Jeremy Taylor 2
#2 of Jeremy Taylor
This is my second submission of this story with a lot of character development and slowly growing love between the main character
And since I'm still rather new at this writing thing pleased be kind with the compliments and if you could please be kindly honest with what you think or if there are any errors :D
"Bah ding ding ding" rang the text tone on my phone
I reached in my pocket and pulled out my phone and brought up the text to read it.
-Will you come help me zip this dress up I can't get it- from jenny
Without replying, I got up off the couch and snuck upstairs hoping I could catch my sister off guard. I reached her door and slowly slid it open snuck up behind her and zipped up her dress and in doing so made her jump, which made me, giggle.
"Hey don't scare me like that Jerry," she said as she softly punched my arm
"I would if you did not make it so easy" I retorted as I tickled her playfully
"Well I guess i'll have to be more vigilant from now on" she said threw the laughter that my tickling caused "now can you please stop tickling me!" she cried as she was trying to fight off my hands
"Okay okay just because you asked so nicely" I said as I stopped tickling her as I stepped back to see how well the dress looked on her
"Wowwwwwwww" I said as my jaw dropped as I began to stare
Jenny reached over and closed my open muzzle "well I guess you like this dress on me" she giggled at how dumbfounded I was Snapped back to reality with her hand on my chin I said, "heck yea sis that dress looks wonderful on you"
"Aw do you really think so big brother?" she said with a blush
"Hey have I ever lied to you, you always look beautiful sis and I hope you know that" I said as I pulled her into a hug "now turn around and face your mirror and close your eyes I got another surprise for you" I told her
"Oh! Another gift" she squeaked as she spun around to face her vanity mirror and closed her eyes. Then I pulled out her second present that was kept in a black box. I opened it to see the perfect white gold necklace and picked it up and unlatched it. Then I walked up and pulled the necklace around my sister's neck pushing her long brunette hair out of the way and clasped it.
"Okay you can open your eyes," I said as I patted her shoulders
"Oh my gosh Jerry it beautiful" she gasped at seeing the necklace that consisted of a white gold chain and cross made of the same metal with a bright red ruby in the center that matched the color of her eyes perfectly.
"I'm glad you like it" I said as I took her into a light hug from behind nestled my head into the crease of her neck so I could get a better look at the necklace on her without loosening the hug
"Where did you find this cross I've never seen a ruby this red before" she asked as she leaned forward to examine it better in her mirror I leaned in with her not wanting to let go.
"The cross was actually our mothers I found it in one of the old boxes in the attic it was all tarnished and black but I took it to the jewelers over near the shopping district across town and got it cleaned and fitted with the chain that is on it now" I answered
"Wow really this was mom's?" she gasped being that she never knew her mother but she did see all of the older pictures of her and saw the cross before and realized that it was the same one and was so happy to have something of her dearly departed mother.
"Yep and I'm positive that she and dad would of wanted you to have it" I answered as I squeezed the hug a little tighter to emphasize my statement.
"Oh Jerry, thank you so much these are the best gifts I could have ever asked for" she whined as she began to cry tears of happiness then she turned around and returned my hug whole heartily squeezing me as hard as she could. I squeezed her back but just a tad harder.
"Well today is not over I still wanted to take you some where fancy for your birthday dinner" I said as I broke the hug off to look her in the eyes which were so beautiful even when they were full of tears
"You don't have to do that big brother I'm already happy with these gifts she said thinking I already spent too much money on her which was not true she is priceless and I would spend all the money in the world if that would make her happy. Like I said before we have not acclimated to all the money we have since we were always denied things by our father, who taught us money was a gift not to be spent all Willy nillly. They were right though if Jeff did not keep a hold on our money I would have probably spent it all by now. And those teachings from our father were embedded into jenny's head that if I was not here to convince her that we have more money than what we know what to do with it then she would most likely be the most frugal person in the world.
