I feel my body go weak. Luke's lips are so soft and firm. He removes his lips from mine, looks me in the eyes, smiles, then kisses me again. Not using his tongue but a pure innocent kiss. It's just as passionate and perfect as I imagined it would be. I am warm and tingly, with screams of joy radiating on the inside. I am feeling completely breathless.
He ends the second kiss and says, "We should get back to the shop."
Unable to speak, I nod and smile at him. He smiles back as he gets up from my blanket to pack up the food. He walks over to the lake and fills up a water bottle. I grab my blanket and shake the grass from it before folding it up. I watch as Luke puts out the fire and grabs his cooler. He smiles at me then turns; I follow him as he takes off back through the woods to my car.
Chapter Fifteen
The whole drive back to the shop, I am floating outside my body. Luke makes me feels so beautiful, and I am starting to become comfortable with him. I catch him looking at me a lot on the way back while we sing to the radio just like we did yesterday. His voice is incredibly sexy when he tries to sing instead of being silly about it. Today has been the best day I have had in a long time. Luke is fantastic, and he is everything I could want in a guy.
Luke grabs the volume button and turns the music down a little, "What movie do you want to see tonight?" he says, looking at me while he fidgets with one of the air vents.
"I was thinking since it's a nice day and should be a nice night, most likely, we'd go to the drive-in instead of the theater." I smile.
"Where is there a drive-in?" he asks.
"Not too far from the shop. Every summer, well, at least when I still lived here, they would open the old drive-in for the summer," I say, feeling unsure if they even still open it anymore.
Hopefully, I am right.
"That would be cool! I could pick you up in the Charger. If it happens to not be open anymore, we can do Plan B and head to the theater," Luke states.
I pull into the shop and park back where I was this morning.
"Sounds like a plan," I say in excitement.
Luke gets out of my car, but he bends down before he closes the door and says, "See you tonight at seven-thirty! Oh, and pop your trunk, would ya."
He winks and closes his door. I sink back into my seat and soak up every moment of what took place at lunch before collecting myself and heading into the shop to finish working with Gladys and Maureen.
I walk into the shop, and the first person I see is Jason. I hope he did not see Luke and me together just now as I do not need him starting a fight at work.
"Alicat! What are you doing here?" Jason says with a confused look on his face.
"I've been here all day working in the office with your mom and Maureen," I reply.
He chuckles, "For reals!?"
"Yeah, we are going over everything she does for the shop before she retires in a few weeks," I explain.
I am so glad I did not have to defend my whereabouts with Luke. Jason is in a good mood, and I prefer it that way.
"What? Maureen's retiring?" he says.
I am a bit surprised that he does not know. I swear sometimes talking to Jason is like talking to a wall. He's cute, but most of the time, the hamster is asleep at the wheel. Luke peers around the corner and walks to a stall where a truck is lifted into the air. He must be changing a rear differential or something.
He's so hot when he is full of grease and sweat. I wish he had his shirt off, so I could gawk at him. Not that his face isn't more than enough. I turn my attention back to Jason as I completely missed most of what he said to me about Maureen. I am so obsessed, ugh, is that the proper word for what I am feeling right now. I have been ignoring most of what others say to me when I think about him. Okay, yes, I'm obsessed.
"Are you coming to the cabin with us this weekend?" he says, well more so, pleads.
"Who all is going?" I reply, already knowing the answer, but I want to see if he will say if Luke is or not.
I'm not even sure if he is. I forgot to ask him during lunch.
"Well, Friday will just be me, Austin, my parents, and... fuck face over there," he says as he looks in Luke's directions.
Yes! Luke's going! It does not matter that Jason loathes him since I already have a contingency plan for that. I hope they don't get into any fights while we are at the cabin. Breaking stuff there would be awful because a lot of the decorations are priceless antiques. Hopefully, Ris will keep Jason occupied enough for that not to happen.
"Then a few other guys, Nikki, and Mindy will be coming up Saturday," he finishes.
I blurt out, "Bridget too?"
"No, she has to work, and I don't want to hear her whiny ass all weekend," he bellows loudly.
I am so mean for being tickled pink, jumping up and down inside, knowing that Bridget will not be coming to the cabin this weekend, and I will not have to compete
