****AUTHOR NOTE****
Wow!! 32k reads, that's amazing! Thank you for taking the time to read my story, please leave a comment and let me know if you're enjoying it so far - So.. back to Christmas Eve with Olly and Jesse....
*************************************************Mollie had stayed over at her boyfriend's house, so we had a takeaway delivered to her place and then we got a taxi, and I took Jesse home to my parents' house, Mollie offered us her place for the night, but it felt way too soon for that. By the time we got to my parent's house it was late and they were already in bed, thank god!
I tried to unlock the door quietly, but being me, I obviously dropped the keys twice, opened the door and smacked it into the wall, walked in, fell over the cat and knocked a vase off a table! Pretty standard for me. Jesse laughed, covering his mouth to try and stay quiet, what was the point? He was with me!
"You've got some kind of disorder, I swear! No one is this clumsy!" Whispered Jesse, smiling. I rolled my eyes at him and locked the front door behind us.
We crept across the living room towards the stairs
"Hey, where do you want to sleep?" I asked,
"Where do you want me to sleep?" He asked, raising his eyebrows and smiling.
"I'm not answering that" I replied, joking, but deadly serious inside, I wanted him, there was no question about that, but can you imagine?! It's me, clumsy, loud, disastrous me!
Sleeping with him for the first time in my childhood single bed at my parents' house, we all know that's never going to end well!
No doubt I'd get over excited, knock him out of the bed, he'd smack his head on the bedside table and be bleeding everywhere as my parents rush in to see what happened and see a naked man on the floor bleeding, they would assume this strange man had broken in and attempted to rape me and in self-defence Id cut his head, they ring the police, he's arrested, it's all over the news, it's ruins his career and his life! - yeah - not happening!
He gave me a cheeky smile
"You can sleep in Mollie's room" I said, I knew it was the right thing to do but man it was hard to resist him.
"Okay" he replied, I didn't really know where I stood or what he wanted but I hoped he understood my reasons as he followed me up to Mollie's room.
"Oh shit, Mollie has my bags in her car" he whispered
"Oh, I'll get her to drop them off in the morning. Is there anything you need tonight?" I asked
"Uh, a phone charger? And some water, please" he asked
"Sure, I'll go get it" I replied, I closed the door to Mollies room and tiptoed downstairs, I grabbed him a bottle of water from the fridge and pulled my spare phone charger from the socket in the kitchen wall.
I knocked on Mollie's door, quietly before entering slowly. I almost dropped the water bottle as I opened the door to Mollie's room and clocked eyes on Jesse stood in just his black boxer shorts, his clothes in a heap on the floor.
His solid abs illuminated by the torch light of his phone that was on the bed, lighting up the room.
He turned to me and smiled, my heart was racing, I tried to talk but my eyes were fixated on his perfect body, he laughed quietly at my obvious drooling over him
"Uh hey, face is up here!" He teased, breaking me out of my trance.
"Oh, sorry!" I said, embarrassed, I looked up to meet his eyes.
My legs felt weak, I was shaky, almost dizzy, the tingling sensation that consumed my inner thighs whenever he was around had intensified by 1000 and I could feel my breathing getting heavier
Get out! My brain told me
I walked quickly towards him and handed him the water and phone charger
"Thank you" he said taking them from me, I turned to walk away, fast!
"Hey" he said, making me turn immediately back to him.
He reached out and took my hand, I scrunched
up my face in uncomfortable frustration.
He pulled me gently back towards him, noticing my weird expression.
"Are you ok?" He asked
"Yeah, fine" I lied, he let go of my hand, I knew I had just ruined something potentially amazing
His entire demeanour changed immediately into a casual whatever sort of thing.
"Ok, goodnight then" he said, in obvious annoyance
"Night" I said quietly, as equally deflated
I wanted to explain to him how badly I wanted to touch him and how I wanted to put my fingers in his hair and run my hands down his chest. I'd have literally sold my soul to climb into Molly's bed with him but not here, it just wasn't right. It was never going to be anything more than a subdued teenage quickie in a single bed and that wasn't how I wanted the first time to go.
I walked out of her room,
"Text me if you need anything" I said as I closed the door behind me
I walked back to my room, my skin was on fire, my heart thumping out of my chest, why did he have this power over me? I'd never felt so intensely into someone this soon, it had been a matter of days since I met him, DAYS! I had loose change that had been in my pocket longer than I'd known him, yet I suddenly wanted him more than I wanted to breathe. Ok so maybe that was a little bit dramatic, I probably needed to breathe more but you know what I mean.
I changed into my pyjama vest top and shorts, tied my hair up and climbed into bed, I reached over and turned the lamp off on the nightstand.
I sighed, my life was becoming complicated, my feelings were all over the place and my head was a mess. I'd become impulsive, something I never really considered myself to be before I started uni, I think Zoe had rubbed off on me.
I led staring at my phone screen, the brightness, even on the dullest setting made me squint in the darkness.
I started writing a text to Jesse but changed my mind and deleted it.
I wrote it again.
And deleted it.
I wrote it three more times and on the third time I jumped as my phone vibrated in my hand, dropping it on my face!
"Ouch!" I groaned
Thank you for letting me stay here. Goodnight
P.s - be warned I will fall out of this tiny bed! Jx
Haha. I guarantee it'll be me that falls out first!
I'm really glad you're here :) I'm sorry if I made tonight awkward x
Don't worry about it
'Don't worry about it!' That's it?! I ready for a full-blown heart to heart and all he says is don't worry about it! Well, I was worried about it!
I laid in bed staring at the ceiling for a while, hoping he would text again but after ten minutes there was nothing. That was it, he was probably asleep. Ugh.
I was annoyed at myself, why didn't I text him back, who was I kidding trying to play it cool, I wasn't cool! I was a clumsy, over-thinking, mess of a girl, it's better he found that out now rather than later on, but it was too late, I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew it was morning. Christmas Eve.
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