Yes, Jeremy does

Courtney gulped as she saw Jeremy begin to move his face closer to hers before stopping, a searching look appearing in his eyes as he tried to find out whether or not she would pull back if he got closer still.

Gently stroking one finger against her chin and holding her head tilted up towards his, Jeremy inched a little closer to her and then stopped again, wavering about whether or not he should take the plunge.

Hoping and praying that she was reading his intentions correctly, Courtney batted her teary eyes at him and gave him a weak, barely noticeable nod as a way of telling him that it was alright without revealing too much about her feelings.

Cocking his head a little to the left, Jeremy stroked Courtney’s forearm with his other hand as his lips came closer to hers, his heart racing from the knowledge that she had yet to pull away.

The kiss started off as a light peck, their lips barely touching as they stood in front of each other, but then it grew to become more vivid as their mouths came closer together and Jeremy’s tongue shot out past his own lips to disappear in between Courtney’s.

Courtney’s arms had previously been folded upwards and pressed against Jeremy’s chest as he held her, but now they came out so that she could brush her hands over his arms as she too began to use her tongue in their kiss.

Moments later, the release of all of Courtney’s pent up feelings for Jeremy was channelled partly into her intensifying their kiss even further and partly into her beginning to tug at the sleeves of his t-shirt in a feeble attempt to get him out of it.

A brief silence followed the end of their kiss, one which was finally broken when Jeremy had mustered enough courage to get out an “I love you too,” which he soon attempted to clarify by adding “you know, in a big way.”

Jeremy was kept from stammering out anything else by Courtney throwing herself at him again, her breasts squashed against his chest as she slipped her tongue into his mouth, having attacked him with enough force that she wound up pushing her up against the wall despite how much larger than her than he was.

Kept from trying once more to strip him out of his clothes by her wholly unfounded fears that that would make him think that she was easy, Courtney was utterly relieved when she felt Jeremy’s fingers begin to fidget with the strap of her bikini top, which apparently was of a design which he found very difficult to defeat.

Letting out a soft, short giggle once they’d broken off their kiss, Courtney caused Jeremy to let out a satisfied gasp by moving her hands in under the hem of his t-shirt, sliding her slender fingers up over his toned stomach until her nails brushed against his nipples.

The two of them combined forces to slowly get Jeremy naked from the waist up, stopping what they were doing every few seconds to enjoy another kiss, the last one of the those coming when Jeremy was wearing his t-shirt more like a sail than anything else, with his arms pushing the garment up into the air from the inside while its neckline was wrapped around his head so that it hid everything behind his ears.

When his t-shirt finally ended up lying discarded on the floor next to his feet, Jeremy caused Courtney to let out a surprised yelp by coming down to swoop her up into his arms, with her surprised expression turning into a smile just before he leaned in and put his lips against hers one more time as her legs were folded over his arm.

Carrying Courtney the few feet to her room, and making damn sure not to bang her head into the doorframe as they passed through, Jeremy brought her with him past the threshold, aiming for her bed.