Alex’s POV

Ever since the day that Harper had gotten us to open up to each other, Ash and I had been getting a lot closer. We found out that we had more things in common than we originally thought. I liked playing the guitar, she like the sound of guitars; I mean come on, we were just fucking perfect for each other. But, no, seriously, there were so many things that we had in common. Like, fuck. Even the secret we shared was pretty similar. I just couldn’t shut up about her, but at the same time I was too afraid to even ask her in she wanted to hang out as friends. How was I ever going to ask her out?

“Dude, please shut up,” Jack groaned and slammed his locker shut, “I’ve heard this story so many times. I don’t care about all the things you like about Ash and about how you too like the same stuff and shit. Just ask her out already!”

“I can’t!” I whined and melodramatically leaned against the other lockers, “Jack, please be my saviour.”

“Just ask her to come to the movie night at my house today. We’ll just do the usual shit we do,” Jack locked his locker.

“Ok,” I stood back up and started making a plan, when I realised I couldn’t talk to her, “but how!”

Jack stayed quiet and I was about to ask him what was wrong, but my question was asked before I could even make a sound. Somebody jumped onto my back, and since I wasn’t expecting it, we both toppled to the floor face first. I was going to get mad at whoever did it, but then I heard the familiar giggling that made my heart flutter. This was the closest we had ever been and I wasn’t sure what to do. Her chest was against my back and I could feel her chest raise in rapid motions while she laughed.

“I’m sorry,” she got off me and I immediately felt cold, “you were just standing there, I had to do it.”

“It’s ok,” I mumbled and stood up myself, brushing myself off.

“Alex was going to ask you something,” Jack blurted out and gave me a hinting look.

“Ok, just give me a minute to prepare,” Ash closed her eyes and took a deep breath as if she was preparing for something difficult, “go ahead.”

“Oh, umm, uh… We have a movie, umm, night at least once a month. Do you want to, umm, come as well. It’s at Jack’s place, we’ll, uh, stay the night there as well as tomorrow’s Saturday,” I stuttered. Why couldn’t I just talk like a normal human being around her? I knew how to act around girls, but somehow Ash managed to get rid of that Alex and replace him with this awkward fuck I was being.

Ash sighed and looked at Jack, “is this another one of your attempts to get me to sleep with you. ‘Cause it’s not happening.”

Well, great. She thought this was about Jack. Didn’t she realise I was literally freaking out right now. Why did she have to be so oblivious! She must have had guys act around her like this all the time!

“Umm, no,” Jack whistled and shot me an apologetic look, “Alex just thought it would be a nice idea to have you come as well. You know, since you’ve actually become friends.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, ask Alex,” he pointed at me and I glared at him until Ash suddenly turned around to look at me.

“Yeah, umm, what he said,” I stumbled over my words, hoping they couldn’t hear because I was talking so quietly.

“Oh, ok then,” Ash smiled at both of us, “wait up for me before you leave.”

“Yeah, ok,” Jack answered when I didn’t dare say anything else.

“See ya,” she skipped away and I could feel Jack look at me.

“You are seriously making a fool of yourself!” He chuckled and handed me a book I had dropped after Ash made me fall over.

“I know,” I mumbled and looked down at my toes, “it really sucks… I’ll see you later…”

Jack stopped me before I could shuffle away somberly, “I didn’t mean it like that.”

“yeah… ok…”

“No, seriously,” he held me back with his arm when I tried to walk away again, “she doesn’t even seem to realise, so cheer up. You’ve seen me mess up countless of times, you’ll be fine.”

“If you say so,” I tried moving again. This time Jack let me go, but he continued walking with me.

“How about we play Never Have I Ever this evening. You’ll get some confidence and we’ll finally get some answers out of Ash, you know, the questions we have been asking ourselves.”

“Which questions?”

“How many people she’s slept with, for example.”

“She won’t tell us that. It shouldn’t even matter. She doesn’t even drink, anyway. It’s a stupid idea,” I stopped in front of the classroom I had to go into.

“Don’t worry, we’ll get her to drink,” Jack winked and rushed off to his class, which was on the opposite side of the building.

