The Improbable

by Tiara James

  Later, after I left the station I headed home and was greeted by a beautiful surprise; Eva-Marie was sitting on my front steps when I arrived. Her dark eyes looked up when I pulled in the driveway and her perfect white teeth were revealed. Boy, could that smile stop a heart! She was exactly the woman I needed to see after a long day of work. I quickly took the folder of information from the day’s work that I had thrown on the passenger seat and hurriedly shoved it under my seat. Hopefully, she hadn’t noticed.

  “Well isn’t this a pleasant surprise?” I called to her when I opened the door.

  She rose, still smiling brightly. “I wasn’t sure what time you’d be back. Where do you work?”

  I almost blurted out that I was finishing up work at the station until I realized I couldn’t tell her where I worked…she thought I was a law student. “My father wants me to get experience in the field, I work at his law office in the city. I usually get home around five thirty…if I don’t work too late.” I figured she wouldn’t wonder too much about it.

  “Oh how fancy.” She giggled. “My parents are working late, so I had time to get away.”

  It was as if those words gave me life – they meant that I would be getting to spend more time with her! She was like a personal form of therapy; with her it seemed as if I had not a single thing to worry about in the world besides her and myself. I raised my eyebrows, “Is that so? How long have you been waiting here?”

  “Just about half an hour… maybe an hour. That’s not important.” She descended off the front steps and came closer to me. “I want to take you somewhere.” Eva was looking up at me hopefully.

  “What do you have planned?” I asked.

  “Well it’s a surprise, silly!” She pulled out a scarf. “You’re going to need to put this on around your eyes, okay?”

  I looked at the scarf and leaned against my car, crossing my arms. Something told me her parents hadn’t given her the car back yet and I could predict where she was going with this. “I can’t drive with that over my eyes, Eva-Marie.”

  “Oh don’t be ridiculous, you aren’t!” She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the passenger side. “I am, you’re enjoying the ride.”

  My eyes widened. “You think you’re driving my car?”

  She pursed her lips and looked away from me.

  I wanted badly to laugh at her expression. I covered my mouth with my fist to keep from laughing. “So you just knew that I was going to let you get away with this?”

  “Ugh, well it was worth a try!” She threw her hands up.

  I was laughing, she was making my day so much better with everything she did. I stepped closer to her and cupped her pouting face in my hand. “It’s okay, because you got me… how could I not let such a stunning face take me where she pleases?” The proximity of our faces and staring directly down into her dark eyes was enough to make me want to kiss her plump lips and even stick my tongue down her throat; she turned me all the way on!

  Her lips slightly parted but it was as if something clicked in her mind and she swallowed, taking a step back. She smiled tightly. “I knew you’d come to your senses.” She opened the passenger door. “Get in.”

  I bit my lip, feeling extremely teased. Was she playing hard to get? Or did she just not want to kiss me? I chuckled it off and shook my head, lowering myself into the car. She dropped the scarf in my lap before closing my door.

  “Well you’ve got to put it on or we can’t go.” Eva told me when she hopped in the driver’s seat. She stared at me until I tied the scarf around my eyes.

  “Happy?” I asked with weak enthusiasm.

  “Ecstatic,” Eva answered in a flat tone.

  “I can tell,” I snorted. For some reason, though I couldn’t see, I could tell that she rolled her eyes and shook her head at me. “Don’t roll your eyes at me, woman.”

  She gasped. “How did you know? Are your eyes really covered?” It sounded as if she was cocking her head to the side, waiting for an answer.

  I couldn’t help but laugh. “Yes! Yes my eyes are covered, Eva-Marie.”

  “Hmph.” She turned the key to start the car.

  “This scarf smells amazing.” I noted.

  “Oh, why thank you.” It sounded as if she wasn’t sure how to reply. She laughed lightly through her nose.

  “On a scale from one to ten how crazy am I considered right now?” I asked her.

  I could basically hear her glance at me questioningly. “Please elaborate, sir.”

  “Well look at the situation. I’ve let a beautiful woman blindfold me, drive my car, and take me to an unknown destination. How crazy am I?”

  Eva sighed. “Well, David, I don’t think it makes you crazy at all. I think it just shows what an amazing amount of trust you must have in me.”

  I nodded. “Sounds about right. Thank you for not admitting I’m crazy.” I turned and smiled at her.

  The drive wasn’t long, so I knew she hadn’t taken me into the city. When we arrived at the destination, she came around to my side to open the door. I wanted badly to take the blindfold off when I heard a creaking noise, which just sounded like a big groaning piece of steel. Where the hell were we? She tapped my hand when I reached up to remove the scarf.

  “Not yet.” She said.

  “Are you trying to kill me?” I wondered.

  Eva giggled. “No, David.”

  We began walking, the groaning noise getting closer and more frequent. Sometimes the pitch would be higher, sometimes it’d be lower, and other times there were more in the distance creaking at the same time. We stopped when our feet began crunching down on gravel. I could feel her little hands reach up and remove the scarf from my face.

