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but I owed it to myself to see where this could go.
     
    Around one that night, I heard the familiar scraping outside my bedroom window and smiled softly to myself. Two nights in a row I would be receiving a visit. Who knew?
     
    After Seth had dropped me off at my house that afternoon, he'd given me a kiss on the cheek before he'd left. The rest of our conversation on the way home had been about work and lunch with his mother. Typical conversation, stunted by the tension flowing between us. I wanted nothing more than to kiss him senseless, and from the look in his eyes, I knew he felt the same way.
     
    So when he pulled himself through my window moments later, I sat up in bed with a grin. It seemed that now we could pick things up where we'd left them.
     
    Seth didn't say a word as he crossed my carpet and then sat next to me on my bed. Taking my face softly in his hands, he gave me a grin, before closing the distance and meeting my lips with his own. The chill that I had felt the night before returned and I knew in an instant that this wasn't just a passing lust for either one of us. This had been building up for years and now that we were acting on it, it only seemed to be getting stronger.
     
    All day I'd thought about this, about Seth.
     
    Returning his kiss almost feverishly, I threaded my fingers through his hair. Boldly, Seth laid me back down in my bed as he settled himself above me, his kiss only getting bolder. I couldn't fight off the moan that escaped me and slowly, Seth pulled his face away from mine as he released a small laugh.
     
    "Hi," he whispered, his forehead touching mine, one hand playing with my hair, the other on my side.
     
    "Hi," I whispered back, staring at his face.
     
    "I came back," he said, as if he were trying to explain why he'd come with a simple statement.
     
    "I'm glad you did," I returned simply. We stared at one another for a moment, before I leaned forward and brushed my lips against his cheek. "I'm so glad you did."
     
    His hands moved to my shoulders, before they started slowly sliding their way downward. When his fingertips touched my bare thighs, I felt the nerves settle into my stomach again. "You're wearing the same thing to bed," he commented, a devilish grin on his face.
     
    "It's still hot out," I teased. "Don't think I keep doing this for you."
     
    Which wasn't really true.
     
    When I got ready for bed that night, I had thought about wearing shorts. But I figured that Seth had already seen me in my underwear – twice – and really wasn't feeling all that self-conscious about it. If he hadn't liked it, he would have already run for the hills.
     
    His hands moved back over my hips slowly. "There are bows on your underwear," he commented, as if he'd never seen a pair of girl's underwear before. "Bows."
     
    I had to laugh at him. "Are you jealous that you can't wear such fun underwear?"
     
    He grunted. "How do you know that mine don't have bows on them too? Or sequins?" The vision of Seth wearing such underwear made me burst into laughter. "Hey," he said, poking me in the side. "Stop laughing."
     
    "You would never wear anything like that," I said to him.
     
    "Wanna bet?" he asked, his eyes lighting up.
     
    "Sure" But before I could set the stakes, his lips landed on mine again.
     
    This time, his hands grew more possessive as they landed anywhere that my skin was bare. When he slid one hand upwards and caught my tank top, his other hand quickly went to meet the bare skin. I could feel the flames erupt from every one of his fingers. Sinking further into his kiss, I moved so that my legs could wrap around him.
     
    "Lexi," he groaned. This move – rather strategic on my end – had brought a rather intimate area of his body into contact with one of mine. And let's just say, whatever I was doing, I was doing it right.
     
    "What?" I asked innocently, wrapping my legs tighter around him.
     
    "Stop teasing me," he groaned, dropping a kiss on my ear.
     
    "I don't