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"I'm worn out Conner," Megan, out of breath again, sat down on the couch and wiped her forehead with her towel. It had already been a week. They were now back in Megan's apartment exercising again.
"Come on, it's not that bad," Conner motivated her, but she gave up already. He stopped exercising and tickled her side, causing her to laugh.
"Conner! Stop!" She continued to giggle and squirm on the couch. As the tickling stopped, she smiled at him, gathering up the sweat from her exposed midriff and flinging it onto him, "Should we hit the showers?" she joked and winked at him.
"We?"
She chuckled and pushed him on his back and sat on him. She straddled him while she wiped his face of sweat, "Just kidding." When she was done, she held his face, caressing it with her thumbs, looking into his eyes. They said nothing for nearly a minute.
"How long can you keep this up, Megan?" Inner Megan asked.
What do you mean?
"You can pretend all you want, but you're gonna eventually do it with him." If Megan was being honest with herself, 'she' was right.
"Hey, you alright?"
"Hmmm? Oh! Just fine." She pretended as if nothing happened by gazing into his eyes again. That was when her thoughts became reality.
Conner chuckled and smiled in front of her. She felt her heart nearly stop as her eyes widened.
Oh my God, he smiled. Her breathing became rapid as she got off him.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Conner expressed his worry as she continued to have a 'panic attack'.
"I'll be right back," she quickly ran to the bathroom. Conner heard the door slam.
The fuck? Did I do something wrong? He asked himself until he heard Megan squealing in happiness.
"YES! I GOT HIM TO SMILE!" She began to laugh hysterically, which made Conner feel even more worried. He started to think she was becoming deranged or worse.
He ran to the bathroom and knocked on the door, "Megan, are you okay?"
The door opened immediately, "Smile for me again?" she asked, walking up to him, making him back up.
"Really?"
"Please? It's the most beautiful sight in the world to me. It still is!" She pleaded.
Conner shook his head, lowering his eyes to her flat stomach. Looking to her face, he offered a surprisingly bright smile. He showed no teeth this time, but it didn't matter to Megan. She squealed and laughed again and started jumping around like a hyperactive child.
"You're not crazy or anything right?"
"No! Of course not!" She jumped on him and hugged him tightly. Her legs wrapped around his waist. They stayed this way for another minute.
"You sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine!" Megan laughed, not caring that he repeated his words again, "That was my number one goal."
"Making me smile?"
"Yes," she looked at him again, a small tear appeared, "I hated seeing you so depressed. I wanted to make you happy again."
He smiled again, making her heart melt, "That's very sweet of you. Thank you."
There was suddenly irregular that they both couldn't make up yet. They both realized that Conner had his hands firmly holding Megan's ass. Eyes widened, Megan blushed at the realization, so did Conner.
"I… I'll put you down now," he said after a brief moment of embarrassment.
"Yeah," she nodded.
She unwrapped her legs when he set her down and headed inside. In the shower, she tried not to be bothered by the brief exchange, though she couldn't deny it felt a very strange - sexual, especially when he held her by the butt cheeks. She pushed those thoughts aside and continued on her mission. Despite him smiling, Conner was still getting better and better each day. She wondered if his time of mourning was nearly over.
"He's almost there, Megan. Maybe you can fuck him eventually." Inner Megan teased her.
No. I can't.
"He's not gonna be your 'best friend' forever, you know? Heck, he might start falling in love with you again."
Heh, he wouldn't fall in love with me again. After what I did to him, it's still terrible. I mean… before we came to a…
"That was five fucking years ago! He already moved on from that, so can you!"
Megan thought about it for a moment, completely forgetting what she was going to say earlier, Maybe that's true. Maybe… he could love me again.
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A couple weeks had passed. Megan and Conner were literally inseparable. They went out for dinner, to movies and even to the beach. They went on another trip with the others. This time, they were in Orlando, Florida.
