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“Ahhh fuck!” Rey rubbed her temple and glared at the cupboard door that had dared to attack her head.
“What happened?” Ben appeared in the kitchen, skidding across the tiled floor in his socks in his haste to check on her. Rey made a little whiney noise which was less to do with her throbbing brain and more to do with Ben’s adorable entrance. Why did he have to be so cute? It was very difficult to be platonic roommates with someone when they were constantly making your little love starved heart thump wildly in your chest.
Rey once again tried to remember why she had agreed to move in with her overly handsome, overly large, overly…everything best friend. Oh yeah…because she was jobless due to the lack of opportunities for recently graduated engineering students and he had a empty spare room and said he didn’t need her to cover the rent right away. God he was just so bloody perfect. He even chose the right career, teachers were always in high demand and the fact that Ben was a kindergarten teacher just made him even cuter in Rey’s eyes.
“What did you do this time?” Ben asked in that fond voice which made Rey pout and glow at the same time.
“The door attacked me!” she complained.
“Just like my shoes attacked you and your backpack attacked you when you tripped over them last week?” Ben suggested un-helpfully.
Rey narrowed her eyes. “Everything in this appartment hates me.”
“Not everything,” Ben murmured. “Let me see…” he held Rey’s chin in both hands and she tried not to blush. “Just a little scrape…” he reassured her. Rey blinked up at him as he turned her head gently side to side in his hands. Rey could see dark circles forming under his eyes, had it been a hard work week? She was just about to ask how his first week back after the holiday break had gone when he blew on her wound and smiled down at her softly. “Just a little boo boo,” he soothed and then he kissed her forehead.
Rey froze.
Ben froze.
Rey blinked rapidly.
Ben let go of her face and coughed. He laughed awkwardly and rubbed the back of his neck. “Errrhhh…just something I do at school when my students hurt themselves…sorry, it’s been a long week guess I’m still in little people mode…”
Rey touched the spot Ben had kissed and said nothing.
Ben’s ears turned red. “Anyway, you’ll live! I’ll be in my room if you need anything!”
Ben disappeared leaving Rey in the kitchen, her hand still on her forehead. Very slowly Rey took her hand down from her head and walked to Ben’s door. She knocked lightly before letting herself in. Ben was sitting on the side of his bed with his head in his hands. He looked up as she entered. Rey came to stand in front of him.
“I injured myself somewhere else too,” she told him.
Ben gazed up at her.
Rey touched a finger to her lips. “I injured myself here too,” she said and looked down expectantly. “I know you Ben, you can’t leave a job half finished.”
Ben’s eyes focused on her finger as she ran it over her bottom lip. His hands came up to grasp the backs of her thighs and she yelped as he pulled her forward to straddle his lap. Rey gripped Ben’s broad shoulders for balance.
“I do like to be thorough….” he murmured, tracing his own finger over Rey’s trembling lip.
Bloody hell! Where had cute, adorable teacher Ben gone? Now he was replaced with this smouldering hottie who seemed to have a direct line to Rey’s libido. A heartbeat later, Ben replaced his finger with his lips and Rey forgot her own name.
That evening, when they lay in Ben’s bed together naked and sated, Rey turned in Ben’s arms and grinned up at him. “How lucky am I to nab myself a boyfriend who will kiss all my boo boo’s away?” she purred then waited anxiously to see what Ben’s reaction to the word ‘boyfriend’ would be.
Ben huffed out a laugh and kissed the end of her nose. “I will kiss every inch of my gorgeous girlfriend's body if she so wishes.”
Rey squealed internally at Ben’s use of the term girlfriend. “Oh I do wish it,” she said with a gleam in her eye and squeaked as Ben pinned her to the mattress and began to make good on his pledge.
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