Author's Note:Okay, so I decided to try and make this a multi-chap fic..maybe I'll keep it up.
But that said I'm really horrible with finishing chaptered fics and I find it so much easier when people actually review..so if you have thoughts, any thoughts at all about this..do share.
Content Warning: The rating goes up for this chapter. There's smut ahead. You've been warned.
Chapter Two
Lea didn't go back to sleep as Darren's Mom had offered, instead, she turned over to him and gently nudged his shoulder.
"Darren", she whispered and waited for him to stir..he indeed slept like a stone and it took her nudging turning into solid shaking until he tiredly opened his eyes, linking up at her confusedly.
"What?", he muttered.
"Your Mom says she'll get breakfast ready for us", Lea informed him, unable not to smile at how adorable he looked, eyes barely visible through his squinting.
"She was in here?", he asked, a little more awake, running his hand over his face and sat up.
"Just five seconds ago", Lea nodded, "She told me we could sleep in but I thought it was the sensible thing to wake you up"
"Sensible to her", he huffed and smashed his head onto her shoulder and while he was at it put a lazy kiss on her skin which made his mocked annoyance even less believable.
She kissed him back, quickly on his dark curls and squeezed him with her head on his, bringing her hand up to cup his cheek.
"My poor baby", she laughed but knew just how to make it up to him, "Fancy a wake-up shower?"
He was wide awake at that, having his sheets tangled around him in a second as he jumped up rapidly.
Lea laughed loudly and got out of the bed herself, shooting him a seductive look, complete with an eyebrow-raise and walked over to the bathroom.
She heard Darren getting off from the bed and his quick steps behind her and the the lock of the bathroom click. He stepped behind her smiling, as she could see in the bathroom mirror and handed her her toothbrush before loading his own.
She loved these little things, something as silly as brushing teeth together like that, it made it so easy to imagine how really living with him would be like, to wake up next to him every morning, going through their routine, like the most normal, most boring couple in the world. She got a downright kick out of it. It was a fact that she was built for relationships, she usually didn't have flings and from her teenage years on, she'd practically been with someone all the time, she liked it better this way, liked the security.
Except with Darren everything was a little bigger, a little scarier, she already loved him with a need and necessity that she'd barely felt for her other boyfriends even after years and they'd barely been together for two months. She was terrified to loose him, terrified how he'd leave her, if he left her.
She didn't even want to think about it, how utterly broken she would be, even if he left her now, she could feel her face twitch just with the mental image.
"What's wong?", Darren mumbled through foam and against his toothbrush, catching her change of expression immediately.
"No'ing, I was jus' 'inking", she mumbled back and then got so irritated with the lack of ability to properly pronounce words that she ducked over the sink and spit out the toothpaste, rinsing her mouth before she spoke again, "I was just thinking how this is the most wonderful morning already and you may never leave me"
He chuckled beside her and rinsed his own mouth, tucking the toothbrush away and then closed his arms around her, enveloping her with a tight hug, "I will never leave you"
It was all smiles and cuddles for Lea and she was reaffirmed, of course the nagging worry would never quite leave her, that was the prize she had to pay for being so utterly happy; that it might not last because there where no guarantees for anything and they were in a kind of difficult position, with only few people knowing about them and the mutual desire for it to stay that way.
Right now though, none of that mattered, it only mattered that he loosened his hold on her and tucked at the hem of her shirt, meeting no resistance as he pulled it over her head and left her bare chested. A chill ran down her body at the sudden brisk air and she quickly turned around to press the exposed skin against his, kissing his collar bone and for a moment just enjoying the feeling of their bodies entwined.
They stood still in their embrace for a couple of seconds, both sighing because it just felt good, whole..like home and so utterly right. Still, all too soon, she remembered how Darren's mother must've surely been waiting for them and reluctantly, she let go of him and stripped off her shorts to get into the shower.
"Wait", Darren exclaimed as he got into the spacious shower behind her, pushing her behind him protectively while she barely refrained from pinching his butt-cheek..it was just so round and tempting, "Getting the temperature just right is kind of a risky business"
With almost scientific precision, Darren started fumbling around on the cold and warm tabs and the first drops of ice-cold water dripped down on them from the waterfall-shower head.
