Ashton was sitting on his comfy chair with his head leaning backwards onto the cushion and hands on the arm rest. The glimpses of his 'sweetest memory' from yesterday kept on flashing before his eyes. He couldn't hide his ecstatic smile.
He turned towards the old clock hanging on the side wall. It was past 2 pm.
"I am late!"
Ashton jumped to his feet and quickly grabbed everything he could find on the table top and ran towards the office door and opened it wide.
Ashton was taken aback. The scene he saw in front of him was extremely unexpected. He stood there as if he was thunderstruck.
Jess broke the kiss and pushed Jerry away as she saw Ashton at the door. Jerry fell on to the hard ground and yelled "Hey! You gave me the dare!"
He looked at Ashton to see if he bought the lie.
[A QUICK REWIND]
"Did you see the love bites on his neck? She is wild, ain't she?" Jess asked Jerry as she mopped the left over hair strands on the floor.
"Wild or wilding?" Jerry asked still confused from the inexplicable act he saw in the washroom.
"By the way how do you know that it's a love bite?
It could be a mosquito bite… an insect sting… a vampire bite… But why love bite specifically?"
Jerry asked as he looked at her suspiciously.
"Did you ever get one?" He mockingly asked.
"Who am I kidding? You have more chances of getting a vampire bite than a love bite! Ha-ha…"
"Hey! Enough with your mocking! I will gorge your eyes out!"
Jess warned Jerry as she pointed the mop handle towards his eyes.
"I could help you out, you know… to set the standards…!"
Jerry told with a sardonic grin.
"In fact, right now we could start our 'lesson number 1'…A passionate kiss!"
Jerry told as he tried to control his laughter and held on to the chair handle with a tight grasp.
"Hey! You would never dare to kiss me! That would be the end of your time in this fucking world"
"You sure?"
"Yeah! Pretty damn sure!" Jess told as she kept the mop on the ground and stood straight with utmost confidence.
But, the next second she saw something unforeseen. The chair which Jerry held on to was pushed away to one side followed by a furious Jerry who came pacing towards her. He quickly held on to her waist and pulled her closer in one swoop, pressing his lips on hers, kissing her.
Jess was shocked. She stood there with her brain frozen, not knowing what to do.
Jerry did this as a provoked dare, not thinking too much. But the moment he felt her moist lips on his dry ones, his heart started to race. He noticed tiny drops of tear built up in her frightened eyes. A new mould for sympathy was being shaped deep within him.
"I am sorry!" Jerry told in a faint voice as he retracted his lips from hers. He never thought Jess would take this to heart. He was being a stupid.
But he couldn't make his heart decipher the signals which his brain propelled.
The new surge of emotions was stronger than the electric currents that fired through his body.
He softly kept his lips on hers again and caressed it gently as he noticed her close her tear filled eyes. He could feel his lips turn wet as the kiss gradually advanced to a passionate one. He slowly grazed his hands from her waist to her hips, slowly reading her body shape below her over-sized clothes.
His old image of Jess was soon to crumple and a new one was built up.
She was beautiful, kind and humorous… His perfect notion!