Who woulda thunk it?

*PART 7 *

The group of three settled down in the living room to eat their meal. Ally had never seen so many pancakes in one place before. Piles of them littered the rolling cart with bowls of fresh strawberries and grapes strategically placed around the heaping plates. The second part of the tray held an assortment of juices and both strawberry and chocolate milk for Hailie. Not to mention the four different kinds of syrup the hotel had provided. If she ate even half of what was on her plate she’d get sick. Hailie and Marshall didn’t seem to be having a problem though. Half their plates were gone and both were still happily munching on the fruit in between bites of pancakes.

Ally decided she’d had enough of the huge triple stacked pancakes and thought a few strawberries were in order. She hadn’t planned on eating more then a few or Marshall’s reaction. But in both instances she found herself helpless. After her first bite, she noticed Marshall watching her, and by the time she finished the firieceiece of fruit, he’d stopped eating all together. By the time she’d finished her third piece, Marshall’s eyes had turned a stormy blue and he was fidgeting slightly in his chair. *Oh bolly lly thought to herself.

*What the fuck is she doing to me?* Marshall thought to himself as he tried to calm down. *She aint even tryen to do that shit on purpose and it’s fucking getten to me! Shit, I gotta stop, Hailie aint even fuckin two feet away.*

Almost a half hour later, the three had eaten all that they could and were on their way down to the pool. The hotel had guaranteed them complete privacy for at least two hours, so Marshall wasn’t worried about anyone bothering them. Ally had helped Hailie with her suit as Marshall changed into his trunks and threw on a pair of baggy grey sweatpants and white tee.

After all of them had changed, Marshall led them, arms laden with towels and toys, down to the pool. Hailie was so excited to be there. Her bright pink suit was topped off with equally bright orange swimmers on her arms and a huge smile on her face. Though she could swim without them, they were still fun to use in her opinion and nothing could change her mind on that. As soon as they entered the pool area, Hailie screeched in delight. She started to run to the edge, obviously planning to jump in, before Marshall grabbed her arm.

“Hey, no jumping, wait for me to put this down and get in.”

Ally had already removed her shirt and was working on her jeans before looking up.

“I’ll take her.”

“Yay!” Hailie yelled, watching as Ally pulled her pants off. Marshall’s eyes hungrily drank in the sight before him. Her body was just beautiful. Her slim stomach gave way to proportionate hips and thick thighs attached to creamy white legs. His eyes traveled back up her body for a second look and landed on her voluptuous breasts. They weren’t huge or anything but definitely more than a handful. Something he didn’t mind one bit. *Get a grip Marsh. Your daughter is right there.* Marshall thought to himself. *Yea, I’ll get a grip alright, grab both of her…*

“Fuck!”

“Daddy!”

“Sorry baby, I didn’t mean to say it out loud.”

Hailie nodded at her father before letting Allyd hed her to the pool.

“How are we gonna do this Hailie?”

“What do you mean?”

Ally smiled before stepping up to the edge. “Well, we can do this two ways…go slow and get used to the water lil by lil, or jump in and forget the cold.”

“Jump in!”

“Good choice. You ready?” Ally asked, taking her small hand in her own.

Hailie nodded as she reached up with her free hand and pinched her nose. Ally laughed and did the same before both of them walked over the edge together.

Ally broke thrfacrface first, thanks to them entering at the 3ft end of the pool. Hailie broke not even a second later, due to her handy swimmers. The girls laughed together and started swimming around. A moment later they were interrupted by a loud splash and water raining on them. Hailie squealed happily as Marshall emerged from the water with her in his arms.

“Aghh, Ally dunk him!” Hailie screamed, pushing down on her fathers head.

Ally smiled as she swam over to the pair.

“Need some help there?”

“Yea, dunk him!” Ally looked at Marshall for a moment. She wanted to make sure it would be ok to play this game with them. She didn’t want anything else to go wrong on this date.

Marshall must have seen her hesitancy because he smiled slightly and winked at her, before talking to Hailie.

“She can’t dunk me, I’m too good for her.”

Ally laughed and splashed water at him. “I’ll have you know I rock at dunking people. In fact I’m the queen of dunking.”

