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Holly shook her head as if to say ‘not a word’.
 

“That’s like a brick!” Alex said as he sat down.

“They’re all numbered. That’s a five.” Said Holly as she looked at the chart.
 

“That means it’s really firm. I think mine’s a three.”

Alex grinned, and his eyes twinkled wickedly.

“What?” she asked. A little wary of what he would say. Alex looked around and Ben was reading a poster about orthopaedic mattresses, and he turned back to Holly.
 

“I’d say more like a four, and that’s perfect.” He said, glancing down towards her rear.
 

“Oh my God, Alex!” She squealed and he threw his head back and laughed.
 

“Something funny?” Ben asked as he turned to see what had happened.
 
Holly had her hands on her cheeks in shame.
 

“Alex thinks he’s hilarious.” She scowled, but couldn’t stop her smile breaking through.

“Hey guys, there are two’s and three’s over here. They’re so comfy I might have to change my mattress to one of them. Holly saw Ben run his hand through his hair and over his face before looking away.

Alex sat and then lay on one of them and patted the space next to him for Holly.
 

She nervously lay down next to Alex, and he turned on his side, facing her.

It felt so right seeing her there, next to him.
 
Like it was meant to be. Like his whole existence only mattered with her.
 
He reached over and stroked her cheek with the back of his hand.

Holly turned on her side to face Alex and took his hand with her own.

“Do you like this one?” she asked gently. She would need to get up soon. She had an urge to straddle him and kiss him like he was the only thing keeping her alive. She wanted to rip the shirt off of him and lick his bare torso.

Remove his pants and…
 

”You’re so beautiful” He said, bringing her back to reality and out of her lustful daydream. “They’re all perfect with you.” He moved to kiss her.
 

“Ahem. Not the time and
certainly
not the place guys.” Said Dev.
 

Holly was shaking she was so nervous!

Lying on a bed, next to Alex, was doing crazy things to her body. In her room, they’d gotten a little hot and heavy, but that was behind closed doors. But even in the bed store, in public, she was having to restrain herself.
 

“This one’s perfect.” Said Alex.

He’d picked a three, which was right in the middle and felt like Holly’s bed.
 

“I want the same as you” He said, coming in close to Holly and holding her around the waist. “That way, it’s like I’m with you even when you’re not there.”
 

Holly’s eyes filled with tears.

“Babe…What’s wrong? I won’t get them if it upsets you.” Alex was so worried that Holly didn’t want him to have the same as her, whether that was too much or that
he
looked like a crazy person now.
 

“No. I want you to. Definitely.
 
It’s just…” Holly put her hand over her mouth as tears flowed down her face.
 

“Shit! Holly…” He said.
 

“Oh my God! What’s happened?” Asked Dev.
 

“I’m not sure yet.” Said Alex.
 
“I need to get her outside for some air.
 

“Dev.” Holly gasped.
 

“Yeah honey?” Dev replied.
 

“Get the bed…for Alex…” She said as her breath hitched.
 
Dev took the card from Alex and the purchase slips from the end of the bed frame and mattress, to give to the cashier.
 

“Ben, stay with Dev.” Alex said.
 

“No problem.” He replied as if that’s what he was going to do anyway.
 

Alex took Holly outside and got her to the car.
 
He thought she was going to have a panic attack.
 
They got in the back seat, and he saw the tears were still rolling down her cheeks.

“Oh my God, baby, what’s wrong?” He asked gently as he tried to wipe her tears.
 

“Nothing.” She replied as she steadied her breathing. “Nothing’s wrong. It’s just…”
 

Alex waited for her to finish, worry filling him, and Holly took a deep breath before she continued.
 

“…It’s just, you’re so perfect. You say nice stuff to me, all of the time. You make me feel like I’m the most precious thing in the world to you, and then you go and do
that
too. I just got a bit emotional. I’m sorry if I freaked you out.” She said, sniffling.

