Alexa and Ben's love story had been a long time in the making - best friends for years, turned lovers when Ben was home from college for a week. Unfortunately, just as things were falling into place, a devastating event shook their relationship and...
After getting food and coffee, Ben takes me on a tour of campus, showing me all of the different buildings and places where the students hang out.
It's a beautiful campus, there's so many things to do and things to see.
"We have a softball team too" Ben says as he throws his arm over my shoulder. I look up at him and I just know my eyes give away how happy that one sentence makes me.
"Really??" I look up at him in awe.
"Yes" he smiles.
I proceed to ask a million questions that Ben tries his hardest to answer for me.
A few hours later
Here I am, in Ben's room, getting ready for my second college party. The scary part is that this one is themed. Even though Ben took me out today to buy an outfit for it, i'm still nervous as hell.
The theme is glow in the dark/black light, so wearing white is recommended. I'm honestly really excited and of course, Ben looks great.
I never pictured Ben as the type of guy who takes themed parties so seriously, but I was wrong. He's decked out in an all white outfit and he looks gorgeous.
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I throw on the outfit that Ben helped me pick out. My makeup is done and my hair is in loose curls down my back.
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I turn around and look at Ben, "okay, I think i'm ready." I say and smile at Ben.
He looks at me and smiles. "Perfect. You look great, let's go." He takes my hand, pulls me close, kisses my forehead and walks me out of the room.
When we get there, looking at everyone dressed in white is almost blinding. The inside is dark, everyone in white, glowing in the dark. It makes me smile, I love it. There are people with glow in the dark paint on their bodies and clothes, and people with glow sticks.
Ben takes me to get a drink and then leads me to where the music is.
As we are walking, I spot the place where everyone is getting the paint from. I stop and pull Ben with me.
I bite my lip as I look at the paint and then back at him.
"Want to paint my body?" I look at him and smirk.
He looks at the paint and then back to me and forms a smirk of his own. "Hell yeah I do."
I giggle and all but drag him over with me. I take his drink from him and hold it in my empty hand.
"Go crazy" I say and smile.
He smiles and scans his options of paint. He chooses pink first and puts some on his hand.
Before I know it, I have pink, purple and red handprints all over me. My butt, chest, arms and legs are covered. I look up at Ben as he checks out his work. Once it seems that he's satisfied, he leans close to my ear and whispers, "now everyone knows you're mine."
Goosebumps raise on my skin and I bite my lip and nod.
"My turn" I say and hand him both of our drinks.
He smiles and watches me as I do the same to him, immediately going for the blue paint, I leave handprints all over him.
After a few minutes, I step back and admire my work, he's covered in blue, green, and orange paint.
He smiles at me and hands my drink back, I take a sip and grab his free hand as he takes me to where the music is.
When we get to the big open room where people are dancing, drinking and talking, we spot Jackson and Dustin standing in a corner talking to a girl. We walk up hand in hand, "hey guys," Ben says and takes a sip from his drink.
The guys smile and Dustin introduces us to Sophie, the girl they're talking to.
She smiles and says hi.
After a few minutes of Ben talking to the guys and Sophie and I talking to each other, getting to know one another, she asks me to go with her to paint her body. I nod and look at Ben.
"Hey, we'll be right back, Sophie wants to go get paint on her." I look up at him. He nods and looks down at me, "okay, be careful." I smile at him and nod. Sophie grabs my hand and pulls me through the crowds of people back to where the paint is.
