Going Home To Wait

I wish I could say that the person who grabbed me from behind was someone I would’ve expected it from but it wasn’t. In fact it was someone that I barely even knew, Josh knew him a lot better than I did.

“Jack?” Josh shot him a dirty look before he turned his eyes towards my shocked expression.

While he was turning to me, I was in the middle of turning around to see who grabbed me, “What the hell?” I slapped Jack on the arm. “Get your hands off me!”

“Honey,” Josh came up behind me, his hands slipped to where Jack’s were moments before. “It’s ok, I know he didn’t mean anything by it, and won’t do it again.” I glanced at him, he was looking at Jack. “Right Jack?”

“Of course Josh, whatever you say,” Jack laughed. “But you should’ve seen the look on your faces. Priceless!” He shook his head and started to walk away, “You have about ten minutes Josh.”

“I don’t know why we are friends sometimes,” Josh smiled down at me. “I’m sorry he scared you.”

Josh has known Jack for a long time, they went to school together and now they worked together; Jack is the history teacher here. The only reason I know Jack is because I met him at Zack’s a few times, along with Mark (Josh’s cousin) and their other friend Warner. They were all there that morning that I walked out of the bathroom with just a towel on. In fact, I believe it was Jack who did the wolf whistling.

“I’m not,” I told him while I slipped one of his hands around my waist. When he shot me a questioning look I elaborated. “It got your attention when he scared me.”

“I wasn’t ignoring you Anna,” Josh looked over his shoulder where Jess was still talking to Cassie. “I was watching him.”

“Oh,” I sighed. “I thought you were mad at me for what Hank did.”

“No,” Josh shook his head, “A kiss on the cheek isn’t such a big deal. Of course, I don’t like that he felt he could do it, he doesn’t even know you that well. Jordan, I can understand but you just met Hank.” He stopped and bowed his head, “Ok. I’ll admit it,” he pulled me close to his body. “I don’t like any guy kissing or touching you anywhere. I…” He went to say something else but we were interrupted by Ben.

“Coach, are you going to go talk to the team?” Ben glanced at me and then smiled, “Oh! Hello Anna!”

I smiled and said hello. Josh told Ben he would be right there. “I have to go honey,” he kissed my cheek, groaned and then pressed his lips against mine. “I don’t want to go,” he mumbled against my lips.

I told him it was too bad, he had too, even though I didn’t really want him to go either. “Jess and I will be waiting for you when you get home,” I kissed him. “Of course, Jess will be asleep and I might not be.”

Josh laughed, “That’s all I hope for.” He went on to ask me if I would stay to watch the rest of the game but then decided that wouldn’t be such a good idea because Jess wouldn’t want to sit still, “He would want to be up with me,” Josh told me. “He would want to blow the whistle and be on the court with the team.”

So in the end, I ended up leaving with Jesse, who was a little worried that I would take him back to his mom. “I no go Ama!”

When I explained to him that Josh had to work and we were going to his apartment to wait for him to get home, Jesse brightened up. “We watch Cars?”