Chapter 13: 12- He Will Know When He Pushes It In

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The bed was moving. It was bouncing me up and down like a kid on a trampoline. Was it an earthquake?!

I groaned and forced one eye open. Blurry silhouettes of two kids and two dogs were jumping on my bed.

“Aunt Beth!”

“Wake up!”

“Aunt Beth!”

A deep dog bark.

Then a not so deep dog bark followed.

“What?” I forced myself to sit up. I was still very sleepy.

And it was all thanks to Blake.

He called me last night when he arrived back in his place, asking me about Allie on whether she woke up or if she had said something because seemingly Allie sleep talks, a lot. Then the next thing we know out subject has gone from Allie to about anything under the sun. We kept on talking on the phone about me, him, about us, but not like that.

We stayed up until half past two in the morning 'til we realized what time it already was and both of us had work the next day or in that case, we had work later.

The other thing was that I wasn’t able to sleep until almost an hour later when we killed the call. I kept on tossing and turning in my bed, minimally disrupting my dogs’ sleep. They decided to sleep with me when I went to bed but stayed at the other end when I started talking with Blake.

I couldn’t get him off my mind for that half an hour. I wish I could. I wanted my sleep but his handsome face always kept popping up whenever I closed my eyes.

And the difficulty of me actually falling for him was inevitable.

I am a mess. I am emotionally difficult and unstable. But then again, everything in the world is difficult and unstable. It’s just the people who you’re around with makes the roller coaster ride worthwhile.

After dropping Liam and Allie in the local daycare and texting Blake which daycare they were at, I head off to work. As I cut off the engine, my phone buzzed. It was a text message from Blake asking me where I was. So I typed ‘I just arrived at work’ and sent it.

Less than ten seconds later, my phone buzzed again.

I can see that.

He can? I quirked up a brow at the suddenly fascinating device in my hands. I replied with a ‘how?’.

I’m inside waiting for you.

Something inside of me melted. He kept this recent tradition we had going, and also his sort of promise to Dani.

Oh crap. Dani. She is going to enjoy annoying me for the rest of her life. I swear she was put into my life for that main reason. Her helping me is probably just an excuse to allow her to do that.

I looked through the glass window of the building. I could see some of my colleagues moving from one end of the shop to the other carrying trays. But what stood out the most was Blake. He stood in the center of the window in his usual long sleeved button up tucked in his black dress pants.

He was grinning from ear to ear like a school boy with one of his arms extended upward to the air waving from left to right at me.

He looked charming.

When I went in, I saw he already had a cup of coffee and a slice of cake on the table.

“Blake. You’re…early.” I said with a smile.

His schoolboy grin never left his face. “I’m not. You’re just a little late.”

“I am?” I asked confused and checked my phone for the time. I was twenty minutes later than my usual time of arrival. “Oh crap. How long have you been waiting?”

“Ten or fifteen.” He shrugged.

I groaned. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine.”

“It’s just someone kept me up last night.” I narrowed my eyes at him. Blake gave me a sheepish grin.

“Don’t tell me you two had sex last night.” A new all too familiar joined our conversation.

Oh crap.

“Who had sex last night?” another voice interjected. Marcus was carrying a tray in his hands. “Aw, is my little cousin finally deflowered?”

Double crap.

I closed my eyes and covered my already burning face with my hands. This is so embarrassing. Can I just go back home and not show up forever? “No one had sex last night!”

I heard laughter. It belonged to Dani, Marcus, and Blake.

“Oh my god Beth! You never told me you’re a virgin.” Dani smacked my arm. “I knew you weren’t seeing anyone but it never crossed my mind that you were still one…such innocence.”

“I know! She’s like twenty four and still a virgin. How do you keep that up?” Marcus smirked at me, feigning shock. “This guy you’re saving it for must be real special, huh? Saving your first for him.”

“Hey Blake?” Dani called him.

“Yes?”

