved better or not, she wanted him now. She wasn't even sure what she wanted.
"I didn't want to either but it just isn't right." If it hadn't gonna be their first time he would most likely have gone for it but it just didn't seem right. Not for a girl you saw yourself having a future with. She wasn't having it though. She was trailing her fingernails along his belly and ribs while she nibbled on his neck. She had quickly learned that drove him nuts. He groaned again. "Kat, stop baby. This isn't how it should be."
"What'dya mean? I want you, you want me," She could tell from the way they were pressed together, she might be pretty innocent of all this sex stuff but even she knew what THAT was, "I don't see the problem, or what isn't right."
"I just don't want to have the first time we hook up be rushed in the middle of the outdoors on the hood of a car Kitten. I'd rather wait till we can have all night to play in my nice comfy bed." He leaned back and smiled at her. "Ok?"
"If you say so Le." She said with a frustrated sigh. He laughed, that was just how he felt.
"Come on girl, let's go home." He put her in the car and got in. He looked over at her half way home and she was asleep. He smiled at her. He knew now that he was gonna make her his girl. Nothing had felt this right in a long time. She was meant for him. He pulled up to her house and woke her up. "You're home."
"Thanks. I had a really nice time tonight. Both before and after hanging out with your friends." She smiled.
"Me too. I'll see you soon?"
"Sure. You know where I live." The both chuckled. She got up and went into the house. Leon went home. Kat slept like a baby from the minute her head touched her pillow. Sleep was a long time coming for Leon. He was very wound up over Kat well into the night.
They heard Kat and her team get home from their back yard while they were getting ready to Barbeque. Leon went to ask her if she wanted to come over, Mia told him to invite her guys too since there was lots of food. As Leon walked over to their house Kat was unloading beach stuff from the trunk of her convertible. He walked up behind her just as she bent over to set a cooler on the ground. He tried to not be too obvious about enjoying the view. She was wearing boy cut bikini bottoms and her same stars and strips bikini top.
She was carrying on and laughing with her friends. Her hair had that kinky, curly, messy look the salt air and water tended to give and she was a little pink, like she got a bit of burn. She looked so happy, Leon found himself hoping she still looked that happy when she saw that he was there to see her.
"Hey Kat." He opened.
"Leon!" She gave him a big smile. "I didn't expect to see you again so soon." The tone of her voice and the look on her face let him know it was a good surprise.
"Yeah well, Mia wanted me to invite you to a BBQ at our place for supper. She always cooks for an army. She said to invite your whole team if you wanna come."
"What do ya think guys? I don't really want to cook." Kat looked at the guys. "But we could go out if you want."
"We can go hang out with the neighbours if you want Kitten. Sounds like it might be fun." Sean told her. "Just let us change and wash the sand off." Sean went into the house muttering about the god damn sand. Kat laughed.
"I need to change too; you wanna come in and wait?" She asked Leon.
He figured she wouldn't want to walk up to his house on her own. "Sure." They headed in.
"Come on, you can wait in my room while I get ready in my bathroom." Kat told Leon and he followed her up to her room. He sat on her bed and she started to grab clothes. "So how dressy do you people get for backyard Barbeques?" Kat asked Leon.
"What ya see is what ya get for me'n the other guys. Same goes for Letty. Mia always dresses up." Leon wanted to tell her to wear as little as she wanted. She went into the bathroom with something, he didn't catch what. He guessed he'd just need to wait and see.
Kat took a shower but didn't wash her hair. She knew it looked good the way it was, all wavy and kinky from the salt air. She got out and put on the outfit she picked. It was a white pair of shorts and a red halter top. She was more covered up then she remembered being in the recent past unless she was on her way to work. She did some basic makeup and left the bathroom.
"Well, will I do?" Kat asked, somewhat shyly. She'd never been invited out to dinner with someone else's friends before.
"You look so good." Leon drawled and stood up. He wanted to touch her. He'd schooled himself that he only wanted to be her friend the whole time she'd been in the bathroom but he didn't know who he though he was kidding. Not himself and not anyone else it seemed. She blushed and walked closer. She was such an enigma. She could talk trash better'n anyone Leon knew and it didn't bother her at all. She could dance in the most suggestive ways to the most blatantly sexual music he'd ever heard, but pay her a simple compliment and she blushed. It only added credence to the theory Leon had that she had no idea she was pretty. She even did the other things she did because she thought she wasn't, cause she though she was just one of the guys.
"Thanks. I'm ready if you are." She took a step toward the door.
"There's just one thing before I'm ready to go." Leon told her.
"What's that?" She had the cutest little furrows on her forehead while she tried to figure it out.
