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24. BURNED

I woke up early the next morning.

In pain.

I opened my eyes and groaned as I tried to move. My skin felt tight and it hurt to move anything.

My groan must've woken Jacob up because he stretched and smiled at me. "Good morning."

"No, it's not. I'm in pain… everywhere." I tried to lift my head only to be greeted with a stinging sensation.

Jacob immediately got up and pulled the shade to let light into the room. "You're in pain? What ha-Oh my God…" He burst into obnoxious laughter.

"What? What's so funny?"

"You… you… You're so… sunburnt!" He managed to get out between laughter.

I sat up through the pain and looked at my chest. "Holy crap… I am sunburnt…" I lifted the blanket to look at my tan line. It was like looking at a Pokéball from Pokémon. I was completely red on top and white in my crotch.

"I can't… it hurts… So funny…" Jacob slumped to the ground, pointing at me in a fit of hysterical laughter.

"You just about done?" I shook my head, smiling at him. Whenever Jacob laughed, his mood was terribly infectious.

"Can I… Can I touch it?" He got up and walked over to me, trying to poke my sunburn, laughing hysterically.

I jumped out of bed. "No! Get away from me!"

"Oh my God! Look at the contrast! Your crotch is completely white! That's so funny!"

"Do we have any aloe or anything? This hurts wicked bad…" I walked to the dresser and pulled on a pair of shorts.

Jacob waved me over to him. "Aww, come here. Let me rub the aloe on you."

I sat in Jacob's lap as he reached into his suitcase and grabbed a bottle of aloe vera. He squeezed some out onto his hands and started rubbing my shoulders. I couldn't believe I got so badly burned. "So how come you're not burned?"

"I'm just awesome." I turned my head to look at him. "What? It's true! I am awesome."

I rolled my eyes as he continued to rub aloe onto my burned skin.

He was quiet for a little while, before I heard him chuckle. "So… I'm guessing sex is out of the question?"

I stood up. "You can just go jerk off if you need to get off so badly."

Jacob grabbed my waist and pulled me down onto him as he laid back on the bed. "Someone's awfully grumpy when he's sunburnt."

"I'm sorry." I laid my head on his chest. "It just really hurts."

"I know." He wrapped his arms around me, but instantly pulled them off when I flinched. "Oh, my bad."

I sighed. "Well now today is gonna suck. I'm all burned."

Jacob's voice was soft and loving. "No, we can spend it just like this. I'm happiest when we're together like this anyway."

I lifted my head to look into his eyes. How did I ever get so lucky? "I love you."

He smiled. "I love you."

We laid in bed for a long time, just talking and laughing. It reminded me of when Jacob and I used to go to his spot in the woods to just hang out. "You know, we should go see a movie later." Jacob suggested. "It's nice and cool in there for your sunburn."

I nodded. "Sounds good to me."

As time went on Jacob started to get fidgety. In the silence of the room, I was scared when his stomach growled. I jumped off of him and he just laughed. "I'm pretty hungry."

"I can see that. Let's go eat then." We walked into the kitchen and Jacob insisted I sit down and let him cook. I didn't argue. I just watched as he made his way around the kitchen getting pancake batter everywhere: the walls, the floor, his body (still naked mind you). When he finally sat down at the table with me, I couldn't help but laugh. "How do you make such a mess? I mean, look at you!"

Jacob looked down at his body and then back at me smiling. "I did that on purpose."

"Yeah? Why's that?"

He leaned in close to me, I could feel his hot breath on my lips. "So you could lick it off."

I smiled at him, contemplating whether or not to do it, but I figured I might as well. It's fun to get him sexually charged up. I stood up and walked over to him, pushing him so he leaned back in his chair and licked a straight line up from his belly button, up his abs and pecs, around his collarbone, up his neck, to his ear lobe. I sat back down in my chair.

Jacob stared into my eyes smiling his seductive smile. "So… Are you sure we can't have sex?"

"I'm sure. I just wanted to get you riled up." I smirked.

He looked down towards his crotch and back up to me. "Well it worked."

"I can see that."

When we finished eating, Jacob cleared the table and quickly ran into the bedroom, coming back out with shorts on. He took my hand in his and we walked out onto the porch.

I loved the two different sides of Jacob. The 'I-want-to-have-sex-with-you' Jacob and the 'I'm-extremely-romantic-in-the-simplest-of-ways' Jacob.

He looked at me for a while and I stared back into his eyes. A small smile played at the corner of his lips. "At least now no one will think you're a vampire, they'll just mistake you for a lobster!" He laughed loudly once more.

I sighed. And there's always that Jacob.