“You had me worried.” He said in relief. “And, you
are
the most precious thing in the world to me. I say that stuff because I want to and that’s how you make
me
feel too.
All
those things.” Alex took a quick breath and ran a hand through his hair.
 
“Look… I know we’ve only been together just two days, but Holly…I’ve loved you since we first met. I kinda freaked out in school when I realized too.
 
I had to leave.” He said, thinking back to the day in the gym when he left suddenly.
 

“That’s why you ran out that day? I thought you were sick?” Holly said in surprise.
 

“Yeah.” He said with a blush. “Love sick.”
 

“Wow.” She whispered. “At first, I thought it was just me.”
 

“You too?” He asked with a grin. He was so happy!
 

“Yes. I almost walked into you, and…I couldn’t speak.
God
that was embarrassing! It’s unbelievable to think I’ve only been able to talk to you for less than a week.”
 

“Why was that?” Alex already knew that Holly was nervous around him, Dev had told him, but there had seemed to be more to it than that.
 

“You’re going to laugh.”
 

“I won’t.” He said. Holly took a deep breath and licked her lips, and he gazed at her tongue as it travelled along the bottom edge.
 

“You remember me informing the class that I think you’re sexy, don’t you?” She asked with a raised eyebrow.
 

“How could I forget that? It was awesome!” He grinned, pleased that Holly had meant it too.
 

“Well, I had to stop myself blurting out the first thing that came to my mind.
 
It took a lot of control too. I’m a good girl, Alex. I never had thoughts like that before. You corrupted my mind.”

“Really?” Alex’s heart was racing more than ever. Just being near Holly had him on edge and now…

We’re in the car, in a parking lot, broad daylight
.

He was trying to remember that there were a lot of other people about who could see them.
 

“That first day, what had you thought?” He’d often wondered that when he’d mistakenly thought that Holly was, possibly, a foreign student and didn’t understand him.
 

“It’s embarrassing!” Holly said with her hands on her cheeks.
 

“I’ll tell you, if you tell me.” He said quietly.
 

“You swear?”
 

Alex put his hand on his chest and nodded.
 

“I swear.”
 

“Ok.
 
I thought…you were so…beautiful. Can guys be described as beautiful?
 
Anyway…” Holly shook her head. “You looked right at me, like you saw
into
me. I thought I was dreaming when I looked at your mouth, and I wanted to kiss you. I remember thinking ‘How the hell can somebody be so perfectly gorgeous?’ That’s when it registered that you’d spoken to me, and I got…well, embarrassed.”

“Wow!” He said, stunned at what Holly had just told him.

“I had
no
idea. So that was
every
time we crossed paths?”

“It kinda got worse every time.” Holly smiled shyly. “I actually
almost
told you to kiss me, but luckily the teacher showed up.”

“When was that?”

“Outside Delaney’s room.”

Alex’s eyes widened.

“Yeah that would’ve been creepy and shameful.” She said.

“I totally would have.”

“You would?” Now Holly looked surprised.

“Yes.I wanted to kiss you too. That first day I saw you walking towards me, I thought ‘
That
girl.
 
I want
her.’
I thought you were the most beautiful, perfect,
 
and sexy thing I had ever seen. I wanted to touch your face, and I had to put my hands in my pockets to stop myself.”

Holly’s eyes teared up again.

“See? You say the sweetest things.” Alex held her tight as she continued talking. “How can we feel like this? It’s insane! I don’t mean that in a bad way because, I like it. It feels…normal. Hell, I used to find myself turning towards you even
before
you walked in the door. Like I
knew
you were there.”
 

“And you say that
I
say the nicest things.”
He said into her ear. “It feels right to me too, babe. I feel like I’ve found my missing piece.”

Alex pulled back to look into Holly’s eyes and saw, nervousness.

