Under my skin (Trixie tag DJ)

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie stewed the rest of the day, getting more and more frustrated. All she had was Jay's word that he saw DJ go into some woman's house and a picture that looked like the blob. So what proof did she really have. None, zero, zilch. So why did she care so much about the idea of DJ with some chick?

She was Trixie Michaels, Damn it! She should not give a shit. She should be confident enough to know that DJ would never cheat, cause he would be stupid for doing so!!! No one made a fool out of her. Yet the idea and images that came along with Jay's words just made her crazy. Sure it was all in her head, but what she was picturing was just irritating her.

Just the thoughts inside her head of DJ and some woman with an unknown face. It was like DJ and Sloane all over again, which reminded Trixie she needed to have a talk with the woman. Although last she heard Sloane was with Nolan so Trixie should not be worried. She also, had not heard about the brunch yet.

No man had ever driven Trixie up a wall like this. Trixie tried to erase it from her mind. She tried to forget and tell herself Jay was being an ass. But just the idea of it got to her. She probably could have forgotten, but then Jay mentioned that DJ's parents were ashamed of her. Was that true? Sure she had yet to meet them, but they had not been dating for all that long.

Technically they had not dated at all. They had yet to actually go out on a date. Right now their time had been spent mostly in the bedroom. Not that Trixie was complaining. However, the idea of parents being ashamed of her just irked her for some reason. Mostly because she knew it to be true. What parents would agree to let her date their son. She had never met 'parents' before.

Trixie never was around long enough. She always slept with a guy for a while then ditched him for someone else. Or she would sleep with two guys at once. It was her MO until now. Now DJ had this thing over her. She needed him, wanted him, liked him, hated him, maybe even semi loved him, possibly more then semi and...everything all at once. He was the first guy she wanted to hold onto. Yet now this was in her head.

She had come home after her lunch and walked to her room. Her meeting with Rafe left her a little bit exposed ina way. he was able to see it, and guess right off the bat. She had a look...a wickedness....Trixie did not like to think that way. It got under her skin what Rafe said. She did not want to see herself as he saw himself..a monster he said. Was she? God what was with people and words getting to her. This never happened before. Not until DJ...god he was turning her world upside down. Making her face a past she tried to bury.

Of course this was all a GOOD thing. She needed to face the past and know that someone did not find her to be sick because of what happened to her.

And now this parent thing, she just could not let the idea of DJ being ashamed of her go. She was defiantly not the kind of girl that met the parents. She dressed sexy, slutty and flirted like crazy. Of course DJ was ashamed who wouldn't be. Even she would never introduce herself to her own parents...well her grandmother. How could she expect DJ too. "Damn it." Trixie kicked her trash can.

All good things must come to an end right. It was only a matter of time before DJ wised up. God damn Jay for saying the crap he said. Trixie looked at herself in the mirror. "No way you are getting rid of me that easily Mr. MacArthur."

With that said. Trixie searched her closet for something that was nice. Man it was hard. All she had was short this and low cut that. Crap. Finally she found something. Jeans and a blue sweater. Perfect. She would be covered. More covered then she ever was. Of course underneath the sweater was a low cut tank top that made her breasts push up just enough, but that was now covered by the sweater. The shores she picked were black heels.

She looked conservative. Perfect for parents. DJ should not be ashamed now....Soon Trixie got in her car and drove to his house. She was going to give him a piece of her mind and convince him that he head nothing to worry about. That she could be that girl. Although she hated what she was wearing, but it was to prove, to show just what she was willing to do for DJ. God what the hell was going on with.

Trixie got out of the car and walked up to DJ's front door. She kind of hoped his parents were not home, cause she was a nervous wreck. She knocked lightly silently praying for DJ only to answer the door.

[D.J. Mac]

It didn't take much to wake a sleeping dog with the knock. Doofus raced to the door and barked and danced around.

"Okay okay fella, I'll get it." DJ's mom said to the excitable little dog. She adjusted her hair slightly and opened the door with her usual smile. She had no idea that the girl at the door was the one DJ was hiding under the sheets a few days ago.

She opened the door. "Hello may I help you?" Her melodic voice rang out.

