Disclaimer: All of the charactersbelong to Rainbow Rowell; I just borrowed them to give a little extra story.

A/N: If there's anyone out there still interested in reading this story, I've decided to add some more; I'm not ready to let go of these two just yet. I also want you to notice that I changed the rating because even if there's not smut in this part yet, I'm almost sure we are going there and maybe soon… Hope you enjoy this second part!


She couldn't believe her body! She had skipped dinner because she was in such a hurry to see Levi, and now her stomach was grumbling. She was not going to tell him anything about it, though; he would insist that they got something to eat before going to his house, and she didn't want that. She was hungry, yes, as her stomach kept reminding her, but God, she was even hungrier for him! They hadn't been together in three months, but they had been teasing each other nonstop, and she was damn craving him. She was not going to let her stupid stomach get in the middle of her getting some Levi loving.

They stopped at a red light and he reached for her hand. She squeezed his hand and brought it to her lips kissing it lightly. She heard a low groan and knew he wanted her just as badly as she wanted him. She had spent a little more than half a semester living out of protein bars; she could take a night with no food if she got to have Levi instead.

She was now thankful that her hormones and irregular cycles had forced her into taking the pill a few years back. She didn't want to worry about condoms tonight. Wren would tell her that the pill was not going to protect her from an STD and not to be stupid. Cath knew she had nothing to worry about with Levi, though; they were exclusive. She was not making an assumption; they had actually talked about it. She had wanted to talk to him about it, but she had had no idea how to bring up the topic.

He had surprised her as he always did. The semester was almost over and he had been studying that night for his last final; he had listened to her and had started studying with girls from his classes. She didn't love the idea, but she didn't want his grades to suffer because of her insecurities. She had stayed at his place again, writing all day...

They had just finished dinner, which he had brought, and we're sitting on his bed with her reading him another one of her stories. He started kissing her neck and she knew she wouldn't be reading for much longer.

She closed her laptop and set it next to her on the bed. "Please, tell me we still have condoms." She moaned. She would really hate it if they had to stop due to lack of protection. She was on the pill, of course, but that only protected her from getting pregnant.

Levi turned her around so she was facing him. "We have condoms." He assured her. He rubbed his nose against hers and said, "You know I wouldn't be starting something I couldn't finish."

She blushed. He loved teasing, but he always went all the way; he never let her wanting. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just..." Just, just, just. "I want to be careful. I always want you so much..." She still felt quite shy admitting that. "I don't want to be irresponsible about protection."

"The last thing I want us to be is irresponsible." He remarked. "We are being double-careful. What with you taking the pill, and we always using condoms."

"Well, the pill only guards us against pregnancy, but Wren always says we are in college and pregnancy is not all we have to worry about..." It took her a few seconds to realize Levi had stopped running his hands up and down her arms.

"Cather..." She felt his hand on her chin and he brought her face up to gaze into his eyes. "You know I love you. For me that means being exclusive. I'll keep on wearing the condoms because I want to protect you as much as you want to protect yourself, but I am not seeing anyone else. I'm with you, and only you. I don't want to sleep around. I know how it is to be on the other side; I'd never do something like that to you..."

A tear escaped her eye and she took a deep breath. "Levi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply... I should stop listening to my sister." She was so stupid. She knew how Reagan had cheated on him; he wouldn't do that to her.

"Hey. I'm happy you are being careful. I'm happy your sister is taking care of you; that's how it should be." He was trying to put her at ease. "I just want you to know that I think of us as exclusive."

She kissed him then. "I don't want to be anything but exclusive with you." She said once she let him go.

He managed to roll her around onto her back while making sure to put her laptop on the floor next to the bed; he was talented like that. "Good. I'm dying to show you something I'm saving exclusively for you." She felt him hard against her thigh and she knew she was not going to write any more that night.

When she came back from her memory, she noticed Levi had missed a turn. "Where are we going?" She turned her torso around to be able to look at him.

He smiled and briefly said, "To get some corned beef hash."

Knowing their destination, she could actually recognize the route they were taking. "Levi, are you serious? You are hungry right now?" She knew it was unfair how whiny she sounded; she had been thinking about how hungry she was just a few minutes ago.

He was already parking the truck when he replied, "I could probably go a few more hours without food. Your stomach, on the other hand, I'm not so sure." She was about to ask him what he was talking about when he arched his brow at her. "I can listen to it grumbling, Cather." He got out of the truck and she was so shocked that she was still sitting when he opened her door. "Let's feed you, Cather. Then, I won't have to worry about you leaving my bed at all till tomorrow."

She took the hand he was offering her and smiled brightly at him. They did have the same priorities after all; he was just better than she was at assessing their options and choosing the course of action that benefited them the most.

She leaned in and kissed his cheek. "You are such a gentleman. It's still hard for me to get used to it." She was not just flattering him. She was really not used to a gentleman. Her relationship with Abel had been steady and cordial, but he had never gone out of his way to take care of her. She kissed his other cheek and added, "Thank you for taking care of me." She looked into his eyes. "I am quite hungry."

Levi pulled her hand lightly and walked with her into the diner. Her stomach growled once the smell of food hit her. "Let's share the corned beef hash and a big slice of apple pie." She suggested.

"I knew I kept you around for a reason!"

She stepped in front of him and hugged him once she was facing him. "Only one of many reasons I hope." She teased him. She knew he loved her, and that was enough of a reason for her.

