CHAPTER 4: Jacob Loves a Woman
by thestepfordgirl
After the biggest breakfast he had ever eaten, Jacob got the tour of the building from Clem. He had brought the girls' bags up to the two spare bedrooms they kept upstairs. Jacob would be staying in the house next door, half to help finish repairing it, half probably because these religious country folk probably didn't like the idea of young people sleeping in the same building. Not that Kimi wasn't cute, but Jacob had never really lusted after her in that way. It was just kinda frustrating that they assume that just because he's a single 20 year old, he must be some kind of horndog who can't control himself around cute women. Though that only reminded him of how he had shut down at the sight of the waitress. She may have been the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. The little smile she gave him and the brief glance she'd given him from the corner of her eye was playing over and over on repeat in his brain.
The thin two story house needed a paint job, certainly. Inside was a small den, already furnished. A kitchen and dining corner in the back of the house by the door. Upstairs were 3 little bedrooms, one bigger one, his, fortunately. One of the bedrooms already had a recliner and a desk in it. Jacob quietly thanked God, at least these people knew what a study looked like, he might have a chance to get some reading done out here.
"Not much else here. After ya get all settled in, you can take a look at the shed out back, see if ya got all the tools y'need." Clem listed off a few of the jobs Jacob could help around town with and gave him the phone number of the church if he needed more direction. With that, he left. The man seemed nice enough, though he wondered what they fed them out here, that guy was huge. He had noticed Kimi ogling him over breakfast that morning, which seemed typical of her. He had never understood how his demure sister roomed with the school bicycle.
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Jacob kicked his shoes off at the door after coming back from town. The shed was surprisingly well stocked for how old the outside looked, he had just had to go get a particular saw but he would be able to get working in the morning on the McDermitt barn. Jacob continued pondering as he put his coat away into the closet. The guy from the church he had met with, preacher Dean or something, seemed nice. His ceiling needed some leaks patched up. It felt reassuring to find a guy in Blossom Valley who wasn't built like a tank. And he clearly read, considering his job, so he looked forward to maybe having someone to talk to while he stayed in homunculi country. Jacob was too lost in thought to notice Robin sitting in the kitchenette.
"Hello," came her quiet, sing songy voice. Jacob almost jumped out of his socks. "Ohmygosh! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you!" She waved her hands out and blushed.
"Oh, oh it's you, from the diner this morning," Jacob put a hand over his chest trying to regain his composure. It wasn't working well. He wasn't surprised anymore but he was still terrified in the way any young man gets in front of a beautiful girl. "What do I... um, why are you, uh, here?" Jacob struggled trying to find a way to sound polite but look casual but look polite and sound casual and was it hot in there? Where were his hands supposed to go?
"Oh, did Uncle Clem not tell you?" Her voice lilted up a little from her seductive contralto. "This is where I live, I have the bedroom next to yours. Do you want something to eat?" Jacob only now noticed all the food on the small table. He was starving actually. Robin continued as he pulled out the only other chair, "Clem cooks too much and I always end up with a lot of the leftovers from the day's work. Have as much as you like."
Jacob was struck with how casually she spoke to him. He was so used to any girl that looked like her to be stuck up or standoffish. It was like she could hardly care that she was a walking wet dream.
Jacob quickly got over his anxiety of eating in front of her, her appearance may have been angelic but she dove into all the food like a starving dog. Well, she still had good table manners, but Jacob was having trouble figuring out where all this food went.
Robin broke the masticating silence after awhile and asked Jacob all about school and what he did. Even as she offered to do all the dishes, Jacob made sure to help her as she continued her line of questioning.
"So, you got you a girlfriend back home?" Jacob almost threw a plate. He managed to fit his eyes back into their sockets before she turned to face him. "A cute, smart guy like you must be fightin' off girls."
"Oh, haha, no." Jacob nervously responded. "I've never ah, I've been single for awhile."
"Whaat?" Robin giggled. Fuck, that giggle almost buckled Jacob's knees. "I will never understand those city girls." She dug in a little harder into the plate she was scrubbing. "They get a handsome boy and don't appreciate it. I think any girl out here'd love a nice boy like you." What Twilight Zone episode had Jacob walked into? He needed to get out of the situation to figure out if he was about to get bodysnatched or something. He quickly dried his hands and mumbled something about being tired and needing to shower and bolted up the stairs.
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The alarm blared, Jacob was barely awake enough to find it and turn it off. Though awake enough to wonder why the hell he'd set it for 6 in the damn morning. He stumbled out of bed, telling himself today would be totally normal and that the crazy hot waitress was just a hallucination yesterday. Probably carbon monoxide poisoning or something in the car made him trip.
It was not a hallucination. As he went to go to the bathroom, the door opened before he touched it and out stepped Robin. The rest of her body as glistening wet as her green eyes. Her blonde hair a mess falling down her back, and a towel barely big enough to wrap around her enormous cleavage. "Mornin!" sang the cheery, unabashed girl as she stepped past Jacob and into her bedroom. Jacob really needed this to be a hallucination.
The wet dream continued as Jacob made his way downstairs to find Robin setting breakfast out on the table. Blonde hair back up in side braids and in a flannel shirt that was mercifully buttoned down this time. The cold weather probably getting to her. Though she could still barely manage to button the poor thing, the button directly below her bust doing its damnedest to hold the strain.