"Mom, whose at the...Trixie!" DJ's face lit up as headed toward the door. "I didn't expect to see you today." He took her hand and led her in.

"Mom this is Trixie." He announced proudly as he introduced her.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." His mom said keeping up appearances. "You're welcome to join us for dinner, which will be in about ten minutes."

A voice very similar to DJ's came from around the corner. "That means I need to put on my good clothes I guess."

"Trix, this is my father, Harrison or Bullwinkle as he's known to friends." It was clear where DJ got his looks as well as his voice.

"I see my son has my eye for the right woman." Harrison grinned. "You two go talk and if it gets too loud, close the door." He knew there was more to DJ and Trixie's relationship than what met the eye.

"Daaaaadddd!" DJ blushed.

[Trixie Michaels]

As Trixie waited for an answer she contemplating running, but that was a cowards way out. She was shocked she was even doing this. Dressing conservatively, actually talking to DJ about crap that was bothering her, this was all new and Trixie was not sure she liked it. The way she usually dealt when things bothered her was to get drunk and wind up in some guys bed. As appealing as that thought was, she just could not do it. Damn DJ for making Trixie have a heart. She wanted to kick him for it.

Soon enough the door opened to reveal a woman with kind eyes and a motherly vibe, this just made Trixie's stomach fall. No wonder DJ was ashamed of Trixie, no way a girl like Trixie could impress such a sweet woman. Odds are Mama MacArthur could see right through a girl like Trixie. "Hey, um...." Right as Trixie was about to say she had the wrong house and run, DJ showed up and pulled Trixie inside. Crap. Now what.

Words escaped Trixie at the moment as she pulled on the long sleeves of the sweater. She opened her mouth to speak again and then Papa MacArthur showed up. DJ was practically a splitting image of his dad. She smiled as the father talked about changing his clothes. Was this how a normal family acted? Then the father said something embarrassing and Trixie froze. Oh god, what did they know.

They must think she is some slut who has corrupted their son. Now Trixie did not blame DJ for being ashamed. Even she was ashamed to be meeting such a lovely couple. The worst thing they saw was probably a women wearing a night gown to go get the news paper. Finally finding her voice Trixie smiled, "Its nice to meet you both. I have been looking forward to it. You have such a wonderful son. I see where he gets his good looks and people skills from." In other words she know knows why he is such a charmer.

Hopefully that was a good enough reply, "Mr. MacArthur you don't have to change. You dress any better and you will put the rest of us to shame. " Basically she was complimenting the dad, by saying he already looked nice. " Mrs. MacArthur thank you for the invitation, I would love to stay for dinner."

Trixie was still playing with the sleeves of her sweater, "Actually I do need to speak with DJ alone, but it does not have to be in his room. Its just about something my brother said." That way it seemed innocent to the parents, but DJ would know the severity of what needed to be talked about. God, she hoped she was doing a good job.

[D.J. Mac]

"Perfectly fine, I'll try not to eaves drop too much!" the father teased.

"Harry!" DJ's mother scolded his father. "Go on and have your time together, we can take care of everything else."


"We'll have more privacy in the other room." DJ led Trixie to a nice family room complete with a big screen tv, leather sofa, a couple recliners and a Wii video game system. Once they were alone DJ looked at Trixie, frowning. "Whats wrong?" He asked leading her to the sofa and sitting after she did. "You mentioned your brother, I know that can't be good."

He gently ran his hand on her leg. "You know you can tell me anything, anything at all." He looked at her with his big blue eyes.

That was the time Doofus had to come running in with the child-like mentality. "Lookatmelookatmelookatmelookatme!" He would be saying if he could speak.

DJ looked at Doofus. "Go on, go lay down." He gave a light scolding to the pup. "Do this now and there'll be a treat later."

The pup left the room, the idea of a treat delighting him.

"Sorry about that. Now tell me whats on your mind." He wanted to just kiss her right there, maybe more but not with the risk of mom and dad walking in on them.

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie was glad for the brief distraction from having to actually talk to his parents. She was not sure she could holed a conversation without saying something stupid. Of course right now she was not acting like herself, cause she wanted to impress his parents. All this was some preemptive strike and to be honest she was not sure why the hell she did it. Well she knew why....stupid DJ..stupid, hot, sweet, smart, charming, annoying DJ.

