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Chapter 8 Friends with issues

  • "Damn, someone looks like they had quite an orgasm."
  • Jacqueline greeted me as I entered our apartment with a huge grin on my face. Benjamin was busy plating cupcakes from the oven while wearing Gemma's very pink apron with a huge 'Spank the Chef' writing on it.
  • "I'm still wet, still horny, and still a freaking virgin!"
  • "You should let me pop your cherry." Benji was to my back and kissed my shoulder while he offered me the chocolate chip cupcake.
  • "I'm saving myself for my honey bun bun." I grinned and thank him for the cupcake, then let out a delicious moan as my teeth sink into the moist chocolaty heaven.
  • "Gemma has been telling us about that, I think you should write a memoir for all of your stalker friends out there. I can already see the outline, how to bed your object of desire." Jacqueline was quick to comment while scrolling on her phone.
  • Ben laughed, taking off the apron and placed the fresh batch of cupcakes. Then he was back to busying himself by making the white Russian coffee.
  • "Where is Gemma? and what is happening to Benji? he's making our high tea thing full-on Russian, I can clearly taste the amount of Rum he puts in those cupcakes."
  • We would gather once a week for afternoon tea, it changes from time to time, but we usually buy cakes, order coffee, and watch Netflix while we talk about what's been happening in our shitty daily twenties something life.
  • "Gemma is coming, she's still on her phone, has been for the past ten minutes. I don't know, I think it's her boss again."
  • "And Ben?" I whispered as I reach Jacqueline's side.
  • "He's trying to convince an older man to be with him, but this time I think it's getting too real for Ben and I think he has what it takes to open up a bakery by now."
  • She took another cupcake and sighed in delight when the chocolate melts into her mouth.
  • "I mean, if I don't have regular sex to burn calories I will surely be high on sugar and size up my entire wardrobe."
  • "You're sexy as hell Jacques, you need to let me vent and I do think Jasper is the one." The sexy man said dreamily as he finishes the coffee and topped them off with the creamy goodness.
  • I took the glass and sipped the coffee slowly, Ben has always been good at everything he would even gloat that he's good at making people orgasm and Jacqueline would confirm his statement with a firm nod.
  • The sexy sugar baby takes it further with his stress cooking, and it ended the same way with the coffees which were in a very fine brew.
  • "I suggest that we all chipped in and rent a house with four bedrooms so I can have Ben's coffee and his cooking, daily."
  • "Unless Jasper snatched him first," Jacqueline giggled to my side, took another bite into the cupcake, and sighed exaggeratedly.
  • "Okay people, let me through. I need this coffee with extra shots of vodka, Ben please?" Gemma demanded while looking tired already.
  • "Sit, I'll take care of you." He kissed the top of her head and she hugged him tighter.
  • That late afternoon we laughed and finish off a tray of cupcakes and exhausted the coffee machine as Benji was busy refilling our glass.
  • "We are so going to stay up late tonight!!" Ben cheered, but then Jacqueline reminded him that they both had appointments set up that night.
  • "Ugh, I really don't want to go, I really want to crawl in bed with Jasper and suck him off until he realized that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me."
  • "Woah there lover boy, you do know that he's straight and just flashes his very mature girlfriend at the last office gathering right?" Jacqueline reminded him after he started pouring straight vodka into his glass.
  • "Benji, I don't like seeing you get hurt. I think you should slow down and..." I tried to get him back to reality, I know that Jacqueline and Benjamin work at an escort agency. And I never judge them, it's their choice and I'm being respectful.
  • "I should fuck more clients, got it." He cut my words, ironically.
  • "Ben..." I hugged him, then Jacqueline and Gemma join our group hug.
  • Two hours later I was dipping in my well-deserved bubble bath when my phone buzzed with an alert from Brice Durant's fan page.
  • It was an announcement about his upcoming book tour and it only took seconds before his insta post was flooded with comments from the announcement.
  • In two weeks time, he will be on tour across the states for two months. I was pinged by the page admin asking about my silence.
  • Hey, you've been quiet. Are you okay? - GirlyFan
  • I'm good, I've been busy - ArtLover
  • Damn, girl. You're always the first to comment on his feed, are you fawning on a new author? are you ditching Brice the great? - GirlyFan
  • Lol! am not, I'm commenting RN! - ArtLover
  • It took me two seconds to comment on his insta feed wishing him the best on his upcoming book tour.
  • There! I've done my duty :)) - ArtLover
  • I chat with my fellow stalker for another ten minutes about our Brice before she logged out, but not before asking me to go and see him for another book signing event with her.
  • Ann is a sweet woman who loves a good book and has few authors on her list, she's a real book junkie while I was dead on Brice Durant's fanatics and she knows clearly about my infatuation with Brice.
  • At the previous book signing event, Brice would never notice me because the line was always long and I would only get seconds in front of him. But after knowing him, I was not certain about going to his event.
  • I haven't even emailed him because I was too scared that he might notice me. He had said twice that he felt like he knows me from somewhere. I felt like he might read into my writing and asses my style and choice of words.
  • Being a stalker means that I also know his way of thinking, his polite ways of replying to our emails. Though I wasn't one hundred percent sure that he was the one who replies to all of his emails but I can never be too careful.
  • "Hey, are you okay?" Gemma knocked on my door, seeing my light was still on at two in the morning.
  • "I can ask the same thing about you, come here," I told her to sit on my bed while I put my phone back on my nightstand.
  • "... I want you to vent. You're not telling us the whole thing, not with Ben having his meltdown."
  • Gemma rests back and puts her head on my pillow.
  • "It's Larry, my player-boss, he's being a jerk. He thinks he likes me, he says he likes me, but I kept on getting the wrong vibe every time I see him with a woman by his side."
  • "Men..."
  • "Hey, but you're doing good. Brice really likes you." Gemma tried to cheer me up.
  • "Hmmm...it'll be just about time until he finds the truth about Ella, the stalker, then he's going to sue me. Though my stalker's brain kept on telling me that at least I got to have him for that couple of days."
  • Gemma looked at me and asked me more in-depth questions.
  • "He is going in too strong, isn't he? another date tomorrow? and are you seriously going to give up your virginity to him?"
  • "Yes, yes, and yes..." I smiled and looked at my ceiling...
  • "He's still better than the next guy, I'm not sure another guy that I decided to have sex with will be my ever after anyways. It's great that we've been holding to our V for this long, but I'm at a stage where I've been on too many dates to even think about saving my V for the perfect one."
  • "Yeah, they are a rare gem aren't they?"
  • "Mm-hmm...maybe we're thinking about men the wrong way...look, Gemma, I'm not saying you should have a go with Larry. But, maybe you should give him a taste of what would be expected if he decided to move forward with you."
  • "Maybe, I don't know Els, this grown-up thing is too hard. I'm good at my work, why can't he just like me for my work?"
  • "He's gorgeous and filthy rich, other women will get in line for his attention."
  • "I'm not other women,"
  • "I know, and I love you because of it."
  • We stay up for a couple of minutes until she leaves me to go to bed saying she decided that she's going to work tomorrow and face his handsome face and have it a try.
  • "I love you, Gemma."
  • "I love you more Els, goodnight."