Fear. Hate. Love

Hot and Bothered

~Hot And Bothered~

Hay's P.O.V:

I woke the next morning in my own bed and it felt great. I had the best night sleep I have had in months. I got up grabbed a fresh towel and headed to the bathroom to take a lovely long shower. I opened the bathroom door and got a face full of steam and an eye full of a naked Matt.

"Oh crap I'm so sorry." I stood there a long moment before my brain kicked in and I spun on my heels as he reached for a towel.

"Sorry I guess I forgot to lock the door."

"No, no I'm sorry I should have knocked. I'll come back later." And before he could say another word I was in my bedroom door closed behind me. My face was burning up and not just from the steam. Holy moly, the image of Matt's naked body replayed in my mind.

"Hay the bathroom is free." Matt's voice came through the door.

"Okay thanks." I called back. I fan myself with my hand as the image of Matts toned body dripping wet would not leave my mind. I grabbed my towel, I needed a cold shower to cool off.

Showered and dressed I head into the kitchen for some much needed coffee to remember we had no milk. Cursing I was about to exit the kitchen when I bumped into Matt.

"Hey." He greeted me. My cheeks instantly heated and I diverted his gaze.

"Hey, uh I'm going to pop out to get some coffee for everyone so-" I scooted past him.

"To late." Zee said walking into the lounge with four cups in her hands. "Here." She handed me a double mocha-chino. "A plain coffee for you Mr Tuck and For lazy bones Jay a whipped cream cappuccino."

"I heard that." Jay said entering the room while rubbing his tired eyes.

"Thanks." I said and took a seat at the table, everyone followed suit and we got chatting about the day's plans.

"Well we need to try get laundry done before we shoot off again so I will do a load now hang it up. We should get two loads out to dry and over the next day or two we should manage the rest with the drier." Zee said getting to her feet and doing just that.

"once they are out to dry I want to go into town, the Christmas fair is in town and I also need to do a bit of gift shopping."

"Me too." Zee second my plan. Jay and Matt agreed. So once we were all caffeinated and the washing was out to dry I grabbed my car keys announcing I was driving. We couldn't drive all the way into the town centre as the roads were closed off for the fair so we parked a few streets away and walked the rest of the way.

Instantly something caught my eye. It was a huge Simba teddy it would come to my knee easily.

"I need to win him." I said hurrying to the test your strength game. I paid the cost of three tries and lifted the hammer. Which was a struggle within itself. I smashed it down on the thing and it barely made it half way. The second time I managed to get slightly higher but nowhere near the top.

"Can I try?" Matt asked.

"Be my guest, you can't suck anymore than I am." Matt took the hammer from me and with one fell smack we heard the ting of the bell.

"Simba please." I said to the guy and he handed me Simba. I hugged Matt then a flash of his dripping wet body entered my mind and my cheeks flared red.

"Thanks." I pulled away from the hug awkwardly.

"No problem."

"shit now I have to-"

"here, i'll run back to the car with him."

"Put him in the trunk so no one will see him and try to steal him okay?" I said handing Matt simba and my car keys."

"Yes Ma'am."

"Less of the Ma'am." I warned with a grin as he ran back toward the car.

"What's up with you?" Zee asked.

"Huh?"

"You've been acting weird around Matt all morning," She added

"She walked in on Matt this morning.... Naked." Jay informed her.

"He told you?"

"Girls are not the only ones who "Gossip" He used air quotes.

"Oh my god Hay, did you uh see, you know?" I nodded.

"Everything, I'm so embarrassed."

"Pfft these things happen, besides he was the naked one not you." Jay waved me off.

"I know I just feel awkward."

"It's a naked body, you're bound to see it at some point or other."

"Eh what, how do you figure that?" I asked with a hand on my hip as I wait for him to reply.

"I just mean you guys are getting close, you have been on a date right you like each other, i'm guessing sooner or later things might happen."

"Maybe..."

"Hey Matt tell her it's no big deal she saw you buck naked this morning." Jay called to an approaching Matt.

"Holy crap Jay shut up." I bury my face in my hands out of utter embarrassment.

"Dude really?" Matt pulled me aside and removed my hands from my face. "Is that why you have been awkward with me?"

"Well yeah."

"Why you embarrassed, it was my gorgeous body that was on show." It was then I realised I was not embarrassed about walking in on him but rather embarrassed about how it made me feel.

"Because- I liked what I saw." Matt said nothing and simply wrapped me up in a hug.

"What exactly did you see?"

"Everything." I flush making him chuckle.

"Well then I think you owe me."

"I'm not getting naked." I protested.

"Worth a try." He chuckled as we rejoined the others.

We wandered around the fair for a while looking at the stalls in case there was anything worth buying. We took part on some rides. But they were really designed for kids, no fun adult rides. We saw Santa but Zee and I agreed we were saving our Christmas list for the real Santa in Lapland. We bought some Christmas cookies and a few decorations that we wanted to take with us to decorate our cabin. We soon left the fair and hit the shopping centre where we all kind of split up so we could buy gifts without anyone seeing and we arranged to meet for lunch.