Oh boy… pressure is building, but how will Bucky and Ellie deal with it?
Bucky sat on the couch, drinking from his water bottle, feeling the heat radiating from his skin.
Ellie walked out of her room, eyes just cracked open, one hand lifted to rub them.
She was wearing an oversized shirt with some company's faded logo on it from some place he'd worked at long ago and a pair of baggy shorts, just regular, every day pajamas, nothing special, but he wanted to pull her onto his lap and touch her, get her excited and naked under him-
Bucky snapped his head away from her, chugging some water to try to cool down.
Ellie blinked her eyes fully open, seeing Bucky on the couch. A drop of water ran down from the corner of his mouth, sliding in a slow, meandering trail down his throat, and her eyes followed its every move, wanting to go lick it from his skin.
Ellie blinked rapidly to force the thought from her mind and hurried to the kitchen.
When she had sufficiently cleared her mind of all thoughts of wanting to lick or touch Bucky, she felt safe going back into the front room. She sat next to him on the couch, looking at the blank TV screen. "Trying to decide what to watch?" She asked.
"No," Bucky answered when he'd pulled the water bottle from his mouth and swallowed. "Just chilling for a minute before I got a shower."
Ellie nodded in understanding. "Mm, early morning run."
He nodded in agreement as he chugged a bit more water.
"I should have guessed; I can smell you from here," she teased, waving one hand.
She could smell him; a warm musky smell reminiscent of hard work.
Bucky smirked. "Aw, you love it! You can't live without my stink!" He joked, getting up and heading to his room to grab some clean clothes as she made a disgusted face at him. On his way back past, he asked, "you need the bathroom?"
"No, all yours," she answered as she flipped through her watch list.
Bucky closed the bathroom door behind him and Ellie face planted on the couch. Right into the spot he'd been sitting in, though she hadn't been aiming.
She groaned and rolled over, staring up at the ceiling. The smell of him was filling her nose, making her body tingle, making her nipples tighten…
God, she wanted to be the reason he smelled like that, wanted to be the reason he smelled like hard work and exercise… wanted it to be because he had laid her out and fucked her silly!
A memory flashed in her mind of him laying over her on the couch, flopping on top of her and pressing her into the couch with his weight.
It had been a simpler time, when there had been no thought of anything carnal between them, only of teasing and friendship… before they had broken so many boundaries…
Now, she couldn't stop thinking about how much she wanted him to fuck her brains out…
Ellie sighed in frustration, rubbing her hands over her face.
Had it really come to this? To desperately wanting to have sex with her best friend?
.
Bucky tugged at his hair as he stared at himself in the mirror.
Things had definitely spiraled out of control.
He wanted to hold Ellie in his lap every second of the day.
He wanted to have her against him every night.
He couldn't stop thinking about fucking her into oblivion!
Bucky tugged harder at his hair in frustration.
This was supposed to have been a normal craving.
He was supposed to have hit it and quit it.
Except that he hadn't actually quite hit it, and so far, he definitely hadn't quit it.
Was it because he hadn't cum in her mouth like he'd wanted to? But no, that couldn't be it, otherwise he wouldn't still be day dreaming about kissing her…
Which she'd never let him do, because something that intimate might ruin their friendship… as though that made sense when he'd been ears deep in her pussy already.
But he'd respect her wishes, as he always did.
He needed to figure out a way to get past this, though, and quick. The month was almost over, and they needed to have the rent paid, sure, but he needed their friendship to be intact.
He couldn't imagine his life without Ellie right there next to him, teasing and joking, arguing over what to watch, squealing like a little girl when he tickled her, hearing her laugh and giggle at his stupid jokes, holding her against his side with his arm around her when she was having a bad day, laying his head in her lap when he was…
They'd been by each other's side for so long, he didn't even know what kind of life he'd be able to have without her anymore.
… … …
Ellie woke up and gathered some clean clothes and things for a shower, taking everything out of the tub before she climbed in and started to wash herself.
She needed to get these thoughts out of her head. She needed to stop thinking about having sex with Bucky.
She needed to fucking get laid!
Except that any time she thought about it, she couldn't bring herself to get dressed up and go out to look for someone to do it with. She couldn't think of anyone she'd want to do it with.
Except Bucky.
She finished up and got dressed, toweling her hair as she opened the door to let some of the steam out.
"Hey, Ellie?" Bucky called from the couch.
"Yeah, Buck?" She called back.
"I-I gotta talk to ya about something…"
"Ok, what is it?" She asked, trying to tame her hair with her comb.
"Well… it's about the rent… or, more specifically, the show…"
Ellie's hands paused in her hair. "What about it?"
"So… we're about two thirds the way to rent…"
"Yeah?" She asked carefully.
