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  “Alright, sounds good. Oh hey Paige, before I forget, do you think you can sneak me into your dorm after the game? The team’s getting put up in a hotel for the night, but I wanted to spend some extra time with you.”

  I chewed on my fingernail thinking it over. Jake and Ben knew about each other, but I could tell that Ben had some major animosity towards Jake, even though they had never met. I had explained time and time again that we were just friends, but Ben still seemed to get upset whenever he saw me texting him. But Jake had never picked another girl over me and I wasn’t about to pick my boyfriend over him, especially when we hadn’t even been together that long.

  “Sure, that sounds like a plan. I would never be able to pass up some extra time with you. I’m sure Kitty can help me sneak you in after the game. I’ll talk to you later.”

  “Bye, baby girl.”

  Maddie and I moved along in the line to get stir- fry and once we both had our trays we found an empty table. “So how have all of your classes been going?” I asked in between bites of my lo-mein.

  My first impression of Maddie had been correct when I thought she looked like a bit of a bookworm, she was pre-med and an intense student. I rarely saw her out, besides our lunch dates and I knew Kylie was always trying to drag her off somewhere.

  “Pretty well, I’ve had to learn how to juggle everything around lately since I got a new job last week.”

  “Oh really,” I answered back. “Where’d you end up getting a job at?”

  “The library,” she replied, playing with the straw on her coke. “I really didn’t want to work during school, but I needed a way to make some extra money, so I picked up a few morning shifts. I’m already there half the time anyway, why not just live there, right?”

  “Do you know if they’re still hiring?” I’d been slacking on looking for a job since I got to campus. Dad told me not to worry about it and just get settled in before I started looking, but it would be nice to earn my own money.

  “Yeah actually I think they are. Since it’s open twenty-four hours, they’re always hiring students and the place is so freakin’ huge, they basically have to employ a whole army to run the place. I work again on Tuesday, maybe you could stop by and talk to my boss.”

  After lunch, we headed back to our rooms, parting in the hallway. Luckily, Kitty was finally awake and I pulled her away from the TV where she was catching up on Pretty Little Liars, a show she had me hooked on. Really who the frick was A?

  She paused the episode with a groan after I blocked the TV. “Uh Paige! That was getting pretty intense, what do you want?”

  “Oh come on, you know they will just end up leaving you hanging anyway.” I pulled her hand towards my side of the closet and did the Vanna White thing with my hands. “And don’t you think helping me pick out an outfit for my date tonight with Ben would be so much more exciting?”

  Her eyes lit up just a bit, I knew she loved to pick out my outfits whenever I let her, but she covered it up with a huff. “I guess I could help,” she grumbled out.

  Just ten minutes before Ben was going to pick me up, I was finally ready. I knew we were going to free movie night that they held for students occasionally and then grabbing a bite to eat. We always ended up eating at different places around town, so I never knew if I should wear something casual or dressy. So we settled for in between.

  I adjusted the deep blue sundress that I had paired with black wedged sandals and smoothed out my ponytail, even though I normally liked to leave it down, I had learned that it was the best way to wear my hair, since it always got blown around in Ben’s car.

  “You look sexy as hell,” Kitty reached out and slapped me on the ass before plopping back down on the beanbag chair that substituted for actual furniture in our room. “Good, totally the look I was going for.” I pulled out my phone to let Ben know that I was ready and would meet him downstairs in ten minutes. “Aren’t you going out with Brad tonight?” She had finally put some clothes on after she got up but had only put on a silky pink pajama set.

  “Well actually, he’s coming over here. So if there’s a sock on the door when you come back, make sure you knock really loud before entering, if not I can’t be responsible for what you see.” She gave me a big wink and I let out a groan. “Really, Kitty? A sock? Isn’t that like a guy thing?” She answered me back with a giggle and I left her behind to meet Ben. That girl was like a freakin’ sex machine!

