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Chapter 1
The first thing she noticed as they were coming in for a landing, was the waves of heat pouring off the tarmac at 7:30am. Looking beside her, the other two had their eyes closed with a deathgrip on the arms of the seats. The second thing she noticed was that Jacob, a friend from work who was sitting on the other side of the aisle, was animatedly talking to an older woman of about 40. Gesturing with his hands, he was smiling at her and touching her hands. If he was flirting with the older woman, he was definitely doing a good job because she was leaning towards him and rubbing his leg. He must have noticed because he leaned even closer, almost like they were sharing a secret between them.
Nat had a feeling she wouldn't be seeing him a lot on this trip so she shifted her focus back to the other two.
"Guys, you can let go now, we’ve touched down, we just have to taxi to the gate and then we'll be sitting still. We still have to wait for everyone else to get off and then we'll go grab our bags, then we will find out where we can get our rental car," Natalia chuckled, when both took a deep breath slowly releasing the grip on their seat arms.
"I've flown with you before Lia, it's Benny over here that hasn't flown before," Shae answers, scoffing.
"I've flown before, it's just when I was younger and I don't remember it," Benny snaps, making the girls laugh and nudge him, making him chuckle.
“Well, was it that bad?” Natalia asked, folding her arms over her ample chest.
“No, it wasn't that bad, I didn't like the takeoff or the landing. There wasn’t a lot of turbulence, and I took a lot of dramamine. I did have a glass of wine after we reached cruising altitude. So I'm feeling pretty good right now,” Ben says, stowing his earphones and book away in his carry on.
“Ugh, I just wish they would hurry up and unload the first class people already, I’ve gotta piss,” Natalia sighs, twitching in her seat with the need to run off the plane and push her way through the first class people.
“Nat, isn't that one of the guys from that ghost show you like to watch, the one with all the hot guys on it?” Shae asks, nudging Nat with her elbow, trying to play it cool while pointing out the guy in question.
“Oh my god is that Aaron Goodwin? Holy shit, we must be on the same plane with the crew,” Nat whispers excitedly looking around for the other members.
"Oh my god it is," Jacob says, leaning over his seat companion to see down the aisle.
“What’s he doing back here in economy?” Nat whispers, seeing him standing in the aisle to get off in front of them.
“They must have gotten last minute seats. If there is anything I've learned from watching the show, it's that Aaron usually gets the short end of the stick. The others must be in first class, go figure, Zak’s kind of a diva,” Nat whispers, putting her stuff in her bag the closer the line gets to them.
The three nearly screamed when a voice from behind them voiced their opinion on the matter.
“He is, I’ve seen the show,” Nick Groff says, from behind their seats.
Natalia covers her face, taking a few breaths before turning around and glaring at him.
“You scared the hell out of me,” she whispers, yelling at him, making him chuckle.
“I couldn't have been Zak, because you're correct he normally sits in first class, love him to death but, he’s a diva,” Nick chuckles seeing Nat’s mouth drop open.
“I could introduce you to them or at least a couple of them once we get off the plane?” Nick offers, looking back and forth from Ben and Shae then back to Nat when she doesn't say anything.
“Is she okay?” he asks, looking at Shae.
“Yeah she’s fine, she just really likes your show. She even writes fanfiction about you guys, you should check it out sometime. We have not been properly introduced, I'm Ben and this is Shae, and the speechless one over there is Natalia,” Ben concludes, pointing from him to the girls.
“I'm Nick Groff, I'm on the TV show Ghost Adventures, I'm married with two daughters so you have nothing to worry about,” Nick says, shaking Ben’s hand.
“Good to know. She would love to meet everyone, But it may be a good idea to wait until we hit the bathroom after we get off the plane. I could give you our numbers if we were to get separated?” Ben offers holding out his cell phone.
“Yeah that would be great. May I ask what you three charming people are doing in the city that never sleeps? What’s her username and which site is it on?” Nick says, taking Ben’s phone and entering his phone number.
As Ben gives Nick the other two’s numbers and Nat’s screen name Nat comes out of her shocked stupor.
“You would introduce me to them? I must look like shit, we had to be up early to get to the airport in time,” Nat squeaks, combing out her hair as best she could with no mirror.
“Nat, I gave him our numbers so that if we get split up we can message each other. I know we need to hit the bathroom when we’re finally able to disembark,” Ben says, trying to calm her down.
“You told Nick Groff that I needed to take a piss? Ugh my life’s over,” Nat says, dramatically hiding her face and hissing when someone tries to pull her shirt away from her face.
"I also told him that you write fanfictions about them and I gave him your username," Ben laughs maniacally when she uncovers her face and lunges at him.
