Gemma and I decided to have a "girl hangout" since we haven't done so in a long while. We wanted to do something different with our hair, so after going to the store, we came back and colored each others hair. I decided to go with Cruella DeVille hair and add black to my left side and Gemma wanted to touch up her reddish brown hair. We sat in the kitchen getting started and soon enough Ashley came in. He noticed the bottles that were filled with black hair dye.
"What's going on here?" He asked, looking at me.
"I'm gonna be a half-head like my other favorite Ashley!" I said. He gave me a funny look.
"Uhh.. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. Ashley Costello? I've seen a photo of you two together at the Golden Gods last year!" He and Gemma exchanged glances and shrugged. He walked over to the fridge open it and grabbing a coke.
"Yeah I know who you're talking about." He said as he opened it, taking a sip. "Well I don't wanna be around that smell. I can barely tolerate it when to on my own head. I'm going out." He walked out of the room and I heard him grab his keys and the door open and shut. Gemma and
I finished our hair and got settled in the living room with the hair dye still processing in our hair.
“So tell me about this whole plan you’re thinking up?” asked Gemma.
“Ok,” I said, “So Ben text me asking to meet up with him later on, we can go after we’ve done here. He’s in town for practice for Mayhem this week, I want him back in my life, he says he’s sorry for Vegas, but I dunno, I wanna see him apologize face to face to see if he’s lying. And he loves you so you’re coming with me,”
“Fine,” she replied, “But I will not be a human shield, and I won’t hesitate to use this.” she said pointing to her bump.
"We'll let's just hope it doesn't get to that point." I said laughing. We finished our hair and styled it and took my new car out to the park where Ben said he would meet us. When we got there, I saw Ben sitting under a tree on a blanket messing with his phone. He glance up at us before he shoved his phone into his pocket. Gemma and I sat directly in front of him. Ben was going to start speaking until I cut him off.
"I wanna know one thing," I said, "why did you lie to me?"
"Cuz I like you," he said, "I've like you for a while, and then the dare happened and then seeing you blindfolded and reacting to my touch just intensified my feelings. I wanted them to go away, and I feel like shit for what happened. I just went the wrong way about everything. I'm sorry."
"Wait.." I said glaring at him, "that was you who did that at the welcome home party?!" I looked at Gemma, knowing that she would've known, "why didn't you tell me anything?"
"Cuz we felt bad for how it made you feel," she said, "I'm sorry, also I didn't think Ben would take it that far, we said just a boob squeeze." She done her really bad attempt at puppy dog eyes.
"Yeah because getting my boob squeezed by a 'stranger' is a lot better." I said sarcastically.
"That was Ben's idea," she said, "and you know how Pervy he can be, you've seen the Bryanstars interviews."
"Yeah but I didn't even know it was him," I said, "that's why I freaked out."
"Look," said Ben, "I know now that I should have given you more of a clue that it was me, but I wasn't thinking, the blood was rushing elsewhere." I sighed.
"You know this isn't helping your case..." I told him.
"I know," he said, "but can you really blame me? Look at you, I think you're gorgeous, and I'm not exactly known for thinking before I act."
"You need to learn how to use your head more often." I paused, "wait...that sounded weird"
"I know how to use my head." He winked causing my thoughts to go straight to Vegas.
"That's not what I meant!" I said, covering my cherry red face.
"Just cuz you want it," he smirked, "and don't deny it." I smacked his leg, hoping he would shut up.
"Ben!" Gemma exclaimed, "shut up and stop flattering yourself, not everyone wants that."
"Admit it, you do too." He winked at Gemma this time. She just rolled her eyes.
"Well it wasn't a no." He smiled, "could always recreate a fantasy you've had, but with different people." Gemma's face dropped as she hit Ben, and not playfully.
"Oohhh kinky." He laughed rubbing where Gemma had just hit him.
"Wait what!?" I said looking at Gemma.
"It's nothing." She said quickly, "don't listen to him."
"Tell me!" I said looking at Ben.
"It involves sandwiches." Laughed Ben.