  I blinked, adjusting my eyesight, and looked around. “We are in a train yard…”

  Eva looked at me and nodded slowly. “That we are.” Without another word she began to walk down the path between the immobile railroad carts.

  Looking around, I decided I definitely did not want to get lost in a train yard and it looked as if she knew where she was going so I followed. “What are we doing out here?” I asked.

  Eva stopped walking and turned to face me. “Do you remember our conversation?”

  I blinked. “We’ve had quite a few at this point.”

  She laughed lightly and nodded. “Listen to the trains David. They’re practically begging to get out of here, listen to them creak.” She paused so I could listen and stepped closer to me. “They’re stuck on these tracks, David.”

  Instantly, I remembered our conversation at the ice cream parlor and smiled weakly. “Why’d you bring me here, of all places?”

  Eva sighed and looked up at the orange sky. “I always come out here when I’m angry at my parents, or myself, or just life in general. I would hope that one day, maybe one of the trains would begin moving and I could just jump on and go wherever it takes me.” She paused and looked at me. “And then recently I realized that I’m not the only person in the world who feels the way I feel, who feels like they’re stuck to one way of life…so I brought you here. Now we’re in this together.”

  “You and me?” I looked at her.

  She nodded. “You and me.” A faint smile came to her face before she continued walking.

  I stared in amazement before catching up with her.

  “I’m sorry it’s no ice cream parlor.” She said without looking at me, just staring at the rocks she was stepping on.

  I shook my head. “No Eva, it’s better than getting ice cream. Thank you for bringing me out here…to your safe place.” I gently grabbed her chin so she would look up at me. Okay! There was the moment again – the deep eye contact, the proximity between the faces and…

  She stepped back, accidently bumping into the side of a train. Eva’s eyes were wide and she looked worried.

  “What’s the problem?” I looked at her, genuinely confused.

  Eva sighed and scratched her head, beginning to pace. “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry I just keep messing it
up!”

  “Eva it’s okay, I’m just confused as to why you keep turning me down!” I exclaimed.

  “I can’t tell you.” She crossed her arms, and looked away from me.

  “I’ll take things slow, I mean it’s just a kiss.” I stepped closer to her.

  She tried to back up but she was already backed up against the train. “Well I’ve never kissed anybody before, and I don’t want to be embarrassing and ruin it!”

  Wait what? I was completely shocked. She was that strikingly beautiful and no one had ever gotten anywhere with her? I couldn’t believe it. I sighed. “Well… I can teach you if you want.” I rubbed the back of my neck; I’d dealt with virgins before but not…lip virgins!

  Eva scoffed. “Oh, because you feel bad for me? Is that it? I don’t want a pity kiss as my first kiss, David.” She emphasized my name with a tone full of attitude. God, how I loved when she emphasized or even said my name.

  I rolled my eyes and closed the distance in between us and without another thought pressed my lips against her full, soft lips. Goodness gracious how they fit perfectly together! I didn’t take it as far as sticking my tongue in her mouth – I didn’t want to overwhelm her. I pulled back and she still had her eyes closed and mouth partly opened, looking as if she was in a daze. She slowly opened her eyes and blinked. “That was far from a pity kiss,” I breathed in a throaty voice, desperate for more. But I had to remember that it was all new to her.

  She placed one hand over her heart and the other caressed her lips and smiled giddily to herself. “My, my, my.”

  I felt like the king of the world; I had just given the most stunning woman the best first kiss of her life! I was beaming, watching her intently. I leaned against the train, placing both my hands on either side of her head, confining her to the space in between my arms and close to my face. “So how was that for your first kiss, Ms. Eva-Marie?”

  She exhaled loudly and smiled up at me. “Nothing I ever could have imagined.”

  “As it should have been.” I chuckled.

  She began twiddling her fingers.

  “What is it?” I asked, desperate to know what was going through her mind. Was she as turned on as I was?

  “Can we do it again…?” She still didn’t look up at me.

  I laughed through my nose and gently rubbed her cheek. “Of course.”

  Eva still wasn’t making eye contact.

  “Eva, what is it?”

  Her dark eyes were now clouded with something…burning hot desire, I’d say. “With...tongue?” Nothing in her expression read that she was joking.

  I returned the desire by kissing her mouth, hungrily, my hands placing hers around my neck and then finding their way to her lower back, pulling her closer. It was as if I was getting a high that I hadn’t gotten in ages; I couldn’t stop! My tongue pried her mouth open, invading her space and began massaging her tongue. I felt like a fucking animal and I was loving every minute of it, I couldn’t get enough of her! Her fingers ran through my hair, grabbing it and pulling at it, turning me on even more. Then she pulled back for air. Eva unlocked her hands from my neck and leaned back against the train, trying to catch her breath. A disbelieving smile was plastered on her face.

  I couldn’t help but to laugh at her smile, but I was also laughing because her joy was contagious. It seemed as if my laughter was contagious as well, Eva was doubled over, laughing along with me.

  “Yes!” She pumped both of her fists in the air. “Yes, thank you!” She screamed as loud as she could. “This is what I’ve been waiting for!” Eva yelled to the sky.