"Ben, you two know what those stories have in them, why would you do that?" she asks, sitting back in her seat and covering her face.
“Oh geez, and I thought Zak and Aaron were overly dramatic, don't be such a drama queen shorty,” Nick says, trying to remove her shirt from her face.
“Ugh you take that back, I'm way cuter and way less dramatic than king gel fin,” Nat says indignantly.
“King gel fin? Oh that’s great, I'm changing his name in my phone,” Nick says, pulling out his phone again to change Zak’s contact name.
“You may as well change the ringtone too,” Shae and Ben both say, chuckling when Nat’s face goes white.
“What should his ringtone be then?” Nick asks, jumping onto his app store.
“Baby Shark?” Shae asks, shrugging her shoulders standing and dragging her bag up onto the seat.
“With as much pussy as he probably gets, you may as well sing Pussy shark instead,” Nat says, giving up on trying to hide the fact that she resents the fact that he always goes after skinny tall blondes.
“Is that jealousy I hear from you young lady?” Nick scoffs, searching for the ringtone.
“Maybe, but ya know his track record kind of speaks for itself,” Nat says, grabbing her bag out from under her seat, placing it in her lap and looking out the window.
Nick watched her stare out the window, thinking about pulling Aaron into a devious scheme.
“Looks like it’s our turn, see you out there. Everyone turn your phones off Airplane mode,” Ben says, opening the overhead bin.
Seeing everything scooted back away from the opening, Ben tried to put his foot on the seat to be able to reach the suitcases.
“Need some help there?” Nick asks, scooting out of his seat and standing up behind Ben's much smaller figure.
Nat and Shae watch as Ben's eyes flutter closed, biting his lip before shifting backwards into Nick’s front.
“What ya doin there pal?” Nick asks, leaning over to whisper in Ben’s ear.
“I uh, got dizzy,” Ben says, ducking his head and grabbing his carry-on.
“Looks like we are the only ones left,” Nick says, standing on his tiptoes to reach further into the bin.
His shirt riding up exposing his abs to all three people, Nat started coughing, Shae started waving her hand near her face, Ben leaned closer to give him a sniff.
“Did you just smell me?” Nick asks, looking down at Ben who still had his face close to his chest.
“Okay yeah, you caught me. You smell amazing and I'm touch starved, so you started it,” Ben says, defensively before turning and walking down the aisle, his bag banging back and forth as he angrily strutted down the aisle.
Shae grabbed hers from his slack hand, and leaned in for a sniff.
“He’s right, you smell delicious,” Shae says, walking away leaving Nick and Nat on one side of the aisle and Jacob and his companion on the other side.
Although Nat wasn’t sure if Jacob even realized what was going on as he had his tongue down the woman's throat.
“Jacob, the plane has landed and now it's time to get off,” she said, hearing Nick chuckle.
“I will be shortly, and then I’ll get off the plane.” he says, tearing his mouth away from the hungry Milf in his lap.
“I walked into that one didn’t I,” she says, covering her flaming cheeks and looking over at Nick for confirmation.
“Yeah, you did. By the way, what’s up with them sniffing me?” Nick asks, pulling his bag out of the overhead compartment and then Natalia's.
“In their defense they have both just come out of some pretty bad relationships, and like Ben said they are touch starved. I am too but, I’ll at least take ya to dinner before jumping ya,” she says, checking her seat and the area just in case she left anything.
She didn't see his cheeks flush and the subtle shift he made in his tight pants.
Jacob and his lady friend grabbed their bags and rushed down the aisle towards the exit leaving just Nick and Natalia in the back of the plane. Grabbing her bag closer to her chest Nat shuffled out of the small aisle, brushing against the front of Nick’s pants.
“Oh my gosh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. Me and my fat ass, swear the thing has a mind of its own,” she says, swearing and turning down the aisle towards the exit.
After exiting the plane bags in hand, while strolling up the ramp towards the exit and checking her messages and emails. Seeing one from an unknown number Nat opens it to see that a picture is attached to the message. Clicking on it, she waits for it to open, chuckling when she sees a picture of her ass from behind and turns to see Nick standing a few feet from her.
“My ass looks huge in this, you have to delete that picture,” Nat says, tucking her phone in her back pocket.
“Your ass does not look huge in that photo or any other time, don't be so harsh on yourself,” Nick says, shuffling his bags around.
“I will delete it though, the last thing I need is my wife thinking I'm cheating on her with a child,” Nick scoffs, chuckling when she squeaks.
“I am not a child, I just have a very youthful appearance,” Nat groans, stomping off.
“Aw do you need your pacifier?” Nick says, jogging to catch up with her.
