One Step at a Time

Jake slowly blinked himself awake to the sensation that his arm was aching. He turned his head slightly and saw Liz sound asleep next him, still in the same position she was when she fell asleep and on top of his arm. Apparently he had rolled over onto his back, but his arm remained pinned during the night and now it was getting back at him. Jake sat up slightly and slowly pulled himself free, stopping halfway through when she began to stir, but when she didn’t wake he continued until he was loose.

Sitting up straight now he bent and stretched his arm out a few times to relieve the soreness before looking back to Liz. She looked so peaceful lying there with the sheets covering her, resting her head on her hands as her hair fell in her face. Jake yawned silently and smiled to himself about the night before. He hadn’t enjoyed himself like that in years and it felt good to be in the company of a girl again. He carefully pulled the covers off of him and swung his legs over the side of the bed and made his way around to the other side where his boxers, as well as the rest of their clothes, were scattered.

As he quietly slipped them back on along with his shirt he studied her face for a moment. Taking in ever detail of the way she looked when she was asleep. So content and unaware of everything around her. She had a way of curving her lips in some when she slept, once in a while parting them when she shifted and let out a breath. Jake decided to stop watching her incase she woke up, not wanting the first thing she saw being him staring at her intently.

He continued on out of the room and too the bathroom, cringing as he flushed the toilet and hoping it wasn’t so loud as to wake her. He splashed his face after washing his hands to wake himself completely and decided to take a quick shower while she slept in so he would be refreshed enough to make breakfast for them both. The entire time in the shower his mind was clouded with the thoughts of Liz and their night together, still almost unable to believe that it had happened. If she hadn’t suggested it he never would have considered going that far with her last night, he thought. That was another thing he couldn’t quite believe, the fact that she was the one to trigger it. Of course she would have had to in a way eventually if they were ever going to sleep together. He supposed he would have tried once in a while, but he did promise her that they would move at her pace and he wasn’t sure how comfortable he would have felt doing so.

Jake shook that train of thought from his head. There was no need to think about it now that it had happened, so now he could continue to be with her without any worries. He turned the water off and stepped out of the shower, grabbing a towel and quickly dried himself off. After dressing in his shirt and boxers again he left for the bedroom and stopped at the doorway to see if Liz was still asleep. She was, so he snuck across the room to the dresser to retrieve some clean clothes, leaving just as silently to dress in another room so not to wake her with the rustling of getting dressed.

After slipping on a pair of sweat pants and an old work shirt he headed into the kitchen and looked over the mess from the night before, letting out a deep sigh. “What to make.” He wondered aloud to himself. He moved all the plates and utensils into one half of the sink and place the pot he used for the pasta in the other to soak before making his way to the refrigerator. No eggs this time, he told himself. She needed something more special than a quickie meal with no effort put into it. His eyes roamed the shelves and the door for anything of interest when he spotted a small package of raspberries that he was going to use for a smoothie and an idea came to him.

Liz stirred and turned over only for her hand to meet an empty spot next her and her eyes opened to the sight of Jake missing. She sat up on her elbow and blinked herself awake some before remembering back to the night before, causing a blush to appear over her face. She bit her lip with a smile at the thought of what they had done together and laid back down on her back. He was so careful and considering with her, she thought. Naturally taking care of his needs, but making sure she felt good all at the same time and making her first time exceed any expectations she ever had.

She sat up again and looked over the edge of the bed to find her clothes and got up gingerly to get dressed, putting on only her shirt and underwear. She slowly made her way down the hallway, quickly peaking into the other rooms to see if Jake was in any of them before catching the familiar sent of breakfast being made and headed towards the kitchen.

Jake was standing in front of the stove tending to whatever it was that he was making, occasionally reaching over to grab his cup and take a sip of the green tea he had made. Upon hearing light footsteps he turned to see Liz standing in the doorway with a shy smile and trying to hold her shirt down to cover her. “I’m sorry.” Jake said, his words echoing into his cup. Liz’s smile faded some and was replaced with an expression of confusion. “We never got to watch you movie.” He finished.

Her smile returned and she walked up along side of him to see what he was making. “I think what we did more than made up for it.” She commented, trying her best not to blush but failing. “Pancakes?” She noticed, looking down at the browning circles on the pan and hoping it would distract him from her flushed face.

“Raspberry.” He said as he flipped one of them over.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen raspberry pancakes before.” She noted, shifting a little closer to Jake. “And you say you can’t cook.”

“I can’t.” Jake cleared his throat and reached over to the counter before tossing something dark over the stove and on the other side, landing with a small clunk sound. “That was the first one I made.” He said as Liz picked up the burnt pancake that was about as hard as a brick. “Don’t even ask how I managed that.”

Liz laughed and hugged closer to Jake again. “Well, you seem to be doing alright now.”

“Speaking of alright.” Jake started and wrapped his free arm around her waist. “How are you feeling this morning?”

She smiled knowingly into his side. “Fine. A little sore, but fine.”

