Summary: Three months is more than enough time for Naya to take things to the next level with Howie. She's more than ready, but is he? Naya will have have to let out her inner Bad Girl to get past insecurities and find out.
Categories: Fanfiction > Backstreet Boys Characters: Howie
Genres: Romance
Warnings: Sexual Content
Challenges:
Series: Bad Girls Club
Chapters: 2 Completed: No
Word count: 3118 Read: 2074
Published: 02/08/12 Updated: 02/13/12
1. Chapter 1 by bebybsb
2. Chapter 2 by bebybsb
I don't even know why I'm here. Every year I do the same, lunch with the girls in Valentine's Day. For five years this lunch has been a blessing to me, it’s meant I could breathe from doing floral arrangements
like a maniac for 2 hours. It’s also meant not having to spend the day completely alone.
But this year is so much different, I'm not single! I actually have a boyfriend, an amazing one.
A boyfriend who hasn't called me today.
Not even a text, or one of those sweet emails I receive from him. And I have no idea why he suddenly disappeared. We’ve been slowly getting to know each other for eight months, and officially dating for three.
As I check my phone for any missed call or text for the thousand time, I start thinking about something that’s been bothering me this whole day, what am I…
“Naya!”
I looked up at the mention of my name to find 4 sets of eyes looking at me expectantly.
“What? What’s wrong?” I asked them when all they do is stare at me.
“What’s wrong with You?” Rachel asked me.
“You’ve barely talked today, and either the food is bad or you’re not enjoying our company because you’re holding your purse as if you’re about to run for the door!” I looked down at my hand and saw that Hannah was right. What is wrong with me? I’m never like this!
“Is something wrong at the store? We know you have a lot of work today, but the girls can deal for two hours so you can have a break! You deserve it!”
“No, it’s not the shop, Cass.” “Then tell us what is it?” Monique insisted.
I sighed and decided that maybe what I needed was to voice my concerns and listen to what my friends could advise me.
“All right. Howie hasn’t called me today.”
They all had knowing smiles on their faces and I was so mortified I covered my face with my hands. When I did, they started laughing at me.
I just groaned and said to them, “Please don’t laugh, at least make fun of me when I’m not present!”
“We’re not making fun of you, we’re happy for you!” Monique said while giving me a half hug.
“You’re happy my boyfriend forgot about me on Valentine’s Day? Thank God you’re my friends! ”
“Naya! Don’t take it like that. What we mean is we’re glad Howie matters so much to you that you’re actually feeling down because he hasn’t called. How long has it been since you felt like you do now?"
Rachel had a point, my last relationship was five years ago.
“But I don’t want to feel like this, I mean I have more important things to do like running a gift shop on the busiest season of the year than looking at the phone every five minutes and wondering…”
“What? Wondering what?” Cass was asking me and they were all looking at me for an answer.
“It’s just that, dating Howie feels so different from all the others, not because it’s starting, but because he truly is a great man, an older man, and that sometimes scares me because I don’t want to lose him. Even if it doesn’t work, I’d still want him in my life. I don’t want him to see me as a girl looking for a fling because I’m younger, I want him to see me as a successful woman. And I’m not making any sense, so let’s just change the topic please!” Saying it aloud sounded more stupid than in my head.
“Wow! That’s a lot of thoughts you had bottled up!” Hannah had no idea how many I still had left.
“Ok, first of all! You have to stop concentrating all your efforts into the shop and start living more for yourself. Naya, you have to take more time for yourself and live for God’s sake! The shop is a hit, it’s completely established, now start enjoying what’s leaving you. And if that time is spent with Howie, even better! He’s hot for you, everyone can see it when you two are together, it’s like he’s devouring you with his eyes and he doesn’t care who notices. Take more Sundays off and spend them with him in bed ravishing him! I would!”
“It’s not as easy as that, Hannah.”
“Yes it is!” All of them cried at once. They just didn’t understand.
“I know what’s really wrong with her.” We all looked at Rachel and I knew what she was planning on saying.
“Don’t you dare say it!” But she just ignored me and started talking to the others as if I wasn’t there.
“Naya’s real problem is that she wants to have sex with Howie, but is afraid of making the first move. Apparently Howie is too much of a gentleman and hasn’t tried to get into her pants yet.”
Rachel was so gonna get it later! Hannah, Cass and Monique were looking at me as if I had three heads or something.
“You haven’t jumped that fine piece of man? What is wrong with you Naya?”
“I just… I mean…” Ugh! I want this torture to be over!
