Title: Someone Like You
AN: Well ladies, it's been a longggg week at work. But I managed to tweak this chapter so that I could update. There's not a whole lot of plot to this chapter (sorry!). It's mostly filler - or fluff might be a better word. Hopefully you all will still enjoy it nonetheless. As always, let me know what you ladies think. Reviews are a great motivator! Enjoy :D
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"Tim, quit staring at me and focus on your book." Julie says quietly, never looking up from her own textbook as the two of them sit in the campus library.
"How do you know I'm lookin' at you?" Tim asks with a smirk, resting his elbows on the table.
Julie looks up, meeting his gaze across the small table. "Because I can feel your eyes on me. I swear it feels like you're burning holes in my head."
Tim smirks. "Well, it wasn't your head I was staring at, Taylor." He drawls, casting a lecherous look at the cleavage displayed from her low-cut shirt.
"You pig." Julie says quickly, throwing her pencil at Tim, hitting him square in the chest.
"Hey! You'll put my eye out." He says with a grin. "And I'm not a pig, I'm a guy. I can't help it." He says with a shrug and a sexy smirk.
Julie rolls her eyes, trying to keep from smiling back at him. Julie grabs the front of her shirt and tugs it up, covering up any cleavage she may have been displaying.
"Ah Jules, that's just cruel." Tim says with a chuckle.
"Study." She says as she turns her attention back to her textbook, trying to study despite the almost 200 lbs. of sexy distraction sitting across from her.
She glances up a few seconds later, feeling Tim moving to the seat directly beside her, scooting his chair as close to her as possible.
"Tim, what are you doin'?" She asks with a sigh. "You need to study. I need to study."
He grins, leaning in closer to her. "Let's take a break."
Julie shakes her head slightly. If he was distracting sitting across from her, he was damn distracting just mere inches from her.
"I don't think so." She responds. "Your break will turn into the whole afternoon, and before you know it, it'll be time for you to go to practice."
"Ten minutes." He says quickly, brushing her hair back from her shoulder slowly. "A ten minute make-out session is just what I need to focus."
Julie laughs shortly. "Yeah right."
She didn't know about Tim, but she was pretty sure that she couldn't make-out with him for ten minutes, or even a minute, and then be able to focus. It was hard enough without his lips on hers.
"You don't need to study. You could ace this test easily." He says confidently, twisting a strand of her blonde hair around his finger slowly.
"I think not." Julie says quickly. "You've got a test too. Which you need to pass if you want to keep your grades up so that you can stay on the team. Football, Tim. Do it for football." Julie says, trying to talk some sense into him.
"I already read the chapter. I even took notes in class." He says somewhat proudly, causing Julie to grin.
"Really?" She asks slowly.
Tim nods. "Guess you're rubbin' off on me, Taylor." He grins mischievously. "Though it'd be better if you were just rubbin' me."
Julie laughs, popping him on the chest with her hand. The man was incorrigible. And so damn cute.
"You're still comin' over tonight right?" He asks, running his finger up and down her arm slowly.
Julie nods. "Yeah. Josh asked Liza to come over too."
Tim groans, dropping his forehead on her shoulder for a few seconds. "Sometimes it sucks having a roommate. Especially one with a girlfriend who happens to be friends with my gal."
"I don't know what you're complaining about." Julie says with a grin. "It'll be just like every other night we come over. You and Josh playing video games. At least I'll have Liza there to keep me company."
"Well I sure wouldn't be playing damn video games if it was just me and you there." He says huskily, leaning in to nuzzle her neck.
"Tim…" Julie says with a chuckle. "We need to study."
"I'm studyin'." He says simply. "Anatomy. This is…your neck." He drawls quietly, his warm breath tickling her skin.
Julie laughs, turning toward him as he lifts his head. He grins at her, looking devastatingly good-looking. How could any girl possibly resist him?
"Ten minutes." Julie says with a sigh, causing Tim to chuckle quietly. "I'm serious. Ten minutes, then it's back to work."
"Yes, mam." Tim nods, grinning like a little kid.
