It's Only Murder

“Needless to say, we totally bombed on the project.” It was Alec Westfield’s voice behind me as I opened the door into third period.
“Alec,” I said breathlessly as I nudged open the door for him with my leg. He courteously took the heavy books from my hand and entered the classroom. “I’m so sorry, I was a little held up yesterday.”
“It’s cool, Ms. Barnes is giving us an extra day to finish it. This means we have to burn the midnight oil.”
“Yikes,” I laughed as I followed him to our lab table. His beautiful blue eyes sparkled iridescently against his sunkissed, yet fair skin. “So do you want to meet in the library?”
“Actually, my wrestling match ends at 7, and the library closes at six, so I was thinking you come over to my place?”
“You’re place…?” I narrowed my eyes, slightly grinning.
“Yeah, you know where I live right?”
“Oh yeah!” I said over exuberantly, “Of course I do.” That was absolutely horrible of me, he must have thought I was some horny, crazed stalker or something! Jesus, “I mean, not that I follow you home or anything, it’s just that one time you had a birthday party in the second grade and I remember it so well because you were wearing that cute Power Rangers suit..” and the hole just kept getting bigger and bigger.
“You remember that?” he grinned as he combed his fingers through his shaggy blond hair. “Man, those were the days.” he sighed as he thumped his pencil against one of my textbooks.
“Yeah,” I grinned.
“I can’t believe we’ve known each other for so long!” I noticed he hadn’t used the words “friends for so long“, because in reality we hadn’t spoken to each other much at all, even as children. I always admired him from afar; watching those other fair haired, blue eyed girls with their svelte bodies and cute giggles linking arms with him, stealing kisses behind the gym, doing god-knows-what in his truck. I desperately wanted to be them, but I knew my day would never come…
“Time flies,” I nodded as I strummed my fingers against the table.
I didn’t see his red mustang in the driveway when I arrived at his house on my bike at 7:40 p.m. I dropped my ten speed on his lawn and proceeded to knock on his front door. Ironically, the door wasn’t closed so when I went to knock it slightly creaked open.
“That’s weird,” I said aloud as I stepped into the cold, marble foyer. It was dark, save for a bit of light that came from the security camera monitors in every corner. Setting my best judgment aside, I began to ascend the staircase to the second floor where I knew his bedroom was. Memories of a blue carpet with G.I. Joe’s, Power Rangers, Ninja Turtle’s action figures scattered across it streamed through my mind. I had left his party in the second grade to roam around in his bedroom and had stolen one of the G.I.’s helmets. It currently resides in the keepsake box next to my bed. I laughed at how similar the situation felt, I felt like an intruder… but the door was left open? Perhaps, intentionally.

All of a sudden, from the corner of my eye I saw a sudden movement near the staircase, “Alec?” I whispered as I bent my head, but nobody seemed to be there. I walked down the hallway a little furter, shaking my disillusions from my head. A faint glow was coming from the crack in his door. Was he inside? If so, where was his car?
I pushed open his bedroom door slowly and stepped inside, the light from the bathroom was on and I can hear the pattering of water coming from inside. I know it must have been him taking a shower, and yet I didn’t stop my self from investigating. I stepped into the bathroom and looked around the misty haze unperturbed at the prospect of finding him completely…exposed.
I heard the water shut off as I stood there dumbfounded trying to make up the excuses for my presence.
The door to the shower stall opened, and he stepped out casually, wiping the water off his face on the towel he was about to wrap around himself. And thus, giving me a direct view of what I had wanted to see for these many years. And to my delight, it didn’t disappoint at all. His beautifully toned body only accented the girth and length of his manhood. I was stunned, to say the least.
I slowly tiptoed out of the bathroom as to not arouse any suspicion towards my better judgment.
“Alec, are you in there?” I croaked as far from the bathroom as I could get.
“Lara?” he asked quizzically, as he emerged with the steam from his bathroom. “What are you doing here?”
“Well, remember you told me to come over around seven thirty. I didn’t see your car in the driveway, and the door was open so I thought something had happened?”
“Which door did you come in through?” Alec asked as he ran his hand through his slick hair.
