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“Your dream’ll come true. Minivan and all.”
Jen looks at me. “I have other dreams too, you know. Other things I want.”
She’s not talking about me making her come twice before morning coffee and at least once after nighttime cocktails. So why does my mind immediately go there?
Because you’re an incurable, incorrigible pervert who takes too much joy in being the bad guy.
“Things like building more bulge-heavy websites when you start your own company?” I ask.
She laughs and wipes her hand on a napkin. “That’s one of them, yes.”
“Not gonna lie, I pictured you building websites for, like, nice girls who sell paintings of angels and stuff.”
More laughter as she leans back on her hands and shakes the hair out of her eyes. The position puts her tits on prominent display. They’re small and pert.
I feel my cock thickening in my shorts.
“I’ve built those websites too. But I’m discovering I’m drawn to projects with a little more complexity. A little moreedginess.” She scoffs. “Maybe I’ve started to enter my villain era without knowing it.”
“As long as the people pleasing stops too, I like this.”
She looks at me for a long beat. Eyes full and thoughtful. I get the feeling she wants to ask me for something.
Ask, I silently beg her. And then:please God don’t, because I can’t deny you anything.
One dog whines, and I turn to see Tai stuck halfway inside the beach bag.
“Tai! What are you doing?” Jen lifts the dog out of the bag. Tai emerges with a miniature tennis ball in her mouth, tail going wild. “What’s this?”
Discreetly adjusting my shorts, I reach over and bring the bag onto my lap. Rummaging around inside, I pull out a bunch of stuff. Mini tennis balls. A plastic contraption called a ChuckIt! that looks like a shoehorn with a cup at one end. A pair of frisbees. Several boxes of treats for small dogs.
Jen stares at the growing pile. “What’s all this?”
“Ordered a few housewarming gifts for Cher and Tai.” I lift a shoulder like I didn’t spend an hour at two A.M. comparing dog treats before saying fuck it and buying them all. “Had a hunch they’d like the beach, so.”
Jen stares at me now. “So you bought them a bunch of adorable toys to play with? Abel!” Leaning forward, she gives me a shove. “How sweet. Thank you. As usual, you’re overly generous. Look at all those treats!” She laughs. “You’re ridiculous.”
My ears are hot, my face is hot. Everything is hot. So I stand up, taking the ChuckIt! thing in my hand, and press one of the tennis balls into the cup. “Should we give it a try?”
“I’d love to, yeah.”
When I say it’s hysterical to watch two wiener dogs charge down the beach after a tiny hot pink tennis ball, I mean it’shysterical.It takes a second for them to figure out they have to bring the ball back to us so I can throw it again, but Jen usesthe treats to quickly teach them. Then it’s smooth sailing. Their little legs are a blur as they run like maniacs up and down the beach. They leap and bark and wag their tails so hard Tai actually falls over a couple times.
The ChuckIt! launches the ball pretty far, but it’s not too humid or hot anymore, and the girls are able to keep up.
Jen insists on giving the frisbees a try. I take one and she takes the other. I send mine in a smooth arc several yards away. But she’s awful at it, laughing as one toss after another wobbles before pitching pitifully into the sand.
“Have you ever thrown a frisbee before?” I lean down to pick hers up.
She grabs it out of my hands, breathless. “So what if I haven’t?”
“Too busy getting straight As and going to college and shit when you should’ve been honing your frisbee skills.” I shake my head. “What a waste.”
She’s shoving me again. Her eyes are wet with laughter. Wonder if Brian made her laugh this way.
Wonder if he knew what an incredible human being she is.
“While you were, what, honing your frisbee skills and getting in sidewalk fights?” She throws her frisbee. It topples sideways and lands at my feet. “Also a waste.”