"This." Leon pulled her against him and kissed her. She kissed him right back; her arms were around his neck in a half a second. After a minute he stopped, by some superhuman act of self control. "Now I'm ready to go." No he wasn't. He was ready to take her to bed, but not leave. He didn't want to pressure her and he wasn't sure where he a relationship between them going. He still had his arms around her waist; her arms were around his neck.
"I'm not sure if I am." She licked her now slightly swollen lips. It almost made him start to kiss her again. Everyone would know what they'd been doing, Leon though, by the look of both their faces. "If I wasn't so hungry I'd be tempted to tie you up and keep you here." Kat looked shocked to have said that.
"If my team and yours weren't expecting us I might haveta let you." Leon winked at her and she blushed deeper. "Let's go eat some'a Mia's cookin' before Vince beats us there and eats all the food." Kat threw back her head and laughed.
"I'ma tell 'im you said that."
"Go ahead, his stomach is legendary." Leon opened her bedroom door and motioned for her to proceed him out the door. She did so and they headed down the stairs.
They had a remarkably good time at the Torreto's. Mia had made lots of food and even the guys seemed to fit in ok. Dom was still a bit frosty but Letty seemed to sense the bond between Kat and Leon and wasn't so uptight with Kat. It was very clear that Kat and Dom didn't get along so Letty figured she didn't have anything to worry about there. Letty was still mad Kat beat her at racing but then again Kat's car was serious business, it was designed to be a race car where as Letty's was a souped up sport compact.
Kat insisted on helping Mia clean up and then Jesse said they were gonna watch a movie. Sean, Stacy and Kale all went home at that point because they had some sort of sporting event they couldn't miss coming on. The Torreto's were not big into sports like her guys. She decided to stay for the movie and she ended up in Leon's lap in the chair again. She wasn't complaining and neither was he.
Leon had Kat curled up in his lap, he had his arms locked around her waist and her head was on his shoulder. She was still awake three quarters of the way through the movie, surprisingly. When the movie was over it was almost 12. Kat let go of his neck and stretched, arching her back and stretching her arms back over her head. It made her neck look incredibly long and even the presence of his whole team almost wasn't enough to make him not bite her on the neck. But he restrained himself. He caught Vince looking at her chest while she stretched and gave him a dirty look. Vince just grinned back. The arching motion she made brought her bottom in contact with a certain part of his anatomy and he almost groaned. If he didn't get her off his lap they were gonna be talking about the next thing that popped up.
"You wanna go home or go for a drive first?" Leon asked Kat when she leaned back against him after her stretch.
"Drive please." Kat answered quickly.
"Let's go." Leon told her with a smile. He stood up before she could get up and went to carry her to the car.
"Come on Le, set me down. I can walk." She giggled at him.
"Ok then." He let her slide down to the ground. He gave her a knowing smile. They got in his car and sped off. "Where to?"
"I don't care, just drive." Kat answered as she settled back into the comfy Momo seat of the skyline.
"Yes ma'am." Leon laughed at the bossy tone of her voice, he knew it wasn't intentional, and headed the car to a little mostly private beach he knew of. He pulled the car off the road and down a smaller dirt road halfway down to the beach. "You wanna go for a bit of a walk?"
"Sure." She answered him and started to take off her shoes. Leon got out of the car, kicked off his boots and walked around to her side of the car. He opened her door and offered his hand to help her out of the low slung sports car. She took his hand and carefully stood up. Leon didn't let go of her hand, he just started down the beach holding it.
"This is a pretty beach. How'd you find it?" Kat hadn't ever been here before. It was sort of remote.
"An old friend owns it and she won't mind us walking here." Leon answered.
"An old, female friend eh?" Kat wondered what sort of friend. She was jealous of a woman she didn't know anything about because she held the position of old friend in Leon's life and Kat wasn't sure where she fit in at all.
"Yeah, 'member that girl I told you Vince use to see? This is her beach."
"Oh." Kat felt silly for having been jealous over Leon simply mentioning another girl. They were on the sandy part of the beach now, beside the water. Kat pulled her hand free. "Race ya." And with a laugh she was running off down the beach.
"Fat chance." Leon called as he took off after her for all he was worth. He had to work but he caught her eventually. His legs were longer but Kat could really run. He finally got very close to her. She was running flat out. Leon would swear she wasn't even winded yet and he was reaching the end of his endurance. Where had she learned to run like this? Didn't she spend most of her time behind the wheel like him? He had to stop running soon, he was getting to the breaking point. He put on the last bit of speed he had and made a dive for her. He caught her around the waist and made a dive. He planned it so that she ended up on top of him and he took the brunt of the fall. The sand cushioned it and he was strong enough to take it. Plus he was so glad to have stopped running. He was sure out of shape from when he use to play basketball and do martial arts. He'd have to work on that. He still wondered where Kat kept in shape. "Caught ya." He sort of gasped out. She laughed down at him. He was right, she wasn't even winded. She was in great shape for a racecar driver.