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  The movie and dinner with Ben was nice, but we still ended up finishing things up pretty early. When he suggested we go back to his apartment, I was more than willing. I was sure I had plenty of time to kill since I knew Kitty was probably pretty busy at the moment.

  I had never been to Ben’s before and I was surprised at how clean it was. Everything was pristinely white and there wasn’t one surface filled with clutter. I knew his parents had footed the bill for his apartment because they didn’t want him subjected to the dorm life. They sounded a little bit stuffy to me.

  Somehow, we ended up in his bedroom and that’s when things got a little awkward. “So,” he muttered, standing in the doorframe and scratching at the blonde stubble that covered his head. My eyes flicked back and forth between him and the bed that seemed to be screaming out to me, centered in the oversized room.

  What the hell? If he’s not going to make the first move, I guess I will. I took a step closer until we were just inches apart and watched the way the moon flickered in his eyes. He had shoved his hands into his pockets, like he was afraid to touch me. Guess I would have to be the aggressive one here, even though I had no clue what I was doing.

  Our lips crashed together after I pulled his head down to mine and I could feel the tension release from him as soon as our tongues touched. He finally took over, lifting my body from the ground easily. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he stalked towards the bed, never breaking the kiss.

  He leaned over me after placing me in the center of the bed and lowered his head to my neck, licking and sucking as he worked his way down. I felt his hands on my bare stomach and my dress slid up until it was pushed over my head. His fingers fumbled around with the clasp on my bra and suddenly I realized I was naked from the waist up in front of a guy for the first time in my life, my lacy panties the only thing covering me.

  I tried to cover myself with my hands, but Ben pushed them away. “Don’t, you’re beautiful.” His head dipped down and I could feel his warm tongue flicking over my nipple, while he pinched the other one with his fingers. It was almost painful, but a good kind of pain. One that caused my panties to feel damp and I squeezed my legs together to relieve some of the pressure.

  “Ben,” I gasped out. His tongue didn’t stop its exploration so I called his name out again. He finally paused and looked up at me with questioning eyes. “What’s wrong?”

  “I just…I just don’t think I’m ready yet.” I saw what I thought looked like a defeated look flicker over his face, but it was gone as quickly as it came, covered up by that easy smile of his. “That’s okay Paige, I don’t expect sex from you, especially if you’re not ready. Are you up to trying some other things though?”

  I give a slight nod of my head, giving him the green light and his head dipped back down. His warm mouth was against my breast again, just briefly and then he let it go with a loud pop. His thumb looped into the elastic of my panties and I arched my hips up to help him along as they slid down my bare legs.

  I could feel his hardness pressed against my stomach and it was like my hips had a mind of their own, grinding against him. A moan escaped my lips and I heard him quietly chuckle before pressing a finger into my wetness.

  “Mmm you’re so tight, Paige,” he said breathlessly, leaning down again to place fluttering kisses over my stomach and to the insides of my thighs, thrusting his finger faster and faster, making my whole body tingle. My hips were meeting his fingers each time, getting closer and closer to something I’ve never felt before…and
then they were gone.

  I felt a wetness between my legs and I lifted my head to see Ben between them. His tongue flicked out and I let out a low moan at the feelings he had coursing through my body. He inserted a finger along with his tongue and I felt like a wild animal as my hips bucked off the bed and I yelled out his name as I climaxed.

  His weight shifted again and we were lying face to face with his arm wrapped around my waist. His lips lowered to mine and I tentatively opened my mouth, our tongues mingling and I could taste myself on him. His hardness was pressing into my stomach and I reached between us to press on the bulge through his pants. “Paige, I really don’t expect anything.”

  “Shhh,” I whispered out, placing one finger to his lips. “I want to.” I flicked open the button on his jeans and he helped me by pushing them down along with his boxers and he sprang out. I bit back a gasp when I saw it, hardened and at attention.

