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Chapter 3: Friends?
The next few days at school are really rather unpleasant. Adam has taken to touching Bailey every spare second. They're starting to make Connie and Guy look cold. He's always got his arm around her, or they're holding hands, or of course that old high school stand by, he's got her pushed up against his locker and his tongue down her throat. Whatever, she's his girlfriend and if he wants to look stupid then that's his business. Anyway, they're new affectionate nature is making Linda whine that Charlie doesn't pay enough attention to her, which makes him grumpy, which puts him on edge at practice, which puts Orion in a bad mood, which makes us all suffer. And it's all stupid Bailey's fault.
"Hey," ah, the one thing that makes my life good, Ben, slips behind me.
"Hey," I smiled softly. He kisses me on the cheek.
"So studying tonight?" He smiles when I turn around. I smile coyly back, hugging my books to my chest. "You going to tease me Jules?"
"I can't get away with teasing you," I smile, flipping my hair behind me. I've become an expert at flirting with Ben. I'm not stupid, I watch the way the cheerleaders act around guys.
"That's right you can't," He smiles and kisses me, his tongue's more in my mouth than I would like it to be in public. I really hate PDA "So tonight?"
"You're room again?" I smile.
"See you then," He says and kisses me again. I smile.
"Bye Ben," I giggle and walk away. I round a corner and there's Adam.
"You and Benny have a nice time?" He snarls at me.
"Not as nice as you and Bailey apparently," I spit out. "You two are giving Connie and Guy a run for the most pukeworthy couple award!"
"Oh that's clever Julie," he rolls his eyes.
"I don't see what you're so upset about!" I sigh. "You didn't act this way with Scooter."
"It was different with Scooter," Adam sighs, "He wasn't using you. He took you out on dates, and,"
"Ben's not using me either," I laugh, "It's just different, we're more casual."
"Whatever," he says, "Can we be friends again? Because this verbal sparing we're doing is giving me a headache."
"OK," I smile.
"Adam," Bailey's voice comes down the hallway and she skipped over and weaved her arm through his, "Hi Julie."
"Hi Bailey." I smile.
"Bails, come on," Adam moves away from her as she tries to put her arms around him. "I mean, we're right out in the open."
"I just want to say hello," she giggles and kisses him.
"I'll just go." I say pointing down the hallway I turn back on my way down. Apparently it wasn't the being in the open that worried Adam, it was the me being there, because I doubt Bailey can breath they're so attached.
I'm barely in the door when Ben's got his arms around me and his face planted squarely on mine. It's quite a hello, I must say.
"Hi," He says when he finishes, whatever it was he was doing.
"Hi," I say, and look down.
"You seem down," He says, "Everything cool? Was practice OK?"
"It's fine I mean," I nod, "Orion's riding us, but that's not new, the teams just kinda weird right now." He smiles and sits down.
"Well, why don't you come sit here?" He taps his knee, "And tell me all about it." I smile and settle on his lap, he kisses me, my hands are comfortably settled on his neck, his on my hips. I really do love kissing him.
"Are we ever going to actually work on that project?" I raise my eyebrows, he just laughs in that casual really sexy way of his and kisses me.
"I love how cool you are," He smiles, "Like you're not all over me about anything it's awesome." We keep kissing. "It's like, you understand exactly, what a guy wants Jules."
"Exactly?" I giggle. "I don't know about it exactly."
"Are you kidding me?" He laughs and rolls me under him. "Hot girl, really fun, doesn't hassle you about stupid crap. That's what every guy wants." Stupid crap? What does he mean by stupid crap? But my mind is like totally empty all I can think about is Ben's hands and the tingly feeling I'm getting as they rub the spot on my lower back where my shirt rode up. That and the fact that he called me hot. He thinks I'm hot.
"You think I'm hot?" I giggle, ecstatically.
"Mm," He smiles, "And that you don't know how hot you are, just makes you hotter." He moves his hands up and unbuttons the top two buttons of the sweater I'm wearing. He kisses down my chest.
"Oh Ben," I groan, he keeps moving down. "Ben, Ben," I start to panic. "Ben, slow down please," he grins and starts giving slower longer kisses on my neck. Oh God it feels good! "Ben," I giggle, "I didn't mean literally."
"Right Jules," He nods, and sits up. "Sorry," he smiles, and I melt, sitting up and rebuttoning my sweater. "I got carried away. I know you're not used to this kind of thing."
"It's not like I've never done anything," I protest, "I mean there was Scooter, and there was this guy at home this summer."
"Oh I didn't mean," he laughs, "I just mean, like being friends and doing this kind of thing."
"Friends?" I say confused. "Oh yeah, I mean, it's fine, and fun too." I stand up awkwardly. "I should go. Janet'll think that I'm out all night and I'll probably walk in on her and her boyfriend naked. And I really don't want to see his ass."
"Definitely." Ben laughs. "I'll see you in class tomorrow?"
"Yeah," I smile, "Um, see you." I walk out. Friends? That's what he meant, I guess by not hassling about stupid crap. Stupid crap, means dating.
"Maybe he just meant for now," Connie shrugs the next morning. "Like he doesn't want to rush it."
"He was trying to take my shirt off," I point out, "I don't think rushing it is what he's worried about."
"You didn't let him did you?" she says disgusted.
"No!" I say. "I mean, it's not like I didn't want to, but especially if we're just hooking up,"
"Hey," Guy comes over, and I lose my conversation partner, because Connie is too busy kissing him to talk to me. "Listen this weekend," he then notices that I'm there. "Oh, hey Julie."
"Hi," I say. "It's not like we were having a conversation or anything its fine."
"Oh, awesome," He smiles and they go back to each other. Guys are useless. Don't they ever think about anything else?
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