"Hangovers and Baby B"
(I've tossed the song title-chapter title thing. Screw that. Um, no comment really this time. Another long-ass chapter. I didn't realize, so I apologize. Cliffhanger. dun Dun DUN. Yep. Cuz I'm cool like that.)
The Mercer's door opened, and Deacon came in. He held the door open, as Kat, Jeremiah, Sofi, Angel, and Bobby saw Jack carrying Alex. She was unconscious.
"Jesus. What happened?" Bobby asked.
"She fainted." Jack said, and he quickly took her upstairs, and layed her down on his bed. Then he came back downstairs. The room was silent. Jack smiled, and hugged Jerry, then the rest of his siblings. Sofi, too, just in the moment.
"I'm sorry. And thank you. I just...It's good to be home. It's...I...missed her so much. I'm gonna go back up there, in case she comes to." And he went back upstairs hastily, he wanted so badly to be with his girl. He sat on his bed, next to her. She was gorgeous, god was she beautiful. He leaned down, and kissed her lips sweetly. Amazingly cliche-rific, her eyelids twitched, and opened. She saw Jack, her face turned an even paler white, and her eyes squeezed shut, as if she were in pain, and she opened them, sat up and pulled Jack to her, and squeezed him tightly, as if Jack was dear life itself she was clinging to. And in a way, he was. He was her life, like she had said. Those months without him were empty, she just felt like a shell of what once was. But that didn't matter now, what mattered was this: Jack was back. They were together once more. This was where they both belonged. She had never felt this way about anyone before. When they separated from the embrace, they shared a much too long awaited kiss. She kissed him hungrily, and he kissed back, once again pouring all their emotion, longing, joy, sadness, frustration, no matter what it had been before, it was now fueling the desire, into this kiss, as if it had been the way they had chosen to go at the end of the world, contributing all they had into this one glorious moment. But this time, there was no one to interrupt them. And so they continued, Jack laying her down on his bed, kissing her neck, which made her giggle while her hands were going toward his belt, then up his shirt, feeling his skin, then around to his back, slowing pushing up his shirt, before she took it off. She kissed his chest, the tattoos she loved so much. His hands went up her shirt as well, and, needless to say, shortly her shirt was eliminated from the process, too. She brought her hands further down, and undid his belt, then his pants. She lovingly, happily, and excitedly grinned at Jack, who smiled as well. The whole night they stayed in that room, carressing, touching, kissing the body and soul that had been too far away for far too long. Hair and bed sheets were grasped, and ruffled. This was not just sex, lust, no, this was love, in its truest form. Ecstatically passionate love. This night seemed to last an eternity, isolated, private, alone. But there were never alone. They had each other, tonight and forever.
Bobby stood up from the couch. "I'm not gonna sit here all night listening to them screwin' around. I'm outta here."
"Where you goin', Bobby?" Angel asked. Bobby picked up the phone, and motioned with it to Angel. He dialed, and a few seconds later. "Kerrie. Hey. Did you wanna get together tonight?" Sofi and Jerry snickered. "Okay. Yeah. No problem. Be right there." He hung up. "I'm gonna go pick up Kerrie from work. See you guys later."
"Later, Casanova." Kat called out as Bobby left. "So...you guys wanna go down to the bar, play some drinking games or something?"
"Sounds like fun. Why not?" Angel said. They grabbed their jackets, and soon were down at Kat and Angel's second home. Kat ran, jumped, and slid over the counter. "GOD I love doing that!"
Bobby and Kerrie were in his car. She hadn't seen him for a while. She missed him, she guessed. But she only just wanted to hang out, have a little fun, nothing serious. She knew he wanted the same. This wasn't a commitment, this was two flirty-friendly-type people who were free to have 'relations' without any new strings that may come attached with others. They had sex, and they enjoyed it. But there was no talk of future. But the thought of it, was inevitable. Both of them knew this couldn't be possible, not for too long, and knew they, deep down, might be the one with a problem with it. "So. Where we going?" Kerrie asked.
"Anywhere you want. The usual, or..."
"Your house?"
"What?"
"Your place. Is everyone gone?"
"I wouldn't know. Alex and Jack definitely are." Bobby had already told Kerrie about Jack, the first night he had seen her since he learned the truth about Jack's 'death'. One night he just felt like he needed to drown his sorrows in Kerrie-sex. Tonight, he just needed a place to go. He felt restless. So he thought he'd hang with Kerrie. She always made him feel better. And no matter what he sometimes got himself to tell her, she never thought of him as any less of a man.
