"Hey," I greeted Matt with a hug.

"Hey, do you mind if Jake goes with us for lunch? He also forgot to order the school lunch." Matt asked and pointed to his classmate standing next to him.

"No, of course, he can come," I said, and greeted Jake too.

We decided to go for lunch to the Borough market since it's not that far and we still have 2 hours free now.

We all got burgers with chips and walked to the riverside to find a place to sit and eat.

"Oh, so good. Best burgers in town. Matt, you should learn to make these." I said with my mouth half full.

"Oh, so my cakes aren't good enough for you now, huh? You were saying something different yesterday." Matt teased, and I think we both got flashbacks to yesterday. I could see it in his eyes.

"I didn't say that."

"You baked?" Jake asked surprisedly.

"Yeah, he's amazing at it! He bakes quite a lot, but yesterday he made my favourite, this amazing coconut cake. It's perfection." I praised Matt's baking.

Matt looked at me with a cheeky smile and then started, "Well, actually, what you said was that the cake is so good that-"

I immediately screamed, "Shut up", and covered his mouth with my hand. "I swear I'm gonna kill you one day."

Before I took my hand off his mouth, he planted a small kiss on my hand, which sent electricity to my whole body.

"Love you too," Matt said. He had a very proud smile on his face and I just couldn't help but smile and laugh too, even though I was a bit mad at him.

"Oh, you got a stain on your jumper." Matt pointed at me.

"Ugh, great. Well, that's your fault."

"Here. You can change into mine." Matt started taking off his midnight blue woollen jumper, before I had the chance to protest. "I have a hoodie in my gym bag, so I'll change into that one."

"Thank you." I gave him an appreciative smile. Luckily, I had a long-sleeved t-shirt under my jumper, so I changed right there.

Matt's jumper was extremely comfy and smelled so beautifully. I wish I could wear it all day, every day.

"Can I ask you guys something?" Jake asked.

"Sure." Me and Matt said in unison.

"Did you guys ever hook up? Or are you guys secretly together? Well, I guess answering that would ruin the secret thing...okay, never mind. I shouldn't have asked, sorry." Jake asked and me and Matt burst out laughing.

I really did not expect this question. It did kind of hurt even though I was laughing. I was probably laughing more at the irony that he asked that just when we started hooking up...well...I don't know if this classifies as a hook-up. Anyway, it did hurt because of my newfound feelings.

"No, we're not." I answered as Matt asked, "Why?"

"Well...I don't know, I guess it's just a feeling. But also you are extremely comfortable with each other and very...touchy?...and not only do you live together, but in general you are always together and...yeah, I don't know. Like I said, it was just a feeling, but I guess I was wrong." Jake explained.

"Well, if it helps you to feel better, we did make a contract to get together if we don't find anyone by the age of 35," I said.

"And she really does mean the word contract. We literally wrote it down on paper and signed it. And it's framed on a wall in our flat." Matt continued.

"So, I guess we're basically married. Your feeling was right Jake," I said, and we all laughed.

"Oh, before I forget, I'm having a party on Sunday. You guys should come." Jake mentioned.

"Thanks, I do have a date on Sunday, but I think I could make it," I said and looked at Matt, who just nodded.

"Great, I'll text Matt the details."

We ended up complaining about school the whole time until we parted our ways at school.

Today, also our classes ended at the same time, so we went home together. Matt told me all about a research he had to do.

When we came home, I immediately lay down on the couch totally exhausted.

"Do you want some cake, future wife?" Matt asked with a giggle.

"Yes, please, future husband."

If only the nicknames were true. Oh...I'm so foolish to think this way.

I didn't have to wait long before Matt came with two plates in his hands.

"Thank you, Matty," I said to him and started eating the cake.

"No orgasms today?" Matt asked after a while.

I laughed and rolled my eyes. "I cannot believe you almost said that to Jake."

"I wouldn't. I knew you would stop me." Matt said, and I didn't know how to react since I expected another joke or something like that.

After we ate the cake, Matt started another conversation.

"So, tomorrow's your date with Rachel."

"Yeah...I actually talked to her today. We decided to go to Camden...just walk around, go to the market and so on." I don't know why it felt weird and wrong to talk about this with Matt. I honestly am not even very excited for the date anymore. And I have another one on Sunday. Ugh.

