Ch 4
Venus considered Jerry’s proposal long and hard. Should she go out to dinner with him and learn his ‘plan’? Would she be better off staying at home and working on her portrait? She was deep in thought when he interrupted her.
"I won’t bite, Luv. Well, not unless you ask me to." Jerry laughed. She really was entertaining and attractive when she was wrestling with herself.
"Very funny Jerry. There will be no biting; but I will go to dinner with you. However, can we make it just the outback? I don’t feel like getting dressed up." V said with a frown. She just didn’t feel glamorous. If she were glamorous she wouldn’t be in this situation. The right man, and only the right man, would be in love with her.
Jerry couldn’t help but try to hide his laugh. Ever since she returned from Monte Carlo, V had been glamorous even in sweats. It was there where she had acquired a little much need self-confidence. "We can go wherever you would like, however, I prepaid for tonight’s activities. I would like to get my money’s worth." Jerry said with a mock whine. He hoped that V’s practical nature would convince her to go out with him.
"Aren’t you a millionaire or something?" V asked a little annoyed. Still she hated to waste money. Her father always said that throwing money away was inviting poverty to your doorstep. "We can go. What should I wear?" V had no idea what he had planned and didn’t want to make an error.
"Can I pick?" Jerry asked with a smile.
"You want to go into my closet and pick out my clothes?" She asked in shock. "Why don’t you just tell me what you have planned and I can pick for myself."
"I would prefer to surprise you."
"I don’t want…." V tried to tell him that she didn’t feel comfortable about him being in her room, however, by the time she got out the sentence he was up and in her closet. "Jerry, I am going to ask you to leave." She said sternly going into her room after him.
"It is okay. I am done in here." Jerry said coming out of the closet with a dress in his hand. "This one is perfect."
V was shocked. He picked out a brand new dress. She knew she had no place to wear it but she had fallen in love when she had seen it. It wasn’t dressy enough for the nurses’ ball and it was much too dressy for a night at the Grille. However, the dress was made for her. She knew that as soon as she tried it on. She couldn’t help but feeling thrilled at the prospect of wearing it. "If I am wearing this, you cannot wear those jeans."
Jerry laughed. "That’s my girl." He was about to continue when V interrupted him.
‘I am not your anything." V wondered why everybody thought that they owned her suddenly. Nobody should be able to tell her whom to date, when and where. "I am going with you as a favor and a friend. You don’t own me."
"V, Luv, it is simply an expression. Nobody can own you." She had too much fight and fire to ever allow anybody to make her decisions for her. Jerry wondered how Jax could possibly miss that.
"Sorry, it has been a rough week." She said with a shy smile. She always managed to let her strong opinions get the best of her when she was upset. She couldn’t stop herself from vocalizing and it had gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion.
"You can tell me all about it during dinner." Jerry smiled. "I will pick you up in forty-five minutes. Does that give you enough time?"
"Can you make it forty-eight?" V asked with a smile.
"I will be here then, Luv." Jerry left to go home and get dressed as V got into the shower.
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Jerry was walking towards his car when Jax cornered him. "Would you like to tell me what is going on?" Jax asked trying hard not to appear upset but failing miserably.
"What do you want to know, brother?" Jerry asked amused by his brother’s antics but worried that they might make him late.
"What are your intentions with V?"
Jerry smiled as he considered how to answer that question.