by Ash Johnson
I want to see what this is all about before I just jump into it. Jay follows closely behind me, helping me up the hill above the arena, and sitting next to me on the bench.
We watch a group of what look like high school kids, both boys and girls, running around the field. They are diving behind the different obstacles and trying to contain their laughs as they peek up and pop off a few shots toward their friends. It actually looks like fun and I’m not as nervous as I was when Jay first suggested it.
I see that the kids on the field are all covered in paint splotches and I’m instantly relieved that I wore a black v neck t-shirt and light washed jeans with my black Chucks. I turn to my left to see Jay watching the game as well. I pat him on the leg and point to the large building in front of the arena.
“Should we go pay and get whatever we need to do this then?” I mumble.
“Are you sure you want to do this? Because we really don’t have to do this if you don’t want to,” Jay says, looking nervous. The look on his face actually makes the whole thing comical and I start to giggle. Jay smiles and wraps his arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer to him.
“What’s so funny, baby?”
“Nothing, let’s go get our paintball on,” I state and get up to walk toward the building.
Jay pays for us to have an hour in the field. The manager throws us in with the teenagers that are already out there after we get all of our gear on. The game is an elimination tournament, so if you are shot with a paintball, you are out. The last one standing wins. Easy enough, I think.
“Just stick close to me, Ada. I’ll protect you, okay?” Jay whispers as we walk up to the shack.
“My hero,” I joke and smile when he leans down to plant a small kiss on my lips.
The horn sounds to signal the beginning of this round and we all start to scramble. Jay takes a few of them out within the first few minutes and I get one of them a few minutes later. I don’t realize how much fun I’m having until I let out a giggle, giving away our position and earning a wide eyed look from Jay. I shrug and peek out from behind the rusty car we’ve chosen to hide behind.
I see two of the teenage kids coming our way so I shoot at both of them, hitting them both surprisingly on the first shot. There is one other teenager out there, but I haven’t seen him, so Jay and I wait and watch. After a few minutes we see him dart out from one obstacle and run toward another, but Jay hits him before the kid makes it.
We both stand up and give each other a high five, but then I realize that the game isn’t over yet since the two of us still haven’t been hit. To be nice, I lower my gun and shoot Jay in the foot with a paintball. I didn’t realize that it would hurt him that badly, but I guess I was standing a little too close to him when I pulled the trigger. Jay’s bouncing up and down on his uninjured foot and taking small puffs of air in and out.
“Oh my God, are you alright? I didn’t mean to hurt you!” I boom. Jay just nods his head quickly and then picks his gun up and aims it at me, narrowing his eyes as he’s looking for payback. I squeal and turn, running away from him as quickly as I can, but Jay aims perfectly and hits me right on the ass cheek, causing me to yelp. I stop in my tracks and turn to look at him, eyes wide. He’s laughing hysterically.
We play a few more games of paintball with the group and then have a nice dinner at a small restaurant by our houses. When we make it to my front door, I turn to thank him, but he’s already leaning and bending to kiss me. I smile and realize just how much I wanted him to kiss me all night.
I lean my body into him and our lips meet softly. Jay wraps his arms around my upper waist and pulls me closer as I stand on the tips of my toes and slither my arms around his shoulders. After a few meaningful and butterfly inducing kisses, Jay pulls back and smiles.
“Can I see you tomorrow?” he whispers. I’m still so flustered by his kisses that I can only nod. He smiles widely and kisses me one more time before I go inside. Once I’m inside I lean against the door and silently thank whoever thought I was worthy of a guy like Jay.
Chapter 16
Jay
My week goes by quickly. I take Ada out three days in a row, before she has to go back to working the night shift at the hospital. We have a great time together and get along so easily, it’s like I’ve known her my whole life instead of having that awkward ‘get to know you’ phase of dating. I’m starting to feel something for her and as much as that should scare me, it doesn’t.
