A.N. Second to last chapter! How about that? So, just a quick warning to those who may not want to read about makeout scenes, yeah, there's a makeout scene in here. For those of you who do like reading those, you're in luck! That's about all I have, so enjoy this chapter!

"Marie?" I called out as her phone kept ringing. I could hear it ringing from my room, so I ran back there thinking she had somehow left it in my room and I just never noticed it, but that wasn't the case. She stood up when I entered the room, her phone in hand, and a concerned look on her face.

"Are you ok?" She asked. I was worried that she was upset at me, or maybe she didn't even know what had just occurred, but she needed to know what just happened sooner rather than later.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Did you see…" I said trailing off, but she finished for me.

"Everything that happened when Nazz came over? Yes I did. But really are you ok?" She said walking closer to me so that we were only inches apart.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Still a little shaken, but I'm alright."

"Oh thank God!" She exclaimed as she quickly hugged me before pulling back. "She didn't do anything to you, right?"

"No, she tried to though. I wouldn't let her do anything like that." I responded as Marie pulled me into her embrace again, an action I happily reciprocated. We stayed like that for some time, all the while my nerves calmed down and my thoughts became clearer.

"I'm so lucky to have a boyfriend like you, so hot and smart and loyal." She said, giving me a chuckle. She let me go and looked at me with a smirk on her face. "By the way, I wasn't the only one who saw the conversations between you and Nazz." With that, I was left stunned.

"What do you mean?" I asked as Marie's smirk broke into a full smile as she held up her phone, waving it around slightly. "No way, you got it on video?" I asked as a smile worked it's was onto my mouth.

"Yup, I got every single word of it." She giggled as she nodded.

"But how did you know what was going to happen?"

"Well, thank Johnny for that. He said that something was going to happen between you and Nazz today, but he didn't know what, so he brought it up with me yesterday. I was going to come here to warn you about it, but I saw her heading in this direction too, so I snuck in through your window and just lurked in the shadows like the sneaky devil I am." She said with a gleeful giggle.

"So you really did get every second of it," I said as I laughed.

"Yeah, but it was so hard to not just jump out and choke her. I think I left some marks on my hand from digging my nails into my palm trying to not fight her." Marie said as she held her hand to her face trying to inspect it. I held her hand to see, and while she only had the impression of her nails in her palm and no actual damage, I decided to kiss it anyway.

"Does it feel better now Marie?" I said with a grin.

"Shut up, Edd," Marie replied, looking away and smiling too.

"Don't worry about fighting her though. She might blackmail us with rumors, but we have actual proof." I said, trying to lessen her worries about Nazz.

"I know, but I'll still probably fight her. Trying to get with my muffin like that, it's gross. Although she did give me one good idea…" Marie said as she looked at me with a devious grin.

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

"Leaving a mark on you," She said as her finger traced along the left side of my neck. I shivered-curse my sensitive nerves-but I grabbed her hand and moved it away.

"If we have that video we need to know what to do with it, so hold off on the marking for now," I said as she gave me a fake pout before pulling back out her phone.

"Well if she wants to start drama between us, I say let's go ahead and start some drama. I'll have May post the video on some of her accounts so people will see what Nazz is truly like."

"Wait, why May?" I asked, not knowing how May worked into the situation.

"She's more popular than me, and I'm assuming more popular than you, no offense, so more people will see it if she posts it. I'll have her do it in our names though, I don't want to completely drag her into this whole thing." She said plainly. I thought about it for a second.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. We should do that soon then so that her rumors don't have much time to travel."

"Thanks Double D! By the way, I will be holding you to that later." She said as she walked past me to the door.

"Hold me to what?"

"Me leaving my mark on you," she said as she walked into the hall.

"Oh." I managed to squeak out as I felt the heat rise to my face.