She sat down on the couch after looking around finally breathing a sigh of relief. "Nice place. Its better now that I can actually see it. I never knew you had so much potential." Now Trixie was back. Her dig but was really meant as a compliment was coming out. "i picked the right guy." She smirked with a little laughter.

Then the dog came in and she reached down to pet him before DJ sent him out, "No worries. Doofus is cuter then you anyway." She said with a another smile. Score, Trixie Michaels had not changed completely. "Man it is hot...." she pulled at her sweater a little. "I have not dressed this covered since I was born." Another tiny laugh before she got into the heavier stuff.

"Jay was being Jay. Now you have to know that this is a first for me. To actually come here and talk about a little thing called feelings. i do not like dealing with feelings, but stupid you...decided it would be...nice...to break the...ice around my heart...so now you get to deal with my feelings." Trixie emphasized the words, YOU, NICE, and ICE.

"Normally when I feel annoyed or irritated I spend my day drinking and in someones bed, but I came here. ....to talk." She had to let DJ see she was trying really hard here. "Jay saw you on the side of the road with some, as he calls is, bangable chick, and then Jay saw you follow her home and go into her house. Of course Jay being Jay implied that maybe I am not your only conquest. And I hate liars, so rather then just accuse you and making my self look like an idiot. I thought I would ask....are you seeing someone else?" her voice was rather calm and sweet actually.

It was hard to stay so calm, and it was evident in her movements. Trixie was picking at the sleeves of the sweater a nervous tick and she could not look DJ in the face at the moment.

[D.J. Mac]

DJ gave Trixie a sly look as if he had been tested the whole time. "I'm glad you approve, next time I'll make sure there is a beer can pyramid in the window and a rebel flag hanging behind us." He teased her back.

She was back in form to a point which DJ could see. "I see, I guess waking up next to me is just terrible then. I'll just take the floor next time." He smiled. "Hot? Why yes I am, that's why you can't resist me!" He winked at her.

Instinct told him to hold his temper and let Trixie have her say. He didn't like how she had handled things before but that was then and this was now.

He held both of her hands in his. "I'm going to be level with you. Last night as I was getting dinner for the family, I saw someone with a flat tire at the side of the road, and you should know that I'm such a boy scout. Turns out her father is a Russian diplomat and yes she was quite hot but nothing happened with us. I felt like maybe if I talked to her father things would be better." He looked Trixie in the eyes. "I haven't lied to you before why would I do it now?"

[Trixie Michaels]

You could see the battle waging in her eyes. Did she believe him...or not...did she listen to her brother, or did she trust a guy who up until this point had done everything in his power to show her how much he cared about her. Just how much further could Trixie push and question DJ before he finally snapped?

Believe him or not....as DJ made his declaration...he had stopped...she was hot...he had followed her home...nothing happened. The words bounded around in side her head for what seemed like an eternity. In reality Trixie spoke only a few seconds after DJ finished. Her decision made. Her eyes locked with his in an intense gaze, softened. "I believe you." Those simple words are what separated her further from her brother.

"There is more though. In fact you being wth...or rather helping the girl was not what got to me." Trixie took another deep breath. "I don't do this. Be all honest and open. But you bring out the weirdest side to me and I have this need to tell you everything....a compulsion to be honest...so I will tell you the rest of what Jay implied." It was new and scary.

"He told me that you were ashamed of me.Thats why I had yet to meet your parents. So I actually came over here, scared to death to prove him wrong.... I mean I don't blame you if you are...I am not parent material. Most Parents take one look at the way I dress and who I am that they don't like me. In fact your parents are the first parents I have ever met out of my boyfriends." Trixie was being more then honest now " I guess I also came to prove you that I cared about what your parents thought enough to cover myself up"

Trixie tightened the grip on his hands, "It was silly and immature I know. But just the idea of what Jay said....it got to me...I let him play with my head.....he really had me thinking you were ashamed. Please don't be mad." Although Trixie was not sure why DJ would be mad, but he could be...you never know. All she knew was his anger was something she did not want.

[D.J. Mac]

This was a moment of truth or consequences. DJ knew the truth and he spoke it but he wasn't the one who needed to be convinced. She was sitting next to him, absorbing his words.

