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"Um..." I start. This cannot turn into a habit.

"Vena, there is no need to be so hesitant. You helped me out the other night and now I'm gonna help you out" He states.

He climbs into my bed, getting under my covers, shoving me over. I slide down onto my pillow, resting it there. Suddenly James slides his arm under my back and hooks fingers around my side and pulls me closer to him.

To tease him, I roll out of his reach. He lets out a chuckle and climbs over to me, his face hovers above mine. He balances on his arms, one on each side of my head. He leans in close into my ear.

"Don't think you're gonna get away that quickly, Darling" He whispers deeply. I sigh and push him away from me by pushing on his chest. He topples beside me and chuckles.

"You're so stubborn" He states amusingly, rolling over onto his side, not facing me. I ignore the fact that he just shunned me and I roll over onto my pillow and face the wall, away from James.

~

I can tell that James is awake, his breathing is at a fast pace. I grunt mentally and roll away from my warm side of the bed and move closer to James. He lies on his stomach, his face facing the wall. I poke him roughly in the shoulder and whips his head around to me.

"What?!" He snaps. I laugh, his sudden flash of anger is hilarious.

"Don't be so grouchy" I state amusingly.

"Don't wake me up then" He states, lying his head back on his pillow, away from me.

"James I can't sleep" I state.

He groans and turns to me, moving onto his elbows. He studies my face in what light is coming from the street outside the window.

He shifts his body, so that he's on his side, propped up on an elbow. He gives me a 'well-what-are-you-waiting-for' look.

I crawl into his arms and rest head on his chest. He wraps his arm around me and pulls me closer to him.

"Now sleep" He states, getting comfortable. I obey and I fall into a deep slumber.

~

I feel a mass of weight half way on me.

I am becoming a little too familiar with this feeling.

I feel James breathing heavily on my neck. I turn my head and look at him. Suddenly he shifts his position. He rolls away from me and cuddles into his pillow. That's a relief. I thought I was going to be stuck like that forever.

He moves away from his pillow and lies on his back, his arm tossed above his head. I could really take advantage of this moment.

I look at him for a few moments to make sure that he is still actually asleep. When I know he is I get out of my warm spot and climb on top of him, straddling his hips. He groans slightly but doesn't stir. It looks like I am going to have to take this a little further than I intended on.

I get up off him gently and carefully, trying not to wake him up. I stand up on the bed and start jumping on it. It's a queen size bed so there is lots of jumping room. I continue to jump; every so often jumping by his head. He begins to stir.

He groans and rolls onto his stomach. I continue jumping, only high with a harder landing.

"What the hell?!", he shouts, sitting up.

He stares at me confused for a moment.

He suddenly grabs me by the waist and pull me down in his arms. I lie forced against his bare chest, his arms wrapped tightly around me.

"Now, what on earth do you think you are doing?" He whispers to me, ending the silence.

"Waking you up and succeeded" I state, trying to get out of his hold.

I stop struggling and let James hold on. Maybe he needs it.

"Vena, what time is it?" He whisper into my messy hair.

I shrug, "I would check, but the visual I have is your chest" I state.

He chuckles, "Enjoying the view?" He smirks.

I laugh mockingly. "You wish" I state. He lets me go finally, letting me get up. I get up and walk over to my closet. "So, how are you going to spend your last day before classes start?," I ask.

I look behind me and he sits up, his bottom half tangled in my comforter. If I had been hammered last night and woke up like I did, I would have assumed that I hooked up with my roommate.

"Going to a party" He states, starting to unravel the blankets from himself.

"Whose?", I question.

I turned around and saw him standing there, exposing his bare chest. His abs are defining. I look away from his chest and look up at his face.

He gives me a smirk and walks towards me. I shrug and turn around towards my closet.

Suddenly I feel strong hands grab ahold of my waist from behind. I feel James's breaths on my neck.

"Why do you want to know, Vena?" He whispers huskily in my ear.

