Sunday, August 11th, 2013
"Beth?!"
I immediately scooted back away from her, taking my hand off her breast and putting some distance between my erection and her thong-clad ass.
"Huh, wha..." she said, woken by my outburst. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. Taking a look at me and my awkward state, she started laughing. "Jesus, dude. Careful with that thing. You might poke someone's eye out."
"Beth, what the fuck are you doing in my bed?"
She shrugged, the movement drawing my attention down from her eyes to her bare shoulders and then her chest. Beth was not the most well-endowed woman in the world, but that fancy purple bra she wore was doing some very nice things to her presentation.
"You were right, that couch is extremely uncomfortable. I came in and asked if you minded if I slept in here, and you said no."
"I definitely don't remember that. I was asleep." Amanda had always told me I was a heavy sleeper, so it wasn't surprising I had slept through Beth coming in.
"Well, I sure wasn't expecting you to start spooning me in my sleep, but it's not a big deal."
"Sorry, I just...well, I'm still not used to sleeping alone. I woke up thinking you were Amanda."
"Yeah, I can tell," she said, glancing down at the tent in my boxers once more.
I grabbed the blanket and covered myself. "Weren't you wearing one of my shirts? Why are you half naked?"
"It was hot. I'm used to sleeping in the nude, to be honest," she said, and then she started to laugh. "Good thing I put my bra back on before I came in here. I'm just imagining how much you'd be freaking out if I had my tits out."
I glanced back down at the tits in question. "Yeah, good thing."
There was a knock at the front door. "Shit," I said, sliding out of bed. I grabbed a pair of shorts and a t-shirt from my dresser and put them on as quickly as I could.
Another knock. "Just a second!" I called.
I looked over at Beth, who was still sitting up in my bed in nothing but her underthings. Seemingly unconcerned about this whole situation, she reached over to the bedside table and grabbed her phone.
A third knock. "Fucking hell," I said under my breath. "I'm coming!"
I hurried over to the door and opened it. Tori had her fist raised, ready to knock again. "Finally," she said, stepping past me and into the apartment. "Were you still asleep? It's almost ten-thirty."
"Uh, yeah, I had a late night. Look, Tor--"
Of course Beth chose that moment to emerge from my room. Tori's eyes widened in surprise before she turned on me.
"Seriously, Ryan? You've been driving Melissa crazy with how hot and cold you are about her ever since you asked that Cece chick out, but now you're hooking up with some random skank?"
Beth just smiled. "Nice to see you again too, Tori," she said.
Tori's brow scrunched up in confusion and she shook her head like she was trying to reset her eyes. It took her a few seconds, but eventually recognition crossed her face. "Holy shit, Beth?"
"In the flesh."
"Damn, girl," Tori said. "You look fucking hot. Where'd that come from?"
"Grew up a bit and found my look, I guess," Beth said, shrugging.
"I'll say. Damn. I'm sorry for calling you a random skank."
Tori and Beth had never been hostile to one another, but there was always a bit of distance between them when we were in high school. Beth felt that Tori was stealing her best friend from her, and I suppose she was correct there. Tori didn't like the idea of there being another girl in my life who I was closer to than her. Neither made a big deal of it, and there had never been any actual conflict as far as I was aware, but the tension meant that the two of them had never really been close friends.
"It's fine. You were half-right, at least. I may not be random, but I am a bit of a skank," Beth said.
Tori looked between me and Beth. "I didn't realize the two of you were..." she said, trailing off.
"We're not," I said.
"Yeah, his couch is just hella uncomfortable. I crashed here last night after Ryan came to see my band play. When I couldn't get to sleep on the couch I asked Ryan if he minded sharing the bed. He said it was fine, but apparently that was Sleep Ryan talking, because he doesn't remember it. You should have seen how freaked out he was when he woke up spooning me."
Tori started to laugh. "I can imagine," she said as she turned to me. "I'm jealous. I want to wake up with you spooning me. Want to have our own little sleepover tonight?"
"We have work tomorrow," I said.
"You're twenty-five, Ryan, not twelve. You can have friends over on a school night."
"Yeah," Beth said, jumping in, "but if you're really worried about it I can call your mother and ask permission for you." She winked and stuck her tongue out at me.
"I'm not sure I like the two of you teaming up together against me."
"You sure liked it when M and I teamed up together against you," Tori said.
"I, uh...that..." I stuttered. I was probably blushing. Things were already feeling awkward enough with Beth right now, I didn't need Tori to start talking about threesomes in front of her.
Of course, Beth immediately jumped onto that little tidbit. "Oh my god, he's so embarrassed," Beth said, laughing. "You guys had a threesome? Who's M?"
"Can we not--" I started to say, before Tori interrupted me.
"Melissa. She's my roommate. She works at Spellman too."