A/N: Last chapter! Just something short to tie up this story and set it up for the sequel, I wanted to get it posted before I go to my cottage. There's no internet up there most of the time so it might be a couple days until the sequel is up but meanwhile please enjoy this finally completed story!
Disclaimer: Not mine!
A knock came on the door and he stood up from his computer quickly turning to face the incomer as it swung open. She looked happy to his relief as she swung the door almost shut and made her way across the semi-clean room towards him.
He hugged her gratefully, having quickly realized that it was going to take longer to get used to being without her then being with her. Being with her felt natural, waiting at home while she went to school all day made him feel like a caged beast, especially because he was grounded to his room during school hours.
"How was school? Are you alright?" He asked anxiously, cupping her face to examine her carefully with his eyes.
"My math equations didn't give me any paper cuts I promise," She said dryly and he rolled his eyes. She had returned the bandana simply because it was the Kouji trademark and he looked wrong without it but he had promised to buy her one of her own for her next birthday.
"I don't like not being able to keep an eye on you," He said in frustration, getting more and more used to voicing his thoughts allowed. It still wasn't great but it was getting there.
"Don't worry, Kouichi walked me over, I think he was more scared of you beating him up then any potential muggers or rapists," She teased and he just shuddered.
"Don't even say it," He said, running his hands through her hair anxiously. Tilting her head slightly in what he had begun to recognize as a request more than a hint he more than willingly kissed her to take his mind of muggers and rapists.
"At least you'll be back at school tomorrow," She said pulling away to speak before he closed the distance between them again dropping his hands to her waist and bringing her body closer.
"What makes you think I won't just get myself suspended again when I come back?" It was altogether too long of a sentence, and wasted precious time between soft kisses that only made him want more.
"Sheer willpower," She said breathily making his skin crawl with heat as she slid her hands under his sweater onto his lower back.
"My willpower isn't looking so good lately," He admitted, tongue flicking against her lips with every word he said in an incredibly distracting way. Running it along the inside of her lip she made no protest and it only encouraged him. Thankfully his parents had also taken his cell phone away so he hadn't had to answer to his friends yet either.
"Anything else you want to talk about?" She asked, a particular show of skill seeing as his tongue was still in her mouth. Screw that, he thought adrenaline pumping through his body along with way too much testosterone.
Suddenly pulling away he disappeared beneath her hooking one arm under her knees, the other around her back and jerking her off her feet before dropping her on the bed. Joining her he looked down at her cheerfully, swirling her hair playfully.
"Funny, I don't feel much like talking anymore," He teased, tone not giving away the crazy feeling that was vibrating in every cell of his body. Still he waited for her to make the first move.
"Horny," She accused, wrapping her hands around the base of his neck and pulling him temptingly close.
"If you're horny, what does that make me?" He shot back and she laughed at the childish response as he took the opportunity to kiss her passionately.
He had never felt so little self control except when someone insulted one of his friends but this was a different sort of loss of control. He'd never really had to worry about over stepping his boundaries with a girl before and it was harder then he'd thought it would be.
As his tongue memorized the inside of her mouth, he clenched his hand around the hem of her skirt, his fingers cool against her hot skin. That was mostly to keep himself grounded so he wouldn't forget who he was with and where he was. She wasn't making it easy as she shifted beneath him so that she could move her hands against his abs provocatively.
No one would notice one small hickey right? Her hands kept moving circling around to his back and moving farther up as his second hand found her waist, teasing the bare skin gently. She tried to twist out of reach but he pinned her down effectively with his knees and body weight that was sufficiently higher then hers so that she could only struggle in vain.
"Is this bothering you?" He asked, leaving more than one small hickey on her neck as he spoke. She shook her head though her whole body was shaking slightly. Returning to her mouth this time he had a struggle for dominance as she kicked up a fight just to distract him from the sensitive exposed skin at her waist.
It worked so well that both were too distracted to notice the door opening and probably wouldn't have noticed their audience at all except for the sound of his brother's jaw hitting the floor. Kouichi watched, literally in shock as he walked in on his brother, Kouji, looking very comfortable on top of Zoe as they made out fiercely on his bed.
He had heard from Takuya that they were evidently together now since they started macking in the principal's office and he did ask him to walk Zoe over today but they could at least have left a sign on the door for his peace of mind! There was something disturbing about seeing his brother so vulnerable that way.
Kouji forced himself to pull away with the sounds of worlds being torn apart as he turned to look at the intruder at the same moment that Kouichi pulled out his cell phone, the mad light of revenge on his face. It served him right for leaving him tied up with those lunatics!
"Guess who I just walked in on making out?" He sang into the phone loudly as Takuya picked up.
"Shit," Kouji swore, as his brother jetted off down the hallway knowing that he'd be after him. Looking down at her she gave him a resignedly questioning look and he sighed, hanging his head.
"Please Zoe..." She rolled her eyes, but knew his manly pride wouldn't allow him to let this go so she just struggled to sit up and he quickly got off of her so that she could leap up after him before running to catch his brother.
"Kouichi don't you dare!" He shouted, knowing it was too late. He could just imagine Takuya dialling in a four way call right now. They found him in the kitchen gleefully telling the others about what he had just seen.
"I don't know how long they were at it for, but they looked pretty comfortable to me. He had his hand up her skirt" –
"I did not!" Kouji contradicted, lunging for the phone but he just danced out of reach grinning tauntingly.
"Apparently he didn't but it certainly looked like it," He continued and a loud babble of voices came through as Kouichi held it away from his ear, deafened by the sound of their chatter.
"Jesus Kouji, aren't you supposed to be the protective one, not the one feeling her up?" JP's voice called, cutting through Takuya and Tommy's commentary.
"He wasn't feeling me up, and even if he was that's none of your business. We're together and...We can do whatever we want!" Zoe chastised, shouting at the speaker phone irritably.
"Although your hand sort of was there," She muttered teasingly to him.
"Was not," He denied hotly, color rising in his cheeks obviously as he looked away in embarrassment, arm still around her waist all the same.
"But you wanted it to be," She sang, provoking his denial even more.
"You know, you'd think you wouldn't want that fact published to the rest of the world," He replied dryly.
"Not my fault if you're obvious about what you want," She said flippantly and he snapped his teeth at her in a playfully aggressive way.
"Did you two hear anything we said?" Kouichi demanded and Kouji looked over confused and feeling a little bad for ignoring their friend but to be fair the whole romance thing with Zoe was new to him and he was enjoying himself.
"Sorry, no, what'd you say?" He asked, trying not to let the impatience show through.
"Don't you guys think you might be taking things just a little fast?" Kouichi stressed, looking concerned. It wasn't that he was totally innocent, he didn't know Zoe's standards but he knew Kouji wasn't necessarily against sex before marriage. To his surprise his brother just started laughing though, low quiet laughter but it was still weird coming from him.
"You don't need to worry about us, I think we already had this discussion," He said, laughter still flickering in his eyes as he fought back a smile without fully succeeding as he looked down at his girl who smiled back challengingly.
He knew that there would be no action of that sort until he was able to talk about 'that feeling' with her. It was a silent deal they made when he confessed to having feelings he wasn't ready to talk about yet. While there was still emotional baggage in the way, sex was the last thing he needed to be worrying about.
Whether it took a month or a year or a life time, that had to come first. Her look of relief told him he had done right. Now he just had to conquer his fear...but he had always been bad at expressing himself.
A/N: And that's the end! Hope everyone liked it :) I think I already mentioned this but just as a reminder, the sequel is entitled "Express Yourself" and I will probably start uploading it in about a week so stay tuned. Thank you to everyone who read this you're all awesome!