Darren groaned and Lea gasped in shock, the water was horrifyingly cold and merciless on their naked bodies and Lea grabbed the metal rail that was installed at about her heads level to steady herself.
"No kidding", she exhaled but then the temperature changed already and suddenly it was boiling hot and Lea jumped even more, "God, Darren!"
"I'm sorry", he said sheepishly, pressing himself against the wall to not be hit by more steaming water, "Almost got it"
A few more moments of hesitation and then Lea felt brave enough to get under the stream, which now had a good temperature, slightly too warm than too cold and she laughed when he turned toward her with a triumphant smirk.
"Now let's just hope that no one in this house flushes the toilet within the next twenty minutes and we're all set", he said before kissing her hard, water flowing down their faces.
She smiled against his lips and got on her tiptoes to deepen the kiss, throwing her arms around his neck and nibbled at his bottom lip, demanding entrance to twirl her tongue around his, grabbing his wet hair. She moved rhythmically against him, her motions having the desired effect as he grew hard against her belly and she smiled when he brought up his arm to steady himself this time, holding on to the rail and pushing against her.
He broke the kiss to lick and bite down her neck, while his free arm traced her skin down from her chest to her hips where he lingered, his teasing near her ear causing Lea to sigh in approval.
He damn well knew what he was doing and had done so from the very first time, even through both their inhibitions, through the questioning if sleeping together was even remotely a good idea, despite both their nerves; he'd given her the utmost amazing time, each touch precise and self-assured. Sure he would listen to her body's responses, fastidiously noting every kind of reaction she had to his touches but he learned so swiftly that she hardly even noticed he hadn't been planning to touch her just where she needed it in the first place.
Aiming to prove to herself that she had picked up a couple things too along the way, she removed his hand from her waist and put it on the rail too, so that he had her cornered between the wall and made him step back a little so she could get on her knees.
He gasped in anticipation and that alone would have made her day but she wasn't done yet, she sat down so she had a relatively comfortable position, letting her fingers run down his frame as she did so and found him almost all the way hard. She decided to work with that and began placing little kisses toward the inside of his thighs, working her tongue in licks and flicks closer to his sensitive skin. When she was almost there, she took his hardening length into her hand but just held it there for a while to reach below it, kissing and sucking, carefully monitoring his quivering movements to see which angle, which force and speed he liked.
She did that for a while but he began thrusting his hips slightly towards her, urging her to go on, he even managed to thrust into her hand a little bit, leaving no doubt of what he wanted her to do.
Smiling, she let him hang for a bit but not too long, not enough to really be teasing, just long enough so that he would properly anticipate the touch of her tongue.
She slowly licked up his shaft before helping with her hand to keep him in place and then took him into her mouth deliberately, waiting for his reaction and was rewarded with a groan.
The endless flow of water down his body made things a lot easier, everything flowed quite naturally which made amping up the speed less of a physically exhausting task.
She varied her speed and the length she took him in, excited at every jolt she was able to curse through his body, proud of herself for tightening the muscles of her lips around him enough to make him curse and call out her name. After all, she was a trained singer, she knew very well how to use her lips and tongue.
He was now rock hard, bopping in and out of her mouth and she felt accomplished, especially when his hand fell onto her head and he drew tiny circles against her temple, grasping a strand of hair, pulling her back a it.
"I can't stand much longer", he whispered against the continuous sound of running water.
Dutifully, she released him then, sure she could have made him come. But if he didn't want to yet, who was she to spoil his fun, and consequently her own.
He held out his hand for her to grab and helped her get back on her own feet, attacking her lips and neck again as soon as she stood erect.
"You're so incredible", he muttered and kissed her lips and face again while his hands where at work on her breasts, cupping them and using his thumbs to make her breath hitch in her throat all the while his hard-on was pressed flush against her stomach. It made every nerve in her tingle.
Not willing to wait a second longer, she reached for him again, grabbed him hard, eliciting a delicious, high-pitched gasp and positioned him between her legs.
She was wet enough without even a drop of the water and she wanted him to know that. She continued to lightly brush his sensitive skin against hers and his head fell on her shoulder, biting her but not really coordinated anymore.
