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a few minutes
later. It turns out he only lives a half-mile down the road from Piper and me.
    “Wait here,” Jaxon says firmly, as he gets out of
the car. I watch him walk in front of the truck to my side of the vehicle. He
opens the passenger door for me and reaches out his hand for me to take it.
    “You’re such a gentleman,” I giggle, and place my
hand in his.
    “Let’s go up to my apartment first. We can grab
something to drink, a snack, and a blanket, before heading out to the
courtyard.”
    “Are you real? I didn’t know guys really did this
romantic shit. I thought that was just in the dirty romance novels I read... or
a cheesy romantic comedy.”
    He tightens his grip on my hand as we walk into his
apartment building.
    “You think this is romantic? Wow, I'm not even
trying. This is spontaneous, spur of the moment. Just wait until I really start
to wine and dine you.”
    “You say that as if you’ll get another chance to
take me out.”
    Unless he does something to royally fuck this date
up, he’ll be getting a second date.
    “I’m an optimistic person, and I usually get what I
want.”
    His confidence is a big turn on, but I don’t want
him to know that his game is working. I stay silent as we go into his apartment
and he grabs everything we need.
    We make our way out to the courtyard and the sky is
breathtaking from here. This is the clearest I’ve seen the sky in a while. It’s
quiet with only the soft sound of the crickets in the nearby grass. A few
apartment windows are open and still have their lights on, lighting up the
darkness.
    Jaxon lays out the blanket and sits down, tapping
the spot next to him for me to sit. I take my shoes off and move next to him.
I’m still in a dress so I place my legs in front of me, crossing them at the
ankles.
    “That was a fun party, huh?” He asks me while
handing me a beer. I’m happy he didn’t try to bring a bottle of wine and
glasses out here. That would have looked like he’s trying too hard.
    “You're hilarious. I think I was in the room a
total of two minutes before I got myself out of there.”
    He takes a sip of his beer and I can’t help
watching the way his tongue licks his lips after he releases the bottle from
their grasp. “I thought you went to Big E’s motel parties all the time.”
    “I do, but I’m usually with Piper and our friend
Mikey. They try and make sure that I’m in a controlled environment.”
    He looks at me curiously, “What do you mean
controlled environment?”
    I look away to think of how I’m going to explain
this to him without sounding like a nut job. When a few seconds pass and I’ve
come up with nothing, I decide to tell him the truth.
    “I know we were drinking last night, but do you
remember our brief conversation about drugs?”
    “How could I forget, you almost left me for the
evening when you heard the crap Ryan and I were spewing out in the game.”
    “Well, that’s me. I know I was tipsy-”
    He raises an eyebrow at me.
    “Okay, not tipsy… drunk, but everything I said was
true and it goes beyond that. I’ve never tried hardcore drugs. I don’t
associate with people who do drugs in front of me, and I think anyone who sells
drugs should have their dick cut off. They are the result of hundreds of deaths
every year. I don’t put all the blame on the dealer, seeing as the person who
dies usually takes the drugs willingly, but it’s a sick business and the people
in it don’t realize all the lives they affect by selling it. The people taking
the drugs don’t realize all the people they hurt around them by doing it.
    “I walked into that motel room and I swear I
started getting high off the stench of pot in the air. Then I see Jimmy, or
Rocks, as some people call him. He was in the corner with two girls making some
kind of drug exchange. I had to get out of there before I did or said something
stupid.”
    Jaxon pulls his knees up to his chest and casually
drapes his arms on top of his knees. “I