"Hmm...catching up? The horizontal kind, I mean."
"Yeah. Don't remind me. So, you really wanna come to MY house?"
"Yeah, I do. I wanna see the inside Baby B's bedroom."
"Baby B? Is THAT my name now?" He laughed a little.
"Yes. I think its very cute. It was the first thing that came to mind, and I like the sound of it."
"You bewilder me sometimes." He was looking at her now, she realized. "You really do."
"What can I say? I'm cool like that." Her smile faded, slightly. "Guess what? My sister's back in town. She's really better off now. She's taking Janeane."
"Oh my God. Well, is this a good thing?"
"I guess. I dunno. At first I really didn't know if I could take care of a little girl, but she's my niece. But I guess Allison is fit to take care of her. No biggie. I'm fine. I'm fine...Baby B." She said quietly, looking away, snickering.
"Ha ha. You're hilarious."
"C'mon. Hilarious is never what you thought of me as. I am DEAD SEXY. You know you want me."
"You are, and I do." He smiled widely at her. Bobby pulled out his cell phone, and dialed home. No one answered. "Only Jack and Alex are there. Let's go to my house."
"Yay. Cuz you're looking very hot, and I wanna bang you."
"Gee. thanks."
One more door they burst through, making out, naturally. First in the doorway, Kerrie gripping Bobby's collar, while his hand went up her thigh. They made their way, lips never parting, to the living room, and Kerrie pushed Bobby down on the couch. His eyes widened. This girl was amazing. She always suprised him, and she wanted him. She wasn't like other girls. She lay partly on, partly next to Bobby on the couch. They kissed, slowly, and their hands teased. They went, of course, belt-level. But tonight, it was different, somehow. "Do you wanna go upstairs?" Bobby asked, quietly. Kerrie took a second to actually think about it, then nodded, and kissed him, just once, both their eyes open. She took his hand, and led him upstairs, closing Bobby's bedroom door behind them.
Yeah, so, there was some major sexage that night in the Mercer house. ; )
So, out of all the people in this house, four will wake up really pleased, and the other four will wake up hungover.
Alex woke up, in the arms of her man, her hero, her uber-hottie-rocker-sex-god, and she smiled. She slipped out of bed, careful not to wake him, dressed, and went downstairs. Angel, Sofi, Jerry, and Kat were around the table, drinking coffee, looking pathetic and migraine-y. "You guys look like shit."
Angel's head was resting on the table, and Kat had half her face covered with her hand. Jerry had his chin rested on his hand, looking miserable, and Sofi's head fell, and plopped down on the table surface. She let out a pathetic muffled, "ow", and Alex just couldn't help but giggle a little bit. It was a humorous sight. "So you guys did some pretty heavy drinking, I see. How fucked up is Bobby this morning?"
Jerry managed to mutter, "Bobby...Kerrie..."
"He's with Kerrie? Cool. Bobby needs to get laid, every once in a while." The room was silent for a moment. "It's good to have him back."
"Bobby?" Kat looked up. "Oh, you mean Jack. Yeah. It is. You seem...normal, oddly. I mean your boyfriend's practically back from the dead."
"Well, of course it's a little weird, but, this was all I ever wanted, for the past two months, I just wanted a way to get him back. No one else gets their loved one back. I am...blessed." By this time, Jack had came downstairs, and he wrapped his arms around her waist, and rested his chin on her shoulder, after kissing her neck sweetly. "In the beginning, I told myself, God, whoever, that if there was any way at all he could come back, I wouldn't question it too much. I would just accept it as it is. That would be good enough for me. Now, everything can go back to somewhat normal."
"Mmm..." Angel grunted, his head still on the table. "Too much speak-y."
Alex led Jack into the living room, sat down on the couch, and had him sit down next to her. "I missed you, so much, I just..." She looked down, then back up at Jack, whose eyes got that look, where he looks as if he's going to cry, but he's happy, and so he pulled her into him. "Baby, I'll never leave you again. I promise. I love you, Alex. You are my world, now."
"I know. I love you, Jack."
He pulled away from the hug. "And, I wanna ask you to be an official Spare."
"Awesome! Yes I will definitely! Wait, what would I do?"