Once the video was posted it gained a lot of attention, and it needed a lot of questions answered my Marie and I, but we saw that the responses were pretty mixed. They ranged from "I knew she would pull shit like this on people" to "Wow, I didn't think she was like that" and even to people who still had doubts saying "Are you sure this was all her planning, or did she have someone else who wanted her to do this?" Either way, we both figured we would get a lot of these types of reactions from people. We even thought we would get some backlash over her friends, but we didn't really get any of that when we came back Friday. Sure, there were glares from some tables around us, but nothing was really said or done to us. Instead of that, we actually had some of her friends come up to us and ask us about everything that had happened, including some from her cheerleader group, and we gave the the shortened down version. Some still wanted to be her friend, which was fine with us. We didn't care if she lost friends or not, or if we got hate because of it, we just wanted to set the record straight. The only thing we did care about with her though, was making sure she was done with trying to start any more drama with us. I tracked her down after school and made sure to have a word with her, otherwise Marie would be sure to have more than words with Nazz.

"So are you done?" I asked, and she turned to face me. She looked like she didn't get much sleep the night before, and her eyes were glazed over. She sighed before answering.

"Fine." She said before starting to turn back around.

"Yes?" I asked trying to get a clear answer from her.

"Yes!" She almost yelled at me as she whipped back around.

"Glad to see you understand." I said with a smile. Nazz just turned back around and stormed off before I even finished. I was happy enough with that answer anyways, and so was Marie. Besides, if she didn't stop, Marie would just "kick her ass so hard it comes out her mouth so all the shit that she says can finally make sense." Definitely her words and not mine. As adamant as Marie was about going to my house and leave her mark on me, I couldn't let her. After all, my parents were home.

"Oh come on, that'll make it fun!" Marie tried to convince me.

"Yes, I'm fairly certain that would be the best way to introduce you to my parents," I said mockingly.

"Why haven't you introduced me to your parents yet?"

"It's been difficult to find the time to do so with everything going on, and with my parents not always home the time to find is even slimmer. I'm sorry, Marie, I can invite you over tonight probably!" I told Marie as she smiled.

"It's alright, I'd rather do it next week if that's alright with you."

"Yeah, I can make some plans for that. Just be sure to remind me if I forget, please." I said as we walked to our homes.

"I'll be sure to climb in your window one night and scare the absolute shit out of you if you forget, so you better remember for your own good." Marie said as we parted ways. Well, I guess that was good enough motivation to make sure I remember.

The night of Kevin's party came around, and I was sure to bring Marie along. She kept complaining that I was going too early, and that as the guest of honor anyone who arrived before me was simply early. Honestly, I couldn't find fault in that reasoning. We ended up lazing about as she got herself ready every now and then. When we did arrive, we found that Kevin had invited more than just our friends, including a lot of his high school friends and members from the various sports teams he participated in. There was also a lot that Kevin planned for this party, with lights, music set ups, and tables for beer pong and other games of the sort. It was clear that this wasn't the first time Kevin had planned a party, and he did a great job at it.

After a lot of initial greetings with new people and old friends, I was told to tell some of the best stories from New York and when I got back here. Marie helped me to stay on track and keep the stories a little shorter, otherwise I would have kept going for ages. After all of my best stories, people wanted to know more about how Marie and I first met when I got back, which of course was a fun one to tell. Lastly, some people asked about Thursday, and the whole Nazz situation, to which Marie aptly responded with "She's just a bitch is all." I left it at that, since I felt like the more we talked about it the more upset Marie would get. So, after all the stories were told, people moved onto other activities, like games, drinking, and socializing. I met some new people, made some new friends, and after almost two hours I felt tired. Socializing really took a lot of energy from me, so I decided to step away for a bit outside. Marie found me a few minutes later and stayed by my side as other people came and went. Kevin stopped by to make sure I was doing alright, and he even apologized for breaking the law with underage drinking, which I appreciated, but I understood happens at these parties. It still worried me to no end, but Marie kept my nerves calmed down. After twenty minutes outside, we were pulled back inside to a voice telling us to join a truth or dare game. As reluctant as I was, Marie told me that it would be fun, and that I had her as a girlfriend, so what's the worst anyone could ask me to do? Yet again, her logic is flawless.

