As Max's words penetrated, Liz's head came up and she stared at him.
"I'm sorry I hurt you again. Liz. I didn't mean to. Everything I said and did tonight was the truth. It wasn't a lie to use you. All the drink did was make me say and do all I had always wanted to say and be with you, but had been too afraid to," he admitted huskily, and swallowed.
Liz choked on a sob and went over to stand in front of Max. "What are you saying, Max? I need to hear you say it sober," she met his eyes honestly, and calmly.
Max smiled and cupped her soft cheek with his big hand. "I need you in my life to keep me balanced, Liz. When I'm with you, when you are part of my life, I feel whole and happy, and safe. And I feel stronger. Like I can do anything if I have you with me. And I've loved you since the first time I laid eyes on you," he told her straight out.
Liz gasped and a tear escaped and rolled down her cheek, onto his hand.
Isabel and Maria could only stare at Max and Liz.
Alex moved next. He bent down in front of Isabel and took her hand gently. "Did you mean it? You want me in your life?" he had to hear her say it to him as well.
Isabel smiled brightly, knowing it would be okay. She nodded and sucked in a shaky breath. "Yes. I need you Alex. You make me feel safe. And and I think I'm in love with you," she admitted shyly.
Alex shook his head as if to clear it and to make sure he had heard right. Then he smiled at her when she laughed.
Maria looked around at the other two couples, and then at Michael. She was afraid. She didn't think Michael would admit what the others had admitted. She would have been shocked if he had, but she was so afraid that he would still reject her totally.
Michael saw the brave look on Maria's face as she stood up to him and waited. He knew she was waiting for him to deny his own feelings, and to laugh off all that serious stuff that the others had stated. But he couldn't. He felt exactly the way Isabel and Max had admitted they felt with their other half.
Michael swallowed. "Ditto," he said in a soft voice. He couldn't get anything else past his throat.
Maria looked stunned, then smiled. "What did you say?" she asked.
Michael rolled his eyes and gave her a half smile. "You heard me," he threw back.
Maria put her hands on her hips, her eyes twinkling. He was not going to get away with not saying anything. "What exactly are you dittoing?"
Michael swallowed and laughed. Maria was so beautiful and he loved the way she never backed down. She deserved to hear it. "Ditto that I need you. That you make me feel strong, and that I love you," he finally just said.
Maria had not really expected him to say all that, and her mouth fell open. She was speechless
Michael smirked. "Well, now I know how to shut her up," he said, looking around at the others.
That seemed to break the seriousness of the moment and they all laughed.
Then Max took Liz into his arms and cupped her face. "Forgive me?" he whispered.
Liz nodded and smiled. And then Max leaned down and took her mouth as he had done earlier. Showing her that he didn't have to be drunk to show her how much he loved her.
Isabel laughed at how happy Max and Michael looked, and turned as Alex touched her arm, and then he was kissing her as well.
"You want to shut me up, do you?" Maria teased, putting her hands on her hips.
Michael's eyes were blazing into hers with a mixture of love and happiness. "Yeah, but I think I have a better way," he said, and pulled her to him as she reached for him, and then they too were locked in each other's arms.
Isabel and Alex came up for air first and then Isabel laughed. "So what do we do now? Anyone want to play more Truth or Dare?" she teased.
Max and Michael lifted their heads, but kept their arms about the girls. "I think we've had enough of both tonight, don't you, Is?" Max threw her a half smile.
"You mean you don't want to watch any more of that skin flick, Max?" Michael teased.
Max groaned. "Not if I want to live through the night."
Liz giggled, then noticed as Max held her close, that he was hard again. She sucked in her breath. All of the night's events and the images on the screen flashed before her, and she swallowed. God, she wanted Max!
Her body moved into his of its own free will, and Max looked down at her with his eyes hot again.
"Max " Liz whispered, drowning in his blazing hot eyes.
"Yeah oh yeah " he swallowed and then grabbed her hand and started for the stairs.