  Laughing, I picked her up and spun her around; I was just so ecstatic over the fact that I was able to bring her that amount of joy! She looked down at me with such genuine joy that I had to lower her back down to the ground and plant one more gently kiss on those lovely lips.

  “Definitely the start of a great adventure.” She whispered.

  15. Making Amends

  David got out of the car and walked around to open my door when we pulled into my driveway.

  It felt as if I had been on top of a cloud in the sky, stuck in a daze for the whole ride home – the night had been purely…magical! As childish as it sounded, it was the only way I could describe my night with David. I wouldn’t have chosen anyone else in the world to have experienced my first kiss with! It hadn’t gone further than kissing of course, and I was one hundred percent content with that.

  “Home sweet home.” David announced when he opened my door.

  I grabbed his hand and let him help me out of the car. “But I’d rather be with you,” I whined, locking my arms around his neck.

  He chuckled oh so sexily and gently rubbed his two fingers down the side of my face. “I don’t want to upset your parents.”

  “It’s too late for all that, they hate you.” I pouted my lips.

  “Crazy how fast things change.” He shook his head and sighed.

  “All because of ole big headed Ray.” I rolled my eyes.

  His jaw tensed. “He could put all the police in the city around you and I’d still find a way to get to you, don’t think he’ll be the one that makes me give you up.”

  I shrugged my shoulders. “He’s got quite some hold on my parents and they’re eating right out of the palm of his hands. Whatever we do, we always have to make sure Ray never sees us together…there’s no telling what he’d force my parents to do with me – or what he’d do to me.”

  “I would kill him if he hurt you.” David said curtly.

  My eyes widened. “Be careful what you say, you never know who’s going to take it literal.”

  He didn’t look at me. “I don’t like him. At all.”

  “And neither do I.” I grabbed his chin so he would look down at me. “But you have to promise me we’ll do our best to keep him from finding out about us.”

  His expression softened when he looked into my eyes. “I promise.”

  I took a step back with my hands on my hips and playfully smirked. “But you’ve got to say it with a smile, that way I know it’s sincere.”

  “Taking my lines now, huh?” A half-smile came to his face.

  “Well?” I waited patiently.

  David sighed. “I promise.” He took a step closer to me and smiled. “With a smile.”

  I couldn’t help but giggle. I locked my arms around his neck and gave him a quick peck on the lips. “That’s what I like to hear, Mr. Finley. Now when’s the next time I’m going to see you?” I asked.

  David shrugged. “The element of surprise is amazing isn’t it?”

  I rolled my eyes. “That’s not the answer I was looking for.”

  “If you get to take my breath away…every goddamn time I see you, can’t I at least, at least get the element of surprise?” He pleaded.

  I tried to hold back my overjoyed grin but it simply refused to be hidden. I pulled him in for a quick kiss; I was getting good at the kissing thing, it was as if it gave me a sort of power I never knew I had. “One more unplanned visit and then we should try to work out a schedule. I don’t know about you but I’d like to know every time I’m going to get swept off my feet.”

  “Not if I’m always there to catch you.” He reasoned, piercing his blue eyes into mine.

  “You just always know what to say don’t you?” I shook my head, smiling.

  “Get in the house before you get in trouble.” He gently pulled away.

  I huffed. “Only if you say so. Goodnight, David. Thank you for agreeing to come out with me tonight.” I started toward my front door.

  “Goodnight, beautiful.” He called. “And just for the record, if it was possible I’d agree to go with you to the moon and back.” He nodded at me once more before ducking into his car. His charm was like no other man’s; he had it all wrong because he was the one that always took my breath away!

  I sighed and absentmindedly stumbled through the front door. Though I was cautious in closing the door, not wanting to wake Flora.

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nbsp; “Where have you been?” My father’s voice asked.

  I was so startled I damn near went back outside! I placed my hand over my heart and caught my breath. The room was dim but I could still see Daddy’s silhouette sitting on the couch in the living room, a curvy line of smoke coming from his cigar. At that moment, I knew that my chances of living to dying were zero to one hundred. I tried to think of a quick lie to at least try to sugar coat the fact that I had broken more rules as I was on punishment.

  “I just had to get some air is all.” I shrugged.

  “This late? It’s pushing nine-thirty. We’re going to try this again – where were you and who were you with Eva-Marie?” He demanded.

  I sighed and thought of another lie. “I was just out with my friends, after all it has been a few days since you all have let me out of the house.” I was wishing that I could see his face so I could gauge his reaction and see if he was buying it or not. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

  “You weren’t supposed to leave the house.” Surprisingly, his voice wasn’t getting as threatening as I expected.

  “I’m sorry…what else do you want me to say? I’m a teenager I don’t have another excuse. I like to be around my friends.” I shrugged, desperately hoping he was buying it.

  My father sighed. “Come have a seat Eva.”

  I walked over and sat on the edge of the couch, as far from him as possible as I could get on the couch. I wasn’t sure what he was going to do but if it involved any kind of spanking I wanted to make sure I had a definite escape route.

  My father shook his head. “Next to me, Eva.”

  Reluctantly, I slid closer to him on the couch.