  I gently ran my finger down his length and he let out a low moan, so I guessed I must have been doing something right. His eyes were locked on me, with an intensity I’ve never seen before and I can tell how turned on he was. I bent my head over and licked it up and down. His hips twitched every time my tongue made contact and it gave me the confidence to go even farther.

  I closed my lips around the head and slowly sucked it into my mouth. I have nothing to compare his size to, but he seemed to stretch my mouth out and I couldn’t fit the whole thing in without gagging so I wrapped one hand around the base as I moved up and down faster.

  His hands dug into my hair and I could hear him softly groan. He used his hold on my hair to move me up and down his length faster, controlling the speed and his own pleasure. I felt his hand drop down to my shoulder and he tried to pull me up. “Oh that’s so good, I’m almost there.” I knew what he was doing by trying to pull me up but I keep my mouth firmly in place until I felt warm liquid gushing into my mouth and he yelled out ‘Amy.’

  Chapter 9

  Paige

  I was really hoping my ears had heard wrong when Ben had called out the name of his ex- girlfriend, but I think I was just fooling myself. I saw the way he looked when he talked about her, like he was still in love and I was just some kind of a cheap substitute. Was he imagining that it was her between his legs the whole time?

  Luckily, I didn’t have to deal with the awkwardness of confronting him. As soon as I walked out of his bathroom, I could hear his loud snores coming from the bed where he hadn’t moved from, apparently exhausted from what I had just done.

  I pulled on my discarded dress and tiptoed out of the room, leaving him a quick note that I headed home. Yeah, the guy seriously had my head spinning, but I didn’t want him to think that I had just taken off on him. I knew I wasn’t really in love with Ben, but I had some feelings.

  I hurried through the darkness across campus back to the dorms, no sock was in sight so I slid in my key and found Kitty and Kylie sprawled out on the floor giving each other manicures. I had to do a double take at that, those two rarely spent alone time together.

  Kitty looked up, taking in my disheveled appearance with a big grin on her face. “Oh who’s doing the walk of shame now?” Kylie let out a giggle and started singing, “Bow chicka-wow-wow,” and they both burst out in laughter.

  I let out a deep sigh and flopped back onto my bed. Great, just what I needed the Barbie twins working together. “I guess I’ll take that as my cue to leave.” I heard Kylie get to her feet and pat me on the head. “Sounds like you two need a nice private chat; see you later, Kitts.”

  I heard the bathroom door shut behind her and slowly sat up, instantly ramming my forehead into Kitty who was perched on the end of my bed. “Kitts, what are you two like bff’s or something now?”

  “Well, actually she did me a huge favor tonight. You know how I planned on Brad coming over and having the whole place to ourselves?” I nodded my head, rubbing it at the same time. I felt a major headache coming on and I’m sure Kitty wasn’t going to help it any.

  “Kylie caught him downstairs in the lobby with his lips locked on some skank before he came up here to meet me. Can you believe that? What a freakin’ asshole! So then, he comes up here after he’s done with Miss Skank and thinks he’s going to get some side action from me. Kylie luckily interrupted us and explained what she had just seen and the douche didn’t even deny it. I threw his ass out and we had ourselves a nice bonding experience. She’s actually a lot of fun to be around.”

  “Great, I’m glad you two worked things out. As for Brad, I’m actually sort of surprised, but I’m glad you found out before you two got really serious.”

  “I know,” she stated, bobbing her head in agreement while blowing on her neon pink nails. “So anywho, you and Ben finally hooked up? Was it everything you expected? Did it hurt? Was he good? How do you feel?” She bombarded me with questions and I really wasn’t sure how to answer them. How did I really feel? I guess I should feel hurt, but I don’t think I really was.

  “Let’s just say we didn’t make it to home, but we at least rounded third.”

  “Uh, really Paige? Baseball analogies for sex, I think you and Dylan are actually made for each other. So from what I can decipher, you at least got a little action. And apparently, Ben wasn’t any good because you look like your puppy just got ran over by a car, not like you just had an amazing orgasm, so spill.”

