Over Me: Chapter 9

‘Wait…" I mumbled into her mouth using the last vestiges of my willpower to pull away, the look she gave me in response said ‘what-the-fuck-is-wrong-now?!’ Unfortunately, the words were already half-way out of my mouth.

"Are you absolutely sure this isn’t because of…?"

She stared at me like I was crazy.

"Oh-my-god-Dana…"

I rubbed the back of my lowered head, nervously.

"It’s-I mean-I don’t want things to get messed up again…"

She took a breath and stepped out of our embrace, "Oh-kay." One hand rubbed her forehead distractedly. "…Ok. You’re right. We still have a lot to work out-"

 As she continued I tried to keep myself focused on her voice and not her scantily-clad body . It didn’t work. I zoned back in just as she was saying.

"-have a shower or something. I’m going to try and get some work done."

I nodded, getting up to speed. "Alright."  She smiled. God, she was gorgeous. I must have been staring again because she put her hands on my shoulders and turned me towards the bathroom.

"Shower." She said softly, and I felt my stomach flutter as she looked at me affectionately. At least we weren’t arguing anymore. You did the right thing for once, Fairbanks.

I undressed in the bathroom and turned the shower to its coldest setting, wondering if it would have the desired effect. I had to suppress a girly scream as the icy water cascaded over me, making my teeth chatter.  Yeah I might be less horny but only because my nipples would have cracked off. Jeez!  Several minutes later, and at a warmer temperature, I was kinda enjoying soaping up, humming along to the radio. In fact I think I was enjoying the soap suds and slickness a little too much because soon I had to stop my hands lingering too long over certain areas. The image of Alice stripping down in front of me was temptingly lodged in my mind.

I got dressed again, in sweatpants and a tank top and was still towelling my hair dry when I walked into the lounge. Al was on the sofa, her laptop open next to her, head back, eyes closed and her face lightly flushed… as for her hands… he-looo, was she doing what I thought she was…?!  I dropped the towel and must have swallowed a little loudly as in the next instance she saw me and leapt about ten feet in the air.