Dereck's Pov:

I woke up feeling nice and toasty. I cuddled into Vin and pretended to sleep a few minutes longer. Mmm I love his cologne.

I finally opened my eyes and was greeted by a sweet kiss even if it didn't last nearly long enough.

"Hey you." He spoke softly and I wanted nothing more then to wrap my arms around him. So I did just that.

"What time is it? You fall asleep too?" I asked stretching out.

"It's a little after 7 and no I stayed in here for a while then went and played Zombie Apocalypse for a while. I felt lazy so pizza's for dinner."

I rolled my eyes. "I have no idea why you like that stupid game so much. It's lame!! Gimme C.O.D. Black Ops any day over that crap." I teased.

"Whatever, You'll be thanking your lucky stars that I'm ready when the Zombies invade and I'm totally prepared and save your ass!" He shot back.

"Shut up nerd. I'm hungry." I moved to get up and he pushed me back down.

"The nurse said stay off your foot. So it's pizza and movie night in bed babe." I blushed at him calling me babe.

He came back and popped in the movie and handed me the pizza box and plopped down next to me. "What are we watching?" I asked cramming half a slice of pizza in my mouth.

"Madea's Witness Protection and wow that was sooo sexy." He said not even looking away from the TV screen.

"You didn't even look at me stuffing my face so shut up." I defended.

He bumped his shoulder to mine. "I don't need to. I know exactly what you look like when you scarf down food."

We watched the movie and ate our food. I found myself noticing every little thing in our routine that now makes me wonder how we didn't see that this was more then a normal friendship.

It was like we were an old married couple. It was little things like him handing me a napkin without looking at me when I was about to ask him for one. Or me eating his crust and him eating my mushrooms. Even sharing the same drink.

The credits rolled and I hobbled to my bathroom to get ready for bed. I came out and he was already in his boxers and under the covers. "Comfy?" I asked.

"Yep" He smirked patting the spot next to him.

I laid down and he clicked off the lamp. "Tired?" he asked.

"Not really, but don't worry I'm a big boy. I don't need you to stay awake and entertain me."

He rolled on his side facing me. "How's the ankle?"

I flicked his head. "It's fine, stop worrying."

He didn't say anything so I said what had been on my mind. "I ahh have some umm pretty messed up dreams at night. Have I been waking you up since you've been sleeping in here." I asked quietly.

That's the first time I ever said anything about them. I'd never told anyone that I dreamed about that night. Especially Vin, I couldn't handle him pitying me or thinking I was mental.

He wrapped his arm around me and tangled our legs together. "I know. You've had them every night for the last 5 months. I heard you every night. I didn't say anything because I figured you'd talk about it when you were ready."

I sighed. "I didn't realize I woke you up every night. Sorry. You should have said something, I would have tried to figure a way to make it stop or buy you ear plugs or something." I felt so guilty for waking him up.

"Umm since we're talking about this. I guess I should probably tell you that I used to try and wake you up. I even searched online and found out they're called night terrors and it's almost impossible to wake a person from that. Plus unsafe. I couldn't stand you going through that alone so I umm usually slept in here with you. I ahh would come in when I heard you and stay until about 5 30 in the morning. It seemed to help, you'd stop thrashing and umm screaming."

I took a second to absorb that. "Why did you leave? Why not just tell me that I'm a huge crazy cry baby that screams the house down so you sleep with me to calm the crazy down?" I asked self-consciously.

He thumped my forehead. "You're not a cry baby or crazy. Just a jackass. You survived a horrible thing and that's your brain's way of dealing with it. You don't scream the house down. In fact your not that loud at all but you sound so sad and I just couldn't let you go through that alone. I would have told you if you'd said anything about the dreams but you didn't. So I figured it was best to come and comfort and leave before you thought I was sneaking in and trying to molest you or something."

"Alright enough of the heavy talk. I have a question for ya. Have you ever noticed that we behave like an old married couple? I never did until tonight and we've been like this forever."

He snorted "Yeah I've noticed little things. Like we finish each other's sentences and seem to know what the other is thinking. When people ask us about doing something, we answer with We instead of I. Like, 'we cant go to the mall we're doing movie night.' We even don't have any sex.. Just like old married couples!" He laughed.

"There goes that pervy mind again." I joked.

"Just promise me that if we crash and burn as a couple, no matter what we'll stay us. Because I cant even imagine going through life without you in it. It would be like losing part of myself and that would seriously blow." I said seriously.

He snuggled closer. "Dereck Eugenie Smith I swear no matter what goes down there is never not gonna be a you and me. But since we're being all girlie and sharing our feelings. I really think we have something good here. It doesn't feel like we just got together. Feels like we've been together forever. Ya know. Weird right?"

"And a little scary too" I admitted.

"Yeah but at least we're in this together. You and me through it all, right?"

I nodded and kissed him.

It was only supposed to be a goodnight kiss but it turned hot and heavy quick. With only our boxers on there was nothing to hide our excitement. And we we're excited. He nibbled my lip and I refused him entrance. He smiled against my lips.

"I never knew you were a tease" He pouted.

I flicked my tongue out and sneakily caressed his tongue as he said tease. He groaned and I felt it all the way to my toes. He let me have my way and I explored every part of his mouth.

He pulled me closer and I worked my way down his neck. I found his sweet spot and he bucked his hips. The friction pulled a low moan from me. He seemed to really like that and the next thing I knew he'd rolled us so he was on top and took control.

He kissed me breathless. He moved to my neck and sucked and nibbled until he found my sweet spot on my collar bone. He nipped it and I dug my fingers into his back, pulling him closer. He ground his hips into mine and we moaned together.

"Should we stop?" He panted, his breath washing over my moist skin and I shivered.

I didn't want to. I really didn't. If it had been with a random hook up the answer would have been no. But the tiny part of my brain that was still functioning didn't want to rush this. This was a big deal and everything was still too new.

Not to mention I have no idea how two guys do that. I groaned but this time in frustration. Being with Vin was gonna give me a serious case of blue balls. "We should. Neither of us knows how to do it."

He raised his head and I could faintly make out his smile. "Do what?" I could hear him trying to hold back a laugh.

"You know what. Sex, dummy" I huffed.

He did laugh now. "Technically we both know how to have sex, very well I might add if rumors are to be believed. But who said that's where this was going?"

I bit his shoulder. "I know we're not virgins but I'm thinking it'll be a little different then what were used to."

He rolled onto his back and pulled me with him. "You over think things." He said "We're not a cheap hook up. We're dating and usually people that date don't just jump into having sex. They work up to it. They have tons of make out sessions, over the clothes rubbing, then under the clothes rubbing. Basically everything you do before you lose your V card."

"So basically we're taking it back to freshman year? I swear we're gonna end up with blue balls." I whined.

He rolled his eyes. "Our ball's will be fine. But seriously stop thinking that we're gonna rush anything. I know we both have a reputation for being a little-"

"Slutty" I finished for him.

"I was gonna say commitment phobic. But the point is, there's no rush."

I flopped back on my back. "Get some sleep my smooth talkin Casanova."