She grinned at him. “Well I was close enough,” she said and the put her pacifier in her mouth and batted her eyelashes at him.
“Awe jeez…” Jack looked away. “Enough with the teasing!”
“No,” Chastity said simply, and took her pacifier out, smiling a smile of victory. “I know you just love it when I tease you.”
“I do not!” Jack protested.
“Do so.”
“Do not.”
Chastity laughed at him. “You do so, now admit it.”
Jack threw up his hands in defeat. “Alright, fine!” he said. “I do not.”
Chastity gaped at him and smacked him on the arm. “You liar!”
Jack laughed. “Okay, fine… I admit it. I like it when you tease me.”
“Why?” Chastity asked innocently.
“What do you mean, ‘why?’” Jack asked. Chastity just looked at him. “Well… it makes me feel… um… special.”
Chastity smiled broadly at him. “It does, does it?”
“Yes, it does,” Jack said.
“Why’s that?” she asked.
Jack shrugged and shuffled his feet nervously. “Well… it’s just that…” he trailed off and looked away for a few moments. “Well, you’re the first girl who’s really… made me feel that way.”
Chastity’s eyes gleamed. “Oh,” she murmured. The mood of the conversation had taken a drastic shift with that admission. “Well, Jack, in all fairness…” she wrinkled her nose. “Well, I’ve felt pretty special, too.”
Jack brightened. “You have?”
She nodded. “You’ve been such a gentleman through this whole thing… I get the feeling that anyone else would have made fun of me, but you haven’t.” Her eyes came up and met his.
Jack nodded, and then he grinned smugly. “Big baby.”
“Chastity stuck her tongue out at him. “Liar.”
He chuckled and resumed descending towards the first floor. “Yeah, I know. Pretty bad one, too.”
Chastity giggled a little bit. “That’s okay. I think it’s cute.”
Jack flushed. “Probably because I’m so bad at it it’s funny.”
Chastity grinned. “Yep.” She followed him down. “So why do you like it that I’m dressed up like this?” she asked.
Jack shrugged. “I don’t know, really… it’s different… it’s cute… it also seems to suit you for some reason.”
Chastity mulled over that. “The different and cute part I’ll buy, but I don’t get how it suits me.”
Jack looked at her. “Neither do I… I just have this feeling that it does.”
She looked at him for a few moments and then away with a smile. “Well, maybe you’ll figure it out later.”
He nodded. “Yeah. Maybe I will.”
Circumstances Scene 30
