Best Friend's Boyfriend

Chapter 25

        We went back to Carter’s house and hung out like how we used to before there were even any problems between me and Kel. We played truth or dare, never have I ever, and even hide and seek but it was just a ton of fun. During one of the rounds I hid with Mattie and Duke in the shower who asked me if I was going to stop hooking up with Cody now that Kel and I were friends again. I bit my lip and tried to think of a lie.

            “I’m guessing that’s a no,” Duke whispered. “But if she does find out, Mattie and I didn’t ever know.”

            “Guys, I really am going to try to hook up with him less. And if Kel keeps being a good friend to me, I won’t hook up with him at all,” I said. After we were found I hid again with Carter in the closet in his room and kissed him so if he went back to his friends and told them, Duke and Mattie would believe me. Of course I sent a text to Cody telling him though.

            I even hid with Kelli during one of the rounds under Carter’s mattress which we found to a really bad idea once we realized we could barely breathe. But hey, we won, and got a really good heart-to-heart out of it. After that we watched a movie and I was expecting Kelli to obnoxiously cuddle with Cody on the couch, but she didn’t. She cuddled with me. I guess she finally started to realize she doesn’t need to show off the fact that she has a boyfriend to prove that she has one.

            I told my parents I was sleeping over Kelli’s and she told her parents she was sleeping over mine. We ended up staying the night at Carter’s house where he gave us big t-shirts to sleep in.

            “It looks like you guys aren’t wearing pants,” Carter laughed as Kel and I snuggled up under a blanket on the couch.

            “Because we’re not,” I laughed. Carter proceeded to take off his shorts so he was just standing there in a t-shirt and his boxers. “Now we match,” he laughed.

            “Carter! Put your pants back on right now, you have girls over!” Carter’s mom stood in the doorway of the basement. “Sorry mom,” Carter put his shorts back on and we all laughed at him.

            “Now girls, your parents said it was okay that you sleep over here?” Carter’s mom asked. We both nodded and smiled. “Okay good, just checking. I am so sorry about my son, he is so embarrassing!”

            “Mom!” Carter laughed. “I’m right here!”

            “Unfortunately,” she said. We all laughed and she told us that the food she ordered for us should arrive soon. I guess Kelli and I had fallen asleep before the food had gotten there because I woke up to the sound of Carter and Cody fighting over the last slice of pizza next to three other empty boxes of pizza and empty cartons of chicken and fries.

            “You guys ate all of it??” I asked sleepily. I looked around to see Mattie and Duke sleeping, Graham and Jace still awake but very tired.

            “Good job, you woke her up,” Carter burped in Cody’s face and took a bite out of the last slice, claiming it. “You might wake Kelli up too.”

            “Kelli’s a really heavy sleeper, you won’t,” I assured them. Cody and I gave each other the same look that the other guys wouldn’t notice, but that we clearly knew meant we had a clear opportunity to hook up when they all fell asleep.

          My stomach growled and I looked at Carter’s pizza. I started walking towards him, hoping he would let me have a bite but instead he shook his head no and raised the pizza above his head. “Carter, please! Just one bite!” I placed one hand on his shoulder and stood on my tip toes to try to get the pizza.

            “Brooke, don’t do that!” Cody laughed. “Your shirt goes up and you see your ass.”

            “No, Brooke, you’re good, keep doing that,” Graham joked.

            “Are you not wearing underwear?” Carter asked excitedly.

            “I don’t know, why don’t you check?” I flirted. His eyes widened with excitement and when his hand was almost on my ass, he forgot about the pizza which I instantly snatched and started to run back to the couch.

            “Oh my God, no give that back,” he ran after me. I shoved as much pizza as I could into my mouth as he wrapped his arms around my from behind, trying to take it back. I let him think I gave the pizza back to him so he let go, and the expression on his face was priceless when he realized it was just the crust left.

            “Are you kidding me??” he yelled. I started laughing, accidentally letting some of the pizza out of my mouth, falling onto the ground. “Oh my- you’re a bitch, now you’re just wasting my pizza. Clean it up!”

            I knew Carter wasn’t actually mad at me and after I cleaned up the pizza I told Cody, Carter, Graham and Jace to lay down in a circle with our heads facing each other so we could stay up and talk.

            “Is this what girls do at sleepovers?” Graham laughed.

            “When there’s four or more, yeah!” I said. Jace had already fallen asleep right after he positioned his pillow. “Jace no, stay awake!” I tapped his arms but it was too late, he was fast asleep.

            The three guys and I stayed up talking a little more, when really I knew Cody was trying just as hard as I was to stay awake so we could hook up. Carter had passed out and now we were just waiting for Graham. We were asking him questions about his girlfriend who I’d only met a few times but seemed really nice and he admitted something I wasn’t expecting at all.

            “Like, I really like her, and you guys have to promise me you won’t say anything to her but I hooked up with another girl when I was dating her,” he said.

            “What?” I asked. “Who? When?”

            “She said her name was Ava Rivers but she wasn’t even from here so I wouldn’t know if she was lying. She said she was on vacation with her friend Savannah for a week and I figured since she wouldn’t be here long, it wouldn’t really matter and my girl would never find out. This was about a month ago which is why I flipped on you guys when I knew you...” he lowered his voice. “Hooked up. I was so disappointed in myself and regretted it so much after and I didn’t want Cody to make the same mistake I did.”

            “I understand that, bro,” Cody said. 

            “I was just trying to keep you guys from doing something you’d both regret, I’m sorry if I acted like a dick. I’m so tired though, I’m going to go to bed, night guys,” Graham turned to his side and closed his eyes.

            Cody and I both understood his point completely and knew he was just trying to help. We understood why he thought it was wrong and at the same time, we knew it was wrong too. Yet ten minutes later, we were hooking up.