I don't know why he keeps on doing this to me? It doesn't affect me. He slides his hands from my hips up to the sides of my ribs.

"Curious" I state before he can go any higher.

"Do you want to come with me?" He asks in the same deep voice he used before. I walk away out of his grasp and turn and sit on my bed.

"Why would you want to go with me?" I ask.

"It's not like we're doing anything better" He says casually.

I will slap that smirk right off his face if he doesn't stop.

"Why would you think that I would want to go anywhere with you?" I ask, returning the same smirk he gave me.

"I know you want to go" He states, coming over to me and sitting down next to me. He was right.

I shrug, "What ever. What time are we leaving" I ask.

He smiles in response, "Be ready by 8:00" He states, getting up and leaving my room, but not of course, stopping and smirking at me.

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I walk into the living room and see James sitting on the couch, staring down at something on his phone.

He looks up at me and I see a look of sadness and hurt in his eyes. He motions to me to come here and I do. I stand a foot away from him.

He looks up at me and suddenly grabs my hands into his, catching me off guard.

"Vena, can you please stay here with me for a bit?" He asks.

I wanted to question him, but I knew that maybe he just needed someone to be there for him.

I nod and sit down. I move close to him and half in his lap, half sitting on the couch. I rest my legs on his and wrap my arms around the side of his torso, resting my head on his chest. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, resting his head on shoulder.

He settles into hold, no longer tense.

I didn't really care about James, I just kind of felt that as a good person I should be there for him when he needs it even though he is a bit of an ass.

I look up at him and he looks down at me. Blank expression. "If you want to tell me, I'll listen. If you don't to tell me, then I'll stay with you" I inform him.

He nods.

"Just stay" He tells me. I nod and hold on to him.

I watch James as he closes his eyes, slightly loosening his grasp on me. I realize that he is sleeping and I smile. I'm glad that he isn't concentrating what is on his mind at the moment, he must need it.

I let my eyes close and fall asleep with James. We did have bit of a long night last night.

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I wake up to the feeling of my hair being played with. I open my eyes and look up and see James looking at the TV screen, his fingers caressing my hair strands. I realize that my head is in his lap. He looks down and sees me looking at him.

"Have a nice nap?" He asks, smirking.

I sit up and look at him, "How did I end up sleeping like this?" I ask, completely confused to how I ended up sleeping in his lap.

"You really want to know?" He asks, warningly.

I hesitate for a moment, but nod yes. He sighs and smiles at me cheekily.

"Well after you came and stayed with me for a bit, you fell asleep on me and you are a bit a reckless sleeper. You woke me up by punching my in the face, which hurt a lot, by the way." He stops, rubbing his jaw, soothingly.

Had I seriously punched James in my sleep?

This is a great accomplishment for me! I could put this on my resume!

Imagine it:

Accomplishments :

I punched my roommate in the face, while sleeping with him on the couch.

Wait no. Scratch that. That would look terrible on m resume. Me sleeping with my roommate. Yeah no. Bad idea.

James voice bring me out of my thoughts, "And so after I woke up, I couldn't fall back asleep because my jaw ached, thanks to someone" He stops and gave a disapproving look.

"So you were still latched to me, but that didn't last long. Eventually you let go and slept in my lap." He finishes. I stare at him in disbelief. I seriously did this? Wow...

I shake this thoughts out of my mind and look at the clock 7:34 pm

How the hell could I have been sleeping for so long?! That's like 5 hours!! Is that even possible?!

"How long was I asleep for?" I ask James, who stares at the TV mounted on the wall.

He glances at me, then to the clock hanging on the wall.

"Five and half hours" He states.

I groan and stand up and go get ready for the party tonight. At least I won't get tired.

~

I stand in front of my mirror staring at my reflection. I was wearing a pair of black skinny jeans and red V neck shirt with brown leather jacket. It was simple, and I was okay with that.

