"My head's pounding, but I don't regret anything," I said honestly as Michael cuddled up to me in his bed.
"You're more confident now, and all it took was doing unspeakable things to you in different rooms over the course of the night," he whispered.
"Shh," I begged, lazily placing my finger on his lips. My entire body was aching from exhaustion.
"Is your body numb?" he smirked, lazily draping his legs between mine and stroking my head.
"Yes," I said quietly, my eyes closed and I just wanted to sleep.
"You couldn't form a sentence a minute ago," he pointed out.
"Shut up," I hushed.
"What could you remember? Hanna-Rose? The only thing you could say?" he pushed.
"Your name," I said, just to shut him up.
"Okay you can sleep now," he said, kissing the top of my head and turning the lights off.
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I woke up in pain. Not only in my lower area but my back, my legs, my neck and my arms too. I groaned and stretched my arms out, looking for a second and mine and Michael's entwined bodies.
"You're awake," he said happily, looking up at me and smiling. I remembered last night and wondered whether to feel happy, worried or...
"I don't know how to feel," I said honestly, "I mean about last night."
"To hell with 'it shouldn't have happened' because it did happen, so fuck it," he babbled, "it was fun though."
"Yeah," I smirked. He was right. Of course it shouldn't have happened but it did and nothing was going to let me escape that.
"You leave today," he said sadly.
"I know. At least it's early so I have time to get ready," I replied, "I need to have a shower. Can I use yours?" I asked, motioning to the bathroom door of his ensuite.
"Yeah of course," he said, stretching. I hopped out of bed, but immediately regretted it because I had to sit back down again in pain, "hurts huh? Sorry love. That'll teach you to turn me on."
"Michael!" I gasped, gently slapping his arm.
"Go have a shower, there's stuff in there already, if you don't mind smelling like me," he chuckled. I nodded and hurried to the bathroom, finding a towel already in there and everything scattered around inside the large shower.
I turned on the water and instantly felt better as the hot water ran over my body, feeling a lot better as if all the aches and pains were numbed all of a sudden.
"Can I join you?" Michael said, his voice startling me.
"No! Michael, oh my god," I muttered.
"Why? It's nothing compared to what we did last night," he reminded me. Ignoring my pleas for him to stay out, he opened the shower curtain and stepped in with me, pressing his body against mine, the hot water covering both of us.
He reached for the body wash and squirted some onto his hands and then he literally rubbed it all over me, slow and teasing.
"Michael," I whined, this was feeling better than it should have. When he'd finished that, he crashed his lips onto mine, my body pressing against the cold wall tiles as the hot water ran over my body, but it could barely get in the gap between Michael and me. It felt different, kissing him in the shower, with the water making my hair go in my eyes, but it wasn't long before Michael tucked it behind my ear once more.
"You're so beautiful," he mumbled, his hot wet lips moving against mine.
"You're so sexy," I blurted, but he didn't taunt me, he just kissed me harder, the heat not only present from the shower but the heat between us.
"This is amazing," he whispered into my ear above the sound of the shower.
"You've never done this before?" I said in surprise.
"No," he said honestly, sucking at the water droplets on my skin, making me shudder, "first time kissing anyone in the shower."
"Well, me too," I giggled.
"It feels different," he said honestly and I replied by leaving his lips and kissing the water droplets on his damp skin as he turned the water off, "you're so hot when you do that."
"Do what?" I mumbled against his hot skin.
"That," he chuckled, "god, stop it or I'll fuck you in the bath."
"I was thinking about what you said yesterday," I murmured, still kissing his neck.
"What? The friends with benefits thing?" Michael chuckled and I nodded, "well it makes sense but I don't want to think of you that way."
"I know, and it's a horrible thing to just use each other for sex," I agreed. So what are we then?
"Well after today I don't see you for six months and I swear, we won't be... Intimate after that. You just needed a distraction so I gave you one," he explained and I nodded. His hands gripped my shoulders as I brought my lips back up to his as he gently pressured me against the wall. I bit down on his lip and he let out a strangled groan, gripping my shoulder tighter as I sucked at the skin on his neck.
"Fuck," he breathed, "Hanna-Rose don't..." he muttered.
"Don't what?" I teased between kisses.
"I will take you right here right now," he warned, bringing my head back up to his, "stop acting so damn innocent." He smirked, kissing me quickly before pulling me out of the shower with him.
And for the first time in ages, I'd stopped worrying about Ash.