“That’s good.” He leaned over and kissed her on the top of her head. “I mean that you’re fine, not that you’re… crap!” Jake stopped his rambling when he realized the pancakes were beginning to smoke on one site and quickly swiped them up on a plate. He grumbled slightly much to Liz’s amusement and he scoffed to the table to put them down. Liz took a seat while Jake got some syrup and breathed in the smell of the meal he prepared.

When he returned Liz had already taken one of the patties off of the main plate and was taking a bite from it, letting out a moan of approval as she saw Jake walk in. “These are delicious.” She praised. “Mush better than regular blueberries.”

“Just wait for your sense of taste to jump in and tell you otherwise.”

He was met with a light kick to his shin after he sat down, but when he made fun of her feeble attempt to get back at him she tried it again only to have her foot grabbed under the table. Jake didn’t waste any time punishing her and ran his fingers over the bottom of her foot, causing her to jerk and cry out in frustrated laughter. She tried to pull her foot away, but the more she struggled the more relentless the ticking became.

“I think you’ve had enough.” He finally said and let her foot go. She immediately pulled it under her chair and tried to catch her breath as she pushed the hair that fell in her face back. Jake nonchalantly took a couple pancakes himself and started pouring syrup on them as if nothing had just happened.

“That was mean.” She finally said, trying to stifle some remaining giggles. “You had no right to do that.”

Jake only shrugged with a faint smile and took his first bite of breakfast as she calmed down. Liz continued her own and the two of them ate in a comfortable silence for the next few minutes. Both of them thinking about the time they spent together the previous night and eying each other fondly. Jake got up at one point to fix Liz a cup of coffee, since that first morning she was over and he didn’t have any he made the habit of keeping some around just for her.

“Well, I’m full.” Liz suddenly said, breaking the silence and wiping the edges of her mouth with a napkin. “And despite what you say, it was perfect.” She was met with a roll of the eyes, but she only responded with a playful frown. “Someday I’m going make you something for a change.”

“You don’t have to do that.” He said in return. “I get by fine with my own.”

“Well, you have little say in the matter.” She said with a smile and stood up, forgetting how little she was wearing. She quickly stretched her shirt down to help cover her when Jake gave a slight grin making her blush. “I, um… I should probably take a shower. Is that okay?”

Jake nodded and pointed his fork towards the hallway as he was finishing a bite that was in his mouth. “Go ahead. There are clean towels in the cabinet by the door and fresh soap and what-not in the other one above the toilet.”

She smiled gratefully and trotted down the hall to the bathroom. Jake leaned sideways some to get a better view of her until she turned the corner at the end and smiled to himself. His mind was still raked with images of her the night before, and now he was going to have new ones of her in the shower he thought. He could perfectly imagine her in there as the water poured over her slick body. Scattered droplets clinging to her face and her long, dark hair mapped out over her back and shoulders while she took in the soothing heat.

Now Jake wanted nothing more than to join her, but he refrained against it, not knowing how that would go over. He cleared his throat in an attempt to clear his mind of these thoughts for the moment as he stood to clean the table. Jake spent the next few minutes washing the dishes from this morning as well as some from the dinner before to keep himself distracted. Until he heard the door open down the hall. He paused and waited for her to come back, but when she didn’t he stopped what he was doing and made his way down the hall.

As he suspected, she was in the bedroom picking up her clothes from the floor and laying them out on the bed. He came up behind her and she let out a startled gasp as he wrapped his arms around her waist, but soon relaxed into his chest. He buried his face in her hair, which was slightly curled and damp from her shower and placed a kiss on her head. “Going somewhere?” He asked, noting her clothes on the bed.

“Not right now.”

Jake brought his head down to the nap of her neck and nipped at it lightly. “Do you have plans today?”

“Not that I know of. Why?” She asked, tilting her head some to give him better access. He didn’t give an answer right away; instead he ran his hands under her shirt and over her bare stomach.

“No reason.” He said simply with a throaty tone. “But if neither of us have plans we may as well stay in.”

Liz shuddered a sigh as his hands roamed higher, brushing up against the bottom of her breasts. His movements were hesitant at first, but when she didn’t resist he continued up, cupping her breasts and taking her already hardening nipples into his fingers. She let out a sigh of approval from his touch before his hands left her and began unbuttoning her shirt. His attention returned to her breasts and her breathing became heavier as she felt him grow hard behind her.

“Do you think, maybe… that we’re getting into this too soon?” Liz said all of the sudden in broken breaths. “We’ve only been together for a month…” She trailed off as he hit a certain spot on her neck.

Jake broke his kiss and looked down at her. “I guess it would seem that way if you only counted this month.” He whispered, dropping his head again and kissing her neck again a couple times. “But we have known each other for over half a year. That should count for something.”

She let out a small giggle and a sigh of contentment. “Why did you have to make that make sense?” She said, Jake laughing in satisfaction when it seemed she accepted the explanation. Liz turned around to face him and before she could say anything else his lips were on hers. Kissing her warmly and deeply as he peeled off the shirt from her back and parted for a breath.

