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There was nothing that Riley had hated more in life than over thinking, it was the reason why she had unintentionally caused herself a panic attack in middle school, having to do a speech in front of her English class had caused her too much stress as she hated the attention, judgment and staring eyes on her.

She had hidden away inside the girls bathroom until she had sent her older sister a message to say where she was when she hadn't appeared at the front so they could walk home together, Riley had felt too ashamed to go back to classes.

It was the same reason that she couldn't go to her freshmen year spring dance, as she had overthought the fact of having to get dressed up and dancing in a big crowd of people she didn't know.

And now she couldn't help but squirm every so often as she sat beside Paul on the sofa, something that he had yet to pick up on, or so she thought anyway.

"What's wrong?" He asked finally, pausing the movie as his attention turned fully to their girl beside him, he reached forward to grins hair away from her face and caress her cheek, causing a reaction to settle deep within Riley.

"What are we?" Riley asked, Paul's face being so close to hers that she could barely breathe. "I know I said slow...and we have been...it's just, we kissed the other day"

"I know" Paul grinned as he remembered their encounter, he had wanted to do it again ever since, not wanting to let her go in the first case. "What do you want to be? We're going at your pace"

"Our pace" Riley corrected, her eyes scanning over Paul's as his face seemingly grew closed, and she let her eyes flutter shut as her breathe hitched and she savoured the moment slightly. "W-we could move on to the...lovers"

"I'd love to" Paul responded, his smile not weakening as he watched his imprint's expressions closely, it seemed that she wanted it as much as he did and that made him more happy than anyone else could even imagine.

"Paul" Riley's voice lowered slightly as her eyes opened up again to challenge his, and he noticed her eyes were more dilated than usual, and he licked his lips subconsciously.

"Yes Ri?" He asked, watched her carefully, his hand squeezing her waist more tightly as he awaited her to finish.

"I need you to kiss me" She finally stated, and Paul practically pounced onto her lips as her heard those words, the phrase 'gladly' coming to his mind as his free hand rises up to caress her cheek, tugging her towards his body.

Riley raised her body so that she was around the equal height of him, her hands curling up into his hair, after having discovered that he liked his hair being played with from the last time they had kissed, he specifically told her afterwards that he lied the way she tugged his hair—which had her blushing like a mad man.

He gently began to lean her downwards, wanting her to relax after the hard day that they had both had, he was extremely cautious about the sprained hand that was currently laying with his hair, her legs had naturally left and opening for his body to lay down in, which had him smirking into the kiss as she was adapting quickly to the kissed, returning it with as much passion as he was.

"We should stop" Paul suddenly said, pulled away and resting his hands on both sides of her head. "I don't want this to be your first time, you deserve better"

Riley blushed, but nodded in agreement as she lay underneath the boy, her hand resting on his neck. "Okay"

"Now, let's get comfy and finish Mary Poppins" Paul smiles sweetly, pressing a kiss to her lips before he sat back and pulled her up with him, the pair shifting so they were in a comfortable cuddling position, Paul pulling a blanket around them as Riley grabbed the bowl of chocolate, offering him one when he had pressed play on the movie. "Yes, please"