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Ash’s POV

We were all seated in Jack’s room, five shot glasses were placed in front of us, and Jack had sneaked a bottle of tequila from the kitchen. I wasn’t sure if I liked where this was going. If I knew this was what movie nights was like, I definitely wouldn’t have come. And the thought occupying my mind about me not having any clothes to sleep in, only made this whole thing worse.

Jack poured the shots and placed one in front of us all, “so, this game is called Never Have I Ever, do you know how to play it?”

I shook my head and looked at the brownish-yellowish liquid in front of me. Was I really going to drink tequila? No way. I could still bail out now.

“One of us ask a question, for example ‘never have I ever danced around in my underwear in front of the mirror’ then anybody who has done that has to drink. If you haven’t done it, you don’t have to drink it, it’s that simple,” Jack put the bottle in the middle of our group.

“Ok, but do I have to drink this?” I scrunched my nose up at the drink.

“Yes, just try some now,” Jack drank his own shot and closed his eyes while he pulled a weird face, “you see, no harm done.”

I hesitated and Rian, Zack, and Alex each took one to encourage me. This was basically peer pressure. But they kept trying to convince me more and more. I couldn’t just not do it. So I took the glass and swallowed it as fast as I could. My whole throat was burning and I coughed, trying to get rid of the feeling.

“It’s not too bad,” I shrugged, getting used to the pain already, “it’s not as bad as bleach.”

They all looked at me with terrified eyes. I sighed and shook my head, “I was just kidding,” they all sighed out in relief, but I wasn’t done yet, “it’s worse than bleach. But I can deal with it.”

“You drank bleach before?” Rian asked after they had all be looking at me for a while longer.

“It was an accident and it wasn’t much. There was no permanent damage. Stop judging me for it,” I rolled my eyes and thought back to the incident. My brothers and I were going to make cool patterns on t-shirt with bleach, but one of them put it in an actual water bottle instead of the ones we were going to use. I couldn’t taste or drink/eat anything for a while after that.

“Well, umm… let’s get started then…”

The questions started off really easy, like ‘never have I ever brushed my teeth in the shower’ and stuff like that. They were basically only to get us buzzed for when the more serious and funny questions came. And I actually wasn’t regretting drinking; I actually liked it. I didn’t know why I had always refused to drink something, it was just something I told myself I wouldn’t do. Who knew four guys could easily change my mind like that?

“Never have I ever slept with 7 people or over!” Jack screamed out and he took a shot along with Alex.

Alex gave me a curious look, “4 people or over?” Once again they took a shot, but this time Rian and Zack did too.

“Slept with anybody ever?” Jack tried and they all took a shot, their eyes going wide when they realised I wasn’t drinking anything, “you have to take a shot if you’ve done it, right?”

“I know,” I nodded and left my shot untouched.

“Ok…” he looked so confused and thought of another question, “never have I ever kissed anybody?”

I still didn’t drink anything. Was this just a make-fun-of-Ash’s-lack-of-experience game? They were only asking questions about my sexual life. What did it matter to them? I lived my life, they lived theirs. We were completely different.

“Ever had a sexual or romantic relationship?” Alex blurted out.

“You’re just going to get yourself drunk like this,” I told them and shook my head. I was probably already as drunk as they were, the alcohol starting to hit me harder than it was affecting them. Having never drunk alcohol before, I was quite a light-weight.

“So you’ve never done anything relationship wise?”

“Nope,” I could seriously feel the effects now, “nobody has ever even approached me, except for Jack. So you’re a first,” I nodded at Jack as if he had achieved something great, and then shifted my attention to the shot in front of me, “now, I’m still going to drink this because I feel like it.”

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Alex’s POV

We moved onto the movie in Jack’s basement afterwards. Luckily his parents didn’t question the way we were acting, especially Ash. She was pretty drunk and changed completely. Before we went downstairs we decided to get into our pajamas, knowing we would fall asleep down there. But Ash, never having been here for longer than a couple of hours, didn’t have anything to change into. Jack gave her one of his Blink-182 shirts, and she got changed into that. Surprisingly she was only wearing that and no pants, something she definitely wouldn’t have done if she were sober. I even tried to get her to wear some boxers or sweatpants, so she wouldn’t feel embarrassed the next day, but she insisted she liked wearing what she was wearing.