"Max! Now you know mom didn't mean we could have THAT kind of a sleepover!" Isabel called out with a laugh.
"STUFF IT, IZZY!" Max called out hoarsely and Liz giggled as they ran up the stairs and the others heard the door to Max's room slam.
Isabel laughed again, but then turned back to Alex and saw his intent gaze. She sucked in her breath. Oh My God! Isabel thought. She felt her knees give out. To see Alex giving her such a look, she was breathless.
Alex lowered her to the couch with a confident grin, and followed her down. She'd never seen such a confident grin on Alex's face before. It was sexy! She thought.
Alex gently took Isabel's beautiful face into his hands, and softly placed a kiss on her parted, surprised lips.
"Isabel," was all he said, more like a sigh, and then he was kissing her with more passion.
Isabel sighed into Alex's mouth and wrapped her arms around him tightly.
Michael and Maria had been kissing again, but when they realized that they were still standing in the middle of the living room, they broke apart, and Michael looked around.
Then taking Maria's hand, he headed toward the Evans' finished basement. He and Max used to have sleepovers down there when they were younger. And he grinned as he remembered some of the fantasies they had talked about and how he now promised himself he would fulfill some of those tonight, with Maria.
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"Alex do you want to go up to my room?" Isabel asked between kisses.
Alex leaned up on an elbow and looked around. He could see the unsureness in Isabel's eyes, but the passion as well. He smiled gently and cupped her cheek again.
"Isabel. I want to get to know you. All of you, but we have time. I would like to do this right. I want to take you out on dates, and kiss you and make out with you in my car, and then stand under your porch light and kiss you good night. I want all of that first. I've fantasized about all those things with you Isabel And I want to do it all, but I want us to take our time and get to know each other and start at the beginning," he said seriously.
Isabel was touched. She felt her eyes tear up. Most of the guys she had dated she had had to peel off of her. Now she was with someone she thought she loved, and he wanted to get to know HER. Not just her body. "Alex what did I do to deserve you?" she swallowed.
He just shook his head, looking down at her with eyes filled with overwhelming love. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, Isabel Evans," he whispered and took her mouth again.
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Michael led Maria down the stairs and when they were in front of the couch, he swung her around and back into his arms.
Maria couldn't get enough of him. Her mind was spinning and her thoughts were jumbled, but one thing stood out. Michael had admitted he loved her! And in front of everyone! This kept swimming in her head. She kissed him back with all the love she had, and wrapped her arms around him, trying to get even closer to him.
Michael could feel Maria plastered completely to the front of him, and he growled at the feel of her heat against his arousal, and her little pointy nipples that were like two little spikes of heat against his own chest.
Then Michael led her to the couch, fell down on it and dragged Maria with him, until she was on top of him.
"Maria?" Michael asked, taking his lips from hers.
Maria couldn't stop kissing him. She kissed her way down his jaw and to his neck. "Yeah?" she answered distractedly.
"How are you?" he asked. "How was your day at school?"
Maria's head came up and met his serious eyes with her startled ones. "WHAT?" she asked. She was not sure she heard him right. Her own brain was foggy with passion and from wanting Michael.
"I said, how was your day?" he repeated calmly, holding her over him.
Then Maria saw the twinkle in his eyes and she gave a shout of laughter. She remembered asking him when they were making out in the storage room at school a few months ago, if they could do more than just make out. Did he care about her enough to talk to her as well?
"Michael," Maria said after she finally stopped laughing and looked at him seriously again.
"Maria?" he teased her back.
"Shut up," she said, and then it was his turn to laugh before they were kissing again with the same passion as before, but now with joy as well.
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After Max had let the door to his room slam shut with his kick, he fell onto the bed, still holding Liz in a kiss that had lasted all the way down the hall to his room.
Liz sighed into his deep wet hot kisses and clung to his strong body. Her world was spinning with the taste and feel of Max, but she held on tight and felt safe in his arms. Then she again became aware of the raging hard part of Max that was now throbbing against her leg, where he had slid one of his legs over hers.
