Brand New Love *Chapter 6* Our breathing stopped simultaneously, just seconds before we were enjoying an intimate moment, now we were seconds away from being caught. I put my hand over my mouth, not moving a muscle, Max's whole body stiffened, "Max....Evelyn... Are you down here?"... I moved my head to Max's earlobe and whispered "we have to answer her, she's not going to go away" max breathed out through his nose a long breathy sigh, and removed his hand which was still on me....there. He pushed me up slowly and in one movement silently exited the chair, he then stood up, rearranged his erection and silently exited the lab holding my hand. Woah... A lot just happened in the last 20 minutes, my head still dizzy from all the excitement, if I'm honest I didn't care if we got caught, if word got out then that'll just make our relationship official, and we wouldn't just be highly sexually charged teenagers. Max called out for Ellie, realising he still had hold of my hand he dismissed it, like a piece of rubbish, I felt a pang of sadness deep within me, Ellie came out from behind the healthcare counter "Ah there you are, just wondered how the suncare was coming on?" "It's going fine, Eve has completed one section already, thanks to my teaching skills" max declared, "I'll let you get back to it then", with that Ellie strode towards the door and exited, me and max were alone again in the darkness. I was too embarrassed about the topic of dismissing my hand, I stood there silently not making eye contact with him, but I felt his eyes on me. He sighed "your going to be bad for business, it's lucky she didn't look at the suncare shelves, we should be at least half way through it by now, come on" he walked past me and I followed, he was making it out that it was all my fault, that I was the problem our job wasn't near enough finished, when he came on to me. I picked up the planogram paperwork and continued working in complete silence. At lunchtime me and Josie went out to get a sandwich, we sat on the bench where I had sat the day I filled in my application form to work at Simpsons, "So how did it go?...." Josie asked just before she bit into her ham sandwich, she was digging for info, "Mind blowing" she studied me carefully as I started to blush, "what's got you all ruffled?" She asked as she lent in further to hear better, I proceeded to tell Josie about the incredibly hot sensual moment between me and max when he rang his hands down my arms, "Oohh" Josie sighed a little too erotically, "continue..." I moved on to explain about the explosive orgasm I had whilst on his lap in the photo lab, she sat opposite me mouth and eyes wide, and cleared her throat with a quiet cough "well you certainly had an exhausting morning at work", she smiled cheekily back at me, "I shouldn't ask this because we've been friends forever, but do you promise not to tell anyone and especially not Ellie?", she looked sympathetically at me "of course, cross my heart and hope to die.... So what happened next", "well then Ellie walked in calling us" Josie's mouth dropped, she almost let go the half a sandwich she had in her hand, "did she catch you?", "what? NO!" I laughed "we stopped our....uh hmm...business... And went to find her", "that was a close one" Josie breathed out, "thing is before we saw Ellie, max was holding my hand as soon as he realised what he was doing he dropped it , it felt awful" I looked at the ground "he just doesn't want to get caught" Josie explained "but what if he's using me for...well playtime" I sighed, "I can think of worse things the male race has done, enjoy it, this is what you wanted since you clapped eyes on him, just go with the moment and see where it takes you" We finished our lunch and headed back to Simpsons, An alternative pharmacist hadn't shown up so we were still closed for the afternoon, Ellie had told me and max to continue with the suncare on the shopfloor, you could cut the tension between us with a knife,max piped up and it broke the ice a little, "sorry about earlier" he whispered , "for what?" I asked back, he shrugged "i didn't wanna get caught" Well done Mr Obvious... I stared straight ahead at the shelves in front of me, concentrating too hard on a bottle of sun cream. Why is he treating this like such a dirty little secret? After a few minutes silence max pipes up "we need to get more stock from upstairs... Are you coming?" He starts bounding towards the door at the back of the shop,long legs strong and confident. I follow him with a stock cart,keeping my head down moping like some love sick puppy, he holds open the door for me gesturing with his hand to enter, I stop the cart outside the stock lift, and push the call button, I turn around to find Max has been stood behind me I almost head butt his chest, I bring myself to look into his deep eyes... Oh he really is so beautiful... He brings his hands up to meet my face and embraces me in a hard and rushed kiss.

