After finishing up in the bathroom, I strode quietly back into my shared room to find Mia sitting by the edge of her small bed staring off into space. My brows furrowed in concern as I looked over her.

It had been an hour since dinner, and she'd been acting weird ever since. She laughed with me throughout dinner and was still cracking her normal teasing jokes but there was something else there. She was worried about something. I could tell.

She was extra fidgety compared to earlier today, and I she could tell she was thinking hard about something. But what, was the question.

I hoped what she was worried about had nothing to do with me, but that nagging, annoying voice in my head told me that it was. It would kill me if I'd somehow managed to find a small way to fuck up already.

I cleared my throat softly. "Hey, are you feeling alright?" I asked as I walked my way closer. Mia turned to me in surprise, jolted from her thoughts as I took a seat by her at the edge of her bed.

The distant, ghostly look that had been swirling beneath the depths of her brown eyes faded, as she locked eyes with me. Her expression brightened, and she gave me a quick smile.

"Yeah, of course, I'm alright, why'd you ask?" she replied smoothly.

I let my eyes work over her features, studying her carefully. I could tell the smile on her face was genuine, but it was still obvious that from her sudden change in demeanour, she was hiding something.

I felt a sting in my chest, realizing that probably meant she didn't fully trust me yet.

I turned so I was more fully facing her, then licked my lips nervously before speaking. "I don't know, you've just been weirdly quiet since you talked to April. What did you guys even talk about?"

I knew my question was perhaps a little bold since the conversation between them was clearly supposed to be private but I could no longer hold myself back from asking. The conversation between her and April just gave me this bad feeling inside, considering how weird Mia started acting after.

Had April told her something rude about me? Some nasty rumour concerning me perhaps? I knew I was probably being nuts like always, and it was likely nothing, but I wanted to be sure.

Mia shrugged her easy-going smile not leaving her face. "Nothing important, just girly stuff," she answered.

I swopped my gaze up and down her one last final time, before deciding to drop it. She wasn't even upset - I was being ridiculous.

Officially done with grilling her with questions, I decided to lighten the mood and let my lips curve into an amused smile.

"Ooo, girly stuff, how intriguing, tell me more," I teased, waggling my eyebrows slightly for effect.

I no doubt looked like a dork but as I saw her grin peak in, followed by the beautiful sound of her laughter, I knew I'd made the right choice.

"You're such an idiot," she chuckled, before grabbing a hold of a pillow and whacking me with it.

I chuckled low. "Okay, fine keep your precious secrets," I muttered teasingly as I rose to my feet.

Making my way on a path to my luggage, an idea of how I could have some fun crossed my mind causing my lips to tug up into a smirk. It was an idea that would hopefully get Mia to crawl right where she belonged tonight. In my bed.

Girlfriend or not, I knew if I wanted a one-hundred percent guarantee of persuading Mia into my bed tonight, I was going to have to play dirty.

With that thought in mind, I reached for the bottom of my top with a smile and started slowly sliding the material up my back. A chill spun up my spine, as my naked torso met the cool air.

As I scrunched up my top into a ball in my hands and angled myself to the side, I found Mia watching me carefully just like I was hoping. I tried not to grin too hard.

Her head was craned slightly to the side, and her eyes looked wide, and thoughtful as they surveyed me from head to toe.

The image she was creating, as she checked me out was driving me wild and I was tempted to just screw my plan to tease her, and stride right over to her and dive my mouth right onto those sexy full lips of hers.

But I didn't, I was determined to stay focused on my mission to seduce her. She was giving in first tonight, not me. I was going to make sure of it.

Deciding to turn it up a notch, I bit back a smile before moving my hands boldly toward the fastening of my jeans. Instantly, the sound of Mia's sharp gasp filled the air.

I couldn't help it anymore, and an amused smile quickly twisted to my lips as I turned around to face her.

Mia was sat up straight as rigid as a board, her eyes wide, and her expression ghostly as she locked eyes with me. It was the cutest image I'd ever seen and screamed guilty in every definition of the word.

She had one hundred-and-one percent been looking – she knew that, and I knew that.

I arched up a brow at her, my lips still twitching as I held myself back from smiling wider. "Have I got a peeping Tom?" I joked, my eyes locking on hers.

A violent blush erupted on Mia's cheeks, and she blinked rapidly, struggling to meet my eyes. Loving it, my resistance broke, and my smile got wider. I loved it a little too much that she wanted to look at me. There was just something so fucking hot about it.

A frustrated breath escaped past Mia's lips. "Well, what do you expect when you start stripping yourself in front of me," she argued.

I chuckled at this, amused she hadn't even bothered to deny that she was looking.

A wicked smile soon settled on my lips. "Yeah, I know it's part of my plan," I answered with a wink.

"Your plan?" Mia questioned, her head tilting in confusion.

My eyes dipped up and down her slowly before settling back on her eyes. "Yeah, if I flaunt my body around, you'll soften up and crawl into my bed tonight," I commented slyly. My words naturally caused a rather inappropriate image of Mia doing just that to appear in my head.

Mia's mouth immediately fell open, her eyes holding a playful but bright fire to them. "You cheeky little bastard!" she cried. "You know what, just for that, I won't," she snapped defiantly.

