John grabbed my throat and I choked at the sudden lose of air. After about two second, his hand loosened its grip and I could tell a difference in his face. He moved his hand to the back of my neck and pulled me to him.

My heart raced when he kissed me like that night at the club. His other hand wrapped around my waist pulling my body closer to him. His lips traveled to my neck and I felt his hands reaching for the bottom of my shirt.

I pushed his hands down when they tried to lift my shirt. John pulled away, moving me from my position in front of the door and walked out. I placed my hand over my mouth, and took a deep breath. After a few seconds I left the room and went in search of Jeff.

"There she is!" He exclaimed when I finally find him, rushing up to me and giving me a hug with a kiss on the cheek. "So, what time should I be expecting you tonight?"

"Um, tomorrow… Look, Candice saw me this morning so I think it'll be better if I stay in my own room for a few nights. Throw any thoughts about me and you out the window." I answered, my voice showing my disappointment.

"Oh, well, I guess that's cool. I mean I wouldn't want anyone getting the wrong idea about what we were doing." He agreed.

That night I went back to sleeping in the room adjoined with John's. I felt odd getting into bed alone. It had been a few nights since I slept alone and I personally preferred having company than being alone. Little did I know that I was going to have company before the night was over.

Around two o'clock the door opened and John stepped into my room. I was still awake. Unable to sleep all by my lonesome.

"Michelle, are you awake?"

"Yea, I'm awake. What do you want? Coffee?" I grumbled, sitting up in bed.

"No, um, about what happened earlier, when I kissed you. I didn't want to. It was just either that or kill you and I think you'd prefer being alive than dead."

"I would've preferred if you kept your hands off of me." I shot back, in no mood for his false niceness.

"Well, that wasn't one of your options." He joked, sitting down on the bed next to me.

"Why are you like that?" I asked, sitting up, instantly waiting for the answer to my question.

"Like what?" He questioned me back.

"Nice to me sometimes but then other times, you're choking me and trying to take things too far."

"Well, I like to push my limits."

"Pushing limits is one thing. I can deal with a little push, but you straight speed by them going 100. It's why I don't want to be around you. I never know how far you're going to push it."

"I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't mean those nasty things I said to you. About you being too immature to handle a casual relationship. That was out of line and apparently not true."

"Not true? How do you figure?"

"I'm not stupid. I know why you've been staying in Jeff's hotel room. I mean, hey, if you like that kind of guy that's your prerogative."

I put my hand on John's forearm to get him to stop talking and draw his attention to me. "I'm not sleeping with Jeff. John the reason that I'm not into casual relationships is because I'm a virgin. I don't have relations like that at all. I was just staying with Jeff cause I didn't feel comfortable being this close to you."

John turned his body a little bit further away from me. "I really freaked you out that much…?"

"No," I began, sitting up more, and moving closer to the champion, "That's how much you turn me on."

He looked up at my face, with a sly smile. I bit my lip, pulling my legs underneath me to sit on my knees and I leaned forward, kissing John. He pulled me into his lap, wrapping his arms around my waist. I wrapped my arms around John's neck and he pulled me closer deepening our kisses.

One of his hands feel to my thigh and he pulled back from my face, looking down. "Okay, I'm thinking that you should put some pants or some shorts on before something happens that you're not going to like because you being in your panties gives me some naughty ideas."

I smiled, kissing him again. I let my lips barely touch his as I replied. "Think of it as an exercise in self control."

John bit his lower lip, letting out a little sound between a whimper and a moan. "What do I get if I complete the exercise successfully?"

I smirked, leaning into his ear, "If you can not push too far then you can sleep in here tonight and any night you want as long as you can keep up your control."

"But keeping up something else would be so much easier." I laughed at him, adjusting my position so that I was straddling him.

"How far is too far?"

"Hm, I think you're going to have to figure that out for yourself. You decide whether when I say no I'm being serious or just making you work for it."

"So, it's a guessing game and if I guess wrong you'll be very angry?"

"Pretty much." I answered and John flipped me onto my back and kissed my nose, shifting to lay by my side.

"Well, I'm not a very good guesser so I'll just be good and be able to sleep with you."

"Oh, that's no fun for me." I laughed, cuddling up beside him, laying down on his chest.

"Michelle? I think there's something I should tell you but I don't know how you're going to react to hearing it."

I lifted my head looking at his face. "John you tried to rape me I don't think that there's much you could say that would upset me."

"I don't know if it would upset you. I don't know what you would think and that's why I don't want to say it. I want to know that you're going to say it back."

"Say it back? What are you trying to tell me that you love me?"

"No, not that I love you but that I think I'm falling in love with you."