Liz moaned. She had been dying of curiosity, and after that skin flick, she wanted answers to some of the questions that the girls had discussed earlier. And she also just wanted Max. All of Max. Her small hand reached down between their bodies and she finally cupped that hard flesh that had been burned into her bottom all night.
Max's head flew up and he gazed down at Liz with wild passion. "Liz baby, maybe we shouldn't," Max swallowed. Another minute and he wouldn't be able to think at all. He had to say it now. "I love you. That's enough," he whispered and looked down at her with softer eyes now.
"It would be enough just to hold you tonight. All night, in my arms," he admitted, and brushed a strand of her beautiful silky hair back from her face with his hand.
Liz knew he meant what he said. Max loved her and she knew she could stop him at any time. But she didn't want to. Max had been so cautious and reserved for so long now, that she didn't want to lose this moment. This night. She loved him and wanted Max. All of Max. From the minute he had connected with her and she'd seen into his soul, all those months ago, she had known that it would be Max. Only and forever Max.
"You're not chickening out are you, Evans?" she teased.
Max looked startled for a second, and then seeing her teasing eyes, he laughed. "Does this feel like a coward to you?" Max teased back, and pushed himself into her hand, which was still against his hard flesh.
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"Oooh no . that .ah feels hard and interesting and sooo good," Liz whispered and began to caress him though his black, now extremely tight jeans.
Max groaned again at the feel of Liz's hands exploring his sensitive flesh. He rolled over and sat up, removing Liz's cute little hand and kissing it as he smiled down at her.
"Believe me, there is no place I would rather these hands be right now, but it will be over before it begins if you keep that up," he grinned and his eyes warmed even more when he saw Liz blush.
Then he just looked at her, and a grin spread across his face.
"What?" Liz asked.
"You. In my bed. God! A dream come true," he swallowed.
Liz's own stomach clenched at the thought and then she scooted up on her knees in front of him and lifted his shirt over his head.
Max helped her and then could only stare when she lifted her own shirt over her head. He swallowed and sucked in his breath.
As she started to undo her bra, Max stopped her.
"No, let me," he said gruffly. And he ran his hands down her soft arms, then back up, then around her soft shoulders, and then down the front of her. His hands cupped her through her bra and he felt her nipples harden under his palms.
They both groaned and Liz pushed herself into Max's hands even more. Liz leaned back against Max's pillow and arched her back with pleasure.
Seeing Liz stretched out on his bed, her beautiful hair spread out on his pillow almost did him in. How many times had he pictured her like that, in his bed?
Max flipped open the front of her bra and peeled it off of her. Liz helped by lifting so he could completely get rid of it.
Max tossed the bra aside and groaned as he reached for her again. "Oh God, Liz! My beautiful, sexy Liz!" God, her nipples were large and pointing at him in arousal. He remembered what the guy had done in that film earlier, and how he had wanted to taste and explore Liz the same way. Stretching out next to her on his bed, Max hugged her close and taking one responsive nipple and rolling it between two fingers, to touch, experiment, and please, he brought the other one to his hot waiting mouth.
Liz gasped and arched again. She combed her fingers through Max's hair and then held him tightly against her, amazed at how it felt with Max sucking deeply on her.
Every time he sucked, Liz felt it to her core. Her panties were soaked through with arousal and her eyes were blurred. All she could do was coax him on with her cries and her hands keeping his head tight against her.
When Max switched breasts and clamped down gently but strongly on her other nipple, Liz bit her lip to keep from crying out. Her whole body was throbbing, as Max's hot wet mouth continued to suckle.
Just when she thought she couldn't take it any more, Max's head came up, and he slid up further on the bed, so that their chests were aligned, and he took her into his arms, groaning as he felt her now wet, hard nipples against his own chest.
"Liz. God, baby," he whispered and then he took her mouth again. At first he rubbed his lips gently against hers. Then he licked her lips with his. Outlining her already moist lips and making her moan for more. When her lips parted Max slid his tongue into her sweetness and covered her mouth completely with a deep hungry kiss. He dueled with her tongue, caressing it and stroking it with his own.
