I didn’t wake up until the morning. I was still half asleep, so, I rolled over to wipe the sleep out of my eyes, and when I did I bumped into something hard. It took me a moment to remember that Ben was sleeping there last night. I didn’t think that he would stay the whole night. I assumed that he was going to leave before curfew, to let Andrew into his dorm.
I didn’t have enough time to think about where Andrew went last night because just then Ben asked, “Are you awake?”
“Yeah, kind of.” I answered as I rolled over and yawned loudly. He chuckled softly into my hair and wrapped his arms around me tightly. It was quite warm there, and I didn’t really want to move, but I had to get up soon to get ready for the day. I knew it was a weekend, but I would have to wake up and do something eventually.
He breathed deeply, and nuzzled my hair. It tickled when his nose grazed my neck so I laughed. He was adorable when he did that, and I continued to smile. I knew that it was useless to attempt to stop smiling when I was is happy.
He was about to say something when I asked, “Where did Andrew sleep?”
He shrugged and answered, “I don’t know. He probably crashed with one of the other guys.” I nodded because I had figured that he would either go sleep with someone else or ask around until he found Ben and got his key back. I reached into my pocket and pulled it out. I didn’t want to carry it around so I threw it onto my bureau and decided that I would put it into my drawer later. There wasn’t many places that I could put it besides my bureau or my pocket. I guess I could put into my purse, but I have so much stuff in there that I would never be able to find it again.
I looked over at Ben and decided that I would go back to sleep since the sun was just starting to come up. Why not sleep in? I took his hand, curled up against him, and pulled his hand around my neck. He kept it there, and didn’t move. I could feel his breath on my head as I went back to sleep. It took me a while this time, but eventually I could feel sleep pulling me under.
I awoke again, but this time I knew that Ben was still behind me because I could hear him snoring lightly. I turned around at some point, because I remember that I was facing him when I fell asleep.
I lifted my head up slightly, and took it all in. He had his arms wrapped around me in a way that was protective and restricted me from moving more that my head without alerting him. I had a feeling that if he felt me move he would just tighten his grip. I had no reason to move anyway, I was very comfortable in his arms. I just laid there for few minutes, not daring to move. It was starting to get warm, but it wasn’t too hot yet.
I didn’t know how long he was going to stay asleep, but I hoped that it wasn’t going to be for too much longer. That was when I had an idea. My idea was to wake him up, and pretend to be asleep. I wanted to see what he would do if he thought that I was asleep. I rolled over, and felt his arms constrict tighter around me. I couldn’t do anything against his stranglehold. When he contracted his arms again, and they stayed that way, I had no choice but to stay where I was. I waited a few minutes, and stayed snuggled against him, but he didn’t move anymore. I tried to push against him a little, but he didn’t budge. I was stuck, and I wasn’t strong enough to get myself out. I never thought that I would use that phrase in the way this way, but I just did. Most people would only have used it if they were stuck and it was a bad thing, which this was most definitely not.
I waited a few more minutes, and tried to squirm out again, but it was futile. I felt like there was no way for me to escape the enclosure of his arms.
Just then, I heard the creak of floor boards, and looked over my shoulder to see Audrey walking out of her room. She was still rubbing the sleep from her eyes when she rounded the corner. I whispered, “A little help here?” She heard me and looked over. I could tell by the look on her face that I was forgiven for yesterday morning’s incident. She looked at me and laughed while shaking her head. I thought that she was still going to be mad at me when she woke up, and she probably was. I bet that seeing me like that, asking her for help, and stuck in my own bed in a stranglehold made her forgive me.
I pulled my hands out from between me and Ben and reached up for her. She grasped my hands tightly in hers and heaved, but it was no use. Even with our combined efforts I was still stuck. I had an idea, I didn’t really think that it would work, but it was worth a try. Some parts of my body were actually starting to fall asleep! I said my plan loudly hoping to wake up Ben, I asked, “Why don’t you go wake up Tracy, I feel bad about having to wake her up for this, but I think we are going to need a few more people, or at least one. I already tried waking up Ben, but it didn’t work.” I could see that she shared the same doubts as I did. I was thinking that he must be superhuman to keep me locked to him so tightly, when I thought,
He is abnormal, He’s a werewolf, and that means that he has superhuman strength.
It would explain why I was still lying here.
I looked up and saw that Tracy was walking over to me with Audrey in front of her. She looked at me questioningly and asked, “You two didn’t do anything yesterday, did you?”
I shook my head no and said, “Of course not.” I couldn’t believe that she would assume that just because he was sleeping in my bed. Actually, I can believe that, I would be asking her the same question if I saw her and Andrew sleeping together.
She nodded after a minute, and once she did, she asked the most obvious question, “So, why are you still lying there?”
I looked over at Audrey and asked, “You didn’t tell her?” She shook her head, and I continued on while looking at Tracy, “I’m stuck here, I couldn’t get out even with Audrey’s help, and my arm is starting to fall asleep, and my legs and back ache because I haven’t gotten to really move since we fell asleep at around six last night.”
She looked at me and asked, “So you want me and Audrey to pull you out?” I chuckled at this, and so did Audrey.
I answered her, “It’s not as easy as you make it sound. I’m not even sure if you two can get me out.”
Audrey said, “Alright,” She took one of my hands and motioned for Tracy to take the other one, and continued, “ Pull on the count of three as hard as you can.” Tracy nodded, and they both jerked back violently. Audrey lost her grip on my hand and collapsed to the floor. Tracy didn’t fall, but she did lose her footing. She would have fallen if I wasn’t keeping her up.
I looked behind me at Ben hopefully, but he didn’t budge. You would think that since he was holding me so tightly that it would hurt, but it didn’t.
My only option was to attempt to wake him up again. I wasn’t really sure how else to wake him up because all that we have been doing this morning should have awoken him. I remembered how I threw the water on Tracy, and decided that that was probably the only way to wake him up, unless I wanted to go get Monty and Andrew to help, but that would be embarrassing. I asked Audrey, “Can you go get me a cup of ice cold water.” Tracy and I smiled at the memory as Audrey was walking away.
When Audrey attained the water and walked over to me with her hand out, I reached for the water. Tracy beat me to it, and held it up over my head threateningly. I knew that she was going to get her revenge for it. I was definitely going to get soaked with that freezing water.
I covered my face as she poured it over me and Ben’s head. It hit me with a sharp coldness that felt like it reached me to the bone. Now I know why Tracy screamed when I dumped it on her the other morning.
The only good thing that came with the icy water was that Ben woke up instantly and shielded his head with his hands and my pillow. It was drizzling now because she knew that it was almost gone and wanted to make the torture last as long as possible.
Ben didn’t scream or yell or anything when the water was gone, he just looked at me with innocent puppy-dog eyes. He had no clue that I was trapped by him for the whole morning because it was a subconscious action.
