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few layers between us, I could still feel all of him pressing into my center. The friction of it all was enough to make me hot. His hips picked up the pace as he buried his face in my neck.
     
    "Lex," he whispered harshly.
     
    And when he snaked his free hand down between us and touched me where I needed it most, I flew apart.
     
    I knew without a doubt that it would be Seth that I would give my virginity to. Maybe not tonight or even tomorrow, but eventually.
     
    And as I came down off my high and his lips stilled on my neck, I smiled.
     
    Because I couldn't imagine doing this with anyone else.
     
    "Lexi," he whispered, dropping a kiss on my forehead. "Lexi, I … "
     
    But I placed a finger over his lips. "Don't say you're sorry," I told him simply. "Because I'm not."
     
    He opened my mouth and caught my finger between his teeth in a playful bite. "I'm not either," Seth said once he'd released my finger.
     
    "Then what were you going to say?" I asked, confused about what he could say about what had just transpired between the two of us. We were definitely more than friends after that so any comment made in that direction wouldn't make sense either.
     
    "I was just going to tell you that I can't show you my underwear," he explained, grabbing my hands and lacing our fingers together. I shot him a confused look, but he answered before I could even form words. "I can't show it to you, because I'm not wearing any."
     
    five.
     
    And thus our routine was established. Practically every night Seth would climb through my window and leave the same way hours later. During the week he would bring me home or drop me off and on the weekends, we would 'bump' into one another at the bar or I'd stop over at their apartment to do 'laundry' when Rich was at work. Needless to say, I had plenty of clean clothes.
     
    Sarah and I would hang out practically every night and every night, I was practically bursting to tell her what was going on with Seth. I was so nervous about how she'd react, however, that I kept my mouth shut. Sarah wasn't a virgin, but she didn't spread her legs for just anyone. What would she think if she knew that Seth crept through my window every night for some action and then back out?
     
    Not that we'd had sex.
     
    We'd come close, but we'd always managed to back off. While it had been a line that I hadn't wanted to cross at first, I felt myself growing more and more frustrated whenever we would stop.
     
    Three weeks into our 'relationship,' I was doing laundry at Seth and Rich's apartment. If Rich thought it was strange how often I did laundry, then he didn't ask about it. I figured he must have thought I did my laundry and then went home.
     
    Rich had just left for work when Seth walked into the laundry room and wrapped his arms around me.
     
    "Hi love," he whispered, dropping a kiss on my forehead.
     
    "Hey." Hugging him back, I sighed. I hadn't ever thought I'd be in this position and now here I was.
     
    "I like you," he told me.
     
    I laughed. "I like you too."
     
    It was a quiet night. We had watched "Fight Club" with Rich before he'd gone to work and now my laundry was done. Which meant we had the whole night in front of us.
     
    "Want to go get ice cream?" he asked, swaying me back and forth in his arms.
     
    "Sure."
     
    We went to the local Dairy Queen, arguing along the way over the fact that I liked Edward Norton's portrayal of the main character in "Fight Club" more than Brad Pitt's. I argued that Edward played the narrator exactly how I'd pictured him when I'd read Chuck Palahniuk's novel, while Seth argued that Brad played the perfect psycho. Needless to say, by the time we got our ice cream and returned to Seth's car in the far corner of the parking lot, the argument still wasn't settled.
     
    "I can't believe that you think Edward Norton is the better of the two characters," Seth said, shaking his head. "At least Tyler Durden invented fight club. Norton's character doesn't even get a