Dramatic Summer Love Story

Trouble

Thomas walks into Gabe's house with me walking in behind him. I close the door and look around, I've walked into a small room, with shoes on the floor and coats hanging on the walls, the entrance leads into a hallway with stairs on the right wall where there is also a door leading into the living room, on the left are two doors, one into a kitchen and the other is almost closed do I can't see into it, there is also one last door at the end of the hallway.
Thomas walks down the hallway and into the nearly closed door, I follow him and in the room, we're greeted by a big bedroom which is probably Gabe's bedroom as Chloe, Penny, Soph, and Gabe sit around the room. I go over to Chloe and sit down in her lap as Thomas sits down next to Gabe.
"Are you okay? You look sick." She says and wraps her hands around me hugging my abdomen. I look up at Thomas remembering the feeling of his hand on my hip.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm just coming down from all the drinks," I answer and rip my eyes away from Thomas just as he looks up at me.
"All ready?" She quirks an eyebrow as she leans to her side to see my face. She put her wrist on my forehead to we if I'm hot but I push it away.
"Yeah, I'm discovering I'm bad keeping a lot of alcohol down," I say and I still feel the bad tats in my mouth after vomiting. I turn to Gabe. "Do you have some mouthwash?" I ask, wishing to wash the taste away.
"Yeah, there is some in the bathroom down the hall." He tells me and I stand up and walk out assuming it's the closed room at the end of the corridor. I open the door of the closed room seeing it is a bathroom, it has a shower, toilet, and sink, a pretty basic bathroom. This is both the guest and Gabe's bathroom I see as there are decorations on for show but just one toothbrush in the cabinet behind the mirror I open to look for the mouthwash. I take it out and open it before I pour some in my mouth and swish it around for a few seconds. I spit it out and then leave the bathroom and go back to Gabe's room.
"I mean I don't really think it will be enjoyable to drive in the middle of the night when it's starting to rain with a full car of a bit drunk teenage girls." Chloe is saying and I look to the window to see she's right, some raindrops are knocking on the window.
"Where is your family? And what are we talking about?" I ask, likely having missed something in this conversation.
"What we're going to do about tonight, or you know what the next step is," Soph explains and I nod.
"My parents and brother are visiting my grandparents in Baltimore this weekend," Gabe tells me.
"Maybe we can just all crash here." Thomas shrugs as he tries to come up with an idea. Gabe thinks about this for a minute but then nods.
"Sure, but y'all are deciding on the sleeping arrangements, no one sleeps in anyone's bed except mine so I'll be sleeping on the couch." He points to the couch that sits under the window in his room.
"Don't you have a mattress here somewhere?" Thomas asks and I see the girls have already jumped on the bed as soon as Thomas and Gabe stand up.
"It's under the stairs," Gabe says and he and Thomas leave the room to retrieve it. I jump to the girls on the bed and they groan as I land on top of them.
"I don't think we can all sleep here." I giggle as Thomas and Gabe walk in with a blow-up mattress.
"You all figure that out," Gabe says not wanting to have anything to do with our sleeping situation.
"Thomas," I say and sit up climbing off the bed to join him to put sheets on the mattress after it has been blown up.
"Yeah?" His eyebrow questions me as we both tug the corners of the sheet to fit it on the mattress. I focus on putting the sheet before answering when I do I look up at him seeing him already looking at me.
"Like you heard all of us girls can't sleep together on the bed, so I thought I could sleep with you on the mattress." I point to it and look at the small mattress which is in between the size of a twin bed and a king bed. It's very small but I'm not about to sleep anywhere outside of this room and not on the floor either.
"Sure." Thomas's answer is hesitant. I nod and look at the girls who are undressing as Gabe busies himself with turning on some low music. I look back at Thomas.
"This is only platonic," I mumble, more to myself than him but I think he heard me as he nods. Having established that mostly with myself I unbutton my jeans and Thomas looks away and also increases until he's only in his boxers. I would rather not sleep in the shirt I will also wear tomorrow so I strip down to my bra and matching thong. I at least look great for this spontaneous sleepover we're having.
