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Sitting here on mamma Whitlock' s front porch ,while everyone else slept, staring off at acres and acres of prime Texas cattle land, I though back to the night of our first real date.
I was ringing up the last customer of the night, a regular that was trying to bribe me to sell her my dress. She was offering $3000 almost twice the retail price of the dress. Never mind that it was a size 2 and she was a 8. I apologized to her one last time and explained that I couldn't possibly sell it to her even for $5000. I was wearing it on a date tonight with someone very special. She rolled her eyes at me.
"No one is that special." She said in a very snarky tone.
Oh well, she's never met my Jasper. All I could do was smile and hand her back her credit card and her bags. She snatched her things and stomped out the door.
"Oh sister please, as if your dress would fit her." Seth giggled as he locked the door behind her. "I hope she really doesn't think she's fooling any of us because she buys a size 2."
"I know right. It's not like we don't all know she has her maid come in the next day and exchange everything for a size 8." Edward added.
"If you ask me, the 8 is very questionable." Rose said grabbing my hand. " Come on I got the curling iron all heated up. Oh, boys when Jasper shows up don't hurt him."
We had a whole area set up toward the back of the store' behind a set of purple velvet curtains, where we sold top of the line make-up and both women's and men's fragrances. Edward also did make overs here, so there was a big mirror and special lighting. Rose pulled me over to this area and sat me in the chair.
"We're not animals, we're not gonna bite." Seth yelled after us.
"Speak for yourself." I heard Edward mutter.
Rose and I looked and each other and giggled, armed with a curling iron and lots of product Rose artfully tousled my hair and when he was done straightening the shoes, Edward came over and started on my make-up. Jasper had texted me earlier and said he would pick me up at 9:30, at exactly 9:20 Seth let out a very dramatic gasp. We all look up to see Seth with his face pressed against the window at the front of the store.
"OMG! It's really him! Our Aly is really going out on a date with the new Cowboy!" Seth squealed. "I think an angel has fallen from heaven and now walks among us." We laughed and Seth opened the door. and let Jasper in.
"Hi I'm Seth! Wow, your even hotter in person. Even with two black eyes. Aly told us what happened. I can't believe you let Em wail on you like that, but it was a very romantic thing to do. Aly is almost ready, Ed and Rose are playing dress up with her. They are back that way." He said all in one breath practically jumping up and down.
"Nice to meet you too Seth." Jasper said putting his right hand out.
Seth grabbed Jasper's hand with both of his and shook exuberantly. I noticed that Seth held on to Jasper's' hand for a bit too long. I was happy to see that Jasper took Seth's over the top personality in stride and he wasn't freaking out because a very obviously gay man was gushing over him and openly flirting. I could see them in the mirror, but they could not see us. Jasper looked so handsome in a charcoal Hugo Boss suit, black shirt, and a silvery gray jacquard weave tie. He looked like he just stepped off the cover of GQ. He was finally able to extract his hand from Seth's and turned and headed in our direction, with Seth trailing closely behind drooling. Jasper's eyes scanned the room taking in everything, he had a faint smile on his face that turned into a heart breaking grin when his eyes met mine in the mirror.
"Darlin' you look stunning." Jasper declared walking into the changing room. He took my hand and helped me out of the chair. He stepped back for a better look and then pulled me into his arms and kissed me deeply. I heard all three of my friends sigh.
"Ah, hate to break up this..um..exuberant greeting, but Jasper can you come with me for just a moment." Edward interrupted us. I held on to Jasper, giving Edward a questioning look.
Edward only pointed down toward Jasper's shoe's. Rose, Seth, and I all gasped. Jasper had, gasp, brown shoe's on.
"Oh my lord !" Seth all but yelled. "Quick go with Edward. " He turned toward Rose and I pushing Jasper in the direction that Edward had headed."Don't worry ladies we are fully licensed and equipped to handle any fashion emergency"
The boys headed off to the shoe section. My eyes follow the boys and I watch Jasper charm the pants off of Seth and Edward. I can hear Edward and Seth arguing over which shoe's were the most appropriate to go with Jasper's suit. Rose and I look at each other and laugh.
"Aly, you should see yourself when you look at him. You really do beam." Rose smiled down at me. Then she looked a bit sad and she had tears in her eyes." I know that you have been very lonely for a very long time. We've all noticed it even though you've tried so hard to hid it. We've all prayed so hard that you would meet someone and be as happy as Em and I are and Edward and Seth are. I'm just so happy you have found someone that you love so much and who very obviously loves you back just as much."
I pulled a tissue out of the box and handed it to Rose. I stood up and hugged her. This outburst of emotions was so unlike Rose.
"Pregnancy hormones?" I ask Rose.
