Back in Time, Chapter 19 (Evian)
by ejcrane
“Eve, are you home?” Grace knocked on the front door, “She must have
went to the hospital already,” Grace said to herself, and just as she was
about to leave, Simone opened the door.
“Mrs. Bennett!”
“Hi, Simone, honey…I was just looking for your mom…”
“Oh, well, she must be around here somewhere,” Simone looked behind her
towards the kitchen, “She’s off today,” she shrugged as she turned back to
Grace, “Maybe she’s in the kitchen and didn’t hear you knocking…come on
in…”
They walked into the kitchen, only to find it empty.
Where was her mother?!
“Well, maybe she took out the trash,” Grace suggested.
“No, because that’s my job…and mom and daddy are strict on chores,” Simone
sighed, “Well, you can wait for her here; I’m going to run upstairs and
take a quick shower.”
“That’s fine, honey,” Grace smiled and watched as Simone turned and left.
“Oh, Mrs. Bennett?”
“Yes, dear?”
“She must’ve not got far…the coffee maker is still on, and she usually
turns it off if she leaves…” Simone smiled once again and left.
Grace helped herself and poured herself a cup of coffee.
“Eve, where could you be?” she asked herself as she peeked out the back
window and viewed Eve’s little vegetable garden.
Walking out the door, Grace knelt down, smiled, and admired the garden
closely.
With her feet resting on the front bumper, Julian placed kisses upon
her chest, ribs, and stomach…
“It was just as it had always been, wouldn’t you agree, Eve?” he asked
breathlessly.
On her back, upon the hood, eyes closed; all Eve could do in response
was smile and fan her fingers through the hair at the back of Julian’s head.
“Eve?” he said as his lips now began to suckle her breasts.
“Hmm?”
“I lied.”
Her eyes shot open.
He lied?! Lied about what?!
“I never called TC just now,” he chuckled, as his tongue now went to
work on her breast.
Pulling his mouth off her nipple, Eve raised her head off the car and
met his eyes right before she backhanded him off of her.
“You…you TRICKED ME!” she said out of breath as she accused him.
“Like you cared,” he looked her up and down, feeling himself become hard
again just from viewing her nude body, “You loved everything I did to you,
Eve…and I LOVED everything you did to me just a few moments ago, darling.”
“Shut up and LEAVE! Never will I submit to you again…do you hear? NEVER!”
By then, Julian had already pulled up his pants and zipped them. He stared
at her for a short while, walked up to her, grabbed her behind her thighs,
yanked her body to the edge of the car so that he was tucked snuggly between
her thighs, and then kissed her hard…on the lips.
From what she could remember, it had been so long since she had felt
his lips on hers. Running out of energy from trying to push him off of
her, Eve gave up and gave into his kisses. She opened her mouth and slanted
her head to the side when she felt his tongue nudging the side of her mouth,
and welcomed it graciously with her wet tongue. Her moans grew louder as
Julian’s tongue took over and investigated her mouth…
“GET OUT!” she shouted as her hand shoved his face away from hers.
Eve then wiped her mouth with her hand.
“Fine!” and he turned to walk out.
Finally, Eve thought! She then slid off the hood and turned around, bent
down, and picked up her discarded clothing, when he caught her off guard.
Julian never left, but decided to walk back to Eve, spin her around and
bent down to kiss each of her breasts one last time, and then her lips…
“Until we meet again…” he breathed onto her face.
Outside, Grace stood and looked towards the shed when she heard voices,
loud voices, come from inside. It sounded like Eve’s voice, but…that wasn’t
TC…
Her eyes then widened when she watched as Julian strolled out with a
smile on his face.
“Good day, Mrs. Bennett,” he said cheerily and reached down to the fly
of his pants and pulled the zipper up.
Walking slowly into the shed, she caught Eve crying while she put her
clothes back on.
“Oh my God, Eve…” she rushed to her, “Did he…did…he didn’t…”
“No…” Eve shook her head, “Grace…you never saw any of this…okay?”
“But Eve…why? What is the meaning of this?”
“Grace, just DROP IT, OKAY?!” Eve said, annoyed, “Look, I’m sorry…” and
she walked around her best friend and out the door.
“Alright, but you might want to straighten your hair…you know, Eve…maybe
I should just go. I’ll talk to you another day…”
“Grace, no…I…”
“Grace? Leaving? I hope not because of me?” TC laughed at his own joke.
“TC? Oh, no, no…I just remembered there was something I had to do…” Grace
smiled politely as she watched TC try to kiss his wife, but Eve seemed
to avoid his kisses.
“Hey, baby, I think I left my keys here…did you see them inside?”
“Uh, yeah, I have them with me…” Eve held them out to him.
She was so grateful that she had locked up the shed before TC had gotten
there. Eve didn’t know how she’d explain to him why she was in there…why
she was in there with Julian; that of course would have been left out.
“…I noticed how you left them on the counter, so I put them in my pocket
so they wouldn’t get misplaced…” she lied.
“Thanks, sweetheart,” TC took the keys from his wife, “Well,” he inhaled
the aroma of the coffee, “I think I’ll get me a cup of coffee before I
leave again to that other meeting…”
Eve gave Grace a look, but was startled by TC’s next question.
“Baby, is everything okay?”
“Yes, why would you ask such a thing?” she laughed nervously.
“Well…I just got a feeling, I guess,” he said, “And…your hair…what happened
to it? It didn’t look that way earlier.”
“I…uh…well…you see, it was…”
“You see, I suggested to Eve that we pull those weeds out of the yard,”
Grace chimed in, “I guess Eve just worked harder than I did…” she smiled
to TC.
“Oh…I see,” he nodded and shrugged.
“I have to be going,” Grace said and left the Russell backyard.
“She was in a hurry to go, wouldn’t you say?”
“Yes, I guess, honey.” Eve replied as her nose took in the scent of Julian’s
cologne that still lingered on her, bringing back the memory of the two
of them in the shed, the two of them in the past back at the Blue Note…
“Earth to Eve!” TC waved a hand in front of his wife’s face.
“Hmm?” she shook her head.
“Are you coming inside? You’ve been standing out on that step for the
past minute or two,” he laughed.
“Oh, uh, yes…” she smiled and shut the door behind her…