(A/N: This is the 2nd part of hopefully a continuing story. While it can be read on its own it makes more sense if you read the 1st part, which can be found under my profile.
Thanks to those who read/commented on the 1st part. The feedback I've received has given me the confidence to keep writing)
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They had met a couple of years previously, through Facebook of all places. They had a couple of mutual friends and she always seemed to notice the sarcastic and funny replies he made to her friends posts.
She had started liking a couple of them and replying with equally sarcastic comments when, one day when she logged in, there was a friend request from him waiting for her.
Curiosity piqued, she checked out his profile. Most of it was hidden but from what she could see he was from the UK and about the same age as her. 'What the hell', she thought, 'It's not often I meet someone who shares the same level of humour as me' (too many times she had lost 'friends' due to people taking her comments too seriously) and she accepted his request.
This now opened his whole profile to her. To her surprise she found they had quite similar tastes in music, movies and several other things. She was just about to start digging through his photos when her message icon light up.
She clicked on it expecting it to be one of her girlfriends but it was from him. 'Thanks for accepting my request', it read, 'if you ever fancy a blether, I'm usually on this time of night so just give me a shout'.
She checked her watch, it was 10pm. She fired off a quick reply, 'No problem, always nice to have someone else to chat to. Bit of a night owl aren't you? It must be about 3am over there?'
The reply was almost instantaneous, 'Yea, never been one for sleep. Makes work the next day interesting, lol. Already found out that I'm not from your side of the Atlantic? That didn't take you much time ;-). '
She felt her cheeks heat up quickly, 'Always got to check out mysterious men who send me seemingly random friend requests, lol', she replied.
After a minute or so the reply came in, 'Always a sensible thing to do in this day and age but you can trust me, I'm mostly harmless ;-)'
Their friendship quickly grew from there. He seemed to be online every evening and as soon as she logged on they would spend the rest of the night chatting to each other. This went on for several months until she logged on one night and, as usual, went straight to her messages to see if he was online only to find that his profile had been deleted.
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She pulled the car into the driveway, no matter how hard she had wished the traffic was as busy as always and they didn't get back any quicker than she had thought. She killed the engine and turned to look at her passenger. He had slept for the whole journey and looked so peaceful. She hated to wake him but she couldn't leave him in the car.
She quietly undid her seat belt and leaned across so he face was literally inches about his. 'Honey, time to wake up', she whispered but received no response. 'Damn, will just have to try something else.' she thought and leaned further forward and gently brushed her lips against his.
He woke up with a start; he seemed to pause for a split second while his brain caught up with what was happening then responded to her kiss with this own. She could feel his who body tense and try to push himself up from the seat to try and bridge the gap between their bodies. Reluctantly she pulled back and put her hand his chest and pushed down. 'Easy tiger, we've got plenty of time', she said; 'besides the car is too cramped. Go and grab your bag and come inside.'
He collapsed back into the seat and put his hand up to face. 'Did I sleep the whole way back?' he asked from behind his hand.
'Yea', she replied, 'but it's ok, you've had a long day. Just don't make a habit of it', she laughed as she opened the car door and headed out.
As she was opening the trunk she heard him open his door and he joined her, leaned in and picked up his bag. 'Nice place', he said gesturing towards the house, 'Your descriptions don't do it justice.'
She smiled and closed the trunk, 'Welcome to your new home for the two weeks' she said and headed towards the front door.
As they entered the house she took his bag from him and nodded towards the sofa in the living room. 'Go and take a load off', she said, 'and I'll dump your bag.', 'you want a beer?' she asked as she put his bag in the bedroom. She took the grunt as an affirmative and headed to kitchen and poured a glass of wine for herself and grabbed a beer from the fridge.
She walked back to the living room and found him slouched down on the couch. She passed him the beer and sat down beside him. 'Think you could last a movie?' she asked as she leant over him to reach for the remote. As their bodies came together she felt the familiar warmness envelope her body. Images started rushing through her head, she could see herself throwing her wine glass across the room and throwing herself at him, tearing any clothing that got in her way. She quickly grabbed the remote and pulled away.
'Jesus girl', she thought,' give the man a chance to breathe.' She felt the heat rising on her face and turned to look at him. He was sitting there looking at her with a small smile on his face and then turned to take a drink of beer.
She pressed play and settled down to watch the movie. 'Desperado?' he said as the movie started. 'Are you an admirer of Rodriguez's work or is this more a Banderas thing?'
'A bit of both', she replied, 'although I can guarantee that you won't complain about Salma being in this either.' He shrugged his shoulders and lifted his arm up and rested it on top of the couch. She decided to take this as an invitation and moved in closer to him and rested her head on the inside of his shoulder.
As she snuggled into him she was enveloped by his scent. It had been so long since she had been this close to someone she had forgotten that sense of being surrounded by someone else's aura. She smiled, took another sip of her wine and moved in as close as she could, as if she was trying to lose herself in the folds of his clothes.