Chapter 9: You and Me

It was starting to get dark by the time me, Marlin, and Cliff (I had made cliff help) had finished cleaning up the house. I decided to walk with Marlin for a while and Cliff went to bed in his new house. It was starting to rain and about 15min of walking and some thunder and lightning later we rushed back to Marlins house to get dry.

"Oh god now it's starting to really storm." Marlin said getting out some towels. "Here try and dry yourself off and if your still cold maybe I can find you something to wear." I then dried myself off with the towel hoping not to look to much like a drowned rat.

"Hey were are the other two?" I asked looking around and not seeing the usual Vesta and Celia that were around.

"There at Mineral Town and they weren't going to be home tell about eleven tonight but they might not get back tell tomorrow if this storm keeps up." He said turning the lights on and trying to dry off as well. He sat next to me and tried to smile but I could tell he was getting nervous.

"Maybe I should just run home really quick I won't get sick if I'm quick." I said trying not to stress him out to much in one day. I had known this guy almost my whole life and I didn't want to make him do anything he didn't want to do.

"No you shouldn't go out in this storm you can stay here an tell it passes I don't mind if you don't." He said quietly but stern enough for me not to argue. I felt quiet and shy for the first time in my life it seamed. I had never had this happen before. I wanted to do something with Marlin but what? I jut wanted to be with him. I was starting to see the real nice almost attractive side instead of just my friend. It was like being in the fog this whole time and then it finally clears and you can see what you're looking at. I finally got some courage and kissed him softly on the cheek. He looked stunned but then reached for my hand and stroked it softly. I was now starting to get cold and he could tell.

"Here you can ware one of my clean shirts and jeans I'm going to go change upstairs and you can change down here." I was a little weirded out by this. I mean it felt odd changing in his house and wearing his clothes. I quickly changed from my damp ones to the dry ones and tried to dry myself off as much as I could. His shirt was white after all and when your wet you can really see through white. I then looked at myself in a mirror I looked so much different then the girl that lived in the city. The girl that lived in the city would never have let her roots grow out, she would never be in a mans house all by herself even if she knew him, and she wouldn't have rough nails and sloppy hair that she just threw into a pony tail. The biggest change was not wearing makeup. I sighed and then looked at how big his shirt was on me. It smelled nice though of almost dried mint and dirt. (does dirt have a smell? lol) It was weird but nice. He then came down the stars looking the same as he always did.

"We match." He said smiling a little and then noticed me looking in the mirror. "You look just as pretty as always."

"Ha pretty? I am almost the opposite of pretty." I said taking my hair out of the messy ponytail to dry.

"I think you're pretty." He said taking my hands and kissing me on the four head. I then looked him in the eyes and he kissed me slowly on the lips. Things were moving fast and I didn't know what to do about it. Questions flew through my mind like what did he think of this? And how far does he want to go? I was now the one stressed out and shaking.

"Are you really cold Nel? Here take that blanket and keep warm… are you ok?"

"I'm fine… how about you?"

"Fine but a little nervous can't you tell? We don't have to do anything you don't want to." He said as if he was reading my mind. He felt the same way I was feeling. I just gave a small laugh and rested my head on his shoulder.

"We don't have to do anything you don't want to do either… but what do we want to do?" I asked looking at him strait in the eyes. He then kissed me long and deep as I rested my head on the floor rug we were sitting on. I kissed him back and touched his chest softly. It was nice… sweet… not really dirt like you would think a kiss like that would be. To bad I shot up and we hit heads when I heard the door open behind me.

"Hey, Hi Nelly did you guy's get caught in the rain?" Vesta asked as she walked in and my face seamed to become a deep red. I nodded a little and in my mind I was thinking oh god help me!

"What brings you guys back?" Marlin asked quickly but then noticed that Celia was not behind Vesta.

"Oh well it started to poor down there to so Celia said I should go home and she would take care of everything, stay the night with a friend of hers, and come back tomorrow so I headed home. Nelly sweetie I will find you something of Celia to wear instead of Marlin's dirty things." She said then went upstairs. I then just started laughing. I couldn't look at him it was so odd. I just put my hand to my head and laughed. Marlin did the same.

After Vesta came down she said I could stay in Celia's room tonight sense it would be lonely at my place. I just shook my head and said I would head home and return the stuff tomorrow. Marlin said just to keep his stuff on and he would walk me home. Vesta looked oddly at both of us as we walked out and my face turned a scarlet red again. Then she just smiled.

"All right… be careful." She said as we walked out into the rain. We ran hand in hand to my house and I shut the door behind us as we both caught are breaths.

"That was dumb we shouldn't have ran I forgot!" I said as he looked like he was about to die sitting there on my bed.

"No… it was… fun." He said smiling. We were now all wet and cold again I sat next to him and after a few minutes of laughing at how dumb we must have looked in front of Vesta and then he leaned in closer so we kissed again and again and again. My heart was racing and I could tell something was going to happen and I just had to ask to see what kind of answer I was going to get if I asked. That one quieting I knew he was thinking to.

"Hey Marlin?" I said as I looked into his eyes.

"What?" he said now trembling again but smiling.

"Want to stay the night?" I asked quietly as he held me close and whispered.

"Can I make love to you?"

Wow hu? This might have to move up to a M rating but it we didn't describe things to much! Well that's all I have to say about that. Chapter 10 will be posted next Saturday see you then!