I'm full of shit I know.

Got back from holiday my laptop is still giving me half a screen and I bitched this chapter out on my sister's laptop only to find out that fanfiction wanted to try my soul and fuck up and I just felt like the world was against me today lol.

But here it is, the latest chapter. Feel like I could have done more on it, but I feel like i've left y'all hanging a bit too long now.

To all those who have read and reviewed and even think that my story is nice- you're all awesome and I owe you a massive Easter egg, thank you :)

Enjoy x

We'd been kissing for literal hours before Ichigo left around 2, claiming he had to leave early because he was making a trip to see his family as he does every weekend. As usual when he left he'd hug me close, but this time with the added bonus of one of those knee buckling kisses-like I wasn't having enough trouble standing already-and then waited for me to lock the door before leaving.

I went back in bed, but who could honestly sleep after that? I felt thoroughly snogged. He kissed me, touched me, spoke to me in a really husky tone of voice that did nothing but make me pool into a pool of jello.

I wanted to tell someone.

Anyone.

But who could I tell at this time of the morning?

I wasn't seeing any of my girls until the sun was out and I doubted that they'd be awake right now...unless they were busy with their boyfriends...something I most definitely don't want to be dealing with. Once I phoned Tats ended up listening to her getting frisky with Chad, something I could have gone my whole life without hearing thank you very much.

So I spent the rest of my night/early morning riding out the high of the adrenaline rush from my first kiss(es) until about 5 when my body finally decided that it couldn't take being awake anymore.

Loud banging and arguing had me awake in the morning. I groaned and hauled my pillow over my head. It was Saturday morning, for the love of God why were people shouting and banging stuff?! Weren't they supposed to be at church or sleeping or sleeping or...sleeping? Another loud bang directly outside my house had me jumping up.

What if I was being robbed? O

h my goodness I can't afford to die like this, I've barely made it through my first year of college education dammit I'm still a virgin! I got out of bed and quickly got dressed and looked out my peephole.

Only to see Ichigo's twin on the other side. Wait, did Ichigo even have a twin?

I swear the only difference between the two was the hair color. It was slightly unsettling. He knocked the door again and I fumbled to open it.

"H-Hi, how can I help you?" I stammered out. Slick Orihime, realll slick.

"Morning, I'm uh looking for an Orihime Inoway?"

"Inoue. That would be me, how can I help you?" I asked, rubbing my hands together.

"Uhh, I'm Kaien Shiba and I'm new here, I was told that you were a part of the welcoming committee for new people?"

Oh. I'd completely forgotten that I chose an extra-curricular. I really need to get a planner.

We had a meeting about a new student coming in last year before we broke up.

"H-hi Kaien, well has everything been alright?" I was supposed to ask him stuff like this right?

"Well for the most part yes, my cousin was meant to help me with my stuff but he bailed on me so it took a while getting up here and it seems like I can't get into my room, I don't get this key," he said rubbing the back of his neck. Ichigo did that a lot too. Rub the back of his neck that was. If they weren't brothers then they had to be related somehow. They were too similar for them not to be.

"Let's see the keys and if I can get you in," I said holding my hand out. He smirked and dropped the keys in my palm and he pointed to the door...directly across from mine.

Was this a sign?

I put the key into the lock and turned, but noticed a slight jam. I knew how to deal with doors like this though. I grabbed the knob and hauled it towards me and turned the key and hey presto!

"Wow, thanks for that!" he said giving me a 100 watt smile. It literally dazzled me. I wondered if Ichigo smiled like that would he dazzle me like this too?

"It's nothing at all," I said smiling back at him, "When you finish getting settled and stuff knock on my door and I'll walk you around campus alright?"

"Sure, I'd like that," he said smiling at me once more.

So you kissed him?"

"Mhm."

"Until 2am in the morning."

"Mhmm"

"And that's all you did and then in the morning you meet his...twin?"

"Exactly"

"And his...twin asked you out for coffee tomorrow?"