Still smiling, I rocked my eyes between hers slowly, as I considered my next options. Deciding I wasn't going to back down from her challenge, I made sure to keep eye contact with her before slowly reaching my hands towards the fastenings of my jeans.

Mia licked her lips nervously as I started undoing the button and zip on my jeans slowly, all without removing my eyes from hers.

I could tell she was fighting not to look, pleading with herself not to, but soon enough, her gaze dipped involuntarily low. My lips twitched upward, knowing full well, I had her exactly where I wanted her.

With her full attention, I dropped my jeans to the floor and stepped smoothly out of them. Now only left in my black boxer briefs, I watched with perhaps a little too much satisfaction as Mia swallowed her eyes glued to my body.

Her eyes raked their way down my body, in a way that was making it almost torturous to stay still, and not pounce on her. I very well nearly died, when her gaze dropped below my hips, and she very gently bit her lower lip.

That's all it took until suddenly all the blood in my body decided to rush south.

Yeah, there was no way I was going to have the restraint to sleep by myself tonight.

Mia soon cleared her throat, then her gaze flickered quickly away from my no doubt quite prominently growing boner.

Mia climbed off the bed, quite clearly flustered. Then I watched as she took the long way around the room to get to her suitcase. Huh, so she was trying to avoid me, was she?

Mia quickly grabbed her pajamas from the suitcase, then started speed-walking her way to the bathroom.

I plucked up an amused brow, then quickly sped up so I intercepted her in her path, forcing her to come to an abrupt stop.

I stepped closer to her, enjoying the proximity.

Mia let out a low frustrated groan. "For Christ's sake, Ethan put some fucking clothes on," she huffed, her cheeks burning a more furious red.

Her words said one thing, but her body language said something entirely different from the way her eyes raked up and down my body over and over again. That, and how hard she kept chewing on that poor damn bottom lip of hers. She was going to chomp it right off at the rate she was going.

I loved how for once she was the one that couldn't stop her eyes from straying. It turns out we were more like each other than I suspected.

I scratched my chin in thought, pretending to consider her words. "Nah, I think I'm good. I feel quite comfortable like this. Hope you don't mind," I sang with a knowing grin.

Mia let out a frustrated breath, her face still flushed, and her eyes continually straying.

She had more self-control than me I'd give her fucking that. If she pulled this shit with me, I would have been all on her the moment she started undoing the first button of her jeans.

"You're a bully! She snapped in irritation before quickly side-stepping me and attempting to walk past me.

She didn't get far before I slid an arm around her waist, and span her back around to face me.

She fell clumsily against my chest, our foreheads pressing up against each other. Her eyes widened, and as my fingers tightened into the small of her back, I became all too present of the needful tugging sensation building up in my stomach. I swallowed hard. The ways I fucking wanted her.

I moved slightly closer, torturing myself even worse. "Are you sure you want to change in the bathroom? I quite fancy a strip show myself," I whispered as I gave her a slow, thorough look over.

In truth, I was probably asking for something I definitely wouldn't be able to handle. There was no scenario in this world where she'd strip off her clothes in front of me, and I'd stay in my seat.

Mia's brows lifted at this, and her head tilted while her lips tugged up sexily. Holy shit – was she actually considering it?

Answering my question, Mia stood on her toes and soon moved closer to me, her lips brushing against my cheek.

Every muscle in my body stiffened, and my brain instantly stopped computing. My hands which were still holding her small waist tightened even further.

The only words reverberating around my horny skull were. Mia, no clothes, and stripping.

They were my favorite words when put all together.

She moved her lips from my cheek to the side of my ear then stopped, the tickling sensation she was creating causing me to shiver.

"In your dreams," she whispered breathily.

I had barely processed the words before Mia pulled away from me abruptly. I blinked stupidly at her struggling to process what was happening. Then I watched her chuckle and skip off toward the bathroom.

It was only as the bathroom door started to swing closed, did it hit me that I'd been tricked.

Embarrassingly aroused at this point, a frustrated growl escaped my lips. "It's not cool to tease, Chubs," I yelled out at the closing door.

Mia the evil temptress that she was, made a point of loudly chuckling from the other side of the door.

After taking a few seconds to collect myself. Fine, after taking several minutes to calm myself down, I made my way over to my bed and climbed my way in. It wasn't a particularly big bed at all. It was really only designed for one person, but that was far from going to stop me from trying to squeeze Mia in.

Usually, I'd sleep in some joggers, and a top like I did last night, but not tonight. Since Mia wanted to play the who could fuck worst with the horny part of the other's brain game, she deserved the torture.

Especially after getting me all worked up about a strip show, I wasn't getting.

I busied myself by scrolling through my phone as I waited for Mia to come back from the bathroom.

After a few long minutes, the bathroom door squeaked open and Mia soon emerged from the bathroom.

She eyed my position in bed immediately, her eyes swopping over my naked chest, then my eyes, then back to my chest. She tried to maintain the cool confidence in her eyes, but her cheeks gave her away and burned a faint red.

I internally smiled, wanting more than anything to know what was going on in that head of hers. I wanted to hear every horny thought of hers line by line.