I walk out of my room and walk into the empty living room. James must be in his room, getting ready.

I sit down on the couch and grab my phone out of my pocket and unlock in going through my unread messages.

3 Unread Messages

I open the first one and it's from Grayson.

Hey Ven. I'm going to a party tonight, you should come. It's at the Johnson house. Hope to see you soon.

I knew where and who the Johnson kids were. The party animals of the campus, These siblings were nuts, Rumors come and go.

I open the next one and surprise surprise, it was from Zeke. I delete it without even reading it, he's not worth my time.

I open the last one and it's from my second eldest brother, Orlando.

Hey.... Wanna meet for coffee next weekend?

I quickly reply.

Sure text me later

I turn off my phone just as James walks into the room.

James wasn't ugly. No, he was quite a gorgeous man. I wouldn't be surprised if he had girls chasing after him tonight.

His short brown hair was styled like he usually had it. It was messily tossed in the front, like he had ran his hand through it.

"Ready?" He asks. I nod and stand up. He look me up and down.

"LIke what you see?" I say, mocking his same words.

"You wish" He replies, smirking.

We walk out of the apartment, James locking it behind us.

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He walk up the pathway. I look to my left and see passed out bodies on the lawn. What kind of party was this?

On the ride this place, James confirmed that this was a Johnson party. This is going to to be one hectic night.

James and I walk into and I feel James grab ahold of my hand, so he doesn't lose me.

We pass people making out, 'dancing' (also known as grinding against each other) and drinking like their lives depended on it.

"I'm going to go get a drink, I'll be right back. You want anything?" He asks. I shake my head no.

I think gestures would be best because I could barely hear James trying to speak to me over the music.

Suddenly a slightly drunk guy walks up to me, smiling at me. He was a good looking guy.

"What's your name?" He asks casually.

"Vena" I yell over the music.

"Grant" He states.

"It's nice to meet you" I say.

"Wait, so you don't know who I am?" He asks, clearly surprised that I don't know who he is.

I shake my head.

"I'm Grant Johnson. The youngest of the Johnsons" He says.

Suddenly I feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around and see the person I was dreading to see.

Zeke Camber. The boy who broke my heart.

I stare at him in disbelief. I notice out of the corner of my eye. James is coming back.

He walks up to me and sees who I am surrounded by and who was still touching me. I was still in too much shock to move.

"Ven, are you okay?" James grabs my hand pulling me close to him. For once I was actually happy that James grabbed my hand, this was right time for him to come and save me.

"Vena, who is this?" Zeke asks, referring to James.

I furrow my eyebrows at him, "Zeke I don't care about you anymore. My life is no longer any of your business. Leave me alone. You ruined me" I snap.

He doesn't even wince, he chuckles.

Out of all things he could do, he laughs. This boy is not going to make it out of this house alive.

"Well this has been fun. I'll see you around, Vena. You seem like a nice girl, And nice seeing you again Man" Grant gestures to James and walks away to a different group of people.

Once one person leaves our little conversation, another one joins. Grayson walks up and sees the furious look in my eye, before he can notice how close I am to James, James lets go of my hand, still staying close to me.

"Vena, lets go. You don't need to be in this situation" Grayson says taking my hand. Zeke suddenly grabs ahold of my forearm, stopping me.

"Wait, can we talk?" He asks.

I shake my head," You lost that chance a long time ago" I rip my arm out of his grasp. I grab both Grayson and James's arms and pull them into the quieter kitchen.

"Okay, I know you two are not too fond of each other, but I want to leave this place now and go home and watch a movie in my peace and quiet. Grayson do you want to join us?" I ask.

He nods immediately, "Yes, I want to get you out of here now" He replies.

I turn and look at James and he nods in approval.

I drag them both out the kitchen, out of the house. James and I walk to his car and Grayson walks to his.

The ride was silent, but at some point during the I heard James let out a breath of air that he was holding.