Conner loved making jokes about their butt-grabbing incident. Megan flirted back with him, offering her thong covered butt to him at the beach one weekend. He declined that offer in a respectful. She shrugged and told him it was his loss as she dove into the water. She was wearing a black bikini which wasn't revealing, but it still made her look hot.
As she came out of the water, Conner couldn't take his eyes off her beautifully shaped body. She was undeniably sexy.
"You look great, as usual, Meg," Conner said. He gave her a new nickname during the past few weeks. He held out a towel for her to dry herself.
"Thank you!" Megan kindly took the towel from him. Wiping herself from bottom to top, Conner kept on looking at her.
"Hey, I was thinking you and the others could go out to dinner tonight," Conner suggested, "Just you guys."
"Huh? No, you dummy, I'm ordering room service for us tonight." She said with a cheeky smile.
"I know, but don't you want to go out?"
"They're probably gonna be sleeping by then." She tried to swerve away from this conversation.
"Are they though?" Conner questioned.
She stopped wiping herself and got serious, she dropped the towel down on the sand, and spoke, her hands on her hips, "Conner, what's this about?"
He sighed and explained, "Look, we've been spending a lot of time together. Trust me, I don't mind it, but you don't have to be around me 24/7. I'm not going to do anything horrible to myself. I'm feeling better. I'm getting better. If you want to have a nice evening, go out with the others."
"But, don't you want to spend time with me?" She was confused. Why are you saying these things?
"Yes, but, it could be too much. You know?" he paused, "If you want to date, you should. I'll be fine. Really, I will."
Megan was hurt. She wanted to have another evening with him. She didn't want to be with anyone else but him.
"Hey, it's cool. I just don't want us feeling weird about being around each all the time. We're best friends remember?"
"Yeah… best friends… right," she nodded, rummaging through her bag, unable to look at him. She felt like crying. She imagined sharing ice cream, or perhaps wine after a nice dinner with him.
She threw a towel over her shoulder and walked over to where the others, leaving Conner behind. She was feeling very upset..
"Hey," she called out to Barbara, since she was closest to her, "You and the others having dinner tonight?"
Barbara looked to Conner, watching him pack Megan's things, "Uh… yeah."
Her eyes were on Megan again, "Aren't you and Conner supposed to have…"
"What time?" Megan interrupted. She didn't want to hear Conner's name. Very upset.
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She tried to be talkative, she tried to laugh at jokes - like she would've with Conner. But nothing felt right.
Megan stood up from the table they were all sitting in and walked towards the restaurant's balcony, to view the moonlit ocean.
Artemis sensed something was wrong. She approached her from behind, and stood next to her, "You okay?"
Megan closed her eyes. She wanted to cry, but she didn't want to make a scene. She opened her eyes and hugged Artemis, who gladly returned it. She took a deep breath and turned around to face him. "It's Conner. He and I… we… we had a…"
"Megan, it's fine. It's ok. You two are very special, unlike Wally and I."
"Huh?"
"Are you guys like… back together?"
Megan released from the embrace, "Far from that. I feel like he tried to get rid of me this afternoon."
"Oh."
Megan really felt like crying, "What do I do?"
"Why don't you go to him now? Barbara told me you seemed upset on the beach. I mean, all of us watching you two together and getting closer, we can tell you're still in love with him."
She snorted, "What makes you think that?"
Artemis smirked, "Before we went to Hawaii, Dick and Wally noticed you staring, 'dreamily' as they say, at Conner."
Megan didn't know what to say, she could only blush, "Well I… I was just happy that he was hanging out with the guys."
The blonde shook her head, "No one is gonna buy that Megan. Admit it… you still love him."
She gave a long sigh, "I do. It's been so great seeing him get better every single day. Wendy's passing really hit him hard, you know that. I just wanted to make him feel better by being there for him, as a friend," she paused as she ran her hands through her short hair, "I didn't expect to fall in love again."
"After what you did to him with Logan?"
"Don't say his name," she grimaced upon hearing the 'L' word, "But yes. We broke up because of what I did, but after a year, we agreed that we could still be friends."
