A Little Bit... A Little More. (Huh?)

Type: Chapter 13

With exam week going on, I was extremely stressed. Tharn and I looked like zombies as we both hardly got any sleep throughout. We stayed awake to study together through the nights and to wake the other up if one of us fell asleep. It had its merits until the last day when we both fell asleep at some point and woke up late. We had to scramble to get to the exam hall and I found out only when I sat down that I was wearing the wrong trousers because they were too loose. I had grabbed Tharn's trousers by mistake in my hurry. I chuckled internally as I thought about how uncomfortable Tharn must be at the moment because I was a size smaller than him. 

After finishing the paper, Techno and Champ asked me to join them for a celebratory lunch but I refused on account of running on no sleep. I was ready to pass out on the sidewalk at that point. 

I hurried back to the room and jumped into bed, not even giving a thought to changing my clothes. As I was about to drift off, I heard Tharn come in. I was laying stomach-side down on the bed so I turned my head to look at him walk to his side of the bed.

He looked at me with accusatory eyes as he pointed at my lower half and then his. I started laughing, understanding what he meant.

"I can't believe you stole my trousers! Do you know how uncomfortable I was for those 3 hours I had to sit down to write my paper? I think I'm never going to be able to sire any children after the assault my groin has gone through," he said as he quickly undressed and threw the trouser at my face. 

I just laughed and laughed looking at Tharn standing only in his shirt and boxers looking at me menacingly. It was so contrary to how he wanted to come off that it was cute. 

"I don't think the person you marry will be able to carry children anyways, so I don't see a problem with that," I said, smirking.

Tharn's eyes widened and then he burst out laughing. 

"I'm going to shower before I crash," he said as he proceeded to the bathroom. I was bewildered by his willpower to even think of taking a shower when he hadn't slept properly the whole week. I just drifted off to sleep.

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I woke up the next day and pushed the blanket off me. 

'When did I get into the blanket?' I thought as I turned around to see Tharn already awake, tapping on his phone. 

"What time is it?" I asked as I stretched my body that was cramped because of being in the same position for a long time. 

"It's 8. I brought your breakfast up," he said pointing to my desk. I turned around to see a packet of food sitting in front of Guppie's picture and felt like I had lived this moment before. 

"Thanks. You're the best friend of everybody's dreams," I said as I pushed myself out of bed to go freshen up. I finally slipped out of Tharn's trousers and looked at him to see scowling at me. I grinned remembering our conversation from yesterday. 

"I'll do the laundry this time as an apology for your loss," I said pointing at his family jewels. 

Tharn huffed as he faked a smile at me.

"Whatever. I'm going to tell your next girlfriend that I've been in your pants as punishment," he said and widened his smile into a grin. 

"Two can play that game! I can tell your next boyfriend the same thing because I have been in your pants too. These ones," I said as I held up the trousers to display it to him. We both started laughing. I went and put the pants in the laundry basket and I took off my shirt to throw it into the basket too. I turned back around to Tharn who quickly turned his head away from me and looked down at his phone.