Chapter 8

Author notes: Slightly inspired by greyhaven11’s story Daze (chapter 7 to be exact). Much to love to her for having such a wonderful story to inspire me. Oh and this chapter is unedited so please read with sympathy for my poor writing skills.

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“I can’t do this.”

I am absolutely sick to my stomach. It’s like a million butterflies are dancing around inside of me. All of my skin feels so sticky and disgustingly clammy. Just thinking about the date tomorrow night has my knees shaking. After all these months this is going to be our first public outing type of thing. Oh god! I think my eye is even twitching.

How could he do this to me?

“I can’t do-” I got cut off by Karen who threw a pillow in my face.

“You’ve been saying that since yesterday,” she groaned as she shook her head in her hands, “give it a rest.”

Easy for her to say. She isn’t the one coming out to everyone! I can just picture it now. By Monday everybody and their mother is going to know about the date, but more importantly, everyone is going to know that I am dating perfect Tyler Sims. I mean as if going on a date with him wasn’t enough – no – he has to go and choose Nicky’s of all places.

Gah…

“I-” Karen shot me a glare. “I feel sick.”

“That’s it,” she announced standing up from her bed and grabbing my hand. “Let’s go.”

“Wh-what?” I pulled my hand back from his grasp. “Where are we going?”

She grinned as she grabbed both our purses from the closet and the keys off the dresser. “We are going somewhere that will definitely make you feel better about your date.”

Well gee if that isn’t the explanation of the year I don’t know what is.

“But Karen,” I whined, which just caused her to laugh. “I feel-”

“If you say that one more time I am kicking you out the car while I’m in drive.” I pouted but kept my mouth shut. “Hurry up!” She pulled harder on my hand making me trip over my own feet.

Why did I have to have such a violent best friend?

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“Eh?” I look at the sign that is hung outside the department store. “Victoria’s Secret?”

“You’re going on a date with Tyler Sims.” She wiggles her eyebrows making me blush. “Who knows if after the date you and him-”

I covered her mouth with the palm of my hand to stop her from finishing that thought. Though my mind already had and now here I was with cheeks a billion shades of red. It isn’t like mister kitty and I haven’t done the deed, it is just hearing Karen talk about it… It just felt weird having someone talk about Tyler as Tyler and putting him in the same sentence as me. Little humdrum Julia Mills with the great and fabulous Tyler Sims. It just didn’t sound… right.

“Just come on,” she grabbed my arm and dragged me into the store. I let out a small whine, which only served to get a couple of people to stare at me oddly.

Karen led me into the store and let go of my hand as soon as we hit her desired section. She immediately went digging through the racks of lacy and sheer thongs. Oh joy. Okay, so it isn’t like I don’t own my fair share of thongs and see through bras. It’s just that before I wasn’t buying them to show off to mister kitty, I just got them to make myself feel sexy. Now it was a whole other playing field.

What if Tyler didn’t like what I picked out?!

What if it just reminded him of another girl?!

What if it made me look fat?!

Sigh.

I miss the simplistic days where buying a thong meant just that and not that someone would actually see it.

“Hey!” I turned around to see Karen holding out two different pairs of under garments: one sheer thong and the other a pair of lacey boy shorts. “How do you think I’ll look in these?”

Somehow I don’t think this day can possibly get any worse.

“I will not pick out some underwear for you Karen!” The women standing near by gave us a strange looked as they moved away.

“Come on baby,” she snickered as she tried to slide a hand around my waist. I elbowed her ribs, allowing me to step away from her. “You take out all the fun out of shopping together, you know that?”

“Yeah I know.” I sighed, running my fingers through me hair. “I’m such a loser.” She just rolled her eyes.

“At least start picking out things for yourself.”

Karen gives me a push and shoves me to the nearest aisle of very little fabric. I glare but she waves her hand at me as she walks elsewhere and leaves me alone to shop. At least now I can be relatively alone – well – I’m not exactly alone but at least I’m not with Karen. This experience is sickening enough without her constant taunting. But I can understand why my behavior seems silly to her, after all, it’s not like Tyler hasn’t seen me in sexy underwear before.

All those times were different though – all those times I was ‘showcasing the goods’ for mister kitty and not Tyler Sims.

Sigh.

Here I thought girls were supposed to enjoy shopping. Today is definitely going down as one of my most miserable days in history. All because of that cunning mister kitty cat… he is so going to owe me big for this.

