Mysterious Traveller - Jimmy Darling x Reader

Curiosity

The whisper of skirts and indistinct but excitable chatter grew in volume as you drew closer to the living room, the centre of the fanfare. You peered around the corner of the kitchen, adhering to the ingrained standard that a young lady shouldn't be seen nor heard.

Your mother reclined in the centre of the lounge, airily assuring her guests that the handsome traveller she had found in the dust of the new roadside attraction was a real showman, her lips quirking at the secret meaning behind the words. Her confidence soared to even greater heights when one of her friends, a previously unsatisfied housewife emerged from the bedroom dishevelled with a wide grin stretching across her face. You caught the glint in your mother's eye as she tried to persuade a more nervous acquaintance to embrace the talents of her newfound diamond in the rough. Your curiosity burned unashamedly within your breast, taking advantage of the delay you crept through the kitchen unnoticed and down the hall. Your heartbeat was erratic as you neared, closer and closer still to the bedroom and mysterious wanderer within.

Your fingers stroked the door frame and lingered on the brass knob. The hinges creaked as you pushed the door open and resisted the urge to knock, receiving permission in your own home. Your eyes widened at the sight that greeted you. He surely was handsome, caramel curls just dusting his forehead and smirk twisting his lips.

'Don't worry, I don't bite', his soft words contrasted with his sultry positioning. The dimmed lights cast his face in shadows darkening his warm façade.

'What if I want you to?' The words escaped before you had finished the thought and now that they had you were unable to call them back, you weren't sure you wanted to when he bared his set of gleaming white teeth and tilted his head back in the throes of a boisterous laugh.

'C'mere Baby' He couldn't keep the smile from his words.

You tentatively stepped forward, heeding the mysterious stranger's words. You froze though before you were even in his reach, the sound of heels on plush carpet signalled an interruption. Ducking behind the door you grinned at the rush of adrenaline, the possibility of getting caught. You eased around the nervous woman toying with her underskirts struggling with her attraction and anxiety. Her attention was thankfully captured by the visitor on the bed, she was so entrapped that you escaped without difficulty.

Safely on the other side of the door your breath stuttered and you continued down the hall to the rear of the house intent on finding fresh air, it was far too hot for your liking.