Justice For Juniper (Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 53

Clean Up – Part I

“I puked in Beni’s car.

“I think I’m more concerned about the

fact you puked on me,” Adil laughed as he looked at his trousers. “I just bought this today, baby girl, and now it needs to be rinsed off. I think, since it’s brand new and you puked on it, you should come with me to the shower to clean me up. I’ll wash the puke out of your hair. You can get on your knees and wash the puke off my pants.”

She cocked her head to one side and then asked, “you bought new pants today?”

“I just offered to shower with her and she’s asking about my shopping trip,” he looked at Phineas and Beni who were both shaking their heads. Suki was holding the wall as if concerned she would let it go it would fall. He was pretty sure she was the one who would fall.

“Adil,” Juniper whined as she lunged at him, despite his desperate attempt to not smear more of the vomit from his pants onto her, “did you go shopping for new clothes to come dancing with me tonight?”

“Well, I couldn’t kiss you for the first time wearing old jeans and a T–shirt could I?” he shot Suki a worried look, “is she going to puke next because frankly, my clothing can’t take another hit.‘

Beni threw a set of keys at Adil. “Go to my place, get showered and changed. Bring some pjs over for the three of us.”

“Help Suki to her room,” Phineas commanded. “Adil, meet us back in

Juniper’s bedroom. I need to get the puke out of her hair.”

“You can’t put her in the shower,” Suki protested. “I said no sex when she’s drunk.”

“We’re not going to have sex with her, Suki.” Phineas rolled his eyes at the woman who was looking greener by the passing seconds. “We’re going to clean her up as efficiently and respectfully as possible.”

“He is very handsome.”

“Do you think so?”

“I do.” Juniper nodded and then gasped when her zipper was quickly undone and her dress started to fall to the floor, “what are you doing Phineas?”

He lifted a strand of her hair, thick with chunks of putridness. “We need to get you cleaned up, beautiful. Tell me about how you and Suki met.”

“We were in the same kindergarten class. We sat at the same table on the first day of school. I knew she was going to be my best friend forever. Then that day we got to sing a song, and the teacher taught it to us, and we were trying to sing louder than each other and there was another girl, her name was Raquel, and we hated her. She kept trying to sing louder than me and Suki and we weren’t having it. Suki sang the loudest. The teacher told us it wasn’t about singing loudest but we thought she was wrong.” She was blabbering away before she realized she was completely naked, and Phineas was wearing nothing but a pair of briefs. Her eyes immediately homed in on his torso. “Wow!”