summary: you and ben are together, which your friends predicted would happen except, tonight was not the night you would prove them right. who? ben florian x fem!reader a/n: someone stop me from putting ben in secret relationships all the damn timeee
“what-” ben muttered under his breath, barely breaking away from your mouth as he glanced towards the door.
there you were, lying on your bed in the midst of a passionate make-out session when unexpected knocks echoed through the room, causing both of you to freeze. you broke away from each other, startled by the interruption.
“just shut up and hide under the bed, now!” you whisper-yelled to order him.
ben looked at you, his expression a mix of surprise and amusement.
“under the bed? seriously-” he was ready to protest but the authority in your eyes made him realize that this wasn’t debate.
he quickly nodded and made sure he was out of sight and under the bed while you scrambled to hide any sign of his presence here, like the sweater he took off during your heated encounter a moment ago.
as jane kept on knocking, you quickly composed yourself and turned towards the door. you plastered on a wide smile, hoping that she wouldn’t notice your semi-disheveled look.
her smile widened as you opened the door, a sheepish expression on her face. she was clearly unaware of the situation she had interrupted, you thought.
“hey, can i come in for a second?”
she let herself in while your focus remained on appearing normal. “uh, sure, what did you want to talk about?”
“you know, girl stuff.” you stiffened as she was about to take a seat on your bed.
immediately, you lunged for the bed and took her by the arm to go sit on the window seat with you. slight confusion colored her face then, and you silently prayed that she wouldn’t ask any questions. thankfully, she let it go.
“it’s about carlos.” she whispered, as if she was sharing a secret. whatever it was, she seemed really eager to tell you about it.
“okay..” your eyes glanced back to your bed’s foot, still worried about your boyfriend down there.
“so.. you know how things have been going well between us? like really well?” her voice got progressively higher as she got closer to what she wanted to say.
you tried to focus but the wait made it impossible to. a few minutes ago, ben was kissing your face off for god’s sake. the come down was quite hard and thankfully, jane hadn’t noticed anything yet. however, you didn’t have time to fix yourself properly.
using your finger, you tried to wipe your mouth off and jane stopped.
“are you okay? because we can talk about this another time if you want.”
she didn’t know how great that would be. but she looked so happy coming in here, you might as well hear her out now.
you hummed, “i’m fine! you were telling me about you and carlos.” you said with a soft playful tone.
“yes, so today he asked me something,” she paused, building up the suspense, “he asked me, to be his girlfriend.” she blushed, her eyes sparkling with joy.
“oh, my god, jane!!” you extended your arms and hugged her, congratulating her, when you were caught off guard by a loud bang coming from underneath your bed.
jane pulled away from the hug to look around before looking back at you, puzzled by the cause of the disturbance.
you took a long minute to come up with something believable before you decided to rush her into a hug again, keeping her head away with your hand.
“nothing, nothing! this is just awesome news jane, i’m so excited for you!”
despite being disoriented by the unexplained noise, jane was quickly distracted by your enthusiasm. she was grinning again, totally oblivious to the fact that you were trying to keep her gaze away from the bed.
“thank you, i mean i never thought i’d find someone like carlos. he’s so sweet, and we just click, you know?”
you genuinely smiled. “yeah, i know. you guys are really cute together.”
you thought about what you also shared with ben and- ben. he was still hiding under your bed for god’s sake. you cleared your throat, snapping out of your daze.
“jane, i am so sorry, i have a big day tomorrow and i’m exhausted, why don’t we talk about it more then, mmh? over lunch, sounds good?” you suggested while hurrying her to the door.
“yeah! uhm, totally, sounds good!”
“okay, bye, goodnight jane!” you pushed her out of the dorm, shutting the door behind.
resting your back against it, you exhaled. the silence that started to settle in was broken by ben’s voice, under the bed.
“thought she’d never leave.”
you snorted as he came out of his hiding place, his hair slightly tousled from being underneath furniture, “shut up, she was excited.”
“i could tell, she didn’t even notice me down there.” he chuckled, clearly finding the situation amusing.
“almost” you pointed out, “what was all of this noise about?” you joked while his hands found your waist, pulling you closer to him.
“oh, that was just me trying to find a comfortable position under there.” you lightly slapped his chest as he feigned innocence. he laughed and you couldn’t hold in your own chuckle.
“thank god she was too busy talking about carlos to notice anything, otherwise she wouldn’t have let us hear the end of it.”
ben’s smile only widened, visibly picturing the scenario in his mind.
“i think it’s time for me to leave, too.”
“what?” your smile fell, your hands gripping his forearms. “why?”
ben’s eyes met yours as you looked back up at him. he recognized the disappointment in your tone and felt bad.
“i don’t think we want your roommates to find us like jane almost did.”
you remembered how you kept your relationship a secret, so your friends wouldn’t know they were right after they spent the past year pointing out how obvious it was that you liked eachother. you were 2 months in already, and it got harder each day.
“mmh, you’re right.” you muttered, your sad eyes leaving his.
his hand tucked a hair strand behind your ear, causing you to look up again, “maybe we should just tell our friends. they’d be happy, you know.”
“i know, i just really hate being wrong.” you wrapped your arms around his back and he reciprocated the action, his head resting on top of yours.
you pulled away and stood up on your tiptoes to meet his lips.
“for the road.” you whispered close to his lips.
ben smiled against your lips as you went for another kiss, savoring every second of it. his fingers trailed up your back before he reluctantly pulled away completely, clearly not wanting to leave your side yet.
“okay we should go before they catch us red-handed” you warned him playfully.
ben’s eyebrows rose, “we? you’re coming with me?”
“you really thought i was about to sleep in my dorm alone tonight? after the day we’ve had?” you scoffed, “just open the door already.” he laughed and took your hand in his while leaving your dorm.
as you ran around the school’s hallways, trying not to get caught, you thought about how you would gladly let your friends win this one argument. for once, you were really thankful that they were right.