"Lead vocals with me, and guitar. Or bass. That's the beauty of it, you're interchangable."
"Righteous. I'm in a band. I always wanted to be in a band. Hey, um, I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"I felt like, I was kind of taking your place. But I love that feeling, being on stage. You'll love it."
"No, baby, don't be sorry. You stepped up, you helped out the guys. I am only grateful." He said, and he kissed her. She tasted amazing. Every kiss left a satisfying, yet addictive feeling inside him. A feeling he loved, along with everything else about her. When they were apart, he found himself imagining her smiling face, her entrancing kiss.
"Mm..mm..we should wake up Bobby." She said, in between kisses.
"Eh...why? Aren't we...having fun?"
"Yeah but we agreed we would have a girl's day today, so me and Sofi and Kat and Camille are gonna go shopping, let you boys hang for a while, no girlfriends, wives, sisters. You guys get to have fun. Now, I'm gonna go wake up Bobby, I'll be right back." Alex got up and started to walk to the stairs, but Jack walked up behind her, and wrapped his arms around her waist, walking behind her, kissing her neck. "You know," she giggled, "this will be difficult once we get to the stairs."
"Mmm...I've done difficult...we can make do. Just...do your thang." So somewhat oddly, they made their way upstairs, and Alex knocked on Bobby's door. No answer. So they went in. "Holy crap." Alex said, backing out of Bobby's room, Jack still attached. "Hehe." The both kinda chuckled. Bobby slowly opened his eyes, then they widened. "What the hell are you guys doin' in here?"
"We're not. See?" They had backed out, so now they were in the hall. "Hi Kerrie." Jack waved, quickly. She waved back, after she had made sure the blanket was still covering all that.
"Hey Kerrie, all us Mercer-like girls are going out shopping and stuff, letting the boys do their guy thang. Wanna join? We'd love it if you did. You'd have so much fun." Alex said
"Uh, sure. Why not?"
"Cool. Um, we'll let you guys dress and whatnot, and let the others downstairs kinda sober up. Hangovers all around down there, it wasn't pretty. They should be fine soon though. Anyway, sorry." Alex said, closing the door.
So, Camille dropped by (the girls had a sitter), and after Jerry apologized once more, and she insisted she understood (isn't she great?), they five girls left, and left the guys there. Of course, after romantic goodbye kisses between Sofi and Angel, Alex and Jack, Jerry and Camille, and yes, even Kerrie and Bobby. Kat threw her arms in the air, then just shook her head, and waited somewhat impatiently for the others. So they left, went to the mall. They shopped around, and found this really cool clothing store. So, of course, you hafta try a lotta stuff on. So all of them, in a row, are in the changing stalls.
"Ugh! I don't even know how to get this on. Sofi didn't you want it too?"
"Yeah hand it to me, Camille."
"So, Alex, good to have Jack back."
"Well, yeah, of course, Kat. I missed him so much, so, last night," she giggled, "we did a lot of catching up."
"Yeah we heard." Sofi stuck her head out from over the door of her station. "That's why we had to drink heavily. There was nothing else to do."
"Damn, I need a boyfriend. Yall lookin so sweet, kissin on your guys, and I seriously need to get laid." That was Kat. Kerrie laughed.
"I am happy I came."
"Me too. Hey what about you and Bobby?" Camille stuck her head out too, as well as all the others. "Are you guys getting serious?"
"Me and Bobby? No, well, I...I don't know. We just get together, hang out, and have sex."
"So, you guys like each other, talk to each other, have fun with each other, sleep with each other...Yeah, you're dating." Alex said. "Congratulations." She went back into her stall. "Oh, I SO want this skirt."
"Since when do you wear a skirt?" Camille asked.
"Since I walked in, and said, 'Ooh! That's a cute skirt!'"
"So Jack, what DOES Alex think of that little tongue ring you got?" Bobby asked. They were sitting in the house, having a couple of beers, hanging.
"She loves my piercing, I love hers." His eyebrow raised.
"What piercing? She got a tongue ring?"
"For starters..."
So after they bought some awesome clothes, they went to get lunch. "I wonder what the guys are doing." Alex asked, looking at the people on the ice rink.
"Probably up to no good. You know Bobby." Sofi said, actually not hating on Bobby this time, just stating the obvious.
