Shae’s laughter put him at ease. Finally she seemed to relax next to him. “Okay. That makes me feel a littlebetter.”
“The other night I was just asking. Just trying to break theice—”
“Iknow.”
“I wasn’t trying to put any pressure on you. I didn’t exactly hate iteither.”
“What? My super weird first dateconfession?”
“It wasn’t weird and yeah that. Tell me what else you want in a relationship. Go ahead. Whatever comes to mind. Nothing can shockme.”
“Don’t say that. I might seem like a sweet, horny baker, but there’s some wild stuff going on up here,” she said, tapping her temple with herfinger.
“Give it a try. What do you want rightnow?”
“I want to have fun with youtonight.”
“We can definitely make that happen.” Aidan’s smile dropped, though, the second Shae leaned closer and lowered hervoice.
“Also, I do really want to see your dick up close in real life and then maybe ask you questions about it because booooy, I havequestions.”
Aidan swung his arm around Shae’s shoulder as he burst out laughing. Then he kissed her forehead. “After dinner, you decide—your place or mine. You can have an in-depth, person to package interview with mydick.”
“Deal.” Aidan held still as Shae leaned up and kissed him on the mouth. When they came up for air, he took a few extra minutes lacing up his skates. There were children around and he and his dick were in no condition to take to the ice. Not justyet.
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Shae figured out how to deal with her crippling Aidan-related anxiety. All she had to do was spend every waking moment with him for the rest of her life. After they finally dealt with the elephant in the room, she had a blast during the skating portion of their date. Turned out Aidan was an amazing skater. He left out the part where he started playing hockey when he was eight and sometimes felt more comfortable in his worn out Bauers (Shae no clue what the fuck those were) than he did in regularshoes.
Shae on the other hand was a terrible ice skater. She put in one hell of an effort and that resulted in her at least staying upright a good portion of the time. It also gave her an excuse to hang on to Aidan’s muscular bicep for the bulk of theevening.
When she was with him, she realized she didn’t feel nervous at all. Aidan was so very sweet and very attentive. Shae could feel that she had all of his attention, even when other women were trying to catch his eye as they made their way around the rink. He didn’t even seem to notice. They kissed a few times on the ice and then again when Aidan was helping her take off herskates.
She realized she could get used it, smooching a really hot, nice guy. The thought of getting used to it had the anxiety creeping back, but the moment he took her hand and led her around the corner to the Yard House, she let those tight feelings go. This was just their second date and, as far as second dates went, Aidan made for excellent company. All she had to do was enjoy his company and everything would befine.
The sprawling brewery style restaurant was really crowded, packed with patrons watching football, basketball and even rugby on the large mounted televisions. It was so loud they decided to eat quickly and then head back to Shae’s apartment to watch a movie. And by watch a movie, Shae hoped Aidan meant put on a movie in the background while they got completely naked and did it in front of her Christmastree.
As Aidan was paying the check, Shae may have mentioned that she had a fresh caramel brownie trifle back at her apartment. She thought he was going to pull her arm out of its socket rushing her back to thecar.
“You can’t tease me like this, Shae!” He yelled as he weaved through all the people blocking his exit from theplaza.
“It’ll still be there when we get to my place,” she reminded him as he gallantly opened her door and almost shoved her inside. Tears of laughter were nearly running down her face as he started cursing an elderly couple who were taking their time exiting the parking garage ahead ofthem.
“You can take the whole thing home with you. The wholetrifle.”
“Don’t play with my emotions. I’ve been thinking about that crunchy sweet goodness foryears!”
“I made some at the store the other day and you never cameby.”
“I’m a working man, Shae! I thought you would save me some but you were sold out everyday
before I could get over there—Will you hurry the fuck up!!!” he shouted in this hilarious, over the top shriek. Good thing the windows were up. Shae could not stop laughing. As soon as they got back to her apartment, she made him sit on the couch and then she grabbed two wooden spoons and set the whole trifle down on the coffeetable.
“Go at it,guy.”
“Thankyou.”
Shae kicked off her shoes and made herself comfortable as Aidan slid to the edge of the couch and pushed up his sleeves. He grabbed one of the spoons and then turned to her. “Are you going to want any of this,because…”