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By mutual agreement we'd decided to go back to Lorraine's house, I'm not sure why. It was so beautiful, everything about it just screamed money. I think I was being a little too overcautious when it came to not touching, marking, or breaking anything because Lorraine decided that she needed to say something of it.

"Nik… Calm down. You can touch things you know? They won't break from your touch" she stated, laughing slightly. She must think I'm a right weirdo.

"Sorry, it's just.. God. Lo, your house is beautiful. Your carpet probably costs more than my entire house!"

"Are we really discussing my carpet? Come on, I want to show you my favourite room in this place."

She was smiling, I loved her smile. Taking my hand, she started pulling me towards the back of her house. Where has this suddenly confident Lorraine come from? I suddenly felt so.. Shy. It warmed my heart however, to see the effort she was suddenly making. I hoped it would last like this. Letting go of my hand, she opened the door into a room which was larger than my own living room, and it also contained a pool which was lit up by multi-coloured lighting. Lorraine dimmed the main light, and it looked even more beautiful. Grinning at me, she took my hand again and pulled me in, pushing me onto one of the sun loungers and lying on top of me, placing her unoccupied hand on my cheek. I smiled up at her, she really could do the whole 'emotional' thing when she tried. There was still a nagging thought in the back of my mind however; why was she suddenly like this? I didn't want her to be like this, then suddenly go back to her usual blunt, business like self. It worried me slightly, so I had to ask.

"What's up with you? Where has this sudden, confident Lorraine come from?" I asked softly, not wanting to come off to harsh, not wanting to scare her off. Feeling Lorraine move slightly, I placed my hand on her lower back, convincing her that I wasn't trying to be a cow, I was just curious. I wanted her to open up to me, to let me in.

"I just.. I want to make up for the way I've treated you recently. For how I cut everything off before. This is basically me trying to be more.. Human, I guess. It's not too full on is it?" she was worried now, it was actually pretty cute.

"No. God no Lo. I love it. I just.. I don't want you to be like this one minute, and a blunt, business bitch the next. I think it's really sweet that you're doing, well this.." I replied, rubbing her back slightly as I said it. She leaned her head closer to mine, her lips touching my cheek, moving closer to my ear. Her perfume was intoxicating, so I closed my eyes. I let her take control.

"I'm only a business bitch in school, Nik, but here.. Well.. I'm all yours." She whispered seductively into my ear. If I looked at her now, I know that she would be grinning. Moving my head to face her slightly, looking into her eyes, she started to move closer to me, so I met her halfway. Our lips meeting once again, but this time there would be no chance of anybody interrupting us.

Our kisses were getting more frantic, trying to make up for the time we'd lost, as Lorraine had quite rightly put it. Tongues battling for dominance, hands running up and down each other's bodies, trying to figure each other out. I placed my hand on the back of her neck, lingering over the zip of her dress, wondering if this was all happening too fast.

Pulling away slightly, I looked into her eyes. They were staring right back into mine, full of lust. The lighting in the room giving them a more mysterious look, instead of the usual blue colour that they were. Lips red from being on mine for so long, lipstick all smudged, with a large amount of it no doubt on my own lips. She bit her lip slightly, and cuddled up even closer to me.

"Nik..?"

"Yeah?"

"You ok?" she sounded worried, wanting to make sure I'm ok when I was just as worried about her.

"I was about to ask you the same thing.. I know this isn't the sort of thing you do.." I replied, wait, that makes me seem like someone who does this a lot! "Not that I do this all the time either.." I added quickly, before she could come up with a sarcastic response.

Kissing my neck softly, I could just about make out her quiet response.

"I'm fine, I'm happy."

"Me too.." I was more than happy in fact, but I wasn't about to go and scare her by telling her how happy she made me. I felt her lips curve into a smile on my neck, it felt so nice.

"We don't have to move anytime soon, do we Nik..?" I could tell her confidence had died down a little, but she was probably just tired, the same as me.

"Nah.. Unless you've got anywhere you need to be, Ms. Donnegan?" Laughing slightly at the use of her surname, I knew she hated it when I called her that outside of school. Feeling her poke my stomach softly, I started laughing again.

"Nope. I'm perfectly fine where I am, Ms. Boston. Two can play at that game, huh?" she was laughing too, making the situation even more perfect.

I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her even closer to me, and I closed my eyes, remembering one of her quotes from the walls of Waterloo Road – "You can start something great from virtually nothing." Could we be the something great from her quote? Only time will tell.