Quaranteam – Book Two (Ch. 02)

December 10 ^th, 2020

There was a certain level of expectation that had been building up around tonight for the past several weeks. While he and Jade had been sexually intimate several times now, they’d both sort of been dancing around the subject of her virginity, until last week she’d come to him with a proposal. They could have a nice dinner date, and then they could fuck and get her past the hurdle of her virginity without anyone else present, without any real pressure, with the chance for her to have the experience exactly how she wanted. It was more than anyone could ask for, and he had hoped it would’ve alleviated some of the tension for both him and her.

It had seemed to work for her, as Jade had been happy as a clam all week, but Andy had found himself more than a little nervous about it, hoping that he wouldn’t let her down or disappoint her. The girls, particularly the fiancées, had had plenty of advice, but most of it all boiled down to the same thing – just fucking relax already.

The person with the best advice had been, unsurprisingly, from Ash, who’d stressed that every girl’s first time was important, but that as long as a good time was had by all, that was all that mattered, and considering Andy was giving Jade an entire evening of his attention all to herself, it would focus their time on each other in a way that would let Jade have center stage. They were even having a nice formal dinner beforehand, so it could feel like a private date, although Jenny had insisted on bringing the food to them.

They’d planned to have dinner out on the patio, but the weather had been uncooperative. While winters in California were certainly not as cold as most other places in the United States, they were still brisk enough that they had decided to have dinner indoors, the two of them using one of the smaller ballrooms as their dining room for the evening.

On his way over to the dining room, he stopped in one of the bathrooms to make sure his attire didn’t look too off. He’d been trying on outfits for the dinner when the Air Force had rolled up and carted him away, so while he hadn’t been entirely settled on this particular look before, he didn’t really have time to swing by the bedroom and choose different things to try on. He made sure it wasn’t askew or hanging out, tucking in one little bit of shirt that had gotten loose back into his waistline, then sighed, splashing some water on his face.

He was fairly certain the more he thought about it that he was more nervous about this whole thing than Jade was, at this point.

Andy walked out of the bathroom and headed down the hall, marveling at how quiet the house mostly was. All the girls had agreed to mostly stay out of the way, although he imagined a bunch of them were also grilling Niko for any information they could get from her about why the Air Force had hauled him up and onto the base with no warning and no courtesy whatsoever.

On the car ride home, Andy had stressed to Niko that he get a chance to talk to Piper first before any discussion of his time at the base happened. He expected Niko to hold strong, although he knew that the girls would be nonstop peppering her until bedtime. But Piper absolutely deserved to know about what was coming before anyone else, and he wanted to gauge her reaction privately, so that she didn’t feel any pressure from the rest of the house, or even from him. Andy had stressed that they’d talk about it all over breakfast in the morning, but he planned on getting up early and pulling Piper aside so they could have a private chat first.

The door to the ballroom was closed, but he could hear music being played on the other side, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers singing “Learning To Fly,” which only made him grin. He stepped up to the door, took one final check on his attire, adjusted his glasses then opened the door and headed in.

The ballroom had been set up with a small table in the center of it, lots of candles everywhere although the candle light wasn’t the only illumination for the room, the lights simply turned down to half power. The table had only two chairs at it, something that was basically alien in the house at this point, with every other place having multiple seats scattered around it. There was a single centerpiece of flowers that had been adjusted so it was slightly off to one side, a pair of plates, a bottle of wine on one side of the table, a mixed mojito on the other, as Andy wasn’t much of a wine drinker.

He found himself gasping a little as he caught sight of Jade, and immediately felt significantly underdressed. She was wearing a red dress that hung down to her knees with long black leather boots that ran up underneath it. The top was low cut, but not so much that it felt scandalous, offering a generous amount of view of Jade’s plump breasts, pushing them up into the best shelf she could get them to be with some push-up bra beneath the dress. Her blonde hair mostly hung down her back, although part of it had been braided up into a crown around the top of her head, keeping any of it from falling into her eyes. Her makeup had been done tastefully, although there was a heavy amount of smoke around her eyes to make those emerald orbs really stand out even more than they normally did.

