By the time Lexi and Heather got back to the house it was almost midnight, and everyone was home besides JC. Karen and Roy were asleep and Tyler was in his room watching TV and talking on the phone.
“I’m gonna go upstairs and go to sleep. I’ll see ya tomorrow, Lexi,” Heather said as she gave Lexi a hug.
“Ok. G’nite.”
Lexi went into her room and took out the things that she bought. In addition to buying JC’s necklace she also bought some tank tops and shorts. Because it was winter all the summer clothes were on clearance. She also bought a perfect black dress to wear to Justin’s New Year’s Eve Party. After she got everything put away, Lexi headed towards the bathroom to take a shower.
A few minutes later, JC came home. After grabbing a drink from the kitchen he headed upstairs to his room. While he was out with Lucas, JC bought a new CD. He was going to play it on his CD player, but he didn’t want to wake anyone up. So, he popped the CD into his DISCman, put on his bathrobe, and headed towards the bathroom to take a shower.
He danced down the hallway and opened the door to the bathroom just as Lexi was getting out of the shower. Lexi gasped and hurried to cover herself up with her towel as JC said, “Omigawd…I’m sooooo sorry! I had my earphones on and I didn’t know that anyone was in here…”
“It’s ok, just get out!” JC left and closed the door and went back to his room.
“What have I done?” he whispered to himself. He prayed that Lexi wasn’t upset with him, and after ten minutes of pacing around his room, he went to Lexi’s room and knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me…”
Lexi opened the door only wearing a bathrobe. JC stood there trying to find his words to apologize again.
“Lex, I’m really so-sorry…”
She burst into a fit of laughter. At first JC wasn’t laughing, but he couldn’t help it. Lexi’s laugh made him laugh. Once they both contained themselves Lexi told him to come in the room.
“So you’re not mad at me for seeing you…”
“Naked?!” Lexi laughed. “No. It takes a lot to embarrass me.”
“Oh, I’m soooo happy that you’re not angry.”
“No, I’m not mad, but you know what this means now, right?”
“No…what?”
“This means that now I have to see you naked.”
JC laughed. “Riiiight.”
Lexi and JC proceeded to talk, and talk, and talk for the next several hours. They both laughed so hard that their stomachs began to hurt, but finally around 4 AM they fell asleep.
The next morning at about 11 everyone was wondering why JC and Lexi both weren’t up yet. Heather knocked on Lexi’s door and opened it when no one answered. There were Lexi and JC: asleep on the same bed, only wearing bathrobes.
“I can't find Josh anywhere. Is Lexi awake?” Tyler said as he came up behind Heather in the doorway.
“Uhh…” Heather said.
Heather and Tyler both froze, and we all know why they froze and what they were thinking. As the brother and sister stood there dumfounded, JC shifted positions and put his arm across Lexi’s waist.
“Lexi…” JC groaned as he moved.
This awoke Lexi, and she saw Heather and Tyler standing in the doorway.
“Good morning…What time is it?” she asked. Heather and Tyler simply looked at each other, smiled, and closed the door. Lexi was confused for a moment, but then she realized what it must have looked like.
“Oh shit,” she said.
“What?” an awakening JC said.
“I think your brother and sister think that we had sex,” she replied nonchalantly.
“What! Why?”
“They were just at the door.”
“Oh.”
“We’ve got some explaining to do. We better get up,” Lexi said with a chuckle.
Chapter Eleven
Home, home on the range