Friends With Benefits

Disclaimer: I don't own anything other then my OC's

Chapter 1

"Happy birthday dear, Graaaace." My dad, grandpa, grandma, my older brother Nathan and my three best friends Ben, Laurie, and Jennifer sang, "Happy birthday to youuuuu!"

I smiled and blew out all 17 candles, making a wish. I wished to realize what I want to do with my life. It WAS my 16th birthday; I should at least be able to wish for something a little more serious than a pony or to be famous.

I'm at the end of my 11th grade year in high school and I still have absolutely no idea what I want to be when I grow up. I enjoy learning about physics but I also like drawing and being creative. I could be an architect but that's too boring for me. I love singing, but I'm not even close to being good enough to be a professional singer.

"What'd you wish for Grace?" Jen asked me, serving her a piece of my chocolate cake.

"Now, if I told you it won't come true." I responded.

I knew wishing doesn't really work. One summer every day at 11:11, 12:34, 1:23, and 10:10 o'clock I'd wish to meet Aaron Carter which never came true.

"She probably wished to get in Sean's pants." Ben said, laughing and asking people for a high five but getting rejected.

I felt my face heat up; I looked around the small kitchen to make sure none of my relatives heard what he said. "No! And I am not telling you what I wished for!" I said, trying really hard not to smile.

"Alright, but were just gonna assume that that's what you really did wish for." Laurie joked.

I rolled my eyes and thought about Sean and his perfect curly brown hair, deep chocolate brown eyes, Sunkist tan skin, lean muscular body. He's got practically everything a girl could want.

"Assume all you want but that's not what I wished for." I said back to her, slicing myself a piece of the cake.

I sat down on the red couch in my living room, Ben and Laurie joining me. I looked over at Ben, the boy I used to have a gigantic crush on, and studied his face, trying to remember why I was so in love with him. He is really cute; Brown flippy hair, brown eyes, tan skin, awesome sense of humor. But he could also be really annoying and I could never have a really serious conversation with him.

"So, what do you guys want to do?" Laurie asked, taking a bite of her cake.

"Well Joel just texted me," Ben stated, pulling out his phone, "and wanted to know if we wanted to go play soccer."

I nearly jumped out of my socks hearing him say that.

"Yes!" Jen exclaimed.

"Ughh, soccer?" Laurie whined. For some reason Laurie hates soccer. The rest of us all play on the soccer teams at our high school.

"I like soccer." I stated.

"Laurie, you can be the ref." Ben told her.

"Okay, I guess. I mean, it is Grace's birthday." Laurie said in a very depressed tone.

Sometimes Laurie could he such a stick in the mud! During lunch all she does is read, at sleepovers she falls asleep at 11:00pm, during gym she sits out and pretends she has a hurt ankle or shit.

"He's not gonna he up at the park till 7:00 o'clock though." Ben said.

"Well, we can waste time by watching TV." I said, turning my flat screen HD TV on. I changed the channel to channel 142, MTVhits. It only plays music videos.

The music video for the song Till the World Ends by Britney Spears was one.

"I love this song." I said, staring at the TV screen.

"I hate this song." Laurie said.

I rolled my eyes, trying to ignore her.

"I hope they play Boyfriend by Big Time Rush." Jen said.

Big Time Rush is Jens latest obsession. I've never actually heard them sing but apparently they're amazing, well in her eyes they are. She is extra obsessed with one of the band members James Diamond. I've never seen what they look like so I can't really say if he's hot or not

ironically the music video for Boyfriend came on.

"How the hell did Snoop Dogg get with this gay band?" Ben asked.

"They're not gay!" Jen exclaimed.

"Which ones James?" I asked her.

"The really hot one!" Jen said, gazing at the TV.

"The one with the..." I looked at the four boys, trying to find the hottest, "The one with the spiky dark brown hair"

"Ewww no! That's Logan!" Jen exclaimed, wrinkling her nose in disgust.

"Jeez," I said, I looked at the four boys again, now trying to find the ugliest, "Is he the ugly one with the longer brown hair and unnaturally tanned skin."

"First of all he's not ugly," Jen said, "And second of all his skin is not unnaturally tanned, it's just perfect."

"Gross, 'Logan' or whatever you called him is the cutest" I said.

"No, James is!" Jen exclaimed.

"No, James looks gay." I said.

"Thank you!" Ben said, throwing his arms up in the air.

"Actually Kendall is cutest." Laurie said out of nowhere.

"Kendall? Is he the one with the blonde hair?" I asked.

"Yeah, he's really cute." Laurie said.

"If all you guys are gonna talk about is how hot these guys are then I'm gonna go to the park right now." Ben threatened.

"No, don't go!" I yelled.

"Pass the ball!" Joel yelled, throwing his hands up in the air.

I looked around the field to see where Ben and Jen were. Joel and me were on a team and Jen and Ben were on a team.

I passed the ball quickly to him, then running down the field towards the goal.

Joel plays defense on the men's soccer team and I play forward on the women's soccer team so it worked our perfectly.