She takes the tissue and blows her nose and then looks up at me and nods.
"I'm sorry. It's crazy every little thing is setting me off lately. But I really am happy for you. You more than any one deserves to be happy." Rose hugs me closer and now I can feel the tears in my eyes.
"This will not do. No tears I worked too hard making Aly's face perfect." Edward said as he pried me and Rose apart.
"Ya gotta admit the canvas was pretty damn perfect to start with." Jasper grinned at us sticking each foot out to show off the new shoe's the boys had picked out for him. "What do y'all think?"
"Tasty!" Seth blurted out.
"Hey!" Edward said. Sticking his bottom lip out, pretending to be hurt.
"What? He is." He wraps his arms around Edward and smiles up at him flashing the dimple he knows Edward can't resist. "But you know I'm partial to crazy bronze hair and you know, boys that actually like other boys."
We all laughed and Jasper blushed. I got my coat and my bag. We said goodnight to everyone and Jasper made sure the boys were going to walk Rose to her car. Since he drove a bike, Jasper had taken a taxi to meet me. I handed him my keys and he opened the door for me and helped me into the car.
We had dinner at The French Room on Commerce. It was very romantic and the food was amazing. I was ,however, very glad I was wearing a flowy dress. When we finished eating, we took a walk. As we walked down the street hand and hand Jasper reminded me that it was his turn to ask questions.
"First I really need you to explain to me what Rose meant when she asked how I hooked up with you instead of the guy she hired.?" Jasper asked raising his eyebrow at me.
"Yeah, I was really hoping you had forgotten about that." He just shook his head and grinned at me. "Well I had told Rose my fantasy and she wanted to help me break out of my box a fulfill it. Well I guess she wanted to make sure I didn't hook up with a psycho killer, so I guess she hired a male prostitute to pick me up and well...you know...um...well help me fulfill my fantasy.
I couldn't even look him in the eye. Suddenly Jasper was laughing. Like hysterically laughing. He was laughing so hard that he had stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and was bent over with his hands on his knees.
"What? Jasper what?" I pushed on his shoulders trying to make him stand up. I gave up and hit him. "WHAT!"
"Hold on I can't breath. I need to sit down." He spotted a bench and sat. I sat next to him.
"Jasper, tell me. Please." I begged.
"Oh Lord! Phew. OK, well about twenty minutes before you got there this guy got busted trying to blow some other guy in the men's room. I'd bet a million dollars that the guy caught on his knees with some truckers cock in his mouth was your intended date." His uncontrollable laughter started again.
"Are you kidding me!" I jumped up. Jasper was laughing so hard, all he could do was shake his head no." Rose hired me a gay prostitute? Seriously?" I sat back down next to Jasper. He draped his arm over my shoulder and pulled me close.
"Oh darlin' we are quite a pair aren't we? You were there to meet up with a gay prostitute and I was there to hook up with any desperate skanky woman I could find just to win a bet." He kissed the top of my head and laughed. "I don't know what I've ever done to deserve you, but I'm sure as hell happy I found you. Even if it was under the most ridiculous of circumstances." He tipped my chin up to him and kissed me softly." Hey my loft is not to far from here, you..um..want to have a sleep over." He asked wiggling his eyebrows at me.
"I'd love to! I can't wait to see your place. I have a over night bag in my trunk." I took his hand and started leading him back toward the restaurant.
"An overnight bag huh? Pretty presumptuous of you little lady." Jasper stopped in the middle of the side walk again.
"Well sir I was certain you were gonna be a sure thing." I rose up on my tip toes and place a chaste kiss on his lips.
Jasper grabbed the back of my head and deepened the kiss. His other hand slid around my back pulling me closer. I could feel his arousal pressing against my belly. I slid my had down his arm and pulled his hand off my rear end. Threading my fingers through his I broke the kiss and pulled him down the side walk toward the car.
That night and all the nights that ed follow were the most remarkable of my life. A few weeks later Jasper reminded me about us going to Texas for his mom's birthday. As if I would forget. I was excited and terrified about meeting his family all at the same time. Jasper continuously reassured me that everything would be OK and that his family would adore me as much as he did. So, exactly one month to the day that we met Rose and I watched as Jasper and Em loaded up Jasper's new Escalade. I hugged Em good bye and rubbed Rose's tiny little baby bump and hugged her. Jasper went to shake Emmett's hand but my mush of a brother pulled Jasper in for a big bear hug. Em released him and he hugged Rose also, than climbed into the driver's seat. We made our way to the highway and headed East. I had made a play list for the trip so we blasted the iPod and sang at the top of our lungs. I made him stop the first time I saw a sign that said Jasper was 62 miles ahead. I jumped out and took a picture. I did the same thing at the next sign, but Jasper just sped by the next. When I begged him to go back he just turned up the radio and sang louder. Lady A's Hello World was on and I was so mesmerized by listening to Jasper sing I forgot to watch for Jasper road signs.