  I bit down on my nail and Kitty swatted me on the head. She hated when I did that and was trying to make me break the nervous habit that I had picked up. “Well, I guess things were great, we went further than I ever have in my life. But things got kind of weird when I um…returned the favor and he called out his ex-girlfriend’s name.”

  She let out a loud gasp and jumped to her knees on my bed, her eyes opening wide and her mouth hanging open. “Nu-uh, no he didn’t! O-M-G! I can’t believe that. Well, I guess, maybe, I sort of can. You know I warned you about being a rebound girl, but I can’t believe he actually called you Amy! Trust me when I say you don’t compare to her whatsoever. That girl is the biggest whore around with a capital W. Eww.” She shivered at the thought and I felt the same way. Seriously, was I that forgettable?

  “So what do you think I should do now? I sort of slipped out undetected after he passed out. Do you think I should bring it up or just break up with him and give him some lame excuse? I need some good quality Kitty Chapman advice.”

  “Hmm,” she placed a finger to her glossed lips. “Well, if I put myself in your heels, I might wait it out. See if he says something to you about it first, maybe it was just an accident. I mean they did date for like four years. But if he doesn’t, then yeah I would bring it up. Maybe he’s just still hung up on her and isn’t ready to date yet.”

  “I guess you’re right. I’m just glad I didn’t let things go any farther before I knew what his real feelings were. I’m not some blushing virgin waiting to give it up on her wedding night, but I do want it to happen with someone that I have feelings for and I know returns those feelings. I guess I’ll just wait things out for a little bit.”

  Kitty stood up, tugging on my hand until I was on my feet next to her. “Glad I could help. Now we need to do something about these nails. And I swear to god if I see you chewing on them again, I will superglue your mouth shut while you’re sleeping.”

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  The next few days passed quickly and things with Ben and I were…awkward, to me at least. He never brought up the whole moaning out his ex –girlfriend’s name thing and neither did I. Every time I tried to, I got so nervous and always ended up wimping out. So we went on our occasional dates and did the usual making out, but I never let it go any farther.

  I knew I would start to get pretty busy though and our time spent together would probably be cut in half. I made it to the library like Maddie suggested and was hired on the spot. I was promised about fifteen to twenty hours a week, the only bad thing was that they were almost all third shift. I was definitely going to have to get us
ed to staying up so late.

  “Hi, I’m here for my first shift. I’m really not sure where I’m supposed to go.” The bored looking student that was clicking away on the computer, manning the help desk paused to quickly flick his eyes at me and then moved his attention back to the computer. “Name?”

  “Paige Brinton.” I covered my mouth when a yawn escaped which actually granted me a grin from Mr. Personality. “Not used to the late nights, huh? You’ll need to get used to it quick, they don’t condone falling asleep between the book shelves around here.” He looked down at a note that was tacked to the corner of his computer screen and tapped on it with his finger.

  “Here we go. The person training you is on the fourth floor, just look for someone pushing around a metal cart.” His attention once again went back to the computer screen, so I figured I was dismissed. Hopefully I could find whoever was training me and figure out how the heck I was supposed to keep myself awake for the next five hours.

  I found the bank of elevators and hit the number four, stepping out as soon as the doors opened. This floor was quieter than the first, actually completely quiet. From where I was standing, I couldn’t see one other soul. I dropped my bag on an empty table and went off in search for this mysterious cart pusher that was supposed to be training me.

  I started walking up and down the aisles that were filled to the max with shelves of books. I heard the shuffle of books and finally found my trainer, arms raised above his head wedging a book in between a row. It caused the hem of his shirt to rise, showing off just a hint of his flat stomach.

  I had to do everything I had in me to contain my tongue from slipping out and licking my lips. Dylan Turner was one of the most glorious sights I had ever seen, his brown hair all a mess and those eyes so intense with concentration. I knew without a doubt, I would be able to keep myself awake if he was training me.