ROOMMATES

CHAPTER 7

I wake up with my head heavy. I have a splitting headache. Opening my eyes, I take in the unfamiliar surroundings. This is not my room. Where am I? I try getting out of the bed but my legs are entangled in someone’s legs. A hand crosses my chest and I’m pulled towards a body. I turn to look at the person and gasp at who it is.

What the hell! What am I doing with him? In his bed. He looks so peaceful when asleep and I know he is pretending because his lips twitch with a smile. I quickly disentangle myself from him and bolt out of bed.

Shit! I'm in only a t-shirt. Did he r**e me? No please. Not that. I feel the urge to throw up and hurriedly get into his bathroom before I throw up on the entire room. I hold my hair in a ponytail and throw up emptying everything in me.

How come I’m in his room? What really happened? I slap my head hard trying to recall everything.

Ellaine’s party. A lot of tequila shots. The handsome deejay. Matt shoving Liam and carrying me in his arms until I blacked out. What else happened? Why am I in his t-shirt? With nothing else underneath. Did he take advantage of me? I shake my head vigorously trying to shun away all those negative thoughts and my head hurts more.

Shit! Blame the alcohol. I'm never taking that s**t again. Did he r**e me?

I do some squats trying to feel any soreness. There is none. I sit on the toilet bowl and stare down there to confirm whether my hymen is still intact. There are no spots of dried blood so he has not touched me there. There was no case of r**e. What about my upper virginity? He didn’t touch my boobies, right? You can never know with Matt. Being a fuckboy makes me scared of him.

How did he undress me? It’s such a shame. And to top it all I didn’t have innerwears. That’s why we are always advised to be equipped every time. I blush when I imagine him seeing my nakedness.

“Are you alright in there roomie?” he knocks on the door snapping me out of my reverie.

“Yeah, I’m. I'm coming.”

I hear him walk away and sigh heavily. Opening the door, I draw a sharp breathe and walk towards him with my head down. He chuckles and slumps on his bed grinning at me.

“You need to sleep roomie. It’s still early and you look like shit.”

“What’s the time?” I ask reaching for my purse on his study table. I take out my phone and curse when I notice it’s switched off.

“It’s 4.00 am. Come to daddy baby. I guess you liked my cuddling.” He says smirking and I glare at him focusing on my phone.

Shit! There are many voice mail messages from Raph. So my best friend is now very concerned after leaving me alone with some fuckboys.

ARE YOU SAFE MEL. CALL ME. I’M SO WORRIED.

I put the phone back in my purse and look at Matt thinking of how to phrase my question.

“Why am I here Matt.”

“Wow! You have called me Matt for the first time. Because I brought you here.”

Ugh! His way of answering questions sucks.

“What a way to answer questions!” I say rolling my eyes and he chuckles.

“Okay. You were drunk and some asshole was trying to force himself on you. As a concerned roommate, I thought it better to bring you here.” He says winking and I throw daggers at him.

“I think I have a room Matt. If you were concerned as you claim, why didn’t you take me to my room?” I ask with my arms crossed on my chest. He grins making me snort.

“And to make it worse, I wake up in your bed at 4.00 a.m. The worst part is that I’m naked.”

His eyes travel through my body and I groan grabbing a bedsheet to cover myself. This attracts a chuckle from him.

“Don’t stare.” I say throwing daggers at him.

He bites his lower lip running his thumb on his chain seductively. All I do is gawk at him thinking about how handsome he is.

“You are not naked. You have my t-shirt on.”

“I’m naked.” I say pointing at my whole body.

“Apart from the innerwears part, you are dressed.”

“So you saw my nakedness?”

“Nope. There was nothing to see there. I just closed my eyes and helped you into the t-shirt.”

Jeez! Here comes the part that I’m not appealing again.

“I get it. I'm not appealing. So you didn’t try to stare?”

“f**k yes! I did. It was not my fault that you went to the party without some innerwears. I'm a man sweetheart. So I stared. You have a great body by the way. That only. The rest is completely off.”

