Beyond The Words | Chapter 21

[gnomess92]

Chapter 21
“I think about you all the time…”
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Let me see you stripped, down to the bone

….

Turning off the tap she ran her fingers in the water, it was the perfect temperature. Exhaling, she walked over to the bathroom door.

“Um it’s er, it’s ready.” Jenny shouted looking at Nate. She watched as he made his way over to her slowly, brushing past her gently as he made his way into the bathroom. Frowning he looked at the bath she’d run for him.

“Huh…”

“What you don’t like bubbles?”, Jenny said grabbing some towels and putting them on the counter.

“No the bubbles are fine, it’s just the bath salts I don’t get… I can smell them from here.”

“Yeah, sorry about that. I sort of got carried away.”

Standing next to him, she looked up at him nervously. “So um, you wanna get in?”

“Yeah…”, Nate replied turning to face Jenny. Grabbing the bottom of his shirt she looked up at him.

“This is gonna hurt a little bit.” She whispered, causing Nate to nod his head. He raised his arms slowly wincing at the pain in his rib’s.

“Take it slow ok?” Lifting the shirt over Nate’s head she threw it in the laundry basket turning her attention to Nate’s bare chest. “Im gonna have to take your bandages off for now, I can put some new ones on later.”

“Ok.” Nate said nodding his head appreciatively. She was so gentle with him, so delicate. She almost made the pain go away.

Leaning herself in close to his chest she began unravelling his bandages slowly, taking close care not to touch Nate’s ribs in any way, Nate couldn’t help but smell her hair, take in her scent. She always smelt so good. Finally removing the bandages from his ribcage she threw them onto the counter. Noticing his small stitches, she was tempted to run her fingers over them but, worried it would hurt him Jenny turned her attention to Nate’s face, Nate’s eyes. They were filled with so much want, so much passion it never ceased to amaze Jenny.

Gulping, she turned her attention to his belt and began unbuckling it, her hands shaking. Undoing his button, she pulled down his zipper slowly licking her lips, she found herself locked in his gaze once again. She saw Nate’s eyes close as her hands brushed against his crotch, pulling his jeans down gently she helped him step out of them, before standing back up and locking eyes with him again. This was it. All that was stopping Nate from exposing himself fully to Jenny was his thin cotton boxers. Jenny backed away slowly her heart pounding in her chest.

“You know maybe, you should do this part.” Jenny said backing up against the sink and looking down.

Nate smirked before grabbing the top of his boxers.

“Ok, I’ll just be...turning around now.” Jenny bit her lip nervously, this was insane. Nate Archibald, Nate frickin’ Archibald was undressing in front of her, in her bathroom. Jenny felt Nate walk up behind her throwing the boxers into the laundry basket. Jenny’s mouth opened, he was naked now, he had to be - there were no more layers, her heart was beating at an unhealthy rate, she suddenly felt flustered.

“It’s ok, you can look if you want.” Nate whispered against her hair. Oh god! He had no idea how tempting that was.

Jenny groaned, frustrated that he was hurt, frustrated that she couldnt throw him up against the wall and kiss every part of his perfect body. Yet another reason this man drove her insane. “Just… get in the bath, please.” Jenny managed to spit out, amazed she could actually string a sentence together.

“Im gonna need some help…”, Nate said backing away from Jenny.

“Oh god.” She whispered underneath her breath. “Fine, but Im keeping my eyes closed.”

“If you say so.” Nate laughed gently, putting his good arm around Jenny’s neck. Aiding him to the bath, she helped him climb in which was harder than it should have been since she couldn’t see a damn thing with her eyes shut.

“You in?”, Jenny asked.

“Yeah Im good.” Nate looked up at Jenny and smiled. “It’s ok you can look now, the insane amount of bubbles cover's everything up.”

Opening her eyes slowly she saw Nate was fully covered in a froth of bubbles, exhaling she grabbed a sponge.  “So what do you want me to wash first?” Jenny asked grabbing some soap and rubbing it on the sponge.

Nate tilted his head playfully, raising one of his eyebrows. Jenny couldn’t help but smirk.

“Oh my god, your disgusting...” Jenny said turning around.

“Im kidding! I might be hurt, but Im pretty sure I can wash those parts myself.” Grabbing Jenny’s arm he twisted her around. “Hey come on, will you just wash my shoulders please?”, Nate pleaded smiling up at Jenny. She could never resist that smile.

“Ok…”, Jenny sighed sitting on the bath. She dipped the sponge into the water before washing his shoulders gently, making sure she was extra careful not to hurt his bad shoulder.  “Only for you.” Jenny muttered looking into eyes and smiling.

“You know, for a second I thought you’d put all this crap in here because you wanted to join me.” Nate whispered looking at Jenny.

Swallowing deeply, Jenny dabbed the sponge into the water again and began washing the back of his neck. “Well, you thought wrong.”

“Yeah I guess so…”, Nate replied before suddenly grabbing her arm and pulling her into the tub with him.

“Nate! What are you doing?! Your gonna hurt yourself!!.” Jenny shouted as she fell into the water.

Nate wrapped his good arm around Jenny, as she observed where she was - where she was sat.

“So you are too hurt to undress yourself and run a bath, but you can easily yank me into the tub with no pain.”

Nate laughed. “Some thing’s are worth the pain.” He replied.

