it."
He was still on the edge when he began again. Squeezing so hard he could feel his veins and ridges as he pushed his fist down over his head and shaft. The fluid was still dripping out, so she reached over to catch some on her finger. Watching her bring it to her lips was the final push. He couldn’t stop the manic pulses as they began at the base of his shaft. His jaw dropped as the pulses moved up his shaft and past his fist, ejecting thick globs of fluid across the bed, some drops landing as far as her back.
"Oh my God, that is so cool! I wish I could do that!"
"You can, anytime you want," he said with a grin. "This one is yours anytime you want to try it. All yours."
"All mine," she repeated to him. She crawled over and kissed its messy head. "All mine."
Chapter 5: Julie
J ulie put the small paintbrush between her teeth to smear a line of paint into a shade with her thumb. Her gift for the girls’ shared room in Jack’s new apartment was almost complete. She was down to final touches on the face of the princess. Exhausted after two long days of painting, and sick from the paint fumes, she made another small adjustment and smiled.
"OK Jack, come see!"
Jack stepped into the girls’ room and looked around, walking to the center of the room, eyes sparkling as he turned slowly.
"I’m glad you didn’t let me see it until now," he said with a smile beaming across his face. "It looks as good as the theme park. I can’t believe how good the trees look! Even the stones on the tower look real! How did you manage to get her hair to look like spun gold?"
"You have to paint from back to front, with the base color at the back, ending with the highlights. I used a thick hair brush instead of the roller and painted over the darker color while it is still a little wet to get them to mix together. When I paint it, I make the brush curve like the hair would. It’s really easy, I promise."
"The girls are going to love this. I just wish you could be here tomorrow when they see it."
"It’s fine, I only had two days off. Besides, I doubt Sophie would be happy to see me. I don’t want to make things hard for you, especially tomorrow."
Jack sighed. "Look, we’ve already agreed to all the terms of the interim custody agreement, so the court date is just a formality. I’m sure it’ll be fine."
Julie wasn’t convinced. "I have a bad feeling for some reason... or maybe it’s just the paint fumes. Promise me you’ll be careful tomorrow, OK?"
"I promise." He looked at the details under the tree. "Hey, are those fairies down there?"
"Yeah, I put them down under the leaves like they were hiding. See if you can find the family of gnomes and the Cheshire cat."
Jack let out a delighted laugh as he pointed to the grinning teeth hovering above the tree branch. "Found him!" He looked around at the painting, bending down near the floor. "There’s the gnome family mushroom house!" He looked closer at the gnome family, then gasped. "They look like us! How did you make a face with six lines look like Lisa? You could make money doing this!"
"I did make money doing this, you ass! I cleared five hundred at the art festival in one weekend painting faces, and got three a piece for some murals I did at a little restaurant downtown. You think I need you to tell me how to earn money?" She laughed even as she was warmed by his compliment.
"I know they saw the sketches you showed them at the house closing last week and were excited. They bounced around for ten minutes, you know? But this is going to blow their minds. They’re going to freak out when they see this."
Julie smiled. Jack was so loving and went out of his way to make her feel welcome in his life. He had even asked her to come to the closing, albeit to help with the girls, but she had never seen what it took to sell property before. The amount of paperwork involved was staggering, not to mention the incredible sums of money being thrown around for filing papers. Her