Wild Ride | Rhea Ripley | Possessive, Fluffy and Smutty

17 | Thanks You

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"Come on, Lauren, stop being a pussy. I'll even get you M&M's." Rhea opened my door for me to hop out, and I carefully did. "You're cute when you're scared." She giggled. "You think someone's gonna break into your house later do you?"

"No." I scoffed. "I don't care about that stuff, it's the ghosts and shit that freak me out. Supernatural stuff." I pointed out, heading inside the movie theatre beside Rhea.

She put her arm around my shoulder to guide me quicker inside. "You'll be fine. Do you need me to come over tonight?" She offered. "Because you're so scared..."

I scoffed, shaking my head. But I was shaking it because I couldn't let my parents know I basically had a girlfriend. I was scared of what they would do if they saw Rhea....

"Can I have peanut M&M's..." I whispered to her as we nearly got to the counter.

"Yeah, baby. Anything else?" She asked.

Baby.

I brushed the nickname that nearly had me falling to the floor. "Um-" I pretended to scan the selection of foods. "Popcorn?"

"That's a given, Ren. Something sweet?" She offered again, and I thought she might be trying to fill me out.

I smiled at her. "I have you."

Rhea shook her head and rolled her eyes.

But I nodded and softly pointed to the bag of gummy bears. She smiled at me and walked up to the counter, ordering everything I asked her for.

"Lead the way." Rhea told me, stepping aside so I can find us a seat in the moderately filled theatre room. I went towards the back, glancing over my shoulder to Rhea who was looking at me a little wide eyed. "This is a movie, Lauren. People are around." She whispered with a chuckle.

That definitely wasn't my intention, but now I kept thinking about it. Especially when we sat down and Rhea grabbed my leg, pulling it over hers, softly touching my thigh, twinkling her fingers. She was torturing me and she didn't even know she was.

"Hey..." I whispered 5 minutes into the movie.

She looked at me a little annoyed at first, but focused on me, squeezing my thigh.

But that was the issue.

"You're actually making me more tense doing that." I motioned to my leg.

Rhea broke a smile and pulled it back, moving my leg off of her and opening her arm for me. Which I fell into, cuddling into her side. She put the popcorn down and opened the M&M's, picking a green one out for me and putting it by my mouth.

Green?

I looked at her and tightened my lips together.

Rhea rolled her eyes and changed it to a blue one, which I very nicely accepted into my mouth. "Thanks you." I whispered.

"Thanks you." Rhea chuckled at me and focused back on the movie.

The absolutely frightening movie... why was I here right now? Why was I watching this oh my-

"You're sweating, Lauren." Rhea whispered, pulling my shirt that had clung to my back. "It's a movie, it's not real, you know?"

"I know." I moved off her a little, pulling at my shirt to try and get some fresh air in. "Sorry... It's hot and this is a scary movie."

"Take it off." Rhea whispered, looking down my body. "What are you wearing beneath that?"

"Just a bra. A black one." I told her and began pulling at my shirt, and I only got it halfway off before Rhea tugged it back down.