After Max left, Nat got dressed too and Alex tentatively asked, “Did you and he…you know?”
This wasn’t the confident Alex that Nat was used to, he sounded vulnerable and unsure of himself. He couldn’t look her in the eye while he waited for the answer, looking down towards the ground. Nat reached out and touched his chin, which was technically her own chin, and raised it up so they were looking at each other. Now they were eye to eye, she softly replied, “No, nothing happened,” allowing Alex to let out a visible sigh of relief.
She moved her hand to his arm and teased, “you like him,” exaggerating the like as if she was a schoolgirl again. Alex blushed and simply nodded his head. When he could see Nat wouldn’t settle for just that, he sat down on the sofa and started to tell Nat how he and Max met.
“I was in the Phoenix Club as always, and there he was across the dancefloor. He was shirtless and dancing without a care in the world. I couldn’t take my eyes off him, he was stunning. It took me all night to pluck up the courage to speak to him, which isn’t normally like me at all. I walked over to him and the first thing that came out of my mouth was the least smooth thing I’ve ever said to a guy.”
Alex paused and it lasted so long that Nat had to ask, “What did you say?”. After taking another breath Alex revealed, “while I could have said hi, or how are you, I said, I want to lick you.” Hearing this caused Nat to burst out laughing. “I know, I know, I just wanted to run out of there as fast as I could, I turned to leave but he grabbed my arm, turned me back to him and said to me, ‘I want to lick you too’, and then he licked my face,” this caused another burst of laughter from Nat. Once she’d managed to stop laughing, Nat was able to ask, “And what happened after that?”
“Well, the licking turned into kissing and then,”. “Woah, woah, woah,” Nat interrupted, “I may be in your body, but I don’t need to know what you’ve done with it.” This made Alex laugh for the first time since he arrived. “When did this all happen?” “We met about two months ago, and last night he asked me to be his boyfriend. We fell asleep in each other’s arms and then I woke up like this,” Alex said gesturing to Nat’s body that he now occupied.
This made Nat feel really bad, she was the one that saw the Scientist of Desires, and if it wasn’t for her, Alex would have woken up in bed with his new boyfriend for the first time. “I’m so sorry Alex,” Nat apologised again. Alex reached across and put his hand on Nat’s knee, which was of course his own, and reassured Nat “this wasn’t your fault, but I think we have a few words to say to that doctor of yours.”