Maybe Something More | A Benjey Story

Chapter 10

Benji P.O.V.

Jorge had fallen asleep after a few episodes of Glee. He looked so peaceful, that I didn't want to wake him. I turned off the TV and picked up Jorge from underneath his thighs. He stirred as I started carrying him up the stairs. He wrapped his small arms around my neck. Whether it was a conscious action or not, I loved being in his embrace. His head was resting on my chest, and I could hear his small breaths. Once I got to my room, I set him on my bed and realized he needed some clothes to sleep in. So I hurried over to my closet, and grabbed one of my shirts. I didn't want to seem like a weirdo, so I looked away as I took off his pants and shirt to replace them with my own clothing. After, I covered him with a blanket hoping he wouldn't be too cold during the night.

I decided to sleep on the floor so that he would have more space and so it wouldn't make for an awkward situation in the morning when we woke up. But just as I was getting comfortable, he whispered, "Get up here."

I didn't realize he was awake. I also wondered how long he had been awake. But I did as he said and moved to the edge of the bed to still keep the space between us.

"Oh my god, Benji. Just cuddle with me already," he mumbled.

My face heated up when he said this. I didn't want to upset him, so I moved towards him until we were laying there, his back against my chest and my arms wrapped around his torso.

"Good night, Benjamin."

"Good night, Jey," I sighed.

How was I supposed to push away my feelings after this?

Time skip

I woke up to the sound of laughing. I slowly opened my eyes to see Jorge laying on my chest watching cat videos.

"What on earth are you doing?" I asked.

"Watching cat videos, duhhh," he said looking up at me.

I smiled down at him just taking in all his features. His messy hair, his big beautiful eyes, the small freckles that dotted his face. He is so perfect. I want to kiss him, but I know that I can lead him on like that. I can't hurt him.

"Stop staring at me," he giggled.

"Then stop being so hard to look away from," I responded.

"Oh shut up. I'm hungry." he said.

"I'll take you to breakfast then."

Once we got to the local diner, we sat down and ordered our food.

"So, Benji. What are you the most excited about for our trip?" Jey asked.

"I can't wait for the buffets. Can you imagine how much food I will be able to eat??? And it's all free??" I exclaimed.

"Oh Benjamin, why don't you just marry food at this point?" Jorge joked.

"Because then I couldn't hang out with hotties like you."

He looked at me with wide eyes. Oh god, oh god, oh heavenly god. Abort mission, I repeat, ABORT MISSION. I definitely should not have said that.

"Would you look at that, our food is here," Jey said awkwardly.

We ended up eating and talking for two hours. Things got less awkward as we ate. I had learned so much about Jey in the last two hours, it was kinda crazy. Things were going great until I got a phone call. It was Alice, I wonder what she wanted.

"Hey Alice, what's up?"

"BENJAMIN KROL DON'T YOU WHAT'S UP ME!!! YOU AND JORGE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK FOUR HOURS AGO!! YOU BETTER GET YOUR ASSES HERE RIGHT NOW, OR YOU AREN'T COMING ON THE TRIP!" she shouted, then hung up.

"What was that all about," Jorge asked.

"Uh... we kinda forgot we had work today."

"OH MY GOD!! We gotta go!" he said, obviously freaking out, "I can't afford to lose this internship, Benji! My whole life depends on it!"

That sounded like a bit of an over statement to me. Although I did feel bad for making us late, in the end we both forgot, so he can't completely blame me.

After we paid the check, we ran out of the diner and drove as fast as we could to the office. When we got there, of course Alice was waiting. And she did not look happy.

"Where. Have. You. BEEN!!?" Alice shreaked.

"I- uh..."

"Spit it out, Benji!!" she yelled.

"Well, we were hanging out last night and we fell asleep and we were hungry, so we went to get breakfast and we lost track of time and then you called and-"

"BENJI!" she screamed, "I don't need to hear anything else. To pay me back for being so late, you two will be cleaning the bathrooms today."

Jorge and I both groaned and rolled our eyes, but nodded our heads.

"You better get going, those bathrooms aren't going to clean themselves," Alice said while pushing us out the door.

Time Skip

Jorge was currently cleaning the floor while I was wiping down the mirrors. I would be lying if I said I wasn't checking him out through the mirror. I bent over to get more cleaner. When I stood back up and went to look at him again, I was met with his eyes. He was already looking at me before I looked at him. I looked away and blushed with a small smile on my face. I was so distracted by how he was making me feel at the moment, that I didn't even realize I had knocked the cleaner off of the counter and onto the floor.

"Shit," I mumbled, bending down to pick it up.

I reached for the bottle, but was met with someone's hand. Jorges hand. I looked up at him and he looked up at me. A deep blush was plastered across his face. I smiled at him and gently squeezed his hand. He giggled and placed the bottle in my other hand, our other hands still connected.

"You can hold my hand later, Benji. The sooner we finish, the sooner we get to have a break. So get to it," he told me.

Ugh, why is he always so flirty? How am I supposed to control my feelings when he's always touching me and being all sweet and shit.

As I continued to clean, my thoughts started to swirl around in my head like a tornado. Do I really not want Jey, or do I just not want to deal with my personal sexuality problems? The world may never know. But all I do know, is that there is something going on between Jey and I. And I honestly don't know what to do about it. 

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hey guys. i am so sorry for once again taking ages to update. i have been having a really rough time lately, so i haven't been very motivated. i am going to try to update more often, but i'm sorry if i don't lol. but thank you guys for 500 reads on this book. also thank you to those of you who have been commenting, it means the world to me to see people interacting with my writing and enjoying it. love you guys. 

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