"Hey" I said as I place a hand gently on the side of her face and pulled her face up to meant mine and said "I know I don't have to but I want to and what else is there to do with all this money than to spoil you silly with it" I said reassuringly "so you wana go to that place you saw on food network?" I asked
"You mean the chef's table" she said sniffling as she was coming out of her crying fit
"Oh yea that's the name of the place, well do you wanna go" I asked her again
"Oh My Gosh yes! I do!" she said as excitement rushed through her again "but that place is really exclusive how can we get in on such short notice," she asked worryingly
"Well I don't know I guess I should of made reservations," I said sadly, and slumping forward
"Aw it's okay we can go some where else." She said as she was easily falling for my roost
"Aw I really wanted to take you there and I know how much you've been wanting to go" I whined putting on my best sad face as I turned away from her just to grin so I would not break character then I put the face back on and turned back to face her
"It's ok Jerry really don't get so sad I don't like seeing you like this" she said as she pulled my face to meet hers and pulled me into a hug just then I could not help but smile at how well I was fooling her but now I had to figure out how to tell her I actually had reservation that I made 4 months ago
"So what if I told you I got reservations and all this was an act to mess with you" I asked trying my best to sound sad as she still held me in that warm loving embrace
"WHAT" she gasped as she pushed me away
All I could do was smiled the biggest toothy smile that told her that I was just messing with her
"AWWW don't do that to me Jerry!" she said as she softly pounded on my chest
"Hey hey sorry I just can't help but messing with you sis you make it so easy and your so cute when you get all concerned about me and I love that" I said as I pulled her in for another hug and to stop the punches and gave her a big squeeze making her grunt
"So you still want to go right?" I asked
"Of course I do you big goof but please don't trick me again big brother" she said as she broke the hug and punched me in the arm
"Now go get dressed you," she said looking me over and seeing that I was only wearing a button up and some slacks. The shirt even had slight sweat stains in the armpits. "This restaurant is super high class go put on a suit or a tux please while I finish getting ready"
"Okay mother I will" I said jokingly as a sauntered out of her room and into my room and started to strip off my clothes and headed to the shower to get clean. When I was finished with the shower I walked over to my closet and searched through the many of shirts and pants that I had till I found the black suit with white pin stripes on it. Sweet perfect I said as I grabbed the hanger it was on and laid it on my bed that was pressed up against the farthest wall from my door then I went over to my dresser and opened the top drawer and pulled out a pair of boxers and a undershirt. I started getting dressed and by the time I was putting my vest on my sister walked into my room to see me struggling to get the back strap fastened so that my vest fit snugly before I put on my jacket.
She snuck up behind me and grabbed the strap and easily fastened it for me and in doing so made me jump.
"Heyyyyy" I said as I realized what she did
"Gotcha back big brother" she replied with a mischievous smile
"Okay so we're even. So you ready to go get some fancy food I was also thinking that we could swing by wake up after dinner?" I said as I was pulling on my jacket and buttoning it up.
Wake up was a local coffee shop not more than a couple of blocks away from my house and I just happen to work there.
"That would be great do you know who is working there tonight?" she asked as she helps straighten my tie
"I believe Taylor is closing tonight, and I work tomorrow April 5 4-10" I answered reciting the date just as a mental reminder as we walked out of my room.
"Cool I love Taylor his customer service is amazing not as good as yours but great nonetheless" she commented as we were walking down the stairs.
"Yep he trained me so I guess that's how I got so good, oh yea which car do you wana take?" I asked as we got off the stairs and headed to the kitchen to grab the keys to one of the cars that I would drive for us tonight.
"Ummmmmm" she hummed to her self-thinking of which car she wanted to ride in tonight
"How about your car" she said as we entered the kitchen and I walked up to the key tree standing on the island in the middle of the kitchen and grabbed the keys with the clearly marked Audi symbol on the key chain labeling which car they went to.
This specific set of keys went to my Audi R-8 my dream car that I bought about eight months ago and used it regularly to race in the downtown street races on the weekends but that's a story for later
"So why my car sis" I asked playfully as I walked over to the fridge to grab us a couple of water bottles for the road.
"You know if loved that car since you bought it on your birthday last year it's so nice" she answered as I gave her a water bottle
"Ha-ha yeah I know" I laughed
"Then why did you ask?" she asked a little confused why would ask a question if I already knew the answer
"I don't know," I said as I shrugged my shoulders and began to walk over to the garage door that was connected to the kitchen but before I got there I noticed that our feral dog's food bowl was empty and I asked my sister "hey did you feed Repede today?"
"Oh no I didn't sorry Jerry its just someone did not wake me up this morning so I forgot" she said giving be a little blaming glare since I did not wake her up at the usual time.
"Oh sorry guess it's not your fault" I said as I reached into one of the bottom cupboards and pulled out a bag of dog food and scooped a cup into his bowl and put the bag back
"Repede come," I said in a commanding voice standing up straight with my hands crossed behind my back. Then our dog came jogging in and sat right at my feet rigidly like a soldier standing at attention
"At ease" I commanded and he relaxed and opened his mouth to let his tong hang out a little
"Good boy now eat up" I said as I petted him on the head and let him go to work eating his food
Repede was our pet feral wolf that I trained to be as loyal as an American soldier he had the regular markings of a wolf an all black pelt that faded to gray as it got to his belly and nether regions. He came into our lives about three years ago in one of our biannual vacations to Russia to see our grandparents. He was just about 9 months old and was terribly wounded on the side of the road. We think he was dropped out of a moving car and left to die. Then we found him and took him in to our care, its not very common to find feral in this day in age. And now he is a big part of our family.
