“Thank you, I’m glad you like it.”
After we spend an hour at the pool working on our tans, Lexi and I decide we want to go back to the room and take our time getting ready together in one of the bedrooms so we kick Troy out. I know if I get ready with Jason in the room he will have me naked and underneath him, begging for mercy. I let Lexi get in the shower first and I lie down on the bed and check my phone.
Grant: Will you come over tomorrow?
I’m stunned by this text, it shakes me up, and makes my heart sink into my stomach. Do I respond?
“Shower is all yours. What’s wrong?” Lexi says, walking into the bedroom in a plush white terry cloth bathrobe and her hair wrapped up in a towel. She must be able to read the look on my face.
“My secret lover just texted me,” I whisper.
“What did he say?”
“He wants to see me. I don’t even know if I should respond or not,” I sigh.
“Maybe you better, otherwise he may keep texting you,” Lexi reasons.
“You’re probably right.”
Clarissa: Grant I can’t.
Grant: Where are you? I don’t care what you do during the week, save Sundays for me.
Clarissa: Grant please don’t text me anymore.
I type the last text with a heavy heart and toss my phone on the bed.
“I’m getting in the shower,” I tell Lexi and walk into the bathroom.
After we have both showered, we start working on each other’s hair and make-up. We’ve got Maroon 5 blaring and we’re having our own little pre-party.
“Hey, are you girls ready yet?” I hear Jason call out from the other side of the door.
“Almost….” I answer. I have on a red Herve Leger Bandage Mermaid floor length dress, strapless and fitted down to the lightly flared out trumpet skirt. Lexi has on a beautiful purple long sheath dress with a slit up to there. We both admire ourselves one last time in the floor length mirror.
“We look smoking hot if I do say so myself,” I laugh.
“We are sizzling,” Lexi says and we both burst out laughing. We walk out of the bedroom. Jason and Troy are at the bar getting it set up for our guests who are due to arrive soon. I walk up behind Jason and wrap my arms around my hunky man. He turns around and steps back to look at me, and lets out a long whistle like they do in the movies.
“You look damn sexy in that dress, I can’t wait to get you out of it.”
“Jason,” I whisper, a little embarrassed because Troy and Lexi heard him. I hear Troy admiring Lexi too. They’re so cute together, they make a nice looking couple.
There’s a knock at the door and room service is here with all of the food for the pre-party. Jason invited three or four other couples over. Nicole is coming to the Winter Formal tonight with some other guy in their frat and I told Jason I didn’t want her coming to the bungalow. Talk about ruining my evening if she showed up here. It’s bad enough that she’ll be at the formal.
The other couples arrive one by one and the party gets started with eating and some drinking. Jason knows how to throw a party and is a gracious host, which must come from his silver spoon upbringing. He exudes confidence, charm and has a great sense of humor. He can be a gentleman when he wants to be. He works the room, but is still very attentive to me. I watch him across the room talking and laughing with his friends and I feel pretty lucky to have someone like Jason interested in me. I see a few of the other girls checking him out and then they look at me. They’re probably wondering, what’s she got that I don’t? Well, that would be Jason Bancroft I laugh at myself.
“Hi, are you having a good time?” Lexi asks, coming up to me.
“Oh yes, isn’t this bungalow totally cool, it’s so luxurious.”
“I know, I’ve never stayed someplace this nice.”
“This place screams the Bancroft lifestyle of the rich and famous, it’s a little overwhelming,” I admit.
“How do you do it, do you ever find it intimidating?”
“No. Jason usually doesn’t flaunt it,” I say, shrugging my shoulders.
“I try not to let material things impress me. It’s what’s in here that counts,” I say placing my hand on my heart. “It’s his personality that won me over. I know he can come across a little cocky at times, but once I got to know him, he can be so irresistibly charming. He has a sensitive and caring side to him, believe it or not.”
“He’s so crazy about you Clarissa, I see the way he looks at you,” Lexi goes on.
“Go figure. I can say the same thing about your man Troy over there,” I point out.
“I know, I love being with him,” Lexi gushes.
“You guys are so cute together,” I say just as both the guys come up to us to tell us we’re heading to the ballroom for the formal now.