He closed his eyes and smiled as she spoke her words. Even though he knew there was nothing to worry about, it did still scare him that she'd run from him or curse him and never want to see him again.

"I'm a big boy Trix, I can handle what ever you have to tell me." This was such a big part of relationships, building trust and keeping communication open. "If my feelings are hurt, I can deal with it."

She mentioned Jay's name again, of course he had to be behind her thoughts. "Jay is an asshole, let me be honest about that," DJ spoke with a slight crispness to his voice. "I could never be ashamed of you. The only way that would happen would be if you were running around behind my back." He scooted in closer to her. "And my folks seemed to like you, their first clue is how the dog acts around you and the second is how I can't stop talking about you. You had good people on your side."

"It's not sill or immature. Its a natural reaction, besides I'd be more concerned if you came over here just a bit too confident." He reached up and gently stroked her hair. "I am mad but not with you, but with Jay and for those terrible thoughts he put in your head. He's going to find out the hard way that if he keeps that up, he'll have a very lonely life."

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie had to laugh at the way DJ called Jay an asshole. It was just so funny for some reason. "I know. My brother has always been an ass. I could tell you so many things he has done from being over protective to treating girls like shit. I know." Trixie was not blinded to her brothers behavior. She just could not turn against him for it. He had done come horrible things to her as well, but nothing like their dad. yet he was her brother and he had been there through it all. Jay understood.

Trixie smiled when DJ moved closer and touched her hair. This was so surreal. She never imagined being here. Not with a guy like him. Of course this was the honeymoon phase. Of course she wanted to be with DJ, the lust factor alone was enough to stick around. Okay perhaps her heart was a tad involved, but she knew no one fell in love this fact. Yet she was in deep like. If he kept up being like this, kind, supportive and understanding, as well as keeping her guessing...well DJ might never get rid of Trixie.

"I know I am suppose to be this super confident girl who thinks she is god's gift to the world. Guys I can handle. They are easy. Parents...not so much. One thing I know is I know my weaknesses. I just hate showing them." She admitted.

"I hate you..you know that." She smirked. He knew what she meant. She could not say a word she did not believe in. Not yet. She just could not say it and when she did she wanted to mean it. "I won't lie running around a guys back is kind of my MO, but you freaking suck and for some reason the idea of hurting you does not sit well with me." She gave him a smile as she said it. it was meant to be taken lightly. As in thank god he was making her change.

"Yeah my brother has a way with words. He has been right about guys in the past that wanted to screw me over. So I am use to believing him. It's hard to just change that about myself." She admitted. DJ was lucky only he got her soft side.

"I don't think violence is working with my brother...a lesson might be more like it." She smirked. "Actually you have this guy named Rafe to thank as well. I met him today and he kind of creep'd me out a little. Its like he could see through me and totally called me out on my dad which just irked me to no end..but something he said...he told me I need to keep you around cause you actually don't make me hate myself." Which was a good thing. No one else did that for her.

[D.J. Mac]

"It wouldn't surprise me what he's done." DJ was disgusted by the idea. Even though he didn't know how badly Jay was treating Trixie, and if that happened it would hit the fan in a big way!

When she smiled, the room seemed to light up. It was an honest to god 'I'm happy to be here with you' smile. He wasn't going to push her into saying that she was in love with him, the words would come when they would.

"No one is ever confident when it comes to meet someone's parents. Theres that whole, will I be good enough for their child? Did I wear the right thing? Did I say the right thing? Its all natural. I was nervous meeting your grandmother for the first time, if that makes you feel better. Course I didn't know if Jay would go off like a rocket on me or anything."

"I don't think so either, yet he seems to invoke it. Is there teaching that ape anything? I'm short of taking a newspaper and hitting his nose." He had no idea who this Rafe was but he struck something in Trixie, DJ was suspicious, he'd find the guy at school Monday. He didn't like the fact this guy had creeped Trixie out, maybe there would be a thanks for everything now stay away from Trixie.

DJ's dad entered. "Hey kids dinner's ready anytime you want to come and eat."

DJ looked at Trixie. "You are welcome to stay, you'll get the pleasure of being the rose between two thorns, my dad and myself." He smiled sweetly.