Best Friends with Benefits

21

Amari

Jake's soft breathing should've lulled me to sleep, but instead I was awake thinking about Tyler. How does he do this? I'm laying in Jake's arms, with him on my mind. Why couldn't I stop thinking about him? A soft knock on the door pulled me from my bed. I was careful not to wake Jake as I stepped out of the room to be met by Hunter.

"What's wrong?" I whispered looking down the hall towards Tyler's room.

"You don't hear that?" Hunter asked pointing in a random direction.

"Hear what?" I asked.

Hunter shushed me and out his hand over my mouth as we listened. It was muffled voices and things bumping.

"What's that?" I asked pushing his hand off of me.

"I don't know. I thought it was y'all." He said.

"Why would that be us?" I shook my head and held my hand up. "Don't answer that."

"Right. Now if you're done asking stupid questions, can we investigate?" Hunter rolled his eyes.

He walked towards Tyler's room and I followed closely behind him.

"You know, you're kind of mean." I whispered.

"I'm not." Hunter knocked on the door and a few seconds later, Tyler answered tired and shirtless.

I stared at Tyler's messy hair and squinted eyes. What had they been doing?

"Yes?" Tyler rasped out.

"Ty, do you hear that?" Hunter asked pointing again and I slapped his hand.

"Hear what?" Tyler asked.

Just like before, Hunter threw his hand over Tyler's mouth and shushed him as we listened to the muffled sounds. Tyler shoved Hunter off of him and dragged a hand across his face.

"Maybe someone is outside." Tyler said sounding more awake than before. "You two go put on something warm and meet me by the front door."

"I'm not investigating with you." I shook my head and Hunter pointed at me nodding in agreement.

"Right? Not all of us have an early death wish." He said. "I have places to be and ladies to see." He thought about it for a second. "Shirtless." He added last minute and I rolled my eyes and Tyler slapped the back of his head.

"You want to wake everyone up." He pointed at Hunter. "And you helped him. We're all going. You have ten minutes." Tyler said pointing at me before he closed the door on us.

Despite not wanting to, Hunter and I went into our rooms, put on warm clothes, and met Tyler down by the front door.

"You smell minty." Hunter said sniffing in my direction.

"I brushed my teeth." I pointed at my mouth and he nodded.

When we made it to Tyler, he handed us our coats before slipping his own on and walking over to the closet.