Into the ocean's abyss

Chapter 3: The morning after

I woke up to the smell of pancakes. It was a sunday morning and it took me a moment to register that I'm still in Jack's house.
"Good morning Nina ,pancakes?" He asked bringing a plate to the couch where I'm sitting.
"Good morning Jack, yes please I'd love some pancakes!" I replied taking the plate from his hands.
He came and sat by me on the couch as we ate pancakes and wached a nature documentary on the television.
"I'm sorry for falling asleep on the couch," I said as I cleared the plates off the small coffee table.
"No worries, you actually wan't me to have a movie night again tonight," he said with a smirk.
"Haha you're funny aren't you,"I said mockingly.
"You have to go to work today?" I asked as he was finding a other show to wach.
"No, the shop is closed on Sunday's. So today it's just me and you and roxy, my cat," he said while picking up his ginger cat off the floor.
I didn't even know he had a cat, how cute!
I love cats, my dad had one, archie. He was the love of my life. My best friend but after my dad passed he found a new home.
"What do you have planned for today?" I asked while loading his dishwasher.
"Well, you have to wait and find out," he replied.
"What should I wear? Something nice or something casual?" I asked sitting down next to him on the couch.
"It doesn't matter, something you would wear to the beach,"he said.

I got dressed in blue bikini and a white dress with my sandy blond hair down and my flip flops.
Jack was wearing a lilac purple tank top and white swimming pants.
"We are going to the beach. How do you feel about sailing?" He asked.
"I've never been sailing but it could be fun," I replied quite excitedly.
"We better get going then. The water is going to be still so were taking Roxy with. She love's sailing," he said putting a harness on Roxy.

When we get to the beach it looks like the perfect sunday afternoon. The water is still with no waves. No wind. Its hot and there is hardly any people. Perfect.
"Hold Roxy, I want to take a photo of you two," he said bending down on his knees.
He took a couple of photos before reaching into his backpack to reveal a yellow Polaroid camera.
He held the yellow camera out to me and said,"Now you can take some photo's too, there is going to be a great view in the water."
"Oh my goodness thank you, but first hold Roxy, I need a photo of the two of you."
I bend down the same way he does and took a photo. He has this huge smile and looked so handsome. I took one more and shook the polaroids and waited for the photo to show.
I held one out to him. "Here you go. I'm a professional as you can see. You two look so cute."
"You going to keep the other one?" He asked pointing to the other photo in my hand.
"Yeah, just as a memory," I said putting the polaroid in my phone case next to the flower photo.

He took me to the boat and we set off into the ocean.
"Is this your boat?" I asked.
"No it's my uncle's. He lives in that beach house over there,"pointing with his finger to the house that's almost built on the sand.
"Oh that is so great, does he mind when you take it out?"I asked
"No he doesn't, he never uses it and is happy when I take it out so it's not just sitting there," he replied while putting the enjin off so we can just float in the still waters.
He came and sat done next to me and Roxy on the nose of the boat where there is this sort of taning bed.
"Isn't it so beautiful out here. It's so quiet and all you can hear is the noise of the birds and the water splashing against the side's of the boat," he said putting this arm around the back of the taning couch around my body.
"It really is. I can't believe I've never been on a boat before. It is so peaceful," I said while admiring the stretch of ocean lying ahead.
"Put Roxy down," he says with s straight face.
"Uh okay, why tho?" I asked being quite sure he is going to murder me now.
"Take off your dress," he said taking off his shirt.
I took off my dress and then he just picked me up and threw me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walked to the nose and jumped in, with me clinging to his neck.
"You thought I was going to murder you, am I right?" He asked holding one arm around my waist in the water.
"Well I mean yeah ofcourse. I really did. But give me a warning next time you throw me in the water,"I said laughing.

There was a moment of silence while he looked into my eyes, still one arm around my waist.
"I'm really happy I met you Nina Howard," he said while tucking a piece of hair behind my ear.
"I'm really happy I met you too Jack Richard," I replied back.
I ran my hands through his hair and ruffled it around and ducked under water swimming away from him while he tried to catch me. When he finally caught up he grabbed ahold of me from the back and held me as I fought him off.
He than turned and laid on his back in the water floating. I joined him and we just floated until the sun hot a bit too hot and we decided to go back and re-apply some sunscreen before we burned too bad. His neck was burned quite bad. He asked me if I can rub some sunscreen onto his back and so I did. I could feel his muscles under my hands. Hard and tough. The softness of his skin. I felt quite close to him. Even though I only knew him for about 2 days, it felt as if I've known him my whole life. The strange thing is that I always had trust issues and refused to get close to people because I didn't want to loose anyone again and I think that it is time to set that aside and maybe see how things turn out. I don't know what he wants but I know what I want. I want him. But not yet ofcourse.
He rubbed some sunscreen on my back too. I can feel his warm hands stroking my back in sircles. Slowly. I can feel his skin, tough and soft.
We have a little picknick on the boat with Roxy and at about 4:00 we decided to head back.
Through the day I've took some pictures of him and Roxy ,and some of the water and the clouds in the sky. He took some photos too. Mostly of me.

When we got back home he quickly showerd while I orderd take out for us. The pizza's came right after I finished in the shower and we began to eat and wach a movie. I rubbed some after sun on his neck and back where he burned the most.
After a while of watching movies I said,"I'm tired, I think I'm going to head to bed."
"No, just stay a bit longer please, I'll carry you to bed later, I just want your company a bit longer," he said grabing ahold of my hand. I gave in and fell asleep on the couch with him and woke up in the guest bed the next morning.