“Oh yWellWell it looks like you’re about to give up your crown, ‘cuz you aint gonna get me!” Marshall laughed, setting Hailie down at the wall.

“Stay in shalshallow end Hai and keep close to the wall.”

Marshall turned back to Ally and grinned. “So you gonna dunk me or what?”

“I will, don’t worry.”

“I doubt that, I think I’ll get you first.”

Ally laughed and swam away when he lunged for her. He was like a big kid. He had this character he liked to portray, as if he was some big tough guy, but she could tell there was so much underneath that. Ally didn’t know much about the famous rapper. There were some things she’d heard from the news and read in magazines, but it didn’t mean much to her. How was she to know what was real and what were fabricated lies. Mostly anything she knew of him was about his alter ego Eminem or involved his troubled childhood. If even half of what he claimed happened really occurred, then she had no idea how he turned out the way he did. He was obviously a loving father. She didn’t know him at all but *that*she could see clearly. And after everything he’d been through, here he was, letting a stranger in. What that meant exactly, she wasn’t sure, but she was willing to see it through till the end.

They continue spl splash around the pool, trying to dodge each others advances for the next hour or so. Each of them dunked the other quite of few times, but neither could claim to be the winner. Hailie had given up swimming not to long ago and was currently sitting on the steps to the pool, playing with her Barbie’s. She liked to see her dad act this way. He was happy and laughing, something he rarely did with anyone but her and his close friends.

Ally laughed as Marshall finally caught her. She had evaded him for awhile, but her luck was obviously short lived. She couldn’t help but laugh as his arm wrapped itself around her mid section and lifted her into the air before slamming her into the water. Ally smiled under the water and kicked out, hoping to regain her balance. Marshall must have felt her frantic kicks and thought they were meant for him, because the next thing she knew, her legs were being held captive, tucked neatly under his strong arms. Her body had no choice but to stretch out in order to stay atop the water and this brought her even closer to his cool slick body.

Marshall had noticed how close her body was to his own and it was driving him nuts. He didn’t want to make any sudden movements in fear of her feeling just how crazy she was making him. Things had been going well since their little argument before dinner and he didn’t want to do anything to mess that up. *Uh oh* Marshall thought to himself as her lower body connected with his. Ally felt herself starting to fall under the water and tightened her legs around his waist in order to straighten herself again. That move proved to be more harmful than anything else.

Ally was shocked at the sudden hardness she felt pressing against her. She truly hadn’t known she was having such an affect on him. No matter how shocked she was at this sudden predicament, she couldn’t bring herself to move. How easy it would have been to jerk her legs from under his arms and swim away. But she didn’t even try. Instead Ally found herself staring into smoldering blue eyes, full of lust and unconscious need. A need for the woman in his arms to do something, anything to let him know what she was thinking. Those same eyes, widened in disbelief as wet wet body pulled itself against his own and toned arms wrapped themselves around his neck.

“Marshall, I’ve never done anything like this before. This is all so new to me…” Ally whispered close to his ear.

“Ally I wan…” Marshall started only to be cut off.

“Dad?” Hailie asked as she made her way out of the pool, obviously paying little attention to the couple in the water.

Quickly Marshall released his hold on Ally’s legs and moved away some. How could he have forgotten about his daughter? What kind of father was he, trying to run game on some chick with his daughter sitting on the other side of the pool?

“Yea Hai?”

“Dad I changed my mind, can I stay with Dre tonight?”

Marshall turned to his daughter in shock. Hadn’t she thrown a fit not even a few hours ago when he asked her to stay the night with someone other than him? Now she was asking him if it would be ok? What the hell was going on?

“Yea, baby, are you sure?”

“Yup, we can spend the day together all day tomorrow right?”

“Of course.” Marshall said, quickly leading Ally out of the pool soy coy could pack up their stuff.

Quietly Marshall excused himself and went to make the necessary phone calls for his daughter to be picked up. Dre was fine with having Hailie stay the night, in fact he was more then happy to have her seeing as his own daughter had been looking forward to their possible sleepover. Once all the details were taken care of, Marshall red red them back up to the suite so Hailie could shower and change before the car arrived in a half hour.