MY LITTLE HIDDEN GEM / JJ MAYBANK

reflection

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"Morning Princess." Jj spoke his voice all croaky and groggy, it was unusual for him to wake up before her. Their bodies were tangled together perfectly, as if they were designed to fit with each other. Her warm breath spread across his chest as she was still in a deep slumber beside him, instead of trying to wake her he just accepted her slumber and laid there in adoration.

How her lips were puffed out and her cheeks were squashed against his body.
Her eyes closed, her dark eyelashes slightly curled up and some leftover light makeup that she hadn't taken off the night before painted on her face.
She had tan lines from her bikinis all traced over her bare body, different shapes of pale from different strings of the straps.
Her hair perfectly highlighted from the sun and salt water, never brushed but yet always seemed perfectly tamed.
She had freckles painted on her face and lips, and pretty beauty marks dotted on her back and stomach.
She was 5"6, not tall yet not short, and her body was slim with curves on her hips, even if she didn't think that at times.
And when she was awake, she had the most perfect smile, her teeth never touched with braces, yet they were imperfectly lovely, her lips sometimes reaching ear to ear when she was really happy, which wasn't often but it was breathtaking when she was.
..In Jj's eyes she was, well, perfect.

"Morning." Penny said under her breath as she shifted slightly in her position.

"We're meeting the Pogues in half an hour is that ok?" Jj whispered, to which he received a nod from the girl on his side. Her eyes hadn't opened yet.

"1 more minute." She mumbled, pulling him closer so she was almost lying on top of him. His hands found themselves in her hair, trying to make a braid, but not quite working it out.

"Your doing it wrong." She smiled, looking up at him now, she moved so she was lying on his chest and used her hands to prop her head up ever so slightly. "Last night was fun." She softly giggled.

"Yeah." He leant in kissing her forehead. All of a sudden there was a rattle in the kitchen, and a voice of a grown man calling Jj's name. "Shit." Jj voiced, sitting up and jumping out of bed to put clothes on.

"Is your dad home?" Penny said, her eyes wide, as she held the duvet over her body.

"I think so, stay here and get dressed. Don't come out, I'll be one second."
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"Dad, your home." Jj spoke, Luke was sitting on the couch, a beer already in his hand at this time.

"What you got a girl in there or something?" The man asked.

"I um."

"That's my boy, she anything special or just a hookup? I want to meet her." He smirked, Jj's face staying completely straight with his jaw slightly clenched, he sighed before going back into his bedroom.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't know my dad was going to be home." Jj voiced, his hands crossed behind his head.

"Babe it's fine, I want to see him anyway." Penny said, holding his cheek and rubbing her thumb over it.
Penny had met Luke a few times before at Jj's house by accident, Jj never let friends come over to his house, partly because of embarrassment and because of his father, but mainly she saw Luke where she lived, he would occasionally drop in at Barrys who wouldn't give him enough or he would just go to hers, for deals.

"Okay, you got all your stuff?"

"Mhm." Jj opened to door and Penny followed behind him. Smiling when she was greeted by his father.