“The kind of pacifier I need is a bit more xxx-rated than the one you used on your daughters,” she giggles when Nick trips almost going down.
“Good to know, I'll just go tell Aaron and Zak,” he says, skipping ahead of her, making her jog to reach him before he runs out the doorway.
“Don’t you dare, you little shit,” she says, racing after him just barely catching him as he goes to run past Shae and Ben.
“Dude, why is some chick chasing you?” Aaron Goodwin asks, coming over to the small group.
“She told me that she needed an xxx-rated pacifier and I threatened to tell you and Zak,” Nick says, laughing when Nat screams running away towards the bathrooms.
On the way there she ran into someone on their phone who was blocking the entire hallway, not caring that she hit the person hard enough to send him falling to the floor. As another one of the Ghost Adventure team came out of the bathroom he watched the poor guy fall flat on his face and lay there groaning.
She didn't hear him go down behind her as she rushed into the bathroom to take a piss and fix her hair. Upon finishing her business, she left the stall and squeaked when she saw how awful her hair looked from her brief nap on the plane. Checking her face and applying some new eyeliner she left the bathroom only noticing the size of the back and hair of the person she knocked over.
Ben and Shae watched as the tall muscular figure was sent flailing to the ground and lay there groaning like he was dying.
“Dude, are you okay?!” Aaron laughs hysterically while he and another man try to help the sprawled man up from the floor.
“What the hell was that? Did you see the guy that ran over me? He must have been huge,” Zak says, getting up and dusting himself off.
“Ha ha ha, yeah I saw who it was, but they certainly weren’t bigger than you,” Ben laughs, watching them look around for another tall dude.
“Whomever it was smelled like blueberries,” Zak says, cocking his head to the side.
“What kind of dude smells like blueberries?” Zak asks, turning back to the small group of people, not seeing Natalia leave the restroom and walk up behind him.
“There it is again,” he says, looking around in front of him.
Natalia smirked evilly before going up on her tiptoes and whispering in her sexiest voice.
“Boo,” laughing hysterically when he screamed and jumped away from her.
Zak turned, holding his chest and breathing heavily.
“Jesus christ woman, what’s wrong with you?” Zak bending over his knees and breathing heavily.
“The doctor’s still aren't sure,” Natalia smirks, walking around to grab her stuff from Ben.
“Well as fun as that heart attack was, we all have to head home or to our hotels,” Zak says, chuckling when the one who scared him started smoothing down her hair.
“Yeah we are gonna have to find the way to the rental car place after we pick up our bags,” Ben says, looking around the terminal.
“Oh we can show you where all of the stuff is,” Nick says, slinging his bag over his shoulder and grabbing Nat’s.
Aaron, being a gentleman, grabbed one of Ben's and Jay hesitantly grabbed one of Shae's and started after Nick.
With the three following behind them, Aaron, Nick ,Zak ,Jay and Billy all bunch up together talking quietly amongst themselves.
“You never did say why you were in Las vegas,” Nick says, slowing down so the three short people could catch up with their longer steps.
“Well you haven’t introduced everyone. Stranger danger and all that,” Shae says, watching him closely.
“Well I thought all of you watched the show,” Nick says, whistling at the others for them to stop.
“What’s up Nick?” Zak asks, slowing down and pulling his attention from his phone to look back at him.
“Looks like we have some people who have no idea who we are,” Nick says, chuckling when Zak and Aaron both gasp dramatically.
“What is this evil that you speak of?” Aaron says, feigning hurt.
“She’s the one who’s obsessed with your show, not us. We just have to sit through the shows when she watches the episodes. I know a couple of your names but the others not so much,” Shae says, pointing at Nat, while looking at all the guys.
“Well as you know I’m Zak Bagans, lead investigator, ladies man, and this is my crew,” he says, waving at all the guys.
“I'm Aaron Goodwin, goof and sacrificial lamb,” Aaron says, bowing at the waist making Zak sigh and Nat to giggle.
“I'm Nick Groff, a hardened ghost hunter with a charming personality,” Nick says, saluting the three of them.
“I'm Billy Tolley, Cameraman and great husband,” Billy says, waving.
“Jay Wasley, shy guy, and gentleman,” Jay waves while giving them a smile.
“Well now that you know who we are, why don't you tell us who you are,” Nick asks, crossing his arms and giving them a look.
“In that case, I'm Ben, you have to feed me to get my last name,” he says, laughing when Natalia elbowed him.
“I'm Shae, the shy quiet one,” She says, waving and smiling at Jay.
“I am Natalia, the sassy red head with a big personality, and I'm not afraid to tell ya like it is,” she says, bowing.