“Alex…I wanted to tear your shirt off in there…”

“You’re so fucking sexy” He cut in and crashed his mouth to hers. He didn’t care that they were outside anymore.
 

Holly’s fingers flew to his hair that she loved so much as
 
she stroked her tongue into his mouth and then sucked his lower lip.
 
Running her tongue along the edge, like he’d done to her. Alex let out a sexy growl, and Holly tightened her grip on him as she pressed her knees together in attempt to stop the ache between her thighs.

“Alex!” she breathed as she released his lip. “I love you so much.”
 
She said.
 
Panting with the need to be closer to him.

“Holly…I love you too.” Alex’s voice was strained as if he could barely talk. He brought their lips together again, tasting her mouth, merging their tongues together in ecstasy.

His hand reached down to her ‘number four’ rear. Holly slid a hand to his chest and down his stomach, finding the hem of his T-shirt. Like earlier, her hand slipped underneath and caressed his smooth bare skin with her palm.
 
Her other hand joined the party and stroked his hard chest, rippling abs and round to his hard back.
 

“Mmmm” She moaned.

Alex gently pulled back from their kiss, keeping his hand firmly on her ass.
 

“Holly…” He said, their foreheads together.

“Football, baseball, cricket…”

There was a knock on the window.

Dev and Ben had come out of the store and Dev had knocked.

“Whoa, guys! You’ve steamed up the windows!” Said Ben.
 

“Holly, are you ok?” Dev asked as she opened the car door and got into the front passenger seat.
 

“Should I drive?” asked Ben with a smirk.
 

“Yeah, that’s probably best.” Said Alex.
 
There was
no
way he could get out of the car with a hard on like that.
 

“I’m fine.
 
I’m just a bit emotional.” Said Holly, to Dev.
 

“Awwww!” Said Dev, with the realisation that Alex’s sweet comment had set her off.
 

“Alex. I got the stuff you wanted. They’re both in stock and will be delivered tomorrow morning. I paid, well Dad paid, a bit more to get it then.”

“Thanks Dev.”

Alex took Holly’s hand and held tightly. He wanted to feel even closer to her. So, as he had sat to her right, he held her right hand in his right as he rested his left hand on her right thigh and lightly squeezed.
 

Holly looked into his perfect chocolate button, thickly lashed eyes and let go of his hand.
 
His brow creased a little until she dropped her right hand to his left thigh.
 
She reached over with her left, taking his right hand. She began to stroke towards the inner part of his thigh, looking down in time to see a ‘twitch’ in the bulge of his jeans.

She smiled, mischievously, at him until he moved
his
hand to
her
inner thigh too. She had to stop herself from gasping out loud.

Holly was filled with need.

The need for Alex to do more.

To move his hands, to where she needed him the most.

She didn’t know where to
first
.

She felt it all over…

Alex noticed Holly fidgeting, slightly, in her seat. He was uncomfortable too.
 

His pants were too tight, he felt hot all over, his heart pounding in his chest.
 

He wanted Holly so bad it physically hurt.

As they saw each other’s situation, they slowly removed their hands from their thighs.
 
Simple hand holding would have to do.

On the ride home, Holly rested her head on Alex’s shoulder and he rested his head on top of hers.

“Riss and Ryan have a date tonight.” Said Dev, breaking the silence.
 

“Yeah?” asked Holly.
 

”Yeah. She texted me when we were at the cashier’s desk. Seeing you two getting down and dirty in the back seat kind of made me forget about it.” She said and waggled her eyebrows at them.
 

“No we weren’t!” Said Holly. “Don’t exaggerate, Dev.”
 

“Exaggerate? Isn’t that
another
interrupted episode today?” She giggled.
 

“Dev.” Alex said in a warning tone.
 

“It’s ok, man.” Said Ben.

“I totally get it. Dev, you don’t need to try to embarrass them. They’re not gonna have sex in the car.”
 

“Oh my God.” Said Holly, putting her hand over her face as it flamed.