Blue

Chapter 9

Elaine's closet was a combination of plain T-shirts and dress shirts accompanied by some skinny jeans and straight pants. In short, nothing fancy. All she wanted a dress to be was comfortable and not flashy. The dress that now lay on her bed was was Maire's gift for her 17th birthday. Since the last 3 months Maire had been begging her to wear it, but Elaine being Elaine just dumped the dress in her closet. 

Elaine felt nervous. She had never been on a date before. And she didn't even know how to apply eye liner in a straight line over her eyes. Her reflex was to call Maire and ask her for advice, but she recalled that her phone still lay hopelessly on the floor in the lounge. 

Groaning, she made her way to the bathroom. After washing her face and scrubbing it, she changed into the blue dress. She then put on a pair of black leather tights, not wanting to look too slutty. She applied some red gloss on her lips after which she stared at her reflection in the mirror. She didn't look bad, but was probably looking too casual for a date. She took her iron out and worked on her hair, not liking them dead straight, she just straightened them slightly and pulled them all to one side. After that she pulled on her black heels; again, a gift from Maire. 

Clasping on he late mother's pearl bracelet, she was ready, Elaine just went and sat on the bed. She didn't want to go to Neill herself, and make it seem like she was at peace with this idea of a forced date. She was not kidding herself, and admitted that she enjoyed the idea of a date with Neill, but she wasn't going to give Neill the pleasure of knowing that. 

After another 5 minutes, she heard Neill's voice. 'I've given you a good half an hour, now I'm coming in!' he called opening the door. 

All prospects of speaking left Neill, as he stared at Elaine. She looked so pretty, it was unreal. He had always seen her in unclingy, casual clothes. She was always the prettiest thing to him. But looking at her in that delicate dress which hung around her knees as she was sitting, watching the belt around her perfect waist, was just heaven. He let his gaze trail down her sleeveless arms before he met her gaze. How he wanted her to hold him in those arms. When he looked at her beautiful green eyes, he saw them trailing over his body. Her mouth hung slightly open. He had hastily changed into the deep blue silk dress shirt and black pants that Maire had packed in for him. She was right, they were in perfect combination with Elaine's dress. It wasn't like Maire was giving him all this advice willingly, but she couldn't refuse an alpha's command. Neill felt bad for forcing her to do this, but she didn't realize the intensity of the situation. 

Elaine was caught off guard seeing Neill in this dress. He looked so handsome, it made her mouth water. He seemed like a celebrity model. When Elaine realized she was caught checking him out, she hastily shifted her gaze to her lap. Closing her eyes she took a deep steadying breath. The silence air was pregnant with tension. 

After what looked like forever, Neill spoke. 'I know you feel amazing in my arms and you're waiting for me to carry you to my car, but it might screw that pretty little dress of yours, so I'm guessing you'd prefer walking?' 

Elaine met his eyes, she tried not to melt under his gaze and glared at him. After a hard stare off, Elaine finally sighed and stood up walking towards the doorway that was now blocked by Neill. She stood there before him waiting for him to give way. There was a slight gap beside him which, if Elaine went through, would involve brushing against Neill. A thoroughly inviting prospect, she wanted to avoid. 

'Move', Elaine said irritated. 

'Ladies first', smirked Neill pointing towards the small gap. 

Elaine huffed and pushed past Neill slamming her elbow into his shoulder. 

'Really? Now you're finding excuses to touch me Elaine?' 

Ignoring the surge of electricity running through her, Elaine stomped off to the door.