The sun was just getting ready to set when we turned onto a narrow dirt road that Jasper informed me was their drive way. About a half a mile later I was beginning to think he had made a wrong turn, a mile later I was sure he had gone the wrong way. I told Jasper as much and he just shook his head and laughed. I continued to stare out the windshield trying to catch a glimpse of anything that wasn't trees. Several miles later I thought I could detect a slight thinning in the trees. A quarter mile later we broke through the trees. I caught my breath and there was now green pasture land and cows as far as I could see, there was a house way in the distance. It was one of the most serene things I had ever seen. As we approached the house a saw a heard, I guess that's what you call them, of emu. I turned to Jasper grinning my eyes huge. I honestly only half believed him about the emu's.
I was more nervous the closer we got to the house. Jasper took my hand in his and kissed the knuckles. I was still nervous, but I know Jasper loved me and that was really the most important thing.
We reached the house and it was beautiful with the sun setting behind it. It was a very large white ranch style house with cheerful blue shutters and a wrap around porch. Standing on the porch were seven of the most beautiful women I had ever seen in my life. They all looked like Jasper and oddly like Rose. Jasper jumped out of the car and came around to my side and opened the door and helped me out. He took my hand a lead my toward the Whitlock women. I was about to pee my pants and wanted to run and hide in the car, but then Jasper squeezed my hand and a feeling of calm came over me and I knew if I didn't stand my ground now they wouldn't respect me. So I stood there and some how managed to meet the eyes of all of them at the same time. Suddenly the oldest of the seven women smiled the same glorious smile I've seen so many times on Jasper's face. She walked down the stairs toward us, her arms open wide. Jasper released my hand a stepped toward his momma. She glanced at his and walked right on by and wrapped her arms around me.
"Aren't you just the most precious little thing ever." Momma Whitlock held me in her warm motherly embrace. Tears sprang to my eyes. My own mothers had never in my life held me like that. "Girls get down here and meet your future sister-in-law."
"Momma!" Jasper cried.
"Shush son. Your momma has eyes. Aly it is so good to finally meet you. I'm Jesse, but you might as well start calling me momma now." She winked and nudged me with her elbow. "Now this is Eliza my oldest, Sally next oldest ,you see where I'm going here, Kate, Christine, Laurey, and last my baby girl Anna. "
In turn they each hugged me and welcomed me. As I was trying to remember each of their names. Something occurred to me.
"Hey Jess..."She raised any eyebrow at me. "I mean momma are all of your girls named after Broadway musicals?"
"Why Aly I didn't think I could love you any more, no one has ever figured that out right off the bat."
"I'm a huge musical fan. I drag my brother and sister-in-law every season. I smile at her.
She throws her arm around me and leads me into the house.
"Boy, get her bags and bring them up to your room." Momma yells over her shoulder at Jasper.
"Yes ma'am. Wait what?" Jasper sounded confused.
"Your momma's not stupid Jasper." She said turning toward him."You've been sleeping with my little Aly since the night you met. No sense in separating you now."
I was blushing furiously, but no one seemed to notice. We turned and headed back into the house. We set in the family room and chatted while Jasper got our stuff settled in our room. We then had the most delicious home cooked meal I had ever had. After we sat on the porch and had coffee and apple pie. Jasper and I sat on the swing. They told me that the party was tomorrow and pretty much everyone in town would be at the party and I would get to meet all the sisters family's and Big Stan.
It had been a long day and I started dozing off listening to Jasper and his family catch up. I felt myself being lifted. I rested my head against Jasper's chest I could feel him carry me up the stairs and put me on the bed. I felt him remove my shoes and then fell into a deep sleep.
I woke early the next morning. Jasper was quietly next to me. The rest of the house was quit. I needed coffee. I carefully removed Jasper's arm from around my waist. I slid my feet into my slippers and pulled one of Jasper's hoodies out of the closet. I crept down stairs and into the kitchen and put the coffee on. While I waited for it to brew I picked at a slice of pie. When the coffee was done I poured a cup and filled it with cream and sugar. I headed out side I sat on the swing. Sipping my coffee I watched a heard, still not sure if that's what they are called, of emu move across the pasture.
If anyone wants to see Aly's date dress go to the chanel web sight, click on fashion shows, click spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear, click looks, and it's #59. I fell in love with it. Also if anyone can name all of the Musical's the Whitlock girl's are named after will receive a invite to momma Whitlock's Birthday party! YAY!