Brand New Love *Chapter 5* After working for Simpsons for a week, I had grasped most of the basic jobs, but the flirting from Max was now on red alert everything I did he seemed to be there watching me, I could feel his eyes boring into the back of my head, I tried desperately to concentrate on my work but just the sight, sound and smell of him sent my hormones racing. "We have a problem" Josie shouted as she flew out the door on to the shop floor, we all turned to look at her, luckily we had no customers in the shop at that time,"the pharmacist from Simpsons in the next town has gone down with the flu, we have to send Ashley there as their needs are greater than ours", max then enquired "what do we do?" Ellie sighed "we have to shut the store, god this is so annoying!" She exclaimed "do we have to go home?" Max said hoping for a yes "No, we'll turn off the lights down here and put stock away in the stock room, Evelyn can you put out the sun creams down here? Are you going to be ok working in the dark?" "Yeah that's fine, I don't know how to do it to the plan though, I haven't been shown that yet" At that moment Max jumped up " I'll teach her", my heart beat was in my throat at the thought of me and him working together...in the dark. "Fabulous idea" Ellie produced a set of keys from her pocket and closed the store, apologising to customers as she did and explaining. All the staff went upstairs, Max followed them. Josie came over to me and said in a whisper"if I'm not mistaken he has just jumped at the chance of working with you, I'd say that there's definitely something there,good luck working in the dark" she winked and slipped out of the door to join the rest of the workforce upstairs in the stockroom. Ellie came back from the front of the store, just as max appeared through the door holding a sheet of paper, "Are you two ok working together?" Before I could manage a single syllable Max bursted "we'll be fine', Ellie smiled "ok, well I'll be up in the stockroom I'll leave you two cats alone" with that she walked briskly through the door, whilst the door was coming to a close I could just see Ashley leaving through the outer door, all of a sudden we were thrown into darkness, the shop was eerily quiet the only sound were the tills electronics purring, even the lab with its monstrous machines were silent, I turned my head to look at Max, there was still a little light given off from the emergency lightening, I caught a sparkle in his eyes, the lush green eyes now thrust into darkness, his well defined muscles seemed to pop in the light as he stood in front of the natural light, a beautiful silhouette appeared before me, just a glance of it made the pit of my stomach burn, a feeling I was becoming to understand and love when in the presence of max. "Let's get started" max declared as he shook off his sultry look and started shuffling through the papers, huddled under an emergency light, he pointed out how you implement a planogram (or how to put things on a shelf how head office would like you too, to you and me).... We had been working closely with each other for an hour, I had successfully completed one section of the suncare planogram by myself "Not too bad for a newbie" max jested, bumping his shoulder into mine playfully, "hey!" I bumped him back, he returned with a slight push of my shoulder, I stood there and pouted with my lips and crossed my arms pretending to be a in a strop, Max giggled and turned away with his back to mine he was getting sun cream out of the stock cart, jolting out of my fake strop I went to push him gently on his back, but he moved suddenly and before i could react, my hand hit his backside. "Oi" Max exclaimed with a jump, oh shit shit shit! what have I done, I've only gone and hit the sex god...on his arse...by accident, oh no... In a split second I thought this could lead to sexual harassment, I could lose my job, oh god oh god oh god... With that Max turned to look me, I was wide eyed and had my hand slapped across open mouth "oh my god, I'm so sorry I didn't m....","Ssh" With that Max had placed his finger on my lips hushing me instantly, his eyes bored through me, his seemed to shine out at me even in this darkness, i stood there and drank him in, he removed his finger from my lips, keeping his eyes locked on mine the entire time ,he moved his hands to my