“We are gonna have so much fun while you guys are here,” Aaron laughs, running up and hugging Ben before grabbing Nat up in a spine crushing hug.
"Alright big guy, can you put us down now? We are kind of three feet off the ground," Ben says, patting Aaron on the back.
"Oh sorry, I'm just super excited," he says, sitting them back down on the ground and stepping away sheepishly.
"You're not in trouble, you just took us by surprise. Haven't had a lot of positive human contact in the last couple of years," Nat says, her mood turning glum.
“No shit,” Shae said, fidgeting with her nails, her head bowing to look at the floor.
“Hey, Let's focus on having fun, meeting new people, seeing some of the shows, maybe get laid and then tonight when we are safely in our house drunk off our asses then we can have a pity party,” Ben says, trying to get the girls to smile.
Nick, seeing a dark gaze like his wife got when she got down on herself, elbowed Aaron in the side with a discreet nod in their direction. Looking closer at the trio he said the first thing that came to his mind .
“Hey, I’ve got a great idea, since it’s still early, why don't we show these guys to the car rental and help them find their rental. When everyone has had a chance to change, maybe take a nap, maybe we could take you guys to dinner?” Aaron says, smiling easily when the three strangers look at each other before agreeing.
“Just know that if one of you guys kills us, we will be in the next episode of ghost adventures as the ghosts that haunt your asses,” Nat smirks, seeing Zak scoff.
“It doesn’t work like that, and if you have seen Ghost Adventures you know that already,” Zak says, snarkily.
“There is a first time for everything smartass,” Nat says, stepping toe to toe with Zak's impressive figure.
“Oooh,” the others snark.
“Listen shortstuff, I've been doing this for years, I think I’ve earned the right to tell you that you're full of shit,” Zak says, smiling sweetly at her puckered face.
“Yeah, we can tell by the crows feet just how long you’ve been doing it,” she smiles, just as sweetly back at him.
“Ugh how dare you call me old,” he scoffs dramatically.
“Well if the tiara fits, diva,” she says, turning away and grabbing her stuff away from Nick.
“I'm not a diva,” he says, charging up to her.
“Says the man who sat in first class while everyone else rode in economy or coach. How often do the others get to sit up in first class?” she rounds on him, backing him up off her.
He suddenly has a far away look and then his face washes beet red with guilt.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought. You're still pretty though, even with the crows feet,” Nat says, patting his shocked cheek.
“I think that's the first time someone has rendered him speechless,” Aaron waves his hand in front of Zak, earning him a hand slap.
“Hmm, well, if he finished his dinner more often like a good boy, he could be rendered speechless more often,” Nat smirks, walking away from Zak.
“Oh my god, you know you just told Zak Bagans that he needed to eat pussy more often, right?” Ben whispers catching up with her.
“Yeah, he’s got a toxic thing with skinny blondes. Never venturing into the plus sized category from what I’ve seen, he also uses his fame to get what he wants. I highly doubt anyone has told the man no, other than his mother. He’s hot and I’d climb him like a tree, but for right now I'm just gonna try and be his friend,” Natalia says, quickly before the three guys catch up with them.
Feeling a tap on the shoulder she turned to see Zak standing there with a small smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye.
“I think that's the first time in a while that a woman has been honest with me, I was momentarily shocked. As for your advice, I shall take that into consideration. Shall we continue?” he asks, gesturing everyone forwards towards the baggage claim.
A couple of minutes later a buzzer sounded while the carousel started moving and popping out bags one after the other. Watching the others find their bags, everyone started freaking out that they had lost her luggage, when at last her bags popped into view.
“Oh my god, I forgot, I brought those,” Natalia says, grabbing up her Luggage, hesitantly turning around.
“Go ahead,” she says, seeing everyone holding their hands over their mouths.
As one all of the guys, bent over at the waist and laughed their asses off, while Shae and Ben smirked.
“They were a birthday gift from these two,” Nat says, pointing at Ben and Shae.
“Oh the stories we could tell to embarrass her,” Ben says, smiling at Shae.
“I will disown you two if you say anything,” Nat threatens.
“After everything you raz us about, I think you will be okay with a little bit of embarrassment,” Shae grins, agreeing with Ben.
“Oh you have to tell us now,” Aaron laughs, running up to Shae and leaning over.
Shae smiles evilly, before turning and whispering in his ear. Watching his face go scarlet before he looks at Natalia with an interesting look in his eye, he smiles, walking back over to his group and leans over and whispers in Nick’s ear. Natalia watches his eyes go big and then he’s falling to his knees laughing.
“Shae, don't make me start telling you naughty things I would do with Bruce,” Natalia says, smiling when Shae gags.
