The Ladies Man

Three weeks have passed and Ashley and I have been dating for just over a month now. It’s been going well. He gets me and my little eccentricities, and I’m slowly uncovering the person beneath the man whore. I finally came up with an idea for a t-shirt and drew up the design in the last week. Today I’m meeting with Andy and Ashley to show them the design.
“Belle! Ashley’s here!” Madison yelled from the doorway.
“You don’t have to yell! I’m right here!” I yelled back. I grabbed by sketchbook and purse and walked out of my room.
“Is this a common thing for you guys?” Ashley asked.
“What?” Madison asked.
“Yelling at each other for no good reason.”
“Yeah, we like to drive each other crazy.” I said. “We enjoy bugging each other.”
“It’s fun.” Madison added.
“For example, Madison lives her life vicariously through me, so doing or not doing things is how I drive her crazy.”
“And I put disturbing thoughts in her head to drive her crazy.” Madison said. “Like last night for example.”
Ashley looked way too interested in what she had to say next so I grabbed his arm and dragged him out the door. “Shut it Madison!” I yelled back at her, trying not to blush. For some reason, last night she had felt the need to introduce me to these things called ‘Ashley Purdy Imagines’. She only showed me the really dirty ones.
Ashley laughed as I pulled him along. “What was that about?”
“I’d really rather not tell you.” I replied.
“Okay.” He had a devious look in his eyes. He wasn’t going to forget this. Damn it.
We got into his car and drove to Andy’s house. Once we were inside I got out my sketchbook to show them my designs. I sat down on the couch next to Ashley and he put his arm around my shoulder.
“Okay Belle, so what was it you wanted to show us?” Andy asked.
I opened up by sketchbook to the right page and held it out to him. It was the BVB logo with each of the guys in one of the holes of the B’s. I had Jinxx in the bottom left, Jake in the bottom right, CC in the upper left and Ashley in the upper right. I had Andy in the V part of the logo.
“I thought it could be used as design on a t-shirt.” I said.
“Definitely, Ashley what do you think?” He handed it to Ashley who looked it over.
“Yeah, that would be really cool.” He said.
“Great, so I’ll send the design in and we should have some for testing in a few weeks.” Andy said.
“Cool.” I said, snuggling into Ashley.
“Belle, I was wondering. What was it that Madison showed you last night?” Ashley asked.
My whole face turned red. I could refuse to tell him, but then Andy would wonder what it was and Ashley would only try again later. Sometimes I hated how stubborn he could be. Although, if he hadn’t been stubborn we, wouldn’t be dating right now.
“What is he talking about?” Andy asked.
I sighed, giving in. “Andy, where’s your laptop?”
He went and got it and gave it to me. I opened Google and typed in the words ‘Ashley Purdy Imagines’, then hit enter. A bunch of pictures came up and I gave it to the guys.
“She showed me these.” I curled up in a ball and covered my face. God this was so embarrassing! Thanks to those things I now had dirty thoughts of Ashley seared into my brain.
“Woah. Who makes these things?” Andy asked.
“I have no idea, but whoever they are can go from super sweet to perverted in an instant.” I said.
“And this is what you didn’t want to tell me?” Ashley asked.
I peeked through my fingers to see his signature smirk on his lips. “Yes! I find it disturbing! I have those thoughts burned into my psyche and I really didn’t want them there!”
“I’m hurt.” He put on a sad face.
“Well too bad.” I said. “That was like reading porn! Yuck!”
Andy was laughing his ass off now. Ashley hit him with a pillow.
“So not funny Andy.” He said.
“Yes it is!” He replied.
“Andy?” I heard a woman call.
“Juliet! We’re back here!” Andy called back.
Juliet came into the room and stared at Andy like he had gone mad. “What’s up with him?” She asked me.
“He and Ashley were just reading some Purdy Porn on the internet.” I explained. “I’m Belle by the way.”
“Nice to meet you. Shall we leave the boys alone for a while?” She asked.
“Sounds good to me.” I followed her out of the room and we made our way to a living room at the front of the house. We sat on one of the loveseats and got comfy.
“So you’re the one dating Ashley.” She said. “I’m impressed.”
“Thanks, that’s what all the guys said too when they first met me. Although I think that had more to do with the fact that I hadn’t slept with Ashley yet, and we had known each other for about a month at that point.”
“Was that when you started dating?” She asked.
“Yup, it’ll be five weeks in a couple of days.”
“You keep track?”
“No, just the day we started dating is imprinted in my mind, so figuring out how long it’s been is easy.”
She nodded. “So how is it? Dating Ashley, I mean.”
“Pretty good actually. He can be inappropriate at times, but he really seems to care about me. I also like it, because as time has passed, I’ve gotten to see more of the person under all that confidence and flirting.”
“Sounds like it’s going well.” She commented.
“Yeah. It is.”
“I have to ask. Have the two of you done it yet?”
“No.” I replied.
“Really? That’s unheard of for Ashley. You must be really special if he’s willing to wait for sex.” She said.
“That’s what everyone keeps telling me.”
“So, is there a reason you haven’t yet? Not to be rude or anything, but most girls would jump at the chance.” She said carefully.
“I know, that’s part of why I’m waiting. I also have some trust issues. I had two relationships go bad really fast before and I didn’t have sex with either of them. They were the only relationships I had before Ashley. I want to make sure I can trust him before I go that far with him.” I said.
“Makes sense to me.”
“Thanks Juliet, I think I needed this. My roommate knows about all of this, but she doesn’t really get it.”
“No problem. I think we should go check on the boys. It’s gotten too quiet.”
“Yeah, with them you’d rather hear shouting. Quietness can never be good. They must be up to something.” I said.
“Then let’s go see what it is.”

