Snowed In

Chess

When we finish stacking all the wood by the fire place Jack goes and sits on the couch.

“Sooo, what do we do now?” I ask

“Relax?” He says

“That’s no fun” I say

“What would you like to do? And do not say watch TV” he says

“Do you have any games?” I ask

“I live here alone” he says

“Oh come on you must have something” I say throwing my hands up

He lets out a huff and rubs his hands over his face.

“I have a deck of cards and a chess set” he says

“Well lucky for you I know how to play chess and I know an abundance of card games” I say putting my hands on my hips

“That’s lucky for me?” He says rubbing his forehead

He gets up off the couch and goes to his room. After a minute I think he might not be coming back but then he walks in with a chess set and deck of cards. His hair is wet so I’m assuming he showered. My mouth runs dry because he has on a tight fitted black shirt and pair of grey sweat pants.

“Here are the games you requested, Princess” he says

I stare at him for a little too long and he raises his eyebrow at me snapping me back into reality.

“Thanks, are you any good at chess?” I ask

“I haven’t played in a while but yeah I’m pretty good” he says

He sits on the couch while I go around the table and sit on the floor across from him so I can set the chess board up.

“Black or white?” I ask him

“Lady’s choice” he says

“Ok then I’ll be black you can be white” I say We sit and play for what feels like hours. I beat him six times before he finally got mad and refused to play me anymore.

“Wishing you’d left me to freeze in my car?” I say with a laugh

“I’m debating taking you back to it right now” he says

He stretches against the couch and when he does I can see the outline of his c**k through his sweats. I’ve only ever seen one in my life and it was a lot smaller than that. I panic and sling the chess board pieces all over the floor.

“S**t!” I exclaim

I start crawling around to get all the pieces and Jack joins me. We each reach for the same piece of when we look up our foreheads slam together.

“Oww” I say putting my hand over the spot that was just hit

“F**k” Jack says grabbing his head too “You have a hard head” he says which makes me laugh

I put the chess set back in the box.

“Who taught you how to play chess?” Jack asks

“My dad did” I say and reality hits me

I stand up because I just realized my parents must be freaking out. I never showed up and they can’t get in touch with me. I shouldn’t have made that joke to my mom I know she must be worried sick.

“Are you ok?” Jack asks sounding concerned

I shake my head no as tears start forming in my eyes.

“My parents must be freaking out. I made a stupid f*****g joke about dying on the way there to my mom and I regret it now.” I say not looking at him

“Hey its ok” he says putting a hand on my shoulder “I promise as soon as the snow clears enough I will take you to your parents cabin” he says and his words make me feel better

I nod my head at him and wipe my face. He’s really sweet and in a messed up way I’m kind of happy I’m here.