"But to not love each other again?"
She shook her head, signifying a 'no', "We shook hands on it. 'Never again' with smiles on our faces."
"You'll never know Megan. Conner is probably thinking back on that day right now."
That was a good point Megan could not ignore. Maybe Conner was loving her again. But it was still a 'maybe', so she couldn't be so sure.
"Megan, I advise you to go to him now and tell him how you feel. Unless you're ready to."
She looked down, thinking of how she would approach it, "Uh, sure, yeah I'll do that."
Artemis smiled and walked her to the restaurant's entrance, giving her a hug goodnight and saying 'good luck'. She moved towards the elevator and to her surprise, it was him.
Logan.
Oh, fuck off! Why are you here!? She pretended to ignore him as if he wasn't there, but he did.
"Hey! Megan, how're you doing?" He sounded very friendly.
She winced but had to bring a smile to her face, "I'm good. You?"
"Doing great!" He had a smug look on his face. In the back of her mind, because she had to act friendly, she felt disgusted just with his presence in front of her. She wanted to vomit.
"You alone?" He snapped her out of her thoughts.
"No. I'm with the others, they're in the restaurant over there." She pointed to its direction, "Just going up to my room and call it a night."
"Okay," He couldn't help but notice her body, "You look beautiful Megan."
She definitely was looking beautiful. She wore a well-tailored black dress with red highlights on the short sleeves. She was, described by Conner, a bombshell before dinner started.
"Thanks. Good night." She walked into the elevator and pressed the 15th-floor button, but Logan stopped the doors from clothing, "What are you doing?"
"Is Conner here?"
"Why do you care?" She replied bitterly. She wanted him to leave instantly as she started to get angry, "You're the reason that my relationship with him is completely shattered!"
"But you guys aren't together anymore. I figured that…"
"Save it! He's going through a tough time and I'm trying to help him get through it!"
"Why?" He started to get annoyed as well, but for a whole other reason, "Did his new girlfriend cheat on him too?"
Megan, without thinking, jabbed him directly in the face, making him fall to the ground, moaning in pain. She may have been shorter than him and Conner, their heights were a towering 6' and more, but she wasn't weak for a 5'6. She was now pissed off.
"Asshole." She said as the elevator doors closed. She crossed her arms and leaned on the back wall, murmuring to herself, "What a fucking smug, disrespectful piece of shit!"
She was glad they never got together, it would've further wrecked her relationship with Conner to the point he would never speak to her again. As she heard the 'ding' and the elevator doors made way for her, she stormily walked back to her and Conner's room.
"Hey. You're back," he greeted her, as she entered. He was watching HBO.
"Yep." She said enthusiastically and walked into the bathroom. There was a glass window that had a clear view of the bedroom. She didn't put down the blinds as she wanted Conner to see her undress.
"How was dinner?" He turned his head and saw her slowly take off her dress. He blushed and tried to not look, but how could he not?
"It was fine," Megan said bitterly as she was now down to her bra and thong.
"And… did you enjoy yourself?" He asked uncomfortably, seeing her take everything off.
"Oh yeah, I did," she said sarcastically. She walked out of the bathroom, completely ignoring her pajamas and climbed into bed, tightly close to Conner, "Still… this is where I want to be."
Conner sighed but smiled at her, "As long as you're happy."
"As long as I'm happy?" Megan felt offended and sat up. "Conner, I want YOU to be happy. We haven't talked about anything yet; about her," she referred to Wendy.
Suddenly, Conner's blush disappeared as he started to frown, "I don't want to talk about it."
She paused a moment, regretting what she said and slowly caressed his face, "The wedding date you two set is coming up soon."
"I know." He was bitter now as he pushed her hand away from his face. He turned off the television with the remote and un-gently put it on the bedside cabinet on his left, "Goodnight."
She didn't say anything, moving away from him to give him space, pulling the blankets over her, and slowly drifted to sleep, silently weeping.
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