Jenny couldn’t resist giving his body a proper look. Scanning his face, her eyes soon wandered down his neck, down his toned chest and stomach all the way down to his… Woah. Jenny hadn’t seen many of these before, infact she hadn’t seen any at all, but she was sure Nate’s was beyond an average size, it was big, and it was ready… ready for Jenny.  She felt a tugging between her legs as his hand moved up her thigh, underneath her dress.

“Nate…”, Jenny moaned closing her eyes.

“Where’s Liam?”, Nate asked, his lips so close to hers she could feel his hot breath on her lips.

“He’s gone.” Jenny whispered, gripping his hair in her hands.

“Good”. His hand moved higher, until he was tugging at her underwear.

“We cant, Nate your hurt…” Jenny said brushing her nose against his.

“Well then you better be gentle with me.” Nate whispered, kissing Jenny passionatly.

Hearing the loft door open she pulled away from Nate quickly, climbing out of the bath.

“Jenny?!”.

Running out of the bathroom she shut the door behind her, before turning to face her brother.

“Dan! Hey.”

“Hey”, observing his sisters clothes he noticed she was soaking. “What happened to you?”

Shit. “Um, the er, the tap in there is crazy. It just exploded on me.”

“Huh…”, Dan shot his sister a confused look before turning to open the bathroom door.

“Nate’s in there, he’s bathing you know good for his… bones.”

“But you were just in there…”.

Trust Dan, tonight of all nights to be observant of his sisters where abouts. “It’s, not important. So how’s Serena?” Jenny asked walking to the kitchen, trying to divert her brothers attention.

“She’s great, were great. I just came back to get my stuff for tomorrow and check you were alright.”

“Dan, Im not a baby. I can take care of myself.”

Dan held up his hands. “I know, but Im your big brother Im entitled to worry about you every now and then.”

“You’re an idiot.” Jenny laughed putting the now melted ice cream back into the freezer.

“That’s, that’s real nice Jenny.” Dan said walking into his room to back some overnight stuff, condoms probably Jenny thought, but the idea of talking about sex with her brother was surprisingly more revolting than talking about it with Lilly or her Dad.

“So when did Nate get here anyways? Vanessa told me they’d released him but I thought he was back living with Chuck…”, Dan said walking out of his room, his bag and laptop in hand.

“Um he’s not been here long, he just wanted somewhere to crash for the night.”

“And you recommended our bathtub?”

Jenny tilted her head to the side, leaning against the counter.  “Dan, he forgot his medication ok? He’s in a lot of pain and I figured a hot soak would do him some good, can we drop this now please?”

“Alright, you gonna be ok tonight?”, Dan said making his way to the front door.

“Yes Daniel, I will be fine.”

“Ok Jennifer, tell Nate I said Hello.” Dan replied, winking at his sister before leaving the loft.

Smiling she turned on the coffee machine, another night alone with Nate,  now that was something to smile about.

….

“So that was a little clumsy of you earlier falling in the bathtub like that.” Nate mocked drying his hair with a towel.

“Your not funny.” Jenny replied, eating her popcorn.

“Then why are you smiling?”, Nate asked throwing the towel at her.

Laughing Jenny threw the towel on the floor. “Would you just sit down and watch this movie with me? Your supposed to be resting.”

“Ok.” Nate sat down next to Jenny before she noticed what he was wearing.

“Do you always walk around in just your boxer shorts?”. Jenny asked admiring his sculptured body.

“Nope, but there’s a first time for everything right?”

Jenny looked at him confused.

“Oh come on, you cant give me that look. Miss ‘this shirt was really comfy to sleep in’….”

“It was!”, Jenny yelled setting the popcorn down onto the coffee table.

“Sure, and the umm, the knee high socks did they just fall on your feet?”

“What you liked the socks?”, she asked raising her eyebrows at him.

“They might have been… somewhat attractive.”

Smiling Jenny grabbed the bowl of popcorn resting it on her lap. “I knew you were into it.”

Grabbing a blanket, Nate threw it over him and Jenny. “So what are watching?”

….

Jenny awoke to the sound of thunder and lightening outside. She hated when the weather was like this, it always creeped her out, looking to her left she saw next sleeping peacefully next to her. Pushing the blanket off of her she began nudging him gently.

“Nate, Nate come on…”. Frowning Nate grabbed her hand, before opening his eyes.

“What?…”

“It’s time for bed, come on.” Pulling him up gently, the two walked to her bedroom door before Jenny turned around to face him.

“So…goodnight.” Jenny whispered causing Nate to look down and sigh. He was expecting to sleep with her, in her room tonight.

“Goodnight Jenny.” Kissing her on the forehead he made his way to Rufus’ room.

Watching him, Jenny was startled by the loud rumbling of thunder she could have sworn the loft shook, she always got jumpy during rain storms.

“Nate…”

Smiling he turned around. “Yeah, Im coming.” Walking back over to her, he gestured for her to enter her room before following her and shutting the door behind them.

Jenny helped him lay down on the bed, making sure he didn’t hurt himself before cuddling up against his chest. “So rain storms freak you out huh?”, Nate muttered pulling her close to him.

“Yep, ever since I was a kid.”

“Well don’t worry, I’ll protect you.” Nate whispered against her hair.

Jenny smiled, kissing his chest quickly before resting her head back against it, listening to his stready heartbeat.

“You always do.” … After all he was her Knight In Shining Armani and that would never go out of Fashion.