A/n: I'm back!!

Chapter Thirteen

I can't believe she knows!

Erik was pacing his bedroom in the middle of the night, his heart racing a million miles a minute.

She just sat there and blew me a bloody kiss! She knows I can see her! She can see me! Does she want me to close the curtains or is she encouraging me to keep them open? Damn women are so confusing!

He looked back toward Christine's room and saw she was still peacefully asleep. How he envied her for her serenity. He'd been thinking so much about the fact that she knew he had been spying on her that he couldn't relax. Even Caesar was getting anxious from Erik's constant movement. He barked a few times, but Erik would just pat his head and assure his dog he was fine.

"This is ridiculous!" he said aloud.

"That damn woman is driving me crazy! In more ways than one, mind you, but that's beside the point." He instantly blushed at the memory of their heated kisses.

"I mean, I've never gotten this far before. I never thought I would! And then there's the fact that she's eight years younger than me and starting her senior year of high school…" He trailed off and panic spread through him.

"I could get arrested for this! No, no, no, no. She's legal now, and that would only be illegal if she were underage and if we were having sex." He paused again. His head was instantly flooded with erotic images of his neighbor.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" he screamed at himself while pounding his head. He was already feeling the affects of lust as his blood pumped faster.

"I need a cold shower." And that was how Erik spent the rest of the morning.

XOXOXOXOX

Without a wink of sleep, Erik looked like a man on crack. His face was pale, the circles under his eyes were more pronounced, and he was breaking out into cold sweats. Hopefully Christine doesn't notice, he thought.

"Wow, Erik, are you okay?" Christine asked as she hopped gracefully into the car.

Never mind.

"No, I'm fine," he lied through his teeth. He put the car in drive and accelerated out of the driveway.

"Are you sure, because you don't look so good?" This time she lifted her hand to his face and rubbed his exposed, unshaven cheek. Erik couldn't help himself as he closed his hand over hers and smiled. He almost forgot about why he was nervous in the first place.

"I'm fine now."

"It looks like you didn't get much sleep." Lucky guess. Wait a minute…

Her mouth then curved into a smirk as she looked at him with meaningful eyes.

"So now you know." Erik had been caught, and he looked like Caesar did the first time he peed in the house.

"I've known for a while now," she admitted.

"I understand if you want me to leave you alone now." His eyes looked toward the road and his jaw tightened with reined emotion.

"Oh, Erik," she chuckled, "if I wanted you to leave me alone, I would have slept with my blinds closed."

"Oh," he said with a look of surprise on his face. This idea never occurred to him. So she likes it when I spy on her? Wicked.

"I can see your room, too." She had an even bigger grin when she mentioned this.

"What?!" Erik panicked; he had done some ungentlemanly things in his bedroom he rather Christine not see.

"Don't get your panties in a twist," he laughed at her choice of words, "you always have your lights off."

"So you can't see what I'm doing?" he clarified.

"Nope." Then she added, "Is there something you don't want me to see?"

"No," he said too quickly, but Christine didn't press him.

The rest of the ride went by smoothly in comfortable silence. However, that comfort was only one sided. Erik was still nervously wondering where they stood. Are we together now, or was that just for last night? Does she want to be with me? Oh, God, what if she doesn't want to be with me?!

Eventually, they reached the college and Erik parked in the same spot he did every morning to say goodbye to Christine for the day.

"I'll pick you up at six," he said to his lap.

"Erik." The tone in her voice was meant to capture his attention. When he looked up, she touched his face like she did at the beginning of the ride. Carefully, she leaned forward and lightly touched her lips to his. It took a moment to register, but once Erik realized what she was doing, he quickly responded. She took his bottom lip with her teeth and nibbled.

"Don't be late," she laughed as she broke away and got out of the car.

Erik was still recovering when she turned around to face his car and wink before approaching the school. She just left me like this! I will never understand damned women!

XOXOXOXO

"Good morning, Erik!" Jon chirped. On any other day it would have been too cheery for Erik, but today, he was walking on clouds.

