Just Friends?

by K E Osborn

  “Yes, of course, yes,” she agrees and she moves straight into my arms. I lean down and kiss her with as much tenderness as a belly full of beer allows. I entwine my fingers with hers and we start to walk out of the bar when I feel her being pulled. I turn to see Brandi pulling Kat away from me. I follow them as Brandi leads Kat back to the bar.

  Oh fucking hell!

  I look at Brandi, who’s obviously hurt. I shake my head when I realize that this is all falling apart around me. I walk over to Kat and Brandi is yelling at her to stay away from me. Kat glances over assessing me. I shake my head.

  “Kat, she means nothing to me,” I plead.

  “What? You asked me not ten minutes ago if I wanted to go out with you. Now you’re telling me that Kat is your girlfriend?” Brandi snaps.

  Kat looks bewildered and wide eyed. “Wait, you asked Brandi to go out with you?”

  Fuck!

  Shit!

  Fuck! Think Will… think!

  “It was a dare. Olsen dared me to ask out Brandi to make you jealous, which I did and I’m very ashamed of it. I’m sorry I never meant to hurt either of you. I was drunk when I asked you out Brandi and I only did it to make Kat jealous. I’m sorry, I’m a prick. I know there’s no excuse for it,” I blurt out.

  Kat slaps me hard across the face. “Everyone told me you were a womanizer, Will Sanders.”

  “I can’t believe I thought you were really asking me out, I’m so stupid,” Brandi yells and then slaps me hard across my other cheek and then storms out of the bar.

  I look down at Kat who has tears welling in her eyes. My heart is pounding in my chest at the sight, especially when a tear, spills out and down her cheek. I can’t believe I’ve hurt her… a-fucking-gain.

  “Kat, I— ”

  “Stop! Just stop! You think you can play these games with me and get away with it? I can’t believe I ever wanted you. You’re some piece of work you know that?” She slaps me again.

  I quickly take her hand in mine and hold it to my chest. She struggles, but I hold onto her tighter.

  “Kat, I’m sorry that this is how it turned out, but the facts are still the same. I want to be with you. Only you. Don’t you see? I did this for you. For us. Please don’t be angry. I’m a fucking idiot and I’m a selfish arrogant asshole. I wasn’t thinking clearly before I started this stupid game. Before I hurt you. That was never my intention. Kat, please don’t be angry with me. I’ll spend the rest of forever making it up to you, if you’ll let me? Please, Kat, I’m begging you. I need you. I want you. There is no one else, only you. You have to believe me,” I beg as I watch tears stream down her face.

  She shakes her head and frowns. “I don’t understand, why now? Why after this afternoon and you telling me that loving you isn’t the right thing to do. Are you now telling me to forgive you and be with you?” she asks, taking a step back and crinkling her forehead.

  “I was trying to hide my feelings because I was scared of the outcome.”

  “Will, you’re not making any sense.”

  I nod my head and continue, “I was scared that you’d hurt me. I’ve had a broken heart and I know what it feels like. I couldn’t handle losing you if you rejected me, so if I didn’t have you to begin with then I couldn’t lose you. Does that make sense?” I ask trying to explain it in front of an audience of people in the bar now looking in our direction.

  Olsen slaps me on the back. “C’mon dude, you’re digging yourself in deeper. Let’s just go?”

  I shrug his hand away and take both of Kat’s in mine.

  “I’m sorry for everything. I’ve been a complete prick and I know you just want to be with me. I want that too, more than anything. I’m willing to give this a shot if you’ll still have me?” I plead with her.

  I wipe a tear from her cheek with my thumb and gaze into her eyes.

  “Kat, please I’m begging you. I’m sorry and I… I love you Kat.” There I said it. It’s what I’ve been feeling and the only way to get her back on my side is to tell her the truth.

  A slight smile crosses her face. “I love you too you stupid, arrogant jerk,” she says.

  I chuckle and pull her into me so our bodies are touching in every way and I lean down and kiss her softly, but with meaning. The crowd slowly melts away and I’m here, lost in the moment with her as our tongues glide over each others and our lips caress. Slowly the room becomes apparent again. I take my lips from hers and look into her eyes, and I know she feels it. That surge, that overwhelming current between us. She breaks the gaze and slowly looks around the room at the entire bar looking at us.