"Sounds great," Matt said, but it felt like something was off with him too.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, yeah, just tired." He said and put on a smile. I could tell he wasn't entirely honest, but I left it like that. If he wanted to tell me, he would.

"Do you wanna watch something?" I suggested.

"Notting Hill?"

"I was gonna suggest that!"

"Okay, but yesterday we ate the last popcorn, and we don't have any other snacks. We also don't have many condoms left. We're gonna have to go shopping later." Matt said, and my jaw almost dropped.

"You wanna tell me you don't have enough condoms? You??"

"Why are you so shocked? You're acting like I sleep with someone else every other day." Matt defended himself.

He was right. I mean, he used to sleep aroud quite a lot but lately, that changed. But even then, I guess it wasn't that much and I was just more sensitive to it since I wasn't getting any.

"Okay, sorry, I didn't say anything." I apologized.

We love Notting Hill so much. We know it word for word and always quote our favourite lines. Also, I always crush on Julia Roberts, while Matt crushes on Hugh Grant.  Today was no different. We lay on Matt's bed covered up in blankets, since we both wanted to lay down while watching, and our couch was too small for that.

"We weren't in Notting Hill for quite some time," I said after the movie ended.

"Yeah, we should go there. Maybe also to the restaurant there that you love so much."

"Yeah, the food there is to die for," I said and then quickly regretted it, expecting some dirty comment from Matt again, since that's where all our food conversation led lately. However, when I looked at him, he didn't say anything, and just stared into my eyes.

I was about to say something to defuse the tension when he grabbed my head into his hands and kissed me. I didn't waste any time kissing him back and licking into his mouth. For a second, I foolishly thought that maybe he kissed me just because he wanted to. Because he feels something too. But I knew that foolish was exactly what I was. He is just helping me to get some experience, and yesterday, we agreed to try to have sex again, so that's exactly what he's doing.

It didn't take a lot of time till all our clothes were on the floor and the room was filled with loud gasps and moans.

Like yesterday, Matt started with tongue and fingers and it again felt like every touch was sending me into another dimension.

"I promise I will tell you if I need you to stop," I said because I could tell he was about to ask me that.

"Okay, then. You ready?" He asked, and I confirmed with a kiss. He didn't let go of my lips even when he started to push inside of me. That was a mistake because after a few seconds, I could taste blood in my mouth. That's when I realised that from the pain, I bit Matt's lip.

"Fuck. I'm so sorry, Matty."

"It's fine. Are you okay?"

I just nodded since I didn't have enough energy because of the pain to say more words. However, it was a bit better than yesterday.

"Okay, half of me is inside you, should I continue, or do you want to stop?" Matt said, and a huge exhale escaped my mouth. I was so happy that I made it halfway and I was praying to last the whole thing. I just nodded again, and so he slowly continued.

I stopped him a few times to adjust under him but then we always continued further.

I was thinking about giving up when he said he was fully in. I instantly pulled him in for a kiss feeling like a winner even though it was just the start.

After taking a few breaths I looked at him "Okay, I'm ready. You can start slowly moving."

And so Matt nodded and started with very slow and gentle thrusts. Both pain and pleasure were quite intense, and I tried my hardest to concentrate more on the pleasure even though it wasn't working very much. But even through the pain, it still felt good. It felt right. Because it was with Matt. There couldn't be a better feeling than our bodies connecting like this. I knew I wouldn't be able to come because I concentrated on the pain too much, however, I was still happy, and it did feel good.

"Are you gonna-..." Matt couldn't finish the sentence because he was so close to finishing.

"No, but you can," I said and connected our lips.

It didn't take long before Matt collapsed on me in pleasure.

After he caught his breath a little, I kissed him. "Thank you for being so gentle and patient with me."

"Of course, Lizzy." He kissed me too, and then started to move his kisses to my neck, and breasts, and then he positioned himself between my legs and kissed my inner thighs.

"You don't have to-"

"I want to. And it isn't fair for you to be in pain and then have no pleasure." Matt interrupted me and then continued with the kisses.

So I let him pleasure me with his tongue, and it didn't take long before I came too.

It was already quite late and we were both so exhausted that I again stayed the night in his room.