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We need to talk - Peter

Liz walked up to Peter's door with a bag filled with food for lunch including sandwiches, chips, some fruit, and brownies for dessert. They had planned this before, but now she had another reason to sit down with Peter and talk.

She took a breath and knocked. She was a little early, so she hoped she wasn't interrupting anything

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"I just wanted to make sure." Peter looks around, nervous, still gripping the bottle in his hands. "When should we do it?"

The small smile turned into a slightly bigger one, warm from the way Peter was and how she adored him for it. She tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear.

"I don't, um... I don't think it's something we need to set a date for. I mean, unless you want to. We could just... do it when we both, um. feel like it's the right time?"

"What do you want to do?" Peter asks. A part of him is worried about making a bad or a wrong choice here. He doesn't want to mess it up. Not when it's both of their first time.

"What do you mean?" She looked a little confused, though also a little awkward. "Do you mean like.. um. Where it should happen or... Positions?" It was hard getting that last word out. Despite feeling ready for sex, discussing it openly was still weird for her

"I mean, when and where and --" Peter hadn't even begun to think of positions until now, but now it seemed important to talk about. "-- how."

"Um..." The lack of access to porn in her time meant that Liz was working on a small pool of knowledge. She knew enough to know that sex Ed was not comprehensive in the actual 'doing' of the deed. She was more out of her depth than she thought Peter was.

"Well... I don't think. I mean. I think I'd be comfortable with having a bed." She couldn't quite picture her first time somewhere public like a beach, despite what the romance movies showed as ideal. "When.. I don't know. Um.. I mean. When would you like to?"

The how was probably the hardest part. Hard because she didn't know how entirely. "Maybe... We should keep it simple the first time?"

The fact they were so openly talking about it was nice, but also so strange and she wasn't sure if her cheeks would ever go back to a normal colour again.

"Yeah, keeping it simple is best," Peter says, nodding, more to himself than to Liz. "I don't know, how about this weekend? Does this weekend work?"

He swallows hard and forces himself to make eye contact with Liz.

She met his gaze and felt the flutter in her chest and the anxiousness of embarrassment. It seemed strange to her to schedule something like this - the movies, after all, always showed it as a spare of the moment thing. However, as she considered the way things were with them, it seemed to make sense. And there was a bit of ease to not having to question what was going to happen.

She took a deep breath in and nodded. "Okay... but only if you still want to. If, you know, we get there and then you don't want to, that's okay." She meant it for herself, too. Despite feeling ready ages ago, she still knew she could still change her mind suddenly.

"Yeah, you too," Peter says, nodding. "And if you decide between now and then there's something you want to do or don't want to do, we should talk about it before then."

Maybe it was good they were giving each other some time to think about it before sex. Maybe it wasn't romantic, but... at least they were going to be careful.

Liz continued to look at him and, not for the first time today, her mind wandered again to him in the shower. It seemed like the promise of the weekend was going to make her more distracted.

"Um. Should I -- Do you want me to wear anything... special?"

"No, what you normally wear is fine," Peter says. "I mean... I think I'd prefer it that way. I'd probably get -- I'd get freaked out if things were too different, you know?"

She smiled, her eyes mustering a little playfulness as she looked at him. "So I shouldn't go blonde from now until then, huh?"

Peter chuckles. "Yeah, probably not."

"Okay then." She nodded, then nodded again. Liz couldn't quite seem to get the silly smile off her face. It was the sort of smile that made your cheeks hurt when it was held long. "The weekend it is then."

"Yeah," Peter says, his cheeks still warm. He takes another bite of his sandwich. "So, um. Was there anything else you wanted to talk about?"

She looked over at him and then suddenly laughed, soft and light. "How about we watch a movie?" Liz thought maybe they could both do with an excuse to focus on something else, despite that seeming pretty difficult at the moment for her.

Peter smiles. "I found Clueless in the library the other day. Wanna watch that?"

"Yeah, I like that movie a lot." Of course, for Liz, the movie was pretty recent. Still, it'd be nice to see it again.

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