Desire-Ch 4

Derek woke up the next morning alone, he sighed as he slowly got up out of bed, he headed to the bathroom for a hot shower, he stopped in front of the mirror and said, "what the hell"?, his neck was covered with hickey bites. He touched them and said, "what was she part vampire"?, he turned the shower on and waited for the water to get hot before stepping in.

When the water hit his body he closed his eyes wishing that the past several months hadn't happened, now he wished with everything he had in him that he hadn'st went out with Jordan that night because that one night led to another and so on and Penelope was with her flame of the month Sam so he didn't think it would hurt for him to have some fun to.

The more he thought about Penelope the madder and more hurt he was getting, why hadn't he gone to her sooner, why didn't he break up with Jordan sooner, if he had then that would have been him making love to Penelope lastnight and not Eric. He shook his head and said, "get her out of your head Morgan, she's moved on so you need to do the same thing".

Penelope woke up to the smell of fresh coffee, she smiled when Eric said, "good morning beautiful", she opened her eyes and said, "hello handsome", she sat up and he handed her a cup of coffee. She kissed his lips and said, "lastnight was amazing", he winked at her and said, "that it was", she took a sip of coffee and laid her head on his shoulder.

He kissed the top of her head and said, "so what do you want to do today, do you have plans"?, she was getting ready to say that she didn't have anything planned when her cell started ringing. She reached over on her bedside table and smiled and said, "hello Jayje", JJ smiled and said, "how are you this morning"?, she sighed happily and said, "we're fine".

JJ said, "we as in you and Eric"?, she said, "uh huh", JJ said, "I hope you and Eric don't have plans today", she said, "why, is something up"?, she said, "I just got a call from Dave and Fran and they are having a cookout today". She looked at Eric and said, "Dave and Fran are having a cookout today, do you want to go with me"?, he kissed her lips gently and said, "count me in".

Penelope said, "what time Jayje"?, she said, "about 2", Penelope said, "I guess we will see you there", before she hung up she said, "ohhhhh do I need to bring anything"?, JJ said, "I'm bringing coconut bars, you can bring something if you want, ohhhhh what about that delicious pasta salad you make"?, she laughed and said, "sure thing sweetie".

JJ said, "I'll let you go and spend some time with your sweetie, I still need to get hold of Morgan", the smile on her face fell a little and she said, "okay Jayje, we'll see you at 2". After the call ended Eric kissed her lips passionately and said, "well it's almost 10 now so I better head home and take a shower and get changed, I'll swing back by about 1:00 okay"?, she smiled and said, "sure thing, see ya then", he kissed her lips one final time before getting up and grabbing his coat before heading out the door.

Derek was heading out of the bathroom when his cell started ringing, he looked down and said, "please tell me that we don't have a case"?, she said, "no thank goodness". Derek said, "is something wrong"?, she said, "nope, Dave and your mom are having a cookout and they wanted me to call and let the rest of the team know".

Derek picked the piece of paper up that was laying on his bedside table, on it was written, "THANKS FOR AN AMAZING NIGHT, CALL ME SOMETIME, AMBER ROSS 555-3420 AND I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON". JJ said, "Derek are you still there"?, he said, "huh, oh yeah, sorry Jayje what did you say"?, she said, "everybody else is coming, can you come"?, he said, "sure, what time"?, she said, "2".

Derek said, "okay Jayje, I'll see you there", after the call ended he dialed the number on the card and after a few rings he said, "Amber do you have plans for today"?, she said, "no, why"?, he said, "would you like to go to a cookout with me"?, she smiled and said, "sure thing stud, what time"?, he said, "it starts at 2".

She said, "if you have a pen I can give you my address", he picked up a pen and quickly wrote her address down, he said, "I'll pick you up about 1:30", she smiled and said, "see you soon handsome". After the call ended her ran his head over his head and said, "get it together Morgan, she didn't want you and the sooner you accept that the better" as he plopped back down on the bed with the remote in his hand.