shoulders moving them down both my arms simultaneously at a antagonising slow pace, my body shuddered goosebumps through me, max moved closer to me, I could smell his enticingly sweet but masculine scent dancing through my senses, he moved his hands around my back and squeezed my bottom, kneading with his hands,I let out a small giggle with that he removed his hands and grabbed my left hand in his and gently tugged me to follow him, he walked in big strides towards the photo counter, we walked behind it then into the lab, it was very dark with hardly any natural light entering this far back into the store, Never letting go of my hand Max pulled up a computer chair, the wheels squeaked as he skidded it along the floor, he sat on the chair then pulled me into him to sit on his lap, my back to his front, his hands explored the waistband of my black trousers, his gentle tickling touch sent more goose bumps over me, I thrust my head backwards , my whole weight now on him, he moved his hand upwards under my T-shirt and cupped one of my breasts, moulding it expertly with his hand, he let out a little groan which came from deep within his throat, I could feel his rock hard cock against my lower back, and smiled, I'm doing this... I'm turning on the sex god!, Max then moved down from my breast skimming my stomach and moved down to the top of my trousers, without opening a button he slid his hand underneath, push my lacy underwear to one side, and thrusted two fingers in to massage my throbbing clit, I let out a slight moan and heard his breath quicken slightly, he circled my clit over and over again until I was on the brink of a explosive climax, feeling dizzy with passion I bit into my hand to stop the moans of pleasure escaping me, when all of a sudden his hands stilled, and I heard footsteps, "Max.... Evelyn.... Are you down here?"...... Ellie voiced echoed around the shopfloor.

Brand New Love *Chapter 4* Holding his hand out to me, I took his and shook it, His touch was like electricity running through me, I suddenly became aware I was burning up like someone had just turned the heating on full whack, my heart was beating so much that I thought it would punch straight out through my chest, my ears were humming with blood rushing through them. I steadied myself. "Are you ok" he asked soothingly, grabbing my arm gently as he noticed me sway. I took in a massive breath... With that the button from my shirt burst exposing my heaving cleavage. He stared at me, his eyes never leaving my breasts, "I think you've lost something" he purred, his cheeks burned and his eyes shocked a passion into me that went straight to my muscles deep in my stomach. I looked at him head bowed, up through my eyebrows . I managed to stutter " I need a safety pin", releasing my arm, he went into a draw behind the counter and retrieved one and handed it to me. "Thank you, I think I better go re-adjust myself, I may scare away customers looking like this" looking down and pushing my cleavage up. "I don't think you'd scare away anyone" he said slow and sensually, he's eyes were fixated on my breasts, I took that moment to slink around him the back of him, the moment I was out of sight I bolted for the door, holding my hands to my chest, I punched in the code, as soon as the door swung open, I exhaled a massive breath I didn't even realise I was holding. Rushing upstairs and through the stockroom, Ellie saw me as I hurried my steps towards the door that led to the corridor "Eve is everything alright" I called after me, I stopped "I've had a slight wardrobe malfunction" pointing at my chest, "Oh dear, it's really not been the best first day for you has it?", she looked sympathetically towards me, "Max is back from lunch now so he can cover the photo counter, I need to to watch some videos on health and safety, go 'cover yourself up' and meet me in the staff room in 5" I nodded back, and made my way to the cloakroom, looking in the mirror I inserted the safety pin into my shirt, it held thank goodness. Still a little shaken from mine and max's first encounter... And embarrassed of the outcome of me revealing of myself, I shook myself down and exited the cloakroom, walking down the corridor to the staff room where Ellie was setting up the DVD player for me."these are quite long and boring I'm afraid but it's protocol to get you to