"Help me please,"

I was sitting on my bed once more, no more than an hour after taking the interesting Kaien Shiba on a campus tour with Tatsuki and Nel, who've been listening to me blab on about my night with Ichigo and then meeting his doppelganger and then somehow accepting said doppelganger's offer for coffee tomorrow. Tatsuki for some strange reason had a look like she knew something I didn't and Nel was too busy developing some soap opera love triangle between me, Twin 1 and Twin 2.

"I say you should totally go," said Tatsuki, "s'not like you and Ichigo are serious."

"But he said he wasn't going to see other people while he's seeing me," I said biting my lip.

"Pfft, this is Ichigo Kurosaki we're talking, I don't trust him as far as I can throw him," said Tatsuki, "just go for it."

"Just go with him as friends," said Nel, whipping out her phone and texting, "It won't mean anything and if he tries to ask you out just tell him that you're already interested in someone else."

"I could do that I guess," I mused.

"You can, I don't see why you're thinking so hard on this," commented the green haired girl, still tapping away.

"Who are you texting?" I asked reaching for her phone. She jumped away, phone held to her chest.

"Don't you dare Orihime!"

"Tell me who you're texting or I'm going to make Tatsuki tickle attack you!"

"I'm texting Grimmjow about some stuff-it-it's personal!" she squeaked out.

"Ohh, you sexting your man then," said Tatsuki, "I feel ya Nel, don't worry your secret's safe with me,"

"Oh my god," she wailed hiding her face in her hands, "it's not like that!"

"I know, it can start out as something simple then turn into the hottest conversation you've ever had away from each other."

I was just about as red as Nel was. People did stuff like that? Oh my.

"It's not sexting, he's just asking me advice on something of great importance!" she said trying to defend herself once more. "Let me see- not you Hime, your eyes might fall out of your head reading this," joked Tatsuki, taking the phone from Nel and hiding it from me at the same time. Her eyebrows shot up and she handed the phone back to Nel. "Oh? Carry on then Nel," she simply said.

"Carry on?! Is that all?!"

"Yep, take a pill Orihime, it's cool," said Tatsuki shrugging, "for someone that just got the necking of their life you're pretty on edge,"

"I-I wasn't necked! It was just kissing! On the lips!"

"And in your mouth and I bet he worked that tongue harder than-"

"Can we just not!"

"You're so fun to tease,"

"It's bullying!" I shreiked, trying to defend myself, but Tatsuki just laughed.

"It's not bullying, it's us helping you get out of that shell of yours," commented Nel lightly.

"Oh get out," I muttered.

Sunday morning came along and for once there was no banging on my door. Sunday was my only good day, Nel would be at Grimmjow's, Tatsuki would probably be sleeping off her hangover and Ichigo wasn't to be back until tonight. Apart from those three, I don't really expect anyone to be at my door. I got out of bed and did my usual toilet and breakfast/lounge around naked watching Fresh Prince re-runs until I decided that it would be best for me to take a walk around campus as well as hand in my neonatal paper to Professor Kurotsuchi.

Hopefully he wasn't there, I'd just slip the paper under his door and beat my feet out of there as fast as possible. Or maybe I could just not hand the paper in at all until my next lecture where the room would be crowded and the chance of us being alone would be next to 0. Mind made up, I got dressed in some denim jeans and an oversized sweater, grabbed my purse and keys and left my building. And no sooner had I stepped out my block I came face to face with Rukia. And just like that my day has gone to the dogs.

"Oh Orihime, I didn't expect to see you here at all," said the short girl, pulling her glasses down to shield her eyes from the sun, "walk with me, I want to talk to you about something,"

Oh did you now? Do you really.

"Have you been waiting out here all morning for me to come out? You know you could have just come up to my room and knocked-"

"Oh, it's no big deal, let's just say that recently there's been someone in your block that I'd rather to avoid for the time being." said Rukia, waving it off absently.

"Okay...so what did you want to talk about?" I asked, turning onto a small pathway that led away from my dorm building and to a meadow.

"I've been having a lot of birdies flying around and chirping things in my ears lately," began the short girl, "about a mutual friend of ours and you,"

"Wh-what mutual friend?" I asked, biting my lip nervously.

