"What the fuck is that noise?" Rae startled upright in her bed. There was a banging on her door again.
"Rae! Wake up you lazy tart there's someone on the phone for you."startled upright in her bed. There was a banging on her door again.
"Rae! Wake up you lazy tart there's someone on the phone for you."
"Shit sorry Ben. I'm awake and I'll be there in a sec." She groaned and grabbed her bathrobe that resembled a pack of fizzy Refreshers. That old bathrobe always made her feel warm and comfortable as it reminded her of her childhood. She wrapped it around herself so her house mates wouldn't be able to see her bits jiggling en route to the communal phone.
"Elllllo." Rae almost growled, she still hadn't woken up properly and hadn't a chance to clear her throat or drink something.
"Alright sweets, I'm just ringing to see when you need us to pick you up?"
"Oh hiya Chlo, I dunno, I were out really late and I've only just woke up. I'm a bit hungover." Rae rubbed her head hoping to push the ache away.
"You dirty stop out. I hope you've been enjoying the single life?"
Rae smiled to herself. She had been with Charles since almost the start of college and had been kind of swept up into a relationship with him. He was so tall and good looking she was happy and flattered at first but then it became more and more clear that he had zero talent in the bedroom department.
It took Rae two and half years to realise that Charles didn't care that he never satisfied her. She got very drunk one night and told him that unless he learned what to do with his equipment she didn't want to be with him anymore. He called her bitch saying if she wasn't so fat she'd be easier to fuck. Those words stung like a slap to the face and she took it so personally she became a recluse for a while. But with the help of her gay best friend Ben and oldest bestie Chloe they made her realise that it was just the spite of being dumped that made Charles say those awful things. Since the return of her confidence she managed to snog a fit lad at the very least every time she went out.
"Yeah it's been fun, but I still haven't found a lad that can hit the button, if yer no what I mean? I don't want a relationship or anything I just wanna a really good fuck!" Rae huffed.
"Oh babes, that's so disappointing. Yer know? There's this lad that I kinda know. He's such a man whore. He's fit and all, he's got a real pretty face and body that would make you drool Chloe giggled. "He's a friend of me mate Izzy, he'll be coming out wi' us tonight."
"Oooh sounds like I might have to meet him then." Rae chuckled. "Oh I just remembered, you don't need to pick us up from Peterborough. Ben's driving all the way now as his family are having their house renovated. It's two months over schedule and they're still finishing off the bedrooms, so he's gonna come and stay at chez Bouchtat for a week or two."
"I'm so pleased, I can't wait to see him again. It's lucky your folks got that new house or there wouldn't be room for him?"
"Yeah I know, the only reason mum said he can sleep in me bed is cos she knows he's gay. She never let Charles stay over." She laughed again as Ben appeared handing her a steaming cup of strong tea informing her they should leave after lunch. "The man himself has just told us we're setting off after lunch, so I'll give you a call later yeah?"
"Yeah, bye sweets, don't forget to put your pulling undies on for tonight!" She chuckled and then hung up.
Rae smiled to Ben, "Chloe reckons she knows the man for the job." Rae wriggled her eyebrows and pursed her lips suggestively. "And we're going out tonight to meet him," She playfully rolled her eyes.
"Well I hope she's got a man for me and all!" He giggled and nudged her with his elbow.
"We all know you don't have any trouble scoring." She nudged him back.
Ben was so charming and good looking he never had any troubles in that department. Being blonde, tall and muscular was just the start of it, as he also had bright blue eyes and chiselled jaw line. As soon as he entered any club a group of lads would chat him up instantly.
"Yeah well I've got the opposite problem to you. I score brilliant sex but then no second dates. But I just want to find luruuuurrrrrve." He pouted.
Rae placed her arm around Ben's shoulder pulling him close for a reassuring hug. "I can just feel it babe, this is going to be our summer. You will find love and I will be well and truly fucked." They both laughed and went their separate ways to dress and pack the rest of their stuff.
It was the end of an era leaving uni and Rae felt a little choked up packing the rest of her stuff away. Most of her friends had already returned home the week before, but Rae and her housemates still had the extra week paid on their house. Rae and Ben were the first from their house to leave. They tearfully kissed Jody and Scott goodbye with promises of keeping in touch and filled Ben's Citroen Dyane to the brim with their belongings.
