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“Your point?”
“And you’ve got half an hour before curfew right?”
“Again, your point?” She asked cautiously.
“I just thought that maybe, if you wanted to, we could hang in the cab of the truck for awhile before you go in.”
“What are you suggesting we do?” She asked flirtatiously.
“I don’t know, maybe, as a reward for doing such a good thing today we could make out?”
“Elliott,” she laughed, “what am I going to do with you? You know one good thing doesn’t cancel out one naughty thing right?”
“Wait a minute! There’s nothing naughty about making out,” I protested.
“No, there isn’t, but there are things it can lead to that aren’t exactly good for us,” she replied, “and we aren’t exactly the suppressing type.”
“I think we can control ourselves for a few minutes Jules. We did that night I fell asleep on your living room chair,” I basically pleaded.
She sat for a few seconds, thinking.
“No argument there,” she smiled.
We were at each other before you could blink an eye. She felt so warm to me, warmer than the heater blowing through my vents. There’s always something so romantic about the winter. The chill in the air forces you closer to one another and what can be an already satisfying touch always feels extraordinary when it’s cold outside but there was also, for me, the added bonus that every touch from Jules included a shivering electric shudder through my spine.
Winter also brought with it the most enticing smells as well. The clean snow, warm chocolate drinks, the satisfying punch of the woodsy billowing smoke from everyone's chimneys. The smoke was always my personal favorite, besides Jules’ fragrance that is.
When I began to kiss her, I could feel her breath warm against my mouth. I pressed my fingers into the small of her back and culled her into my body. I ran my hand down her hip and thigh and cupped my hand around the back of her knee. She let her hair fall behind her and I brushed my lips along her neck until they reached the hollow beneath her ear. I repeatedly kissed her there. Tiny, insignificant kisses that spread a shiver across her skin. I continued across her collarbone to the bottom of her neck, kissing up her throat and paused when I heard her swallowing hard.
“Stop,” she barely whispered.
“Stop?” I asked quietly.
“Don’t stop,” she corrected.
I continued until I reached her chin and kept going until my lips met hers. She slammed her mouth against mine and the electricity hammered its way through my body, ravaging every nerve that I had, firing off each one with tumultuous effectiveness. I pulled her knee up and around me as I pressed her against the window on her side of the car. I propelled my body into hers, pressing my left hand against the cold glass.
The cold shocked me back into reality. I sat back up and scooted myself away from her.
o;Mom, this meal is incredible,” I said.
Everyone agreed in silence, their mouths full to the brim. The chicken was hot, juicy and crispy. I sank my teeth into it and let its salty goodness slide down my throat.
“Arlene Chambers got laid off today,” my dad said somberly.
The rest of us continued eating accept for my mom.
“What?” She asked, setting down her cob. “That can’t be. They let Bob go just six months ago. What are they gonna’ do Mark? Arlene was just telling me the other day that because of Bob’s layoff they were several months behind in their mortgage. Trust Bank sent them letters threatening foreclosure. She said she’d need five thousand dollars to get them out of their hole and she didn’t know how she was going to do it because her wages alone were barely putting food on the table.”
“Don’t they have four kids?” My dad asked pensively.
“No, Mark, five,” my mom said with tears in her eyes.
The table got really quiet and none of us continued to eat, including Maddy. After a minute of silence, Jules rapped my foot with hers. My heart sunk to the pit of my stomach. I knew what she was thinking because I was thinking the same thing myself.
The next day, after school, Jules and I climbed into my truck and headed to Trust Bank in Charleston because the last thing we needed were people knowing what we were doing. We slumped out of my truck and dragged our feet toward the front doors.
“Wait a minute Jules!” I said stopping abruptly. “Maybe we can think of another way to help them.”