"Ok shall we head out" I said as I looked at my watch to see it was already 7:00
"Our reservation is at 8:00."
"Yep lets go we don't want to be late even though I know we won't be with how you drive big brother" she said with a little giggle
"Yep Google maps said it was about 45 minutes away and with the way I drive it should only take about 25-30 minutes to get there." I said boastingly as we stepped into the garage and walked passed our older brothers large F-350 king ranch that took up most of the garage. Then my sisters pink Porsche 911 that I got her to teach her how to drive when she turned 15. Then we got to my car a silver Audi R-8.
I unlocked it and before I walked around to my side i opened the door for my 'date'. My mother raised me to be a gentleman and I have always been one to any lady that I found special in my life and my sister was the most special ladies in my life.
"Well thank you" she said as she did a little curtsey and stepped into the car, then I gently closed the door and walked over to my side and got in and started the car
"Hey I need to take you to get your license some time this week don't I" I asked being reminded of the fact she had a car that she needed a license to drive.
"Oh yea! That would be great I can drive myself places and not bother you to take me everywhere" she said with a good bit of excitement and disappointment in her voice the disappointment being very subtle but being so close to her I saw threw her enthusiasm and just saw the disappointment
"Hey you never bother me jenny I love driving you around" I said reassuringly as I rubbed the top her hand and pressed the garage door opener with the other hand "matter of fact I just love being in your company period" I added with a wide smile
"Aw me too big brother" she said as she attached herself to my bicep the way she always did when we drove together it was annoying at first being that my car has a manual transmission on but I got used to it and mainly shifted with my wrist not to pump my sister in the face with my arm, and now It became a usual thing that I loved.
As we slowly pulled out of our garage and on to the road it was just starting to get dark out so I flipped on my lights to illuminate the road in front of me.
"So what's so special about this restaurant and why was it so exclusive?" I asked my sister not really knowing anything about this restaurant the 'chef's table' other than how hard it was to get the reservation and how much it cost.
"You really don't know? You made the reservation and you don't know anything about it," she said inquisitively with a little splash of mockery
"Yea I called them and they were very busy at the time all got to say was my name and the date and time for the reservation did not get much info other than that." I answered
"Well this restaurant is so exclusive because the chefs that come to cook our very famous and cost a lot to hire some of the chefs are even iron chefs" she said with a lot of passion in her eyes one thing she loved was food and cooking if the food channel was not on in her room something was wrong.
Jenny has actually cooked every meal at home since dad passed with help from me till was old enough to use the oven by herself. She started out not that great but slowly got a lot better.
"Oh did they even tell you who the chef was going to be tonight if not it should be on the reservation ticket?" she added
"Uh they did not say but" I said but paused as I reached into my pocket to pull out the ticket "here is the ticket" I said as I handed her the ticket she studied it carefully looking for the name of the chef
"No way!" she exclaimed
"What is it jenny?" I said frantically hoping nothing was wrong
"Billy jay is our chef!" she shouted excitedly
Recognizing the name from his many TV commercial's and shows that my sister freaked over every time they came on
"Really he's the one from that commercial with all the feral raccoons getting fancy and eating fine cuisine that he prepared" I questioned
"The very same" she added with passion
"Awesome! He is amazing love his commercial and line of TV dinners," I said with gusto to show that I was as excited as she was
"Oh we're coming up on the restaurant" surprised that we were already there I guess time flies when you're with someone you love I thought to myself as we pulled into the restaurant turning many of heads because of my car it was one of the few street "legal" R-8s in town it wasn't hard to find a parking place because we were about 15 minutes early.
I pulled in to a spot, got out and walked over to my sister's door and opened it for her and bowed saying "after you madam"
"Why thank you again Mr. Gentlemen" she said playfully
Then I offered her my arm which she took willingly as we walked up to the door looking like a rather cute couple. Being on the other side of town there went very many people that we knew so if an average Joe saw us right now they might think we were boyfriend and girlfriend other than brother and sister.
We walked up to the restaurant and opened the door for my sister and we both walked inside woundering what type of wonderful food we'd be getting tonight.