It’s late Friday night and Blake and I are playing pool in the basement when my phone rings. I pull it out of my pocket and instantly smile when I see Ada’s beautiful face on the screen. Blake rolls his eyes and lines up his stick to take a shot.
“Hey gorgeous, how’s work going?” I ask.
“It’s going okay, I guess. We had a gunshot victim in and he didn’t make it, so it’s put me in a bit of a funk,” she mumbles.
“I’m sorry baby. I wish you didn’t have to see those kinds of things every day,” I tell her. It’s the truth. I don’t know how someone could be in that line of work and still have the upbeat attitude that Ada does.
“Well, I chose the field I’m in, so there’s no one to blame but myself,” she laughs. I look up to Blake who’s spinning his finger around in a circle, as if to tell me to wrap it up.
“I know it just sucks. Listen, Blake and I were just talking about having a barbeque at our house tomorrow night. We’ll just have a few people, mostly those guys that you met at the club when we first met. You think you and Elle will be able to make it?”
“Yeah, I mean I can’t speak for Elle, but I think she’ll be up for it. What should we bring?”
“Just bring your fine selves. We have a lot of different types of liquor and we’ll have beer there, but if you guys drink anything specific let me know and we’ll go buy it,” I say but know that Ada’s a beer kind of girl.
Blake looks over at me and shakes his head slowly as he smirks. This is the first he’s hearing of this barbeque.
“Elle and I are easy when it comes to drinks. Don’t get anything fancy for us because we’re fine with beer. What time should we come over?” she questions.
“How does five o’clock sound?” I say, looking at Blake for approval. He just nods. Before Ada can answer, I hear some woman’s voice close to her phone mutter bitch. I furrow my brow and wonder if that was directed at her.
“Did someone just call you a bitch?” Blake’s head snaps up to me and his brow pulls as well. I hear Ada sigh on the other end of the phone.
“Yeah, Cassie is a day nurse but she picked up a shift tonight. She heard me telling one of my friends at work about our dates last weekend and she’s pissed off. She thinks you’re hot and says I don’t deserve to date you.”
“Baby, if she’s giving you a hard time then talk to your boss about it, or kick her ass. You shouldn’t have to put up with that.”
“I know but I don’t see her very often and most of the time I try to avoid the people who work on the day shift. For some reason she’s been picking up night shifts, though.” I can hear a hint of confusion in her voice.
“I’m sorry Ada. Please don’t put up with that. Don’t let people treat you like crap,” I sigh.
“I won’t. I have to get back to work, but a barbeque at five sounds great, I’ll let Elle know and we’ll see you guys then.” After a quick goodbye, I get back to our game, shifting my moods from concern that there is someone at Ada’s work that is being mean to her to smiling until I finally fall asleep hours later, dreaming of Ada.
***
I get out of bed bright and early so that I can send a quick text to Ada when she gets off work at the hospital.
Jay-I hope the rest of your night was okay. I’m so glad that I get to see you tonight
I smile after I send it to her and a few minutes later I get a response.
Ada-Last night was busy after I talked to you, but it made the night go by quicker. I’m glad I get to see you tonight too
I grin even wider and, because I can’t resist talking to her, decide to send one last text.
Jay-I hope you sleep well and I’ll see you in a bit.
Her response makes me giddy like a little fucking girl.
Ada- ;)
How in the hell does a winking emoticon make me grow a vagina? No wonder I’ve never really been in love before, it turns me into a sappy woman.
I spend half of the day making sure that the house is spotless and then go to the grocery store and the liquor store to get everything we’ll need for the barbeque. Then I remember that we never invited any of the guys to come, so I call a few of them and see if they’re in. Three of the guys that I train with at the gym are planning on coming, but the other five that I called had plans tonight.
When three thirty rolls around, I text Ada again hoping she’s awake.
Jay-I hope you’re awake and I’m not bugging you
I get an instant response from her.
