It's been 2 months living with Ashley and everyday feels like hell. 

Everything is very normal and that's what screams hell about it. 

We say hi and bye to each other. She buys pizza and we share it over movies. She only laughs when she's watching comedy. Not at me, not with me. Not that I try to be funny anyways. 

When she's not there, Isaiah comes over to keep me company and she even laughs with him when she's there. She comes in from wherever late at night, at most 11 pm and that's way past her bedtime. I never ask her what she's up to cause I'm not her older brother.

It feels like this situation is mocking me reminding me of the night I backed away from her. Then I also remind myself that if I didn't back away, I would've regretted it more than I do now. Today, I don't even get surprised when I see her stroll down the neighborhood with me on my way home after I leave the bar. 

As we walk to the door, I stop to look at her. She looks at me and then shrugs before reaching for her key in her purse. I hold her hand to stop her from taking the key out.

"Is everything okay?" she asks and I shake my head. 

"I don't like this vibe", I start and with every sentence, I move forward but she doesn't step back. I like how I look, towering over her. 

Imagine what it'd feel like in bed. 

I mentally slap myself and I continue, "This hi and bye thing. You never smile anymore at least not at me", she rolls her eyes. "See? And we've grown awfully distant and I always seem to think this is all my fault and fuck I hate this feeling.

So please speak to me, what's happening?" it sounds like I'm begging her but at this moment I don't care. 

"I miss my crazy ass roommate. Hell I miss you having your sex buddies over just as long as you're in there" she raises an eyebrow and I smile.

"Yeah! So I can laugh at the fact that they aren't giving it to you hard enough to make your screams bring the house down", I say and she forms a small 'o' with her mouth. 

"And you can?" she asks coming closer but this time, I move backwards, until my back against the door. "Hell yeah", I breathe out. "But that's not the main point. I miss having pizza all day because 'never be too time conscious for pizza'", when I say this line, she smiles brightly. Maybe for the pizza line or maybe it's because she loves pizza or maybe she just smiling at me. Point is, she's smiling.

"The point is, I'm not sorry I didn't have sex with you that night. I mean, I'm definitely sorry to my dick" I say looking down and I heard her chuckle only to look up to see that she was looking down too, shaking her head as if to say sorry to my dick as well. 

"But I'm not apologetic to you because I would never take advantage of any situation you're in just to get into your pants", I complete and she looks up at me.

"I might be many things. Name it. But I'm not manipulative of my women". Her eyes widen at my last word and I tap her head. "By 'my women', I mean women who are really close to me i.e. my mom, my sister and you". I hold her cheeks in my hands and she softens in them. I sigh and I hug her. Her hands fall by her side not touching me but I don't stop hugging her.

 Even if she doesn't hug back, her letting me touch her was more than enough. After 2 seconds she slowly brings them and slides them around me. I mentally throw my hands in the air. 

She pulls away and scrunches her nose up. "We both smell like shit, let's go take a bath. 

Not together I mean", she says, as she unlocks the door and walks in. I sniff my shirt and I do smell like alcohol and I laugh, "Yeah, sure" before I walk in behind her.

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"Are you fucking serious?! She said that?" she asked giggling. "Yes. And when she said that, he had a boner right there. And her eyes weren't the only ones that popped out." I say when I recall how Lucas' new girlfriend, Zayne offered to give him a blow-job at the bar. 

When I say this, Ashley's eyes widened before her mouth turned up into a full blown smile. "Yours too? Was he that big?!" referring to the fact that i said, my eyes weren't the only ones that popped out 

"NO! I mean yes! I mean he's huge but my eyes didn't pop out. I'm still very straight. Still very into pussies", I emphasize and she raises her hands in surrender.

"So finish the story", she says as she hands me a plate to put on the rack. "Then, he's like, 'you wouldn't dare'. I was pretty sure he knew she would do it, so I made a bet with him that she wouldn't", I say smiling. 

"You evil being. Why the fuck you smiling for", she said as she hit me with a glass cup. "Well, she took my side and she said she wouldn't. You should have seen his face all scrunched up and then he said while pointing to his dick, 'what am I gonna do about this?'". Ashley began to laugh out loud.

God, I missed this...