watch them" I sat myself in one of the chairs and got comfy. After a long while I heard the door close behind me, everything shifted around me, my mind drifted away from the 'how to fight a fire" to how the room had some how lit up. " oh how I'm glad I don't have to watch them again" I turned around to see max behind my chair, his strong defined arms held the back of it. " I've come to tell you it's nearly 5.30", "oh" I whispered "I better get my stuff together", standing up I went to the DVD player and switched it off along with the tv. In the now silenced room, I turned to see Max, still holding on the the chair, almost crouched over it as he was so tall, I'd say about 6ft something, his black trousers were tight and I'm sure I could see a definite bulge in the right place. Feeling the intense atmosphere between us i physically couldn't handle it anymore if i continued to be so close to him he would ultimately be my un doing ,I walked towards the door and opened it,I felt his eyes followed me across the room, feeling like the ultimate sex goddess, I swung the door open, looked back and winked at him then immediately exited the room. As I reached the cloakroom door to collect things, max walked out of the staff room and looked down the corridor at me, and smirked, it was a smirk full of sexual prowess which instantly ignited a fire deep down below below belly. Opening the door, I found a safe haven the other side, and exhaled deeply. Was there something between or was my brain reading the signs wrong. Retrieving my things from the locker, and after putting on my coat I exited, I walked downstairs to the back door to find everyone waiting. Max was already there, worried I was reading the signs wrong I tried my best not to look at him, Ellie entered in the code to set the alarm and we all headed out the same door to the car park behind Simpsons. Turning to see Max getting into a car, I walked home content with giddy feeling of my new crush. That evening I met up with Josie, her parents had recently purchased a pub, so we spent the evening shooting pool. As I chalked the end of my cue I asked Josie what she thought about the whole Max situation, "Go for it, I don't see anything holding you back, is he interested in you?" She finished taking her pot on the pool table , I rolled the cue between my fingers and huffed "I don't know, we have this sort of energy between us, but I don't know if its me wanting to believe there's something there when there really isn't", I took my turn and potted a red, "Hmmm... Good point, your wishing for something so badly and your worried your reading the signs all wrong" she uttered back to me "exactly" I shrugged, "ok tomorrow at work, I'll watch both of your body language and see what I make of it, then I'll post back to you", "cheers Josie, you're a angel!" I grinned back.

Brand New Love *Chapter 3* Monday morning came around after a weekend that felt like an eternity, all I could think about was him, I'd thought about him so hard and so much that I couldn't actually remember his face, just his glasses and that gap between his front teeth oh how am I going to manage to keep it together today? the day I actually get to see him in the flesh, the thought of it made my stomach twist and turn in a feeling I have never felt before, I got up at a ungodly hour, showered, spent hours doing my hair, makeup and waxing. Anyone would have thought I was going on a hot date, not my first day at my new work place. 1pm came along, an hour to go, till I see him...Max.. The man I had dreamt about seeing clapping my eyes on his goofy photo three days ago. My stomach tightened more at the thought of our first meeting. 1.30pm I left home, deciding to walk I thought the music that pounded my ears from my iPod would send my fears flying, but when I arrived at Simpsons I had two fears, one was the fear of starting a new job and two because I was about to meet sex on legs in the flesh. I stood outside Simpsons composing myself, taking a deep breath in, I pushed the doors and entered, walking up to Josie on the healthcare counter, she beamed at me in the way she does, "happy first day at work!" With her arms thrown wide open, she moved round from behind the counter and pulled me in for a hug, which I received with a embarrassed look."Are you ready" Josie emphasised a look at the photo