How did he become such a good kisser? Liz wondered as her head spun. She was gripping his strong bare shoulders and loving the feel of his solid chest muscles sliding against her sensitive nipples, and the taste of him as he devoured her mouth.
When she felt that mysterious bulge against her stomach, she couldn't help but want to get even closer to it. Liz arched her hips into Max, and threw a leg over his hip, to try to bring him closer.
Her own heat was flush against his muscular thigh, and Liz ached. She started a motion against his hard thigh, trying to ease the ache.
Max groaned at the feel of Liz trying to ease herself on his leg. His cute, sexy Liz. So sweet! So innocent, so completely his!
Max didn't stop kissing her, but reached between them to help ease her ache. He slid his large hot hand over her heat, through her jeans, and Liz gasped into his mouth and arched into his hand.
Realizing that it wasn't enough for either of them, Max reached down with his other hand, undid her jean snap, slid the zipper down, and pulled them down as Liz lifted her bottom up off the bed so he could get them off of her.
Then he released her mouth to peel her jeans down her sexy legs. He sucked in his breath at seeing Liz stretched out again, totally open to him, in only her little flowered bikini panties. Then he saw the dark wet spot on her panties and almost lost his control himself.
God! He had to taste her! Without thought, only feelings and emotions, Max dropped to between her legs and put his open mouth over her heat, through her panties.
Liz cried out and pushed her lower half up off the bed. Max went wild at her cry, and pulled the panties down and just stared at the soft black, wet curls, and her moist flesh, waiting for his touch.
Max made what sounded like a growl, and touched her with one shaky finger. He ran it lightly down the fold and to the moist opening.
When Liz cried out again, Max couldn't help but smile tightly with passion, and gently ease one finger into her waiting warmth.
Liz started moving as he finger slowly entered her, and her head rolled from side to side as she whimpered.
Max was amazed at how responsive Liz was. How he was able to make her go out of her mind with pleasure with just a touch. Then Max slid his finger in and out, following the movement of her hips.
Soon that wasn't enough either, and Liz sobbed his name. He knew what she wanted, but he wanted to savor this savor pleasing her and looking at her like this. He eased a second finger into her, and continued the in and out motion with her hips. Then when Max couldn't take it any longer, he bent lower and keeping his fingers inside her, he opened his mouth over the little nub that was peeking through her folds, and driving him crazy.
Liz cried out again, bit her lip, and bucked up once more, and then shuddered. She whispered his name hoarsely as she came with a sudden fierceness.
The feel of Max's big gentle fingers had her inching closer and closer to that peak, but when his hot mouth had covered the rest of her and sucked her nub into his hot mouth she flew apart.
Liz was sobbing and calling his name as the waves of pleasure rolled over her. She also felt like she was falling, and needed Max to hold on to her.
Max climbed back up over Liz, slid his arms around her knowing what she needed, and then covered her mouth again with his in a deep loving kiss.
"It's okay, Liz, it's okay, honey. God, I love you Liz!" he said in between kisses.
Liz just clung to Max and continued to sigh his name.
When she finally calmed, she met his warm, loving eyes and smiled, her own eyes blazing with love. He was so beautiful, leaning over her, so full of joy, at having pleasured her so completely.
Liz smiled and then grinned boldly as she sat up.
Max leaned back to let her sit up, and then he sucked in his own breath when Liz reached for his jeans button and zipper.
Max was ready to explode, so he helped her ease his tight jeans off, to release the rock hard arousal he had pressing up against them. He groaned as the pressure was released, then almost lost it when Liz, having taken his boxers down with his jeans, reached with her little hand, and closed around his long pulsing arousal.
Max's skin jumped and he bit his lip to keep from crying out loud. He didn't want any of the others to hear them. But GOD!!! That felt good. Liz's hands on the hardest and hottest part of him. He didn't think he was going to make it he started to move Liz's exploring hand away, but Liz then leaned down closer to him and cupped him underneath.
