Imane

Bonding pt.2

Lauren's P.O.V

"Never Have I Ever had a one night stand" I say reading the card out loud. I raise my eyebrow as I see her slowly raise her glass to her lips but then she puts it back down without drinking and says " no, I'm totally kidding" she laughs. " I could never, I'd get too attached." She tells me honestly. Then she flips over the next card and says " Never Have I Ever gotten into a card accident" we both take sips and I say " yeah a fender bender once."

"Same" she says.

We continue the game for another 15 minutes until most of our wine is gone. Imane has slightly more wine left in her glass. Her excuse for being so inexperienced was that she's always too busy to deal with boys. A valid reason if I might add. I flip over a card and it said " Never Have I Ever made out with a member of the same sex." I chuckle and take a big fat gulp of almost the rest of my wine. I look a Imane to see if she takes a sip but she doesn't. "Really?" I question. Like she might me straight but doesn't she live in a house full of girls... not one of them ever got curious...

"I've kissed my girlfriends before but never like that" she explains. "It would be quite the experience tho..." she adds trailing off at the end. And because of the wine my tipsy ass decides to reply with "we I can change that." With my new found courage I lean closer to her. Imane just blushes in silence. As I get closer to her I can she her eyes darken and look down at my lips. I take my hand and lightly caress her cheek with my thumb. Her breathe hitches as she feels my hot breathe hit her lips. I stop inches away from our lips touching and say " that would be fun wouldn't it".. I whisper. Imane just hums lightly in response. I really wanted to kiss her but I couldn't help but feel like I was taking advantage of her because she was tipsy. So I decide to lean in and kiss her on the cheek instead. I lean back into the sofa and I see her face go bright red as she processes what just happened. It was quite for a couple seconds but thankful my phone started to ring, ending the silence before it could become awkward. " I gotta take this" I get up and leave to answer a phone call from my brother.

Imane's P.O.V

Holyshit.
What just happened. My heart felt like it was beating out of my chest. My mouth was dry and it was hard to swallow. Why does she have this affect on me. It definitely wasn't like this with Janet, or lily.

I'm straight. I'm straight. I'm straight.
I kept repeating in my head. I'm just tipsy that's why I feel like this. I quickly run to the guest bedroom to get my phone in order to distract myself. I quickly grab it then got back into the living room tying to pretend nothing happened. I sit down then turn o my phone seeing I have 4 twitter notifications and 2 texts from my roommates.

I open the text from Rae first. It says " I'm ordering postmate's do you want anything?" I chuckle and type "dude, im not even home rn".
I send it and then open a similar text from Janet so I don't bother replying see as how Rae will probably tell them. As soon as I open Twitter I see Rae texted me back " Oh, when are you coming back?" I reply "tmr". Then open twitter again.

After scrolling on twitter for a couple minutes I hear Lauren come back to the living room.
"Sorry about that. It was my brother, he needed help with something." She says as she sits back down on the sofa. " so are you feeling hungry yet?" She asks while picking up the deck of cards putting them back in the box.

"Yeah, I am now that you mention it" I answer.

"Why don't I cook you something" she offers while standing up.

I excitingly smile " seriously?" Asking hoping that she wasn't joking.

"Yeah. Is that alright?" She asks me.

"Absolutely!" Reply lightly ushering her toward the kitchen. "Watcha gonna make?"

She giggles at my eagerness "How about some Chicken & Pesto pasta.?" She suggests.

"Anything is fine. God. I haven't had a home cooked meal since I visited my mom at the beginning of the year." I say slightly embarrassed. I can't believe it's already early October.

"Do you want to help?" She asks me while pulling ingredients out of the cabinets.

"No thanks. I'd rather just watch. Plus if I tried to help I'd most likely ruin it" I say half joking half not.

I think I spent a whole hour just watching Lauren cook. She looked so happy while cooking, the complete opposite of the day we met. It honestly left me in awe at how one thing can make all of her problems melt away.

"It's done" I hear Lauren say pulling my out of my thoughts.

"Mmmm.... it smells so good" I say while I'm sitting down at the table with my plate. Lauren sits across from me with her plate smiling at me, then says " I hope you like it."

I take my fork and swirl the past around it and start eating... Holy Shit. It's so good. I continue eating my pasta till I finally say " I have to admit, I'm impressed. It's way better than I expected.

"Haha. Th.thanks" she stutters in a way that reminds me of Sykunno. " I think this is my favorite recipe to make, because I've been cooking it since I was a teenager. I have had plenty of time to perfect it" she says trying to recover from her stutter.

" is there gonna be any leftovers?" I hesitantly ask not wanting to seem like a glut.

"I'm sorry did I not give you enough?" She asks panicked. " I only made enough for the two of us." She say motioning between Why?" she ends with.

I take a minute to think about how to explain it but instead I just say. " I guess you'll just have to come to mine and cook for my roommates sometime." I smile at her hoping she doesn't feel uncomfortable with me expecting to cook again. I don't want her to feel pressured to say "that is if you are ok with it". She is quiet for a second, which worries me but she then she simply says "I'd love to" with a big cheesy grin

A/N

Bonding but add a little ✨spice✨ and then fluff.

Also sorry for any typos in this or previous chapters, I'm writing this on my phone and autocorrect doesn't always guess the right word. I'm currently going back and editing the story to get rid of any errors.

I also want y'all to know that the story I'm writing is just what type of fanfic I like to read. I legit started writing it because I didn't see many fanfictions about Poki and my little gay heart can't survive without reading fanfiction. I don't know about y'all but I enjoy reading this fanfic. Sometimes I forget I'm the author of it 😂

P.S.
Not me writing this during work. I'm on a writers streak. Let's see how long this lasts, between this, League, and Valorant addictions.