“Please don't, it just grosses me out,” Shae says, while Ben stands there laughing.
“Oh my gosh, where’s Jacob?” Nat asks, looking around the crowded airport.
“I haven’t seen him since he got off the plane. With the way he was sucking face with the milf next to him, they are probably in a closet somewhere. Just give him a call and see if he answers,” Nick says, trying to calm her down.
“Alright, that’s a good idea, just give me a sec,” Nat says, pulling out her phone and scrolling through her contacts for his number.
After hitting the call button, she stood waiting for him to answer, when he didn't she left him a message with the address to the rental house they were staying at and that he should call her back when he got done with his business.
“You guys aren’t staying at a hotel?” Zak asks, whipping out his phone and inputting the address she had left for Jacob on his machine.
“I thought I told you guys that already,” Natalia said, trying to remember if she had in fact told them.
“Wow, you guys are close to where Aaron and I live, maybe one of us could ride with you guys to help you get there. We could follow you guys to pick up the one who rode with you and see where you're staying,” Zak says, already texting someone about picking up Gracie.
“I could do it, I don't have anything today anyway,” Aaron says, bouncing on his toes.
“Alright well since that's settled how about we get the rental car and take this circus on the road,” Ben says, winking at Nick who blushed.
Nat walks over to Shae linking her arm through hers, leaving a bit of room in between them and everyone else so she could ask her what she told them. While everyone headed toward the rental car counter Nat turned Shae towards a wall a few feet from them.
“Shae, what did you tell them?” Nat asks, hoping it wasn't too terrible.
“You remember that body pillow case Ben and I got you for your birthday this year?” Shae asks, laughing maniacally when Nat turned towards the wall and started banging her head against it.
“Please tell me you didn't, and that it's all a big joke?” Nat says, feeling her cheeks get hot with just the thought of the two of them knowing, God would surely strike her down if Nick or Aaron ever told Zak.
“Come on, do you think I would tell them about that? I can be mean but that would just be cruel,” Shae says, turning Nat away from the wall and hugging her.
“I wouldn’t do that to you sweets,” Shae says, into Natalia's chest.
“Love ya Sweets,” Nat says, hugging Shae tightly.
“Love you too,” Shae says, stepping back and watching Ben at the rental counter.
“You two ladies okay over here?” Jay asks, shyly from a few feet away.
“Yeah, just talking. So how many of you are taken?” Shae asks, blushing when Jay smiles.
“Zak’s always on and off again. Nick’s married with two kids, although I've been hearing some things. Billy is married, Aaron is a goof but I think he’s single. As for me, I'm not really looking for the long term, I just haven't found what I'm looking for in a woman,” Jay says, scratching his head looking a bit lost.
“I think we are all looking for something, maybe not a forever type deal but maybe a "while in Vegas" kind of thing,” Nat says, looking back and forth between the two.
“Maybe, while you’re here, you and I could go get dinner?” Jay asks, looking at Shae.
“Like a date?” Shae asks, gulping heavily.
“Yeah, like a date,” Jay says, moving closer to her, forgetting that Nat was standing right next to them.
“I think there’s a convention in town, I haven't looked to see who is going to be there, but would you be interested in going with me?” Jay asks, stepping in closer.
“I would totally be interested in going with you, would you like my number?” Shae says, pulling out her phone and taking it off Airplane mode which she had forgotten to do when she deboarded the plane.
“I would love that,” Jay says, standing beside her now, effectively pushing Natalia out of her spot.
"Ah, I see you've been replaced,” Aaron says, stepping away from Billy who was messing on his phone.
"Yeah, she just got asked on a date and to a convention, being the oldest of us three sucks," Natalia sighs dramatically.
"Why does being the oldest suck?" He asks, scooting closer to her.
"Because you never get things like that anymore. If you do, they are either too young or grandpa's. And you can pretty much kiss the idea of a guy like you or Zak flirting with someone like me goodbye, and now I'm rambling… sorry, “ she says, stepping away towards Ben at the counter.
“How are you doin Benny?” Natalia asks, Watching him sign another paper.
“I feel like I'm signing away my life and it’s just a rental car,” Ben sighs, scooting the papers away and standing from his stooped position.
“Aw, it’ll be alright. They aren't asking you to give them your first born this time,” Natalia chuckles sarcastically patting him consolingly on the back.
“Har har, Nat, I'm almost done. Go play with the boys till I'm done,” Ben says, shooing her away towards the group of guys.
“Ugh, so bossy, I love it,” Nat says, playfully smacking his shoulder.
Natalia, seeing Aaron looking at her funny, chooses to pull out her phone and check her email when a large shadow blocks out some of the natural light streaming in through the windows that lined the corridor.