counter, I pulled my face up into a grimace. Over the weekend, me and Josie had a girls night in at her place, as my bedroom was still in an atrocious state, it was there that I confessed that I had a crush on Max but I'd only seen his photo, feeling ashamed I had crushed at the sight of a photo, and my worries of seeing him in the flesh, sensing that Josie was shocked and didn't no what to say next, I started on "what's he like?Is he single? What's his favourite music?" Realising I was bombarding her with ridiculous questions I stopped. Josie pointed out "I've never really said more than two words to him, he's on a different counter to me, I only see him when we pass each other on the stairs" I sighed realising I was only going to get the answers to my questions by actually meeting him on Monday. Josie led me up the stairs in Simpsons, to Ellie's office, Josie opened the door "Eve's here" she gestured towards me, Ellie looked up from her desk "looking forward to your first day eve?" Ellie questioned, "yes except I'm very nervous" I replied in a small delicate voice "you'll be fine, Mary and Max will take good care of you whilst we train you up" ...Jeeez that made me feel a whole lot better... With that Ellie rose from her desk, she was wearing a very sharp grey suit with a tartan lining which was evidently tailored to her specifications as it was the perfect fit, she accompanied this with a emerald green silk blouse, the artificial light in the office bounced off the beautiful colours of her blouse and blonde hair like sunlight on a lake, following Ellie out of the office she reiterated where the cloakroom was and designated me a locker and handed me a locker key, in which I bundled my satchel into without any due care or attention, and hastily shoved my black coat on a free peg, I hadn't been provided the company uniform yet so I had gone for simple black pumps, black trousers and light pink shirt, which was either a too smaller fit or my boobs were too big as you could quite clearly see my cleavage between two of the done up buttons, looking at myself in a full length mirror that hung on the wall, I looked pale... My bright blue eyes were red and puffy from the very early morning 'must look like a sex goddess' charade, This was my nerves showing their ugly side... And making me feel clumsy and tongue tied... I released my shoulder length blonde hair from its band and shook it out trying desperately to look more sexy... I slid a slick of lip gloss on and walked out the door without even looking when WHAM!! I hit the linoleum tiled floor with full force, after a few moments i managed to scrape myself off the floor, i sat up on the dark blue tiles, then looked up... "Oh my god, are you ok eve?" Ellie was standing over me, "yeah...yeah I'm fine" picking myself up fully from the tiles, I dusted myself down "I'm such a klutz sometimes, sorry I didn't look, it's my fault" I uttered " it's alright, no harm done to me, are you alright though?" Ellie asked sympathetically, I nodded embarrassed. "Good...good... Now your all dusted off... We'll go down to the photo lab" I followed Ellie through the stockroom , holding my shaking hands still as much as possible and down to the shop floor, walking two steps behind her, we approached the counter, my eyes searched frantically for him... Max.. He wasn't behind the counter... Following Ellie behind the counter and the into the photo lab... I noticed he wasn't there either. Feeling a little deflated. I continued to listen to Ellie as she spoke to Mary about my training. I nodded enthusiastically at Ellie and Mary as they showed me how to work the till, how to enter in films to be processed and how to give out films to customers who had returned for their prints. After about half an hour Ellie and Mary left me to my own devices convinced I'd grabbed the basics. I had my head stuck into a 'understanding photography' book Mary had given me to read that taught you about the various different 35mm film and digital cameras when all of a sudden all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, I became increasing aware of someone reading over my shoulder, "Hello" the voice was deep, smooth like chocolate and rippled through me. I spun around to be faced with a face I suddenly recognised. A face that lurched my memory from the deep recesses of my mind. "I'm Max".