"Oh, Max " Liz sighed. "I I want " she swallowed.
Max swallowed too, and replied in a gravelly voice, "What Liz? What? Anything?" he answered.
Liz couldn't say it, so she showed him. She took him between her two hands and then leaned down to touch the silky moist tip of Max's arousal with her lips.
Max arched up and groaned aloud. He couldn't take it. He had been like this for too long, and now with Liz's soft, sweet lips where he had only dreamed, he exploded.
Liz was fascinated as she watched Max give himself up to her. She let him slide through her hands as his hips moved, and just watched with excitement and fascination.
Then Max was reaching for her and dragging her back up his body and covering her mouth once more.
"Ah God, Liz!" he whispered over and over in between kisses.
Liz was already wet and achy again. She slid a leg in between Max's hot, hard thighs, and pressed against his now much softer flesh. Only it didn't stay that way. The minute her heat came in contact with his flesh, it hardened instantly to full arousal, and shocked both of them.
No way! Max thought. Impossible! But then, this was Liz. His Liz. And he knew anything was possible.
"Max!" Liz smiled with pleasure and surprise.
"Only you, Liz, only for you," he smiled sexily and then leaned over her, rubbing his hard flesh, teasingly between her folds, as he had done with his fingers.
"Ooooooh . God, yes!!!" Liz cried out and bit her lip. "Max, please!" she sobbed again and raised her hips to his teasing heat.
Max reached over to his end table, and Liz saw him open the top draw and pull out a foil package.
Liz couldn't wait that long. She knew she was on the pill, and since neither of them had ever been with anyone before, they didn't have to worry about diseases.
"No, Max, it's okay, I'm on the pill. Please, let me feel you. All of you," she pleaded.
Then, giving up the fight, Max couldn't wait another second, and he slowly started sliding into Liz's softness.
He kept his eyes on her face, gauging her reaction and her pain to his large presence.
Liz bit her lip when he stretched her further. "Are you sure that that is going to fit?" she couldn't help but ask.
Max gave a sharp laugh and then gave her a big fast kiss on her lips. "I promise, Liz," he whispered, the love blazing in his eyes, as Liz looked back up at him with total trust.
When he reached her barrier he stopped. He held still, letting her get used to the stretching of her body. He could feel that she was not in pain, only slightly sore, and he gave her body time to stretch to his fit.
He looked down into her eyes, and their souls melded again. So perfect, Liz and Max thought together. Then they smiled as each others' thoughts echoed between them.
When Liz finally started to move, Max knew she was ready. He knew this would hurt her, and he hated that thought. He already knew he was going to take the pain away soon, even as he caused it. Reaching between them, he tried to make the pain as bearable as possible. He found her nub, and rubbed back and forth against it, and when Liz moaned, he pushed the rest of the way in, and swore, knowing there was no way to avoid hurting Liz.
Liz bit her lip, and swallowed. It did hurt, but only for a moment. Then it just felt full, and she realized Max was fully in her. Her wonderful, mysterious, sexy Max was filling her. She smiled and her eyes teared.
"Liz!" Max started to pull out, terrified at her tears.
"No! Max I'm not in pain, I'm wow Max, you're inside me!" she whispered in amazement.
Max realized Liz's tears where those of overwhelming emotion, and then he smiled and his own eyes teared up. "Pretty amazing, huh?" he whispered back, his eyes searching hers. "Do you know how much I love you, Liz?" he had to ask, as he swallowed with emotion.
Liz nodded, beyond words. Then she hugged him closer to her, and he gently eased himself down onto her more, but still taking a lot of his weight off of her with his elbows.
Their flush bodies felt so heavenly. Both just savored their joining. Heart, mind, soul and finally body. The circle was complete.
Then Max felt Liz clenched down on him, and he knew she was ready. He covered her mouth with his, and then slowly started a rhythm sliding in and out of her.