“Whoa, Where did the sun go?” Nat asks, turning around to get a face full of chest.. But not just any chest, Zak Bagans’ chest.
“Um hello Zak’s chest, anyway I could ask you to take a step out of my personal space?” Nat asks, leaning her head all the way back.
“Oh sorry, I didn't realize I was that close. So, I'm curious as to what your friend Shae said to Aaron that had him laughing his ass off?” Zak says, stooping over to look her in the eye.
“You would have to ask her or him because when I talked to her she didn't tell me,” Natalia says, looking from his eyes to his mouth then back to his eyes.
“Do I make you nervous?” he asks, tilting his head in question.
“Nervous isn’t the word I would use,” Natalia says, taking a step back, leaving the cloud of his cologne that enveloped her.
“Hmm, what word would you use then?” Zak asks, following after her.
“H ..” she begins to say but Ben saves her ass from saying something very stupid by coming over with the keys and paperwork.
“Alright we are all set to go, they upgraded our vehicle. Lets go,” he says, grabbing her hand and dragging her away.
“Oh my god, thank you,” she says, covering her face with her hands.
“Shae, you coming?” Ben hollers at her.
“Yeah, I'm coming,” she whispers something to Jay that makes him chuckle and then she’s fast walking over with her bags.
“Aaron you were riding with us, right?” Nat asks, looking behind them to see him a few feet behind while the guys went the other way.
“I'm right here, firecracker,” he chuckles, putting his long arms over all three of them.
“Oh my god, you guys are so short,” he chuckles, dancing away from Shae’s kitten claws.
“Uh oh Kitten’s got claws,” he chuckles, evading her.
“Alright you two, this is us, everyone in,” Ben says, taking pictures of the car for later just in case.
“Alright, so we can put the address into the navigation, or we can tell Aaron the address and let him guide us there?” Ben says, holding up his phone.
“How about you put it into navigation and I see if I can get you there sooner or a different way?” Aaron suggests.
“Well I can't let you drive us there, so I guess we will do it that way,” Ben says, hopping in behind the wheel, while Shae and Natalia sit in back putting Aaron up front.
"Road trip," Natalia yells, rolling down the window and letting her hair fly.
Watching Aaron whip out his phone, Nat couldn't tell what he was doing with it and shook her head and looked out the window again enjoying the scenery and the breeze.
Feeling her phone buzz in her pocket, Natalia grabbed her phone out of her back pocket and unlocked the screen.
Unknown number
Why would it be unheard of if a guy like me or Zak were to hit on you?
Natalia
How did you get my number?
Aaron
Who do you think?
Natalia
Ugh remind me to hurt Nick
Aaron
You’re evading the question
Natalia
I'm not, I just figured everyone knew them.
Aaron
I don't see them, so maybe you could enlighten me
Natalia
Short, fat, ugly, Opinionated. Clear enough?
After sending the text she put her phone on silent and put it in her bag till they got to the house. Looking behind them Natalia saw a big black suv following them and knew it was Zak driving with how close they were.
Pulling up in front of the house everyone climbed out and began grabbing their stuff. Natalia kept quiet and picked out a bedroom that looked somewhat circular or round with a window seat and set her bags down before yelling.
"I call this one," she yells, sitting in the window seat and looking out.
"Aw, this room looks so cool and it's got a window seat. I'm gonna go check out the other rooms," Shae says, taking off through the house to pick a room before Ben did.
Hearing a floorboard creak behind her, she looked over at the doorway to see Aaron standing there like a deer in the headlight.
"Were you spying on me?" Nat asks, chuckling when he nods sheepishly.
"Sorry, I dumped all of that on you in the airport and the car, the last couple of relationships have been difficult on my self esteem," Nat whispers, curling herself further into the seat.
"Eh, it's alright, to be honest I know how ya feel," he says as he takes a seat at the window.
"I remember, when you first started the show, you were a little heavier and I remember yelling at the screen when Zak made comments that made me want to reach through the screen and beat him up for ya. I mean shit, he was the one saying he got bullied in school, and now that he's in shape he makes those kinds of comments, probably a good thing I couldn't reach through the screen. Being on the fluffier side, I could see how the comments affected you," Natalia admits, watching him closely.
"I was a lot heavier then, and to be honest Yeah his comments hurt, why do you think I lost the weight? What the viewers see is about half of what goes on while we are on lockdown, him and I have had our moments of anger towards each other. When you spend as much time as we do with each other, whether in the car or hotels or our lockdowns, you learn quite a bit about everyone. Him and I have talked about the comments and he's doing better, he apologized after he realized he had been making my depression worse. I'm sorry if I pushed you in the car it wasn't my intention, I truly don't see what you were talking about," Aaron says, quietly exhaling.
