The breaths from your family’s basement were hushed and oddly suspicious. You had been kissing Carter down here since the summer started. The two of you were best friends, almost inseparable. Wherever one went, the other usually followed. But you were also two needy young adults still trying to shake off the last of your teenage hormones. You craved touch, and Carter craved experience.
You were currently letting him explore your mouth with his tongue, moaning softly when he pulled away and left a string of spit connecting your lips. “Mm,” was all he managed to say, his face red and flustered.
“You liked that?” you asked, running your hands over his warm body. The compression shirt he had on fit him perfectly and then some.
“You know I did. I didn’t know making out was this fun.”
“Yeah, I could imagine when all you do is eat, sleep, and shit basketball.”
“Well, what else would a D1 basketball player do exactly?”
“Give his best friend half of his NIL checks...” you said, raising an eyebrow as you leaned in and whispered against his lips.
He planted a soft kiss on your mouth, then another, and another, and another until the innocent kisses turned into a full-blown make-out session. You tried not to make too much noise considering your family was upstairs, but Carter seemed hungrier than usual, and you were far too turned on by the attention to care.
His hands made their way up your torso before stopping at your chest, cupping your breasts through your T-shirt. Your nipples stiffened beneath the fabric as his palms brushed over them.
“Carter...” you breathed.
He immediately froze, his face turning bright red.
“Exploring, I guess. Kinda got a little carried away.”
“Are we going too far?” you asked. “I never wanna do anything that makes you uncomfortable or take things somewhere we can’t come back from, you know?”
“Where’s somewhere we can’t come back from, Y/N?” he asked, his face scrunching with genuine curiosity.
“You inside me. Us escalating things. Things changing.”
“I was under the impression that was the natural progression of whatever this is.”
You shrugged, biting your lip nervously as you looked away.
“I guess, but wouldn’t you wanna lose it to somebody more... special?”
Your brows furrowed as soon as the words left your mouth. You remembered your own first time and how lackluster it had been. The last thing you wanted was for Carter to build it up in his head only to be disappointed.
“Well, I never wanted my first time to be with a stranger,” he said with a shrug. “Besides, you letting me do that is definitely something I’d never take for granted.”
Warmth spread through your chest.
The bar was on the floor, sure, but it was still nice knowing you were more than a human pillow for him to practice kissing on.
The immature Carter you grew up with was still there somewhere. You saw him every time he laughed too hard at his own jokes or ate half your snacks without asking. But there were other parts of him now. Older parts. Mannish parts.
Sometimes you missed being able to change clothes in front of him without him immediately finding something else to stare at.
Most times, though, you reveled in the attention.
You’d be lying if you said you didn’t.
Carter had always been touchy. Always draped across you somehow. His arm around your shoulders. His head in your lap during movie nights. His hand stealing food from your plate before you even got a chance to complain. Then— it had been easy to ignore because neither of you thought much of it.
Now every touch felt personal.
His hand was still resting against your side, neither of you acknowledging it.
“You know,” he said quietly, tracing lazy circles against your shirt, “I think about us a lot.”
You tried to sound casual.
For once, Carter didn’t answer immediately. The silence stretched longer than you wanted it to. Then he looked at you.
“How we went from annoying each other every day to...” He gestured vaguely between the two of you. “This.”
“You still annoy me every day.”
His grin was familiar, but he still had that look on his face.
“Things definitely changed.”
“Not the important stuff.”
The words settled over you. You were scared of whatever era you and Carter were in. Your parents would tease during your youth and you’d gag—and really mean it; and vice versa. But you two weren’t the same dorky kids you all used to be, he got taller, you filled out.
The way his eyes lingered on you was new.
But the friendship wasn’t. And that was what made all of this so terrifying. The thought of everything going too far, or wrong, or too fast terrified you. It’s not that you were scared of kissing Carter. You weren’t scared of wanting him. You weren’t scared to fuck him either.
You were scared of ruining everything and ending up without the only person you had these days. Nobody understood you like Carter, no one. No one knew your triggers, your quirks. With Carter you didn’t even have to talk sometimes, he just knew.
