What Little Girls Are Made Of

California

California

The plane ride was a bit uncomfortable for me. I once again was sitting in the middle between the two of them. Instead of having to deal with it I reclined my seat back and took a little nap, or I pretended to.

When we arrived to the hotel we checked into our rooms and I went straight for the shower. While I was washing my hair I heard a knock on the door I could only guess who that would be. I quickly rinsed my hair, turned the water off and threw a robe on. When I opened the bathroom door I saw Harper with a push cart full of food.

“We didn’t order room service” I said confused as I towel dried my hair.

“No but I did,” Harper said turning around to face me “It’s your favorite, hotel burgers and strawberry milk shakes.” He said with an egotistical smile on his face.

“Can we talk for a second?” I asked him. Jack was laying in the bed playing with the remote trying to find something on the television.

“Sure kitty cat what’s up?” he said with that same look on his face. I pulled him in the bathroom and closed the door.

“Baby Jack is sitting right outside” he whispered while tracing my robe at the neck line with his finger tips then he quietly laughed.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I asked in a muffled tone.

“What do you mean?” he said all innocently

“I’m married and you have to stop this now! I will not do anything to hurt Jack. I love him too much to do that.”

“I don’t know what you mean. I just thought maybe you guys would be hungry. I know you always shower when we get to the rooms to distress before a job and I thought I would order dinner while we go over the plan for tomorrow night.” he said clearing up any wrong thoughts I had.

“Oh” is all I could get out. I felt stupid for thinking he had an alternative motive behind it.

“Look I know you’re married to Jack and I will respect that and I know you love him. I also know you love me but Jack is a good guy and I will step back and wait.” He then put his arm around my waist and pulled me close to him. My eyes never left his and my heart began to race. He slowly moved his face closer to mine and just when I thought our lips were going to meet, he kissed me on my cheek and whispered “I love you kitty cat” in my ear.

I closed my eyes and felt his hand leave my waist and heard the bathroom door open then close right away. I sat on the edge of the bathtub to pull myself together before I would face them.

“Now I know why you love hotel burgers” I heard Jack say to me as I walked out of the bathroom. I just laughed at him because he had juice from the burger running down his chin. He tried to catch it with a napkin but he wasn’t fast enough so I threw my towel at him and it landed right on his face and that had Harper laughing at him. I grabbed my clothes from my bag and went back into the bathroom to change out of the robe.

After dinner we went over the map once again and the list of weapons we would be using. Jack got excited over the weapons our uncles chose for us. He has never used anything bigger than a hand gun before. Jack called them ‘Rambo’ guns and that had me and Harper laughing at him. I told him if he would like I could run down to the hunting store and get him a knife like his too if he wanted it. He just pouted like a little kid knowing Harper and I were making fun of him.

Night time came and it was time to pick the weapons up. We didn’t want to pick them up during the daylight hours. There was too much stuff and we didn’t want to risk anyone seeing us. Jack didn’t want to go with us he said he didn’t get much sleep the night before and wanted to be rested for the next day. I offered to stay with him, Harper was capable of getting them himself but Jack insisted that I went.