Author note: ….the first 1400 words are story/fluff…the rest is smut….you will be warned….in fact, you can skip this chapter if you might be easily offended…

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Chapter 17 – Just You and Me

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"…He's in love with you and doesn't even know it."

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Jackie chewed her dinner quietly, her thoughts on Steven's words. Eric loved her! Did anyone have a clue how wonderful that felt? He loved her even if she was blind. How rare was a love like that? Jackie couldn't ever remember reading about that in Cosmo! She smiled all through dinner and made polite conversation while Red explained the legal process to Kitty and Eric. All Jackie knew was she wanted to get Eric alone!

Red excused himself to watch the news as Eric helped his mom with dishes. Jackie begged out of chores by opting to sit on the patio to enjoy the setting sunshine on her face. In a couple of weeks she might be able to see some of the colors of dusk. Hell, if she could see shapes that would be infinitely better than what she could see now! She would love to actually see Kitty and Red's loving faces again. She wanted to see Eric's when she told him she loved him. But until her surgery, she would have to wait.

"Heidi-ho neighbor!" Bob hollered from across the driveway. Jackie prayed he didn't have another blind joke. "Hello Bob, nice evening!"

Bob's heavy trod and then the scent of Brut smell wafted her way. "Yep, had to take my little girl back to school, just got home." Bob settled himself into a creaky lawn chair. "Kitty was telling me that they might have a miracle surgery for ya."

Jackie smiled. "Yeah….I might not get back all of my vision but some of it. I would love to be able to see colors again."

"You know, my grandpa was colorblind. We tried to buy him a colored television and he said, 'what for? It all looks the same to me'. I never realized that life can be pretty boring if ya can't see all of it. Yep. What's it like for you?"

Jackie looked in Bob's direction. "Next time you watch TV, turn out the lights and turn the set around so you can't see the picture, only hear it. That's what it's like."

Bob shook his head sadly. "I'm proud of ya for being so brave. I'm sorry I couldn't find Pam but the Forman's are taking good care of ya right?"

Jackie nodded. "They are. I don't know what I'd do without them." She said sincerely. "They are like my family. Oh, and you're my best uncle." She heard Bob sniff back a tear; he was a very sentimental man.

The patio door slid open and Eric stuck his head out. "Want some company?"

Bob stood up. "Eric, you're a good boy. I was just talking to Jackie, but I'll come back later. Have a good night." Eric took the seat Bob vacated and said, "What was that all about?"

Jackie smiled and reached for his hand. "He was reminiscing I think. He had to take Donna back today." Eric squeezed her fingers. "She and I finally said our goodbyes."

"Are you sad?" Jackie asked.

"No…not like I thought I would be," he said taking a drink of his soda. "I actually feel relieved. She noticed that I'm attracted to you."

Jackie smiled. "Well, that's good because I'm VERY attracted to you right now."

Eric could feel his heart skip a beat. "You are?" Jackie smiled, "Eric, I'm a girl and sometimes girls have….wants….and desires…and if you don't show up at my bedroom door tonight well….."

Eric nearly fell off his chair. "Are you serious?" Please let this be for real! Jackie leaned forward and unbuttoned the top button of her blouse. "Is it getting hot out here?"

Eric scooted his lawn chair a little closer. "How hot is it?" Jackie unbuttoned a second button and said in a real low voice. "Very hot. Can't you feel it?"

Oh, Eric could feel it all right. His palms were damp and he tried to keep the quiver out of his voice, "Um….what time should I meet you?"

Jackie unbuttoned a third and leaned back in the chair. "Ten minutes after your mom gives me the drops, I can hear your dad snoring. Five minutes after he falls asleep, I hear her lamp click off. Wait 20 minutes or I'll just have to…."

"….have to what?" he asked. Jackie smiled. "I might have to take matters into my own hands." Eric's soda fell to the patio floor with a fizz and a splash.

"Oops!" Jackie laughed. "You better clean that up."

