.

Once my spells of crying subside, Jax releases his hold of me, observing and making sure I'm not about to lose it again.

"I didn't mean to make you cry. I really do have a fun night planned for us." He takes his thumbs and swipes them across my wet cheeks, clearing what remains of my meltdown.

"Show me before I start crying again."

Jax smiles and drops his backpack to the ground near mine. He walks around to the side of the truck, opening the passenger door, motioning for me to get in.

"Gross, Jax. It's been sitting here for ten years. God only knows what animals were in there."

He rolls his eyes at me and motions to the door again. Great. Tears, tetanus and rabies, every girl's dream date. Against my better judgement, I follow him to the side of the truck. My eyes grow wide when I see it is exactly how I remember it. The entire interior is the same shade of teal as the exterior, the dash, the leather bench seat, the steering wheel, all of it. And it's... clean. It looks as though you could eat off of it.

My brow lifts and I point to the shiny teal seat. "Did you..."

"I've been coming out here weekly to clean this damn thing." He nods. "You were right, you don't want to know what all was in it. Lots of Lysol and bleach was used. It was fucking gross."

I giggle as I crawl up into the cab of the truck, running my hand over the dashboard that I remember kicking as a child. I peek my head down and observe it, smiling at a little crack.

"I did this" I look up to Jax. "Felix was tickling me and I kicked the dash really hard, I felt it crack as soon as my foot hit it. My grandpa never knew. Or if he did, he ignored it."

"He likely knew." He laughs. "Men tend to notice when shit breaks on their trucks."

He disappears for a few seconds and returns with one of the backpacks. He unzips it, pulling out two paper bags and handing me one. He disappears again for a bit, messing around in the bed of the truck as I carefully unroll the top of the paper bag open and begin pulling out our dinner. Lunchables, Capri Sun, fruit snacks, and a Snickers. I laugh at our childish dinner and begin pulling open my Lunchables first. I already have my first stack of cracker, ham, and cheese goodness prepared when Jax finally returns and gets into the driver seat, bringing his backpack with him.

"So?"

"I feel like a little kid again. Who doesn't love Lunchables and Capri Sun?"

"Right?" He laughs as he unrolls his own bag.

"You know what would make this a million times better?" I take a bite of my cracker.

Jax holds up his finger to me, telling me to wait to answer my own question. He unzips the backpack again and sticks his entire arm in until he finds what he's searching for. When his hand reappears he is holding a bottle of Hidden Valley ranch dressing.

"I fucking love you Alfie." I take the bottle from him and place a good healthy squeeze of the dressing onto the wrapper that I removed from the top of the container. I place it on top of the dash and dip the other half of my cracker stack into it. "Delicious."

"Gross." He chuckles, pulling out the contents of his bag.

He chooses his fruit snacks first, squeezing the package until it makes a small 'pop' sound, and dumps a pile of multicolored smiley faces into his hand.

"Give me your fruit snacks." He holds his hand out waiting.

My mouth drops open. "Hell no. You packed them for me. Eat your own fruit snacks Jackson Parker."

He rolls his eyes at me again and grabs them from my lap, popping them open as I glare at him. If he eats my fruit snacks, I will make him suffer. He dumps the contents of my package and his into his hand and begins separating the different colors. I smile as I see him pop all the purple circles into his mouth. He hands me back all the other colors.

"You're welcome." He grunts as he chews all the grape flavored fruit smiles.

I begin popping the other flavors into my mouth happily. "You don't get any kisses now because you will taste like grape, you realize that right?"

"You weren't getting any anyways because of that damn ranch dressing."

I take my finger and run it through the blob of dressing and stick it in my mouth. "Mmmmm worth it."

He makes a repulsed face and begins sucking on his Capri Sun straw. I can't help but to burst out laughing at the sight of him.

"What?" He chuckles as he watches me laugh.

"You're odd Jax. If you would have asked me the night that you pushed me up against your kitchen counter if I would have ever imagined I'd be sitting here, in love with you, sucking down Capri Sun and eating Lunchables I would have told you that you were mad."

He cringes and covers his eyes laughing, likely at the thought of how he acted that night.