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The Very Sexy collection certainly lived up to its name. Most of the things in here would certainly give mister kitty a nosebleed just by looking at me. The idea of that is rather tempting I must admit.

These lingerie sets had to be made for women in Venus or something. Though I have to admit most of them are… pretty enough, there is just no way all of me could fit into that close to nothing little thing. I’m not even big for heaven sakes, but that thing was just impossibly tiny.

“Psst…”

I wonder which would mister kitty prefer.

Usually I go for something simple – sheer but never completely transparent – and just overall modest. But there was nothing in here that was even close to the word modest. I picked up one baby doll piece with lace cups that had a tiny removable ribbon over the nipple area. I can feel myself blush at just the thought of wearing that for mister kitty.

“Psst…”

Who keeps doing that?

Frowning, I turn around prepared to give whoever it is a piece of my mind but instead feel myself freeze on the spot. This cannot be happening…

“Mi—mis-ter ki-kitty c-cat.”

There he is casually standing with a hand in his pocket and only a few feet away from me. He flashes me a smirk as his eyes drifted to the item in my hands. I quickly put the item back in place. My mouth opens and closes a few times but I can’t even form a word. I must look like a deer caught in headlights. This is the last time I ever listen to Karen.

I can still feel his eyes on me as I turn around and pretend to go through the different lingerie sets. Maybe if I pretend he isn’t here, I don’t know, maybe he’ll take the hint and leave. I risk a glance at him only to see him in the exact same spot. The expression on his face however is no longer smug. Mister kitty looks to be in some sort of a trance. I follow his eyes to the cutout teddy piece in my hands.

Guess I know which one to get now.

I look around and spot the dressing rooms unattended. Perfect. I smile and wiggle my index finger for him to get the hint. The sheepish grin on his face tells me he understands completely. I am in the dressing room for less than a second before he walks in right after me. Mister kitty is really like the definition of sneaking around.

“Do you normally shop here?”

“Reid was dragging me to the arcade like always,” he shrugs his shoulders and takes a small step closer to me. “But I saw Karen dragging you in here.”

“So you couldn’t pass up the chance at inflicting even more humiliation on me.” I crossed my arms over my chest and turned my head away from him. “That’s not very nice.”

He chuckled as his hands undo my arms from my chest. “I’ll make it up to you,” he mumbled against my lips.

Kissing him is an activity that will never get old. I wrap my arms around his neck returning his kisses with equal fervor. He broke away from me all too soon but I’m still breathless all the same. Those azure eyes linger on my lips: the intensity of his eyes makes me shiver. When did I get lucky? Luck is the only explanation I can think of for being able to be with him.

“What?” I ask as I notice his eyes continue to study my lips. The focused attention has me slightly flustered. “Do I-”

“What is that?” He interrupts me while his eyes remained completely transfixed. I frowned, slightly confused at his question, then I noticed him lick at his lips. “On your lips.”

Oh. So that’s what he means. Heat rose to my cheeks almost instantly. Karen and I had stopped by Bath and Body Works prior to coming here. Lip gloss was without doubt one of those things I did enjoy shopping for and overly indulged myself with the samples.

“The top lip has strawberry-” I fumbled with the buttons on his shirt. “-and bottom lip has melon.”

Tyler grinned at me and pressed a light kiss on the corner of my lips. “Get both,” he said, dipping in to steal two more kisses from me. I felt his arms loosen from around my frame and I instantly grabbed at the hem of his shirt.

“I should go.” I nodded and he planted a chaste kiss on my lips. “I’ll call you later.” With that, he peeked around the curtain of the dressing room and casually walked out.

I can still feel the warmth of his body and the feeling of his soft lips against mine. Pressing my back to the wall, I slide down until my bottom reaches the floor. Mister kitty cat has managed to turn me into a mushy puddle of goo with just a few kisses.

Sigh.

One thing is for sure, I will never be able to come to Victoria’s Secret without thinking of mister kitty. But I really don’t think that is such a bad thing.

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Author notes: This chapter was kind of short and kind of pointless but… I’m a sucker for fluff. Besides I don’t want to rush into the date so suddenly. I have officially mapped out the remainder of this story and it is 12 chapters plus an epilogue PLUS a bonus chapter containing a deleted scene from the story. Excited? I know I am! My predication is having this story completed by late September. It might seem like a long wait but I have so many other stories that need my attention too.

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