The Concert

At last

I was just starting to fall asleep when a knock on my window startled me. I sat upright and went to the front door. As I opened the door Eddie came into view, "Evening princess, it's a clear night out" he gestured toward the sky. I smiled and grabbed an oversized jumper and a blanket. Eddie took the blanket from me, and we headed down towards the lake.

In the clearing the lake looked black in the moonlight. So perfect and still, reflecting the bright moon and stars. That was the beauty of the trailer park, it was so out in the sticks there was hardly any light or noise pollution. Which meant on clear nights the stars were so bright and clearly visible. It had become a little ritual of ours, on clear nights we would head down to a quiet spot on the jetty, and we would lay for hours, laughing, talking about music, school and life.

"That was playing dirty tonight" Eddie said as he lay the blanket down and gestured for me to join him. I smiled and lay down next to him "yes well, you deserved it!" I replied. He began to attempt to put on a horrendous British accent and began mocking me "it was very unbecoming behaviour from a lady!" I couldn't help but laugh. "Since when have I been a lady?" Eddie looked at me wide eyed in shock, "What?!" He started looking me up and down in a very animated way, "you mean...you're a dude?!" he joked... then raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders "well it would kind of make sense actually..." to which I playfully hit his stomach with my hand "cheeky!" his jaw dropped open as if in shock as he turned to face me "did you just strike me?" I giggled "I think I did yes" to which he sprung round, and we rolled around wrestling in a playful manner, "I say! This is not ladylike behaviour!" he mocked in his horrendous British accent. Which made me laugh, giving him the upper hand. He wrapped his legs around mind and pinned my wrists with his hands. We sat looking at each other, him down on me and me up at him. My heart was racing, I looked at him, willing him to finally do it, to kiss me. I could sense that he wanted to! He sat there looking down at me, his gaze soft his grip loosed around my wrists and instead moved to interlock with my fingers above my head. "You're beautiful, you know that?" he smiled. I smiled back at him, we remained looking at one another entwined on the floor, but suddenly it was like he remembered himself, he cleared his throat and sat up "sorry" he moved away. A pang of frustration struck me to my core. I could sense his uneasiness, "Why are you apologising?" he started to mess with his rings and didn't want to look at me as he replied, "It's just so easy with you, you know?" he began to fidget more "you're not like everyone else, you don't treat me like..." he paused "a reprobate?" I interjected, he laughed "not what I was going for...but yeah. Although, you probably should" he joked. I chuckled "Maybe?" He began picking things off the floor and throwing them into the lake "It'll suck when we can't do this anymore" I frowned "what do you mean? He continued to throw things in the lake, "I can't imagine King Steve will want you hanging out with Eddie the Freak when you become 'Queen Freya'" he said like it was a matter of fact. I couldn't help but laugh, "Again with this King Steve and Queen Freya thing? What is that?" He looked over his shoulder and said, "Come on, everyone knows he has huge thing for you!" I shook my head and laughed again "Steve has a thing for everyone, in his never ending conquests...Besides "everyone" would be wrong!" I insisted, Eddie tuned around "I overheard him in the library talking to that Robin chick, telling her all about how he plans on taking you out on a date. How you're different than the other girls he's been dating. I can even tell you where he plans on taking you, if you'd like to plan ahead?!" His tone was almost bitter. I couldn't help but laugh more, which seemed to agitate him.. I couldn't decide if his jealousy was endearing or not, so proceeded to tease him just a little more. I looked at him as if I'd just heard a great revelation, "Oh wow!" Eddie nodded and pulled a face "Yeah!" But before he could say anything else I continued "And you heard that in the library?" he frowned, "Yeah!" I made a point of showing my contemplation, then followed by a "Wow, that's amazing!" Eddie frowned at me, I looked at him "I'm shocked! No, really, I am! I didn't know you could read!" I barely got the last words out before I burst out laughing. Eddie wasn't as amused as me. "Funny!" he said sarcastically. He went to get up to leave, I grabbed his hand and pulled him toward me "Ok!,Ok! Listen, there's at least three issues with this train of thought you seem to have running through your mind! Even IF Steve had a thing for me, it doesn't matter if it's not reciprocated" Eddie looked at me curiously "why do you keep saying IF. I just told you I heard it, straight from the horse's mouth!" I rolled my eyes "oh please, I'm just the next name on the list of conquests he's created to try and distract himself from the fact that he's still totally in love with Nancy!" Eddie's eyebrows raised "Wheeler? Really?" I nodded and shot him a look of "are you with me?" he nodded "huh" I could see he was contemplating my response. I shivered "it's getting cold, let me steal some body heat, I call dibs on little spoon!?" he was almost surprised at my request, "sure!" he grabbed one end of the blanket, and we pulled it over us. We lay there in the quiet. Feeling him close, laying in his arms, I felt at peace and safe. I entwined my fingers with his, his grip got a little tighter and he pulled me in closer, "what was the third thing?" he said softly "huh?" I replied. "You said there were at least three issues, you only mentioned two?" I understood and sighed a content sigh "I wouldn't give up these moments for the world!" Eddie lay silent but squeezed my hand tighter. At last, he said "really?" I turned to face him, "yes really" I replied. We lay looking at each other, he raised his hand up to caress my face, tracing my bottom lip with his thumb. He inhaled deeply and said almost in a whisper "you really are beautiful" I smiled and pressed my lips to his, my heart almost leapt out of my chest when he kissed me back. His kiss was soft and tender. We looked at each other smiling, elated at having finally doing what we had longed to do. After a few moments Eddie pulled away "Wait! Am I dreaming? We fell asleep right?" he asked with a smile on his face, looking around. I smiled and shook my head, "No, you're not dreaming". Eddie frowned in a disbelieving way, he put his hand on my face and began to pull me towards him "I need to double check" and he pulled me in for another kiss. This kiss was more forceful, he kissed me with purpose. He pulled me into him and held me so tight. I was in sheer bliss, like a pressure valve had been released, I felt like I had been waiting for this moment for a lifetime. Things got increasingly heated, before long we were pulling at each other's clothes. Slowly I lifted Eddie's t-shirt over his head, revealing his tattoos on his chest. He kissed my neck and pulled back to lift my t-shirt over my head, "Is this, ok?" he asked. "Yes" I answered and pulled him in for another kiss. The next few hours were amazing, our bodies entwined on the jetty, I don't know what time we fell asleep. When we woke up the sun was starting to rise, the sunlight was starting to break through the trees. "Are you ok?" Eddie asked, I smiled and nuzzled into his "Yes!" He kissed my forehead and we lay there for a while. I caught sight of the time on Eddie's watch "Ugh" I groaned, "we need to think about heading back, its 0530" Eddie grimaced, "Or we could just be naked lake people now and stay here forever!" I smiled "if only!". We reluctantly started to get up, Eddie slipped his boxers on and started retrieving various items of clothing that had been discarded in our throws of passion. He handed me my clothes and started to get dressed himself. Then we started to head back to the trailers.

