Fifth read-through with Jared

Greg was just staring at them in shock. "That was ... intense."

Katie pushed Jared off her, suddenly breaking out of the scene. "Was it too much?"

Greg laughed. "It was a lot!" He had no idea what she was looking for. This was so wildly inappropriate for a theater audition. How could she imagine doing this?

"I see what you mean," Katie said, thinking. "There's not going to be any furniture at the audition. We can't do the scene on the bed this way."

"That's not really what I meant," Greg started.

"We'll just have to find a way to do it on our feet, right Jared?" Katie looked at herself and giggled. "Oops, I didn't even realize I was still naked!" She found her halter on the floor and pulled it back over her head. "Jared, let's try it again, but not use the bed. See what that's like."

Greg stood up, trying to stop her. "No, Katie --"

"Wait, let's just see!"

Katie and Jared jumped back off the bed and onto the floor. Greg stayed standing.

"I'm going to make an entrance." Katie walked out of the room, closing the door behind her. After a moment, she slammed the door open.

"Laura. Laura!" Jared had to shout to get her to see him. She stormed past him. He grabbed her arm. "Laura. It's time we talked. Don't you --"

Katie whirled on him and snapped, "What do we have to talk about? Haven't we said all there is to say?" She wrenched her arm free, and pushed him away.

"You don't know what's in my mind, Laura."

"But I --"

Jared kept talking over her. "You don't know why I came back to Missouri." He closed in on her, cornering her against a wall.

"No, but --" She looked at him, scared but brave.

"You don't know what I've been through." He was almost pressed against her, pushing her into the wall. "... and what could make this whole house, this whole place ... complete again." He took her hands in his.

"Kyle, I haven't seen you since we were teenagers." She allowed him to take control of her hands and arms, which he began to kiss. Small kisses, starting at her hands, and trickling along her arms. As he did, he raised her arms over her head. He held both her wrists with one hand, and quickly, surprisingly pinned them to the wall over her head. She wasn't able to move, her hands above her head, held to the wall by Jared's strong grip. Her breathing got heavier, but she continued. "I've grown up so much since then." Jared's kisses extended from her upstretched arms back down toward her shoulders, then her neck, then her chest, the bare skin above the top of her halter.

"But I've thought about you, Laura." He put his fingers on the top of the halter, his fingertips sliding into the shirt, touching her flesh.

"You've thought about me?"

"I've thought about your eyes." He pulled on the shirt. One string strap fell off her shoulder, and Jared pulled that side of the shirt down, exposing her left breast. He caressed her skin, kissed down toward her breast, and took her nipple in his mouth.

"My ... eyes?"

He released her hands, which Katie kept over her head. He spoke, "I've thought about your voice." He pulled the other strap off, and lowered the halter, revealing her right breast. He continued kissing, and as he got lower, began to lick her breast. He kissed and sucked her other nipple. She moaned with nervous pleasure.

"My ... voice?"

Jared moved back and forth between her breasts, holding, fondling, kissing, and sucking. The halter fell to her hips now. Her arms remained over her head. Jared lowered his fingers to the waist of her shorts, and slowly placed his thumbs inside the elastic.

"I've thought about the last time I heard you say goodbye to me." He nudged her shorts down, sliding them over her hips. She didn't have any underwear on, and her lower body was now exposed. He brought his hands back up to her chest. Katie used her legs to shimmy the shorts off her body, and delicately stepped out of them. She was completely naked.