“Did you know about Beth’s virginity still intact?” Dani questioned and I felt my face redden even more if it was humanly possible.

“Uh...” Blake scratched his nape; a light blush tinted his cheeks as he is unsure on how to answer that embarrassing question.

Dani’s sly grin grew even wider. “Well I’m pretty sure you would know when you two would bang ea-”

“Guys.” I groaned out loud, scowling as I cutting her off midsentence. “Go die already.”

Both Dani and Marcus smirked at me before twisting their heel to leave Blake and me alone.

I kept my mouth shut as I let my already hot face cool down. Blake said nothing as he grinned looking at me.

What do I say to the man I like after two of my so called ‘friends’ embarrass me in front of him and talk about my sex life- or should I say my nonexistent sex life? Do I just go back to our subject before the big humiliation happened? Should I apologize? Do I just walk away? What do I do?!

I was relieved when Blake was the one who decided to talk first, until what he said made me blush again.

“You are so adorable when you get flustered.”

“D-don’t mind them.” I managed to utter the words out of me.

“I hope you don’t mind me saying this but, I like them. They’re so…” Blake trailed off, looking for a suitable word to describe Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

“Annoying? Evil? Irritating? Diabolical? A gift from the devil?” I gave him options to choose from and he just laughed. “I’d say all of the above.”

“To you they may be but I find them amusing.” He grinned and bent down to my level, whispering to me the words teasingly: “And they’re the reason why I know now you’re still a virgin.”

“Blake!” I pushed him away, my cheeks going back to the shade of an over ripe tomato.

He chuckled and clutched his stomach. “You are so cute Bethany. But honestly, is it true?”

I bit the insides of my cheek. Should I say yes and admit that I still am one? Or should I deny? Maybe he’ll think I’m a prude. Or maybe he’ll think I’m going to join a convent one day and I won’t have a chance to be with him. Oh god.

“Uh…yes.” I admitted, my eyes darted down the floor where my dirty Converse clad feet stood on. I didn’t look up at him. I was scared.

I felt Blake’s fingertips on my chin, pulling my face up so that I would look at him. I expected to see at least a nonchalant face but I came face to face with a smiling one. It wasn’t the schoolboy grin he wore earlier, or the smirk he sported when he teased me.

It was the same smile I saw him wearing when he looked at Stephanie in their wedding picture.

His eyes bored mine.

I felt vulnerable when he did that. It was like he could see right through me. It felt like he knew all of my deepest, darkest secret. It felt like he will never hurt me.

“I don’t mind Bethany.” His voice was deep and rough, his eyes never leaving mine.

Three hours later, I was in my office in my computer. Reese had decided to Skype with me to ask how Liam was doing. We were now on the topic of our annual family get together on my mother’s side.

“You have to go.”

“I don’t want to.” I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest. “I love them but they are all so annoying.”

“They’re not.” Reese countered with her chin high. “Marcus will be there anyways. I think you won’t be that bored with talking to someone you work with everyday.”

I rolled my eyes. “Another reason to skip the event. Marcus is like the male version of Dani.”

“And how is that a bad thing?” Reese raised a brow at me. “Dai is great!”

“She’s not when she’s teasing and harassing you.” I told my sister. “Both of them combined just spells out trouble, trust me.”

A knock on the door interrupted our conversation. Speaking of the devil and the devil arrives. Dani peeked her head through the crack of the door.

“Beth someone’s here for consultation.”

“Is that Dani?” Reese asked out loud and I could see Dani’s eyes glow.

“You’re talking with Reese? Why didn’t you tell me? Hi Reese!” she called out and skipped towards my desk. She appeared right beside me and started to wave franticly to my sister on the screen.

“Hello Dani.” My sister waved back.

“Don’t you have a consultation to go? Shoo, move it.” Dani nudged me on my arm and started pushing me away. “Go already. They are going to get pissed. Move your ass now Beth.”

I rolled my eyes and got off my chair where she immediately sat down, ignoring me as she started chatting with Reese.