"So you did." It seemed to dawn on both of them at the same time that they were all alone at night on a private beach. And now thanks to Leon they were lying in the sand together. She laughed down into his face. He laughed back at her. He felt so free here with her right now. It was like there was no Dom, team rivalry, no reason why he shouldn't be with this woman. He ran a hand up her back and into her hair. With his hand on the back of her head he slowly brought their lips together and kissed her.
Kat didn't know what was wrong with her. She couldn't resist him. Didn't know why she should. She was kissing him back and she felt his hands running down her back and then back up while they kissed. He released her mouth and kissed down her throat. He nipped her collar bone. She bit his neck and he growled at her. She slid her hands under the basketball jersey he had on.
The touch of her small hands on his bare stomach was almost the breaking point for Leon. He almost rolled her under him and finished what they'd been working up to since they met right there on the beach in the sand. But instead he groaned and buried his face in her neck. Her hands were still under his shirt on his stomach.
"Le? You ok." She sounded concerned.
"I'm better'n ok Kitten, but if we don't stop I'm gonna.well, you must have a fair idea what I'm gonna do, right here. I want you so bad I can't take much morea this." Leon groaned again. "We should probably head for home."
"If you're sure." Kat moved her hands down his sides and tickled him. He started to laugh and squirm around. He was quite ticklish on his ribs. He had tears running down his cheeks but he finally flipped her over and held her down. He got her back by tickling her. "I give. I give." She gasped out. He laughed and stopped. He stood up and helped her up. Then he crouched in front of her.
"Get on and I'll piggyback you back to the car."
"Ok." She agreed with a laugh. No one had piggybacked her in a long time. She wrapped her arms tight around his neck and her legs around his waist. Leon mentally groaned. He hadn't thought this through when he asked her to do this he forgot her legs would be wrapped around his waist like this. They arrived back at the car and he set her on the hood of his car. He turned around and couldn't believe how sexy she looked, leaning back on her elbows on the hood of his car. He stood between her legs, leaned over her, his hands on either side of her head and kissed her again.
Kat had never felt anything like the feelings she had for Leon. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back. She wanted to feel his bare skin, it was a desire she didn't understand but she couldn't help herself. She hauled his jersey up and Leon helped her take if off him with a growl low in his chest then he was kissing her again. He slid his hands under her shirt and up her back. He was about to start to work her shirt off her when he realized how close he was to taking her on the hood of his car like some desperate teenager. He didn't want to do that to Kat. She deserved better. He stopped kissing her with a groan and stood up, taking her with him, keeping her pressed to his chest. Kat didn't want him to stop.
"What's wrong?" She asked, nervously. She didn't know if she did something wrong. She hadn't wanted him to stop doing what he was doing.
"Nothin' baby girl, but you deserve better then this." Leon panted out, his breathing harsh while he tried to get his hormones under control.
"Better'n what?" She asked innocently. She didn't know what he meant.
"Better'n a quickie on the hood of my car is what." He answered her honestly.
"But I didn't want you to stop." She didn't care if he thought she deserved better or not, she wanted him now. She wasn't even sure what she wanted.
"I didn't want to either but it just isn't right." If it hadn't gonna be their first time he would most likely have gone for it but it just didn't seem right. Not for a girl you saw yourself having a future with. She wasn't having it though. She was trailing her fingernails along his belly and ribs while she nibbled on his neck. She had quickly learned that drove him nuts. He groaned again. "Kat, stop baby. This isn't how it should be."
"What'dya mean? I want you, you want me," She could tell from the way they were pressed together, she might be pretty innocent of all this sex stuff but even she knew what THAT was, "I don't see the problem, or what isn't right."
"I just don't want to have the first time we hook up be rushed in the middle of the outdoors on the hood of a car Kitten. I'd rather wait till we can have all night to play in my nice comfy bed." He leaned back and smiled at her. "Ok?"
"If you say so Le." She said with a frustrated sigh. He laughed, that was just how he felt.
"Come on girl, let's go home." He put her in the car and got in. He looked over at her half way home and she was asleep. He smiled at her. He knew now that he was gonna make her his girl. Nothing had felt this right in a long time. She was meant for him. He pulled up to her house and woke her up. "You're home."
"Thanks. I had a really nice time tonight. Both before and after hanging out with your friends." She smiled.
"Me too. I'll see you soon?"
"Sure. You know where I live." The both chuckled. She got up and went into the house. Leon went home. Kat slept like a baby from the minute her head touched her pillow. Sleep was a long time coming for Leon. He was very wound up over Kat well into the night.