"Well..." He kissed her nose while still walking her backwards towards a table with his arms wrapped tightly and securely around her waist. "There might be one or two other reasons, but the fact that you are a food enthusiast is at the very top."

She grinned. "I should've known we were meant to be together when I found out about you eating my protein bars behind my back." She felt her ass bumping into the edge of a table and disentangled herself from him to take a seat.

The moment they sat down, their usual waitress approached them with tall glasses and topped them with iced tea -Cath had never been a fan of coffee even if she would drink it once in a while. Levi ordered and, before leaving, the waitress said, "Don't let him fool you, Cath; he's crazy about you." Cath just smiled; she had become quite fond of the woman. This was Levi's favorite place to eat off campus.

Once they were left alone, she sat sideways and smiled at him. "You might want to be careful. You're being so obvious about your feelings that people are starting to notice."

He reached for her hands and held them in his. "Where did you get the crazy idea that I have any intention of keeping it a secret." He kissed her knuckles. "I want everyone to know that I got the girl I'm crazy about to finally notice me." He looked into her eyes and said, "Plus, you know I'm kind of an open book." She snorted because that was the understatement of the night; he was indeed an open book. "However, I do keep some secret chapters just for you to read." He sucked one of her fingers into his mouth and she moaned.

He had the indecency to grin at her reaction. "That's not funny, Levi! We're in public." It was not that she didn't want him to be sucking on her fingers or anywhere else on her body, but she had managed to bring her desire down for a little while so they could eat, and his actions were really not helping.

"What? You don't think most of these people have very active sexual lives of their own?" He asked while leaning in and nibbling on one of her ears. "Not that we have been very lucky in keeping ours active." She tried to push him away because she had realized how hungry she was, and he was about to push her into leaving the diner without having any dinner; she wanted him naked, damn it!

"Stop teasing me." She said in her sternest voice -as stern as it can get while being weak with desire.

He put a little distance between them, but didn't lose the smile on his face. He raised his hands like he was surrendering and said, "I'll relent, but only because I know how hungry you are and because I'm not planning on letting you leave my bed till we are both thoroughly sated." And then he just winked at her.

Their food arrived, and their corned beef hash was already divided on two plates -their waitress knew that if they ordered only one thing, they would most probably be sharing it. They dug in immediately. She liked the hash here, but that night it tasted like heaven; she knew it was in part because she was incredibly hungry.

Their pie arrived, and so did a cup of coffee. Cath was not really a heavy coffee drinker, but she liked sharing a cup of coffee with Levi. He put cream on his coffee, but no sugar, and she'd learn to drink it that way since they normally shared some coffee with dessert.

Levi prepared the coffee for them the way he always did. Cath tried the apple pie and it was as good as ever. She took some more on her spoon and offered it to him. He chewed on the sugary treat and moaned. It was fun how much he loved sweets and desserts, but he loved drinking his coffee with no added sugar, at least his black coffee. He loved the concoctions you could get at Starbucks, of course -he even created his own- but he was perfectly okay with black coffee with just a little cream. She loved all the contrasts in him; she loved him.

"So, what scenario did you put us in in this fanfiction you wrote about us?" He asked out of nowhere. She choked a little on the piece of pie she was chewing. She reached for the cup of coffee and took a small sip. It was like he was waiting for her to recover, so he could add, "I mean, if I were a writer -and considering I'm a man, I would have written something using all of that frustration I felt at how beautiful you looked at my sister's wedding and how much I wanted you and how I couldn't do anything about it with my mother being around."

She felt her eyes going wide open with shock, and she barely saw his slowly forming grin while she reached for more pie to try and avoid the topic.

"Oh, wow! So, that's the scenario?" He tried to catch her eyes, but she kept avoiding his gaze. "Guess it's true that great minds think alike, uh?" Cath saw him waving the waiter for the check out of the corner of her eye. "We've gotta go, sweetheart." He said kissing her cheek. "I've got to think of something to get you to read that fanfiction to me." He paid for their meal and dragged her out of the booth. "I know I said I understood if you decided not to read it to me, but that was before I knew you had written about one of my summer fantasies."

Cath followed him out of the dinner; she didn't have to walk faster to keep up with him. He was considerably taller than she was, but he always measured his steps to hers; he never rushed her.

She had no idea how she was going to get out of this situation. She had no plans to read those fanfiction stories to him; she wasn't even sure that it could be considered fanfiction. She had written some erotica about the two of them!

How had this happened? How had he taken her so much by surprise that she hadn't controlled her reactions and had given away more than she ever intended to tell him about her writing where the two of them were the main characters. She hadn't given it any thought; when missing him got too hard, she went to her computer and started typing. She hadn't thought she had it in her -to go full-on erotica with her own life as a starting point.

Levi and herself were not 'original' characters in that she hadn't made him or herself up, but they were a different version of themselves; she was way bolder in her stories, and he was a little more aggressive. They were still themselves, but just the versions that had been together longer and were not worried about showing different sides of who they were.

How could she read any of that to him? What would he think? Was she ready to show him to part of herself -the one that wanted rougher and crazier sometimes? Did she really want him to know that she always wanted more as long as it was with him?

Just like that, her panicking stopped because he had always seen more of her than anybody else had even when she hadn't wanted to show it, and he had always liked her for who she was to her core. She might decide to read their stories to him at some point soon, but for now she needed to get him naked, naked and deep inside of her.