Waiting It Out - Benny Rodriguez - Book 1

Field Day

I was peacefully laying in bed when the bed bug laying beside me activated his morning mode.

"Hi." I hear him say.

I decide against responding. 

I feel his arms tighten around my waist. They stayed there all night.

"You know we gotta get up, right?" he asks.

I keep pretending to be asleep just to piss him off. He knows I'm awake.

I hear him sigh in defeat. 

That doesn't mean he's quiting.

I feel his head make its way to my neck and his lips lightly start to press against my skin.

Oh, fuck.

He's kissing my neck and biting it softly every once and a while.

His arms tighten around my torso, pulling me closer to his body.

He starts focusing on one area without moving and I realize he's about to give me a hickey.

My eyes fly open and I quickly get off the bed.

As much as I was enjoying that I don't want to try and cover up a hickey.

Not like it's the first time I've had to but I don't wanna go through the trouble of putting on the make up just to sweat it off during field day.

"I'm up!" I say with my hands raised in defeat.

"What? You didn't like it?" he asks with a knowing smile.

"That definitely wasn't the problem." I mutter to myself.

"What was that?" he asks.

"Nothing." I say while walking into the bathroom.

He starts laughing and I turn back to glare at him before closing the bathroom door.

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Each homeroom class was given a color to represent their team. Ours is green. 

And not just any green. Highlighter green. They made sure to be specific.

I had to go out and buy a neon green shirt because nobody just has a neon green shirt. No one with taste anyway. I also got a matching bandana just cause. Gotta complete the fit.

We got to school at 8:30. That part of today wasn't any different. 

We got to homeroom as soon as we got to school and have been sitting in class for half an hour. The activities are expected to start at 9:30.

Ivy was sitting in my seat, waiting for me when I got here so I'm sitting on top of Benny's desk.

"Do you guys know if you got tug of war yet?" Bertram asks us.

We're all gathered in our seats.

Ivy's sitting in my seat. I'm sitting on top of Benny's whose sitting in his seat. Bertram's next to Benny and Kenny's sitting next to Ivy.

"Nah, man. She's said she was gonna tell us before we go out." Benny tells him.

"Better do it soon." I say. "There's gonna be an attempted riot for like 10 minutes after. Those who didn't get it are gonna be pissed." 

"Doesn't matter if they were expecting it or not." Kenny says.

"Really?" Ivy asks.

I forget this is her first year here.

"Oh, yeah." Kenny answers.

"It may not be. They could've matured." she argues.

"No." I disagree. "We've been with these kids since kindergarten."