Chapter 2 – A Rude Interruption

Dally's POV

I gently tilted Alex down onto the bed, our mouths never separating for an instant. I coaxed her mouth apart with my tongue so that I could explore the depths of it, tasting her, feeling her. Slowly I dragged my hand up, off her hip, pushing her shirt up with it. I cupped her breast lovingly; running my thumb over her hard nipple while my other hand twisted and snaked through her hair. She sat up half way allowing me to slide my hand around behind her and unhooked her bra-

"SLAM!"

"Alex? You there?" Alex

"Shit," I hissed.

"Darry is home!" Alex cried rolling out from under me.

She flung her arms behind her back and struggled to do up her bra.

"I'm upstairs Darry! I'll be down in a second!" I grinned to myself, marvelling at how calm her voice sounded.

"What do you want me to do?" I asked. "Do you want me to hide or something? Hide in the closet? Go out the window?" I paused, realizing how panicked I sounded. I've got to learn to keep my head in situations like this.

"Relax Dally," Alex grinned. "Its just Darry. You can come downstairs with me. I'm just mad that he wrecked our fun. "

I grinned back at her, stating to relax. "Yeah, stupid Darry, talk about your poor timing."

"Yeah, he really needs to work on that. We can meet up later though…" She smiled coyly at me. "How about later? You know the whole gang will end up here, so I don't think we should try this again. What about your place?"

"Nah, we better not. My dad is in one of his moods. There's a party at Buck Merril's place tonight though, and you knows what goes on in the back bedrooms there." I trailed off, giving her a sly look.

"Alright then" she said. "We better get downstairs before Darry gets suspicious."

"Ok," I gave her one final lingering kiss and we headed slowly downstairs.

Alex's POV

I took Dally's hand, intertwining my fingers with his and we started down the stairs. We seemed to reach the bottom landing very quickly, and we found ourselves standing right behind Dally. He had his back to us, sorting the mail on the hall table.

"Hi Darry," I said softly, so not to startle him. I gave Dally's hand a tight squeeze. "How was your day?"

He turned to face us. "Not too ba-" he stopped short. He seemed very shocked to see Dallas standing next to me.

"What were you two doing upstairs?" he asked sharply, looking from me to Dally.

"None of you business," I said, trying to contain my laughter. Dally reassuringly squeezed my hand.

"Oh I think it is my business if I come home from work and your upstairs with some guy-"

"Some Guy!" I exploded, partly very amused, partly angry. "It's Dallas, Darry. One of your friends! My boyfriend! Not some guy!"

"Easy there Alex," whispered Dally in my ear. We were both trying very hard to keep straight faces for Darry's sake.

"All right, fine. So I come and find you and Dally upstairs doing... doing... God knows what-"

"We didn't do anything," Dally broke in. "You came home too soon." He said grinning slyly. Darry looked mad.

"Look, Darry." I started softly. "I'm not a little girl anymore." I moved from Dally's side over to Darry and gently put my hand on his arm. "I know your just looking out for me but I can take care of myself... and... and it's Dallas... Don't you trust him? Or me?" I looked at him pleadingly.

"Yes... well, I don't trust Dallas as far as I can throw him. But I do trust you… It's just I care about you so much..."

"Well," I said, a small smile forming on my face. "Seeing as how you can probably throw Dally quite far…"

Darry finally relented, allowing a smile to break his serious face. Dallas grinned,

"Be that as it may, I don't think we should test that theory anytime soon…" With that we all started laughing.

"I'm sorry Alex… and Dally." Said Darry, his face growing sombre. "I shouldn't have blown up at you. I'm just kind of stressed right now."

Dally smiled, "It's alright old man."

"I know you're stressed," I said to Darry. "And I'm sorry for making you more so."

"It's alright," said Darry.

I reached up and hugged him. "Thank you for trusting me." I whispered softly. "Now you just sit down and relax. I'll make dinner." I said as I pulled away. I turned to Dally. "Do you want to stay and eat?"

"No, I better go home. You know, let my Dad know I'm still alive. Not that he cares..."

"Don't say that." I said softly as I stood on my tiptoes to kiss him.

"Its true though," he laughed harshly.

"Well I care anyways," I mumbled against his lips.

"I know." We kissed once again. "So I'll see you tonight at Buck's?"

"Yeah, how about around nine? I think I'll be able to get away by then."

"Okay, at nine then," he said. I wanted to linger in his arms, but there was dinner that needed making so I quickly pecked him on the cheek and turned to go, but Dallas caught me by the wrist and pulled me close into him.

"Wait," he mumbled. Embracing me tightly, he leaned down and kissed me deeply. I didn't want him to let go; I wanted time to stop so that we could stay here like this, wrapped in each other's arms forever. He pulled away and with a quick smile that melted my heart, he turned and was gone.

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