Chapter 5
“Wait no you can’t take me home, Bianca is gonna KILL me if I come home drunk. She hates when I go out drinking without her.”
“I think she’ll understand this once.” Stephen said to you with a very loving tone.
“No she’s gonna be so mad, can I just crash at your place?” Stephens face looked shocked.
“Yeah okay you can spend the night.” He said as he pulled out of the parking lot and started his drive home. You smiled at him and slowly closed your eyes as you started to fall asleep.
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You woke up to Stephen unbuckling your seatbelt, about to lift you up out of the car before he saw your eyes had fluttered open.
“Well good morning, did you have a nice nap?” you smiled at him as you started to close your eyes again, you felt so tired and wanted to fall asleep right there. “Okay let’s get you upstairs before you spend the night in my car.”
Stephen held on to you all the way up to his apartment, you tried to convince him you could make it on your own but he didn’t want to risk you falling or wandering off. You thought it was sweet of him to care about you so much.
When you walked into his apartment your eyes widened at the sight, jaw dropping to the floor as you pulled away from Stephen and walked further in. “This… this is your apartment?”
Stephen laughed at you as he put his keys on the table. “Yeah I know, it’s quite a view isn’t it.” He said, chuckling as you walked straight toward the huge window where the back wall should have been.
You walked around, completely in awe of how spacious and beautiful this place was. In your wandering you found what you assumed was his little mini bar. You were intrigued by the crystal bottles holding who knows what in them. You didn’t even hesitate as you poured yourself a drink, feeling so fancy in the process. You turned around and saw stephen looking down at his phone, staring at him as you slowly sipped your drink. When he looked up at you his face quickly changed from happy to panic as he rushed over to you.
“Oh no no no, we are definitely done with that. How about some water hmm?” he tried to grab the drink from your hand but you turned around, trying to play a game of keep away. The only flaw in your plan was that Stephen was much taller than you, so with a hand looming over your head you felt the glass slip from your hands as your heard Stephen give a relieving sigh.
You looked at him with a pout. “You’re no fun.” but he didn’t seem bothered by your insult. Instead he walked back over to you, placing his hand on your shoulders.
“I think it’s time for you to go to bed.” He put one hand on your back and outstretched the other, motioning you to move, but you didn’t budge. Instead you grabbed his outstretched hand, placing it with his other hand behind your back.
“But does the night really have to end now.” you said with a very suggestive tone. Before Stephen could even respond you pulled down on his tie, bringing him down to your level and kissing him very passionately, pulling him closer to you with every second. It was only a few second before Stephen was able to break free.
“Yes, I’m afraid so, you need to get some rest.” and with that you were on your way to bed.
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You woke up unsure where you were and with a pounding headache. You looked around the room, trying to remember what could have landed you here but it was no use. You looked over to your left to see a nightstand with a glass of water and some advil, without hesitation you reached for it, tossing back the pills and downing the whole glass.
It wasn’t until you decided to get out of the strange bed that you even noticed you were no longer wearing your dress from the night before. Instead you were in a very oversized band t-shirt that was basically a dress on you, falling all the way down to your knees. You assumed it must have been Stephen’s and then it hit you. You were at Stephen’s apartment. You quickly looked back over to the bed but you didn’t see anyone else in it. You decide to leave the room, your bare feet cold against the dark tile floor.
You made your way into the kitchen where you saw Stephen sitting down at the table reading a newspaper. He was wearing blue jeans, a grey t-shirt, and a dark blue cardigan, and damn did he look good in it. The pitter patter of your bare feet on the tile caught Stephen’s attention as he looked up from his paper and at you.
“Ah good morning (Y/N), did we sleep well.” You looked at him sheepishly as you stood in the doorway.
“Um, I didn’t… I mean we didn’t…” you pointed back towards the room.
“Oh no don’t worry, I slept on the couch.” he said as he pointed over to the makeshift bed.
“Oh okay good, and so I’m guessing… I put myself into these clothes?” He nodded and you laughed as you looked over at him and then back down at your feet.
“Well since you’re up, would you like some coffee?” you nodded your head as you walked over to sit at the table beside him, shivering a little at how cold he kept his apartment.
“Oh here you look cold.” Stephen said as he walked over to the couch, grabbing a blanket for you.
You smiled as he wrapped it around your body, the smell of him filling the air around you as you nuzzled into the fuzzy blanket. Stephen walked over to the fridge, standing looking in it before looking back at you.
“Well it appears that there isn’t much to eat here, and I’m not much of a chef, shall we go get breakfast?” Stephen looked down at his watch, “Or at this point lunch?” You looked at him a little confused.
“Shouldn’t you be going to work? I know it’s the weekend but don’t doctors still work weekends?”
“Yeah actually I called in today, I didn’t have any surgeries scheduled and I wasn’t about to leave you here alone.” He smiled at you and the look he was giving you made your heart melt.
“Okay, well if we’re getting breakfast would it be possible to swing by my apartment to get me some more presentable clothing,” you motioned to the shirt you were swimming in, “I love ABBA and all, but I don’t think this is really a going out look.” Stephen laughed at you before responding.
“Yeah of course, but I do think this look is pretty great,” he said with a wink.
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Stephen drove you back to your apartment to get changed. As you slowly unlocked the door you prayed Bianca was scheduled today. As you opened the door you heard Bianca clear her throat.
“Well well well, look who finally comes home.” She said teasing you.
“I’m so sorry B I didn’t mean to worry you, I got really drunk and I ended up crashing with Stephen.” You said slightly embarrassed as you walked over to get changed.
“Oh honey don’t worry about it, he texted me after your third drink of the night and then again when you got back to his apartment.” You looked up from your dresser and back at Bianca in shock.
“Oh, okay cool, I was really worried you were gonna kill me.”
“Oh I am,” she said with a slightly serious tone, “buuuut I’ll let it slide if you tell me all the details about the night, did you guys, like, ya know…”
“Oh my god no!” You yelled at her as you slipped on some clean clothes from behind the curtain ‘door’ that separates your room. “And I can’t tell you about the night right now, Stephen and I are kinda getting lunch right now, he’s out by the car waiting for me.” You said emerging from behind the makeshift door.
“Actually-“ you heard a voice from the doorway.
“Oh my-“ both you and Bianca were surprised to see Stephen leaning in your doorway laughing at the comment Bianca had made about how the two of you might have spent your night together, “Stephen, I told you to wait in the car.” You said in a very low agitated voice, not actually mad at him though because how could you ever be.
“Well I was going to but I knew I would get bored, plus I wanted to come say hi to Bianca, so… Hello.” He said as he held his hand up and wiggled his fingers in a strange wave.
Bianca laughed at him, “Hey Stephen, thanks for keeping me updated.”
You shook your head as you walked towards him, “You are the worst at following directions.” You said with a laugh.
Stephen leaned down to give you a quick peck, “Oh come on, this little encounter was fun.” He said, kissing you again.
“Ugh gross, get a room you two.” Bianca yelled at you as she threw the paper that was on the table, hitting Stephen in the arm.
Bianca busted out laughing as you grabbed Stephen and stuck your tongue out at your terrible roommate, “Come on Strange, were obviously not welcome here.” And with that the two of you were off.