  “Guess we gave them a bit of a show,” I whisper and kiss her quickly on the nose.

  She smiles and runs her hand down the side of my face. Her loving touch takes my breath away. I lean in and she rubs where she hit me only a few minutes before.

  “I’m sorry it took me so long. Kat, I’m a dickhead.”

  She smiles and winks at me. “I know you’re a dickhead, and an asshole, and you’re completely arrogant, but you’re my arrogant, dickhead, asshole.”

  I laugh and pull her in tighter. I look over at Olsen, who’s glaring at me oddly. Charlie notices his glares and walks over to him.

  “Olsen, are you okay?” she asks, putting her hand out to touch his arm. He moves like he doesn’t want her touching him.

  “Don’t forget he’s a womanizer, Kat,” he calls out and storms out of the bar with Charlie running behind him.

  Kat looks at me and purses her lips. “You better not be playing me, Will Sanders,” she questions looking at me with those gorgeous sparkling green eyes.

  “I’ll never play you, Miss Barrett,” I say and I kiss her again.

  Chapter Nine

  ~ KAT ~

  As Will kisses me, I knew he was telling me the truth, and that he’d never play me. I find it amazing how I can go from completely despising him one minute to confessing my love for him the next. Will has some sort of hold over me that I can’t break free of even if I wanted to. He gently kisses my forehead and takes my hand as we walk out of the bar together.

  My head is still buzzing from the Tequila shots.

  I lost count of how many I had, obviously, too many.

  I walk with Will back to his house. I stumble slightly and giggle as he catches me. I hope to hell in the light of the morning, he doesn’t regret agreeing to a relationship with me. We arrive at the front door of his house and Will finds his keys and lets us in. He turns and moves his hands down to my ass. He pulls me up and I wrap my legs around his waist while he holds onto me tightly. I lean down and kiss him as he walks us through the door and into the living room, knocking furniture on our way to the bedroom. I can’t help but giggle the whole way when I see Dan watching us with a smirk as Will carries me down the hallway.

  He leans me against his bedroom door. We kiss passionately while he holds me against the door strongly, his tongue finding mine. I move my hand from his neck to the doorknob twisting it and opening the door. Will walks through and kicks it shut behind us. I giggle as he throws me on the bed and crawls over the top of me, kissing me from my collarbone up my neck to my jaw and across to my mouth.

  “I love you,” he whispers into my mouth, making me tingle with goose bumps all over.

  “I love you too,” I whisper back.

  A small growl comes from deep within his chest and he moves so his body is completely over mine. We continue to kiss feverishly after confessing our love for one another. He takes his lips from mine briefly while he pulls his shirt over his head, revealing his gorgeous masculine body. I take a deep breath and he leans down to kiss me again, moving his lips from my mouth to my neck and down the center of my stomach. He lifts the bottom of my halter neck top and removes it over my head and throws it to the floor. Leaning back down, he trails kisses along my jeans line while he licks and nips at my skin until it is on fire.

  I can feel my breathing getting heavier as the need for him is becoming apparent. He gently
undoes the button of my jeans and slowly unzips the fly. I move my hips up so he can remove them. He picks my leg up and kisses my ankle, then he moves his lips to the inner part of my calf kissing and nipping as he makes his way toward me. Kissing slowly and sensually down my leg, he reaches the inside of my thigh. My muscles clench and twitch and my head falls back against the pillow while he continues his tormenting assault.

  He slowly works up to the apex of my thighs where he gently kisses me through my underwear. He moves so he can pull them off and then he makes his way back. He kisses around the edge of my folds and my breathing hitches. He gently licks the sides of my folds while he slowly and purposely moves his tongue to my clitoris. He runs a full circle around it making me moan softly as his tongue repeats the swirling action. I move my hands down to his hair and hold him to me while he continues to tease me with his tongue.