We get out the car and walk up the apartment building and I see that Grayson's car is already in the parking lot.

We walk up the apartment in silence and when I turn the corner I see that Grayson is sitting by the door. He stands up and pulls me into a tight hug.

"Everything is going to be alright" He whispers into my hair. I nod. He lets go and we turn and see that James had already unlocked the door and walked in, leaving it open. Grayson and I walk in and shut and lock the door behind us.

I take off my shoes and walk towards the hallway, "I'll be right back, pick a movie" I shout to Grayson.

"Okay" He replies.

I walk down the hallway and pass my room and walk to James's. Opening it, not knocking, I open the door and see James standing there shirtless in his sweatpants.

"You know you should put a shirt on" I state. He jumps and turns around, startled.

"Darling, don't startle me like that" He says, walking towards me.

I slip around his body and go to his closet and grab a plain black tee shirt and toss it at him. He catches it easily and gives me a mock sympathetic look.

"Aw, can Vena not handle my sexiness?" He says, being his same cocky self.

"No, I just don't think Grayson would appreciate your half nakedness" I reply.

He chuckles, "Yeah you're right, he would be jealous of me." He says gesturing to his abs and toned chest.

There would be no way Grayson would be jealous. He looks just as good as James does.

I shrug as a reply and he starts to put on his shirt, but stops halfway and pulls the shirt away from him.

"Wait a minute, do you you appreciate my half nakedness?" He smirks.

I walk up to him and begin to tease him. I run my hands down his bare chest and I could feel him shiver a bit.

"You wish" I whisper and step away from him leaving the room.

I walk into the living room and see Grayson sitting on the couch in a pair of sweatpants, shirtless.

Uh Oh...

I feel James presence behind me. I turn around and see that he hadn't put on the shirt that I told him to put on.

So here I was in a room with two hot shirtless boys.

I feel James's hot breaths on my neck, "I am not putting on a shirt if he isn't" he states.

I walk away from him and walk over to Grayson. He looks up at me and smiles.

"Did you go change?" I ask.

He nods,"While you were gone, I figured that I had enough time to go change before you came back and I did" He says, returning his attention back to the screen.

"Well, since I am the only one who isn't changed, I will be right back" I turn and look at James, sternly.

"Be nice" I warn and walk down the downway to my room. I open the door and glance at my bed. The blankets are is still mangled from James and I sleeping there. This needs to stop.

I grab a pair of sweatpants and a tank top. I think it would be best if I put of a shirt, unlike those two idiots.

I put on the clothes and leave my room, shutting the door behind me. When I enter the living room, I see something I thought I would never see.

James and Grayson are sitting on the same couch together, on opposite sides, not bickering, not fighting, not doing anything. This very surprising.

I go sit down right between the two boys and grab the remote off the table and click play on the movie. It looks like we're watching Paranormal Activity 3. These movies are so stupid, but here I am watching it with two stupid boys.

I move over and sit closer to Grayson, resting my head on his shoulder. He smiles at me and wraps his arm around my shoulder. I glance at James, who staring intensely at the TV screen. It looks like he is going to be tired tomorrow and we have class tomorrow.

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It has been 35 minutes into the movie and Grayson in already asleep, his head resting on top of my head. This definitely not a comfortable position and don't intend on staying like this all night.

I glance at James and see him still staring at the large screen in front of him, like his life depended on it.

I carefully remove Grayson's arm from around me and set it on his lap and move away from him. I glance at his sleeping figure. He did look just as good as James did. He had a toned chest and abs, he has high cheeks bones and his hair was mangled from sleeping. Grayson was quite good looking, but James looked like a model. I take one last look at him and move and sit in my original spot.

Suddenly James leans into my ear, him breathing on my neck again.

"I have an agreement to propose to you tomorrow" he whispers.

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3459 words. Updated on Sunday, January 18th, 2015 at 12:57PM

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