"Fuck", he hissed and then he took over, swiftly guiding her hands to the railing and then grabbing her ass, lifting her up effortlessly so she could wrap her legs around his hips.
He helped with his hand to get the aim just right and he looked at her for an endless, breathless second, knowing just what he was doing.
This one look of hunger and lust and the blind wish to just consume her made her pant more than his first thrust inside of her. The amount of need and longing, his purely physical desire for her, mixed with an affection and love that could have never been translated into words made her wince just as much as his steady pulling in and out of her did.
Their bodies crashed against each other in a frantic rhythm, Darren had been estimating this to take about twenty minutes earlier but it was apparent that neither of them were gonna last that long.
He made sure that enough of his skin touched every sensitive part of her, helping her to come before he did and she had no intention of dragging it out.
She arched her back into the motion when she felt the familiar waves building up in her body and moaned and breathed heavily when something inside her exploded, her muscles tightening and releasing against him and his name dropped like the water from her lips.
"God", she murmured, "Darren"
Darren waited for her to ride out her orgasm and then took her nod as cue to finally slam hard into her, using five forceful thrusts to send himself over the edge as his head fell back into his neck.
He took his time, breathing heavily, holding her on top of him for as long as possible and finally looked at her again, a sly smile contrasting his dark, lusting eyes.
"Best morning ever", Lea smiled back and found his lips again.
"Yeah", he agreed when she let him take a breath, "and it isn't even 8 am yet"
Lea supported herself against the rail when he sat her down to wobbly feet and they helped each other properly shower, both positively drained and speechless.
They got dressed in a lazy haze, both heads still clouded with their morning action and so Lea didn't even protest when Darren put on his purple shirt with a red zipper hoodie on top of it.
Usually she would have scolded him because the colors that didn't quite match but this time she didn't care.
She put on fitted jeans like him and one of his slim boy-shirts with the Ninja Turtles on it.
But walking down the stairs minutes later, she already regretted her pants-decision.
She was a little sore and the fabric rubbing against her thighs did not help. She pursed her lips and he misread it as nervousness, squeezing her hand lightly.
"They're gonna love you", he said reassuringly.
"I hope so", Lea muttered, now suddenly worried they wouldn't. She hadn't really thought about it at all before but what if they couldn't stand her? If they found her dull or rude or liked his ex-girlfriend better or thought she wasn't good enough for him.
God knows she never would be remotely good enough for him, she thought, but she would like it if they didn't feel that way.
Darren pulled her onwards through the corridor and then made a left through the homey comfy living room she barely had time to take in and walked her over to the big mahogany dining table where his Mom and Dad automatically rose to their feet.
Uff. She wasn't used to that much courtesy, it immediately made her feel terribly common and unworthy.
"Good morning", Darren's Mom said and so quickly, he had let go of Lea's hand and almost jumped over to her to give her a long, tight hug, repeating the same thing with his father.
Lea stood by, a little forlorn and wasn't really sure where to start. Thankfully Darren soon turned his attention back to her and made it a lot easier for her to plan her next steps.
"So, that's Lea", he said and gestured for her to join him, shuffling her towards his mother first, "Lea, that's my Mom Cerina – and my Dad Bill"
She eagerly shook their hands, trying to stand very well, trying to remember all the rotten ballet lessons, of course his Mom had already kinda met her but this was really the part that counted.
They smiled at her warmly and she sat down next to Darren, opposite Cerina and for a while no one said anything.
"So Lea", Darren's father started, "We heard a lot of great things about you"
"Really?", Lea replied immediately, voice raised with nerves and she grabbed Darren's hand under the table for support..why was she suddenly so nervous?, "I'm..um..I try"
"And you look gorgeous, dear", Cerina chimed in and Lea hardly knew what hit her, "I mean, you always look pretty on TV but in person...even more beautiful"
If there had ever been any doubt that these two people had raised Darren, now at the latest this doubt would've been gone.
"Thank you", she said and felt her cheeks blush, "thank you so much..um..I really love your house, it's..so pretty"
What was she even doing? She felt like the biggest loser in the world, so pretty? That was the best she got? The house was warm, well-put together, made her feel safe and comfortable, it was the epitome of a great family home she would like to raise her children in but all she could come up with was 'so pretty'?