“I gotta go to the bathroom,” Ash announced and stumbled towards the stairs.

I watched her, scared that she would fall any moment, “do you need any help getting there?”

“No,” she started up the stairs, but fell down on the third step and couldn’t managed to get up, “maybe…”

“I’ll go,” Rian sighed and jogged to help her up before she could hurt herself anymore.

I waited for them to disappear and close the door behind themselves before I glared at Jack, “this wasn’t a good idea. Look at her!”

“Shh,” Jack put his index finger to his lips and looked through the movies, “she will be fine. At least she opened up to us. You,” he pointed at me ”my friend, have got a crush on a relationship virgin.”

“So, what!” I scoffed, “how is that supposed to help me! It will only make her more hesitant.”

“Well,” Zack interrupted, “it could also mean she has similar feelings, but doesn’t know what to do with them.”

“Yeah, right,” I rolled my eyes and slouched against the armrest of one of the two couches in front of the TV, “she will never ever-”

The door opened again and I could hear Rian guide Ash downstairs. As soon as she stood on the floor, she let go of Rian and ran towards where I was sitting, diving right over the armrest. Her shirt had ridden up to her ribs and I could fully see her flat stomach. She was lying right on top of my sitting body. But it wasn’t her stomach that caught my attention. Her stomach was just on my lap, but her butt was right on display for me. What caught me off guard was the thong she was wearing. It wasn’t one of those lacey ones, it was made out of cotton and had a pattern on the black fabric, but her ass looked fucking amazing. I didn’t know she wore thongs. This was just way too much for me.

I looked up at Jack with pleading eyes; I didn’t know what to do. But all he did was give me a thumbs up. What a great friend he was, helping a friend in need. I didn’t want Ash to show me all this without her actually knowing what she was doing. She wasn’t just some girl I liked for her body.

“Umm,” I pulled her shirt down before it could go any higher and show us more, “are you sure you don’t want to wear any pants?”

“Yep,” she shuffled around so only her legs were in my lap and she was lying down with a pillow supporting her head at the opposite armrest.

Her action caused Zack, Rian, and Jack all to sit on the same couch. I felt pretty bad for them, as that couch was smaller than the one Ash and I were sharing, but Rian gave me a look, telling me it was ok. They probably didn’t want to ruin the ‘moment’ Ash and I were having.

About halfway through the movie, everybody seemed so concentrated and involved with the story, but I didn’t have a clue what was happening. All my focus was on the fact that Ash’s legs were on my lap. I didn’t want to move, afraid that she would moved them away, but she allowed me to get more comfortable and put my legs to my side on the couch as well. Since I was a ‘teenage boy with raging hormones’ I had to try my best to not get a boner. The image of her ass was burned into my mind, and I just hoped I wouldn’t cause her to be disgusted.

I hadn’t realised I was drawing shapes on her bare skin until she suddenly giggled, ”that tickles!”

All the eyes in the room went to me and I quickly raised my hands up in defense. I honestly didn’t realise I was doing it. Ash took her legs off me and sat up straight. I thought she was going to stay seated like that, but she took off her bra from underneath her shirt before leaning against me and cuddling into my side. My heart was thumping in my chest, begging to be released. She wrapped an arm around my waist and basically sat in my lap. Internally I was freaking the fuck out, but on the outside I looked like I knew exactly what I was doing and wrapped my own arm around her shoulder.

Holy fucking shit. This was actually happening.

Notes

Ooooh! They are getting closer together! What do you think will happen next? Maybe some drunken action? Possibly nothing? Alex is building up his hope! When will they finally get together!

I'm going to be honest here and say I accidentally wrote Ireland a couple of times instead of Ash. I was writing for both at the same time and it messed me up completely, so I'm sorry if the name Ireland suddenly appears somewhere. This is so weird! It does help that the Jack is my other story is different from the one in this story, so I don't feel the need to suddenly make Ireland pop into the story. I just get so confused sometimes.