"'Morning, Jon," he replied with a grin taking his coffee from an awaiting Edna.

"Erik, is that lip gloss you're wearing?" Jon asked as they all walked into his office occupied by Megan and Rick.

"Has he really gone gay on us? Maybe Jon and Erik could go out!" Rick teased.

Erik, however, ignored them and went straight to a mirror. His lips were in fact covered in lip-gloss all thanks to his good morning kiss from Christine.

"Care to explain, Erik?" Edna asked in her authoritative tone.

"It's none of your business," he replied curtly.

"Actually, I believe it is our business seeing as you're our partner and you're 15 minutes late." Megan was known for finding loopholes.

Erik debated with himself. Megan was right; when a coworker was late, they had better have a good reason for it. On the other hand, Erik really didn't have a good reason.

"I had to take care of something." He wasn't lying. Christine had just left him in a state and he really couldn't go through the rest of the day like that. It took him a while to calm himself down.

"So you had to hydrate your chapped lips with your new lip-gloss. And all this took 15 minutes?" Jon mused.

"Fine!" He figured he might as well get it over with. "Christine's legal now."

"You mean you two…" Rick trailed off with wide eyes.

Erik nodded.

"…had sex?" Jon finished Rick's train of thought.

"What?!" Erik did not mean to nod at that notion. "No! We're together! Not having sex!"

"Thank the Lord!" Edna sighed and then signed the cross.

"Then why are you late?" Megan asked.

"It took longer to say goodbye than I had anticipated." He couldn't hide his blush.

"Oh, how sweet!" Edna gushed.

"Yes, how sweet indeed, but I really need to get to work lest Victoria get her nose in my business."

"What business, Erik?" He cringed at the very voice of the monster he was hiding from.

"None of yours, Victoria," he growled.

"Well, it is my business if it makes you tardy." Not this crap again.

"If you must know, it was a personal matter." At least it's the truth.

"Then how come I see you're wearing lip-gloss?" Damn it all to hell! Without replying, he removed the sweet substance from his lips.

"Erik, I'd like to see you privately in my office, please." Her mouth was set in a tight straight line and her shoulders were shaking in rage. He had to admit that her jealousy boosted his crippled ego.

"Alright," he smirked.

Once she closed the door of her office behind him, she grabbed his neck and brought her lips to his roughly. Caught by surprise, Erik reflexes quickly pushed her away.

"What the hell, Vicky?!" He yelled in an aggressive stance.

"I know you're just trying to make me jealous with who ever you're messing around with," she said with an evil grin.

"I can assure you that's not the case." His temper was rising and his face was turning red.

"I'm ready now. We can be together like we've always wanted."

"First of all, you've never wanted me, only what you could get from me. Second, I don't want you anymore. You had your chance and that was your one and only opportunity." This was the time to get everything on the table.

"That's not true. You've always wanted me."

"I'm with someone now, Victoria, someone who respects me. You treat everyone like shit, like everyone's beneath you. I fell for your 'superiority' complex and seduction, but I've come to see what really lies beneath that Botox induced skin of yours: a monster."

Victoria's face looked as if Erik had taken her own glove and slapped her with it.

"That's right, a monster. I may look like one, but, Victoria, you are a monster in the body of a temptress. Looks are deceiving, my dear, and you've fooled everyone. It disgusts me to even look at you. So let us get something straight: I've moved on."

"I'll believe it when I see it, sweetie." Is she really that thick?!

"Believe whatever you like." With that, he stepped around Vicky and exited her office.

"Unbelievable, Erik! You have even more lip-gloss on now than before!" Rick joked.

"Shut up," he grumbled in return as he entered his office.

"Looks like we've got ourselves a trany!" Jon squealed.

"Oh, for Heaven's sake, Jon! Erik isn't gay or a trans- what's-it-called," Edna scolded. "What happened, Darlin'?"

"Victoria won't leave me alone."

"I'm sure this will all blow over tomorrow." Megan didn't really know what to say, it was all so very dramatic.

"Sure." Erik was in for a long week.

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