“Lay down.” He said quietly to her lips. She nodded confidently and bit her lip, stepping back and sitting on the edge while Jake quickly undressed and followed her. She laid flat with her head on the pillow and looked up into Jake’s eyes before meeting again in a heated kiss. One which soon left her lips and trailed down her neck, to her shoulders, and finally to her breasts where he stopped.

He took one of them in his hand and began massaging it gently while taking the other in his mouth. Placing light kisses on it at first before teasing her nipple with his tongue causing an electric sensation to run through her body. Jake moved on to the other one to give it equal care and Liz buried her hands into his still damp hair, leaning her head back and closing her eyes to the world and letting herself get lost in his touches. His kisses began moving downward again over her stomach, he was already tugging at her panties and with a lift of her hips he swept them off to meet the floor again.

To his surprise she was already wet for him and he smiled inwardly for being able to get her worked up like this. He swept kisses over the inside of her thighs and he could feel her trembling as he neared her center. “Jake… you don’t have to…” She started, but she lost all train of thought she previously had when she felt his mouth press against her and let out a gasp of both surprise and pleasure.

Jake relished in finally tasting her and taking in her scent as he ran his tongue up her folds up to her clit, grazing his teeth against it gently and sending a shockwave through Liz’s body. She couldn’t take the teasing much longer and she raised her hips into him unconsciously. He responded by taking her clit into his mouth and sucking on it lightly at first, taking one of his fingers and running it over her opening.

Liz let out a shaky sigh as he slid his finger into her and applied more pressure to her clit as he began thrusting his finger in and out of her. It wasn’t long before her sighs became soft moans as he added another finger to her and sped up his motions. Jake became more intense with his methods, taking her clit gently between his teeth and flicking it with his tongue. She grabbed the sheets beside her as the tension began to build up in her lower body, silently wishing for Jake to be more vigorous to bring her to an end.

As if reading her thoughts he forced his fingers into her harder and not much longer after she came, her juices running over his hand and him tasting it enthusiastically. Liz laid there lazily and stared up at the ceiling as Jake continued to give her lower body attention, but before she could recover from her orgasm he had climbed up on top of her again, kissing her deeply and entering her once again. Their kiss was broken when she cried out in surprise as he already started thrusting in and out of her.

Her breathing was labored and her eyes were filled with ecstasy when he looked down at her. She offered him a faint smile, but it quickly disappeared in a moan as he sped up his motions and she grabbed his tightened shoulders for support as he continuously drove into her. She could barely contain herself as she bucked her hips up to meet his and they finally fell in sync with each other, their movements becoming more heated and she was letting out a small moan on almost every thrust into her.

It wasn’t too long until she felt herself coming close again and the look on her face told Jake that. Her eyes fluttered closed as she relied on him to bring her to an end again and he sat up some, brining his hand down on her again and beginning to stimulate her already sensitive clit. Liz’s eyes shot open at the sensation before closing tightly again as she let out a long, stuttered moan of pleasure as she reached her second climax.

Jake came soon after and while his body was still tingling from his release he rested himself on his hands and looked into Liz’s deep, brown eyes.

“That was… Jake…” Liz spoke out softly as she tried to steady her breath. “That was amazing…” He smiled down on her and kissed her chastely on the lip.

“Better than last night?” He asked with mock curiosity. Though Liz’s head hadn’t fully cleared from their recent experience and she nodded her head, biting her lip. “So you’re saying I wasn’t any good last night?”

Liz laughed realizing what she had done and pushed on his chest playfully. “No, no.” She said, bursting into strong giggles.

Jake looked at her with genuine confusion now. “What’s so funny?”

“No, no.” She repeated. “I’m imitating you.” Again he looked at her with an expression that told her he was completely lost. “You repeat words twice sometimes when you start talking. Like ‘no, no.’”

She started laughing again when he let out a sigh and rolled his eyes. “I do not.” He protested exhaustedly.

“Yes you do.” She insisted before breaking out in laughter again when Jake began ticking her sides for short time.

Jake rested down on his forearms and stared at her intently. “You have really lousy pillow talk.” He jested, but before she had a chance to respond his lips were on hers again. Taking her in a deep kiss and she parted her lips to allow access to her tongue. They remained in that state just tasting each other for a few minutes before parting. He looked over at the clock on the nightstand to see what time it was. “Only about eleven o’clock.” He stated. “And if we’re spending the entire day together again, just imagine how many times we’re going to find ourselves here.” He finished with a grin.

Liz blushed at his insinuation. “I don’t mind.” She said shyly, barely above a whisper. “I really don’t.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down to her for another deep kiss, letting him wander over her neck and ear. She couldn’t imagine feeling any better or safer than she did that very instant. Little did she know that the run of the mill blind date would have shaped into such an intimate relationship, and now, at this moment, Jake was something she wouldn’t give up for anything in the world. Nothing that she could foresee could separate them.