Caleb woke up from the sun shining in his eyes. Once he had adjusted to the light, he looked across from him and saw that the curtains were drawn wide open. Him and Hanna mustn't have noticed it when they came back as it was dark at the time and they were both drunk. He looked down at the sleeping little face that was snuggling into his chest, trying to hide from the bright light and smiled. Images from the night before came back to him. Her writhing underneath him as he thrusted into her, the way she whimpered his name when she was close and the cries when she reached her peak. Every perfect moment. He just wished he could have been sober for it. Then again, if he was sober, he never would have made a move in the first place. About 20 minutes of just watching her as she slept, he climbed out of bed, careful not to wake her and made his way to the shower.
Hanna woke up when she heard the shower turn off. The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was Caleb walking out of the bathroom, with a wet chest and hair with a towel wrapped round his waist. Sure, he had showers at her place all the time, but she couldn't help but stare as he got changed. She watched as his tanned muscles flexed when he was doing up his belt and bit her lip. He thought she was asleep, but when he turned around and saw her staring, he smirked. "Morning" He said in his deep voice.
"Morning" She blushed when he knew she was practically drooling. He still didn't have a shirt on when he came over to her and climbed on top of her, only a sheet separating her naked body from his. She blushed even more and bit her lip harder, not expecting him to do that. He started stroking her cheeks, but when he leaned down for a kiss, she sat up and wrapped the sheet tightly round her. "Wha-what time is it?" She tried to fill the silence.
He lay down next to her and checked the time on his watch. "10:30am"
"Oh" She said in a voice that sounded different. Like she was...nervous.
He noticed her mood and lifted her chin to look at him. "Are you okay?" He softened his voice, concern written all over his features. "Do you regret what happened? Did I hurt you or something?-"
"No" She said immediately. "You didn't hurt me. It was great. No strings right?" She fake-smiled. "I'm gonna have a quick shower, I have lunch with Aria soon" She wrapped the sheet around her whole body and walked to the bathroom. She could barely look at him, she felt too awkward.
When Hanna and Caleb got home, she immediately went to get ready and Caleb took Maya to the park, as he was meant to be watching her while her and Aria were at lunch. They barely said two words in the car, he tried to start a conversation but she just shut him down. She couldn't believe what they had done the night before. But what she was still confused about was that she didn't even regret it. She had slept with a smile on her face and even though she sleeps in his arms all the time, that time felt even more special. But if he expected it to happen all the time, it could ruin their relationship.
Hanna and Aria got ready together and went to lunch, but even Aria noticed something was different with the blonde. "Thanks for looking after Maya last night, that really helped" Hanna said to Aria once they sat down at the restaurant.
"Don't worry about it, she's no trouble at all. So anyway, how was the reunion?"
"It um..It wasn't too bad" Hanna said, but Aria could tell she was going to say something else.
"..But?"
"But nothing" Hanna pretended to focus on the menu. "Should I get the burger or the club sandwich?"
"What happened? Did you and Caleb get into a fight?"
"Ooh I wonder if I can get the burger with a salad instead of fries" Hanna ignored her.
"Hanna! What happened last night? Your totally different"
She sighed and gave in. "No, we didn't get in a fight"
"But you two have barely said two words to each other this morning"
"We..."
"We?"
"We were drunk..and we kissed an-"
"You kissed?! You and Caleb?!"
"And...we slep together" Hanna whispered.
At that, Aria's mouth was wide open. "You and Caleb..had sex. Like for real?"
"Yup" Hanna nervously fiddled with her hands.
"What does it mean? Are you two like..together?"
"No. I don't know what it means, but we're not together. It's complicated. We agreed no strings, just friends with benefits, but it still feels wrong"
"Well, do you like him as more than a friend?"
That question just confused Hanna. She had thought of her and Caleb being together when they were strangers when they first met and she was trying to get him to like her, but then when he never made a move, they became best friends and she never thought of him in that way again."I..I dunno. Anyway, lets not talk about it"
"This isn't something you can just forget about. You need to talk to him. Don't let it ruin your friendship"
Later that evening, Hanna and Maya were cuddling on the couch, watching a disney movie that Hanna wasn't paying any attention to. Her mind was running in a thousand different places. Aria was right, she needed to talk to Caleb, but she wouldn't even know where to start. "Mummy can we go to disney land and meet the Princesses?" Maya interrupted her thoughts, pointing to Cinderella with her thumb in her mouth.
"One day we'll go" She promised, kissing her cheek.
"Did I hear something about disney land?" They heard a voice and a door slam. Hanna completely forgot he was coming over. He was coming over to fix her computer because she got a virus, but that was before they ended up having sex and she was completely regretting asking him over now.
