Welcome to New Haven (52 page)

He held his arms open and wrapped them around her.
 
Holly wrapped her arms around his waist, and she could feel the firmness of his muscles through his shirt. She moaned lightly.
 

“Oh ground please swallow me up.” She groaned into his chest.
 
Alex chuckled again. “It’s really not funny.” She said as she was embarrassed for the second time that day but thinking out loud.
 

“I’m just glad I know, well kind of know, what you’re thinking.” He said.
 

“Glad?! It’s embarrassing!” She said, still hiding her flaming face.
 

Alex pulled back so he could look at her, keeping his arms tight around her body.
 

“I’m glad because whenever you lost your voice, I thought you didn’t like me and didn’t want to talk to me. I’m glad to know it’s because you did.”
 

“You really thought I didn’t like you?” Holly asked. She lost her voice because she was stunned by his beauty.
   

“Yeah.” He said, sheepishly.
 

“I thought you well knew and were just being nice to me because of Dev.” She said.
 

“Nope.” He said with a twinkle in his eyes. “You drove me crazy from the second we met.” Holly gasped, and as she did Alex kissed her.
 
Stroking his tongue into her mouth, his arms tightening around her.
 
One on her lower back, the other angled up with his fingers finding the back of her head, threading into her hair.
 

Holly’s hands loosened from around his waist, and she moved them steadily up, over his stomach, his chest, and around his neck. Finally stopping when her fingers tangled into his hair.
 

His sexy, dark hair…

“Hey break it up, you two!” They heard the coach yell.
 
They pulled apart slightly, breaking their kiss.
 

“Save that for
after
school. Now get moving!”
 

“I think we need to remember where we are in future. Alex laughed.
 

“That’d be an idea.” Giggled Holly.

They released each other and began to walk around the track, hand-in-hand.
 

“So…” Holly began. “I was going to tell you about Kyle.”
 

“Yes you were.”
 

“He likes Kayla.
 
I don’t know why he won’t tell her.”
 
Alex made a face that said ‘seriously?’.
 

“Ok, I get it, but when we were at Riss’, he kept looking at her and hovering around her.”
 

“I saw that too. I’m guessing he’s been like that for a while.” Alex said.
 

“He has?”
 

“Yeah. As long as Riss and Ryan. Whenever we bring it up, he dismisses it.”
 

“That’s not good.” She said, sadly. Holly knew that the others had known each other for years.
 
If Kyle had liked Kayla for as long as Ryan had liked Riss…that couldn’t feel good for him.
 

Holly knew that Kayla thought Kyle was cute. She’d admitted it when they’d gone over to her house for manicures the first week.
 

“No it isn’t. So tell me about your ‘scene’.” Alex said.
 

“Are you really sure you wanna know?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.
 

“Yeah. I need to prepare myself if I become the butt of the joke.”
 

“Well ok.” Holly said nervously. She began to tell Alex the shameful story…
 

“Me, Em, my Mum, and her friend Sarah were out shopping at the supermarket.
 
We went to the medicines aisle to get some painkillers.
 
Anyway, my Mum suddenly shouts ‘Hey Sarah! They’ve got the blueberry flavoured condoms you’ve been after!’”
 

Alex’s eyes widened and his mouth popped open.
 

“Oh it gets worse.” Said Holly. “So Sarah says ’No it was pineapple I wanted, but extra large.’ My Mum kicked it up a notch by saying, ‘But these are ribbed
and
flavoured.
 
You can’t get better than that!’ Our Em was horrified, and she was trying to walk away with me and then Sarah said ‘Em don’t you want to stock up too? There’s some tinglers there.’ Well, my Mum cracked up, Em and I were trying to run away without anybody noticing us.”
 

Alex looked beyond shocked.
 

“How old were you?”
 
“I was almost fifteen and Em was twenty.
 
That’s why nothing was said to me… until yesterday.”
 

“That’s awful.” Alex said whilst trying not to laugh.
 

“Yes, well, she hasn’t had her fix lately so I’m expecting an all out embarrassment attack.”
 

“I wouldn’t worry.” He said confidently.
 

“No?”
 

“No. Now we can be prepared.
 
We know it’s coming, so don’t rise to it.
 
Fight back instead.”

Holly smiled mischievously.
 

“A counter attack. I like it.”

As they walked along, Holly spotted Miss. Delaney walking towards the main building. She still didn’t know what Alex had said to her the day she was sent out of the room.

The Phys.Ed building and track were located at the rear of the school in a separate structure.
 
The languages classes were to the back of the main building off one of the wings, in an ‘L’ shape. To get to the front of the building, it was the norm to cut across the courtyard or ‘recess’ area.

“When I had the run in with her…” Holly said, gesturing to Delaney.
 
“What did you say to her?”
 
Holly noticed that Alex’s face flushed slightly.
 
His flawless olive skin, tinted pink.
 

“Um…I said that if she ever treats you that way again I will, personally, have her suspended and I’ll tell the principal everything.”
   

“What happened? Did she do something to you?” asked Holly.
 
Her anger rising at the thought of this woman doing anything to Alex.
 

My Alex
.

“No.” He said and Holly felt relieved. “But I saw her doing something to someone else.”
 

“What?!” Holly almost snorted.
 

“Last year…” He said and looked around to make sure nobody was within earshot “…One of the seniors, Callum Jones, was taking Delaney’s Spanish class to gain the extra credits he needed because of some sports scholarship.
 
Anyway, I was walking down the hallway and I was trying to hide from Stacey.” Holly’s anger flared again at the mention of her name. “I tried the door to one of the storerooms near the Spanish class and there was Delaney on her knees… and she wasn’t praying.” He said with his eyebrows lifted.