“Ok I want to jump him, I want that fine piece of man, however you say it, I want him! But I just wanted to wait and make sure I wasn’t a meaningless girl of the moment for him. He’s been divorced for a year and I wanted to do things in a… I don’t know… a proper way?”
“I don’t believe that! Proper way shit! You are wearing a red dress!” Now I was looking at Monique with wide eyes.
“It is Valentine’s Day, I made everyone at the shop wear red.”
“Yes, but you’re wearing a Dress! And I can bet my paycheck that you have sexy black underwear underneath. No one goes to work, especially a florist on her busiest day, wearing that! Clearly, you were anticipating a visit from Howie, so you could go into your office and jump him in your desk!”
We all started laughing at that.
“Ok, that was the scenario in my mind this morning…” At that the girls only laughed harder. “But he has to come to me first if I want it to become reality!”
“Naya, you have to stop analyzing everything and just go for it! If you want him, get him. Don’t think about what you’re doing, what he’ll think of you, just do what feels right. I don’t think he’ll mind, I think he’ll love it!”
“Rachel’s right! We know you have a bad girl deep inside you that you’ve kept under control all this years. And while you’re one of the greatest persons I’ll ever know, we miss the crazy, spontaneous girl who used to give us ideas on how to turn a date from good to smoking hot!” I felt myself blushing thinking about those days Cass was describing.
“Let’s hope he does appear!”
“Have you called him?” Rachel asked me.
“One call, then one text, and before I got here, one e-mail. That’s more than enough, now is his turn!”
“Yeah, don’t you dare call him again!”
“You know I won’t. Well, it’s been as always, the best part of my day having this lunch with all of you, but I have to get going.”
“You have to call us tomorrow and give us all the dirty details!” Hannah told me while giving me a hug.
“If it happens…, that’s only If. Oh, I have something for each of you!”
After giving my friends a Gerbera Daisy tied to a small box of homemade cookies, many hugs and goodbyes, I went back to the shop. It was packed with clients on line to pay or waiting for gifts being wrapped, but I could tell everything was under control.
What I did notice was that all my employees were smiling at me. I just stood in the middle of the counter area between them and asked them what was making them so happy.
“You received a special delivery.” When I turned to the pointed location I immediately knew why they were smiling.
In a small table was a wide black pot filled with various Phalaenopsis Orchids planted in white zen stones. In a trance I walked to it and touched the shiny leaves and the delicate flowers that were as big as the palm of my hand. I could easily tell one of them was a rare hybrid and the others were mature and very healthy plants. As an expert, I knew this arrangement was carefully selected and directly from an orchid nursery, not a flower shop.
It was the best floral arrangement I’ve received in my life. I could feel my cheeks tingling from smiling, and I didn’t care who saw my watery eyes. I took the small white envelope and opened it.
It was his handwriting.
Beautiful, unique, delicate, exotic… I think the seller was describing you, not the flowers!
See you at 10pm when you close the shop. I Can’t wait to have you in my arms again.
HD
9:40PM
Can’t people stop coming into the shop? I mean, thank you God for giving me such great sales today, but I'm exhausted!
At least they're coming in for single roses and chocolates. I had 2 girls cleaning up and Sarah running the counter with me. The girls were anxious to finally get out of here and go change for a party. Sarah was going to dinner with her husband and two kids. As the shop owner, I'm supposed to make sure everything is in order for tomorrow, clean counter, flowers hydrating... Not tonight.
At ten sharp, I'm picking up my purse and closing up.
“Girls! Ten Minutes left! Turn off the open sign; I’ll be in my office checking all transactions, whoever wants to come thru that door, you shoot him and we put the body in the cooler with the flowers.”
The girls started laughing and Sarah just looked at me with a knowing smile on her face. “I mean it Sarah, I want to be out of that door at 10. No one comes in!”
“You’re dying for Howie to get here!”
“Precisely!”
I started sorting and counting but a part of my brain was thinking about him. You know that little doubtful voice that always shows up and starts telling you ‘what if he doesn’t show up’, or ‘Am I too dressed up?’, and you can’t shut it up. That’s the one I was hearing.
I was putting all the documents and money on the safe box when there was a light tap on the office door. “What?”
“Are you going to shoot me?” Oh my God, he’s here!
I turned around and there he was; arms crossed, leaning against the door frame, dressed completely in black. I still can’t believe he’s mine.
I walk to him, making sure the skirt of the dress flows with the swaying of my hips. I place my hands on his chest and slowly move them up to his neck, something I do every time I greet him. In turn, he pulled me close to him by my waist and I could feel one hand on my back and the other playing with my hair. I give him a little kiss, and then I look into his eyes and tell him “I loved my gift”.