"You had a Cashley dream, didn't you!?" I said to Gemma.
"Wasn't just Cashley." Ben laughed, Gemma hit him again, this time harder.
"Candley?" I asked.
"Nope!" Ben said.
"Ben!" Gemma warned him, "shut the fuck up or those little blue cocks will be having a little out of body experience." He gulped and crossed his legs. I looked at her wide eyed.
"Now I'm scared to find out..." I said laughing..
"And you ent gunna find out if I have my way," she replied, "I told him in confidence, now he's pissed me off."
"Ohhhhhh," taunted Ben, "I'm quaking in my stylish yet affordable boots."
"Did you just quote Buffy?" Gemma asked.
"What?" He said, "she's fit."
"It's sad that you can quote it." She said.
"Is it a boy or girl?" I asked bringing us back to the subject of her dream.
"Girl!" Shouted Ben, earning yet another beating.
"Ben do you value your balls?" Gemma said, Ben still laughed, "I fucking hate you Benjamin Paul Bruce!" I gasped.
"Was it me?" I asked Gemma, she fidgeted nervously, while Ben nodded like one of them nodding dogs. I grinned. "Of course it is."
"It's the pregnancy," Gemma said, "it's fucking up my dreams."
"Hey you already used your pregnancy as an excuse for kissing me!" I said laughing. Bens jaw dropped.
"I know but it does strange stuff to me," she said, "I've been all over the place since everything kicked in."
"When was this?!" He asked
"Strip club, before Vegas, Ashley and CC took their time coming to stop us, she was wasted and the smell of precome set me off." Gemma explained
"Excuses." I joked, "we all know how irresistible I am.." I laughed.
"More than you realise," said Ben. I rolled my eyes.
"Anyways.. Why didn't you tell me beforehand?" I asked Gemma.
"Cuz I was embarrassed." Said Gemma. "Besides do you remember what happened last time when someone had a dream?" She look at me.
"Hey!" I said offended, "eh.. I guess you're somewhat right." I shrugged, "So when did this dream happen?"
"The night before you went on a stalking spree," she said, "well the latest one anyway."
"What do you mean the latest one?" Asked Ben.
"Before warped she done it very regular." Gemma laughed, "it involved you, Ashley and CC mainly."
"So she was a full on mental fangirl then?" He asked and Gemma responded with a nod, I just glared at the pair of them.
"I promise it wasn't as bad as she's making it seem!" I said.
"Yeah it were." Gemma laughed.
"I will hurt you." I threatened.
"Like that will stop me?" She smiled innocently. I glared again. "Loo break sounds like a good idea right about now." said Gemma, "seriously, never get pregnant you won't be able to be more than 2 minutes away from one."
"Trust me. I don’t plan to anytime soon." I mumbled. She struggled to get up, even with Ben pushing her up, but eventually made her way off to find some restrooms.
"So," Ben started, "you didn't tell Ashley what happened in Vegas, why not?" I shrugged.
"I didn't want him to kill you guys." I said. "Or me." I laughed.
"Good point." He said, "but you could have easily hung Danny and I out to dry with what we did, for which I'm so fucking sorry, you know that right?"
"Well I wouldn't have cheated on Ashley if it weren't for your lie. So I was good with just personally hurting you guys for that. I regret it everything though." I admitted.
"I don’t," he said, "I just wish it'd happened different, without me being such a dick while initiating it all."
"Yeah well it happened." I said, "and obviously it can't happen again. But it'll just be our secret. Even Gemma doesn't know what happened."
"Really?" Said Ben, "I would have thought you'd tell her, but saying that I would prefer to keep my balls." I laughed.
"Yeah. We need to keep your precious balls safe." I said sarcastically.
"You never know when you might need them." He said with a smirk.
"Right." I said rolling my eyes.
"Admit it," he smiled, leaning back onto his elbows, "you can't have just one ride."
"Sorry but this cowgirl is made for only one outlaw" I said winking at him.
"Give it a few more days and you'll be missing all of this." He gestured to his body his voice dripping with arrogance. "We can even try reverse cowgirl next time if you wanted."