"Thank you", Bill said and then let his eyes wander over the set table, "Aren't you kids hungry?"
"Darren doesn't really eat in the mornings", Cerina informed the round with a knowing nod that Lea mimicked, glad to finally be sure of something.
"Yes, I've noticed", she said and smiled over to him. This was a settling thing to do, she found and resolved to look at him more often.
"I'm just not that hungry when I've just gotten up", he half-heartedly defended himself, "But we've been up for a while, so.."
Lea could almost hear the "dot-dot-dots" he left hanging in the air, feeling her checks flare up red again.
What if they heard us in the shower?
But if they had they were very sensible about it, neither of them commented or even acknowledged Darren's possible innuendo.
"What would you like to eat, Lea?", Bill asked politely, "We have some pastries, toast, bacon..?"
"Um..", Lea said but was cut off.
"- Bill, she's a Vegan, she doesn't eat bacon", Cerina said in an almost scolding tone.
"Vegetarian, actually", Lea said apologetically, earning a surprised look from Darren, "I just can't stay away from cheese"
"Ah, cheese..", Bill said knowingly and passed over a fully loaded cheese-tray with some baguette; this was quite the breakfast for kings. Lea thanked him enthusiastically, thankful to have the cheese to stare at for a while.
"I don't want to be nosy, here", Bill continued after Lea had chosen a slice of Gouda and another of Camembert, "but you two are being safe, right?"
Lea almost choked on her cheese. Darren just flat out coughed in shock.
"Dad!", he exclaimed in utter disbelief and yet again, it felt like they had tumbled backside first out of a time-machine, "We're...yes..God, yes, Dad, we are being safe"
"I'm just saying, it would cause quite the stir..", he said calmly, "with both your careers"
"We're being very careful", Lea said when she regained her speech.
"Well, well, enough of that", Cerina quickly interjected, sensing the discomfort in Lea's voice like her own mother would, "Why don't you tell us how you got together instead, Darren couldn't be bothered to give his nosy Mom some details"
"Oh sure", Lea literally jumped at the opportunity to leave the awkward question of protection behind before she had to tell them that she was on the pill and there was nothing to worry about, "It was just over work, really..we were shooting West Side Story and just..well, for me personally, I just realized that I was..well, in love"
Darren grinned at that and squeezed her hand harder, his eyes were sparkling with pride when she looked at him.
"It took us a while after that, though", he said, "It was a little complicated because no one should really know at this point so.."
"So this is a secret?", Cerina asked curiously and leaned a little over her plate, eyes growing wider.
"Until further notice, yeah", Darren said, "I think we want some time to ourselves before the world will know"
Lea nodded in agreement, she was still not ready to think about what would happen if they let people know..what the tabloids would say..what Darren's hardcore fangirls would say..
They could be pretty intense, driving Chris to a point of annoyance that he didn't want to cross the street with Darren because it would stir up any kind of weird rumors or even death threats from thirteen year olds..
Darren's parents nodded at their story and seemed okay with their wish to keep it on the down low for now and soon the conversation drifted into pleasant small talk; about the whether in LA, Broadway, Lea and Darren's inability to dance and a few amusing stories from Darren's childhood that he sat through with an embarrassed look on his face and constant remarks of "That's not at all how that happened".
After one and a half-hours, Lea helped Darren to get the dishes into the kitchen and met him leaning against the counter, head shaking slightly.
"I'm sorry that my Dad asked about..that", he said quietly when she leaned against him and pecked him on the lips.
"It's fine", she laughed, "They worry, that's totally okay, you've yet to meet my Mom, she's very blunt about these things, so this was probably good training for when she corners you and asks you about any possible STDs you brought into this relationship"
They both laughed at this and Darren wrapped her up in his arms, rocking them from side to side.
"What do you want to do today?", he asked her in a small voice.
"I don't know?", she offered, "I'd really like to go find that magical China Town restaurant but..I'm open to everything"
"No, that sounds good", she felt him nod against her cheek, "Let's go on a quest to find the hidden Chinese restaurant"