As his lips meet hers for a hungry kiss, Julie knows she's kidding herself. There was no way ten minutes of this would ever be enough. She honestly didn't think she'd ever get enough of Tim.
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"What are we even doing here?" Liza asks later that evening, shaking her head at the scene in front of her.
She and Julie were sitting on the boys' couch, while Tim and Josh were both sitting in the floor playing a video game – football of course.
"Apparently we're just here for decoration." Julie says dryly, stretching her legs and nudging Tim playfully in the shoulder in the process.
"Y'all should be cheering us on." Josh says quickly, not taking his eyes off the television. "Come on baby, I'm about to whip Riggins' ass."
"Not gonna happen, Curly." Tim says quietly, focusing on the game. "It's over after this play right here."
The girls watch as Tim and Josh both lean forward, pressing buttons and waving their controllers around like crazy men.
"No!" Josh says loudly, throwing his controller down on the carpet.
Tim grins. "That's how you do it." He says, smiling smugly after winning the game.
"How 'bout a rematch." Josh says quickly, wanting to redeem himself.
"No!" Both girls say quickly, not wanting to sit through another game.
Tim chuckles, leaning back against the couch and wrapping his fingers around Julie's ankle dangling off the couch.
"I won." He says proudly.
"I saw." Julie answers. "Never doubted you for a minute."
Tim grins, running his finger over her small heart tattoo.
"I think Julie and I should play and you two should sit here and watch us so that y'all can see how boring it is." Liza says.
Josh laughs quickly. "Go for it. Here, I'll start y'all a new game."
"No, no. Not football." Liza says quickly, shaking her head. "What do you want to play, Julie?"
"How 'bout nothing." Julie responds. "I'm not very good at video games."
"Oh come on, Julie. It'll be fun. Besides, I know you played video games when you were younger." Liza says quickly, rummaging through the box of video games with Josh.
"Actually I didn't play video games all that much. I didn't have anyone to play them with." She says with a shrug.
"Taylor probably had her nose stuck in a book when the rest of us were playing Nintendo." Tim says with a grin.
Julie tugs on his hair, pulling his head back to meet her gaze. "Are you makin' fun of me?"
"Would I do that?" He asks innocently, a sexy smirk on his lips.
Julie snorts. "In a heart beat."
Tim laughs quietly, giving her ankle a squeeze.
"Oh look! Here's that old racing game where you get to choose your characters. You know, like Mario and Luigi and all those other crazy-looking ones." Liza says excitedly. "Come on, Julie. It'll be fun."
Julie sighs, sliding off the couch and taking the spot on the floor beside Tim. "One race, Liza."
Liza giggles, handing the game to Josh so that he can get it started. Liza settles in beside Julie on the floor, with Josh settling down on her other side, all four of them now sitting on the floor in front of the television.
"I don't even know how to do this." Julie mumbles, looking down at her controller then back up at the screen.
"Move that middle button up or down to choose your player." Tim says leaning over to show her.
"Okay." Julie says, following his instructions and choosing a player.
"Baby, you need to win this race considering I lost to Riggs. At least that way the Taylor-Riggins duo won't completely dominate." Josh says with a laugh.
"I will." Liza says cockily. "Woohoo! Here we go, Julie." Liza says excitedly.
"Wait! I don't even know how to go." Julie says quickly.
"Press the green button right there to go, and the red button to stop. Reverse is the button on top." Tim says encouragingly. "You got this, Jules."
Julie snorts, quickly focusing her attention on the screen as the race begins.
"You're goin' down, Julie." Liza says with a laugh.
Julie doesn't bother to respond, focusing all her attention on the game in front of her.
The two girls race for several minutes, both pressing buttons and trying their hardest to beat the other.
Tim stretches his arm out on the couch behind Julie, watching as she bites her lip in concentration. She's got a little of that Taylor competitiveness in her, he thinks with a grin.
"No!" Liza says loudly. "You just ran me off the road!" She says heatedly, causing the boys to start laughing.
"Sorry." Julie says sweetly, grinning wickedly as she continues with the game.
