Wicked Ties Chapter 6

He was fucked.

Wrapped in his arms, sleeping peacefully, was the most annoyingly infuriating girl he had ever made the mistake of sleeping with. And it felt weird. And comfortable. Laura yawned, burrowing her head deeper into the crook of his neck, as if it belonged there. He scowled.

Sex was simple. Only what they were doing wasn’t sex anymore, it was a prolonged session of cuddling. He didn’t do cuddling, especially with someone like her. Desperate to get her off him, he did the only thing he could think of. Bringing his foot back, Derek kicked her in the shin.

“Ow!” Laura groaned, looking frazzled as she raised her head. “Did you just kick me?”

He smiled, trying to feign innocence. “Of course not.”

She glared daggers at him. “You really do know how to treat a lady right, don’t you?”

“Baby, there was nothing ladylike about you last night.” Derek grinned at her.

Laura rolled her eyes, and pushed herself up. “Well this has been lovely.”

She looked for her pants and underwear, finding them in the corner. She felt disgusting and in desperate need of a shower, but getting out of his room was priority numero uno. To hell with anyone seeing her.

Derek crossed his arms behind his head, leaning back on his bed. She was surprisingly calm, which was the one thing that got to him the most. It was as if she didn’t care. He rolled his eyes, remembering that he was the one that didn’t care. Not at all.

“So, that’s it? You’re not going to cry, beg for a few more minutes with this body?” He smirked.

Laura went to his bag of clothes, fishing out a random t-shirt. She grinned as she saw the band pictured on it. Metallica. It was fitting, to say the least. She pulled it on and flipped out her hair.

“Stop that.” Laura chided with a smile. “I’m not angry. I’m not even annoyed.”

“What?” Had she gone completely insane?

She sighed, already exhausted by talking to him. “We had sex. What’s the big deal? It’s over. Now we move on, until the next time one of us gets an itch.”

It wasn’t the exact truth, but he didn’t need to know that. She was affected by him, greatly so, but he was the last person she’d ever confess that to.

He furrowed his brows. It was as if he’d been sucked into a foreign dimension where she talked like he did. Well, like he used to. “I don’t follow.”

Laura grinned, walking over to his bed. She straddled him and pinched his cheeks. He slapped her hand away, causing her to laugh at him.

“You’re so cute.” She cooed mockingly. “Look, I don’t like you. I probably never will. But you were right. Sex is just sex. As far as I’m concerned, you giving me that recorder evened out the playing field. Everything you’re doing to annoy me…it’s irrelevant. I don’t
care. And I gotta say, I feel fantastic.”

Derek glared at her. “Well look who finally decided to join the winning team.”

Laura smirked, lowering her head and sucked his bottom lip. “I really gotta run now. Thanks for the sex, sweetie.”

His jaw dropped open as she jumped off him and walked out of his room. He felt cheated, and strangely used. He shrugged. At least she was a good fuck, not that he’d ever inflate her ego by telling her that. She already had way too much power over him, he
refused to give her more ammo.

Derek sighed and let his head drop against his pillow. It was maddening, the way he craved her even when he’d just had her. He rolled his eyes. It didn’t matter. She was different from all the rest, and falling for her would be much too dangerous to even consider.
Not that he was considering it. Not at all. Nope.

On the other side of the door, Laura let out a sigh of relief as she looked over the deserted bus. She’d gotten her groove back last night, but she wasn’t quite willing to make a reputation for himself just yet. Just as she was pondering the implications of her and
Derek’s sexcapades, the door opposite Derek’s, Daniel’s to be exact, opened up in haste. Laura’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.

“Caroline?” she asked, unable to resist the smile creeping across her face.

Caroline looked like a deer caught in headlights. Her previous cat burglar outfit from the other night had magically transformed into an oversized men’s t-shirt that came all the way down to her thighs.

Caroline plastered a big smile on her face. “Laura! I didn’t know you’d be up this early.”

Laura quirked an eyebrow. “Uhuh. Have you seen Daniel by any chance?”

Caroline’s eyes bugged out comically, as she sputtered and tried to come up with the right words. “I, uh, haven’t seen him. I was just borrowing something from him.”

“His Yale t-shirt?” Laura asked, amused. “Did you lose your pants too?”

“Look, I was just…” Caroline sighed, before narrowing her eyes at her friend. “Wait! Why are you coming out of Derek’s room? And why are you wearing his shirt?”

She cringed. She really was a hypocrite. “Let’s not discuss this.”

“Ever again.” Caroline added.

Laura nodded, before sprinting for the shower.

“Laura! I need to go first.” Caroline whined as she chased after her.

Laura slammed the door shut, locking it firmly, before slumping down to the floor. As she heard Caroline pounding on the door, calling her several different names, she simply couldn’t help it. She laughed harder than she’d ever laughed in her life.

(An hour later.)

“We weren’t supposed to talk about it.” Laura nursed her drink.

Caroline glared at her. “You took up all the hot water this morning, I’m hung-over, and only some good gossip will make me feel better.”

“Just yesterday you had feelings for this guy, and now you want me to tell you about our sex life?” Laura raised her eyebrows.

Caroline picked up the umbrella from her drink and tossed it at her. “I’m way too depressed to be focusing on something as trivial as a crush on Derek.”

“You’re depressed?” Laura grinned, wanting to change the subject. “It didn’t seem like it this morning.”

Caroline moaned, letting her head fall against the bar counter. “I am never drinking again, or taking part in one of your stupid plans!”

“My stupid plan? You were the one who came up with it!” She chose to remind the blonde.

“Remind me never to make plans. Ever again.” Caroline muttered.

Laura rolled her eyes. “Was it really that bad?”

Caroline huffed, before lifting her head in a flurry of blonde curls. “Bad? Oh no, that doesn’t even begin to cover.”

“Okay, so Daniel isn’t as experienced as Derek in that matter, but it can’t be that…” Laura tried comforting her, only for the blonde to cut her off.

“He was supposed to be gay!” Caroline yelled obscenely loud, getting a few nasty glances from fellow customers. Laura shot them apologetic looks.

“Why couldn’t he just be gay?” Caroline whined. “This is just awful.”

“So you had sex.” Laura gave her a tight smile. This level of girl talk was new to her, what with Audrey’s young age. “Isn’t that kind of your thing? No offense.”

Caroline gasped with horror, before shaking her head rapidly. “We didn’t have sex!”

“What?” Laura asked, genuinely confused now.

Caroline sighed, taking a big gulp of her drink.