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Eric paced his bedroom floor. Should he wear pajamas? Go commando? Nah, too obvious, what if she changed her mind? He heard the shower go off and his mom talking to Jackie outside the door. Music! She liked Journey. Eric looked through all of his cassettes and didn't have one Journey tape. Damn.

He sat on the edge of his bed and looked at the clock. It was ten o'clock right on the dot. Now he had to wait twenty long excruciating minutes. He remembered the goodbye talk with Donna.

"….and I can see that you have something going on with Jackie… Jackie's still the same girl she's always been and she likes you a lot. …"

Eric really did have the feeling that Jackie liked him a lot and he felt so comfortable and at ease around her. How all these feelings developed so quickly, he didn't know and didn't need to comprehend. He only knew how he felt and he wanted to be with Jackie in more ways than one. She was smart and cute and sassy and everything he wasn't rolled up in a brunette package. She always told him he was clever but he didn't believe her or didn't want to…now he realized she was telling him the truth and when he acted on it, well…he started going places!

He really needed to get his own apartment!

Jackie slipped on a silky gown. She didn't know what color it was only that it felt good in her hands. She sprayed a little perfume on her pillows and walked through an atomized cloud of vanilla and lavender.

The radio was set to a soft rock station and all her blankets were rolled back. She used her large toothed comb and worked out the tangles in her hair and smiled. Eric was waiting for her. She had been waiting for him for days!

Just like clockwork, she could hear Mr. Forman snoring. Jackie was pretty sure Eric was watching the time. Before Kitty turned off her lamp, Jackie opened her bedroom door so Eric wouldn't have to knock.

Jackie sat back against the head board and waited for the "music" to start. First there was the yawn, then the click of the bedside lamp and five minutes later, the soft snick of Eric's door opening. The floor under his foot creaked slightly as he crept across the hall.

"Just close the door behind you." She said softly.

Eric's stomach was full of butterflies. The room was dark but with the nightlight in the hallway behind him, he could at least see her silhouette. The bedroom smelled like flowers and frosting and he liked it. REO Speedwagon was playing softly in the background. Eric quietly closed the door with a click praying his folks were really asleep.

Suddenly, Jackie's hands were pushing him back against the door. He felt his head connect with the wood and then her small hands were stroking his jaw as she kissed him. He spread his leg stance so they were an almost an even height and wrapped his fingers in her damp hair. His mouth felt so good and the stubble on his chin tickled her fingertips.

Jackie moved so she was pressed as close as humanly possible. She broke the kiss to pull his tee shirt over his head. "This time." She said softly, "This evening is about you and me. Just us." She lightly ran her nails over his chest and delighted in the sound of his gentle hiss. She felt for the string in his sweatpants and gave a little tug. The pants fell into a puddle around his bare feet. Eric never felt so naked in his whole life.

He gulped. "Uh, Jackie…." She kissed the side of his throat where his pulse was beating wildly, "Touch me Eric." She reached for his hands and set them on her hips. The nightgown was slippery and soft and felt nice under his fingers.

Eric's brain blanked out for a second as she stoked his thigh and then his other thigh and then his….oh my!

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She kissed him again and started walking backwards towards the bed; Eric's lips never broke the kiss. Her calves touched the side of the mattress and she lowered herself onto the bed, holding the back of Eric's head bringing him with her. He caught his weight on his hands and buried his face in her neck inhaling her scent and trailing kisses down her neck and along her collarbone.

"…"I miss sex….Not so much the sex as the closeness of being held or holding someone…".

Eric replayed Jackie's words in his mind as he traced his fingers over the bare skin of her shoulders pressing kisses where his fingers had touched. He held her close and whispered soft words that made her pulse beat frantically. He slowed down her urgent requests with soft strokes and languid caresses.

Jackie realized that Eric wasn't just going to be a "hit and run" kind of guy when he started caressing her and hadn't even gone under the nightgown yet. She couldn't still her pounding heart but she could relax in his embrace as his fingers memorized the curves and angles of her body and it felt more than nice.

