Camden Vaile

Tuesday, April 28th

I woke up hot and pinned down. I opened my eyes to find Joel practically laying on me. He had his head on my stomach and his hands holding onto my sides. His feet were hanging off the bed and he was softly snoring. He didn't even move when I giggled. We had finally made it to the bed at some point early this morning.

I threw my arms out to stretch and he still didn't move. I ran my fingers through his hair and all that got was a sigh. He wasn't budging and I so had to pee. I said softly, "Joel." Nothing. I ran my hands over his shoulders and said a little louder, "Joel." He kissed my stomach and turned his head the other way. I had to giggle again.

I tried to push myself slowly out from under him but all that accomplished was him hanging onto me tighter. I finally yelled, "JOEL!"

His head flew up with his eyes huge and he said, "Huh!?"

I started laughing and he gave me a frumpy smile and said, "What was that for?"

I said, "I have to pee and you wouldn't move."

He looked down and seemed to see for the first time that he was using me as his pillow. He gave a lopsided grin and said, "Oh." Instead of rolling over he scooted up and gave me a long good morning kiss and said, "Morning," then rolled over.

I sprang up and ran to the bathroom. When I was done, I started the shower and was just standing back up when his arms came around me. He mumbled, "Interesting view," as he ran his hands up over my body. It proved to be an interesting shower.

Later when we were done we got dressed and went into the kitchen for some breakfast. I was shocked to find it was already 1000. I decided I just wanted some toast because I wanted to go run.

Joel said, "Are you sure you wanna run today?"

I teased, "What's the matter? You a little hung over still?"

He grinned and said, "No, I'm not smarty. But I am tired. It's not like we got a lot of sleep last night."

I cut my eyes at him and said, "How much of last night do you remember?"

He smirked and said, "Oh... I remember everything." Great! Ha!

I pursed my lips and said, "Hmmm.... Well, if you don't want to go, I can go by myself. I don't plan to run more than a couple today. I should be done in an hour."

His face turned serious as he said, "I don't think so." When I started to protest he just slowly cocked his head to the side and when I stopped talking he said, "What time do you want to go?"

I just frowned at him then said, "When we're done eating I guess."

He nodded and said, "Ok."

We ate in relative silence and then he helped me clean up the mess. How long was this whole Jackson thing going to go on? As we got our things together to leave he stopped and pulled me to him for a kiss. When he pulled back he said, "I love you."

I smiled and took his lips for another kiss then said, "I love you too."

When we got to the park, we went through our normal routine of stretching and running. We took about twenty minutes to run two miles. We were standing on opposite sides of my car, stretching our legs, when things turned crazy.

A car screeched to a stop behind me and Jackson jumped out. He had me around the waist and was dragging me backwards before I even realized what had happened. Joel was around the car in a flash and was jerking him off me.

As I was flung to the ground, Joel jumped on Jack. All I could hear was the sounds of fists hitting flesh and curses being thrown. Jack managed to get a couple of good shots in to Joel's stomach and one to his jaw. Joel didn't even seem to notice. He just kept pounding on Jack. I thought he was going to kill him.