my birthday is oct 2nd and i love a good roommates or neighbors au
Happiest of birthdays @beingsafeandsound! To celebrate, the amazing @peetabreadgirl has written this charming bit of everlark fun just for you!
Neighbors
Rated T
It’s Saturday. My favorite day of the week. I get to see Katniss today. I like to refer to them as Katurdays, though I keep that little fact to myself.
I’ve had a thing for my neighbor for a while now. She’s smart and witty and gorgeous, with legs that go on for days, but she’s also kind of unreadable, so I’ve done little more than try to be a friend to her. Get to know her better. So far, all I know is that she doesn’t talk much about her family and she ended a relationship in the last year. I’m a great listener, but I’m living on the fringes of the friend zone and I’m terrified she’ll make me a permanent resident if I continue to keep how I feel about her to myself.
It’s been about four months, I guess, since I noticed Katniss moving in. We live on opposite ends of the same floor in a high-rise apartment building. At least once a week, we end up riding the elevator up or down together. That’s when I take the time to recall the carefully crafted conversations I’ve practiced over and over in my head so I don’t sound like a complete idiot.
They almost never go the way my mind strays to - on our way up to the rooftop pool; her pulling the emergency lever, halting the elevator and shoving me up against one of the cool, metal walls, attacking me with those lips I try not to stare too hard at when she’s near. Her hands deftly release the ties that keep my shorts in place over my hips, and after those come off she sheds the green one piece she always wears. What happens after that varies. Sometimes I take her up against the wall. Other times she kneels in front of me and makes me boneless with the best head of my life.
The first Saturday I saw her at the pool I could barely take my eyes off her. All tanned, glowing skin, toned arms and legs. She’s hotter than the sun in the middle of summer.
We’d been making small talk on the elevator for a few weeks, and she’d accidentally locked herself out of her apartment, so I told her she could wait for the super at my place. Her eyes lit up after I sweetened the deal with an offer to make her a sandwich from the famous Mellark ciabatta bread. We’ve had a standing appointment every Saturday since.
Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we watch TV or play games. Katniss likes to play Farkle, which I have absolutely no luck at, but I don’t care. When she wins her left eyebrow quirks up and her lips curve into a sultry, confident smile that says something like I told you so, and she asks me if I’m a glutton for punishment when I suggest more rounds. Which, of course, I am. I should just man up already and tell her how I feel. But what I’ve noticed of Katniss from our conversations is that she’s always looking for an exit, and I don’t want to be something she runs away from.
We meet up on the rooftop every Saturday. I go after I get off work around two. The ovens in my family’s bakery are incredibly warm and the pool is my way of cooling off. Though, with Katniss there, wearing so little and laid out like a goddess in a chaise lounge, it doesn’t always do the trick. I usually have to jump in the water before I can even say hello.
I quickly change into my swim shorts and grab my sunglasses after I’ve slathered on some sunscreen, then head back to the elevator with my towel thrown over my shoulder. I press the button for the twentieth floor and cross my arms in front of me while it slides closed, counting the seconds until I get to see her.
Luck is favoring me today, because just before the doors touch, they slide back open and, to my surprise, Katniss appears with her pool towel slung over one arm. And fuck me she’s headed to the pool in an orange bikini that seems like it’s held together by a hundred strings. It must be new. She’s only ever worn a one piece, and the expanse of new skin makes my eyes want to feast. I close my gaping mouth and resist the urge to ogle her flat stomach and the top of her breasts, but my dick has a mind of its own, the little fucker. It stirs to life immediately as she steps in, so I lower my arms and clasp my hands in front of my groin, hoping to hide my reaction to her. She has no idea the effect she has on me, and I want to keep it that way until I know she feels the same. If she ever does.
“Hey, Neighbor,” she says, giving me a grin that’s as alluring as it is shy.
I step back to make room for her and, despite my body’s telltale reaction, I can’t help the beaming smile that’s taken over my face. I hope it doesn’t creep her out. “Hey,” I reply, trying to act perfectly normal.
There’s a strange tension in the shared space that I haven’t felt between us before. Desperate for it to abate, I ask her if she’s up for sandwiches again today. My voice cracks a little. Even though it’s been a standing thing, I still get butterflies in the pit of my stomach until she says yes.
“Of course,” she answers. Her gray eyes connect with mine and she smiles broadly at me. “I wouldn’t miss out on a Mellark sandwich to save my life. It’s the best part of my weekend.”
I look away and chuckle, hoping it comes off as warm instead of the desperate, strangled sound I heard. I want to tell her this is the best part of my weekend, too. That being anywhere near her makes my week. Hell, it makes my month - my year, even, but I don’t trust myself to speak with her wearing that. Fuck, I’m pathetic.
Before we can say anything more, the elevator stops at the fifteenth floor and a crowd of adolescents climb in with swimsuits on. I step back against the wall and the group crams in around us, packing in like sardines, pushing Katniss’s back up against my chest. Her backside brushes my half-hard cock. My eyelids flutter closed and I have to bite down on my lip to keep from groaning.
There’s no way she can’t feel it. Especially since the traitorous pecker is getting harder.
I stare wide-eyed at the bright digits that normally seem to move too fast when Katniss and I are in the elevator together, and think about giving a big fuck you to the universe, or the gods, or whoever it is that hates me so much. But right now that would just make me look like an even bigger creep, so I breathe deeply, trying to calm down but my chest grazes Katniss’s bare back and suddenly images of taking her from behind are pummelling my resolve like a horse jockey that’s been thrown into the ring with a professional boxer.
Eighteen.
Nineteen.
Twenty. Ding!
Finally. Quickly, I try to think of a good excuse for me to have a hard on in the middle of the afternoon, the most believable being a nap, but Katniss knows I’m at the bakery until 1, so that won’t work. Fuck! The pressure to think with my brain and not with my dick is not helping me come up with anything on the fly.
I’m so lost in my frantic thoughts of what to do, how best to not screw this up, that I don’t notice the kids have exited, the doors are closing and Katniss presses the number 12. The elevator begins to descend and I flash a confused look her way. It only takes a few moments until I understand, when about half way back to our floor, Katniss turns toward the control panel… and pulls the lever.
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