It would be nice...

"Kinda." You say, shrugging. "Mostly I just want to know...what did you mean by 'It's about time'?" The blush that was on Melody's face returns and she averts her eyes for a bit. You can't help but find it sexy.

"Well...you see...it's like this..." She beats around the bush for a few moments before finally taking a deep breath and turning back to look at you. "Hell...no point in hiding it now. Jack, I'm attracted to you. I have been for a while, although I didn't want to admit it. It's kind of hard to avoid a fact like that when we lived together, though, so it became very apparent to me when we went to college."

"I know what you mean." You say. She smiles shyly at this.

"I had a feeling that you felt the same about me. The way you would stare at me when I lounged around in my bra and panties and you thought I wasn't looking. Of course, I just chalked it up to hormones on both our parts. By the time I realized that my attraction to you was...well...more intense and emotional than just hormones, you were already dating Gia."

"Emotional?" You ask. Melody shoots you a glare.

"Are you going to make me spell it out for you, Jack?" She asks. "Fine. I had a crush on you. Not because you were a good looking guy who hung around in his boxers, but because you were YOU: my best friend." She looks away again and begins to play with her hair rougher. "Anyway, I wanted to get my mind off my crush on you, so I thought if I got a boyfriend, and regular sex, maybe it would go away."

"Keith?"

"Bingo. And it helped a little, but not enough. I still thought about you way too much. So after I got back her tonight from that disastrous break-up, and you put on that porno, I realized that we were both single and my mind ran with it. I mean, I tried to keep up the joking we were doing, but my brain just would not let go of the thought of you and me...well, doing what we were just doing. Finally, I just couldn't take it anymore. I wanted you badly, but Keith's betrayal and dumping were still weighing on me and I decided to swallow my horniness and go to bed."

She bit her lower lip and swallowed before continuing. "But even in bed, all I could think about was you and all the things I wanted to do to you." She said and this time, your face heats up and goes slightly red. Melody notices it. "Like I said, I was really fucking horny. And it hit me that I was treating this break-up like a wake. Like I was honoring our relationship or something. And I was punishing myself for it. So, not quite in my right mind and turned on like mad, I stripped down to my birthday suit, put on the porn, and called you over. I didn't have the nerve to ask you to fuck me, especially since you might have thought I was trying to rebound, so I thought I would just try and get you to initiate it. Like I said, I knew you thought I was attractive, so I figured I would try and bring you to the point that you could no longer stand it."

"Which is why you reacted like you were expecting me to proposition you." You realize.

"Yeah. I was beginning to worry that you weren't going to." She smiles sheepishly. "Soooo...you're not mad, are you? I wasn't playing you to be mean or anything..."

"I feel a little used." You admit and the smile drops off her face. "But that's all right!" You amend quickly. "Because I did want this. I do want you. And truth be told, I was too much of a coward to do anything about it without you pushing me anyway."

"So you meant everything you said? About wanting to feel me? About wanting to taste me?" She grins and looks at you with suggestive eyes. Now you look away.

"Jeez...did I really say that?" You ask, embarrassed.

"You sure did, stud." Melody giggles. "And it made me want you even more. Because I too want to feel you." Her hands travel up your arms, across your shoulders and down your back. "And I want to taste you." She lifts her head up and closes her eyes while puckering her lips. You meet her halfway and kiss her again. The kiss only lasts a few seconds because she is too tired to hold herself up. She collapses back onto the couch.

"So...where does this leave us?" You ask, slightly worried about the future. "I mean...this complicates our relationship."

"It doesn't have to." She says. "Are you still my best friend in the whole wide world, Jack?"

"Yeah." You smile. "And how about me?"

"Still my bestest friend." She laughs. "So no worries there. Do you want to do this again?"

"Hell yes!" You reply enthusiastically, a grin plastered on your face. Melody laughs again. "Do you?"

"You better believe it, big guy." She smiles at you sweetly. "See, there. We're still best friends, but now we're best friends with special benefits."

"I like the sound of that." You say. Something is still tugging at your heart strings.

"What's wrong?" She asks, noticing it on your face.