An American Braviour's Fantasy

Part 14 : Paradiso ~ Sleeping Together

Sam and Rashelle made their way through the crowd and into the locker area where everyone drunkenly scrambled to find their keys while laughing and carrying on. Rashelle found her key easy enough and popped open the locker. She felt like she was saturated in sweat and the last thing she could imagine wanting to do was put her coat on. Even after walking outside and being slapped in the face with an unexpected chill that made her shiver and form gooseflesh up and down her bare arms. Rashelle closed her eyes and stood in the street, soaking up the cool breezes and savoring the sensation of no longer being ensconced in sauna-like conditions.

Everyone else had somewhat similar reactions to the dramatic temperature change. Dioni was now hanging with a new guy, a friends of the bands' that he had run into at the club and they were accompanying their walk back with them as well. Dioni had introduced him as Jessie, his name began with a 'yuh' sound instead of a "juh" sound. She was amused. Did all 'j's' in Dutch sound like "yuh'? She thought. Hmm, she pondered.

After they had all assembled, they began to make their way down the road back towards the Melkweg. After only a few steps down the road, Jai and Dioni huddled up and glanced over at her as they spoke in muffled voices.

"Uh oh." Sam said, also watching them with curiosity. Finally, they both turned around and took a few steps towards her and Sam with extra sweet expressions on their faces.

"Morena... we want to play with your music." Dioni said matter-of-factly. Rashelle was amused.

"Really? My music is that entertaining?" she asked.

"Are you serious? I've never seen so much good stuff on a phone before." Dioni told her.

"It's the American thing." Jai told Dioni grinning.

"Ja, the American thang..." Dioni said, smiling back at Jai.

"Yeah, we want to see what else we find!" Jai added, an adorable grin on his face. Sam just wiped his brow with the heel of his hand and shook his head at them, the faintest smile tugging at the side of his mouth. He glanced over at Rashelle and she gave him a questioning look.

"It's your phone. Whatever you want." He told her straight forwardly. Rashelle took a breath and finally reached into her inside coat pocket, unzipped it, pulled out her phone and handed it over. Dioni and Jai were like two little kids with a new toy. They were unbelievably cute.

"Thank you!" they both said one after the other and proceeded to open up Poweramp and begin scrolling through all of her Playlists and speaking to each other in Dutch, the new guy looking over their shoulders with interest. Once out of earshot, Sam glanced over at her smiling.

"You're very nice to them." he told her as he pulled the hair tie out of his hair, slicked his sweat-moistened curls back into a new smooth ponytail. When he was done, Rashelle asked if he would hold her jacket for a second so she could do the same. She pulled out the hair tie but instead of pulling her hair all back with her fingers, she stopped walking and bent over, flipping her hair upside down while she gathered her dark brown curls somewhat neatly into a high ponytail. Sam couldn't take his eyes off of her. When she stopped walking, she caught Dioni's, Jai's and the other guy's attention and they all looked up from her phone and glanced over. They then looked back at the phone, but quickly took a double take as she flipped her hair back up, arms up above her head, eyes closed as she smoothed her hair back from her forehead and the nape of her neck then finally secured the hair tie around her re-done ponytail.

Damn! They all thought. Standing there surrounded in mist, her breath forming puffs of cloud with every exhalation, dressed in Balmain jeans, leather boots and a skin tight black tank top. From every angle, she was stunning. Soft curves where the best places for curves should be, the slightest hint of a firm musculature just beneath her smooth rose-tinted skin with smatterings of chocolate brown freckles decorating the tops of her shoulders, the apples of her cheeks and the bridge of her nose. One might wonder where else she had freckles hiding...