Alex chuckled. "Yeah, I know Bobby. I also know he likes Kerrie. He does, he knows he wants to actually be your boyfriend, Ker. And I know you like him. I can see it. No one knows Bobby better than me, not a person alive. Not since Evelyn." No one really talked about Evelyn much anymore. She certainly hadn't been forgotten, she couldn't be, just, now, she was more of a memory. "I miss her. She was amazing, with the boys. Actually I wouldn't know, I only ever saw her with Bobby. But I can just imagine..."
"Umm... Kerrie confuzzled." Kerrie said.
"Evelyn was the boys' mother," Camille said. "She was amazing. A real saint. She helped a LOT of kids in foster care find homes. The only ones she couldn't find a home for, were our boys. So she adopted them herself. Everyone loved her."
"Hey, we should go back. It's about five." Kat said.
"Okay, but we should definitely do this again." Sofi said.
"Well, yeah. Of course. We have to." Alex agreed, as they started back.
They got to the house, and the guys were still hanging out. "Have a good time?" Alex asked Jack, putting her hands on his waist, pulling him toward herself.
"Yes, we did, but I missed you."
"Really? I didn't miss you at all." She chuckled, and kissed Jack. Bobby and the guys stood not too far from them, trying to see what something. "What?" She asked. Jack whispered in her ear. She stuck out her tongue, to show that it was indeed pierced. Then Jack whispered in her ear again. She pulled her shirt up a bit to reveal a belly ring, and a black rose tattoo next to that, then showed them the tattoo on her lower back. She turned back to Jack. "You didn't tell them about the nipple ring, did you?" The guys' eyes early bulged out of their heads. "I'm kidding."
"Prove it." Angel said. That is, before Bobby smacked him upside the head.
"Actually we've decided to do this more often, because God knows we are the only escape from you crazy bitches."
"Did you just call your boyfriend and his brothers 'bitches'?" Jack asked.
"Yes. Yes I did." She said, nodding.
"Should that be turning me on?" He asked, his arms wrapped around her waist.
"Hmm...interesting question. Hey I got some new clothes. Want me to try them on, so you can, take them off again?"
"Mmhmmm." Jack accepted the very appealing offer, so Alex grabbed her bag, and Jack's hand, and took off up the stairs.
Soon after Sofi and Angel were gone as well. Bobby went over to Kerrie. "So, have a nice time?"
"Oh, I had an awesome time. You know, I haven't had too much time for friends lately, with Janeane, she's been sick lately, and, you know, everything, so this was fun, hanging out with the girls. I'm glad we're going to do it again. They're really good, to talk to. Alex really loves Jack. You can see it, in her eyes, when she talks about him. She's absolutely crazy about him, Bobby."
"Yeah. I know. I've seen it too. I've come to terms with it, I think. When you lose someone, you start to reconsider how you go about your life, and how you went about it before. I'm actually okay with the fact that that young girl I watched over, and protected, and pretty much kept alive, is banging my stupid-ass fairy of a little brother." Kerrie laughed. "You can't make gay jokes anymore, you know. Cuz he's gettin' some now. He's got proof."
"I know. I can try though."
So the girls made this an annual event. Every few weeks, get together, and hang out, no guys. "I wish I had gotten to meet Evelyn. She sounds extraordinary." Kerrie commented.
"She was," Camille said. "I loved her. She was like a mother."
"Me too. She WAS my real mother." Kat said.
"I did too." Alex said.
"So did I. She was the only Mercer who didn't treat me like I was worthless." Sofi said. "Angel, he, he was always too warped by his brother. I'm afraid he sometimes doesn't want me around. I know I'm not the most respectable girl, I've done some bad, stupid things, but I believe I have changed somewhat. I try to be a good girlfriend, I do. All I want is for a little respect. Is that too much to ask?"
"No, it's not." Alex said. "But Angel does love you. And he tries too. Just tell him how you feel, do what you do, Sofi, speak your piece. Make sure he listens to you. You two need to work some things out."
"This coming from the girl with the perfect relationship." Kerrie said.
"Jack and I aren't perfect. At least, I'm afraid we won't be. Not after this."
"What? What's wrong?" Kat asked, concerned.
"It's about our future. Does Jack want to get married? Does he want kids? Do I?"
"Cross that bridge when you get to it, Alex." Camille said.
"But..what if I'm there?"
"What are you talking about, Alex? I don't understand." Kat said.
"I do." Camille said. "Alex, are you pregnant?"