The Hook-up

Chapter 19

The next afternoon Lauren drug herself into the apartment about to fall on the couch from all the work she was doing. The opened the door throwing her things on the couch not paying attention to it anyone was on the couch throwing her body on the couch feeling legs underneath her head. She opened her eyes seeing Bruno sitting on the couch. "What are you doing?" she asked him.

"Cait let me in." he smiled kissing her on the cheek.

"Brunnnoooo. I just want to sleeeepppp...." She said throwing herself back on his legs.

"He moved his hands to her legs starting to tickle them to get her up. "Come on. I wanna shop for the house."

"You what?" she shot up looking at him.

"Shop for the house. Come on. Let's go." He said taking her hand.

"Bruno...how is this going to be fun?" she asked him.

"We're gonna try the beds out." He winked at her.

"Oh god! Bruno!" she laughed yelling at Caitlin that she was leaving.

A few minutes later he turned down a familiar street making her laugh over their comfortable conversation they were having about Hawaii and his favorite foods.. "Are you serious? Ikea?" she asked him.

"Yeah. Why the hell not. It's a start" he said helping her get out of the car holding her hand as they walked in the door welcomes by an employee. She grabbed a bag looking at Bruno.

"Do you think a couch would fit in here?" she asked him.

"One for me, yeah." He laughed.

"Hey! Short jokes aren't funny!" she smiled at him taking his hand again walking through the store with him stopping every few steps to look at things. "Bruno..." she held up some bowls showing him the decorations on them. "I don't even know what style you like..."

"I don't like that." He told her pulling her back to the middle of the floor. "Ohhh...look. A couch." He said sitting down putting his feet on the table in front.

"Bruno! Be polite! It's not your house!" she exclaimed seeing people turn looking at them.

"Oh, you're right. It's not." He smiled pulling her close to him not caring who saw them. "What do you think?" he asked.

"I don't know. I see you in something like....." she walked a bit farther down the seating area to a deep brown leather couch. "This."

He sat down on the couch crossing his legs pondering the thought. "And you get two and put a big coffee table in the middle in front of the fire place. And they aren't too heavy....so they'd be easy to move if you need the space in the house...." She explained to him.

"I like them. And they match the orange that I already have." He said referring to the blankets scattered on the floor of his apartment.

"Yeah...I guess...." She said trying to forget about the tacky blankets pulling out her phone typing in the numbers to remember which ones to pick up.

"Come on Elle, let's go try out beds...." He said pulling her toward him making her laugh. As they turned the corner to the living areas they heard a loud boom and all the lights in the building go out. Making Lauren jump.

"Come on...now is our chance...." He said dragging her to a bedroom display area throwing her on the bed kissing her.

"You did not just plan this, Bruno Mars...." She smiled against his lips kissing him feeling his hands moving to her hair as the emergency lights came on in the main aisles ignoring the distant areas they were in.

"I really didn't." he said moving his hands to her sweater taking it off.

"You were serious, weren't you?" she said feeling her sweater fall seamlessly to the floor as she pulled off his jacket watching it fall next to her sweater. "Oh god...." She moaned feeling his hands along her thighs making her get even hotter than she already was. She quickly moved her hands to his pants undoing his belt moving to his buttons sliding his pants down near his ankles as he ripped her shirt off quickly. "We gotta do this fast...the lights are gonna come on any second." She whispered in his ear.

"Just cool it, darlin'." He whispered in her ear pushing himself as close to her as possible moving his hand to her mouth. "Shhh, baby....shhh..." he reassured her as he moved deeper inside her making her gasp for breath.

"Holy shit." She said loudly as her hair started flying either which way feeling him move her on top of him looking at her bare chest.

"Ride me." He demanded moving his hands to her hips holding her loosely. He watched her through the dark room as she closed her eyes moving him in the exact right place for her to throw her body back in ecstasy. He watched her bite her lip as he threw his own head back. "Woaaaahhhh." He sighed watching her fall on top of him. They heard a loud generator start to turn on the power near them and an intercom stating they were working on getting the lights back on. Lauren jumped up quickly grabbing her clothes throwing him his watching him get dressed quickly. He got dressed pulling up his pants as she put her hair back up in a braid right as the lights came back on. "Let's go home." He said pulling her away from the bed.

"But I liked that one....." she trailed off as they walked out of the store.