For the first time all evening, neither of you reached for another kiss. Greys anatomy playing quietly in the background. You two simply sat there, close enough for your knees to touch, looking at each other while the basement hummed quietly around you.
The air felt thicker than usual, you two could watch greys no problem any other day. Some days, he was more interested in it than you were.
But right now Carters eye were dead set on you, like something was waiting to happen. You were just as eager as him in all honesty.
Neither of you seemed ready to be the one who made the first move
“I’m bored” you said playing with his curls, trying to see where this gimmick led you.
“What’s there to do at 10:30pm on a Wednesday night Y/N?” Carter smirked rolling his eyes.
“Don’t we already do tha—“
“And more…” you said cutting him off boldly. You were fed up with the unsatisfying feeling of emptiness inside your core you had every time Carter left your house. “You sure?” He questioned with a brow and his face reddening. You nodded pulling him in closer, giving him a few long pecks before you slid your tongue completely in his mouth. He was much hungrier than usual, his hand finding its way to your neck, gripping it slightly.
“You want it?” Carter pulled away, untying the drawstring to his sweats “you really sure?” You responded by removing your shirt and smiling, trying not to think too hard about what was about to happen. “So perfect, so glad I get to see this” he mumbled mostly to himself gripping and groping your chest “you look amazing Y/N,fuck”
“I havent even taken off my panties yet Car”
“I’m glad, Ion think I’d even be able to handle it, you doing something to me crazy Y/N”
“Oh yeah?” You slid off your pajama shorts and panties in one go—smirking. You were glad your parent’s room was light years away from the basement, how awkward it’d be to admit they were right all along. His jaw was slightly ajar as he took in the sight of your body. It made him think about the thousands of times he’d seen you like this and how different these circumstances were.
“Can I touch you?” He asked breathlessly.
You nodded feeling his warm hands palm your cold body as he let his hands wander all over you. You felt exposed compared to his clothed body. “Come on,” you said laying back and pulling him closer as you did.
You watched him slip off his lower half of clothes, biting your slip as his semi-hard dick was exposed. The pinkish tip leaking precum and glistening in the basement lights. “It looks big” you mumbled, spitting in your hand and rubbing it.
“It is big” he chuckled as it stiffened up harder in your hand. You were too scared to keep looking down, unsure of how exactly he was going to fit. You didn’t have that much experience compared to Carter, how were you supposed to teach him?
“Put some fingers in it first, always do foreplay when your with someone”
He got his fingers wet with his mouth and slid his digits inside you, making you mewl on impact. He smirked as he pulled them out of you and got on his knees in front of the couch. You raised a brow at him, as he rubbed on your clit You clamped your hand onto your mouth, trying not to wake your sleeping family upstairs. “You like that huh?” He asked sliding his fingers in curling the tips of his fingers to hit your gspot as he slowly pulled his digits in and out of you.
“Y-yeah” you stammered out heat rushing over your body as he stimulated your wet core. “Just like that baby?”
“Uh huh” you gasped out as he dug deeper quickening the pace now making your walls tense up. “That sounds too good coming out your mouth, mmm” Carter cooed looking up at your pouted face. “Stop playing” you giggled out as he pulled his fingers out and put them in his mouth. “You taste good too, you shoulda been gave me this pussy y/n” he groaned out using his spit and your wetness as lube for his fully hard dick.
You were taken aback, the typical clumsy unserious person you knew was suddenly some sexual being. And you were turned on at the thought of that. Sure Carter was always a handsome boy and you were just as beautiful and both of you acknowledged that about each other.
It’s not like you hadn’t kissed him before. You all were each others first kiss after all first grade at recess behind a play structure. Back then you felt nothing but nausea, swearing he’d give you cooties. You swore you’d feel the same way 13 years later, but 7 is different from 20. Way different.
“You ready?” He said standing up pulling you the edge of the couch. You nodded slowly, watching him push into you. His mouth was slightly ajar as your warm wells sunk onto him.
He’d never felt anything like it before, his hands didn’t do sex any types of justice.
You were feeling just as good, loving the feeling of him stretching you out.
The way Carter looked at you, you could tell the night was far from over.