I hurl a pillow at him making him chuckle. This guy takes everything as a joke.

“Just get into the bed. We should continue cuddling. I guess you miss my cuddling.”

“You are totally insane. I don’t like you so I don’t miss your cuddling.”

“Your statements last night meant something totally different. You told me how handsome I’m. Well, I know that part but hearing it from you makes me know you like me.”

“Ooh please.” I say rolling my eyes.

“You were whispering my name so sweetly Mel. You told me you would want me. You said you wanted a kiss.”

“Spare me Matthew.”

“That you want me to make love to you. You were begging me to do it.”

“You are so irritating.”

“I know but I guess your eyes would beg to differ. Your eyes tell me something else.” He says walking towards me and I notice for the first time his shirtless torso. Geez! How can one be this hot?

I step back trying to avoid him but I get pinned against the wall and he grins goofily.

I try hard to breath but I can’t. How can I even breath with a hot guy so close to me? Just inches from me. He grazes his hand on my neck sensually and I find myself moaning. He grins impishly and repeats the same thing. How can one moan with only a touch? Blame it on virginity. The problem of being a virgin.

“Your moans and eyes beg to differ. Just admit it roomie. You want me. Or rather, your body wants me but you mouth doesn’t.”

Shit! Why am I feeling this way.

I put my hands on his chest and push him away gently.

“I'm not one of your girls Matt. If you think I will sleep with you then you are so mistaken.”

“I don’t want to sleep with you too. I wanted to prove to you that you want me. As I said you are not my type. You are not the type of a girl I would sleep with and dump roomie.”

These words still hurt me.

“f**k you!” I shove him hard and run to my room. I lock the door and slump on my bed looking at the ceiling.

Ooh God. Why am I like this. Just because he said I’m not his type? This is totally confusing. Why do I get hurt everytime he says those words.

“Get a grip of yourself Mel. You should stop behaving like that because of his fake words.” My conscious screams at me.

I have never been hurt by such words but when Matt says them they hurt. I don’t know why. f**k it. I will keep him off my mind. I keep turning on my bed but don’t get any sleep. His words are still in my mind.

The doorbell rings crippling my thoughts. I turn in the bed again and pout. We should disable it. It is so irritating. Why does everything seem irritating all of a sudden? I look at the time and groan. It’s 6 in the morning. Who goes to people’s houses this early? Not my visitor. Definitely Matt’s.

There is a knock on the door. I curse under my breath and put on some sweatpants.

“You have a visitor roomie.” That husky voice.

“Coming.” I say opening the door and walk to the living room.

Raph is there looking so worried. He moves around restlessly and on seeing me he takes me in his arms hugging me tightly.

“Ooh Mel. I thought something bad had happened to you. Your phone wasn’t going through.” He says stroking my hair.

“I'm okay Raph.” I pull myself from him and look at a sulking Matt. Is that jealousy I detect in his eyes?

“I’m glad you are safe bff.”

“Bff my ass. You left me alone in that party. With people I don’t know.”

“Sorry munchkin. I will make it up to you.”

“Wait Raph. I have not finished talking. The worst thing is I was brought home by God knows who and I found myself naked in his bed.” I say pointing at a grinning Matt.

Raph folds his hands into fists and rushes to Matt. He pulls him up and holds him by the collar. Matt is just grinning calmly. Is this guy scared of anything?

“What did you do to him asshole?”

“Relax man. I didn’t do anything. I just brought her home safely. I saved her from Liam. He would have taken advantage of her.” He says still grinning.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Liam watched her take all those shots bro. He didn’t even try to stop her. I watched them the whole time. When I noticed what he was up to, I had to do something. You were nowhere to be seen. Look here maan. I don’t explain myself to people. Let me go.” He says putting his hands up in surrender. Raph lets him go and looks at me with confusion.

“Did he touch you baby?”

“No Raph.”

“Thanks God.” He says sighing heavily.