"You shouldn't have made the bet, you devil. You're just jealous that Lucas had someone to give him a blow while you didn't". She said while holding her stomach. 

"I got my 500 dollars, split it with Zayne and she went over to give him his blow while I took a tray with drinks and went to serve. Plus, I'm not jealous of the fact that he has a girlfriend. I don't want one just yet. Besides I can get a blow from anyone I want", I tell her and she smiled. 

Maybe not anyone.

If I told her to get down on her knees to give me one, she would definitely say no. (At least because of the way I've been treating her)

"Well I just hope you don't turn 50 before you realize you need to get married"

I hear my phone beep and I take it out to see a message from Sarah on the notifications bar. I tap on her name and the message opens.

*bossy head: I've got a date with Dave tomorrow night. Can we make this a double date? You, Ashley, me and Dave? Pleaseeee...*

I could already imagine her dragging her please while trying to make a cute dog face to get me into doing this for her. 

I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. "Is something wrong?" Ashley asked with a look of concern on her face. 

"It's nothing serious, but can you do me a favour?" I wait for her to respond and she nods. "Will you go out with me tomorrow night to have dinner at a fancy restaurant with-", she doesn't let me finish as she claps her hands together and squeals. 

"Like on a date?!" 

"Well, not necessarily, Sarah wants us to come along with her husband to have dinner", I correct.

 "So...then a double date?" she asked raising a brow. 

"Yes. So will you?-"

"Of course, nobody rejects free food even if it means they have to dress up", she interjects again and I shake my head, chuckling. I'm definitely going to kill Sarah.

*Me: Sure and she's coming too*

I get a reply almost instantly.

*Bossy head: YAY!! That means y'all are on good terms right? Take her shopping!*

Take her shopping?! I look at her and she smiles. "You have something to wear right?" I ask and she shakes her head smiling. Fuck.

*Bossy head: I'll send the money to you*

And true to her word, she does send $5000. I transfer it to Ashley's account and her eyes pop when she sees the sum. "My fairy god husband just sent me $5000!!!" she screamed and I laugh. 

"I sent that to you by the way, not your 'imaginary fairy god husband'. Go shop for yourself for tomorrow night and for whatever". She smiles and then hugs me. 

"Thanks. But wait. You have $5000 to throw away and I always pay for our food!"

"First off, I'm throwing it on you and secondly, consider this as pay back. Buy yourself something nice", I say as I walk out of the kitchen. "First off, this isn't going to be enough if this is your payback", when she says this, I mouth 'thief' to her and let her continue. "Secondly, I'm buying myself a lingerie", she said winking. 

"Surprise me", I say winking back at her as I enter my room. "Goodnight Ash"

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Here I was thinking everything would go back to normal. Ashley had left the house before I woke up. It was just 12 pm and well I didn't blame her. Although, she should have left a note. I had a good night sleep. In fact, I had a nice dream. About Ashley. And for someone who remembered everything, I couldn't remember shit. All I know is that I wasn't fucking her. Or having a wet dream. Because I knew I would remember that.

I get up from my bed and walk to the kitchen. I'm fucking hungry. I poured myself some cereal and then I found out we were out of milk.

Ughhh.

Could you think of anything worse than having no milk for your cereal?

I could. And I will right now.

One thing that is worse than having no cereal is having nothing at all.

And we were out of everything.

I was standing in the middle of an empty kitchen. The fridge was literally empty and even the drawer for emergency snacks was empty as well. I got my phone out to call Ashley so she could buy some groceries on her way back.

Ring.

On the fourth dial, I heard her pick,

"Ughh... it doesn't fit!"

Wait. What?!

I looked at my phone screen to see if I was calling the right person. Yupp. It was my 'bitch next door'.

Then why did she sound like she was moaning right now.

I put the phone against my ear again.

"Ahhh, perfect", she sighed softly. As if she realized I was still on the other end, she rushed out her last sentence.

"Huh Zack, can I call you back? I'm in the middle of a tight fit"

Then she hung up.

She was fucking a guy who was too big for her damn pussy. I felt that tiny bit of jealousy vibes crawling up my chest. 

But funnily, that feeling flew out the window the second I looked down at my shorts.

What is she going to say when she sees you?

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Oh, things are about to get interesting. Or I'm gonna have to sue myself 😂

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