"Mummy said she would take me" Maya got off the sofa from her mothers arms and walked over to Caleb.
"Did she now?, I hope I'm invited"
"Obviously!" Maya said. Caleb picked Maya up and slouched on the couch next to Hanna.
"So where's this Computer I'm fixing?"
"Here" Hanna simply said, grabbing her laptop from the coffee table. They sat in silence while he typed away on her keyboard. Hanna put on a movie in Maya's room and left her watching it while she played with her dolls, so it was just Hanna and Caleb downstairs, and Hanna could feel the tension.
"So I think.." He typed a few more codes. "You are done" He finally put down the laptop.
"Thank you so much" She smiled at him, but he knew it was fake.
"Hanna, what the hell is going on?" He asked, leaning back into the sofa, crossing his arms
She widened her eyes. "What do you mean?" She gulped.
"Ever since this morning you've been ignoring me. Is this about last night? I thought you were okay with it?"
"I was- I.. I am. I'm just confused as to where we stand"
"What do you mean?" He moved closer to her.
"Best friends aren't supposed to have sex" She muttered.
He saw tears in her eyes and she turned her head from him. He moved a piece of hair behind her ear and wrapped an arm around her and pressed a kiss to her cheek. "Whats wrong?"
She stared at him for a while, blinking away her tears. "Our friendship is so important to me, and I'm just scared that being with each other in that way would ruin it"
"Hanna" He sighed, taking her hands. "Don't you know already that nothing can ever ruin our friendship? There is no one in this world more important to me than you and Maya. My Mum and Jamie are a close second, but without you I wouldn't have even found them so that doesn't count"
"I know, I don't know why I'm being like this. I just care about you so much"
"It's okay, we don't have to do anything like that again"
"But...what if do I want to..?" She said, shocking him and herself.
"Then thats okay too" He smirked.
She turned to him with a serious look. "But, we have to agree that nothing can happen and this can't effect our friendship. We can't always think about sex when we are together, and when and if we find somebody, this has to stop. Deal?"
"Deal" He leaned in towards her and connected their lips, putting his hand on her hip. She smiled into it, placing one delicate hand on his cheek to angle him. It was over in a matter of second when they heard a stomping sound coming down the stairs.
They immediately pulled away, thanking god that Maya didn't see. That would only confuse her. "Mommy the movie is over, can I watch another one?"
"No Baby, it's time for bed" Hanna said getting up.
"But its Sunday tomorrow, can't I stay up with you and Caleb?" She stuck her bottom lip out.
"No, you need to get some sleep" Hanna picked her up and rested her on her hip.
"That's not fair" Maya whined.
"How bout this" Caleb said standing up too. "If you do what Hanna says then I'll take you both Christmas shopping tomorrow"
"Can we mommy?" Maya said excitedly.
"If you go to sleep straight away"
"I will!" Maya struggled out of Hanna's arms and kissed Caleb goodnight. Hanna tucked Maya in and when she came downstairs, Her and Caleb practically ripped off each others clothes and didn't even make it up the stairs and ended up making love on the kitchen floor.
The next morning, Hanna, Caleb and Maya were at the mall, shopping for whatever tacky christmas decorations they could find. After their night of fun, Hanna and Caleb had been shooting each other flirty smiles and smirks all day. Hanna was glad that they worked things out and could be friends with benefits without the strings. "Can we get a real tree this year?" Maya pulled on Hanna's hand.
"But our fake one is so cute" Hanna insisted.
"Its not cute, its small" Caleb laughed.
"It's not small!" Hanna gasped.
"It is small! We need a big one for Christmas day" Maya said.
"Baby, we aren't going to be at home for Christmas day, we're going to California to spend the holidays with Caleb and his family, remember?" Hanna said.
"Oh yeah! I'm so excited" Maya grinned. She loves going to see Caleb's family, they went in the summer and Maya gets along great with James and Clay, but mostly Clay since he's only one year older than her. Claudia and Hanna are very close, Claudia treats Hanna as a daughter, and even helped out a lot when Maya was born.
"Ooh that reminds me, I need to pick Claudia some heeled boots for Christmas, she was telling me how she needs new ones" Hanna said, dragging Caleb into ChloƩ and staring at a line of shoes. Caleb watched at her and Maya pointed to different shoes and gave their opinion and Caleb couldn't be happier. Most men would hate to be shopping with two girls but whenever he's with them, he feels like the luckiest guy in the world, even if they are talking to him about shoes.
