A Greek Odyssey - Jason Fic

CHAPTER 19

Jason looked up at Lexi sheepishly wondering what her reaction was going to be, hoping she felt the same way. The expression on her face was unreadable - she looked shocked, but Jason couldn't tell what exactly going on in her head and she wouldn't meet his eyes, as she turned over in her mind what he'd just said.

Lexi's head was screaming at her. "NO, NO, NO!" and her heart and body were shouting at her "YES, YES, YES! GO FOR IT. TELL HIM YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY."

For a couple of minutes Lexi said nothing as she fought with the demons raging around inside her head. Her heart was telling her that she was as head over heels with him as he probably was with her, but her head told her that Michael had said the same thing to her a year ago and look where that had led.

Slowly Lexi looked up and met his gaze and felt herself melt inside. It was at that moment she realised that Jason wasn't Michael, that she had to follow her heart not her head, go with it and surrender to the way she felt about him. She gave him a small smile, 'I think I've fallen in love with you too. I just didn't want to admit it to myself as I was so scared of getting hurt again and wanted to protect myself.'

Jason pulled her towards him, tilted her chin so that her lips met his and kissed her. 'Thank fuck for that!' he said,  relief running through his voice as he pulled away from her and winked. 'I thought I'd made a complete tit of myself there!'

Lexi laughed and said, 'don't worry I'll tell you if you ever do that!' she ruffled her fingers through his hair, making it stand on end. She leant forward and kissed him again, locking her arms around his neck and running her fingers through the hair at the nape of his neck where it was so soft.

Jason pulled away from Lexi and looked straight at her with a serious expression on his face. 'I know you've been messed about in the past and I have no intention of doing the same to you. Ok?' Lexi nodded, gave Jason a small smile and a gentle kiss on the lips, savouring the taste and smell of him.

By late afternoon, the sun was starting to lose it's fierce heat so they decided to head back to Finkounda. Lexi was showing signs of having caught the sun on her nose which was looking decidedly pink. They arrived back around an hour later, after stopping off en-route at the supermarket to get bits for dinner that night. Jason dropped Lexi back so she could get changed, with a promise to be back in an hour to pick the four of them. He was glad that Josh had suggested her family come over for dinner as it meant he could get to know them and they could get to know him better. Lexi leant over and kissed him goodbye and ran up to her parents' apartment to let them know to be ready in an hour.

'Hi mum!' she called, pushing open the door which they'd left ajar without knocking. At first she thought no-one was in as the bathroom and lounge area were empty. There was a muttering from behind the bedroom door and her dad's face and shoulders peered from around the door.

'Helloooo!'

'Oh. Hi dad,' she said, taking in the reddened and rumpled state he was in. She realised she'd obviously disturbed them "at it". 'Jason's coming for us all in an hour ok?' she flung over her shoulder, as she made a sharp exit, leaving them to continue what she'd quite obviously disturbed. She laughed to herself as she opened the door to her apartment and thought it was sweet that her parents were still so mad about each other after 30 years of marriage together. Though the thought of them having sex at their age was a bit weird to say the least.

She went back to her apartment and quickly got changed. There was no sign of James, apart from his clothes in heaps next to his bed and what looked like the remains of crisp crumbs in his side of the bed. Lexi sighed and set about cleaning the bedding. She really didn't want to get into bed tonight and find stray crisp crumbs in all her nooks and crannies.