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“Cheese can be fun sometimes and yes, I hope to influence you severely. Time for Matthew’s party. You ready to go?”
“I’m more than ready. I’m eager to get this over with.”
“Oh Jules. It’s going to be fun. I promise you.”
“Okaaaay,” she said, skeptical.
I walked Jules to my truck and threw my pads in the back. I helped her into the cab and put her seat belt on for her like I did on our library date, except for the part where I lost my head and attacked her.
Matthew’s parents' lake house cabin was on an isolated strip of land on the east side of Bramwell Lake. We had to circle half the lake to get to it.
“We’re here,” I said finally turning into the entrance of the long driveway. “Can you see the lit windows through the trees? I can actually hear all the people.” We passed car after car on our way to the cabin. “Dang, look at all the cars.”
“Must have heard I was coming,” she teased.
o;I know. I can feel it.”
I grimaced.
“Uh, can you feel anything else?” I asked, one eye closed and my nose bunched, already knowing her answer.
“Uh, yeah,” she blushed, nuzzling her face in my neck.
“That doesn’t help the cause princess,” I laughed. “Besides, it’s only natural Jules, you can stop blushing now. I like feeling attracted to you and I like you knowing that I am.”
“I like it as well. Quite the ego boost.”
I carried her in silence and we traded feelings back and forth. First attraction, love, more attraction, heat, embarrassment, awkwardness, back to attraction, then love again. All the while, she unknowingly bit at her lower lip to keep from laughing and I didn’t bother correcting it. I grinned like the overeager idiot that I was. God, but I didn’t care.
When we reached the bridge, I let her legs go but clutched onto her waist not letting her feet touch the ground. I kept my face next to hers and grabbed the basket to set on top of the natural rock bridge before lifting her up to sit on the surface next to it.
“Stay there,” I said.
I took the handkerchief that my mom always insists I bring to church out of my pocket and bent toward the water, soaking it in the chill spring before wringing it out.
“Finally a use for this ridiculous thing.”
I lifted each foot by the ankle and wiped the dirt from the bottom of her feet.
“Ssssttt, that’s cold,” she winced.
“Should have just let me carry you love.”
“And miss this? Never. If I had a camera you’d be immortalized right now. Never had such delicious blackmailing material before. It’s a shame,” she said over my shoulder while holding onto my back.
I laughed before soaking the handkerchief once more and wringing it out to continue wiping the dirt from her already clean feet.
“That tickles!”
She started wriggling her feet but I clutched harder at her ankle to keep her still.
“This is what you get when you don’t cooperate with me.”
“Okay, okay!” She giggled. “They’re clean enough! They’re clean enough!”
She fell back onto the rock and held her laughing stomach.
“I’ll stop if you agree to a condition.”