Hanna dragged Caleb to all sorts of shops. They were now at a clothes shop, Hanna holding different ties to his neck to see which one would go nicely. "Han, I really don't need anymore ties, I've got like 30"
"But you still wear the same one like everyday, you know the one-" Hanna said, but Caleb wasn't listening, he was busy staring at something across the shop. Hanna followed his gaze and tuned around to see a skinny brunette waving at Caleb with a sultry look in her eyes. "She needs a sandwich" Hanna muttered.
"Hanna!" Caleb laughed.
"What? She's too skinny" Hanna glared at the model-like girl.
"Are you jealous" He grinned placing his hands on her hips.
"I'm not jealous, I'm being observant" She smiled back innocently, walking to the till to pay for the tie and feeling Caleb's eyes on her.
After another long week, it was just another Friday and after Hanna had dropped Maya off at pre-school, she headed straight to work. Spencer doesn't like the designer working for her for her new movie, so she fired her and hired Hanna, so now she has to style her everyday for filming. Hanna was running a few minutes late, as always, but as soon as she walked into Spencer's trailer on set, she was greeted by a hug.
"Wow Spence, I missed you too but you've only been in Paris since Wednesday" Hanna laughed at her tall friend.
"No, Aria told me!" Spencer shrieked, pulling away.
"Told you what?"
"That you and Caleb are together!"
Hanna widened her eyes. "What? No, we are not together. We're just...friends with benefits" She cringed at the term.
"I know, she told me you were, but friends with benefits never works out. Haven't you seen all the movies about it?"
"Their just movies, Caleb and I are and will always be just friends"
"Keep telling yourself that" Spencer winked, Hanna rolling her eyes.
"Please, like you and Toby haven't been flirting for the past few years" Hanna said. The first year that Hanna and Aria became friends with Spencer and Emily, Hanna introduced Spencer to Toby. It was very clear that they both like each other, but Spencer blamed the fact that they weren't together because of her busy schedule, which is true, but really it's because Spencer is 'dating' someone from her cast, Johnny Raymon, but really their only pretending for the public to get more views for the show.
"Oh yeah, could you also help me find a good outfit for tonight?" Spencer changed the subject from her and Toby.
"Sure, I'll pick something Toby will love" She teased her. It was going to be Emily's birthday on Sunday, but she was having one of her famous birthday parties that night. Everyone was going to be there, Aria, Ezra, Caleb, Toby and even her cast mates and famous friends.
After Hanna finished work, she dropped Maya at a friends house she was staying at and headed home, planning her outfit. Hanna decided to wear a dark red leather skirt, with a tight black strappy top tucked in, showing a lot of cleavage, leaving her hair in the natural curls and doing a daring makeup look. It's not often that she gets to dress up, and working with clothes everyday, she gets a few outfit ideas here and there. Even though Hanna's a mother, she's still 20 and wants to act like it, so she made sure she looked extra sexy tonight, secretly hoping that Caleb would notice her.
She did the strap on her stiletto black heels and walked to the door to open it for Caleb, his eyes widened and his lips parted, speechless as he took her in. Exactly the reaction she was hoping for. "You look...your beautiful" Caleb stuttered.
"Thank you. You look great too" She smiled, kissing his cheek and strutting to the taxi. He knew she was trying to tease him, but he was too focused on wanting her to care.
Once they arrived to the club the party was at, they made their way to Em and the others who were all sitting on a VIP table. "Em!" Hanna enveloped her tanned friend in a hug. "Happy Birthday"
"It's not my birthday till Monday but thanks" Emily laughed. "I haven't seen you guys in weeks" She moved over to hug Caleb.
"I know, I missed you" Hanna pouted.
"Oh, before I forget, Hanna there's someone from work who wants to meet you" Emily said when someone walked over to them.
"Hanna, Caleb, this is Wren. Wren this is Hanna and Caleb"
"Nice to meet you both" The handsome British man said, eyeing Hanna. "You two aren't together are you?"
"No" Hanna said.
"So, you would't mind if I ask her to dance?" He looked to Caleb.
"Actually, we should say Hi to more people" Caleb said.
"Oh..okay then. I'll just give you my number and maybe we could meet up sometime" Wren said, writing down his digits on a napkin. He passed it to her and kissed her cheek, then walking in the other direction.
"Now who's the jealous one?" She smirked, shoving the napkin in her bag.
Throughout the evening, Hanna and Caleb were spending most of the time with Toby, Spencer, Aria, Ezra and Emily, as it's rear the whole gang is together. Later, whilst everyone was drinking, Hanna and Caleb were dancing -more like grinding-, when Hanna saw a familiar blonde across from them. "What? Why is she here? Did Emily invite her?" Hanna said.