The journey back from Hull went quickly as Rae and Ben spent the entire journey reminiscing the good times at uni. Rae realised that every moment they looked upon fondly didn't involve her ex and she felt disappointed in herself that she didn't notice what a downer he was sooner. She was finally pleased to be single and hoped to have lots of fun before she had to start seriously looking for work.
When they arrived home Rae's family must have heard them pull up because they were stood waiting at the door to dish out hugs and kisses. Jasmine jumped into Rae's arms and nuzzled into her sisters neck without any intention of letting go.
"I've missed you munchkin!" Rae sang spinning her little sister around. "This is my friend Ben, do you remember him?" Rae pointed to her best mate.
Jasmine nodded and smiled. "Of course I remember him, he's really nice and funny and he likes to kiss boys." The little girl looked confused when everybody laughed and Ben nodded in agreement.
Rae's mum was still chuckling when she insisted they all go into the front room for a cuppa. After they chatted and caught up with latest happenings Rae and Ben were sent up to Rae's room to unpack so Mrs Bouchtat could prepare dinner.
Although Rae was sad to leave Hull behind she was elated to be back in the warm comfort of her family. She didn't visit much when she was with Charles; as he wasn't allowed to stay over he wouldn't drive her there. She managed a few visits when Ben was driving to visit his family in Peterborough or when her mum either sent money for the train or sent Karim to fetch her. But times were hard with paying for the new house so they didn't see as much of each other as they wanted.
Ben helped Rae unpack and then organised her cd's into alphabetical order as he knew just how she like them arranged. They dressed for the night out and went down to enjoy the delicious toad in the hole that Rae's mum's had prepared for them. They cracked open some Perry and were little tipsy by the time the meal was over. They had such a laugh they nearly forgot they were supposed to be meeting Chloe and her friends at the Basement at 8:00 pm. Rae had to rush to reapply her lippy and Karim offered to drive them as he hadn't been drinking.
They arrived at the club relieved that is was still early enough to get in without queuing. They found Chloe with ease and they ran towards each other embracing when they met like a long lost couple in an old romantic movie.
"It's so good to see you Rae! You look so hot!" Chloe looked over her friend in just a purple skater dress with appreciation and then pulled Ben into an embrace of equal intensity. "I'm happy to see you too! Come over and meet me mates." She motioned over to the bar where there was a girl with red hair and a lad with sparking blue eyes and a gap in his two front teeth.
Chloe introduced the girl as Izzy and the lad was her boyfriend Chop. Izzy had been attending business school with Chloe and intended to open a craft type shop when she was qualified. Her boyfriend worked as a mechanic and was a really friendly lad. He told them that his mates Finn and Archie were due any minute. Rae offered them all drinks and she turned to the bar to catch the attention of the bar man as Chloe nipped off to powder her nose.
Just as she finished placing her order Rae saw two really fit lads approach the group. Rae was impressed and hoped that one of those lads was the one with the skills between the sheets.
She was about to turn and offer them drinks too when she heard one of the blokes say how there wasn't much pussy in there tonight.
Rae's mouth dropped open in shock hearing such a demeaning term, she turned her back to them and waited for her drinks.
The bloke continued speaking and even though Rae might have been looking the other way, she could still hear him.
"Hold on, I was wrong, who's the fit fat lass?"
Izzy sounded uncomfortable, erm that's Chloe's friend Rae but you can't say stuff like that!" She tried to whisper.
"What? I didn't say anything bad. She is fat and she is fit as fuck."
Rae raised her eyebrows and remained facing forwards. She was pleased the chap serving her was taking ages because she wasn't quite sure what was going on or how she should react to this arrogance.
"I don't think she'd like you talking about her like that." Ben piped up worried for her feelings.
"Well all I care about is whether she'll scream me name out when she cums!" The bloke loudly stated with self assurance making the rest of them gasp.
