This version picks up immediately after chapter 3 ends. In the interest of making a happy ending for one of my most loyal readers, I have definitely given up the 99% true description on this story. This one is pure fluff. Enjoy!
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"So, what about you and me?" Do you want to give it a go?"
His words ushered in a new silence. He didn't just say that—surely. Blue steely eyes locked with my hazel ones like a hunter sighting his prey. I looked down, breaking my gaze from his.
"Lisa?"
I swallowed hard, almost choking on my chip. The logical part of my brain decided quickly that he didn't mean what I interpreted his words to mean. "Give what a go?" I responded lightly as the silence stretched far beyond what could be considered comfortable.
He looked at me as if I were a puzzle he was attempting to solve. "Us," he explained. Then, he attempted to elaborate. "You and me."
My heart trip-hammered. Part of me still discounted what he meant—in an attempt not to risk our friendship. "What are you trying to say, Chris?" my voice asked, anything but steady.
He reached his hand with its long fingers and covered my cold and trembling ones. His warmth seemed to seep into my bones. "Everyone already sees that we should be together, a couple. How about we give it a try?"
Outwardly, I tried to remain calm. If he's joking or intending something else, I wouldn't be able to "deal" if he didn't truly want us as a couple, or, worse, changed his mind. "You mean, you and me—dating?"
"Yes." No prevaricating. No confusion in that answer. Even as his hand engulfed mine in warmth, his eyes molded over my curves in a visual caress. "I've been attracted to you since I first saw you."
The waitress chose that moment to interrupt our charged silence with the arrival of our food. "How is everything?" she queried expectantly.
Chris murmured something noncommittal and then refocused his attention solely on me. "Lisa? What do you want?"
The part of me that had long held out hope and dreamed of this day beamed sunnily. "Are you sure, Chris? Because my answer is 'yes' if you are."
He slid his food to the spot on the table beside mine and slunk into the booth beside me. His left arm slid around my shoulders, and I felt the fingers of his left hand tangle in my hair, playing and tugging. With his other hand, he picked up a quesadilla wedge and started to eat.
Why my eye looked up at our waitress, I don't know, but she smiled and winked at me. I smiled back, sliding my hand up to my enchilada plate to start eating. The silence between Chris and me was now comfortable again.
It was a few minutes later when I realized that Chris had slowly, inexorably guided my head to his left shoulder using pressure from his left arm. I looked up at him just as he looked down. His eyes filled my field of vision as his lips touched mine. Our first kiss.
From a kiss's standpoint, it was chaste. His closed lips pressed into mine. It wasn't passionless by any means. My lips trembled beneath his, parted to ask a question, and he pulled back and nonchalantly took a sip of his Dr. Pepper.
I sat there in shock. My first kiss, and he seemed unmoved. He signaled with his eyes for the waitress to bring the check, and she did, sliding it to Chris with a knowing grin at both of us.
For once, I didn't make a big deal out of him paying the check. I was numb. What was it he wanted from me?
He stood, and I followed his lead. As he stepped close to me, he slid his arm half around me, more down my back, propelling me forward with a light touch at my lower back. As we neared the door of the restaurant, his hand slid lower, palming and then cupping my ass. Chris bent and whispered in my ear, his breath and lips tickling the delicate skin, "I love to watch your ass sway, but I've decided that touching it's my favorite."
His palm left my ass briefly, but, then, it reconnected solidly. I let out a strangled yelp at the deliberate spank. Every erotic dream since October slammed through my mind as those fantasies began to come true.
Chris growled—or groaned; I wasn't sure which. "That is what I wanted to do to that enticing ass ever since it tempted me on my birthday," his whisper rough.
I didn't say anything—I couldn't. All I could do focus on was not having my panties soaked with arousal, not melting into a puddle, and not begging him to do it again but this time "harder, please."
He took the keys from my listless fingers and unlocked both car doors. After he made sure I was safely in the driver's seat, he then slid lankily into the passenger seat.
When I reached to slide the key in the ignition, his hand covered mine, stilling it. "How about we be bad for once and skip class?" a hint of a naughty? smile played on his lips.
"Skip? Class? Why?" I shot back, aghast. This was not typical Chris-like behavior.
His hand slid down to my knee, scooting my skirt further up my leg, massaging my thigh as he moved it. When it was almost back up to my panty line (where it had been on the way to the restaurant), he paused, stroking my thigh to hold the skirt in place. "We need to talk about how we see our relationship."
He looked in my eyes, his gaze dark with hidden passions. My heart, ignoring the darkness, danced in my chest. Chris said "relationship," I mentally enthused.
"Where should we go, then?" I wondered aloud.
"My parents are at work, so they won't be home for a while," he ventured.