Tim gives her shoulder a squeeze. "Doin' good, Taylor." He says quietly.
Julie nods, still biting her lip as she continues staring at the screen.
The girls race for several more minutes, Liza and Josh both talking loudly, while Tim and Julie sit quietly – Julie concentrating and Tim murmuring words of encouragement occasionally.
"Yes!" Liza yells, throwing her arms in the air as she crosses the finish line a millisecond before Julie.
"Good job!" Josh says loudly, pulling Liza in for a hug.
Julie huffs as she lays the controller on the floor, turning toward Tim to find him grinning at her.
"I lost." She says a little angrily.
"I saw." He drawls, repeating her earlier words.
Julie sticks her lips out in a fake pout. "I'm a loser."
Tim chuckles. "Well, you're my loser." He says quietly, leaning in to brush his lips across hers, smiling against her as he feels her pout also turn into a smile.
He pulls back after several seconds, brushing her hair back behind her ear as he gives her a slow grin.
"Uh, do you guys need some privacy or what?" Liza asks with a small laugh, as she and Josh look on.
"That'd be nice." Tim says quietly, causing Julie to laugh as she pinches him lightly on his side.
"Okay, Liza." Julie says, turning away from Tim. "I was just getting warmed up. I'm ready for a rematch."
"Alright!" Liza says with a grin, settling in beside Julie for another race.
Tim grins, squeezing Julie's shoulder as she leans back against his out-stretched arm.
"I gotta restore pride to the so-called Taylor-Riggins duo." Julie says with a laugh, glancing at Tim.
Julie smiles as she looks at him. How could she not? Win or lose, she had Tim, and that made her pretty damn happy.
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"I had fun." Julie says later that night, looking up at Tim as she prepares to leave and head back to her dorm.
Josh had walked Liza down to Julie's car, but Tim and Julie had held back, stopping at the bottom of the apartment steps for a little alone time.
Tim nods slowly, placing his hands on her hips. "Me too." He says with smirk. "Though it would have been more fun without the company."
"Maybe next time." Julie says with a laugh, wrapping her arms around his waist and leaning in for a kiss.
She brushes her lips over his, her tongue darting out to meet his as she moves closer.
Tim groans, enjoying her aggressiveness, squeezing her hips appreciatively as he allows her to deepen the kiss.
At the sound of someone clearing their throat, the two of them pull back to see Josh standing near with a goofy grin on his face.
"Liza's ready to go, Julie." Josh says quickly, taking a step around them to head up the stairs.
"Damn it, Curly." Tim calls after him, hearing Josh laugh as he jogs up the steps.
Tim sighs, turning to find Julie laughing quietly.
"See you tomorrow." She says quickly, leaning up to give him another brief kiss before turning and heading toward her car.
Tim watches her make her way to her car, giving both her and Liza a small wave as they pull away from the apartment building.
Tim stands there for a few moments, watching them drive off before taking a seat on the bottom step, running his hands over his face.
It was getting harder and harder for him to stop at just kissing Julie. She was driving him crazy with her laugh, the sway of her hips – hell, just her breathing was enough to shake him up. He didn't know how much more he could take.
He had already waited longer with her than he had ever waited with anyone else in any other relationship. Granted, he'd only had one real relationship before.
Tim didn't think he and Tyra really qualified as a relationship – that was more of a train wreck. But he had managed to have a relationship with Lyla, even after their dysfunctional start.
He had loved Lyla, but there had always been this feeling of not being good enough for her. Tim had always felt the need to change for her.
It was different with Julie. While he did occasionally wonder what the hell Julie was doing with him, he never felt like he had to be someone he was not. Julie accepted him as he was, flaws and all. Which was refreshing, and a little bit scary when he thought about it.
And the thing about it was, that Tim was pretty sure that Julie wanted him as much as he wanted her. It wasn't that she kept putting him off. No, it was that they never had any damn privacy – there was always someone interrupting them.
With a shake of his head, Tim stands up slowly and makes his way up the steps. "Patience, Riggins." He mutters to himself, making his way upstairs, ready to kick Josh's ass at some more video games.