The Sub

Chapter 29

Luke is sitting in a beach chair in front of me while I lay on a towel spread across the sand. I'm trying to focus on reading Clockwork Angel but  he makes it hard. He keeps spilling more and more out about his life growing up, and I do appreciate it, but this is vacation. Problems have already came up, and while I'm in the sun and only inches from the ocean, I'd like to relax.

"Luke, will you rub some sunscreen on me?" I turn to lay on my stomach, propping myself up with my elbows and look up at him. He removes his sunglasses and looks at me with his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Is that supposed to distract me," he reaches for the bottle of sunscreen. "If so, it works."

"Afterwards we should go in the water. It looks so nice," I say. I watch as he rubs the sunscreen between his hands, then he leaves my field of vision and is behind me. He straddles my thighs then starts to rub it in my back. His hands feel good against my hot skin, and the lotion cools it.

"I have some other ideas as to what we can do," he whispers close to my ear. I close my eyes and grin, oh he is so hard to say no to.

"Sex later, swim now." I turn my head and kiss hiss cheek. "Now get off of me, you weigh like a zillion pounds."

"That's no way to speak to your boyfriend," he slaps my ass before climbing off of me.

"Hey!" I pick up sand and throw it at him. He starts running off towards the ocean. I chase after him laughing. I notice others watching us, but who cares? He trips when he gets knee deep in the water and goes down. I stop watching him thrash around momentarily before going to his side. "See what happens when you try and run away?" I kiss his cheeks and taste salt from the water.

"Shut up," he rolls his eyes before kissing me. "You're alright with going out far, right?" He asks me taking my hand. We stand up and start walking out  deeper. When we're about waist deep we stop and just float for a bit.

"Thank you."

"What's that?" Luke comes closer to me.

"Thank you, for everything really. you're so amazing." I wrap my arms around him and kiss him deeply. "Luke I-" something touches me and I scream.

"Jacey, are you okay?" His voice is panicked.

"M-my thigh!" I yell and start to bite down on my lip. An intense burning sensation travels down my leg. "Get me out of the water! Please!" I wrap my legs around him and he carries me to my towel and sets me down.

"I'm going to take a look at it, okay?" He tells me and I nod. The pain is almost like a sunburn multiplied by ten. "Baby... I think a jellyfish stung you." He sighs.

"Just my luck," my voice shakes.

"I read somewhere that if this happens, you can have someone pee on you and-"

"Luke Hemmings I am not allowing you to pee on my thigh you idiot!!" I yell loudly, I notice some people have gathered around and are staring. "Any of you have  a better idea? I mean if you're going to stand there and stare, you ought to offer some help!"

They all stagger away and go back to their business. "Let's get you back to the house," Luke helps me up and I scowl at him.

"I can walk now. It's only burning a bit now." I don't mean to sound hateful, but I'm honestly not going to try and be super sweet while my right thigh feels like it's on fire. He insist on carrying everything back, so I walk behind him watching. The house is beachfront, so it only takes moment to make it to the deck.

Luke drops everything beside the sliding door, then holds it open for me. "Go sit on the couch, please." I nod going to sit. When I do I notice Luke is on the phone, but I can't hear him. He's still outside on the deck.