The look was nothing short of breathtaking.

“It’s too much, isn’t it?” Jade immediately said as she starting moving across the room towards him. “I kinda like how my hair turned out, but I knew the make up was too over the top. Sarah promised me you’d like it, but you kinda hate it, don’t you?”

“Jade,” Andy said with a wide smile. “You’re magnificent. I feel like I should be turning and running so whoever your real date is don’t see me slinking around near his girl.”

Jade giggled suddenly at that, clutching her hand to her face. “You really think so?”

“Honestly, Jade, you’re stunning. Are you sure what I’m wearing is okay?”

“Andy, you could be dressed in a leopard print thong and flipflops, and you’d still be handsome to me,” she said, batting her long thick eyelashes at him. “Shall we sit and eat? I can tell you how the first woman’s NFL team’s training is going and you can fill me in on why the military took you out of your own home without so much as a polite warning.”

“I want to hear your story much more than I want you to hear mine,” he laughed, leaning in to kiss her lips tenderly as she pressed her body against his. “New dress?”

“New boots,” she countered. “The dress was just in a collection of things that I needed to be in the right mood to put on.”

“They are good boots,” he said, moving over to pull her chair out for her. “I’m betting that mojito’s got quite the kick to it, doesn’t it?”

“It’s date night,” Jade said, sitting down, letting him slide the chair in to meet her. “If it isn’t, I’ll be bitching at Jenny in the morning.”

He moved over to pour a glass of wine for her before going to his own seat across the table from her. “I’m sure it’ll be fine. So they’re really going to go for a completely female NFL?”

“They have to, which means the state of the game’s going to change a whole hell of a lot,” Jade said with a smile. “They’re doing their best to get fully staffed women’s teams, but they’re also just having a lot of pitch in to help with training. Cheerleaders, trainers… hell, you’d be amazed at the throwing arm Lauren’s got on her. I think the team’s going to be trying to convince her to play any day now, not that I think she’d want to take them up on it.”

“She tell you she doesn’t have any interest in it?” Andy said, picking up his mojito, bringing it to his lips, finding it was indeed loaded with rum.

“Quite the opposite, actually,” Jade said, picking up her wine, swirling the glass in her hand. “But she wants to have a kid first before she gets into that kind of thing. You knew that already, though. I’m sure she told you she’s off her pills.”

“She did,” Andy laughed. “God help us all next summer. It’s going to be baby central up in this house, and I don’t think any of us are ready for it.”

“No parent ever is,” Jade said, smiling shyly. “But I figured maybe I could be the house nanny. We’re going to need one, and after three or four years, I can go back to teaching, once things have stabilized down a little bit.”

“Is that what you want or what you think the house needs?”

“Equal parts of each,” she said, looking up as Nicolette was bringing in a bowl of French Onion soup for each of them, setting it down on the table without saying anything to either of them.

“Thanks Nicolette,” they both said in unison, laughing a little as they caught themselves.

“Jinx, you owe me a Coke,” Andy said first.

“Nicolette, be a dear and bring me a Coke that I can pour over Andy’s head, would you?” Jade smirked at the blonde in her French maid’s outfit.

“Yes, ma’am,” Nicolette grinned back before heading to the door, slipping out of the ballroom.

“Two to one she’s actually going to bring you a glass bottle of Mexican Coke,” Andy said, shaking his head in amusement.

“No bet. I’ve been around her long enough to know it’s just going to mysteriously appear on the table at some point when we aren’t expecting it.”

“Yeah, that sounds like her. So, back on topic, you think you’re going to be okay tending to that many newborns?”

“Well, I’m hoping one of them will be yours and mine, and the rest will still be yours, which means they might as well be mine, so someone’s gotta be on baby duty,” Jade said, stirring the soup just a little bit. “There will probably need to be two of us, one on daytime duty and one on nighttime duty, but one of them should definitely be me. I like babies, and I won’t mind taking some time away from teaching to get the house up and running on the right foot.”

“As long as you’re happy with the decision, I’m not one to tell you no for anything,” Andy said before taking a sip from his own soup, although something struck him before he could take a second. “Yours and mine, hm?”