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Not so Innocent (Charlie)

"Get your ass up, it's time for my date!" I woke up way earlier than I usually do, but I was so excited. I couldn't go back to sleep.

"Charlie, it's not time to get up and go on the date yet. Go back to fucking sleep." Gage groans and tries to roll away from me.

"I can't, I am too excited!" I whine. I shake him, and crawl on top of him. "Please!"

"Fine Charlie! Damn, you are freaking nuts." He rolls me over, starts nibbling on my neck. I try to squirm away from him.

"Come on, get off me!" He rolls off me after much whining. "Now take me to do something! Better make it good too, or I will be really bitchy!" I tease. I folded my arms over my chest pretending to be pissed. Then gestured for him to proceed.

"Man, I wish I had put more thought into this now." He says sighing. I gave him a sideways angry look. He finally looked at me and smiled. Well that's better.

"So I did have a hard time finding something to do. It helps a lot if you're 21 or just have an id, but I think I came up with some good stuff." We get dressed and go out to the car.

We drove for a while, and I have no idea where we are. Then we turn and there is a sign for Red Rock Canyon National Park. It's beautiful here. The park has a road through it. You can pull over, go check stuff out, or just drive through taking it in from the car. There is so much more here in Vegas than desert and sin.

"Ok, I'm kinda excited to go do outside stuff! I wish I had worn tennis shoes." I am looking at everything in awe. "It's really pretty out here!" I am practically vibrating from happiness.

"So I didn't totally fuck up your day off?" He asks. I think he was really scared. I smiled shaking my head.

"Almost, but I like this. It's almost a normal thing to do! My parents would be totally into this. They would have dragged us around the whole park." I felt like I just hit myself. It had been so long since I thought about my family, either of them. Gage noticed my sudden change in demeanor.

"Charlie, Are you ok?" He asks concerned. I had the sudden urge to cry as guilt flooded me. I am a terribly selfish person. My parents, my brother and his family, Lily, and Marek are people I haven't thought about much since I got here. Gage pulled the car over and put it in park. I didn't notice till he grabbed my hand.

"Charlie, what's the matter?" I don't want to spoil our first date with this. So I get myself together. I hold Gage's hand and put it against my face. I rub my cheek on it to try to comfort myself. "Hey Charlie, talk to me."

"I will be ok. I'm not ready to talk about it just yet." I say trying to fix my face. His pretty blue eyes looked sad but he nodded at me. "I'm sorry for making you worry." I told him as he gave me a sad smile.

"Charlie, you don't need to apologize. I just want you to be ok." He can be sweet when he wants to. I like him so much.

He drove us around till I saw something I wanted to go look at. There were people rock climbing and others like us driving thru. Gage gave me his phone so I could take pictures. He even let me take pictures with him. The only problem was it started to get so hot as the day went on. So towards the end I enjoyed looking at things from the car. We went through the whole park and it was perfect.

After the park we headed back to the apartment much to my disappointment. I was assured that there is more to our date later tonight, and we have time to kill till then.

I know how he wants to kill time. I feel the same way. I can't get enough of him and he can't seem to get enough of me. I had been planning something 'new' for us to do. Something I have always wanted to try. However a lack of serious relationship, and the utter bullshit that is my life prevented it.