Chapter five
The kiss is soft and gentle and her lips fit perfectly against mine. It's not too passionate and I hold back from putting too much into it I don't want her to think I'm only after one thing. So I fought to keep it sweet and chaste no biting no tongue no matter how desperately I wanted to bite down on that full bottom lip of hers, and god I wanted to taste her more than this but I wouldn't it was too soon it would be too fast. I pulled away and she sighed. Adrian smiled up at me "Would you like to go on date Friday?" I asked and she grinned.
"Yeah, I think I would" she says. I kissed her again then walked her to her car, she drove a beaten up white hilux I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the piece of crap she was driving. "What?" she asked taking in my horror.
"This hunk actually starts?" I asked in disbelief
"Yeah she runs like a champ, what's your problem with my car?" she demands to know.
"It's not safe, it looks like a mild breeze might tear it down" I say and she rolls her eyes.
"Riddoc this truck is the indestructible truck ok, enough of the hate" she laughs and I try and play it off with a smile although on the inside I'm terrified of her getting in that death trap.
"I'm glad you came tonight" I tell her and she smiles
"Me too" she smiles then stands on her tiptoes to kiss me again, I slide my hands around her waist and we end up with her back pressed against her car. She gives me her number and directions to her apartment. I'm on such a high from her kisses that I practically float back down to the beach.
By the time Friday comes around I'm piss in my pants nervous, I'm picking Adrian up for our date in an hour and I don't know what to do with myself I can't calm down, I can't sit still. The plan was to take her to dinner at a Chinese restaurant now I knew it was her favourite food. Then I planned to take her to the beach for a walk after our first walk there and then our first kiss there it seemed as if it was an important place for us. Mom kept looking at me smirking and rolling her eyes at me silly behaviour.
I left in good time I didn't want to be late but I also didn't want to look too eager, as I was leaving the house my Mom put a bouquet of wildflowers from my Great grandma Esme's flower garden and a brown paper bag full of cherry chocolate brownies in my hands. "Mom?" I complain but she shushes me
"Hush you are not showing up to pick this girl up without flowers and the brownies are from me and Willow" she reasons and I sigh I'm already nervous enough without bearing gifts as well. I pull up outside Adrian's apartment building with a couple of minuets to spare but decide to go up and ring the door bell anyway. The building is white and modest. According to the numbers on the front door there's three apartments inside one on each floor, Adrian lives at number three so she must live on the third floor, I press the number three and the intercom buzzes and crackles.
"Who is it?" my angel's sweet voice rings out.
"It's Riddoc" I say
"Oh hey come on up" she says the door buzzes loudly and I hear the magnet detach I push against it and let myself in, I knock on door number three and my eyes almost pop right out when she opens the door in a short silk dressing gown. "I'm sorry I promise I'm almost ready" she says cringing a little bit as if she expects to be in trouble, I smile at her and shake my head.
"Don't worry it's fine, oh these are for you" I say then hand her the flowers and the bag, my heart swells when I see her light up.
"Oh my god Riddoc thank you, nobodies ever brought me flowers before" she smiles. I'll have to thank my mom for that one later. Adrian leans up and hugs me kissing my cheek. "Come on in I'll get you something to drink" she says. I follow her through the house and she leads me into the kitchen she sets the flowers in the sink and the bag on the counter then opens the fridge and hands me a bottle of cola. I thank her then she roots around in the cupboard for a vase and I take a seat on one of the stools around the island. She fills the vase with water and arranges the flowers in it. "Thank you they're so pretty, what are they?" she asks and I grimace.
"Erm... ok you got me I have no idea, I know nothing about flowers, or plants or even trees for that matter" I admit and she laughs
"Don't you live in the middle of the forest?" she asks and I nod.
"Yep"
"Ok so what's in the bag?"
"Brownies from my Mom and Willow"
"Aww that's so sweet" she says and opens the bag she pokes her head in and sniffs the brownies, she closes her eyes and sighs. "This is what regular women must feel like when they sniff a babies head" she murmurs and I laugh.
