Behind The Scenes

58. Jo

"Excuse me, did you know about this splendid pool and didn't say anything?" Hero says ironically annoyed.
"I actually thought you knew!" Jessica laughs. "But apparently not... Well, patience!" she shrugs.
"Fuck you," Hero tells her spontaneously, I love him for that.
"Let's bring drinks and some snacks here, what do you think?" Liam proposes.
"I'd say it's fine!" I exclaim.
We go and sit on the sofas around a rectangular table and the waiter arrives. We order what we want. I always stay on my beloved Sex on the Beach.
«Dude, you like to throw yourself huh? A fucking Godfather," Liam comments.
This is the first time Hero has ordered such a boozy cocktail with me.
"Remember the old days?" Jessica addresses my man with a hint of nostalgia in her voice.
"How to forget them, Jess," he chuckles.
How annoying when he calls her Jess...
"Jo, you stay on the safe side, fine," Jess comments on my Sex on the Beach.
"Yup. If you're going to get really drunk, someone will have to be the mommy."
They laugh and agree with me.
The evening proceeds quietly. After some time spent chatting, they serve us a drink along with something to munch on.
"Fuck, I missed the Godfather," Hero exclaims, taking a sip.
"What's inside?" I ask him.
"Whiskey and amaretto, would you like to try?"
I nod and put the frozen glass in my hands. I lightly wet my lips and immediately make a disgusted expression. "Ew! How do you drink this stuff?"
All three of them laugh at my disgusted face, then Jessica laughs, "As a kid it sucked for him too, he felt like throwing up every time he took a sip!"
"I remember it!" Hero laughs with her.
I still have that expression on my face, not for the Godfather, but for dear Jess. Is it just me or does it seem like she wants to flirt with Hero? All night she and Liam haven't even kissed each other on the lips which... oh, here they are right now. I am paranoid.
"Come here," Hero gestures for me to sit on his legs and so I do, then he gives me a light kiss on the lips and touches them, our breaths melt. Then we realize that Liam and Jessica are looking at us without knowing what to say or do, so we stop immediately.
"So..." we start chatting again.
By now it will be eleven thirty or almost midnight, I have no idea and I don't want to check. All four of us are laughing like crazy, I'm just a little bit tipsy after just two drinks, they're completely gone now, including Hero. I don't know how many drinks he drank and I don't really want to know, I just know he didn't drink five Godfather but something much less alcoholic, luckily.
"I'm drunk shit!" Liam laughs for no reason.
"We all are! Except Jo who is considerably less than us, but however," Jessica laughs too.
"Why are we all laughing, sorry?" I ask chuckling, I don't know what brought us to this.
"Who knows, I don't remember!" Hero answers, still laughing.
After a few more senseless laughs, silence falls, but it's not awkward, we're too drunk to realize it.
Then Jessica breaks it, "Did you know that there is also a hydromassage pool inside?"
"What? Are you kidding me?" Hero snaps, making me jump. "You're such a bitch Jessica."
"Mhm, I know," and she waves her straight, dark hair.
We keep talking about this and that until one of the two rings the phone and at half past midnight they tell us they have to go leave.
I turn to say goodbye and when Hero and I are alone he gently takes my neck and kisses me passionately, I can feel the taste of alcohol. His tongue tickles mine and then they start moving together. Hero always says he's not an expert on kissing and sex, but I can definitely deny it.
"I don't like Jessica," I say panting between kisses.
"And I don't like Liam, not even one bit."
"He's not that bad," I admit.
He stops kissing me and looks me in the eye. "Jess isn't that bad either," he tells me defiantly.
A flame of jealousy lights up in my body. Jealousy, they say, can lead to a toxic relationship, but I can't help it. He too dies of jealousy when I mention Liam.
"Never again."
"What?" he asks confused.
"An outing for four."
"Oh yes. You're right," and he kisses me. Then he gets up and takes me in his arms.
Where are we going?