Breakfast in Bed / Simon Minter

05

About an hour later most people, who had stayed the night, had left. Freya and I decided to grab a blanket and sit and watch movies in the living room. Which seemed like the perfect idea, due to the extreme hangovers. 

Slowly the boys woke up and joined us in the living room. Josh came down and cuddled up next to Freya, Vik came down and sat on the other sofa. Then Simon entered. Suddenly i was nervous again, i must stop this. Where was he going to sit? There was a spare seat next to me and a spare seat next to Vik. I could see him from the corner of my eye pondering where to sit, before he slowly went to go sit next to Vik. I found myself feeling a slight sense of rejection again. I ignored it and carried on watching the film. Freya leaned in closer to me.

"He keeps looking at you" she whispered into my ear, so no one else could here. I shook her off and acted as if she was being stupid, but then and again i did catch him staring. I'm not sure why, he was the one who obviously wanted to forget about it.

"Do you want another cup of tea?" I asked Freya and she nodded quickly. I grabbed our empty cups and made my way to the kitchen. I could hear someone getting up behind me as i walked out. Of course, it was Simon.

"Hey" he stood by the kitchen door awkwardly, as i moved towards the kettle and started making the cups of tea. 

"Hi" i turned and smiled before busying myself, once again. I wanted to try and act nonchalant about the whole situation.

"Mia, about last night.." I couldn't let him carry on, i knew how he felt.

"We can just forget about it" i said, maybe a bit too bluntly. I didn't want to get rejected again.

"Oh yeah, that's great" I went to reply to him but stopped and turned around when i heard the door of the kitchen closing again. Oh. He left. Well that just about confirms my thoughts. 

I walked back into the living room with our cups of tea and handed Freya hers. I noticed Simon hadn't come back into the living room after our awkward conversation, makes sense i guess. We watched a few more films, before Josh and Vik had to film some videos and i decided that it was probably time for me to leave. I said my goodbyes, avoiding seeing Simon again, and left.

Two weeks later

I hadn't seen Simon at all in these two weeks. But tonight it was Freya's birthday, and i knew we were all invited to a surprise meal and clubbing afterwards, which Josh has organised. I guess i'll just try to avoid him. I was going to Gee's to get ready with some of the other girls, then we were all sharing a taxi to the meal, so none of us would have to drive and leave our cars there. 

"Mia, you look hot" Gee said, as i looked over my outfit in the mirror. I was wearing black jeans and a red crop top with a low cut. I slipped on my overly high red heels and added more mascara to my fake eyelashes.

"You're not so bad yourself" I winked and she pretended to seductively walk towards me from across the room. The girls laughed at our awful performance and we finished our glasses of Prosecco and headed outside to the taxi. The restaurant we arrived at looked way too posh for my liking. The waitressing staff stared us down as we walked in, giggling from the glasses of Prosecco we drank before we arrived. A young man directed us to our table and we saw most people were there already waiting. 

I said my greetings to Vik, Ethan, Emily and Tobi and we all stood around chatting, anxiously waiting for Josh and Freya to arrive. I could see Simon a few metres away talking to a group of other people. He looked really good, he was wearing a black tight button up shirt and some black jeans. The dark colours looked so good on him. As i was taking in his outfit, i noticed he was looking at me. He smiled and did a little wave, to which i returned, feeling incredibly awkward that he probably noticed me checking him out, and i immediately went back to my conversation.

"They're coming!" Nia whisper shouted, running back towards the table. We all stood facing the stairs they'd be walking up. As soon as they were walking into sight, the groups shouted

"Surprise!" And what a surprise it was. Freya jumped so much she had to grab onto Josh's arm to stop her falling over in her heels. A few of us walked closer to them. Freya gave josh a massive hug and a kiss and ran towards us girls. 

"Happy birthday" i exclaimed as she came towards me with open arms and a massive grin on her face.

"Thank you so much for coming" She squeezed me hard as i told her it was all Josh's idea. She hugged  few more people are said her greetings, then we all took our seats at the table.

Thank God, Simon was placed near the far side of the table from where i was sitting. I tried not to pay much attention to him as we ate our food and had a few more drinks. I could already feel the champagne going to my head and we hadn't even left for the clubs yet.

The club we went to was massive. There must have been over one hundred people on the dance floor. Although, as soon as we entered, someone showed us straight up to the VIP section upstairs. A few bottles of champagne and some beers were ordered up to our section and everyone was beginning to get a lot more tipsy.

"Let's go dance" Freya shouted over the loud music, and i was never someone to resist some dancing. We headed back down the stairs to the dance floor and it was packed. Everyone's bodies were pressed up against each others, and you could see people getting annoyed when ever someone bumped into them a bit too hard. We were all dancing together and having the best time. I could see Simon dancing quite close to me, but in my current tipsy state, i didn't feel the need to move away from him. I felt someone grab my hand and saw Freya attempting to drag me to an empty podium on the side of the dance floor. I quickly looked around the club and saw random people up on the podiums dancing, and immediately i knew what we were about to do. We climbed up onto the podium and started dancing again. I was very glad that i had decided to wear jeans tonight and avoided men being able to see up my skirt or dress. Our friends were below us and laughing as we grabbed the pole in the middle of the podium and pretended to be pole dancers. We moved up and down the pole, pretending to be sexy but failing miserably. 

Suddenly i caught Simon staring at me, he was smiling but wasn't laughing like the rest of our group. I noticed the look in his eye, it was dark, like our steamy night 2 weeks ago. I could have some fun with this. I kept his eye contact as i swung around the pole, and could feel him watching me intently as i swung my hips. Freya ruined my fun as she suggested we get down from the podium. Simon was waiting for me as i climbed down.

"That was hot" He shouted into my ear.

"You were watching? I hadn't noticed" i said , innocently.

"I can't stop thinking about the other night" I was surprised by his sudden remark. I thought he had regretted that night, but he can't stop thinking about it?

"Really?" He still had that look in his eye, as he grabbed my hand and dragged me near the wall of the club.

"Yes" He pushed me up against the wall of the club. Every dancer oblivious to our sensuous moment. I looked up at him, still shocked about his comment. I could see him looking at my lips as his tongue appeared out of his mouth to slowly lick his bottom lip, then he pulled his lip between his teeth. The action made me weak at the knees. I couldn't help it, i reach up and kissed him. He pulled me closer to him as he deepened the kiss, his tongue now in my mouth. I know i told myself i'd stay away, but how can i?