Pretty much everyone in the circle was drunk, some clearly worse off than others. There were about 15 or 20 people in the circle, and a bottle to spin in the middle made it so picking people to dare would be easier. The game started off pretty slow, with a couple truths from people I didn't really know. Eddy stepped it up when he went for a dare, to which he was dared to go jump in the pool. Being as cold as it was, I tried to tell him not to do it, to which he replied that only sissies back out of dares, not surprising coming from him, though. Some went to watch him jump in the pool, some stayed in the circle, but everyone knew he had done it when he surfaced yelling obscenities about how cold the water was. After that point, we knew that the game could only ramp up from here. A few turns later and a spin lands on Marie, and she enthusiastically asks for a dare. Jonathan, one of the baseball players, looks at her for a second, then looks at me.

"I dare you...to take your boyfriend into one of the rooms down the hall...and do whatever you want with him." Jonathan said as he leaned back on his arms. The dare didn't seem that bad at first, but of course I didn't see the implications at first either.

"So, like, seven minutes in heaven?" Marie asked.

"Or however long you guys need to take, just don't be surprised if one of us needs to 'check up' on you every now and again." He said with an innocent smile. Marie grinned and nodded her head slowly.

"Ok, I see what you mean, well Double D, let's get going, shall we?" She says as she hoists me up by my arm and starts taking me off to the hallway, but Jonathan stops us.

"Hold on, don't forget this!" He says as he tosses something toward me and starts snickering. Other people start giggling too, and I look down to see what it was. Sure enough, it was a condom. I drop my arm and could only give him a disapproving and shocked look as everyone burst into fits of laughter. Marie tugs my arm again and leads us down the hall.

"Don't use the room farthest down the left!" Kevin calls after us as the chorus of snickers fades into the music being played a room away. She leads me into a room that looks like a guest room, and shuts the door, locking it behind her.

"He gave me a condom," I said, not really directed toward anyone, just in confusion and disbelief.

"Yeah, that's what people normally have when they're about to have sex." Marie says matter of factly as she faces me from the door.

"But we...no, we can't-I mean that's not really…" I said as I struggled to find the right words, or really the right reaction to what just happened. I was still tired from the night, and this happened so suddenly, it was all just a little much.

"Do you not want to do it?" Marie asked in a very calm tone, as if she already expected my answer.

"No, not really actually."

"That's ok, I didn't either. But..." She said, sauntering over to me before taking the condom from my hand and tossing it away. "There's still plenty of other things to do if you're up for it." She said as she gently pushed me onto the bed before sitting on my lap facing me.

"Oh, uh, I don't know, I think I'm up for it." I said, still trying to process exactly what was going on.

"Hey, Edd, it's ok, we don't have to do anything you don't want to. Just let me know." Marie said.

"No no, it's fine, I want to do this, just let me process this all and calm down." I replied. It took me a couple minutes before I calmed down and felt better, all the while Marie kept whispering reassurance into my ear and hugging me. When I was completely ready, I released Marie before gently grabbing her face and looking into her eyes as a smile grew on my lips.

"Marie, you are absolutely beautiful." I said as I kissed her. I could feel the passion in the kiss in the breath coming from both of us. She came back up with a smile, part happiness, part devious.

"And you are absolutely stunning." Marie said as she kissed me again, for a shorter time this time. "And smart." Kiss. "And adorable." Kiss. "And amazing." Kiss. "And mine." Yet another kiss was planted on me, and she leaned her while body into this one causing us both to topple onto the bed. During those kisses my hands had left her face and landed on her hips which, as it turns out, is a really comfortable place to put them. Our kisses were drawn out, passionate, and it felt like we were both drinking the nectar of the gods from each other. Marie flicked her tongue against my lips, and after a brief moment of shock, I followed along. Our tongues began both dancing with each other and fighting against one another. Eventually, Marie won, which isn't that big of a surprise, but also wasn't a let down at all. In fact, this was all quite enjoyable in its own right. We broke apart for air, and as we gasped trying to catch our breath before the other, I decided to ask something that had been on my mind.

"So, was this what you had in mind when you said you wanted to leave a mark on me?" Marie thought about it for a moment before answering.