“The front door was completely open…”
“Are you serious? I could have sworn I had closed it.” he shrugged. “I let my friend borrow my car for a date, his was in the shop.”
“Oh, what an amicable friend,” I teased. “I’ll get out so you can get dressed,”
“Okay, I’ll be downstairs in a minute.”
I headed downstairs into the living room and waited for him on the couch. I couldn’t believe I had actually seen it. It was much thicker than what I saw of Adam’s, but a little shorter than his.
“Okay, so where shall we start?” he grinned as he entered the living room with his backpack and supplies.
“Let’s start with identifying the properties and organelles. Mitochondria…”
“Oh, the stuff that makes your fingers webbed and stuff huh?” Alec pointed out, “We should do something on that.”
“Good point,” I giggled as I began taking some notes down. “I think you may know this stuff better than I do.”
“Eh,” Alec shrugged, “I know a fair share.” I noticed he was wearing loose basketball shorts and a t-shirt. He looked incredibly sexy, I couldn’t get my mind to focus on anything else.
It had seemed like hours had passed when we had finally finished, It was almost eleven o’clock.
“Do you need to be home by any time?” Alec asked as he closed up the Biology book.
“No, why?”
“I was wondering if you wanted to go hottubbing?” he grinned.
“Haha, what?” I gasped, it was almost unbelievable, I couldn’t believe he was asking me this.
“You know, relax a bit. We’ve been working for like three hours straight, it’ll feel good.”
“I don’t have my bathing suit.” I laughed.
“I don’t either,” he said sensually, grinning. “I’m kidding. You can borrow one of my shirts and go in with that?”
“Would that work?”
“I don’t see why not?” he laughed.
“I guess?”
I gave me one of his old band shirts and I changed into it in the pool room, leaving all my clothes, including my undergarments in there. The shirt was fairly large and skimmed halfway down my thigh, so it was completely safe to wear.
“So you listen to The Smiths?” I grinned as I stepped into the hot tub where he was.
“Yeah,” he smirked, “Looks good on you.”
“Yeah, sure.” I rolled my eyes. I hadn’t taken into consideration that the water would be pulling on the shirt so I had to hold it down or risk exposing myself to him.
“Doesn’t the water feel good?” he mused as he searched my face for a reply.
“It does actually.” I agreed, “I haven’t been in one of these things since I was a kid.”
“Well, then maybe you should come over more often?” he chuckled, “Why don’t we do something totally unlike ourselves?”
“Like what?” I looked at him, grinning with curiousity.
“Have you ever skinny dipped?”
“No…”
“Do you want to?”
“I don’t know…” I stammered. Was he really asking me this? I mean sure, I wanted to see him naked again, but I didn’t want to show him my monstrosity of a body, not that I was obese or anything.
“Come on, live a little. I’ve always wanted to, but I haven’t trusted anybody to do it with.”
“You trust me?” I laughed.
“Yeah, we’ve known each other since we were babies. Granted, we don’t know each other as well as I’d like…” I couldn’t believe the words coming out of Alec Westfield’s mouth, I thought I was dreaming the whole thing.
“Yeah, I know.” I nodded, “Okay… but promise, this is just between you and me.”
“I pinky promise.” we locked our little fingers together and abruptly let go. “Do you wanna do it here or the pool?”
“I don’t know, which do you perfer?” Alec replied excitedly.
“How about the pool? A little cool down would be nice.”
“I was about to say the same!” we both got out of the hot tub and headed toward the pool which was located a few yards away. “I’ll go first.” Alec stripped off his diving trunks and waited at the edge of the pool for me to do the same.
“Ummm.” my eyes tried to avoid his member, but it was a losing battle altogether. “I don’t know.”
“You can’t chicken out, come on, I already did it!” he laughed, “It’s not a big deal. Would you want to look at this 50 years from now and regret not getting naked?”
“Omg, did you just almost quote Transformers?” I laughed as I clutched onto the shirt getting ready to take it off.
“Yes, yes I did.” he chuckled, “Now come on! Live a little.”
“Okay,” I took my shirt off and we both stood naked staring awkwardly at each other.
“Wow.” he sighed as he scanned my body.
