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When Toby entered the room he was sharing with CJ, he wasn't surprised to see her lying on the bed, her head buried in the pillow. He watched her silently for a moment, full of remorse that it was him who had caused the shaking of her body as she sobbed into her pillow. After a moment's hesitation, he went and sat down on his side of the bed, placing one hand on her shoulder, noticing that she stiffened slightly a the contact, before relaxing into it.
"CJ?" he said, quietly, wondering how he should approach the conversation that was inevitably going to happen. The voice that she responded with was quite unlike the one that she used everyday at work, it was quiet, a little girl-like, full of unsureness and fear.
"What?"
"We've got to talk about what happened downstairs."
"No we don't! Leave me alone!" she replied, her voice muffled by the pillow.
"Yes we do!" Toby replied, tugging at her shoulder to try and get her to turn and face him, "Will you at least LOOK at me?"
There was a pause, before she rolled over and looked up at him, fear and apprehension mingled with the tears on her face. She stared at him for a couple of seconds, before rolling back over to hide her face once again.
"CJ.." Toby started to say, before he was cut off,
"Don't say anything. I know it was a mistake, you just got carried away." She sat up and turned to face him, the look in her eyes hardening as she spoke, anger and hurt very much evident in her voice. Her expression softened slightly when she saw the hurt and surprise that flickered across Toby's face at her words.
"CJ…is that what you really think? You think I share that sort of kiss with just anybody?"
"Well, you're a man and uh well I don't know." CJ managed to stutter out, looking completely bemused by the direction their conversation was going.
"CJ!" Toby exclaimed, reaching over and giving her hand a squeeze, "you've known me nearly 20 years and you still think that of me?" he looked truly hurt now.
"No not really, but after what happened downstairs, I mean, you only kissed me as a da..mmmpph" she stopped talking as Toby closed the distance between them and kissed her gently on the lips. They pulled back a couple of minutes later, looking slightly flustered, breathing heavily.
"Does that answer your questions?" Toby asked, in a husky voice quite unlike his usual one.
She looked down at the bed, biting her lip and blushing, "Umm, I'm not sure….. we may have to try it once more, just to make sure!" Toby didn't need much more encouragement than that, and he leaned forward pressing his lips firmly against hers, readily deepening the kiss as CJ's tongue begged for entry into his mouth. They continued exchanging frantic and passionate kisses, as Toby gently pushed her back onto the bed with him on top of her, his hands running all over her body as she moaned and made little gasping noises and tangled her hands in his hair.
The next morning, the majority of the group were already downstairs eating breakfast when Josh and Donna strolled into the kitchen, looking very relaxed and happy.
"Good morning people!" Josh said, as he sat down at the table next to Jed, "Donna….." he started to add, when he noticed the look on her face.
"I'm still not getting you coffee Josh!" she replied, rolling her eyes at the rest of the group who now were all, with the exception of the President and First Lady, laughing at the expression on Josh's face.
"Donna!" he exclaimed, his voice rising in pitch at the end of her name, "Its only a cup pf coffee! Pllleeeaassssseeeee?" he whined, putting on a puppy-like face.
"Josh, I love you to pieces," Donna replied with a small smile, "but you can get your own damned coffee!"
"Fine!" Josh pouted, getting up and going over to pour himself a cup before returning to his seat.
"See…it wasn't that difficult to do was it!" Donna teased, much to the continuing confusion of the President and First Lady.
"Can someone explain the coffee thing to us!" Helen said, looking around the table expectantly.
"It's a Josh and Donna thing. She has only ever bought him coffee once in his life. She always refused to do it." Sam said, rolling his eyes.
"It used to be cute!" Josh added, "Now its just annoying!" the table laughed as Donna just poked her tongue out at him from where she was still standing by the kettle.
"Hey," Josh said suddenly, as he glanced around the table at his companions, "Where are CJ and Toby? They're the only ones not here!" a mischievous grin flashed across his face, "let's go and wake them up!"
At his words, Sam jumped to his feet, an impish grin on his face, "Yeah come on let's go!"
The girls and older people around the table just shook their heads sadly, "Let them be guys, they probably had some stuff to sort out after last night." Zoey said softly, rolling her eyes as Charlie jumped up to join his two friends. Jed, Abbey, the President and first Lady all looked at each other, confused.
"Last night?" Jed asked, looking around the table.
"We'll let you guys field that one!" Josh said, as he practically ran out of the room towards the stairs, with Sam, Danny and Charlie in tow.
"Josh! Remind CJ that we are going shopping in an hour!" Donna yelled after their retreating backs.
"So…" Jed prompted, "What happened last night?"
"Sam made us all play truth or dare and Toby's dare was to kiss CJ." Mallory replied, looking to the other girls for help.
"And the uh kiss got kind of uh deep, and then when they pulled away CJ ran away." Donna finished up, saving Zoey from the embarrassment of having to have a conversation about kissing with her father. Jed looked at them.
"Well I know we all wanted them to get together, but Truth or dare? Really!"
"It was all Sam's fault!" Mallory said with a grin, "but unless she has killed him, it means that they were sharing a room all night so they must have sorted out their differences."
"Well I guess the guys will be down any second to tell us what they saw, so we needn't wait in too much suspense!" Jed said, with a smile.
"Do you think we should knock?" Josh whispered, as they crept up to the bedroom door.
"Yeah, but do it quietly, then we can say we knocked and they didn't answer!" Sam replied. Josh knocked softly on the door, and they waited for a couple of seconds. There was no noise coming from inside the room, so Josh, quietly turned the doorknob and opened the door wide enough for them to see in. They were greeted by the sight of CJ and Toby lying under the sheet, obviously naked, spooned together, with Toby's arm wrapped possessively around CJ's waist. The guys exchanged huge grins, Sam's idea had worked! They closed the door quietly and crept away, hurrying downstairs to tell the others.
"It worked! It worked! It worked!" Sam yelled as they all rushed into the kitchen.
"Did you speak to them? Are they together?" Ainsley asked, looking from Josh to Sam and back again, as Charlie and Danny stumbled into the kitchen behind them.
"No, they were asleep, but they were very much together!" Sam replied, grinning like a little boy at Christmas.
"It's about time too!" the President said, unconsciously echoing his words about Donna and Josh.
"Damn straight!" Jed added, "Well it's been quite a successful matchmaking weekend wouldn't you all say!" he added, winking at Donna and Josh, who was walking across the room to join her. They both blushed furiously, but smiled happily all the same.
"Yeah about that…" Donna spoke up grinning at the group. "we wanted to say thank you for going to all that trouble just to give us that kick that we obviously needed, we really appreciate it…"
Josh took over, "But be warned, as we are gonna get you all back good and proper!"
TBC
Ok so I didn't manage the week after, but I will in the next couple of chapters. I may do a filler chapter of the shopping trip that the girls are going to have (gossiping galore!) but only if you guys want it?
Hope you are still enjoying it.