"No thanks" I laughed.
"Your loss." He said and laid down further and covered his eyes with his arm. I patted his stomach.
"Don't cry Emo kid." I said. He lifted his arm and glared at me. I smiled innocently.
"Stop trying to be innocent, it dunt suit you." Said Gemma as she came back and sat down, "and you, best not be going sleep over there or I'll find a pen, or make up."
"Oh I have a sharpie!" I said digging through my bag and held it up.
"Random sharpieness." Gemma smiled, "I'm seeing cocks, and a lot of them."
"Woah. I don't wanna know what you do on your spare time." I said laughing.
"Hormones." Gemma said innocently.
"Suuure.." I said as I started to trace Ben's smiley face tattoo on his knee with my finger.
"You're a bit too low." Said Ben, "go about a foot or so higher." I glared at him as I opened the permanent marker.
"Do it and die." He said sitting up. I quickly drew a penis on his knee.
"too late!" I said laughing as I pointed at the small penis that had a smiley face on it.
"That's it!" He exclaimed and pounced on me, trying to grab the pen. He hovered over me and looked into my eyes. I could feel the tension again.
"Oi!" Gemma said ruining the moment, "keep it PG! There's innocent eyes around." I scoffed.
"There are no innocent eyes around here." I said. I look back at Ben and smiled as I marked a dot on his forehead with the marker.
"Bitch." He said and tried to reach for the marker again. I laughed as I tossed the marker to Gemma.
"Benjamin," she said sweetly, "come here."
"Fuck off!" He said.
"Meanie." Gemma said, "I want to play."
"You have CC for that." he said.
"Why are you still on me?” I asked, “Get off, you weirdo!"
"Cuz you're comfy." He said. I wrapped my legs around him and pushed him so we rolled and I landed on top and pinned his arms down above his head.
"Go Gemma go! Draw on him!" I said laughing.
"You look good on top of me." Ben whispered before Gemma managed to move, I glared at him. Once she'd managed to get up, she came over and drew a huge penis on the side of his face, pointing towards his mouth. I laughed as I got off of him and sat on the other side of Gemma and used her as a shield.
"I told you earlier, I'm not a bloody human shield!" She exclaimed as she moved to the side leaving me open to Ben, he smirked.
"I think you'd better run." Gemma told me.
"Too right." Ben agreed. I got up and ran towards a nearby group of trees with him not far behind. Seconds later Ben was on me, pinning me to the tree.
"Now this has potential." Ben said quietly, his eyes filled with lust again. I knew what was going to happen before I felt his lips against mine, I knew I should stop him but I didn't want to. His hands started roaming my body, I pulled away slightly.
"We need to stop this." I said, Ben murmured in agreement as he started kissing my neck causing me to moan.
"Ben!" I slapped his shoulder, "stop." There was no sign of me wanting him to stop on my voice.
"I need you." He said pulling away, "I can't do it anymore." He rested his forehead on mine, the tips of our noses touching.
"I know," I agreed, "but we have to, and we should get back." He nodded and we headed back to where Gemma was sat and saw someone else sat next to her, Ashley. What was he doing here? I looked to Ben, he tensed up as we walked back.
"Hey! How did you find us?" I asked as I sat next to Ashley, trying hide my guilt by keeping a cheery mood. He showed me his phone, someone had tweeted him a picture of Ben on top of me. Fuck.
"We were just joking around." I said pointing to Bens face, "see? He has a penis on his face." I snickered..
"I thought I told you to stay away." He said to Ben.
"He already apologized, everything is fine now." I said.
"Not with me it's not," he said, "he betrayed my trust and your trust, you were vulnerable and yet still did it, I don't want him near you!"
"Nothing happened though," I mumbled, "it could have been worse."
"Like what happened to Gemma worse?" He said, "Isis I love you but open your eyes please, I want to protect you wherever I can and keeping people like Ben and Danny away from you is one way I know how. That way we don't have to worry about the what if's." I sighed as I glanced at Ben before looking back at Ashley.