Brand New Love *Chapter 2* Setting myself down into the chair opposite Eleanor, it squeaked nervously and mimicked just how i was feeling. Eleanor had long fingernails which were painted red, she couldn't of been more than a couple years older than me, which had me thinking how she had got to be store manager so quickly. "So Evelyn... Why do you wish to work for Simpsons?" Her poise was calm and in control a whole world away from what I feeling right now, "I wish I proceed with a job that has many different aspects,this shop with its healthcare and photography has many routes I can try before settling on one I wish to do in #life... dip my toe in all things before settling on one job is what I wish to do right now" realising I was mumbling rubbish I quickly went silent. "That's a good plan, I did exactly the same thing before settling here, management was my calling as you wish" I exhaled, glad that my rambling made some sense, Eleanor proceeded to ask me various questions about where I worked, and so on... About my interests and hobbies out of work... I made up some hobbies as I'm sure a future boss wouldn't want to know that I lay around until 11am every morning in my underwear watching Jeremy Kyle. After 30 minutes of discussion about myself and the job, I'd come to the conclusion myself that I'd blown it. With that thought Eleanor stood up "I'd like to offer you the part time job of photo processing assistant" with a rabbit caught in headlights look, I put my hand over my open mouth and exclaimed through my fingers a rather muffled "really?", "Yes" she let out a little laugh "you remind me of myself when I was younger, I think young people need a chance to better themselves and find their place on this earth" "Thank you...thank you so much" grabbing Eleanor's hand and shaking it with a little more force than needed, "Not a problem..let me give you the grand tour of your new workplace" she beckoned towards the door, the door I had just 40 minutes ago walked through unemployed but now was walking back through as an employee. Before leaving the office Eleanor turned to me "call me Ellie everyone else does" I smiled back at her "ok Ellie" I replied. Ellie walked throughout the building showing me the staff room, the ladies cloakroom and toilets, the men's toilets though we didn't actually enter which I was glad of, the stock room, the shop floor, the healthcare counter where I met up with Josie again, Ellie exclaimed "this is Evelyn, she's going to be our new photo processing assistant" Josie beamed at me, in which I did a massive smile back along with a excited shake of my head, seeing as I was with Ellie, Josie had to contain her excitement for a bit longer. Ellie introduced me to Ashley who was the resident pharmacist there, and Simone, a middle aged lady with shoulder length highlighted hair, who was medicines counter assistant just like Josie. Me and Ellie then walked over the other side of the store where the photography section was, we entered the photography lab and was met by an middle aged lady, she had very short highlighted blonde hair and was wearing a white lab coat, Ellie introduced me and I gathered from the short introduction that her name was Mary. She was obviously very busy, machines whirled and it was a lot noisier in the lab than I was in the rest of the shop. In the lab were two massive machines, one of these machines developed the film , the other printed the photos on specialised photo paper, there was one computer and a stand which had negative film hanging on it along with their retrospective photo dockets, I nodded at Mary who smiled back kindly. "That's the end of the grand tour, we need to quickly pop back up to my office to sign some paper work and work out a start date" ,I followed Ellie out if the photo lab, Mary following behind me to serve a customer, she seemed to be having to work the lab and serve customers which is obviously why they needed more staff there. Following Ellie back up the two flights of stairs, we stopped at a wall that had framed photos hanging from it." These are pictures of your future co-workers" Ellie pointed, I scanned the pictures before me, there was Ellie in her best stood at her desk, Josie stocking shelves and smiling at the camera, Ashley looking every bit the professional as he posed, Mary in the lab sat at the computer mid laugh, Simone stood underneath the retro clock that took pride of place on the shop floor, and another person I had not met yet... He was about the same age as me, had very short dark hair, dark rimmed glasses and a gap between his front teeth (the Lewis Hamilton oh so sexy gap) as I call it, he wore a green T-shirt, his stance in the photo told me he was shy about having his picture taken, he was gorgeous even if he did look a bit goofy, but I know as well as others that photos never do people justice. I gazed at the picture before me feeling a little hot under the collar, I didn't know this guy yet I wanted him, I wanted him more than anyone I've ever clapped eyes on and I hadn't even met him in person. "Who's this?" Ellie looked up to where I was pointing "oh that's Max, he works on photography too", I couldn't believe my luck, I get to work with that him? Phew.. I'm never going to make it through a working day without having the thought of him fucking my brains out on Ellie's desk, I composed myself "how come he's not working today?", trying to sound inquisitive without sounding like a teenager with a crush which is exactly what I was. "He's on holiday this week, Lanzarote with his family i think, he'll be back to work on Monday, shall we peruse the paper work Evelyn?" I followed Ellie to her office glancing back two or three times at the photo of max behind me. "Let's get you to start Monday, work hours are 2pm to 5.30pm" Ellie dictated "Great" I replied "I can't wait" and I meant it, oh boy did I mean it!