To recap from Chapter 2, Britney and Amber have fallen asleep in Amber's dorm room after their encounter in a public bathroom of the university. Amber has confessed her growing love to Britney, but does Britney feel the same?
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I'm not sure how long we were asleep, but we were out long enough that my roommate was finished with her day's classes. We were dead to the world when I heard the door slam, jarring both of us awake.
Chantel popped around the corner. "Honey, I'm home!" she hollered, as was her tradition whenever returning to our room. "Ohh, you were sleeping, I'm sorry. Oh! You have company...um..."
I saw Chantel blush when she saw that there was obviously another person in my bed. When Britney sat up, her jaw hit the floor.
"Thanks for the wakeup call. You must be Amber's roommate, yes? I'm Britney, nice to meet you. Don't mind us, we were up late last night and needed to catch up." Britney was significantly more comfortable with the situation than Chantel and me.
Britney was so nonchalant and friendly that it even surprised me, so I can imagine just how caught off guard Chantel was.
I wasn't sure what to say, so I did the obvious and introduced them. "Britney, this is Chantel, my roommate. Chantel this is Britney...Spears."
"Uh...hi," Chantel said. "Sorry again for waking you up."
"No, really it's ok," I said. "We'd be up all night if we slept any longer." I felt Britney's hand rest on my knee as soon as I had said it, and I knew what she was thinking. She had full intention of being up all night. So did I.
The room fell into a very uncomfortable silence, so I seized the opportunity as an excuse to leave. We excused ourselves, but not before I remembered to grab a change of clothes and my toothbrush, as I had absolutely no intent to return that night. My roommate looked at me a bit curiously when she saw me packing for the night, but I just smiled and said, "See you tomorrow!" as I closed the door.
Friday night, four days later...
Britney and I were spending our final night together. It was an evening filled with fleeting touches and lingering kisses. Neither of us had wanted it to end, but we had no choice.
Earlier that night, she had set up a romantic candlelit dinner in her room. We made small talk over meal, recalling moments that we had spent together, sometimes laughing, sometimes on the verge of tears.
"I want to talk," Britney said during a lull in the conversation.
"Nothing positive ever comes after that sentence, should I be worried?"
"No, you don't have to be concerned, it's not like that. I've been waiting to talk to you about this, thinking I was going to second-guess myself, but it's now or never."
"Ok, that's good...I think. What's on your mind?"
"I heard what you said, the other day when we were napping in your room."
I was wondering if she had heard me that morning when I said I was falling in love with her. Apparently, she had. "Oh...ok. And?"
"I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't know it then. But I know it now."
I waited, expecting her to continue. She didn't until I asked her to do so. "Well?"
"You said you were falling in love with me."
"Yes, I did."
"And...?"
"I was falling in love with you," I set my fork down and looked her square in the eye, taking a deep breath before continuing, "and now I'm in love with you."
Her eyes lit up as soon as the words left my lips. "Oh my gosh you have no idea how scared I was that you were going to say something else because that's what I wanted you to say, because I feel the same way...I mean I'm falling in love with you, too...I mean, I mean..."
I leaned across the table to kiss her before she could finish, tasting a hint of wine on her lips.
She opened her eyes when I pulled back. "I mean...I love you, too."
I stood up and took her hand in mine, bringing her with me as I sat down on the edge of the bed. I tugged on her hips, pulling her down to straddle my lap. When our lips met it felt different than it had the countless other times in the past. It was more than just passion and lust, it was mutual love.
Our kiss turned from romantic to frenzied, breaking apart only to pull our shirts off. Instead of kissing me again, though, she leaned down and bit the side of my neck hard.
I reached up to run my fingers across her breasts, but she shoved my hands away as she sucked on the same spot of my neck. I instead tried my luck lower, grabbing her ass to pull her closer.
When Britney finally let up from my neck, she unhooked her bra but let it hang loose on her shoulders, again slapping my hands away when I reached to pull it off. I moved my hands and ran my fingernails down her back, leaning to kiss her again but she turned her face away.
"What are you doing?" I asked, completely frustrated.
"What we both want," she answered, her voice rougher than usual.
I looked at her, trying to read her face, but her eyes only revealed passion. My heart raced with anticipation. I slid one of my hands off her ass and down between her legs, pressing hard against her swollen lips through her pants.