Ashley’s POV:

“So, how’s everything going with Belle?” Andy asked.
“Good. I’m happy, it seems like she’s happy.” I replied.
“So have you been to a bar or with other women in the last couple of weeks?”
That shocked me; he was this close to accusing me of cheating. “Andy! No man!”
“Just asking, I know you Ashley. I also care about Belle. I don’t want you to hurt her because you can’t make a commitment.” He said.
“No cheating, but I have been to a bar twice.” I admitted.
“Anything happen?”
“Well, the first time a chick kept flirting with me and wouldn’t leave me alone. I finally got away from her and called Belle once I got home. I told her about it, because it felt wrong. I was thinking of Belle the whole time.”
“That’s good, it means you didn’t want to cheat on her. What happened the second time?”
“I was having a drink and a girl practically sat in my lap. It felt good, but I kept wishing that she were Belle. So I eventually picked her up and dropped her on some other guy’s lap.” I said.
Andy smiled at me. “That’s great Ash.”
“How is that great?”
“Like I just said, you don’t want to cheat on Belle. That is a sign that you want to stay in this relationship. Still no sex right?”
“No sex, but she’s getting more comfortable with me. There’s been kissing, cuddling, a little making out. I think she just needs time. So I’ll wait until she’s ready.”
“Ashley Purdy, what has she done to you?” Andy said in a happy but surprised voice.
I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know. This is just how I feel. I can be myself with her. I don’t have to be the confident sexy guy all the time.” I said.
“All of your Purdy Girls will die in horror when they find out.” Andy said.
“Well hopefully that won’t be for a while. I don’t want to rush this.”
We were both silent for a couple of minutes thinking about what I had said. I knew all these things, but it was really only clear to me now that I had said them out loud. I wanted Belle, and I was in it for the long haul.
“Hey guys, what’s up?” Belle asked. I looked up to see her and Juliet in the doorway.
“Yeah, it’s been super silent back here. What are you boys up to?” Juliet asked.
“Oh nothing.” Andy said. “Just talking.”
Thank God they only noticed us being quiet. I would have been so embarrassed if they had heard our conversation. I could tell Andy this stuff, but I wasn’t ready for anyone else to know yet.

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