“Is that your goofy way of telling me you think I'm cute?" Nat asks, smirking when he coughs.
"Yeah," he says, hiding his blushing face in his arms.
"Well, that makes two of us then, because I think you're cute, sweet, and goofy and those are all good things in my opinion," she says, chuckling when he smiles.
"Aaron, where are you dude?" Zak's voice echoes through the house.
"I must go, my master beckons," Aaron says, unfurling himself and hunching his back and dragging his foot pretending to be Igor.
"You really are a goof Aaron, but you made me smile," Natalia laughs when he comes running back in.
"Can I give you something?" he asks, crouching down to where she was sitting.
"Of course," she whispers.
"Close your eyes," he whispers, watching her eyes close with no hesitation.
"You're not gonna murder me are you?" Nat asks, feeling him move closer.
"That's after the second date," he jokes, his breath washing across her face.
Aaron leans up onto his arms, placing a gentle kiss on her cheek, getting a very feminine gasp before he moves towards the corner of her mouth. Ghosting his lips across her pouty lips, he was just about to seal his mouth to hers when they heard footsteps coming down the hall towards them.
Opening her eyes, seeing his face so close to hers she leaned in those last couple of inches and kissed him on the lips quickly before leaning away and climbing around him towards her bags on the bed.
"Hey man, you helped her with her bags?" Zak asks, leaning into the room and looking around.
"Pretty cool room," Zak says, looking around the room before focusing back on Aaron and Nat, looking back and forth between the two obviously flustered people.
"Yeah, we got talking about the show, sorry dude," Aaron slowly stands from his crouched position watching her shoulders tense.
"I was just telling Ben and Shae to grab a shower and a nap, and then we would pick you guys up at 6 tonight," Zak says, looking over his shoulder at Nat.
"Yeah, that should be fine, thank you for letting me know. So you know, Ben doesn't really drink and Shae sometimes throws things if she's drunk," Nat says,turning towards him.
"And what about you, should I worry about you stripping naked and dancing on tables?" Zak asks, arching a brow.
"Nope, I stick to wine these days, but when I was younger, wow, I was crazy. I'll leave some of those stories till later, but if I get drunk I'm told that I'm hilarious," she says, shrugging her shoulders shyly.
"Then this should be an interesting evening. Aaron, why don't we leave this little lady to her unpacking," Zak chuckles, seeing Aaron hesitate.
"I'll be downstairs," he says, walking away wearing a smirk.
As soon as they heard him on the stairs, Aaron slid closer and gently turned her towards him.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that," she says, keeping her face down.
"Can you look at me please?" Aaron asks, silently praying she looks up at him.
Nat straightens her spine and with her eyes closed tilts her head up, trying to gather herself.
"Nat, open your eyes," Aaron whispers, watching her open one eye and look at him.
"Oh very clever, come on both eyes open," he says, chuckling when she closes the one and opens the other.
"Yes sir," she says, saluting.
Opening both eyes and meeting his gaze, she stood her ground and watched him.
"Fuck it," he whispers, lunging for her, putting his hands on either side of her face, pulling her in for a steaming kiss, that had her toes curling in her sneakers.
Before it could get out of hand though, Aaron stepped away putting space between them.
"That was," Aaron says, shuffling from foot to foot.
"Awful on my part," Nat sighs, fidgeting with her shirt.
"I was going to say amazing. If I don't leave though, you won't be getting a nap," he says, holding his hands in front of his groin.
"What do you mean?" she says, stepping towards him in which he took a step back.
"You know what I mean Natalia," he says, moving his hands briefly to give her a peek at the tent in the front of his pants.
Stepping back and away from her he ended up backing himself up into a corner.
"Oh no, you seem to be trapped in a corner, whatever will you do?" she chuckles, caging him against the wall.
"I don't know if I should be turned on or terrified, but I know which way my lower extremities are leaning heavily towards," he chuckles, blushing.
"Oy Aaron, let's go dude. I've gotta get Gracie soon," Zak yells, making them both groan in dismay.
"One more thing, come here." she says, grabbing his hand and walking back over to the bed and climbing up on it to meet him eye to eye.
Not saying anything she just grabbed his shirt and pulled him back against her and devoured his mouth pulling a low groan from deep in his throat. Lightly scratching the back of his neck got her a mouth full of his tongue and a large hand dug into her hair, dragging a moan from her throat. Growling deeply when she bit his lip, he ran his other hand down her body to grab a handful of her ass and drag her up against him.