Rae's eyes brows went even further into her forehead, if that was possible. She almost strained her eyes from rolling them hearing him speak. Who would have thought so much shit could come out of such a pretty mouth. She did want to scream in pleasure but not at the expense of her dignity. He seemed like he had something against women and she promised herself she would let him use her in such a way. He probably had of list of types he wanted to conquer and hadn't bagged a fat one yet.
When she was finally served Rae took a deep breath and decided to pretend she hadn't heard a word of it. When she handed everyone their drinks she looked at the new comers apologising that she didn't get them one.
"Oh sorry Rae this is Finn." Chloe pointed to the awful boy that treated women like objects.
Rae waved dismissively as the lad's eyes burned into her. She looked over to the other chap with mousy hair and glasses. "Hi I'm Rae, I didn't catch your name?" She smiled holding her hand out to him hoping he didn't notice she almost drooled when speaking to him.
He shook her hand and leaned forward to kiss her on the cheek introducing himself as Archie.
Rae sighed when he pecked her cheek, he was so handsome and a little geeky. He looked like he would be nuclear in bed which made Rae's insides squirm with excitement. They all downed their drinks and Rae chatted all evening with Archie happy with his flirty manner.
Finn continued to stare at them talking and laughing and looked really put out. He volunteered to get a round in at one point and tried to force Archie to help him. Archie shook his head to say no, clearly not wanting to be extracted from Rae. When Archie declined his friends biddings Finn went storming over to him demanding to know what he was up to.
Archie looked confused and held his hands in the air in submission. "I'm just chatting up, Erm I mean chatting WITH Rae." He giggled and caressed the back of her hand with his fingers, making Rae smile and giggle.
"Are you seriously flirting with her?" The arsehole pointed directly at Rae. "Are you sure May here is your type?" He looked him directly in the eye.
Rae stood up blinking rapidly trying to prevent the tears in her eyes from falling and letting the arrogant cunt know he'd offended her. "Yeah well perhaps not all blokes judge women for their looks." Rae went to leave but Archie wouldn't let her.
He grabbed her by the hand and linked her fingers amongst his own. "Come and dance with me Rachel?" He smiled and motioned to the dance floor where all the couples were draped over one another moving around slowly in circles.
Rae nodded and accepted. They were playing cheesy old tunes and Archie pulled her into a tight embrace when Chris de Burgh's Lady in Red started to play. Rae whispered into Archie's ear that she'd never live it down dancing to Chris de Burgh.
She went to leave the dance floor but she felt his lips on hers. That was all the persuasion she needed to stay, she deepened the kiss licking his bottom lip seeking entrance with her tongue. He groaned and buried his hands in her hair. They didn't get any further than that as Ben appeared beside them.
"Oi Rae, what you doing? Ben grabbed Rae by the shoulder dragging her apart from Archie. "I know you wanna screw, but there's no point going there with a gayer!" He whispered.
Archie spluttered. "What? No I'm not, I'm into girls and I've just kissed the hottest girl here tonight." He squeaked and looked around nervously.
"I'm sorry I don't want to out you mate." He whispered. "Being one of the only openly gay blokes at uni made my gaydar very accurate. I'm not gonna tell anyone, I just don't want you using my best mate."
Archie swallowed deeply and went to open his mouth to speak, but his mouth gaped open and shut as he looked guiltily at Rae. "Erm, I'm so sorry Rae I weren't trying to use yer. You're just so cool and funny, I just thought if I could go there with anyone It would be you. Just look at the state you made of me best mate." Archie pointed to Finn who was staggering about on the dance floor with an exceedingly drunk blonde.
"Erm I don't think he's in that state for me, didn't you hear what he said earlier?" She grimaced.
"I did and I think he suspects that I'm gay, I think he was warning me off because of that, as well as the fact he fancies the pants of you." Archie giggled. "I really am sorry Rae."
She smiled at him. "Don't worry Archie, I won't tell anyone. But I really think you should and then you could just relax; you could snog some of the gorgeous gay totty that's in here tonight." She and Ben laughed at his surprised face.
"What? There's other gay blokes here?" Archie looked around trying to spot someone that might take his fancy.
Ben laughed out loud. "Did you think you were the only gay in town? You really need to set your radar my dear friend. Let uncle Benjamin take you under his wing? Ben placed his arm around Archie and led him into the dark, sweaty crowd.