He smiled and gave me a little kiss back. “There’s another one, but only if you accept a date with me.”
“Give me two minutes and I’m ready to go.”
“That sounds like you only want…” I didn’t let him finish because I took hold of his face and kissed him with everything I had. His kisses have a mind blowing effect on me, and what brought me back to reality was the light tapping on my door.
I turned around and found Sarah trying to look anywhere but at my face, “We’re ready to go Naya.”
“Oh! Right! Give me a minute.” I turned to Howie and asked him for a second, with a clearing of his throat he said, “Take your time!”
Judging by the bulge in front of his pants I knew he needed it more than me!
After giving my employees a special present/bonus and saying goodbye I went back to my office. Howie was sitting in my chair, and he kept looking at me while I made sure everything was in place and the safe box was locked.
Since I was in the mood for teasing him, I went behind him, leaned down and whispered in his ear “Are you ready to take me with you?”
We reached his house and my nerves started trying to get the best of me once again. But I looked at Howie and he smiled at me, took my hand and kissed it. I felt better instantly.
I waited while he opened my door and helped me out of his car. His arm circled my waist and he led me inside. I’m surprised to see it doesn’t have a lot of furniture or decorations in it.
As if reading my mind he tells me “I haven’t had much time to really set up everything I want. I just have what’s necessary in place. But still mi casa es tu casa!”
“It’s a gorgeous place with so many possibilities! And all the open space suits you perfectly.”
He showed me every room while explaining what his plans were for every space. And all the while I kept thinking how to get him to show me the heated Jacuzzi he told me about when it was being installed.
"And here's my room." that got my attention instantly.
I immediately noticed the huge bed and my heart started pounding. A vision of him, laying in it with the navy sheet up to his waist, showing me a naked chest. I couldn't suppress the sigh, because he
looked at me and asked me what was wrong. "I just had a mental picture..."
"What did you see?" he asked me while taking hold of my waist and pressing me against him. If I'm supposed to be more daring, this is my moment.
"I saw us... Together in that bed. You were holding me tighter." He took hold of my hips and I could feel his excitement. I dropped my voice to a throaty whisper "just like that, but you were kissing me..."
And he did. Not a simple kiss, but one that showed me how much he wanted me in that bed. When we finally pulled apart, he just looked at me with so much passion in his eyes I trembled.
"I want you so bad, you're driving me insane!"
He was driving me insane, one of his hands was pulling up my dress, it was leaving a burning trail behind.
"I don't want you to stop, please Howie!"
"I want to give you your present... Oh God!" I bit his lower lip while digging my nails in his back.
"You already gave me one... Take me to that bed now!"
But he took his hand from under my dress and grabbed mine. I was pleading him with my eyes, but he just smiled at me.
"I promise you, I will bring you tonight to this room."
I was dying inside. I could still feel his hand on my thigh as if it was still there, and I wanted that same hand on other parts of my body.
He led me to the back of the house to the pool area. Stepping outside felt like entering a paradise. The sounds of the small cascade creating a waterfall felt very soothing.
What I liked the most was the table with a dinner setting for two, wine chilling in the center of it.
The man just never ceases to surprise me. He arranged everything, sitting me in the chair, bringing everything from the kitchen and setting the plates. It was a great dinner and by the taste of it I knew he was the one to cook it, since he had done some cooking in my apartment.
We talked about many things, he told me about his time with his son and I told him about my day and the crazy requests people had on Valentine’s Day
We finished eating and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
"Thank you so much for all this Howie, it's been an amazing night!"
He smiled at me and said "why do you say it like it's over, It's just beginning!"
"I've no doubt about that! No one has done this for me before."
"That's a shame."
"Maybe. But I like to think it was meant to be you who gave me so many special moments.” Before he had the chance to answer to that I told him “You know what! I feel like dancing. Why don’t you put some music and come join me?”
He stood up and bent down to give me a kiss. “Anything for you” I was loving this side of Howie. But I wanted to spice things up.
When he entered the house I quickly took off my sandals, and went to the Jacuzzi to turn it on. I heard the music come on the speakers he clearly had outside.
Taking a deep breath I took my dress off and let it pool at my feet, and stood beside it in just black lace bra and hipsters.
When he entered the patio, he stopped. There was no smile on his face, but the way he was looking at me made me shiver. I knew he understood the games and tentativeness were over.
“I changed my mind. I think it’s a perfect night for the Jacuzzi and I need a massage after today. Will you join me?”
In response, he started to unbutton his dress shirt.
There was no turning back anymore, and I’m more than ready to get into the next level.
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