"No. I had something more like this planned." She said as she kissed me again before kissing my cheek, trailing down my face and giving extra attention to my jaw, before moving down the throat. I didn't realize just how different kissing could feel when on different parts of the body, but I was glad to make that revelation now. Marie moved along my neck, sometimes flittering her tongue against my pulse, other times nipping at my neck, each time producing a sharp gasp from me. My neck was sensitive, which I had already known, but what I hadn't known was that there was more than that as she moved down my neck to my shoulder and collar. When she got to my collarbone, she bit down on it, not hard enough to draw blood or anything painful, but enough for me to feel it. Then I could feel her tongue as she kissed that area, and I made a noise somewhere between a moan and a gasp, which was completely new and different to me, yet it felt right. She must have also liked it too, as her bite increased slightly and she seemed to work harder. Just for a moment she stops, before moving to the other side of my collarbone, repeating the same process there, all the while eliciting noises from me I didn't even know I could make. After spending some time biting on my collarbone, she moved back up my neck, nipping and licking as she went along. Then she got back to my face, and then my lips one last time, biting on my lower lip and letting go.

"THAT'S what I imagined." She said as she looked over me. I could hardly say anything back.

"Wow…" was all I could manage. Marie giggled shook my shoulder a bit.

"You all good there? You seem a little out of it."

"I'm at a loss for words, honestly," I said as a smile crept onto my face, and Marie smiled back.

"Woah, Edd doesn't know what to say? Shocking!" She said with a gasp.

"Well you do have that effect on me, Marie. Where did you even learn to do that so well?" I asked.

"Ah, um...well I have my ways." Marie said as she sat up, blushing.

"Well well, looks like you have your secrets, huh?" I asked as I sat up, grinning now that I had the upper hand. She looked at me, and then at my collar before a laugh snuck it's way out of her mouth.

"I sure left my mark on you, Double D," She said before bursting out into laughter. I looked at her in confusion before realizing that she probably had left a sizeable hickey on both sides of my collar. I could only stare at her in horror as I wondered just how big they might be. As she laughed though, an idea came into my head that I felt would change the tides yet again. Before I knew it, and against my better judgement, my arms were wrapped around her and my mouth was against her throat. I hadn't much experience in kissing, let alone necking, so I just followed with what I thought made sense and mimicking what Marie had just done. As soon as my tongue slid along her neck, I heard her laugh turn into a squeak, and land on a strangled squeak, as if she didn't want me to hear her make those noises. That's when my thought process kicked back into play and I stopped what I was doing.

"Are you ok?" I asked as her eyes fluttered open and she looked at me with flushed cheeks.

"Yeah, just...you surprised me is all." She said as her eyes looked everywhere but me.

"You sure you want to keep going with this?" I asked, and immediately her eyes shot to me.

"If you don't think I want to keep going with this then you're not as smart as I thought you were." She replied with a hint of a smirk. A smile broke out onto my face which in turn made her smile in return. So taking what she said, I went back to what I was doing, which was leaving my mark on her. I decided to nip at her neck, testing the waters for what I was comfortable with doing. The more I went for it, the more noises she made, which drove me even more. She moved one hand to my head, playing with my hair where it wasn't scarred, which I found quite calming. I decided to leave a mark on the same place she left one on me, it only made sense, right? I made it to her collarbone, and was met with a yelp as I bit down.

"Too hard?" I asked.

"A little, it's alright though." Marie replied. I nodded and went back to her collarbone, and as I left a hickey she kept making adorable little sounds that I couldn't help but smile at. I kissed back up her throat and back to her lips, and when we broke the kiss we were both smiling, quite satisfied with how it went. This didn't last long though, as a knock at the door made us both jump.

"Room service! I've got towels in case you need to clean up!" A high-pitched singsong voice came from the other side of the door, followed by laughing. Marie got up and looked at me while chuckling.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked, smiling myself as I grabbed my beanie which had fallen off.

"You do realize that once we go back out there, they'll think we had sex, right?" She said as she walked to the door.

"Oh. Right." I said as my smile fell and I paled. I hadn't thought about that, actually…

A.N. Oh boy, I don't have much experience in this type of writing! Maybe it shows, maybe it doesn't, who knows? Oh, right, you do...either way, as always if you notice I made a mistake in writing whether it be grammatical, spelling, or a hole in the story, let me know so I can fix it! Also, I've been really busy the past few months, like, REALLY busy, so if you sent me a review/PM that you wanted me to reply to, please send it again and I will get back to you ASAP. Thank you for reading, and have a great day!