"Mm, as much as I want you to continue, you should probably head to your house till later so you can shower and nap," she says, dragging her mouth away from him, tilting her head back when he started down her throat.
"I probably should, but I can't make myself leave," he groans, nibbling on her neck.
"Okay. Just a bit longer," she says, dragging his mouth back to hers.
Lifting her left leg to wrap around his waist, knowing what she wants, wraps his hand around her thigh just under her ass cheek and does the same with his right.
"Jump," he groaned, catching her and wrapping her legs around his waist and then he was turning and pressing her up against the wall beside the door.
"You're perfect, ya know that?" he groans, leaning his head back and kissing her nose and cheeks.
"Mm, not lately, what makes me perfect?" she says, biting his lip.
"Well, you're hot, yeah you're short but I like the fact that you're short, you're sassy, and sensual, and you're funny. I could keep going but I want one more thing and then I'm gonna go," he says, chuckling when she blushes.
"What do you want?" Nat says, biting her lip.
"Yes, tell us, what do you want, Aaron?" Ben says, from the doorway.
Both turn to see Ben and Shae standing there with their arms crossed.
"Uh," Aaron mumbles, slowly lowering Nat to the floor.
"They are just fucking with ya," Nat says, dragging her hand down his chest and walking around him.
"I can't wait for later tonight," Nat says, winking at him.
"I think I'm gonna go, I'll see you guys later. You've got my number," he says, sliding between the two small walls.
They all waited till they heard the front door close, and then they all fell over each other dying of laughter.
"Oh my god, did you see how white he went?" Ben says, between breaths.
"Oh my god, I thought he shit himself," Natalia said, wiping away the tears that ran down her face.
"I know I shouldn't laugh but, holy shit, I thought he was gonna die," Shae says, leaning on Ben for support.
"We are awful, you had me believing you were pissed," Nat says, struggling to sit up against the wall.
"Nah, not mad at all. You looked like you were having fun, come on give us the details. Was he a good kisser, how big are his hands?" Ben and Shae start firing questions at her.
"Oy, a lady never kisses and tells," Nat says, trying to keep a straight face.
"Ha, okay, so tell us," Ben chuckles seeing the scandalized look on Nat's face.
"Big hands, amazing kisser, if he didn't have to go back to his place and you two hadn't shown up, we would have been doing something a lot more cardio related," she says, biting her lip as she remembered how good his hands felt.
"Alright alright, don't get the carpet wet, hop in the shower, grab a nap, and then when the guys get here we'll have some fun," Ben chuckles, slowly getting to his feet and helping the girls.
"I haven't even looked around," Nat says, walking back into her room and going over to the bathroom.
"Holy shit, this bathroom is huge," Nat yells.
"Ugh, I'm totally coming in here to shower," Shae says, leaving the room.
"Let's go exploring," Nat grins, following after Shae.
Grabbing her phone out of her bag, she discovered several texts from Aaron and a missed call from Jacob.
After listening to Jacob's voicemail, she went and told Ben and Shae that they pretty much had the place to themselves as Jacob would be staying with the woman on the plane.
"Yay, I get to walk around with no pants on," Ben yells, taking his pants off.
"Oh geez," Shae sighs, covering her face.
"We're in Vegas," Nat yells, pulling her shirt off and walking around.
"Oh God, there's two of them," Shae groans, walking away towards the bedroom she chose.
"Aw Shae, embrace the city of sin," Ben says, walking down the hall in just his underwear.
"Yeah, I think I'm okay, what if the guys come back or arrive unexpectedly?" Shae says, digging through her bag for something nice to wear tonight.
"Eh, in that case, I'll have less to take off," Nat smirks.
“What did you guys get up to while I was against the wall?" Nat asks, walking into Shae's room in a pair of shorts and a sleeveless Journey t-shirt.
"I got Jay's number, and he asked me on a date. He said there is a convention in town and that I needed to check out which celebrities would be there," she says, smiling and checking her phone.
"I had an interesting talk with Nick and Zak while you were up here playing grab ass with Aaron. Billy apparently drove himself home," Ben smirks.
"Oh and Zak wanted me to give you this," Ben says, pulling a piece of paper off the hall table.
Nat grabbed the paper so quickly, smirked and showed them the paper. Zak’s number lined the paper with a little winking face in the corner.
"I took the liberty of adding his number to my phone, although I'm not sure if I will ever use it," Ben says, chuckling when Nat squinted in suspicion.
"No dick pics Ben," Shae says, making him pout.
After checking the house over, and discovering the giant heated pool that dominated the space and a hot tub out back on a secluded patio surrounded with shrubs, they all returned to their rooms and took showers.
Checking the locks on the doors. They all headed to their rooms and grabbed a quick nap.