"uhhh this is colleen right?" the postmates guy played with the handles on the big taco bell bag before handing it to erik, who had a blanket wrapped around his shoulders to make up for his lack of shirt.
"oh, well, yeah." said erik, unsure of what to answer since his name was not in fact colleen.
"funny name for a guy." the postmates guy chuckled, gripping tightly onto the door.
"oh, no. that's my..." erik hesitated before continuing. "my girlfriends name."
"ahhh gotcha. enjoy your food." the postmates guy turned on his heel as erik closed the door behind him.
"girlfriend?" colleen laughed from the stairs as erik started walking up to her.
"well what else was i supposed to say? he was practically hitting on me!!" erik replied innocently.
"you're weird stocklin." colleen said as they reached her bedroom door. she walked over to the windows and pulled the blinds shut and then turned off the light so the room was completely dark.
"what in gods name are you doing?" a confused erik asked "how are we gonna see?"
saying nothing, colleen switched on one of the lamps next to her bed and motioned to it. she then grabbed the bag of taco bell out of erik's hands and eagerly reached into it while making herself comfortable under the covers. she pulled out the chalupa supreme that she had ordered and and started chewing insanely fast.
"slow down you're gonna choke!" erik exclaimed, the worry clear in his voice.
"shhhh i haven't eaten all morning. i'm starving." colleen said, still devouring her food.
"all morning? its only 9 o'clock."
colleen didn't reply and continued eating. erik sat next to her in bed and pulled his crunch wrap out of the brown bag that was soggy from the condensation created by their food. they sat in silence and ate. well, erik ate. colleen had already finished all of her food.
"that. was. delicious." colleen stated as she laid back in bed, rubbing her stomach where her food baby was. erik laughed at her and continued his paced eating.
suddenly colleen shot straight up. she leaned over to erik and very quickly ate what was left of his crunch wrap.
"COLLEEN!" he yelled.
"sorry lovey. you know that i'm always hungry."
lovey. she just called him lovey. erik's heart started beating exceptionally fast. that's a thing that friends call each other right? he knew he would never have the balls to call colleen anything other than her name, or when he couldn't be bothered to say all 7 letters, he'd just call her c. his eyes quickly darted down to his lap, praying that colleen couldn't see his red face.
"awwww you're blushing." she smiled. busted.
"huh? oh. no i'm not. you're full of it." he blurted out, still keeping his head down.
colleen rested her hand on his thigh and his eyes straight away locked with hers.
"don't be embarrassed erik. its cute. you're cute." she grabbed the remote and turned the tv on. erik was baffled. the woman he'd been crushing on for years had just called him lovey and cute in the span of 30 seconds. he smiled goofily and thanked the lords above that colleen wasn't paying attention to him in that moment.
she continued flicking through the many documentary's on netflix. erik felt like last night was repeating itself. and he was completely fine with that.
finally, after what seemed like ages, they agreed on what to watch.
they hadn't even gotten 10 minutes into the program and they were already bored.
"i hate this." colleen said pausing the tv.
"yeah. its really uh, boring" erik replied. he was actually enjoying it quite a lot. but he'd much rather do something else with colleen that didn't involve looking at a screen or eating junk food.
"lets do something more... interesting." colleen smirked as she straddled him. his heart started beating out of his chest. colleen leaned in closer and closer until their lips were half an inch apart. they looked into each others eyes in silence for a few seconds. "lets play uno." she whispered, pulling away from his face.
erik couldn't take it anymore.
"no" he whispered under his breath as he grabbed colleen by her waist and smashed his lips onto hers.
colleen was shocked for a few seconds but she kissed back. this moment was the only thing that they had wanted for years. erik felt colleen smiling through the kiss and felt the most relived.
their kiss continued for a while. unfortunately, their need for air caused the two to pull away.
"wow." colleen smiled while breathing heavily. "that was..."
"amazing?" erik asked. colleen nodded and went back for more. she seemed more hungry for this than she was her taco, so erik knew he was doing something right. she pulled away once again and wiped some of last nights lipstick, that had miraculously stayed on overnight, off of his cheek.
"so... how 'bout that game of uno?" she smirked. erik smiled back and pulled them both under the sheets.