Noticing she was wearing those sexy short shorts I liked so much, I let my gaze dip up and down her body, making sure to be painfully obvious. God, she was so fucking hot.

Wanting to fluster her, and partially for my own personal enjoyment, I tilted my head as she walked across the room hoping to get a better look up and down her legs.

I knew she noticed me looking when she started to tug on the hem of her shorts, perhaps to punish me for looking at her.

Too bad for her, because the tugging didn't do much to hide how incredible she looked.

Deciding to be a dick, I cleared my throat. "Are you okay, Chubs? You look a little flushed?" I asked innocently, though the amusement in my tone was hard to hide.

We locked eyes, and from the look in Mia's eyes, it was obvious she knew I was anything but innocent.

"Yeah, absolutely, fine," Mia answered. Her tone came out far too sharp and tight to be believable.

Mia stared at her small, cold empty bed on the other side of the room, then turned back to look at me in my bed, then swallowed. She eyed the place in bed I'd left for her.

I had a brief moment of hope that she wasn't going to drag this on and was going to get into my bed like she clearly wanted to but unfortunately, she didn't.

Instead, she climbed into her bed alone, and I watched in complete frustration as she reached over to the bedside table and turned off the light.

Darkness cloaked the room, and I rolled over in my covers and pleaded with myself to be patient. I knew there was only so long I could hold out before I'd throw my pride in the bin, and climb into bed with her.

As the seconds ticked by, I heard Mia start to shuffle in bed. Every few seconds, she would turn over in her covers. Then another few seconds, and she would turn over again.

I knew Mia was hardly one to struggle to sleep, so it definitely piqued my interest, that she seemed to be particularly struggling tonight.

I bit my lip, wanting to laugh and I would have if I wasn't feeling exactly the same way she was.

Instead, as she continued to shuffle, I pretended to be asleep with my back to her. I heard one last final shuffle, then a frustrated breath.

"Fuck you, Ethan," I heard her mutter under her breath.

I nearly killed myself in my effort not to laugh and in the next nanosecond, I heard covers being angrily ripped to one side, followed by the squeak of a mattress.

I heard her ever so quietly tiptoe over to my side of the room, and before I knew it the covers on my bed were being gently lifted up and then I felt the mattress softly dip down beside me.

I realized immediately she was clearly trying to sneak into my bed without me realizing. I no doubt suspected she had plans to sneak back in the morning.

That little cheater, robbing me of both cuddling and bragging rights....

Once she'd settled herself completely into the bed beside me, I slowly rolled around to face her with an amused smile.

Her eyes-only inches away from me, widened as she locked eyes with me as she realized she'd been caught red-handed.

"I knew you wouldn't be able to resist me," I whispered teasingly.

Mia's eyes narrowed. "I just felt sorry for you, that's all," she justified quickly.

My eyes lit up in amusement. "Did you now, huh?" I said as I propped my head up on my bent elbow.

"Yup," she stated confidently, her eyes rocking slowly between mine.

Seeing my opening to tease, I pretended to lift a brow in intrigue. "Well, that's strange, I believe I heard a lot of shuffling over there. You sounded pretty restless to me...It was almost as though your mind was consumed by a certain someone," I proposed, looking over her knowingly.

"I....er...," she flew out in a nervous stutter, clearly struggling to think up a quick enough lie.

My smirk grew. "Also, I'm pretty sure I heard you say, 'Fuck me, Ethan', right before you jumped into my bed. Is that what you want me to do, Mia? Do you want me to fuck you?"

I proposed my sentence simply and matter of fact, like the nature of my words didn't race my heart, and conjure a lot of wicked images to appear in my mind.

My comment earned the reaction I was hoping for, and she licked her lips nervously, then bit them. I didn't need the light on to know there was no doubt a fierce blush likely taking over her face.

She was evidently turned on and we both knew it.

Mia let out a shaky breath. "That's not what I said, and you know it. I said, fuck YOU, Ethan," she corrected.

Laughter escaped my chest and I let my eyes wash over hers. "Don't be embarrassed, Chubs, I'd love to fuck you," I whispered, unable to resist teasing her more.

Well, I wasn't joking about wanting to fuck her, that was very much true, and would very much happen the moment she asked.

Mia let out a groan of embarrassment and kicked me from underneath the covers.

"Ouch Chubs," I laughed "I wouldn't have invited you in if I knew you were just going to abuse me."

"Well, stop being mean to me, and I'll stop," she mumbled.

"Okay, fine, I'll stop making fun of you," I chuckled.

"For good?" she asked, her eyes lighting up in surprise.

"Oh, fuck no, only for tonight," I said with a rude snort.

She rolled her eyes lazily at me. "I hate you," she snapped. Then rolling around she turned so her back was facing me.

I lifted an amused brow and then shuffling closer, I wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her firmly back against me. Snuggling my chin into the crook of her neck, I placed a soft kiss on the back of her neck. She relaxed instantly into my touch.

"I love you," I whispered honestly.

Mia shuffled back deeper into my arms, causing a natural smile to lift to my lips.

"And I love you too," she whispered back. 

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