"This is just you and me." He whispered, "I may be a screamer but I'll keep it down." Jackie giggled softly at his pun. "Just kiss me again." She whispered back. Eric was only happy to do so. His deft fingers unbuttoned the tiny beads of plastic on the front of her gown but his hand went back to stroking her hair making her want to groan.

Jackie could only see with her hands but she already knew that Eric had a sexy little butt and her fingers just confirmed it! He jumped a little when she cupped his bottom and his growing attraction lay heavy against her thigh. With smooth strokes, she rubbed the length of his back and the tight chords of his shoulders. He moaned appreciatively as his muscles relaxed under her palms.

Jackie's hot little body lying under him was nearly enough to bring him to the edge of devastation and he'd done nothing yet but some light petting and cuddling. This woman was going to be the death of him! He leaned forward and slid his tongue into her mouth and when she groaned and he died just a little more.

His hands were shaking as he lifted the gown above her head. The soft warm silky skin that touched him was more than he expected. Her naked arms and breasts and soft belly called to him to be touched. His hands didn't disappoint. His kisses were deliberate and satisfying and explored. God, how he explored! Jackie moaned loudly, a moan that was laced with desperation. She buried her head in Eric's shoulder so they wouldn't be discovered!

Eric's hand slid along her thigh, stroking the slender cheerleader leg as she wrapped it around his waist. When she began rolling her hips in slow waves he started sweating. "Wait…slow down….just a sec…" Eric reached over the side of the bed for his sweatpants. Where was that damn pocket!

Her fingers were grabbing him intimately, holding him hard and heavy in her soft hands and he was sweating buckets. He fought for concentration while he searched his pockets. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas ….found it! As he leaned forward to kiss her again, the heat from her body released a fresh scent of vanilla and he nearly swooned. She wrapped the other leg around his waist making his efforts to hold back much more difficult.

Eric's hands were trembling as he struggled to open the wrapper. Jackie snagged it out of his hands, ripped it open with her teeth and quickly rolled it on. Just kill me now. As he leaned forward to kiss her breasts, he eased himself into her and she moaned appreciatively. Eric swallowed hard, "Don't move." If she even coughed it was gonna be over!

Jackie ground her hips and all coherent thoughts Eric had flew out of his head. He pressed a slender hip into the mattress but the little vixen wiggled and whimpered and he was more turned on than he could ever have prepared for. She increased her tempo of sliding and rolling and grinding and Eric was pleading, "Hang on…oh God,.…"

Jackie was expecting ordinary but was getting extraordinary! Eric was bigger and thicker than she anticipated and the fact that she was so wet with excitement added fuel to the fire. Every movement she made or he made drove her to the brink of bliss. She had been thinking about this moment for quite awhile and her body was humming with desire.

"Eric, we have to…..oh, move….God Eric, move!." She grabbed his hand and sucked his middle finger into her mouth. Eric couldn't help it, his body bucked and he thought he saw stars….her legs were drawing him in as she convulsed around him. Jackie had the strongest pair of legs he ever had the pleasure of getting wrapped up in!

Jackie quivered as Eric drew her into a shaky embrace. He pressed his forehead to hers. He never knew lovemaking could be like this! He pressed a kiss against her eyelids and her panting mouth. She tasted delicious and he loved this Jackie flavor. He whispered, "This was the most beautiful experience of my life. Will you marry me?"

Jackie chuckled softly. "It was good for me too." She hugged him with the strength she had left. "I plan on being a repeat customer."

Eric trailed a finger down the path between her breasts down past her navel and cupped her soft curls. "I think I like the way your thinking." Jackie ground against the palm of his hand. "Eric, don't start something you can't finish…."

Eric pressed kisses against her collarbone. "Sweetie, I'm just getting started."

Jackie felt a bubble of excitement, "Good…I was hoping you'd say that!"

It was nearly dawn when Eric crept out of Jackie's room. Three times! Eric was proud and amazed at himself. This had to be the best day/night of his life! He fell into his own bed and into the welcome bliss of unconsciousness.

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A/N: Author has stepped outside to fan herself. Getting a little warm in here!