“Jeez, way to make a girl feel insecure.” I laughed right before I jumped in, he shortly jumped in after me.
“So I take it this is your first time skinny dipping,too?” Alec breathed as his head came up from under the water.
“Yeah,” I smiled as I wiped the chlorine from my eyes. “didn’t you just take a shower?”
“Haha, yeah, but I can always take another one.” I felt him wading closer to me, and when I opened my eyes he was standing right in front of me. I could feel his breath against my wet skin, he was unbearably close. “You know, I always thought you were pretty cute.”
“Uh, thanks.” I blushed, “I’ve kind of had a thing for you since we were kids.” I couldn’t believe I had just told him that, shut up, Lara, act dignified not trashy!
“Really?” he chuckled as he brought his lips closer to mine. “I think that’s pretty hot.” his lips met mine and for a moment we were infinite. I had never known the lips of another on my own, and I had to admit it was a feeling of utter euphoria. He was so close that I could feel his hard on pressing against the mound of my pelvic region.
“Oh my god,” I moaned as he grabbed me and pressed me against his muscular chest and began kissing me even harder.
“Have you ever had sex?” he asked me between kisses, I froze and looked up into his beautiful eyes.
“No,” I breathed, which wasn’t a complete lie because I was technically still a virgin. “Have you?”
“Not all the way…” he admitted sheepishly. I felt one of his hands slide downward from my hip. I knew I would be regretting this, but it was what I had always dreamt of since hormones had kicked in.
“Do you hear that?” Alec cocked his head as he scanned the darkened premises.
“Hear what?” I gripped his forearms tightly, looking around me.
“I don’t know, I think I hear a cellphone going off?”
My eyes widened as I swam to the steps and grabbed his oversized shirt. I ran back into the house, and indeed my cellphone was ringing.
“Hello?” I panted as I flipped the phone over.
“Hi.” the stern voice from the other end replied.
“Adam? Why are you calling me… I’m sort of busy.”
“I realized that after calling you SIX times.” he snapped, “We’ve got a major problem.”
“What is it?”
“Someone has broken into case files at the office.”
“Oh no, when did this happen?” I raced back outside to the pool house to retrieve my clothes. “I’ll be there in ten minutes. Bye.”
“What’s wrong, Lara?” Alec said as he began to get out of the pool, “Do you have to leave?”
“Yeah,” I nodded as I started to dress, “I’m so sorry.”
“Maybe we can reschedule?” Alec grinned as he dripped his way next to me, “Or maybe we can go on a date, are you free next Friday?”
“Friday?” I repeated as I began to make my way back into the house. “That sounds awesome, I’ll let you know Thursday night.” I called as I grabbed my backpack and left the house.

I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I had almost done something I had been wanting to do for a long, long time and had just been cock blocked by the one competing for my attention… Coincidence? Perhaps, but all I was concerned about was getting to the office to make sure nothing confidential was taken.

“Adam?” I called as I entered the lobby of the ambiguous building downtown. “Adam!” I called. I had no heart to take the elevator upstairs alone, but if that was the only option so be it.
I waited for the elevator doors to open as the dimmed lights of the empty lobby loomed above me. It was an eerie place to be at night, especially alone and unarmed. I ran in and made sure the doors closed before all my inhibitions cleared, I would soon be amongst some of the overtime workers and Adam.
“Adam?” I called once more as the doors opened. I saw Lucy sitting at the next but nobody else on the whole floor.
“Are you looking for Adam?” she asked as she took out one of her earphones.
“Yeah, he called. Said the place was broken into?”
“I’ve been hear all night, haven’t heard a thing.”
“That bastard.”
"Oh, don't discredit him so easily, this isn't the only place we store our member files."
"Oh?" I asked with intrigue as I thumbed my cellphone, wanting to call Adam back.
"Yup, there is also an office in the Burbank Professional Plaza." Lucy said, "That's where we keep the more important, high profile files."
"Why hadn't anybody told me, I've been working here for two years."
"Not everybody knows about it, I guess we just don't talk about it often."
"That's not really fair." I slouched, "Oh, well, I'll see you tomorrow."