He passed the ball to me and I kicked it as hard as I could into the goal, scoring us out 5th point. Now it was 5 to 2.

"Alright," Ben said, is hands on his knees panting heavily, "I think its time for a break."

I laughed at how not in shape he is, "Alright."

"So, I heard it's your birthday." Joel said, wrapping his right arm around my shoulders.

"Yes, it is." I smiled, looking up at him.

I was diffidently very physically attracted to him. He has messy short black hair, emerald green eyes, not really that tan, and a very nice body.

I put my hand around his waist. I wanted to kiss him so badly! He leaned in closer to my face, our noses almost touching. Was he seriously about to kiss me!

"Okay," Ben said, spreading us apart, "breaks over!"

I saw Jen and Laurie giggling which made me laugh also. I looked over at Joel who actually looked a little pissed off at Ben.

Ben and Joel have been best friends since 8th grade. They practically do everything together. Ben has always been protective with me about what guys I date and stuff. For some reason Ben totally abject of me being with Joel. I didn't really want a relationship with Joel. I am more physically attracted to Joel than anything else. And Joel is a total player.

"Anyone else really thirsty?" Joel asked.

Jen, Laurie, and myself all raised our hands, Ben just glared at Joel.

"Okay well I'll go get some. Grace, could you help me?" Joel asked me.

"Yes!" I exclaimed.

"Alright, come one." Joel said, signaling me to follow him with his arm.

I ran up next him. Once we were out of sight he wrapped his arm around my shoulder again.

We walked a few more yards until I realized we were going the opposite direction of his house.

"Wait," I said, stopping in my tracks, "Isn't your house that way." I pointed behind us.

"Yeah, I just thought taking the long way might be fun." He said seductively.

I swallowed hard; he was so freaking tempting it's not even funny.

"Want to sit down?" He asked, pointing at one of the park benches that was along the sidewalk.

"Sure." I answered quietly. Suddenly I felt very shy.

We both sat down on the bench, "So what was the best present you got?" he asked, placing his hand on my knee.

"Uhhhh um, well I got Red Sox tickets which is pretty great." I answered, by the look on his face I knew he wasn't expecting me to say that I got tickets to the best baseball team in the history of the world.

"Holy shit!" He yelled, "How the fuck did you get Red Sox tickets!"

"My grandpa bought them for me and my dad." I answered.

I couldn't help but smile at the adorable look on his face. I hadn't noticed this before but he actually kind of resembles Logan from Big Time Rush.

He slowly moved his hand up my thigh, causing me to get really nervous. "That's really amazing that your grandpa bought you those tickets. Especially since the Red Sox play all the way down in the states"

Every summer I would go out to my grandma's house in Maine, USA and we would watch the Red Sox every night. After the first game I watched I was hooked. Dustin Pedroia was both me and my grandma's favorite player.

He whispered in my ear, "You know what we should do?"

"Wh-What?" I clumsily stuttered.

"This:" He took my face and both of my hands and crashed his lips to mine.

I was a little caught off guard so I didn't kiss back at first but I
soon did. He moved his hands down my body to my waist. I wrapped my arms around his neck pulling him deeper into the kiss.

I pulled away from the kiss and said, "We should probably get back to the field."

"Yeah," He said, and then cleared his throat, "we should."

Minutes later we arrived back at the soccer field. There was no sign of Ben, Jen or Laurie.

"Where'd they go?" I asked Joel.

I looked around the field; the soccer ball wasn't even there. The field was completely empty, except for me and Joel.

"I'm not sure..." He said.

"Maybe they went back to my house." I said.

"Yeah maybe."

We both walked back to my house. The walk short, only about 4 minutes long.

We walked through the door connecting to my basement. All three of them plus my brother were sitting on the couch talking about who knows what.

"Where'd you guys go?" I asked them, kicking my shoes off.

"Well you guys were taking forever so we decided to head back home."
Ben said.

"What the hell?" Joe exclaimed, "We were gone for like barely ten minutes!"

Ben just shrugged and continued talking with the rest of the group.

I walked into the basement and sat down on one of the couches next to my brother Nate. Joel went and sat next to Jen. I wasn't really sure what they were talking about but it had to do with pickles and the song Lil Freak by Usher.

"Oh yeah Grace, Dad said somebody important called for you." Nate told me.

I looked at him, a confused expression on my face, "Oh? Okay."

I ran up the stairs into the living room wear my grandma, grandpa, and dad were sitting.

"Nate told me somebody called for me?" I asked my dad.

"Yeah it was just some 'Talent Scout.'" He said, putting air-quotation marks around 'Talent Scout.'

"Wait what!" I exclaimed, sitting down on the love seat.

"Yeah, they claim they saw a video of you on YouTube and want to fly you out to California for a few days." He said, almost laughing at the idea.

"Who was it!" I asked.

"Kelly Wainwright of Rocque Records."

To Be Continued...

(A/N: Soooo? How'd you like it? I have a really bad habit of starting a multichapter story but never adding a second chapter...so we'll see how this goes. Don't forget to review! And you get extra love if you know who Grace is a parody of :P