Broken Waves

The Dark Shadows

Laura's pov:

"May I be excused to the restroom?" I felt really weird asking but it was a habit I had from home,

"Oh, uh yeah of course." Bart looked up at me from his conversation with a confused smile, and I just smiled back and moved Jack's hand away from me, I couldn't last any longer.

I got up and looked around for the restroom but I just asked a waitress and she pointed towards the corner with the big sign. I thanked her and looked back at Jack and winked at him, hoping that he would get the wrong message. I turned away from Jack then bumped into our waiter.

"Oh my goodness I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" I bent down and picked up the menus that he had dropped.

"Yes I'm alright mam, how about you?" He picked up the last one and stood up,

"I'm perfectly fine." I smiled and handed him the menus. I put my hair behind my ear and I noticed a ring on the floor. "Is this yours?" I picked it up and showed it to him.

"I don't recall having a ring on. I'll take it to the front desk." He took it and put it in his pouch. He took a deep breath,

"If you don't mind my asking, would you by any chance maybe want to go out with me?" I didn't realize that Jack was serious about the flirting,

"I'm sorry, but my boyfriend is back at the table." I felt so bad and his smile dropped from his face,

"Oh my god this is awkward, I'm so sorry- um, I'll be back with your- orders? Yes our orders, no your orders. I'm gonna go to the kitchen." He dropped a few menus and got down to grab them when he looked at my skirt, then he looked back towards me picking them up as he stood up again. I'll be back with your orders in about twenty minutes." Then he quickly walked towards the kitchen- bumping into a waitress on the way.

I turned around to look at Jack who was thankfully talking to Johnson. I hope he didn't see that. I continued towards the bathroom and walked in to the smell of flowers. Looking in the mirror I fixed my hair and re-applied a bit of lip gloss. A woman walked in so I got into a stall to check and see if the waiter had seen my underwear. Relieved that it wasn't noticeable, I took off my underwear to tease Jack and put it in my purse. I opened the stall door and looked in the mirror once again to observe the change.

I walked out feeling a bit abnormal just wearing a skirt with nothing under. When I sat down Jack turned around to face me,

"You didn't touch yourself did you?" I placed the napkin on my skirt,

"What do you think?" I replied not looking at him while I placed my cutlery down.

"How kittenish." He let out a small laugh and put his hand back on my thigh and slowly moved it back when he noticed the difference. "Naughty." He whispered and I let out a titter. He continued talking to Cameron and kept rubbing while I talked to Shawn.

"I called mom about dinner tomorrow night. Do you want to invite Jack, she didn't mind." I put my hand on Jack's,

"I'd love for him to come." Then I took my hand off and remarked Matthew looking at me, annoyed. I looked back at Shawn, "What time are we leaving tomorrow morning?"

"We leave the hotel at nine, the flight is at ten. Dinner is at six like usual." He grinned,

"Did she say what she was making?"

"Oh, she said if Jack is coming she wanted to know what he likes." I looked over at him,

"I'll ask him later." Shawn nodded then checked his phone,

"Mom also asked me why you haven't called home in the past few days. You haven't called?"

"Fuck-" I shuddered and my eyes burst open. Jack then looked over at me and smiled then looked back at Nash. "So much has been going on, I completely forgot to. Is she mad?" I tried to recover and Shawn didn't seem to notice,

"No, I called her when we arrived and said everything was fine." Relieved,

"Thank you." I smiled,

"Food!" Taylor and Nash yelled out. I looked up and saw the waiter who still smiled at me. I smiled back, feeling bad about earlier.

"Your medium-rare 9 ounce steak with grilled shrooms and onions in a small side bowl and a spinach salad on the side with no dressing." He put down my plate and winked again.

"Thank you." I winked at him too and he gave Jack his food,

"Your food." Then released the plate down in front of Jack and it made a thumping sound which made him take his hand off of me. I was surprised at the waiter but he apologized.

"Sorry- it slipped." Jack looked at me and I looked back, shrugging my shoulders,

"I told you." He whispered to me as he took his cutlery out of his napkin and placed it on his lap.

The waiter gave everyone else their meal, "Bon appetite." Then he flashed a smile at me, but I only grinned back. He looked down and walked up behind me,

"My name is Sammy and I'm sorry for looking up your skirt." I choked on my drink and Jack turned around,

"I'm sorry what?" Jack looked at Sammy but he just walked away. "When did he look up your skirt?" He had a worried look,

"I was going to the restroom and I bumped into him making him drop the menus and he looked up I guess, I didn't even notice that he looked." I lied and Jack fell for it,

"That's it?" I nodded and picked up my fork. He was still looking at me but then grabbed his fork and knife too.

"Can I have some coleslaw." I poked my fork over to his plate but he knocked it away. Then he smiled and got some onto his fork and fed it to me having his hand under it.

"What do you think?" He asked as he pulled the fork out of my mouth,

"Not bad." I covered my mouth as I swallowed, "Want some spinach salad." I laughed knowing that he'd say no,

"Sure." He opened his mouth and I gave him some salad and ended up dropping some poppy seeds into my hand. "What do you think?" I asked as I put the seeds on the side of my plate.

"Not too bad, kinda seedy." We started laughing and ate the rest of our meal, picking at each others salads once in a while.

"I have some extra onions if you want them?" I handed Jack the bowl but he declined,

"Not if we're still on for tonight." I slapped his leg and put the bowl back down, "Hey, do you know why Espinosey keeps looking at us?" He whispered into my ear and I looked up at Matt who was indeed looking back at us.

"I have no idea but it's kind of annoying." Then he looked away. "He's been acting strange since dinner yesterday."

"Holy shit." Jack sat back up, "When did you notice him acting weird?"

"When you were touching me at the table the other night, why?" Jack put his head in his hands.

"Matt has a crush on you too? Shawn says so but I thought he was just being friendly, but as you can see for yourself," Jack looked at me "he's right-"

"Are you two telling secrets?" Taylor spoke up.

"Just asking how his food is, how's yours Taylor?" I looked directly at him,

"It's fine."