Caleb turned and looked in the direction of Hanna's eye line to see Kate. "Hanna, it's an open club, she probably knew you were gonna be here because of Emily and wants to annoy you"
Kate walked to the bar and was joined by three girls. "Oh god, those are the friends that hate me" Hanna said. One time when Aria had come over when they were only 15, Hanna had a ranting session about Kate and Isabelle, and Kate and her friends, Margaux and Bitsy, happened to be listening at Hanna's door, hearing everything that Hanna truly thought of them. Ever since then, her friends would act as bitchy as Kate.
"Just ignore them" Caleb said, knowing how much she hates them.
"I can hear and see them talking about me" Hanna said, looking around again and hearing one of them call her a 'slut'. Both of them watched as Kate and her friends stood up and started walking towards them, giving them fake smiles.
"Hanna, it's been a while" Margaux said.
"Yeah, too long" Hanna said back sarcastically.
"Caleb, you look really good tonight" Kate smirked at him.
"Thanks" He said motionlessly.
"Still not willing to go out with me? Are you like off girls or something? Are you gay?" Kate said, rolling her eyes because he hates her.
"He must be gay if he won't go out with you" Bitsy stepped in. "Hanna, do you have boyfriend at the moment?" She snarked.
"No" Hanna said back innocently.
"Thought so" One of them muttered, all of them walking back to the bar.
"You okay?" Caleb said quietly, seeing the look of sadness on her features. She has so many issues about what people think of her, one small thing like that can set her off.
"Yeah, I'm fine" She said, still looking at Kate and the others with a sad expression on her face. They were looking at her and whispering, and Caleb couldn't take it anymore. He wanted to do something, but it wasn't like he could punch Kate, so he made a bold move. He turned Hanna's chin towards him and connected their lips in a soft motion, taking her completely by surprise. They had never been affectionate in public, nor did she think they would. It was alcohol-flavoured and heated pretty quickly. His hands went straight to her ass that he had been waiting to touch since he saw her in that tight skirt and she started grinding on him hours before.
When he pulled away, they were both grinning, Hanna then going bright red when Toby whistled over. All their friends knew the 'friends with benefits' deal they had going on, and no one questioned it, but they all noticed a connection between the pair. Caleb pointed to Kate that had stopped whispering and now had a look of jealousy on her face. "Guess the plan worked" Caleb said, referring to making Kate annoyed.
"That'll make the bitches quiet" Hanna muttered to him, smiling. They carried on dancing, Hanna and Caleb kissing and touching each other more, and everyone talking and catching up. At around 2am, people were leaving and Caleb suggested they get going, so people were saying their goodbyes and ordering taxi's. it was now just Hanna and Caleb left outside, waiting on their taxi. "Hey, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom, I'll just be a minute" Hanna said to Caleb. He nodded and she walked inside, heading to the bathroom though the still-busy club.
After 5 minutes went by, he was confused why she still wasn't back, she's usually pretty quick, but he put it of to there being a long queue in the bathroom. Still waiting on the taxi, another 5 minutes want by and she had been gone for 10 minutes. He was beginning to get worried, so he entered the club, heading straight to where the toilets are. Round the corner, he saw a blonde being pushed against the wall. He couldn't even think straight when he saw her. A clearly very drunk man was kissing her, keeping her wrists on either side of her head, while she struggled away.
Caleb froze to the spot, but when he heard her muffled scream, he snapped out of it and rushed over there, ripping the guy from her and hurling his fist in his face. The drunk man fell to the floor and probably passed out from all the alcohol, because he didn't get back up. Hanna ran straight into Caleb's arms, crying. Her crying soon turned into just soft whimpers, but they were still breaking Caleb's heart. Whenever she cries or she's upset he just wants to take all that pain away and have it himself. "Are you okay?" He stroked her cheeks when they pulled away, catching the last remaining tears with his thumbs.
"I'm okay, it just scared me a bit. I thought he was gonna do something, but you got there in time" She gave him a small smile.
He took off his coat, wrapped it round her and kissed her cheek softly, linking their hands and walking outside again. When their taxi finally arrived, she cuddled up to him and he made a silent vow to always try and keep her safe and make her feel safe. Hanna was staying at Caleb's apartment that night, since Maya is on a sleepover. As soon as he unlocked the door, they were at it again, not being able to get enough of each other. "God, don't make me watch you all evening in an outfit that hot again, and not even having you" He said between kisses, leading them to the bedroom.
"You can have me now" She smirked, climbing on top of him.
Hey guys, hope you like this chapter, the next one will be a christmas one I think. Hope your having a happy holiday! Please review x