  I feel a finger at my entrance and he very gently slides it in while he continues with his tongue. His finger moves inside, hitting that spot over and over again, heightening my need. I moan and I start to feel a wave of pure bliss hit me. He continues relentlessly until I shake with ecstasy and my body ignites with pleasure as I come apart around his tongue and finger. He makes his way back up to me kissing in a line up my stomach as he goes. I’m still coming down from the powerful orgasm. I feel my core continuing to react with little twitches of pleasure when his lips reach mine. I can taste myself on his lips and tongue while he explores my mouth with his. I feel his erection through his jeans and I move my hand to undo his belt. His pants are off swiftly and his hand moves under my back to unclip my bra, and then it too is swiftly flung to the floor. He moves to the side table to take out a condom and rips open the packet with his teeth. He rolls it onto his large throbbing cock and he positions himself at my entrance.

  “You sure you want to do this?”

  “Do you love me?”

  He smiles and nods. “Yes, of course I love you. I love you so fucking much baby. I was such an idiot.”

  “Then, what are you waiting for.”

  He leans in and kisses me. I feel him start to enter and I moan as he slowly thrusts until his entire length is inside, stretching me. He moves in and out slowly and his tongue finds mine as we both moan from the slow, deep penetration. He moves so he’s fully engulfed in my hot wet center and then he withdraws almost to his tip and then back inside me again. This slow rhythm feels a lot like making love and less like us just having sex. His eyes lock onto mine as we continue to make love together.

  It feels like he’s been inside me for hours when he slowly starts to pick up speed. He kisses me forcefully after I come down from another mind-blowing orgasm. He pumps a little quicker and moans louder as he starts to jolt inside me. I know he’s close so I clench my inner core muscles and he groans as he pauses whilst unloading into the condom. My nails dig into his back as he shudders from the pleasure. He rests his body on mine and we both lay there completely spent. He places his head in the nook of my neck and I start to come back to reality. Then, we do it all over again, and again.

  ~*~

  “What time is it?”

  He looks over at the alarm clock on the bedside table and his eyes shoot open.

  “It’s five-thirty. We made love all night,” he says with a smirk. He pulls out of me and rolls onto his back, pulling me to rest on his chest.

  “Oh God, I hope we didn’t keep Dan and Olsen up with my moaning all night,” I giggle and Will laughs.

  “Who cares if we did?”

  “Are you going to classes today?” I have no intention of going to campus after the night I’ve just had.

  I doubt I’ll be able to walk, let alone stay awake.

  “No, I think I’d rather stay here with you cuddled up in my bed. Believe me baby, I’m never letting you go… ever.”

  “Sounds perfect,” I say as I slip into unconsciousness.

  ~ WILL ~

  I wake slowly realizing that last night wasn’t just a fucking fantastic dream, it was reality. I’m here in my bed with Kat snuggled up to me after a night of amazing love making. I think I’m getting soft when it comes to Kat. I’d do anything for her. Anything. I lightly kiss her forehead and she slowly stirs from her slumber. She moves her hand across my chest and I wrap my arms around her and hold onto her tightly.

  “Good morning,” she says in a bright cheery tone.

  “Good morning, baby,” I reply and kiss her forehead again. This time she looks up at me and I can’t help but chuckle at her.

  “What? Are you having regrets?” she asks, sitting up abruptly.

  “No way. No second thoughts. You’re all mine, Kat.”

  “Then why are you laughing at me?”

  “You forgot to take off your make-up last night, and it’s now plastered all over your face.” I chuckle as her eyes widen and she quickly looks away, jumping out of bed and rushing to the mirror. I laugh when she sees her reflection.

  “Oh my God! I look like an expressionist oil painting,” she says making me laugh even more.

  “Stop laughing.” She giggles.

  I get up and walk over to her and place my hands on either side of her face.

  “You’re beautiful, no matter how your face is painted.”

  I look over to the clock to see it’s after two in the afternoon.

  “Shall we have a shower and then have something to eat?” I ask as she hobbles around trying to find her clothes.

  “Why are you hobbling?” I ask with a dirty, big, fucking grin on my face.

  “Because you were inside me for at least five hours last night, relentlessly making love to me.”

