I figured it was about time to have some Charlene and Maybeck moments.

1 week later

"How's this dress make me look?" Charlene asked.

The dreaded question Maybeck had always prayed he'd never get.

"Uh, well you look hot" he smiled, knowing that was probably not the response she had been hoping for.

"Umm ok. I guess that's about the best answer I'm going to get from you isn't it?" Charlene asked, making Maybeck's prediction come true on her reaction to his comment.

"What'd you expect from me? I'm no fashion critic. I just know that you're beautiful no matter what you're wearing." Smooth, he thought to himself.

Charlene seemed pretty satisfied by this answer as she threw her arms around his neck and sat on his lap. She smiled sweetly down at her football player that she would soon be cheering for at school.

"I'm so happy I get to do this whenever I want."

"Do what exactly?" Maybeck grinned, already knowing the answer.

"This" she whispered as she kissed the living daylights out of Maybeck. She'd never kissed him like that before so obviously he was taken by surprise. She had one hand behind his neck and the other searching for his, which she found and placed it around her waist. He gently squeezed her there as his other hand made it's way to her neck, pulling her closer if it were at all possible.

"Ahem" a voice behind the couple said. They broke apart instantly and turned to the direction the noise came from. The sales clerk in charge of the dressing room Charlene had been trying on her graduation dress.

"I'm going to have to ask you to refrain from your current activities and leave the dressing room as soon as you can" the clerk said in a snotty voice as she hurried out of the couples view.

"Well" Charlene replied, half giggling, still breathless from her previous escapade "it's like she's never seen a couple kiss before."

"What just happened?" Maybeck heaved a heavy sigh.

"Hmm?" Charlene asked, turning her attention back to her boyfriend "Oh honey I can't tell you that."

"But why not? It was a simple question" he gaped at her, wondering if what had just happened was real or not.

"Because…I have to show you" she said in her scary voice as she preformed a reprise for Maybeck on their encounter. Maybeck couldn't understand clearly what had gotten into his girlfriend. Sure, they'd kissed before, but never longer than a few seconds. It made him wonder if it was the whole graduating thing.

"Baby, listen" Maybeck pulled away "why now?"

"What do you mean?" Charlene asked.

Maybeck sighed. "Later."

…

"Ok, it's later, what's up Donnie?" Charlene asked once her and Maybeck were alone in his car, parked in the school parking lot.

"Remember when we first started going out?" he asked.

"Of course" Charlene looked down at her hands and smiled "it was prom night, a year in a half ago."

Maybeck sighed for the second time that day "you remembered" he grinned but showed a hint of disappointment.

"Of course I did. Why wouldn't I?" Charlene asked shockingly, scooting across the seat so she was beside him, holding his hand. Maybeck shrugged.

"What's all this about?"

"What happened in the dressing room…was that real?" he asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You've never been…I mean, you've never really…you know…kissed me like that before" Maybeck whispered as if still in a state of shock.

Charlene now understood. "Umm, I don't really know. I don't regret it."

"Well neither do I but it was so…different."

"Yea" Charlene giggled.

"I want you to know something" Maybeck said as he turned to face Charlene and looked her seriously in the eyes "I've never kissed a girl before you" he whispered even more quietly than he had before.

A ray of silence passed through the two. Charlene suddenly wondered if she'd gone too far.

"I guess I'm just confused by it all" Maybeck confessed, "It's all new to me."

"What is?" Charlene asked even though she knew what he was referring too. She was stalling.

"Just you, opening up your feelings like that. Charlene, nobody has ever wanted to be with me until you came along" he answered in more detail than Charlene expected. She could tell he was started to get emotional about it all.

"I…I'm sure that's not true…" Charlene said as she reached out and started massaging his shoulder and up into his neck.

"Yes it is Charlene!" Maybeck cried out, not meaning for his voice to crack.

Charlene could feel the tears start a steady stream down her face.

"I love you, I always will. It doesn't matter what happened in your past. You're in my life right now."

"I love you, so so much" Maybeck choked out "you're my life."

Charlene draped her legs over Maybeck's so she was sitting on his lap again. She placed her arms around his shoulders and put her forehead on his. Maybeck sniffed as Charlene wiped his eyes. She gently brushed her lips against his before looking him in the eye again.

"Now, where were we" Charlene smiled as she forcefully started kissing him like before in the way Maybeck was still getting used too. He caught on this time and returned the enthusiasm, forcing Charlene to be practically pushed into the steering wheel. Charlene giggled as best she could with Maybeck's mouth on hers as she realized he was started to get the hang of this.

Charlene's hand went up to Maybeck's head of hair and yanked on it in such a manor that translated in his head that he was suppose to stop, while she intended the total opposite.

"What…what's wrong?" gasped Charlene.

"Sorry, I thought that meant stop" Maybeck breathed.

"Not even close" Charlene said as she moved toward him, but not before Maybeck reached her lips first for she was no longer in control. The breathless noises that Charlene was making was driving him insane to the point of no return, but he knew, deep down inside, that they needed to take a few steps back.

"Charlene" Maybeck said in between kisses "Charlene."

"Baby, you're going to kill me" he chuckled. Charlene laid her head on his shoulder and placed a kiss there.

"Nah" she giggled and sighed "I'm here for you. Don't forget that when you're feeling down and alone."

"Same here" he replied as he rubbed her back in a soothing way.

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