"Well, apparently Ichigo has been delivering flowers to someone on your block-roses as well, and the only person he'd ever done that for was me when my sister died. Now I'm not sure if I'm reading into this too much or if I'm right but the birdy that was telling me also told me they were dark red roses and they symbolize something of beauty. The only person that lives on that block is you Orihime."

"Wh-what are you trying to say? I-Kurosaki-kun didn't deliver any roses to me" I stammered out. There was no way she knew...could she?

"Hmm...in any case, I'd like you to stay away from Ichigo."

I stopped walking and turned to her. She had to be joking right? "I beg your pardon?"

"I know that he's been coming to your room at random nights for some reason and I'd very much rather it if you kept away from him, especially if he's there for the reason that I think he is." replied the dark haired girl, pulling out a compact and checking for non existent zits and blemishes, "In any case, I'm only doing this as a friend to you. Ichigo would plough through you and destroy you, he's definitely not your type."

Excuse me?

"And how would you know if he was my type or not?" I asked. I felt totally and completely flustered. She whipped out her lipgloss and applied whilst saying, "Ichigo's a meet a girl no strings attached fuck ya thank you see ya later kinda guy. You're a I want so much stability not even an earthquake could break us apart kinda girl. If it's Ichigo you want that kinda stability from then you've been clearly drinking some messed up water or something."

I couldn't do this. Not right now. She was saying things that I already knew, things that Tatsuki had already told me, things that Nel and half of my mind told me to ignore.

"Why do you even think I like-"

"Orihime I think EVERYONE knows you like Ichigo short of Ichigo himself, and that's because he's dense as fuck and he sees you as nothing more than a sister-he's told me that himself. As I said before I'm only doing this as a friend, I'm advising you to let go of whatever childlike crush and future you think you might develop with Ichigo. Because it's just not going to happen."

Somehow, I' found myself locked up in my room tucked firmly under my blanket. I'd run away from Rukia in the meadow, totally and utterly embarrassed and flustered and fighting tears. She said that everyone knew-I felt like such a fool. I felt like a complete idiot for even thinking of this whole idea of getting intimate with Ichigo because just like Rukia said, he was all for the no strings. And anything to do with me meant a lot of strings. There was no way that it could ever work. I lay there for hours watching the shadows get longer and my room get darker and by 6:59 I'd decided that I'd stop seeing Ichigo in this way altogether.

8:00pm. Three raps on my door. Ever the punctual one wasn't he?

I got the door and as usual, there he stood looking like e didn't have a worry in the world. He had a small smile on his face, but I'm guessing that he knew something was wrong and it slid off, to be replaced by a look of uncertainty. "Hey, Orihime what's wrong?" he asked, closing the door and then cupping my face.

"I-I think it-it would be best if we-we didn't do this anymore," I said, backing away from his touch.

He took a step closer to me while saying, "why not?" I swallowed around the lump in my throat and looked down. "Rukia said something quite harsh to me today about you-"

"Orihime, look at me-"

"What do you think of me as Ichigo? Because today Rukia said you thought of me as a sister, and if that's really how you see me then I really don't think we should be carrying on with this-"

He stopped me right there with a really rough kiss and all of a sudden I couldn't even remember what I was trying to say to him. My legs rose to around his waist as if they had a mind of their own and he walked further into my room until I felt my back being pressed against a wall. The kiss was bruising and so...feral, I couldn't do anything but go along for the ride.

Finally he broke away from me and looked me straight in the eye. "If you think that I could think of you as a sister and then be kissing you like that then you're sadly mistaken," he said darkly, releasing my legs and helping me settle to the ground.

"You shouldn't listen to the things that Rukia say, she's more than likely upset of the fact that I told her that I wouldn't be seeing her casually anymore."

Oh? So that was it then. I bit my lip and nodded.

"I think of you as a really close friend that I'm helping to explore your sexuality and I'm hoping that you're enjoying it, and if I'm going too fast I need you to tell me that so we can move at a pace that's really comfortable for you, because to tell you the truth, I really really like this and I don't want to stop" he said.

My mind went off on a 100m sprint. He enjoyed it too? Could that mean something then? It would be best if I didn't read into it actually. But the butterflies in my tummy were on a rampage and my mind was having a party just over the fact that he was enjoying himself too.