I slip under the duvet and a few minutes later after Thomas comes back from the bathroom he joins me under the covers. The girls are whispering and I don't feel like I'm miss8ng out because I'm completely distracted by Thomas's nearly naked presence beside me.
"Don't you think it's a bit funny we barely talked when we were in school but now after you let me sleepover at your house after drinking we're becoming best friends?" I stare up at the ceiling as I ask him and I see him glance over at me
"It kind of is. If anyone would try and guess how long we have been friends I don't think they would say a few weeks." He answers and I think he says what he says because not many friends that have known each other for a longer time than we have would ever sleep nearly naked next to each other, I smile.
"Goodnight," Gabe says and the girls do too and they do actually quiet down and try to fall asleep.
"Goodnight," I say to everyone and then I whisper good night to Thomas, he does the same thing as me, and then I turn away from him to close my eyes.
My eyes stay closed for a few minutes at a time and I keep opening them and wanting to move but I resist the urge to not annoy Thomas, I listen to the breaths of my friends get steady as they fall asleep, and when I think Thomas is at least falling asleep and I believe it's safe to move I do and turn to face him again, his eyes are closed but they flick open as I look over his calm features. I smile.
"How are you?" He whispers. "After you know, tonight."
"I'm fine, just embarrassed that I threw up all of what I drank and I'm starting to think I need to stop drinking because I can obviously not hold my liquor," I whisper and smile at the stupidity of it. "What about you, how are you especially when often surrounded by alcohol?"
"Sometimes I'm tempted, but every time I feel the desire I push it away and prove to the longing and the people who don't think I'll always be sober that I am stronger than they think," Thomas says and I nod on my pillow.
I look into his eyes and he looks into mine, my eyes run over his face and take in his features, I stop on his lips and I see how soft they are, he wets them noticing my staring at them, I look up into his eyes again and he smiles, I can't help but look back at his lips and want to touch them, I give into the temptation.
I pull my hand from under the cover and lay it on his cheek, he doesn't stop me so my thumb touches his lips, I stroke them gently feeling the feel of the on the tip of my finger. I stop and pull my hand back.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have done that." I apologize and I start to turn back around to try to fall asleep but Thomas hurriedly whispers my name. I turn back around afraid he's going to ask me why I did that, I honestly don't know why myself. Instead of laying down on the pillow, like before I wait for him to finish this conversation so I can turn back around except he seems hesitant to speak, and when we've looked at each other for a second in silence I open my mouth to ask what.
Except I get cut off. He doesn't say anything but leans into me and his lips land on mine. He kissed me! I'm stunned for a second but Thomas is pulling away probably thinking I don't want this because I haven't responded so I pull his head back to mine and kiss him back, we kiss for a second before pulling away and both settling down on the pillows.
"I wasn't expecting that." I smile.
"I kind of wasn't either." He smiles too.
"Can I ask for more?" I whisper and put my hands on his chest feeling the defined muscles under my palm. Thomas then nods and leans back in.
One of his hands starts on my cheek, cupping my face, it slides into my hair where his fingers tug gently at my blonde hair strands, his other hand is in the small gap between my neck and pillow holding me close to him. I rest my hands on his chest as his tongue starts asking for permission for access into my mouth. I open my mouth and his tongue slips in, it feels unfamiliar at first but not in a bad way, it makes my stomach swarm with butterflies, when his tongue retreats I tug a bit with my teeth on his bottom lip, he smiles and then his hand side down my back sending tingles down my spine to spread all over my body, he kisses me one more time and squeezes my waist before he pulls away. I sigh wishing his lips would stay a while longer on mine, a smile pulls at Thomas's lips, and I smile too his hand still on my waist and mine still on his chest.
"We should probably go to sleep," Thomas whispers and he finishes his sentence as he presses his lips back against mine. I sigh into him and he smiles against my lips.
"We probably should," I say when we pull away. He nods and gives me one last kiss before he says goodnight, I say goodnight too and instead of turning away from him to sleep I cuddle closer and his arm drapes over me and hugs me closer. I close my eyes and smell Thomas's cologne he always uses as I fall asleep.