Page 33 of Honey Undone
The grumble that left her was adorable. “Let me go Jensen,” she warned.
“What time,” I said with more force. Commotion came from the dugout as Arlo yelled to Josh questioning why the hell he was warming up with Van.
“You have a game to play, stop it,” she laughed and tried to wiggle away more.
“It’s just stretching, it's fine, I’m already warm,” I said, and shook my head at her. “I’m sorry, I can’t do anything until she agrees to it,” I yelled over my shoulder at Coach and Arlo who both had the look of death on their faces.
“Jensen!” She hissed but the smile on her face was wild with excitement. “You’re being insane, let me go.”
“Answer the question, Adeline. Everyone is waiting on you, we have a playoff game to win.” I teased her but my voice was demanding, I needed her to tell me when. I had waited long enough.
“You’d delay the entire game over a date?” She scoffed, shaking her head in disbelief as she tried to get her fingers free.
“The game hasn’t started so it's entirely up to you,” I said, lying. There’s very few boundaries I didn’t cross on a day to day basis, but letting down the guys was never one of them. If she really wanted to push that far, I’d let her have my surrender but I had to bluff for just a few minutes longer.
“Jensen, I will bench you!” Coach snapped, I could hear the threat on his lips as his clipboard slapped against the concrete.
“It’s not my fault Coach!” I called back, “blame the girl! Listen I can hear Dean Tucker stomping down the foul line to kick my ass so if you don’t agree to a time tomorrow I might be in the hospital…” I laughed wildly when her head snapped to first base.
“He looks mad…” she whispered.
“I like the bones in my body, Adeline. I promise you will too,” I teased and she blushed. “Come on, just save me from the wrath of Hulking and say a time,” I begged her.
“Addy!” Cosy yelled, standing up in her seat. “Just give him a time.”
“Jensen!” Our names were being yelled from every direction as the announcer boomed through the stadium taking note of the commotion happening.Looks like we have a little pre-game Hornets shenanigans happening on home plate!
“Adeline,” I said again.
“Jensen,” she huffed back. “You’re embarrassing yourself.”
“No, you’re embarrassingus,” I teased her over the sound of everyone screaming. A few of the Philly players had started to loosen up and join in on the yelling. “We’re going to forfeit our only shot at the playoffs because you’re too scared to go on a date with me!”
That scared her enough. I could feel it coursing through her. Luckily she knew as much about baseball as I did rugby. Adeline looked around at the chaos, fans were screaming, Coach was hurling threats, Dean was getting closer.
“You’re in control here,” I told her. “It’s all up to you.”
She stared me down and I could tell her heart was racing as fast as mine because her throat bobbed and her fingers tightened around the cage.
“Saturday, I’m free all day.”
I instantly let go of her hands, allowing her to step back against her seat almost losing her balance.
“Saturday,” I repeated with a shit eating grin before shoving the cage over my face and turning to the field. “Let’s win a fucking ball game,” I called out with more pride and excitement than I’d ever felt in my entire life and started warmups with Josh.
SARAH
“This one?” I asked the girls. They were lazily strewn across my bed and couch as I rifled through my collection of clothing.
“No,” Cosy said in disapproval at the baby blue cropped t-shirt. “It’s too…”
“Sunday,” Rhea said, rolling her head to the side.
“Pretty sure thatismine,” Sunday said, shoving bits of croissant into her mouth from her spot on the couch. “I agree though, you need something that screams—”
“I need to be fucked disrespectfully,” Kaia cut her off and crawled over the bed to my closet. She smacked my ass and shooed me away with her hand as she started to rifle away inside. “This,” she handed me one of the sheer button ups that I keep in the back of the closet for nights out to the Hollow.
“Kaia.” I took it from her nervously, “this feels too fancy for an afternoon.”
