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out. Are you ok with going to the beach for a little bit to talk?”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
They drove to the beach on the west side of Tampa and John drove around the barricades with his truck and parked in the beach parking lot. He turned the truck off and rolled down the windows.
“Would you like to sit close to the water? I brought a blanket with me?”
Ariel nodded. That sounded good to her, it sounded cozy. Trudging down the beach a ways John stopped after a few minutes to spread out the blanket.
“This ok?”
Ariel nodded again and John gestured for her to sit first, as gracefully as possible she sat over to the furthest corner of the blanket as much as possible without making that too obviou s. John sat down next to her. He had changed into jeans and a button down polo, he looked pretty appealing. There was a nice way that his veins stood out on his tanned and lean arms. A girl couldn’t help but to notice.
John was sitting close to her, but not too close, almost as if he was being careful not to touch her. He didn’t seem in any hurry to say anything and Ariel wasn’t going to be the one to start the conversation. He wanted to come out here and talk, so he could talk and she would listen and see what he had to say. Might as well enjoy the nice night while out here, it was warm and breezy, thundering a bit off in the distance with heat lightning putting on a little show in the distance blouds. Ariel layed back on the blanket and stared up. John was resting back on his arms not saying anything either, but he seemed to slowly be relaxing. Ariel liked it out here, she felt safe and was pretty sure no one was going to bother them. Surprisingly no patrol cars had been through the park either, but this was in John’s patrol area and it would not surprise her if he had asked the next shift after him to give this little park a pass for the evening’s rounds. Sighing, Ariel let her eyes close and listened to the surf. There was something almost magical about being out here near the water at night, especially when she was with a guy who she also thought was pretty special himself.
Ariel heard her name and then John was shaking her shoulders a little.
“Did you doze off on my? Maybe I should get you back home, I didn’t even think about the fact that you just worked a 10 hour shift on your feet all day.”
“No, I’m just fine.”
Ariel opened her eyes and looked towards John to find him laying next to her on his on the blanket looking right into her eyes. She had to look up into his face.
“I wanted to apologize to you. The other night when you stayed over at my house, I didn’t want you to feel like I didn’t want to be with you. It’s not that. I really like you, I don’t want to scare you away, but I could see myself with you for a long term thing. When you cooked for me the other day, no one has done that before. You just made yourself right at home in my kitchen, you didn’t complain or change anything, and you just came in and cooked like it was your place already. I liked that. It was nice to come home and have someone other than Mallard with me. It’s just that after everything that happened with my ex I’ve been really cautious. Plus, you’re so young and I don’t want you to look back on this someday and think I was the older guy taking advantage of you. There is an age difference between us, not too huge, but still, my friend Jeff’s already calling me a cradle robber.”
“John, I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”
“I know that and maybe it’s part of my hang up. So, when Jeff and the guys wanted me to go out last night I didn’t want to go. I wanted to call you and see if maybe
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
They drove to the beach on the west side of Tampa and John drove around the barricades with his truck and parked in the beach parking lot. He turned the truck off and rolled down the windows.
“Would you like to sit close to the water? I brought a blanket with me?”
Ariel nodded. That sounded good to her, it sounded cozy. Trudging down the beach a ways John stopped after a few minutes to spread out the blanket.
“This ok?”
Ariel nodded again and John gestured for her to sit first, as gracefully as possible she sat over to the furthest corner of the blanket as much as possible without making that too obviou s. John sat down next to her. He had changed into jeans and a button down polo, he looked pretty appealing. There was a nice way that his veins stood out on his tanned and lean arms. A girl couldn’t help but to notice.
John was sitting close to her, but not too close, almost as if he was being careful not to touch her. He didn’t seem in any hurry to say anything and Ariel wasn’t going to be the one to start the conversation. He wanted to come out here and talk, so he could talk and she would listen and see what he had to say. Might as well enjoy the nice night while out here, it was warm and breezy, thundering a bit off in the distance with heat lightning putting on a little show in the distance blouds. Ariel layed back on the blanket and stared up. John was resting back on his arms not saying anything either, but he seemed to slowly be relaxing. Ariel liked it out here, she felt safe and was pretty sure no one was going to bother them. Surprisingly no patrol cars had been through the park either, but this was in John’s patrol area and it would not surprise her if he had asked the next shift after him to give this little park a pass for the evening’s rounds. Sighing, Ariel let her eyes close and listened to the surf. There was something almost magical about being out here near the water at night, especially when she was with a guy who she also thought was pretty special himself.
Ariel heard her name and then John was shaking her shoulders a little.
“Did you doze off on my? Maybe I should get you back home, I didn’t even think about the fact that you just worked a 10 hour shift on your feet all day.”
“No, I’m just fine.”
Ariel opened her eyes and looked towards John to find him laying next to her on his on the blanket looking right into her eyes. She had to look up into his face.
“I wanted to apologize to you. The other night when you stayed over at my house, I didn’t want you to feel like I didn’t want to be with you. It’s not that. I really like you, I don’t want to scare you away, but I could see myself with you for a long term thing. When you cooked for me the other day, no one has done that before. You just made yourself right at home in my kitchen, you didn’t complain or change anything, and you just came in and cooked like it was your place already. I liked that. It was nice to come home and have someone other than Mallard with me. It’s just that after everything that happened with my ex I’ve been really cautious. Plus, you’re so young and I don’t want you to look back on this someday and think I was the older guy taking advantage of you. There is an age difference between us, not too huge, but still, my friend Jeff’s already calling me a cradle robber.”
“John, I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”
“I know that and maybe it’s part of my hang up. So, when Jeff and the guys wanted me to go out last night I didn’t want to go. I wanted to call you and see if maybe
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