“Can we eat smashburgers, drink, play pool, make out, take atrip to get ice cream before we’re too fucked up to drive, then come home,drink more, play around more, and I call adding some groping and maybe,depending on how that goes, some fingering, and then pass out?”He pausedbefore he finished, “And all that without any heavy?”
“We can avoid what you want to avoid,” she agreed.“Butbefore we do that, are you okay with me watching that film?”
“Yeah, I just don’t want to see it again.”
She took a second to consider that, using that second tostudy him closely, before she noted, “The tat on your back is carved in yourdad’s headstone.He was Chaos too, right?”
“Yeah, I’m a legacy.”
She took another second to ponder this before she set herdrink aside, fit herself to his front, and wrapped her arms around his middle.
“All right, Jagger.I’m good with shifting from theemotional to some fun and physical, if that’s what you want.But just saying,I’ve been waiting years to know you.I’ll wait for you, baby.Just, pleasedon’t make me wait too long.”
He nodded.
Archie pushed up on her toes to kiss him.
He kissed her back.
Then he let her go to get out the hamburger because his girlwas hungry.
“This is not right.You go Heath.You goButterfinger.You go Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.Or the ultimate,” he liftedthe cup in his hand, “Oreo.Youneverdo a limited edition,ever,”Jagger decreed.
“I see my guy is a Blizzard purist,” Archie noted, beforeshoving more of her blasphemous Blizzard in her mouth.
“Yougottaknow I like you,considering I paid for that sacrilege you’re eating,” he told her.
Her eyes were twinkling again when she looked at him at thesame time reminded him, “Jagger, it’s a Wonder Woman Blizzard.It’s animpossibility I’d say no to Wonder Woman, unless she sported pineapple orsomething fucked up like that.”
Jag burst out laughing.
Archie leaned a shoulder into him where they were sittingside by side on the table part of a picnic table in front of a DQ, their feeton the seat.
Jagger spooned more soft serve with Oreos in his mouth.
“Your smashburgers were great,” she remarked.“I’m impressedyou know how to make oven fries.I stand behind this Blizzard choice.And Iwon’t mind if you kick my ass in pool…again…when we get back, becauseit’s awesome watching you work that table, you’re so good at it.But the bestpart of the night was being on your bike with you.”
Yeah.
That was the best part of the night.
Absolutely.
Now, was he gonna say it?
Yeah.
He was.
“That’s my dad’s bike.”
Her tone had changed when she said, “You mentioned that.”
“He never put a woman on the back of that bike, except myma.”
Archie said nothing.
“I’ve never had a woman on the back of that bike, Archie.”