"I-I'm sorry Ichigo, I just didn't know what to think today," I said silently, biting my lip.

His hand reached to my face and he pulled my bottom lip from my teeth. "Stop doing that, and don't worry bout it. Do you want me to leave or so you wanna take up where we left off on Friday night?" I swallowed and nodded. After that first blistering kiss who wouldn't? He smirked at me and nodded.

"Right so I'm going to need you on the bed aren't I," he said taking my hand and pulling me onto the bed. It was a standard missionary position and he was on top of me. He lowered his face to mine, noses barely touching, "I'm going to kiss you now, okay?"

I shuddered and nodded "Okay."

Finally he kissed me and I couldn't help but to softly sigh in his mouth. It was slow and absolutely thorough and it was making me tremble with...need. I felt like he was holding back though, so I took some initiative and tentatively brought my tongue out to touch his. He groaned and wrapped his around mine and just like that I was lost. What I wasn't prepared for was him moving his mouth down to my neck and laving his tongue all down the column. I arched my back and kicked my foot out at the feel of it.

"Oh!"

"Are you alright?" he asked through pants.

"Y-yea, I just really wasn't expecting that...at all," I said blushing.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to bite you...yet that is," he said before literally diving back into my neck. I could do nothing more than gasp at the exquisite feel and grip the back of his shirt. He licked and kissed along my overly sensitive neck and over the time I felt heat building up almost everywhere, I tried to take deep breaths but that did little to alleviate the feeling.

Soon my sweater was off and he was kissing down to my bra. At this point my hands were firmly glued to his hair and if he made another move to somewhere sensitive again I was almost positive I'd be tearing his hair out.

He licked the top of my breast and I gasped again and automatically ground my hips upwards into his. And my god did it feel good! It felt like that was just what I needed and I'd be damned if I didn't get some more. I tried to grind into him again but this time he grabbed my hips and stared down at me, shaking his head in a negative.

"Wha-why?"

"That's not for a couple lessons Hime, plus you've barely completed kissing," he said smirking at me. I frowned. Not for a couple more lessons?! What did he take this for?!

"What am I missing? I'm totally stuck and wanna move on!" I huffed petulantly.

"Taking charge."

"Taking charge?"

"Yep, don't hold back with me Hime, I want it all, now we gonna go for this again?" I nodded and quickly grasped the back of his neck pulling him down to me. If t was charge he wanted that was exactly what he was gonna get from me. I went straight for it, kissing him with fervor and attacking his mouth with my tongue, nipping biting , licking. He responded with as much energy as I did, meeting me halfway with every kiss that I gave. Then I thought back to how he went for my neck and suddenly all I wanted to do was mark Ichigo Kurosaki. So I did. I went straight between the juncture of his collarbone and neck and kissed and nipped at his neck. I felt him stiffen and groan then shift, as if trying not to crush me or something but I didn't stop.

He tasted...nice, and I could catch a hint sweat on his skin but the overall flavor was addicting. I could probably suck on his skin all day. But I'm not a cannibal though, but think of how easy it would be for one of them to just sink their teeth in a little bit more and-

"SHIT ORIHIME!" I slackened my jaw in shock and dropped back onto the bed, hands over my mouth looking at Ichigo, who had his hands over his neck. He winced and pulled his hand away to show a row of deeply indented teeth marks.

My teeth marks.

Oh no.

"I-I'm so sorry! I was thinking about cannibals and meat and then-"

I was cut off by him laughing. Not his usual small bursts of laughter either. An honest down to earth Ichigo laugh.

"Hime you're going to be the death of me I swear,"

"I'm...sorry?"

"It's no big deal, next time though, please refrain from thinking about cannibals and eating meat while dealing with my body okay?"

"H-hai!"

"I think you've got kissing covered for now though, I'm happy to give you an A, and I'd like to start your next lesson," he said, pulling me up and changing our positions. So now his back was to the wall and I was sitting in-between his legs. Much like on our first lesson night.

"Ready for your next lesson?" he asked in my ear.

I shivered and nodded. After getting my A in kissing I was ready for anything. S'not like it could get harder anyways right?

"For Lesson 3, I want you to touch yourself for me."