Hello! I can't believe that I haven't totally abandoned this story yet since I've been very busy in the past few weeks. Thank you everyone who has reviewed and read this story! I really do appreciate it and I hope that it's a good read.

Name: Gwen Richards

Location: Gwen's House

Time: 3pm

I'm lying in my bed, scrolling through Instagram and listening to a podcast. As I scroll past all my friends' usual pictures of them having fun, looking their best, posing for pictures I stop on a particular picture. It's Duncan's. I stare at it longer than I needed to, but I had to. What I see is a picture of Duncan, Geoff, DJ, and some other guy posing with beers in their hands and a dog. This dog is a tiny thing... maybe a papillon?

Hm... I didn't think that Duncan had a dog... especially a dog that looks like that!

I like the picture before going to my contacts to message him

"So I have two questions..." an immediate response back, like he was waiting for me to text him

"What's up princess?" I blush. Though he's been calling me nicknames ever since his interview day (which has been almost 4 months ago), I always have the same response of blushing.

"Okay first, who is that other guy in your Instagram picture? Second, is that your dog?"

I send the text and wait impatiently for his reply. Then I hear a ding

"Oh, that's one of my good buddies from high school, Alejandro. Also, yes that is my dog. Why do you ask?"

"Well, Alejandro looks very attractive so I was curious" I smirk and send the reply. I hear a ding right away

"He's single. I'll set yas up. But I was more asking about why you care so much about my dog haha"

"Oh... Because it looks very off brand of your personality. You're so manly, scary, intimidating. Why do you have such a tiny and cute dog?"

"Ah well... She's mine but not really. She belongs to Court"

I lift my eyebrow and read the message again and again and again.

Court? Who's that? Maybe his sister? Ah. That's probably it. He probably just didn't mention that he has a sister

I shrug it off and change the topic to something else. Though later that night, I continued to think about that name.

Court?

Name: Gwen Richards

Location: Movie Theatre

Time: 8pm

"and then I said 'no dude! That wasn't what you told me! You said that it was a decoration!'" Geoff laughed and clutched his stomach, doubling over with laughter. "I didn't mean to walk in on him I swear!"

Geoff, Leshawna, Duncan, Bridgette, and I were standing in the cage room where we store all of our candy and packaged drinks and laughing our asses off. We had just finished a rush and now relaxing in the cage before our breaks were decided.

"Dude that's messed up!" Duncan said while wiping a tear from his eye. "How did you not knock beforehand?!"

"I DID!" Geoff responded, still laughing his ass off with the rest of us.

"Um... Geoff? Can you please tell us when we can go on our breaks?!" we look up and see Heather standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips. "I'm HUNGRY and I don't want to be here anymore"

Geoff regained his posture before groaning "Okaaaaayyy... I guess I should do my job now... Heather, you can go on break now. The rest of you, just stagger your breaks like usual"

Geoff, Bridgette, and Leshawna left the cage together while Duncan and I stayed behind.

"Um Duncan?" I smirk at him and point at my back.

Recently, I have been asking Duncan to massage my back after an intense rush hour. I don't really know when this started, I think I just complained about my back pain one day and he suggested he give me a back massage. Let me tell you, his hands are amazing for massaging. Firm, strong, tough, knows where the pressure points are... Overall, amazing. Though sometimes he hits the pressure points just right and I moan a bit. It's extremely embarrassing, but I hear Duncan chuckle to himself and continues massaging me. I think he gets a rile out of it.

He smirks back at me and sits on a milk crate and pats his lap. "I'll do it, but only if you sit on my lap, sweetheart"

I immediately blush as a response, either from the pet name or the invitation to be on his lap, but I wasn't going to turn down an opportunity to get a back massage from him.

"Okay, bet!" I reply. I pretend to sit on his lap and then stand back up and smirk at him. He smirks back, his eyes burning deep into mine. Then I slowly lower my butt closer to his lap until I feel his hands grab my hips and pull me down, hard, onto his lap. At the same time this happened, Cody entered the cage and stopped in his tracks as he watched in horror what had just occurred.

"OH! Um... " My face is red hot.

"Uhhhh..." Duncan looks away and holds the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"... What did I just witness?!" Cody is standing there, awestruck.

Let's just say... I didn't get my back massage that night...

Name: Gwen Richards

Location: Gwen's House

Time: 12am

I'm lying in my bed after that shift, still confused about what happened in the cage.

That was extremely hot... so aggressive and demanding... but goddamn it! Why did he do it?!

I decided that the only way to answer that question, was to ask the man directly. I whip out my phone and text him.

"Hey"

"Hey sweetheart, you're still awake?"

"Yeah... I can't fall asleep ahah. Why are you still awake?"

"I also can't sleep. Just thinking about stuff"

I sigh. Though I don't know how to tell him how I felt, I had to do it

"So... about what happened in the cage tonight... it was really, really hot."

I send the text and wait in anticipation. It feels like 5 minutes had passed until I got a reply back from him, but realistically it was maybe a minute.

"Ah, so you're thinking about that too? Well, I'm glad that you thought it was hot because I also thought it was hot. Sorry for doing it though, it was very uncalled for"

I smile and text back

"No it's all good! I appreciated your boldness, though it was aggressive ahaha"

"Yeah well... You're hot and the fact that you were teasing me didn't make it very easy for me to resist grabbing your hips like that"

My eyes widen. I re-read the message over and over again.

Am I reading this right? Did he just call me hot? I mean, I knew that he might have had a crush on me but honestly it was just speculation...

I hear another ding. It's Duncan again.

"Ah, sorry. I guess I just told you that you were hot. Honestly, we can't get any more awkward than we did tonight so we might as well just spill everything. So yeah, you're hot and I wanna fuck you"

My eyes widen even more

Holy shit... what do I even say to this?

I thought long and hard on how to respond. Typing and erasing my thoughts multiple times

Do I tell him that I'm also kind of interested in him? Maybe I should just brush it off as a joke. Do I have feelings for him or am I just doing that thing where I don't develop feelings for someone until I know that they are interested in me? Why is he putting me on the spot like this? Fuck what do I do?

I finally send him a message; I don't know if it was the right thing to say but I had to say something or else I would look like an asshole

"well... I think you're hot too. However, I don't think I want to fuck you. Maybe some day but not any time soon"

My heart is racing as I hit "send". I stare at my phone and see the dots going across the screen as he's texting back, and then not texting back, and then texting back. It seemed like he was unsure of what to respond just like I was. Finally, I see his reply

"As long as you find me hot, then I'm satisfied. But mark my words, princess, I will find a way to seduce you into my arms"

I smirk and knew that everything was going to be okay between us

"Hah! Good luck with that"

Little did I know that this was just the beginning of what was to come