"Fine." I said, "I'm sorry." I knew I wanted to continue to be Ben’s friend but I also knew Ashley wouldn't be very open to the idea.
"Seriously? You're just going to give in like that?" Ben said looking at me and turned towards Ashley, "look I know what I've done is a shitty thing, but I've tried countless times to apologize to both of you" I stood there silent looking at Ashley.
"She's an adult," said Ashley, "she can do what she wants. Now do something useful and go find someone else to piss off."
"Guys is this really the place for this?" Said Gemma looking around uncomfortably.
"Yeah she is an adult," said Ben, "so treat her like one! You're smothering her! She'd be better off back at home with the way you treat her since she lost her memory! No wonder there's still stuff she doesn't remember!"
"Don't you fucking dare blame this on me!" Shouted Ashley, "Im not the one that made her like this, it killed me to see her not remember anything!"
"Well try harder then!" Shouted Ben, "cuz obviously you're not doing enough for her so she's looking elsewhere!" Ashley went for him. Gemma and I tried to pull Ashley off Ben but nothing was working.
"Enough!" I shouted, they stopped and looked at me in surprise, "if I see one more display of testosterone poisoning, I'll personally put you both in the hospital!" With that they moved apart glaring at each other, both knowing that I was serious enough to do it.
I look to Ashley. "If I choose to continue to being Ben’s friend, then that's my choice, not yours." I looked at Ben, "And to make things clear, I don't see you that way. Only as a friend and nothing more. Never did and never will. Whatever happened, happened, and it's not going to happen again, I will make sure of that."
"Whatever." Ben said, looking disappointed, "I'm done." With that he walked off.
"I don't want you to see him again." Ashley said not looking at me.
"I'll see who I want." I said.
"Not when he's so obviously set on getting his way with you." He was being short with me now. I could tell he was beyond pissed off with this situation.
"I'm a big girl, Ashley." I said, "I can make sure nothing else happens. He knows how I feel about him, I just want a friendship with him." Ashley just shook his head and walked off. I turned to Gemma.
"So how long have you liked Ben?" She asked folding her arms.
"What do you mean?" I asked
"Come on its obvious." She said, "but you need to choose who you want, Ashley or Ben, you can't have both." I stood there dumbstruck, did I like Ben? I looked at her, she had one eyebrow raised.
"Told you." She said, "now let's get you back to Ashley's so you two can talk it out." She headed in the direction of the car with me lost in my thoughts following a little way behind.
"There's nothing to choose." I said once we got inside the car, "yeah I maybe having a small crush on Ben and their little cock fight was flattering, but I love Ashley. I would hate to ruin that."
"You can't like two people at the same time." She said, "if you love Ashley, you wouldn't have any feelings for Ben." I sighed.
"It's complicated." I mumbled, "if anything I'm pretty sure it's only a strong attraction because of what 'almost happened' in Vegas." I said almost with sarcasm knowing that what 'almost happened' actually happened.
"Ok," she said, "but you've gotta figure out what you want, but to be honest I think I agree with Ashley, at least for a little while anyway, get your head sorted first." I nodded as I turned the ignition on and drove her home.

Notes

Gemma was slacking today. Haha but I had to wake her up to tell her the news of Danny leaving Asking Alexandria! Which I am very heartbroken to hear about!! Now what will happen with Brusnop?! D:
Well... If you guys know us, we take any real life news with BVB and AA into account when it comes to writing. So keep an eye out for our false interpretation of why Danny left AA. Haha its gonna be dramalicious and you guys will love it.

Finally my hair is up to date to how my real hair is now! Lol Thats why I never posted my character photo. Gemma has no excuse, she's just a slacker. Lol

Also, I'm so excited to post more chapters! There's a huge plot twist on its way! Well quite a few in this story, but the most recent one is the next chapter! If this chapter gets a good response, maybe we'll upload an extra one before next week!
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hey! I'm not slacking I'm poorly :( and yes she woke me up at 1am!!! But yeah I'll get into the picture thing soon lol, just have to find a nice one I like lol