We walked hand in hand, smiling as each other. Once we stood at the door of my trailer Eddie opened the door and held out his hand in a gesture to help me up the stairs. I smiled and nudged his hand away; he took that opportunity to grab my hand and pull me into him, kissing me, one hand around my waist and one around the back of my neck "Can we just stay here forever and keep doing this?" Eddie asked in a half joking way, "I'm happy to give it a try" I whispered in between kisses.

We were suddenly aware of someone repeatedly clearing their throat, loudly. We soon realised it was Wayne, Eddie's uncle. We reluctantly released one another and stood awkwardly in front of Wayne. "Good morning, Freya...Eddie..." he said eventually. We both stood like naughty children, waiting for his judgement to pass. Wayne started to walk towards his and Eddie's trailer and mumbled to Eddie as he past "you best be using protection!" He didn't wait for a response, it was more of an instruction, rather than a question. As the door closed to the trailer, we both burst out laughing and he lifted me up, I bent down to kiss him, and he slowly lowered me so I was standing. "Should we go inside?" Eddie asked as he leaned against the trailer, pinning me between him and the wall, it took an enormous amount of effort to postpone "I wish we could!" He smiled "we can, the doors right there" he said looking to the door next to us. I smiled and rolled my eyes, "we could, but then we won't come out all day!" I spoke. He simply smiled "and that's a bad thing?" I bit my lip and inhaled deeply, "You are a bad influence, Eddie Munson!" he just smiled again, "what was it you said? A reprobate?" I laughed, "I think it was something like that yes!" He sighed "oh well, I guess to be continued?" he smiled. I couldn't help but smile "absolutely!" He kissed me one last time then started to back away, holding onto my hand until the last minute. I turned and went to go inside; I looked back to him and he smiled and winked at me.

I headed in and jumped straight into the shower, reminiscing about the night before.