Ada-Nope I’m awake, just having a cup of coffee and doing some yard work. What’s up?
Jay- I was wondering if you had a few more girl friends that might be available to come over. I only got three other guys to come.
Ada- I’ll give a few of the girls that you met at the club a call and see what they have going on tonight. I’ll text you back and let you know how many of them can come.
Jay- Thanks babe
I smile with my last comment. It feels natural calling Ada a pet name. I used to use them so that I didn’t offend the girl I was fucking when I forgot her name, but now that I have Ada in my life, she’s the only one I want to use pet names with. I can’t even think about being with another girl because my brain always shifts back to Ada.
About twenty minutes later, Ada texts me to let me know how many of her friends are coming.
Ada-four of my friends want to come. Is that too many?
Jay-No it’s great. The more the merrier
Ada-Okay, well we’ll just see you in a few hours then
I am on edge for the next couple of hours until Ada and all of her friends show up. The second that she walks through the door, I scoop her tiny body up in my arms and hug her tightly. I’m sure she thinks I am completely psycho but I just can’t help it, I want to be touching her all the time. I point all of the girls to the basement, which is down a small flight of stairs just off the foyer, and to a door that leads outside.
The basement is my favorite room in the house because it’s the perfect place to have a party in. It has a full sized pool table, an air hockey table, beer pong table, and a big screen TV with surround sound throughout the room. It’s the perfect man cave. The girls walk out of the door at the back of the room that leads to our backyard where all of my friends are sitting in lounge chairs, drinking beer while Blake is cleaning off the grill.
The backyard is simple with a large cement patio and an eight person hot tub connected to an average sized pool to the left of it, the rest being grass that I normally mow. I’m walking behind Ada, who seems to be in a great mood. She’s laughing with her friends and waving to Blake and the other boys before heading to the giant cooler full of beer at the edge of the patio. After I sit down in a lounge chair, Ada walks over with two beers and sits in the lounge chair next to me.
“Wow, two beers? Starting the night off with a bang, champ?” I ask, tilting my head toward the second beer in her hand and smiling. She looks at me and giggles, the motion causing her whole face to light up.
“No, I got this one for you, but if you’re going to spend the night teasing me then I’ll just keep it for myself,” she smirks and pops the top off the second beer, taking a huge swig from it while keeping her eyes on me. I put my head down and chuckle.
“Okay, okay. I promise that I won’t spend the night teasing you. Can I have that beer now, please?” I plead, holding my hand out toward her.
“Well okay, but I’m only doing this because you’re cute when you beg,” she smiles, stretching the beer out for me to take.
“Thank you Ada, you are too sweet,” I smile and lean in to kiss her cheek softly.
After an hour of great conversation between Ada’s friends and mine and telling everyone about my loss in the cage which required my pleasant visit to the hospital last week, Blake decides to start cooking the burgers. Five minutes into throwing the food on the grill, Blake tells me that he has to go to the bathroom and nominates me to watch the grill.
I stand up to check on the burgers and, after checking all the patties and brats, I turn around to see one of my sparring buddies from the gym, Zane, talking to Ada. He says something and runs his hand through his longer brown hair. If I didn’t know that he was a fighter, I would guess that he’s a professional snowboarder or something like that.
She’s laughing at something that he said and while her head is thrown back in laughter, I see Zane’s eyesight shift to the top of her white v-neck t-shirt where Ada has a bit of cleavage showing.
That bastard is checking her out!
I stay and man the grill until Blake comes back because I don’t want everyone pissed at me that the food is burned, but I watch Ada and Zane out of the corner of my eye, making sure that he isn’t touching her again and she isn’t flirting back. When I give the tongs back to Blake, I immediately walk back to my seat next to Ada and wait for Zane to finish his cheesy pick up line.
“Ada, do you like to sleep?” Zane asks her, his blue eyes are shining and he smiles widely as she pulls her brows together.
