It is a Saturday night and I am sitting on the couch with Kyle watching another stupid horror movie. It has been week since, it happened, and nothing has happened since... Not from a lack of trying on my part.
I shift on the couch so my leg is just barely touching his. After a moment, Kyle moves away from me.
Kyle has been distant and I am pretty sure he has been avoiding me. I in turn have then gone out of my way to be around.
Case in point: tonight. Usually I go out with my girlfriends on the weekends, but not this weekend. This weekend I have been doing my best to try to entice Kyle. It has not worked out so far.
On Friday when I got home from work I went to my room and masturbated, conveniently leaving my door cracked open ever so slightly so when Kyle got home from work he would know what I was doing. After all, our rooms were right beside one another.
Unfortunately Kyle walked in and right back out, either he knew what was going on and choose to leave, or he had no idea. Either way it didn't have the intended consequences.
This morning I waited until Kyle was leaving his room to exit the bathroom after my shower so that he could see me clad in only a towel, but he had shielded his eyes and mumbled an apology like it was his fault.
And now I am sitting on the couch with him in a tight tank top (no bra) and a pair of shorts sleep shorts and he is bound and determined not to look at me. I stretch out and prop my feet up on the coffee table. I am tired and frustrated.
Kyle glances over at me and back, "What's wrong with you?"
"What's wrong with you?" I counter, "You've been acting pissy all week."
"Long week," he mutters.
I sigh, "Same here."
"Why didn't you go out tonight? You don't usually hang around."
"Tired I guess," I say and turn and look at him.
He notices me starring and gives me a look. It is somewhere between frustrated and angry.
"Don't look at me like that," I say, "I'm still giving up dips on the TV. I could be forcing you to watch something other than your stupid horror movies."
"You really are grumpy," he says.
I smile and give him a weak punch on the shoulder.
"Thanks roomie. I knew I could count on you to make me feel better."
He smiles then and gives me the first real look he's given me all weekend, "Of course! That's what roommates are for."
"Why don't you ever go out? I can't believe a cute guy like you doesn't have a girlfriend."
Kyle smiles and shrugs, "I have what I want here."
"Horror movies with crappy actresses?"
He laughs, "Something like that."
We lapse into silence, but I am glad that some of the tension seems to have broken. Perhaps instead of trying to push him I should just leave it alone. I sigh and pull my hair back.
"Do you want anything? I'm going to get a drink."
Kyle shakes his head. "No, I'm okay," he pauses, "You know, if you're still having trouble sleeping, I could give you some more pills. But, uh, you just need to be careful. Doing it all the time. You, uh." He coughs. "You just don't want to take them too often or you'll get addicted."
"I wouldn't want that to happen," I say and he looks disappointed and relived at the same time. "But I think it might help for tonight."
Kyle nods, "I'll go get them while you get yourself a drink."
My heart is hammering while I walk into the kitchen. I could take the half pill I have left and have the same drugged but awake experience as last time... or I could just fake it. But if I fake it I run the risk of giving myself away.
I get my glass of water and decide not to chance it.
I head back towards Kyle's room and he hands me the pills.
"Thanks!" I say with a smile and I begin to walk away when Kyle says, "No hug this time?"
I laugh, "You'd make a terrible drug dealer, trading supply for hugs." I hug him, tightly, and I can feel that he is semi-erect.
"What should I trade for?" he asks and I feel like the moment has taken a serious tone to it.
"Something better," and then I quip, "but you have already named your terms."
He looks at me with strange, serious eyes, "I guess next time I'll have to come up with something better."
I wink lightheartedly and walk into my bedroom. I drop the pills into my night stand and take the half pill from last week and sink into the sleepy drug state.