"I was hoping you were going to sleep with me that night."

"I was turned on, not going to lie."

"I know." He says this with a shrug of his shoulders as he pops a cracker into his mouth.

I look at him completely perplexed. "Liar. How the hell could you possibly have known that? You didn't even know me for twelve hours at that point. You were slightly terrifying and crazy hot."

"You have a terrible poker face Gabby Brooks. You chew your bottom lip and wiggle your body around when you're horny."

I think about that for a moment. He's right. I do wiggle around, I guess I hadn't noticed I was doing that with him. I shake my head and try and put it out of my mind. I'll have to work on my tells.

We continue eating our dinner peacefully. Pointing out different things we see in the scrap hard and talking about times I had with my Grandpa and my siblings in this truck. It's perfect.

"This was a great date Jax. Best one I've ever had."

"It's not done yet. We have a few hours. We have to get back outside for the next part of the date though."

He takes all of the trash and scrunches it into a ball, putting it into a plastic bag he had in his bag. He grabs the handle to exit the cab but I grab his arm and pull him back to me. His face turns to mine and I press my lips to his in a warm slow kiss. I taste the grape on his lips but I don't care. He places his hand on my side and dives in with me, our tongues mingle for a few seconds before we both pull away, still holding each other with our eyes pressed closed.

"Thank you again for this truck Alfie; you have no idea how much it means to me."

"You're welcome, Books." He places another sweet kiss on my jaw and pats my thigh. "Come outside with me."

I follow him out of the cab back around to the bed of the truck, now able to see what he was doing as I unpacked my dinner. There is snow an inflatable mattress in the bed of the teal pickup.

My eyebrow lifts to him, trying not to smile.

He holds his hands up playfully. "I have nothing but good intentions Miss Brooks."

He holds one hand out to me to help me up into into the back of the truck. I sit on the mattress and give myself a little bounce as I laugh. This is obviously why my bag was so heavy. He opens the backpack again, pulling out first a blue fleece blanket that I recognize from his room, tossing it up to me, then his laptop.

"Jesus Jax, who are you? Mary Poppins? What else do you have in there? A lamp?"

He laughs and reaches in again, pulling out a large zip-lock bag of popped popcorn.

"Oh my god" my mouth falls open. I hold out my hands for the popped goodness. "Gimme."

He holds it back behind him. "You have to share it!"

I frantically nod my head yes as I wiggle my fingers and bounce up and down on the mattress like a child. He tosses me the bag and I quickly open it, the smell of butter and salt fills my nostrils as I scoop out a handful and shove it into my mouth.

"You Iowa girls are freaks."

"You've never complained." His eyes lift playfully to me as I giggle. "What are we watching Alfie?"

He tosses a DVD case onto the blanket and crawls up into the cab of the truck, sitting beside me on the inflated mattress. I peer down to the first Harry Potter movie and smile. "Ohhh Jax, you are in for a treat!"

He chuckles and gets comfortable on the mattress. Both of us lie on our stomachs with the laptop in front of us. As Jax gets the movie ready, I place the bag of popcorn between us and cover us both with the blanket.

"Ready Books?"

I give a nod and grab another handful of popcorn, holding out my hand for Jax to grab some. He does and happily chews as he begins the movie.

I've seen the movie probably fifty times. Whenever Felix, Syd and I are arguing about what we want to watch, we end up watching Harry Potter because we know we all love it.

The movie begins, showing Hagrid drop off Harry at his Aunt and Uncle's home. I place my head on Jax's shoulder, resting into him comfortably. This night could not have been more perfect. My head swims, trying to bank every moment we shared today to memory. Every fun fact, every laugh, every tear and every kiss, I want to remember it all.

His face turns to me, his eyes watching me laugh at the movie I know by heart. I turn to him, seeing him smile. I feel a familiar flip in my stomach knowing I'm the reason why he's smiling. Jax is always hot, but when he gets a smile on his face he is irresistible. No one turns me on like he does, the muscles, the tattoos, his smile, his tough side and his goofy side. He's the complete package for me. His strong jawline protrudes, changing his profile slightly, just the way I like. The way he's looking at me tonight makes me want him even more than I normally do. There is an ache between my legs that needs his attention. He turns back to the laptop and I feel a pang of disappointment.

