Author's Note: The lines I used from media I admit were obscure. One was from Easy A (my love of Emma Stone), another from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Scott Pilgram vs. The World. On a random note I really want a new job. Let's see if anyone can guess the one, as always obscure, line from a movie in this chapter. And I really want the next chapter to be the end. I could have finished it here-but I admit I'm tired. (10 hours of work yesterday on 5 hours sleep and odd dreams last night…sleep is overrated.)
Marissa felt great. She also felt conflicted and overall awkward. Not fully thinking she gently pushed Alex away.
"Doesn't this…doesn't it seem fast?" She asked quietly.
"Not really," Alex said calmly. "I wouldn't date you if Conner didn't like you," she continued with a small smile.
"Really?" Asked Marissa with a soft smile.
"Really," Alex said with certainty.
"That's really sweet actually," Marissa said above a whisper as she pulled Alex closer.
"But we're not sleeping together," Marissa said in an absolute tone. Alex couldn't help frowning.
"But my bed's really nice," then she smirked. Grunting and shaking her head the taller girl said, "I'll sleep with you but I won't have sex with you."
"Bum deal," Alex said slowly with sheer sarcasm and couldn't stop herself from smirking. A light slap to the arm was Marissa's response.
"Fine, to your bed then," Marissa said with her hands on her hips, making the shorter woman smirk more and take Marissa's hand and towards her bedroom. For the sake of making Alex squirm Marissa started taking off her shirt, leaving her in her bra and dark blue jeans. Alex tried not to let her eyes wander but she loved Marissa's body. She missed it and her warmth. Her hands automatically came to wrap around the taller girl's waist and dipped her head to kiss and breath in Marissa's skin of her neck, then pulled her head back.
"Hey, eyes up here," she said playfully, though enjoyed the attention.
"Hm?" Alex mumbled as she kissed Marissa's neck again.
The taller girl once again pushed Alex away, though a little harder than in the hallway, making Alex fall onto her bed. She slowly started to take her jeans off and slid into the bed as Alex laid with her elbows propped under her and her eyes more dilated. Pulling the covers up and moving her arms under the covers Marissa smoothly removed her bra and then let it fall to the floor gracefully. She had to smirk when she heard Alex gulp, as cliché as it was, it was also amusing. The shorter woman's brain seemed to have stopped as she continued to lay there looking at Marissa.
"You're cruel." Alex said narrowing her gaze.
"I never said I was nice…and you gotta be cruel to be kind." Marissa lightly sang.
"Change of topic…" Alex replied in a grumble as she got up and also removed her clothes, her back turned towards Marissa, though she still felt her gaze. Turning around and standing in her jeans and a tank top, without a bra she looked at Marissa and seemed to take in the moment as she paused. "How do you feel about a date?"
"Oh a real date-not like the pseudo one's we've been having," she said in a smart-alec tone.
"Why yes," Alex said as she removed her black belt and let her pants slid down her legs.
"Ah…yeah," Marissa got out distracted.
"Any ideas?" Alex asked curiously what Marissa thought would be a nice, real, legit date.
"Um, no…but I think Conner should choose," she said thinking it over as she responded. The standing girl couldn't help it, the suggestion was very sweet and unexpected. It felt different, Marissa was thinking about someone else more and it was nice to see her embrace Conner with open arms and be outwardly considerate as she got into the bed and purposefully didn't peek at Marissa's body.
"Great idea, I'll ask him tomorrow, after you sneak out before he wakes up," she said with a playful tone. Again Marissa lightly hit Alex's bicep. "Its my turn to sneak around now? I think not. Last time you snuck out I was afraid you were going to fall out my window."
"Yeah, goooood times," Alex said in a content tone as she pulled Marissa into her, remembering that Marissa liked to be held, though she gave her plenty of room if it made her uncomfortable. Instead the taller girl moved further into Alex as the recently turned mother wrapped her arm around her hip. Feeling Alex brush her lips against the back of her neck and her nose graze her hairline and move to kiss her shoulder Marissa gently turned around and kissed Alex on the cheek. "You're beautiful," she paused and kissed her on the cheek, "you're not at all tough," she kissed her under her neck, directly near her collar bone, "and you're complete help for me," she said with a smirk before she leaned in and kissed her on her lips harder to the point that Alex's breathing was labored. It was short in order so that they wouldn't start anything before Marissa felt that it was too soon even though she wanted to continue.
"Goodnight," she said sweetly, trying to control her own breathing.
"Night," Alex said tiredly as she wrapped her arm around Marissa's midsection more and settled in.
