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Charlie broke the kiss and jumped back from Nick as if he had just burned himself. Which, to be honest, he kind of had. “Nope! No! Bad idea! BAD!!!” he exclaimed.
Nick looked at him, utterly perplexed, still dazed from the intensity of the kiss. This was not the reaction he had hoped for. His ego felt a little bruised. “What?”
Charlie looked at him, eyes blown wide in shock. Then he turned around and started pacing the room, wringing his hands frantically. “No! I can’t hook up with you! You’re like Darcy’s best friend, and we’ve only just met! BAD IDEA!”
“Care to elaborate on that?” Nick sounded slightly annoyed.
Charlie turned around and looked daggers at Nick. Which was strangely arousing, Nick noticed with a blush. “You…” Charlie threw his hands in the air. “You just don’t go around screwing the best friend of your best friend! Nope, you don’t! What if it changes things? What if it blows up? We can’t do that to Darcy!!”
“Jesus, Charlie, it’s just sex!”
“Oh? Well, then I suppose it’s not a big deal to just forget about the whole thing!” Did Charlie sound hurt?
“But why should we if we clearly both want to?”
“Hello?!? DARCY!!”
“You’ve met Darcy, right? Wouldn’t you say they would throw us a party in celebration of our intercourse?” Nick asked, amused.
“Well, yes, obviously, at first. But then it would be weird.”
“Huh!”
“What?”
“Sounds like you’re making up excuses not to have sex with me. You could just say so, you know?”
Charlie scoffed. “You’re completely missing the point!”
“Oh, am I, now?” Nick shot back, stepping towards Charlie, his anger slowly building. “I rather think I’ve hit a nerve there!”
“Pah! As if!”
“Oh my god, Charlie, we’re both adults! We can hook up if we want to! Or not!”
“Ah, so you don’t want to?”
“Jesus!”
“No, thank you!!”
Nick rolled his eyes. “You’re being ridiculous! Of course I want to! That’s why I brought you here!”
“But we can’t, I told you!”
“For heaven’s sake, WHY?”
“DARCY!!!”
“Come OFF it, will you?!?”
Charlie raised an accusing finger at Nick. “This mess is all your fault, you know that, right?”
“I think you started with the flirting, Spring!”
“Well, what do you expect me to do? You with your …”
“NO! Stop right there!! If you say something about strong rugby arms, I’m going to vomit all over you!”
“Not a fan?” Charlie asked with a smirk - but also with a bit of sympathy.
“Of people always reducing me to my body? Not really,” Nick sighed.
“That’s kind of how hookups work, you know?” Charlie teased.
“Hmmm,” Nick went quiet and looked at Charlie thoughtfully.
“What now?”
“Well, we could always just date, you know? Wouldn’t be just a hookup, then.”
“Are you serious?”
Nick shrugged. “I want to fuck you and get to know you. People call that dating.”
“Oh, so you want to fuck me?”
“Several times in fact.”
Charlie scoffed. “And what if I want to fuck you? Ever thought of that, genius?”
“I’d be open to negotiations.”
Against his will, Charlie giggled. Then they both fell silent, staring at each other. Then they suddenly leapt at each other and …
Well, and the rest was history.
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“Do you really think they are hooking up right now?” Tara asked.
Darcy grinned. “Nope,” they declared. “But I do think they will drive us nuts for all eternity with their disgustingly cute PDA.”