“Yeah I love to sleep. Why?” Ada says confused as to where this is going.
“What a coincidence! I do to. Why don’t we do it together?” Zane grins, but it falters when Ada throws her head back, howling with laughter. She’s smacking her toned thigh below her jean shorts and gasping to catch her breath at what she thinks is a joke, but the look on Zane’s face says she just shot down one of his best pick up lines.
I don’t like seeing other guys hit on Ada and I have the strong urge to break Zane’s arm. She’s beautiful, funny, and could have any guy she wants, but I need to make sure she only wants to be with me. I want to have Ada to myself, but I’m not quite sure how to ask her if she wants to be exclusive.
“Hey Ada? Can I talk to you for just a second?” I ask, shrugging my head back toward the basement door.
“Sure,” she answers, wiping the corners of her amazing eyes to get rid of the tears of laughter from Zane’s stupid pick up line. I look over to Zane and narrow my eyes as he scowls at me for taking Ada away from him. As soon as we walk into the basement I motion her over to the pool table and pick her up, sitting her on the edge.
“What’s up, Jay?” Ada smiles at me and waits for me to say something. I rub the back of my neck as nerves start to take over. This is harder than I thought it was going to be.
“Ada, I was just wondering if maybe I was the only person you’ve been seeing. I mean, I’m not trying to say that you date around a lot, but I want to know what my odds are,” I mutter, squinting at how ridiculous I probably sounded. Ada reaches up and runs her knuckles over my cheek, which instantly calms me down.
“Jay, you’re the only person I’m seeing. I like you too much to want to be with someone else,” she says instantly, her smile making my stomach do summersaults. That’s the best news I’ve ever heard in my life. This beautiful girl is only with me. She’s mine. She’s so damned beautiful that I want nothing more than to bury myself in her for days, but I think I should start simpler.
“Can I ask you one more thing?” I question, hoping I’m not going too far with this request.
“Shoot,” Ada states.
“Can I kiss you?” I lean closer to her, making her head tilt back to look into my eyes as she answers me.
“I was hoping you would,” she grins and sits up taller, trying to reach my lips. I bend down to connect my lips to hers and my entire body warms the instant our mouths meet. It starts off sweet and innocent, but then Ada uses her tongue to trace my lower lip and I lightly groan a
nd put my hands on her hips.
Her hands automatically travel into my hair and she pulls my face closer to her, and then she opens her legs wide so that I can step between them. After a few minutes of making out, I pull back to catch my breath and look into her eyes. She leans up one more time and takes my lower lip between her teeth and lightly pulls.
“Can we go to your room for just a bit, Jay?” she asks in the sweetest voice. I get hard instantly. I know what she wants, but I feel like teasing her to see what will come out of that sexy mouth.
“Why?” I say, trying to keep my voice neutral.
“Because I want you to fuck me,” she whispers and waggles her eyebrows as a huge smile plasters across her face.
I growl and put my hands under her ass so that I can carry her to my bedroom. After she wraps her slim legs around my waist I take the stairs two at a time and make it to my room quickly because she’s so light I can barely feel her.
As soon as the door is shut Ada unwraps her legs from my waist and immediately drops to her knees, unbuttoning and dropping my light blue shorts and my boxers to the floor. I marvel at her as she opens her mouth and leans toward my cock. She licks the droplet of pre cum off of the head and then instantly closes her mouth around me.
I lean my body against the door for support, close my eyes, and plunge my hands into her hair while she increases her suction. She tries to take me all the way into her mouth and I’m secretly pleased when my dick hits the back of her throat and I’m not all the way inside yet.
She has the oral skills of a porn star with the way she’s swirling her tongue around my tip like it’s a lollipop and then she grabs my balls and lightly tugs. I’m so close to coming so I tap her on the shoulder to signal her, but then she hums and the vibrations send me over the edge. My hands tighten in her hair and I come, grunting her name and trying to keep my balance so I don’t fall over.