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Chapter 7

It had been almost a month since Natalie moved in with John, into his moms house, at first she was a bit leery of how it was all going to work out, all play out, she had her doubts but it was amazing at how well they seem to get along, how well things fell into place, she worked a lot, he worked a lot, they were both on different schedules but it was nice to come home to someone, well someone that wasn't drunk all the time that was. Natalie was doing a lot of thinking lately, lately about how nice things were, how nice he was to her, on the days that they were both home at dinner time they would take turns cooking, Natalie usually did the cleaning, she had way to much energy not to, and she liked things just a little bit cleaner than he did.

Natalie was beginning to clean the Kitchen so she could get ready to cook for tonight, tonight was here turn to do the cooking; she was just clearing the sink when the phone rang.

"Hello"

"Hey, it's me" John told her softly into the phone, Natalie heard his sexy soft voice, the one that had been driving her crazy this whole month, she bite down on her bottom lip for a moment and thought about the pain rather than the sexy guy on the phone with her, the guy who although they couldn't be more than friends, the guy she was sharing a house with, even playing house with so to speak, the guy... the guy...

"Natalie are you there?" John asked as he heard a long pause of silence

"Yeah, I'm here, sorry, what's going on?" she asked him after coming to her senses about the thoughts she was just having about her good friend, her best friend, her roommate.

"Just wanted to catch you before you started cooking, thought maybe you'd like to skip it tonight, maybe we could go out to dinner, if you feel like it, I know you've been studying so much might be nice to take a break, that--" john was cut off by her trying to speak

"You really never shut up do you?" she said laughing and he started laughing too.

"So is that a yes"

"Hey anything that gets me out of cooking you know how much I hate it"

"Really? You don't have to do it anymore then if you don't want to"

"John... it was just a cute comeback I wasn't serious, what time and where for dinner?" she asked he told her to meet him somewhere, somewhere strange, a rooftop? She was very confused but she trusted him, and he said she would have a good time.

Natalie arrived at he building he told her to, it was tucked out of the way, the neighborhood was a decent one so s

He walked up to the roof and she wasn't even afraid or anything, she knew he wouldn't tell her to come somewhere that she wouldn't be safe. He cared about her, the same way she cared about him.

Natalie walked out onto the roof and she smiled, he was standing near the side with a beer in one hand looking down at the cars going by, he turned and looked at her, he smiled.

"I guess you found the place huh? No problems getting here?" he asked and she walked closer to him. Real close, she didn't know why but she wanted to be close to him.

He watched her come real close and he froze for a minute he almost forgot his promise, the promise of nothing more than friendship. The promise that was haunting him as he tried so hard t o get his breathing under control, her being so close, it was affecting him. She walked a little past him and over to the edge, she looked down

"Wow!" she said

"Now I know why you like it here, its... its... its"

"Peaceful" he finished her sentence for her

"Yeah, peaceful, nice, the lights are so bright and I feel like nothing can touch me up here"

"Us..." he said and she looked at him confused for a minute

"Nothing can touch us, up here" he told her and she smiled at him, she walked away over towards a cooler and a blanket on the floor. She turned back to him confused again.

"John...this... this looks sort of romantic, I mean... we... I..."

"Its not, I always bring a blanket up here with me, it gets a little chilly and I like to stay up all night waiting for the sun to rise and start a brand new day" he told her softly, gently. She shook her head, she had to remember there friends promise, he was making it really hard this last month but she stayed strong, they both stayed strong and she would definitely be able to handle it but something was different up here, up on this roof, as if nothing else mattered in life, nothing other then the two of them together on the roof. All the feelings she was hiding in the word friendship were trying to come to the surface and she couldn't quite get a handle on them to push them away yet again.

John saw her lost in her head, he walked away from her closer to the blanket, he sat down on it and rested his elbows on his knees, he intertwined his fingers and he almost wanted to tell her, tell her about his great news. The great news he turned down today because she mattered more to him, their friendship if that's all that it would ever be, it mattered more to him. He noticed she was having her own private battle in her head as she stood still near the edge of the roof.

His next battle came to him in his head as he looked at her, as he watched her back, as he saw her beautiful long soft red hair down her back, as he thought about her blue eye's and just how beautiful he thought she looked every minute of everyday especially when she just woke in the morning, he was lucky enough to see her wake a few times this month when she fell asleep on the couch. He couldn't help but smile as he continued to wait for her to turn around. He was falling fast for her, Hell, he'd already fallen fast and far and he couldn't possibly get up nor did he want to.

Natalie started to come down from her thoughts, the thoughts of him and her and maybe... maybe... no! She shook her head, she may be having true feelings for him but she just didn't want the same things he did, at least not right now, he said those things were dreams of his, those things and to be excepted at Quantico. Her dreams or goals so she called them was to Get an education, a college degree and get the hell out of dirty Atlantic City. She heard him speak softly and she turned around.

"What?" she asked as she walked closer to him sitting on the blanket, he didn't answer her with words but she saw into him, into his body, thru his soul with her blue eyes, he felt as if she couldn't breath and she went for it.

Natalie quickly threw herself down on the blanket with him and took his head with her hand, she pulled his head towards hers and their lips met in the middle, and they kissed passionately for the first time since they moved in together. Breathing heavy and deepening the kiss John pushed her back on the blanket and laid on top of her, he brought his hands to her beautiful hair and moved his tongue inside her mouth as they unleashed the sexual tension that had been building inside for the last month.

Natalie was in heaven, his kisses, his deep kisses, they were driving her crazy when she realized what this could ruin, how unfair this was to him because of what she knew about him, what he was ready for in life, what she wasn't ready to give him. She pulled back from the heated kisses and so did he, they locked eyes for a few minutes and her eyes' got a bit teary, she quickly got up and left him alone on the blanket.