"Jax?"

He glances back between me and the screen. "Hmm?"

"Are we really going to watch this?" My eye brows lift in anticipation. We are alone for the first time in almost a month.

"Gabby..." His head drops forward to his hands as a rough sigh leaves his chest. "I promised your dad I would be nothing other than a gentleman with you tonight. I want you so fucking bad it literally hurts, but he knows where this truck is..."

I push myself closer to him, my breathing heavy. The night is already turning cool as it does in early summer, the sun has just barely disappeared. The heat radiating from him feels good. His arm wraps around my waist as our eyes peer into each other's. "Jax it's been weeks..."

His eyes press shut as he groans. "I know Books." I push myself closer to him, leaving no space left between us. "Gabby..."

"I'm not letting this go. If this date doesn't end with you between my legs I'm going to be very disappointed."

His green eyes reappear, filled with lust. "We can't... I have a terrible feeling your dad is going to show up out here."

I roll my eyes at him, turning back to the screen. I know neither of us are watching it. He's quiet now, deep in thought. I almost feel like he's upset with me for bringing it up. I'm not, I want him.

I flip to my back in a huff and he turns his face back me. I don't look at him. Instead I reach below the blanket and tug down my cotton gray shorts.

"What the hell are you doing?" His eyes form large white saucers.

"Getting off. I thought you knew whenever I was horny? I'm practically begging for it. It's been a month. You just gave me the best date ever, I'm completely turned on by you at the moment, and this needs to be taken care of. So I'll do it myself."

"Gab-" he begins his objections.

"Nope. Shut it Jax. I don't want you ruining a perfectly good orgasm."

I throw the blanket off of me and sit up, leaning against the side of the truck bed with my knees up and spread apart.

"Holy shit" he mutters. He sits up quickly. His eyes are focused on my hand as it begins circling that sweet little nub he loves so much.

"Eyes on me Alfie." I release a moan deep from my belly and his eyes grow even wider. "Oh god Jax I am so fucking wet..."

"Christ Gabby!"

As good as this sensation feels, I want him to be the one that helps me build this orgasm. His eyes are saying that he wants the same. They fly over my body urgently. I sit up to my knees, slap the laptop shut, moving it to the side and I straddle him. There is a tightness to his shorts that I know I caused. I wrap my arms around his neck as his rough hands wrest on my naked thighs. His eyes are on fire now as he gazes at me, just the way I like them.

"I feel how hard you are Jax..." I whisper. My hips give a slight roll atop his gym shorts and a small groan escapes his slightly opened mouth. I take my finger that I was using to pleasure myself moments ago and use it to trace his bottom lip. His tongue instantly rolls over where I touched and his eyes close.

"Fuck Books you taste sweet."

His hands grip my thighs tighter. His erection stirs beneath me, pressing against my sex. I give another roll of my hips, letting him know again that I feel it, and I want it. His mouth falls open further. He wants so bad not to give in but I know I'm winning.

I place one hand on the back of his head and lean my face close to his ear. "I want you to make me forget my name again. No one is out here with us Jax."

"Books..."

"Make me scream."

That's all it takes. Before I can say a another word my shirt and bra are off, tossed somewhere in be bed of the truck. His hands and mouth are all over me. He tugs my nipple lightly with the tip of his teeth, allowing my first of many loud moans to escape.

"Do you know what you fucking do to me Gabby?" His hands run up my torso and grip both breasts my firmly. "Every time I see you I want to be inside of you."

The ache between my legs intensifies. I need him. I can't wait any longer.

"I want you inside me" I nod. "Right now."

He pulls himself out of his shorts, grabs my hips and slams me down onto him as I cry out in complete pleasure. "Oh my god!"

My fingers latch to his short hair as he bounces me up down on him. Everything around us is dead quiet as his grunts and my moans echo out into the open field.

Beads of sweat doll down his forehead. My eyes lock to his, no way do I want to look anywhere else.

