Alfie’s hands stayed firm on my waist as he deepened our kiss, my body now inbetween Alfie’s legs as we leaned against the counter top. All my doubts about Alfie were gone in that moment as I let our lips connect, nothing could distract me. Smiling into the kiss as it came to an end, I held my forehead against Alfie’s as we both let uncontrollable grins spread across our faces.
“I’ve wanted to do that for so long.”
Alfie spoke, a sense of relief in his voice whilst the smile didn’t leave his face. I couldn’t truthfully say that was what I had wanted, but in that moment I knew it was what I did so replied by placing another kiss on his already pursed lips. This kiss was more rushed and urgent yet just as powerful as my stomach began to flutter, feeling like a teenage girl having her first few kisses all over again. Hearing a rattle of the kitchen door handle, our kiss was short-lived as we shot apart before the mystery person outside the door entered the room. As the door opened to reveal Jim, Alfie had preoccupied himself by filling up a glass with water from the sink whilst I attempted to make myself look busy, once again trying to open the wine bottle I had attempted before Alfie entered the room.
“You guys alright, you’ve been gone a while?”
Jim inquired, heading to the cupboard to get some nibbles of some sort for his guests.
“Yeah I-”
“Yeah, I was just getting a glass of water…had one to many beers I think Jim”
Alfie had cut off my sentence joking around with Jim whilst making sure I didn’t embarrass myself as I tried to cover up my current flustered state. I was incredibly thankful to Alfie for this and gave him a warm smile as he headed out back into the Dining Room, stating he’d see us back in there.
“You sure, you’re alright Zoe?”
“Yeah I’m fine, why?” I spoke, a slight shaky laughter in my voice.
“It’s nothing, you just look abit red in the face…I suppose it is quite warm in here…do you want some cold water or anything?”
“Calm down Jim, I’m fine…I just can’t get this bloody wine bottle open!”
I threw the bottle down on the table, grumpy with myself that I hadn’t managed to get the damned thing open. Deciding then that I didn’t even really want any more wine, I headed back down the corridor to the Dining Room as Jim followed me out of the kitchen, turning the light off as he did so.
As soon as I re-entered the main room of the party, I looked up scanning the room and immediately caught Alfie’s eye contact and he raised his eyebrows at me (after his failed attempt to wink) as I took my seat next to him at the table, just as Tanya brought out the dessert of the meal. Tucking into the handmade cheesecake I had infront of me, I felt a soft brush again my lower thigh and looked down to find Alfie’s hand slowly finding its way along my thigh whilst he made small circular patterns with his finger tip. I chuckled to myself at the feeling of his finger against my exposed skin from my reasonably short dress before quickly realising I was drawing attention to myself and Alfie and moved the conversation onto the summer weddings again before any of the party could think anything of it. I also then shot Alfie a look telling him to remove his hand to which he eventually did leaving me feeling slightly disappointed as I was beginning to enjoy the secrecy of whatever this now was between me and Alfie.
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Alfie’s POV
After getting a late train back down to London, me and Zoe were finally back at the apartment I was currently renting. We were in the lift up to my fourth floor “home” as I looked over to Zoe in the opposite corner to me, her lips pursed as she rubbed her tired eyes whilst reminding me of Louise’s little girl Darcy. Zoe looked so cute when was tired.
As we reached my door, Zoe leant against the wall just to the side of it completely drained from her long day.
“Come on then, Mrs.” I spoke, taking both her hands in mine as I pulled into my apartment and into my bedroom through the first door on our left. As she gently pulled her hands from mine and draped herself down across onto my bed, I followed suit lying down next to her whilst my long legs fell off the edge of the bed due to our diagonal positioning. As Zoe perked up slightly, she propped herself up onto her elbows to look down over me before stating that she’d be back in a second and was going to get her pyjamas from the living room she had sleep in just the night before. I quickly jumped up, taking the opportunity for Zoe to wear my clothes…something I always found so cute on a girl, especially Zoe.
“It’s fine Zo, stay here…you can sleep in this, it’ll be like a dress on you” I stated, chuckling as the plain purple tee shirt I threw at her landed straight on her head.
“I’ll just go change in the bathroom then” she stated whilst placing a gentle peck on my now sulky lips.
“Why, do you have to tease me like that?!”
As I stripped down to my boxers, Zoe re-entered the room looking as cute as I had imagined in my top. As she curled up into my bed I headed into the bathroom to brush my teeth whilst she called back to me.
“Don’t be long, zoe is sleepyyyy” she wined in an abnormally high voice causing me to once again grin at just how cute she really was.
By the time I had returned Zoe was already falling into a deep sleep and I realised just how tired she really must have been. As I sunk into my bed next to her, she wriggled in closer to me as she snuggled herself into my chest. Loosely wrapping my arm around her waist, I used my free hand to remove a free stray hairs from her forehead and placing a soft kiss there. Wishing her a good night, I then myself fell asleep as I thought over just how grateful I was now that she was nearly mine, everything seemed so perfect.