  I laugh and walk over to her and pick her up over my shoulder.

  “C’mon you, we’re having a shower. It might help loosen those muscles of yours,” I say and she smacks me on the ass with her open hand.

  “I can walk you know,” she scolds as I carry her to the bathroom.

  “You mean hobble, don’t you?”

  “I swear if Olsen or Dan is home and they see me naked, I’m going to kill you.”

  I walk down the hallway to the bathroom with her draped over my shoulder.

  “They’re on campus. Do you think I’d parade you around in front of them? No way, your body is only for my eyes. No one else sees you naked… ever.”

  I place her down in front of me. I open the shower door and adjust the water temperature and then we both get in. I wash her face carefully first and then we take our time washing each other slowly. I turn off the water and grab a towel and wrap it around her. I scoop her up again. This time, cradling her in my arms while I walk us to the bedroom. I close the door behind me by kicking the door shut and then throwing her on the mattress. She giggles as her towel unravels to show me her gorgeous naked body. A slight growl escapes my mouth when I look her up and down. She giggles. I love that sound. It’s so fucking alluring.

  I walk over to the bed and lay down next to her and to my surprise, I just want to cuddle and hold her. I feel an overwhelming need to protect her. We lay there holding each other for what feels like forever until we are disturbed by the sound of Olsen and Dan coming home. I quickly cover her with the sheet just in case and on cue my door swings wide open.

  “So was she worth it?” Olsen calls out stopping and staring at Kat. He obviously didn’t expect her to still be here.

  “Shit, sorry, didn’t know you were still here, Kat,” he says leering at her.

  She’s obviously uncomfortable because she pulls the sheet further up her body to just under her chin.

  “Yes, she’s worth it, and stop ogling her, Olsen. She’s mine. Now get the fuck out,” I yell pulling her closer to me while she holds the sheet tightly around her naked body.

  He continues to stand there leering at her naked form and I feel her body go tense.

  “Olsen! Get the fuck out, dude,” I snap at him breaking his trance.

  He grins. “Yeah, yeah, sorry,” he says and shuts the door.

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��Fuck, he’s a dipshit sometimes,” I explain trying to calm her. “Are you alright?”

  “Thanks for that. He was looking at me kinda weird.”

  “I’ll never let that happen again. He needs to know that you’re mine. I’ll have a man to man with him.”

  She giggles. “I should probably get back to my bungalow anyway. I’m sure the girls are dying to know what happened,” she says making me chuckle.

  “Yeah. Gotta keep them up with the campus gossip,” I say as she gets up and starts to put on her clothes.

  It’s such a shame to see that gorgeous body being covered up. Oh fucking hell, I’m pussy whipped!

  “Will,” she whispers quietly.

  I walk over to her and pull her to me. “Yeah?”

  She wraps her arms around me and kisses me gently. “So just clarifying, we are now an item, right? Boyfriend, girlfriend, you know a relationship?”

  I gaze into those bright green eyes. “Yes, you’re my girlfriend,” I say with a massive smile.

  “Okay and I’m your only girlfriend?”

  I draw a cross over my heart. “Cross my heart, you’re the only one for me.”

  She nods her head and kisses me.

  I actually feel lighter, like a huge fucking weight has been lifted from me. Maybe I should’ve given in to her long before now, maybe that first night at the Campus Café. But it is too late to turn the clock back now. At least, I finally came to my senses in time, so I didn’t lose her. I put on my sweat pants and she pulls up her jeans when her cell rings. She walks over to answer it and mine rings as well. I look at her with raised eyebrows as she answers hers and I answer mine.

  “Hello.”

  “Hello, is this Will Sanders?”

  “Yes, this is he.”

  “Good afternoon Mr. Sanders, this is Wildon Yanowitz the Director of Nightwalker. How are you today?”

  Fuck!

  “Great, thanks Mr. Yanowitz, how are you?”

  “Good, thank you. We need you and Miss Barrett to come down to meet us for a reading of the script with the rest of our crew. Nothing too formal, just a check to make sure we have the actors cast in the correct roles.”