Chapter 6 – The Perfect Dress

The buildings were blocking out the sunlight by the time the two of them reached their destination. Jack had gotten out of the cab first and walked around to Elizabeth's door to open it for her, she beat him to it and glared at him.

"Now come on, what did I do to you?"

"Just shut up Jack and let's get this over with."

Putting his hands in his pockets Jack looked upward. "I thought women liked to go shopping."

"We do, but men don't, and I don't want you complaining the whole time."

Jack looked at her and smiled. "What makes you think I will complain in the slightest?"

"Woman's intuition."

This time he snorted and got a glare in return.

The mall complex was huge and very expensive looking. Doormen waited to let them in.

"Mr. Sparrow, nice to see you again, and this must be your beautiful wife Elizabeth. I've heard so much about you Missus."

The man took Elizabeth's hand and kissed it. He was of Spanish decent and quite young. Smiling at him Elizabeth nodded, "it is a pleasure to meet you Mr.?"

"You may call me Ramone, please have a good day Mrs. Sparrow."

Elizabeth saw Jack roll his eyes next to her. "Please call me Elizabeth, I don't think the title 'missus' suites me very well." She said and Jack pulled her into the building.

"Stop flirting with the help darling." He said, an annoyed undertone laced his words.

"Stop getting jealous and maybe I will."

He stopped and looked at her. "I'm not jealous. What do I have to be jealous about?"

"Well for one, he's foreign, has a wonderful body, and a really cute accent." She said sighing at the end. Jack forced a half smile.

"Whatever you say."

Mentally Elizabeth put another point in her category adding to the one she earned the night before for kicking him out of bed.

This was proving to be an interesting day already.

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"Hurry up. I don't understand what is taking so long." Jack said through the changing room door that held Elizabeth on the other side.

"It doesn't fit right." She said and he sighed.

"Why don't you let me see?"

He didn't get an answer and Elizabeth came out with the clothes she was wearing before she went in.

"I'm a half size and none of these dresses are fitting right!" She said, raising her voice and making Jack shake his head.

"Okay, the next store you will find a dress or I will."

Elizabeth started to laugh and he glared at her. "What's so funny?"

"I hope you look good in a dress."

Jack smiled a little at her. "That's not what I meant."

"But it's what you said."

They exited the store with identical smiles and Elizabeth had to admit, if only to herself, that she was having one of the best days of her life, and with a criminal.

"Let's go in here." He said pushing her toward a small store that had some beautiful dresses in the window display.

"What color are you looking for?" Jack asked, looking around the store.

"A deep red, maybe maroon."

He nodded and called over an attendant. "My wife is looking for a deep red dress, maybe maroon and preferably straight with spaghetti straps."

The woman looked happily at Elizabeth and took her over to some of the most beautiful dresses she had ever seen. "They are wonderful." She said mostly to herself. Jack didn't seem very excited.

The attendant smiled at her and took some down. "Are you looking for something with sequence or,"

"No, something formal and preferably a solid color." Jack said not looking up from his magazine.

Elizabeth watched him for a little while before nodded to the attendant. "It's a party for his work, you know, need to be all formal."

"I understand, you would be surprised how many business men's wives shop here. I never see them though, the husbands that is."

Elizabeth looked to Jack again who was staring at his magazine, clearing not reading it and waiting for her answer. "We're newlyweds, I don't want to spend a moment away from him."

Jack looked up at her and smiled. She smiled back.

"Well then, why don't I let you try these on and I'll be back in an hour if I don't see you."

Elizabeth looked at the attendant almost fearfully. She was going to leave her alone with Jack? What if she needed help with them, some of the straps looked pretty complicated. She knew she would want someone's opinion, honest opinion.

"That will be fine," Jack said, "thank you."

When the other woman left he stood up and took the dresses from Elizabeth. "Here, try this one on first, I'll wait here. You have to let me see them this time."

"Yes dear." She said and walked into the huge waiting room. Taking her time with the dress she read the tag. It was over $6,000. Now taking even more time with it she felt the baby soft material hit her skin everywhere, her stomach, back, and her bare chest. Looking at herself she liked it, but had many more to choose from.

Stepping out of the room she found Jack sitting down with the dresses draped over one of the other chairs.

"What do you think?" She asked and he looked up.

"It's beautiful. Do you like it?" He asked, standing up and looking her over.

"It doesn't hang on me right." She said, pulling at the material.

Jack looked at her back and laughed. "That's because you don't have it zipped up."

"Oh."

Taking the zipper in one hand and grabbing on to her shoulder lightly Jack zipped it for her, feeling her soft skin under his touch. Elizabeth was unnaturally still while he took his time with the zipper. Then, without preamble she felt his lips where his hand was. She didn't protest.

Jack kissed her soft skin and up to her earlobe. "I should take you shopping more often, now I can help you out of it and see what you keep underneath."

Elizabeth was just about to say 'okay' before she realized what he said.

"How about no, and don't think I don't know what you're doing."

Jack stepped back and crossed his arms. "What am I doing?"

Elizabeth wasn't stupid, she had seen enough movies and read enough romance novels to know not to answer that question. She didn't say anything at all.

TBC

Authors Note: IT took me a while to push this chapter out. I have been having trouble with all my stories recently so I'm not sure how long or soon my stories will be updated. Keep the reviews coming and I might get inspiration.