"Yeah I don't get that either babies smell weird" I laugh
"I know I mean they're cute and everything but they smell like shortbread and chuke" she grimaces at the thought and I smile at her. She takes another look in the bag "Holy crap there's a lot in here are you trying to fatten me up Mr. Wolf?" she giggles and I choke on the mouthful of cola I'm currently swallowing I manage to swallow it without spraying it everywhere and recover. Did she really just call me what I think she did? I need to relax there's no way she knows my secret, how could she? She walks over and puts her hand on my shoulder. "Are you ok?" she asks and all I'm able to do is nod "Are you sure?" she asks looking concerned.
"Yeah I'm good" I say trying to shake my errant thoughts off.
"Ok well I'll go finish getting dressed" she tells me then leaves the kitchen "Make yourself at home!" she calls from the hall. After a couple of minuets I get up and wonder about the place the kitchen is clean and neat, the living area attached to it is black and white, white carpets and walls, two black leather sofa's facing each other and a huge TV mounted above the fire place.
The walls are littered with black and white photographs, lots of her and an older man I assume is her dad, lots of her and a little girl, some of her and a man maybe a little older than her and then some of all four of them together, I wonder who he is and why he's got his hands on my imprint. Then there's photo's of Adrian and her band. "That one was taken in England" Adrian's voice calls from behind me, shit I was so deep in thought I didn't even hear her come in this girl's like a ninja, or a cat but cat's are natures ninja's, man I hate cats "We had a really big fan base over there, we did a festival in Devon and it rained the whole time there was mud everywhere, hence the photograph" she laughs as I turn to look at her. My mouth falls open and the words I was going to say die on my lips instead I gulp and say:
"Holy shit" She's wearing a skin tight knee length red skirt and a little strapless grey top that looks like lingerie more than actual clothing with the same colour grey high heeled half shoe half boot things.
Adrian Laughs, "Oh good that's the reaction I was hoping for" she teases.
"No I mean you look great, like really great. You're so beautiful" I say before I can stop myself, she blushes and her pink cheeks are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
"Thank you" she whispers
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you" I say looking at my feet, I hear her walk over to me and she tilts my head up with her hands so I'm looking at her
"You didn't, you look really good too by the way this is a great colour on you" she says stroking her hands across my chest over the dark red shirt I'm wearing, making me tremble at her touch. She looks up at me through her lashes and the second her eyes lock with mine I can't help myself a second longer I have to kiss her.
I wrap my hands around her shoulders and pull her against me as we kiss, she moans a little bit as her chest slams against mine then she wraps her arms around my neck, she pushes me against the wall and runs her tongue against my bottom lip and I groan. Sometimes I really wish I could just think before I act but this is one of the occasions where I'm obviously not thinking. I grab Adrian by the hips and spin her around so I'm forcing her against the wall with my tongue in her mouth, she moans again and pulls on my hair so I figure that maybe she doesn't really mind how fast things seem to be going infact I think that maybe she likes it.
When we pull away we're both panting heavily and she giggles and blushes. "As much as I'd like to stay in and do this I'm kind of hungry" she smiles up at me.
"Me too shall we go?" I ask and she nods
"I'll get my purse" she says then walks away leaving me a little light headed.
We head out and I open the passenger side door for her she smiles at me and slips into the seat. I love my car and I'm actually quite proud of it I built it from the ground up with my dad when I was a kid. It's a silver sixty seven camero and until I met Adrian she was my favourite girl. It's about a thirty minuet drive to Port Angeles and on the way she fiddles with the radio and when she can't find a decent station she asks me what CD's I have, she looks horrified when I tell her nobody owns CD's anymore. "As a former artist that offends me" she laughs
"It's true, I have shit loads of CD's at home but I don't even own a CD player now" I say and she gasps
"Oh my god that's shocking, well at least I found this out on the first date" she jokes but for a second my face falls thinking she might be serious. But she's smiling so I smile back. I reach across the car and pull the glove box open I take my I pod out and pass it to her, she grins. "Ooh ok lets see what kind of music you listen to" she says and starts scrolling through my albums. She smiles and nods as she reads through the names. "You've got a lot of old rock on here" she comments.
"I tend to prefer it to most new music" I shrug
"I know what you mean, oh look what I found" she sings and plugs my I pod into the stereo jack and one my favourite bands starts to play out.
"Oh this is my favourite..." I start to tell her then cut myself of when I realise she's saying the same thing she laughs
"Well" she says after a minuet "I'm very impressed by your music catalogue" she grins at me and I laugh.