Rae headed back to the rest of the group passing Finn on the way. Finn dropped the blonde he was holding as she walked pass. "If you finished dancing with Archibald would you like to come and dance with me?"
"Erm, I don't think so." Rae grimaced and pointed to the blonde he had just literally dropped on the floor. "I don't really fancy that sort of treatment." She replied thinly and returned to their table.
Finn followed behind. "She's always following us about, I didn't ask her to chuck herself at us. What am is s'posed to do? Hold up drunk random blondes all night?"
"I think you should consider they're drunken state when you pull 'em in't first place, if you don't wanna look after 'em afterwards, go for one that's conscious." Rae sneered.
"I didn't pull her, I were trying to help her; her bloke owns this bar. Not that I have to explain meself to you anyway. You're, you're, you're so uptight. You could probably do with a damn good…."
Chop shouted, "look", before Finn could say what Rae could do with. They looked up and Chop was pointing to the centre of the dance floor where Ben and Archie where having what looked like a very passionate kiss.
Chloe, Izzy and Rae all whooped and cheered whilst Chop looked horrified and Finn smugly told Rae that was what he meant when he said she wasn't his type.
Rae poked her tongue into the side of her mouth trying to hold back what she wanted to say. But when he looked at her again with his smug gloat she had to let it out. "Well, if you didn't act like a dick so much, people wouldn't think the worst of you." She gave him the one finger salute as well as a sardonic smile and went over to Ben and Archie to see if Ben was ready to leave.
Ben apologised and asked if Rae minded if he went back with Archie. She didn't mind at all, she just wanted him to have a good time with a nice bloke and Archie could well be the sort of lad Ben was looking for. She asked him to call her in the morning with Archie's address so she could pick him up. She said her goodbye's and headed outside for a taxi.
When she arrived outside, her taxi wasn't there yet. There was a surprisingly cold breeze in the air which made made her nipples as hard as bullets. She folded her arms across her chest regretting her decision to leave her jacket at home. That's when she heard a gruff male voice sigh with disappointment. Rae jumped and looked to the side to see what was going on.
"Oh for fucks sake, what are you doing." Rae asked snippily with her face scrunched with annoyance.
"Well I were enjoying the view, before you folded your arms across the girls." Finn smirked whilst pointing directly at her chest."
"Erk, you're so disgusting. What is it with you? Rae demanded feeling her face burn red.
"What? I see nice tits, I just have ta look. Anyway I just come to get the taxi with yer. So your place or mine? He smirked again.
"Oh my god. Does that line usually work for you? I can't believe it. I guess that's what the advantage of being born with looks instead of brains is." Rae was almost shouting at that point. This bloke was so intensely irritating.
"You should know. You're good looks have made you an utter bitch. I were joking anyway, I just wondered if you wanted to share a taxi. But now I don't really care if you make it home safely or not. Finn responded with disdain and walked over to a group of girls that all happily accepted his company.
Rae sighed to herself. "I might have known the arrogant sod was just joking around with the fat girl." She felt dejected again. It's so hard to just go out and have fun with nice looking boys when she always felt so judged. Perhaps she should be more like that twat Finn if she wanted some fun. He was already snogging a random girl and it looked like the rest of her friends were forming a queue to receive some of the action. Fortunately her taxi arrived and she could leave Finn to his public display.
Rae fell into her bed as soon as she arrived home. It was so comfortable having the double to herself that dropped off to sleep instantly.
In the morning Rae was awoken by her most favourite girl in the world slipping into her bed next to her. Jasmine wrapped her arms around her and continued to ask her questions until Rae relented and got up to play with her. Rae made them both breakfast and they played all morning until she received a call from Ben asking her to meet up with him and Archie.
Rae was so excited by the choice of Ben's words. If she was meeting up with them, perhaps they were a couple? Rae dashed into the shower and threw on her jeans and Oasis t-shirt before she set off in her mum's car to find them.
She found Archie's flat quite easily and ran to his door eager to hear all the gossip from the previous night but was surprised to be greeted at the door by a dishevelled looking Finn in just a pair of a boxers