"Mia!" Erana says and runs to me in the parking lot nearly tackling me. She jumps into my arms and I spin around not even sure if her feet are on the ground or not.
"Oh how I've missed you," I say and she pulls away but quickly hugs me again. Almost as if she was making sure I was really in front of her.
"Make some room," Sarah says and we smile over at her and both hug her.
This time, it won't only be for a couple months.. This time, it's six months.
We all head to our condos we have together and I requested to live with Erana so, that's who I got paired with. Everyone stayed with their roomies they had during the pilot.
"God this is so much better than that hotel we stayed in," Erana says and sets down her bag. "I agree," I mumble and look around the space.
We all landed pretty late so we were all down for the day and ready to pass out, at least that's how I felt.
"I'm gonna get some sleep," I tell Erana and she turns to me. "Already?" She asks and glances down at her phone reading the time. It was only 9:45pm.
"Im just exhausted my back is killing me," I mumble and she grabs her phone and walks around the counter.
"You know.. I'm a great back massager. You stay up with me and I'll give you a free massage, on the house," She says and I smile widely.
"What kind of idiot would deny that!?" I reply and grab her wrist pulling her into my bedroom. This time we each had our own bedroom. I couldn't tell if I loved that or hated it.
"Lotion," She says and I grab my bag and toss it to her. She quickly goes through it pulling out a bottle of my scented lotion.
"Come here," She insists and slaps the bed where she wants me to lay. "On your stomach," She orders me and I listen and lay down getting comfy.
"Can you?" She asks and tugs at the bottom of my shirt. "Oh um yes yeah," I stutter and sit up facing away from her and pull off my shit. I left my bra on and laid back down. she unhooks it without asking and I could tell she saw the goosebumps swarm my body.
"Mia, relax, you're too tense," She says and straddles me. How could I not be?
"Sorry," I whisper and she puts some lotion in her palm and begins to put it on my back, it was a bit cold so it caused me to shiver.
Her hands felt so nice against my skin. She could be giving me the shittiest massage and I wouldn't even notice.
She begins rubbing my upper shoulders and it felt so good I nearly let out a moan.
"How is it?" She asks and squeezes my shoulders getting my attention. "Mmm" I mumble in satisfaction.
She continues for god knows how long before getting off of me and insisting she's done. Her hands apparently were cramping which, wouldn't doubt it.
"Mia," She mumbles and touches the pit of my back causing me to flinch. I quickly sit up and turn to her and she looks away, her face beat red.
"What-" I say but quickly realized my chest was exposed and I grab my tshirt throwing it over my head quickly.
"My bad... You can look," I stutter and she turns to me. "It's okay," She laughs and I smile to her shyly. "Now.. Your turn to fulfill your promise," she says and I close my eyes tiredly falling on the bed.
"Movie?" I ask and she agrees turning on some random movie on my tv and getting comfy.
"Why would that guy purposely do that?" She randomly says and I tiredly open my eyes. "So crazy" I mumble and she shoves me. "Wake up, this movies good," she insists and I notice her arm was still against mine after she had nudged me, she never pulled back. I hesitantly latch onto her arm with one of my hands and pull her close.
I can sense her looking down at me but I let it go and fall back asleep.
I wake up to nothing but the sun.
That's odd... It feels pretty late in the morning the alarm should've gone off.
My bed was empty, Erana must've left last night and I didn't even notice.
I reach for my phone and see the time. My alarm hadn't gone off because me being me, I totally forgot to even set one. I had three minutes to get ready and leave.
"Fuck!" I mumble and quickly get out of bed and take down my hair and make it at least presentable. I put on some loose shorts and a cute v neck shirt. Quickly slapping on some makeup I grab my purse and slide on my sandals rushing out the door.
I dial Eranas number and she answers pretty quick.
"Why good morning sleepy head. Where might you be?"
"Looking for you guys. Where are you?" I ask urgently.
"The family restaurant beside the condos, should see us outside." She tells me and without even replying I hang up and basically run to it.
Today we had a cast and producer breakfast to catch up and talk about the season ahead.
I notice them all sitting outside and Erana had a cigarette in her mouth and a wine in front of her.
It's only 10 am but honestly, no one even questions it.
Everyone looks at me and either makes smart ass comments or welcome me nicely.
"Give me this," I grab the cig out of Erana's hand and take a long hit. Also grabbing her wine she raises her eyebrows, and her phone at me.
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She clearly snaps some photos and surprisingly, I didn't look horrible. "Sit down, relax." Erana says and pulls me down beside her. I was very anxious and I know she could tell. Never have I been late to anything, and here I am.
My leg was shaking under the table quite a lot. I couldn't stop it either..
I order myself some wine as well as some pancakes.
"Mia, it's okay," Erana says and hands me her wine and I gladly take a few sips.
I feel a warm hand touch my bare leg and it immediately stopped every bit of movement in my entire body
She rubs her index finger and her thumb and it's all I can think about.
God... For someone who only wants to be friends and not catch any feelings she sure is pulling me in.
I glance over at her and she looks to me with a comforting smile. "Mia?" One of the producer says clearly unsure if I was paying attention or not and let's be real, I totally wasn't.
All I could focus on was the soft hand on my thigh, driving me absolutely insane.
