A/N: Okay people *sighs and rolls eyes* in a lot of your reviews, you guys keep asking about why she doesn't talk. In the next chapter, Erin will go through the reasons herself. Okay? Oh, if you're wondering this is an Erin/Alec fic. It just takes awhile for them to get there. *grins* She has more relationship issues than the entire cast of Dawson's Creek…
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Chapter seventeen: Closer To You
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Max: Eyes only just made himself another enemy
Logan: Well, it was getting a little quiet around here
-Max and Logan (The Kidz Are Aiight)
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'Fall back take a look at me and you'll see
I'm for real I'll feel what only I can feel
And if that don't appeal to ya let me know
And I'll go cause I flow better when my colours show
And that's the way it has to be honestly'
-Avril Lavigne (Nobody's Fool)
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"What?" Logan said again as everyone continued to stare.
"Ah, Zack, want to come with us? Erin and I were just about to go help with the decorating" Alec looked at Erin for conformation.
Erin frowned "We were?" Then it clicked "oh yeah, we were. Yeah, Zack- you could give us a hand- stop Alec from annoyin' me too much."
"No thanks, I need to go see Zane" he grinned and moved away "I'll see you guys later. Bye Maxie."
"Bye" Max was still staring at the computer screen. Did she look a bit green?
"C'mon" Alec grabbed Erin's hand and pulled her up the steps to the new conference room.
"Logan, what the fuck is this?" Max snapped out of whatever shocked daze she'd been in to glare at Logan.
Logan walked around the desk and his eyes widened when he saw the screen and his pasty face blushed deep red.
He pulled himself up and looked straight at Max "Don't you like it, Max?"
"Don't I like it?" Max stared open- mouthed "it's porn! I don't. Like. Porn!" Max stormed off and Logan sat down in his chair. He gazed at his naked self "I thought it was nice." He thought about Max's reaction for a minute and then smiled "She liked it really."
"I feel like my eyes have been soiled!" Erin accepted the paintbrush she'd been given. Pulling off her sweater, she wrapped it around her waist and sat on the large table that had been pushed against a wall.
"You and me both" Alec grabbed a paintbrush of his own "that guy is sick! And we get called freaks of nature."
He took off his t-shirt and Erin had to force her eyes away from his tanned skin.
'Bad Erin!' she pinched herself.
She dipped her paintbrush into the paint tin Alec opened and began to paint with total concentration.
"I think it must be cool to do the things you can do" Erin was aware of his gaze, after all, he had to read her lips.
"Some of the time" Alec continued to paint along side her for a minute and Erin was glad he wasn't watching her still.
After they'd painted half the wall pale yellow, Alec stopped.
He watched Erin for a minute deep in thought before he spoke.
"I think you and I got off one the wrong foot."
"You mean- with you acting like an ass because you thought I was the enemy?" Erin continued to paint with an amused grin "yeah, I guess we got off on the wrong foot."
"Wanna start over?" Alec watched as Erin's grin grew.
She stopped painting and turned to look at him. "Okay" she shrugged and held out her free hand.
"Great" Alec grinned and shook it.
Erin grinned again and got back to work "You're still an ass though."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Bitch!"
"Stupid Git!"
"Slut!"
"You wish Wanker!"
"Hore!"
"Bastard!"
"Slapper!"
"Dick!"
"Prostitute!"
"I think you've already covered that you Prick!"
"Bimbo!"
"Male! Ha! I win!"
And so their friendship was begun…
A/N: There isn't a preview for the next chapter because it's crap, nuff said…
Tramps-Like-Us: Come back! There's no more nekkid Logan okay? I can't take the mental image it creates! *evil grin* Maybe some nekkid Alec… Yep, I like that thought….
Sara: Good to hear you're still reading. I have fans! Woohoo! Ahem, what's the weather like in Australia?
Riley: *tries to look wise* your questions will be answered in the next chapter
fallinorange0208: You okay dude? Have you recovered?
