Chapter 2: And the Not-So-Business Proposal
A/N: This chapter is pretty short. I finished it a few days ago and was planning on adding to it but I figured it could stand-alone. This is for those who requested more. Sorry it took so long…. Also, from this point on the next few chapters might jump from first person POV to third person POV. I don't know if I could keep this story in narrative form with what I have planned for it. This chapter is from Caroline's POV.
"The climax is come up," Max leaned over and whispered to me. I smirked and shifted closer. I had a plan and to hell with the consequences. This was my opening. I glanced around the movie theater. Everyone was watching the movie intently.
My daddy always said if you want something, you have to go for it with no fear. He always said to, "dive head first, follow your gut, and don't look back until you got what you wanted."
And boy, I really wanted Max right now. Glancing over at her in the darkness and watching the way the lights from the screen highlighted her features made me want to kiss her again. She was totally engrossed in the movie, and she was biting those gorgeous lips of hers. She looked absolutely delicious and it made me hungry.
Besides, I've been deprived from life luxuries for so long, I needed some sort of satisfaction of getting what I wanted for once, right?
I leaned in close to her ear just enough for my lips to brush up against her earlobe while I whispered, "Max, I've been thinking."
She tensed up at the sensation of my lips brushing against her skin. "Alert the presses Caroline Channing has a thought in that seemingly empty brain behind those golden locks," she said sarcastically. I know that she was kidding, and I learned long ago to brush off Max's offensive remarks. This time it sounded forced, and came out with a nervous squeak. I know I was getting to her.
I grinned and put my hand on her leg. "I have a proposal for you," I said and kissed down along to her neck with intentionally soft and slow kisses. She was completely frozen and her breathing was coming out in fast hitches.
I know I was testing her limits. She was either about to cave into my wicked plan or she was gonna shove me away so hard I'd go flying across the theater. I rubbed her inner leg slowly.
Max pulled away looking like she was in a daze and tried to focus on the movie. "Like a business proposal? Can it wait until we get home Caroline? The movie is almost over."
"I was thinking more like a 'friends-with-benefits' proposal," I grinned and wiggled my eyebrows at her.
Her jaw dropped and she sat up pulling me out of the movie theater. The geeks behind us complained that we were in their way of the screen.
Max looked completely horrified by the proposal. Uh oh. I was in trouble. Forget about the consequences my ass, daddy.