Holly was shocked.
 

“Callum and Delaney?” Alex nodded his head.
 
“Oh my God! What happened then?” she asked.
 

“Callum begged me not to say anything, because he could lose his scholarship.
 
He told me he was using Delaney to get extra marks, and she didn’t mind at all.”
 

 
“So he willingly went with a teacher?” Holly asked, incredulously.
 

“Yeah. Now he’s in college with his scholarship, but she could still get suspended, or even fired over it.
 
It’ll also be on her permanent record.”
 

“That’s just horrible.” Said Holly.
 
Disgusted that a teacher wold abuse their position of trust.
 

“I’d never mentioned it again until I saw you outside her room.
 
When I saw how she was ‘teaching’ you I got angry, but I didn’t want to drag you into it.
 
That’s why I spoke in Spanish to her.”
 

Holly smiled, her heart warming.
 

“You stuck up for me.”
 
She said as she beamed at him.
 

“Of course. I couldn’t let her get way with acting like that to my girl.” Alex stopped walking and held Holly’s other hand too. As they faced each other he leant down and kissed her softly then rested his forehead against hers.
 

“I
really
like you Holly.” He said in an almost whisper.
 

“I really like you too.” She replied.
 

“That’s a relief.” He chuckled.
 
He straightened up, and they carried on walking. “So tonight.” He said. “Anywhere in particular you want to go?”
 

“To be perfectly honest, I have no idea. Anywhere there aren’t many people… Just in case.” She said shyly as he grinned.
 

“I hear ya.”
 

They both laughed at their earlier ‘scene’. The coach had gotten a good look at them locking lips.

Alex was having the best phys.ed class of his life! He was on the track with Holly.
 
Ok, they were walking instead of running but they were actually spending time alone and talking! Listening to her talk about her Mum’s outburst at the store had been funny.
 
Shocking, but funny.
 

He’d taken in every detail of Holly’s face as she told him about it.
 
The way she would blink quickly when the details got a little too much, the way her eyes would widen and she shook her head as if even she couldn’t believe what she was saying.
 

He’d fought himself with the need to touch her, kiss her… He wanted to listen to her but her lips were calling out to him.
 
Her whole body was calling out to him.
 
He’d never felt such desire in his life.

The need for one person.

The need so intense it was in every breath he took.
 
The way Holly looked at him; he could see she felt it too. Like she was stopping herself from doing something.
 
She would look at him, take a deep breath and her fists would clench.

When he’d thought it was because she didn’t like him, which he now knew was stupid, he would feel bad.
 
But, because she did…the feeling intensified and spread through his entire being in huge waves and settling, mostly, in the southern area that got uncomfortable within their confines of fabric.
 

“Oh I forgot to mention.” He said.
 
He was feeling a little braver now.
 
Seeing Holly had been checking him out earlier and he didn’t think she would mind if she knew he was…
 

“What?” she asked, looking up at him with her big green eyes.
 

Alex swallowed before grinning.
 

“You may wear a loose T-shirt, but
I
know what’s underneath.
 
I could feel it.”
 
He waggled his eyebrows and ran off.
 

“Hey!” Holly shouted in surprise.
 

Alex was laughing as he ran.
 
Holly tried to catch him, but he was too fast.

Finally, he slowed but Holly didn’t.
 
She ran at him and jumped on his back.
 

“Hey!” he laughed as reached around to the side to grab her arms.
 

“Aagh!” She squealed as he pulled her to the floor. He lowered himself enough so that she wasn’t hurt when she landed.
 
Alex quickly pinned her arms down.
 

“You’re scarily good at that.” Holly panted.
 

“I’m used to being ambushed by Dev.” He said as he placed his knees either side of her legs.
 
Alex looked down at her body.
 
Her loose T-shirt, now clinging to her breasts, the material settling on her toned stomach. Alex’s heart was thumping in his chest like a jackhammer.

His body tensed, and he was… hard.

Holly watched Alex as his eyes were roaming over her body, and she liked it.
 
She’d always worn baggy clothing because she felt uncomfortable when people looked at her.
 
But when Alex did, it made her hot.
 

She could feel the tightening of her nipples and her body begging for more than a glance.
 
Her hips seemed to want to lift off the floor to make contact, and she was using all of her control to keep them steady.

Holly licked her lips and swallowed hard, as Alex looked into her eyes.
 
His pupils were so huge; his eyes were darker than before.
 

“I… Um… think I should get up.” He said before he swallowed. Alex moved off of Holly and sat on the floor.
 
His arms resting atop his bent knees.
 
He had his hands curled over each other with his mouth resting against them.
 

“Are you ok?” Holly asked with concern…and raging hormones.
 

Alex looked embarrassed.
 

“I just need a minute.” He said.
 
“And a cold shower, maybe an ice bath.”
 

“Ohhh.” Said Holly with recognition and a blush.

I did that
!

Her lady parts did a happy dance.

“You two are supposed to be exercising!” The coach said as he appeared.
 

“Cramp.” Said Holly. “And I have a stitch.”
 

“Well ok, but get back to it real soon. Class is almost over.” He said.
 

“Will do.” Holly replied.

“That could have been embarrassing, well, more than it already is.” Alex mumbled.
 

“It’s nice to see it’s not just me.” Holly said, happily.
 

“What do you mean?”
 

“I’m always embarrassing myself, and I’ve not seen it happen to you until now.” She said with a smirk.
 
“I was getting a little self-conscious.”