"Yeah. So, there's only about a week left in the month…"
"Nu-uh, there's two," she told him.
"Ellie, today is Friday-"
"Yeah," she agreed.
"There's next week-"
"Yeah," she agreed, still not seeing the problem.
"Then the weekend, and only half of next week."
"Hmm. Yeah," she agreed again, this time realizing that they wouldn't be able to do anything for about half the time because the temp office was closed on the weekends.
"So, I can try to get an assignment, but I can't actually get one until I'm released to work by the doctor, and I couldn't get an appointment until next Friday…"
"And, unless they've found something part time for me, I can't work for another two weeks… I'll call Geri on Monday…" she sighed. "If there's something, it might help… but… probably not going to help much…"
"Yeah, and I won't be able to get a placement until Monday, and I wouldn't get paid 'til Friday, but not as much as we need, and we'd have late fees by then…"
"So, we're still planning to do shows, though…?" She asked.
"Yeah, but-"
"So it'll make some-"
"Ellie," he stopped her, not wanting her to find some way around his plan, yet. What he was saying was true, and… He wanted to at least ask first… "It won't be enough… we haven't made this kind of money before in such a short time… we gotta give ourselves as much of a headstart as possible…"
"Yeah… what are we going to do? Do you have an idea?" She asked, hopelessness starting to settle in her stomach.
"Y-yeah- I do…" he bit back the urge to just spout it out inelegantly.
Ellie walked out and sat by him on the couch, worry obvious on her face. "What are we going to do?"
Bucky felt bad for making her worry so much, but he had to ask while he had the chance, or he might never get one, and that could ruin his life by ruining their friendship.
"Well, Ellie," he started, "we made a lot of money on the last show, more than we've ever made, but we've still got a lot to go… If we did something bigger, we could make it, I'm sure…"
"Bucky, you- uh- put your mouth on me, and- I did the same- what could be bigger than that?" She asked in confusion.
"Ellie- there is so much more…" He trailed off, surprised by her naivete.
She rolled her eyes at him. "I meant that we could do."
Bucky lifted a brow. "Ellie, we're adults- as long as we both consent, we could do all of those things…"
Ellie blushed. "I… mean…" her mouth worked, but nothing more came out.
"I wasn't saying we should, just that we could," he told her, hiding a chuckle.
She looked away as her cheeks heated.
"But," he took a breath and hesitated. "Maybe… we should do…"
Ellie's heart thundered in her chest. Was he saying they should have sex?
She… really, really wanted that…
"Maybe we should do one of those things…" Bucky murmured, unable to look at her.
"One of those things like what?" She asked, feeling her heart catch, but needing to hear him say it.
"Like… if we- if we, for instance, bypassed any of the weird things, and just had, like, a round of, maybe some… more, vanilla intercourse-" holy fuck- did he just call it intercourse? He was about to lose all of his street cred… Bucky resisted the urge to shake his head at himself. "Unless you prefer to be tied up?" He joked, trying to regain some of his suaveness.
Ellie just stared at him blankly.
"Ellie? Doll?" He called, trying to get her to snap out of it.
Ellie was too busy thinking about how Bucky's cock would feel inside of her to answer.
He was asking her to have sex with him…
And waiting for an answer…
Did she want to have sex with him?
Yes. Yes, yes, fuck yes.
Bucky felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle with nervousness and apprehension.
Was she going to say no before he'd even had a chance to convince her? What if she did? Would he ever be able to get past this need to be with her sexually? Was he going to have to explain that he was feeling these things and needed to have sex with her to get rid of them?
"I- don't think so," Ellie said absently, and Bucky felt his heart squeeze. "Being tied up, I mean… but I guess I've never really done it…"
Bucky hesitated, not sure where she was going with this…
Maybe fate was favoring her? Ellie really needed to stop wanting to have sex with her best friend. That usually happened only after having sex with the person to break the sexual tension, but with a best friend, you never had that chance, unless you were ready to destroy your relationship.
But, somehow, she had the perfect opportunity, and she hadn't even brought it up! She couldn't be accused of trying to make it happen, or anything.
"Bucky- um… I mean, do you think it will work?" She asked cautiously.
"I think so," he told her, thinking of how his lust for her should be gone after the show.
"We should probably get as close to making rent as we can, I mean, we don't have a lot of time left…" she reasoned.
"True," Bucky agreed.
"It's- it's just to pay the rent, after all…"
"Yeah," Bucky agreed.
"It's just work… Right?" Ellie asked, her voice dipping nervously.
"Right," Bucky assured.
It would just be work.
Everything would end up alright.
After all, porn stars didn't suddenly fall in love with their co stars just because they had sex.