Rolling my eyes at her, I grabbed the pen and a pad of paper on the edge of my desk. My hand turned the door knob open and before I left my office, I heard my sister’s giggle through the speakers.

Making my way to the consultation room, I found it empty. Frowning at the empty room I sat on one of the chairs with my right leg crossed over my left. The pad paper and the pen was on the table.

I was drumming my fingertips on the wooden table waiting for my customer. The only sound accompanying me was the tick of the wall clock and my soft thump of my skin against the table.

I started humming to a tune I just made up. After a few minutes, I got annoyed already.

That’s when it clicked. Dani was lying to me. She wanted to talk to Reese alone.

“Oh no.” I started panicking and grabbed the stuff I brought with me. “What did Dani spill now?”

I scurried back to my office where I heard Dani’s and my sister’s laugh. Hesitating a bit, I wondered if I wanted to know what they were talking about. I know I didn’t. Reese and my sister were talking alone, and knowing both of them they would talk about my embarrassing moments. They could write a book about it and it’ll sell like hotcakes.

I went in my office, not bothering to knock or do anything to let Dani know I was going in because it is my office. I walked in on them talking about what had happened earlier. Dani was sharing our rather embarrassing conversation earlier with Blake and Marcus about my sex life. Oh god.

“Dani! Reese!” I cried out throwing my hands in the air.

Dani stared at me, her jaw opening and closing like fish before she dashed out of the room like a kid who got caught sticking his hand in a candy jar. She was gone in three seconds flat leaving me with a guilty looking Reese on my laptop.

I glared at her. “Why on earth are the both of you talking about Blake knowing of my virginity?”

“Well he will know when he pushes it in.” Reese muttered causing my face to grow red and my eyes to widen.

“Reese!”

“It won’t hurt as much if that’s what you’re worried about.” My sister shrugged, oblivious to the fact that I was cringing at our current topic.

“Unless he’s really big then it would hurt a lot.” Dani reentered the room carrying a glass of water in her hand. “What’s his shoe size Beth?”

I stared at her like she was crazy. “What does all this have to do with his shoe size?”

“They say the bigger the feet, the bigger the dick.” Reese’s voice came from the laptop speakers slightly cracked as if she was suppressing the urge to laugh.

My jaw dropped as I gaped at my sister and Dani, switching from one to the other. My face was red from too much blushing from too much information they were talking about. I made a disgusted face and sound.

“Ew, I don’t want to know any of those things.”

Dani scoffed. “You’ll say that now but wait ‘till he puts it in you. You’ll probably want more every day.”

“That’s it!” I covered my ears refusing to listen to any more talks about hurting, shoe sizes, and Blake’s…dick.

“Don’t be a prude Beth.” Dani peeled my hand off my ear. She was surprisingly strong, like a wrestler strong. “You’ll want to hear this when you two start screwing each other’s brains out.”

“No I don’t!”

Dani scoffed. “Yes you do, unless you don’t want to walk the next day.”

I stared at her in horror. “Is that even possible?”

“Yup.” Both of the girls in front of me nodded their heads, popping the P as they replied.

“Who would want that?” I scrunched up my nose in disgust. “Why would girls want that in the first place?”

“Oh honey believe me, a lot of girls would want that. That means that the guy is tremendous in bed. You’ll want that too.”

“Ew, no.” my response came almost immediately.

Reese laughed at me, clutching on to her dear stomach for air. “My god, you are so innocent Beth!”

“How on earth did you survive high school and college without knowing these stuff?” Dani asked me, bewildered. “It’s like knowing math and English, it’s a must. It’s a pre requisite for adulthood. Jeez Beth, which convent did you go to?”

Crossing my arms over my chest, I gave an exasperated sigh. “You guys are the worst.”

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I liked writing this chapter. Sorry for the late update though. I bet the dirty talk made this PG 13.

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P.S. don't you guys just love this chapter's title?