Page 32 of The Stardust Effect


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“Thank you, it’s my mothers.”

The lights dimmed and the screen flooded with light, June adjusted her body, dismissing the gap between them. She couldn’t help but to look down at Shianne and Max. Maybe Max was her back up plan. June didn’t want to concern herself with what Shianne’s motive was. Wolfie’s beard oil caught her off guard and pulled her attention back towards him and placed her hand on his thigh, wrapping less than half way around it. She tried to focus on the movie, she thought of Wolfie in her ear, She thought of Shianne, and she thought of Ben.

One long hour and a half later the credits began to roll. Wolfie, being one of the first to stand before the lights were on, grabbed June by the hand and led her down the steps. At the bottom he put his arm around her. “Let’s go get ice cream.”

He closed his door to the Jeep and stared straight ahead. “I’m sorry.”

“What?” June was confused.

“I’m sorry for invading your privacy by reading your messages and saying you look hot, I slipped and that was not very respectful of me.”

June looked straight at him, “Are you sayingI don’tlook hot?”

“No,” He realized what he had done, “I’m not saying that.” He grabbed her hand. “I like you and any standard or value I have set for myself, they’re gone.” He tripped over his words. “I feel like a juvenile since I met you and I have had a hard time keeping myself composed. Juniper-” Wolfgang was a mess. He was speaking so fast and came to a complete stop. This exposed side of him made June feel safe with her own feelings towards him, she wasn’t over thinking things.

She was smiling at him, afraid she might start laughing and filled the silence after he said her full name. “I like you too Wolfgang.”.

“Thank god.” Wolfgang exhaled and looked at June, “Can I just,” He leaned forward stopping inches from her face. June’s eyes went from his green eyes to his lips, wondering if she needed to make the last move. “There we go.” He pulled his hand back around revealing a comb stored in the passenger door and flipped his mirror down to fix his unbothered hair. “Let’s go.” He turned the Jeep on, tossing the comb in the cup holder and June was speechless.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang could barely control himself and felt stupid for blurting out what he had just said. Seeing her cold in the movies made it more difficult, jacket or not, he could see she was without a bra. He could see down the top as it shadowed between her breast and when she stood, he didn’t understand how her back half stayed covered with the sway of her hips. He wasn’t mad about it, he was pissed at himself because he couldn’t kiss her for fear of getting handsy or regressing to a teenage boy even more.

Juniper

June slid into the booth before Wolfie across from Whitney and Fade. “This is fun,” Whitney picked up her menu. June looked across at Whitney like she had something to say as Fade leaned over to whisper in her ear, “I know, it’s just a dress.” She rolled her eyes and reached under the table to grab his knee. June caught Fade’s eyes and he smiled at her.

“What looks good to you?” Wolfie leaned into June. She hardly looked at the menu with Whitney and Fade’s interaction about her outfit.

“Hm.” She looked down and glanced over the menu. “That looks tasty.” She pointed to ‘brownie a la mode’.

“Alright,” He grabbed their menus and slid them to the end of the table.

“How was the movie?” Whitney closed her menu and propped her elbows on the table.

“Fine,” June looked at her trying to impersonate Brittanya to get her attention but wasn’t getting the response she needed. She felt Wolfie’s hand caress her thigh, planting it on the hem of her dress and his fingers pressed against her skin. Wolfie’s hand heating her thigh made her heart race, especially when his thumb started moving back and forth. “Guess who we saw there.” June whispered.

“Um,” Whitney thought, “Who?” She seemed puzzled and took a sip of her water.

“Shianne.” June practically mouthed, she was so quiet. Under the table she felt Wolfie’s hand tighten around her thigh softly. She crossed her legs the opposite way, trying to get rid of him, with no luck and instead trapped him between her thighs.

A snort came out of Whitney followed by a coughing fit, “What?” She asked between coughs as Fade tried to help her.

“She was with Max.” Wolfie’s hand twitched.

Whitney looked at Wolfie and cleared her throat, “That’s uh, that’s quite the jump. And so fast too.” She sniffled with her eyes watering.

“Mhm.” Wolfie’s eyes crinkled at the sides with a smirk.

“How did you two meet?” June looked across the table.

Fade threw his arm around Whitney as she began, “We actually met on Placement Day, we flew over here together.”

“No way.” Wolfie expressed he was surprised by this information.

“And we kept running into each other, him being an electrician and my job in the office. It didn’t take long for us to get to know each other.”

“That’s incredible.” June replied.

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