"Kiss me."

He does as he's told, smashing his lips to mine. Once again I taste grape and the saltiness of his sweat. My hips continue grinding into him, as if they have a mind of their own. Jax removes his light gray T-shirt and tosses it somewhere outside of the truck. It's getting crazy dark and I know we will have troubles finding our damn clothes later but I don't even care.

In one swift move he has me on my back and my legs in the air. Jax wants control now. I love when he gets greedy like this. His hands wrap around my thighs tightly as he begins his thrusts. My hands grip the soft blue fleece beneath me to the point where my knuckles are completely white.

"Gabby..." His eyes close and I know he's close.

"Cum with me Jax."

His lips press together tight, he's ready to blow at any second. I know not far behind. My legs are literally shaking in his hands more and more with every thrust of his hips.

"I'm going to cum. Harder!"

I brace myself, knowing that whatever I want, this man will give me. His arms grip around my knees that are against his chest, taking the control he's going to need.

"You asked for it Books." His smirk appears and I grip the back of the blow up mattress.

And with that, his hips move with such force if feels as if he could break me in half, but in the best way possible. "Oh Jax yes!"

His grunts becomes so loud I can't even hear myself screaming for him. Thrust after thrust brings me that much closer to my release. I'm so wet for him, I feel it up my thighs.

"Fuck Gabby I love you."

That's when I let go. I give into him. My back arches to an angle I didn't even know I could achieve as my mouth falls open and I claw at his chest. Waves of heated pleasure move through me.

One last rough thrust dips into my hips and I feel his erection quake inside of me. He drops my knees, letting them fall around him as he leans over me to kiss me again. I wrap my legs and arms around him tight, pulling him down close to me.

"I love you Alfie." I can barely speak through my heavy breathing. This took everything I had out of me.

"I love you Books."

His lips connect to mine again. I open my mouth for a deep passionate kiss. I'm not ready to leave this spot with him. There is nothing I want more than to spend the night with him out here, making love outside under the stars, with no one in sight.

"Gabby I have an hour to get you home. We cannot be late. He will hunt us down."

His words make me want to cry. With him is the only place I want to be. We only get one date, just one. Once I'm home my summer of being grounded truly begins.

He reads my face and reflects the same. "We will be okay. It will go quick." He nods and swallows hard.

I nod my head yes with a tear falling.

"Don't cry Gabby. We will talk all the time on the phone. I will read from the porch every single night. Promise."

I nod my head again and he pulls away from me. He grabs my clothes and hands them back to me. We quietly dress and pack our bags. It takes a bit for the mattress deflate but we get it packed away and begin our walk back to his car. Between the walk out here, the sex, and walking back, by the time we are in the car I'm exhausted. He takes my hand, threading our fingers together and kissing our fist repeatedly as we get closer to home.

As the car pulls up in front of Jax's house I peer across the street to see my dad sitting on the porch swing. This is exactly where I expected him to be. We technically still had twenty minutes left of our date, but I know Jax was willing to sacrifice them to show my dad he was trying. I understood this.

"You don't have to walk me over there Jax. I don't want to make this awkward for you."

"There is not a chance in hell that I'm skipping the part of this date where I kiss you goodnight."

He opens his car door and runs to my side of the car to open the door for me. I step out and be immediately takes my hand in his. The walk across the street is much to quick.

"Dan." Jax gives my dad a nod of his head.

"Jackson." My dad sighs and looks at his watch. "Good timing."

I'm fairly certain this was the best compliment my dad could muster for him. I won't argue it.

I turn to Jax. He keeps his hand in mine as he dips into a slow kiss. My other hand holds his cheek. It's the perfect end to a perfect date.

"I love you Books." He whispers in my ear. "One summer. We will be fine, okay? Don't give your dad a hard time about it."

I nod my head and set it against his chin. He plants another kiss on my forehead. "Love you too. Thank you for this night Jax, it was perfect."

He chuckles as he pulls away. "Don't say that, I'll never be able to top it then."

I have no doubt he will plan something even better someday. Although this night was amazing.

"I want one of your good hugs before you go please."