TONY'S POV

Getting to the door of my dorm, I stopped and sighed as I looked at Rachel. 'You look beautiful,' I said under my breathe, pushing her hair aside and placing a light kiss on her lips. 'Would you be my girlfriend?'

'Yes,' she said against my lips.

'I wish you could stay,' I admitted. 'I'm sick of sleeping alone.'

'Sleeping?' she laughed, hopping backwards. 'I doubt that's what we would be doing.'

'Shut up,' I grinned. 'I'll see you tomorrow. Are you sure you'll be okay getting home?'

'I'm a big girl, Tony. I'll be fine.' Smiling at me beautifully, she turned around and began to limp down the hall. I opened the door and entered the dorm, completely failing at hiding my excitement as I skipped through to the living room.

'Fuck!' I shouted, punching the air. 'Life is freaking awesome,' I grinned, falling back on to the armchair.

'Went well then?' smiled Vic.

'Mhmm,' I replied. 'I think my girlfriend would say the same.'

'Dude!' he exclaimed, tossing a bag of crisps at me, 'good for you!'

'Thanks, man.' I replied, opening the crisps and popping one in my mouth.

RACHEL'S POV

'Hey babe, Alex told me about the bar.' Said Beth as I exited the bathroom after my shower.

'Didn't know he was there?'

'He's always there, hun. Are you okay?'

'Why wouldn't I be okay? I'm pretty great to be honest.'

'Wait, you actually like him?'

'Yeah he wouldn't be my boyfriend if I didn't.'

'Babe, he's trouble.'

'Stop calling me babe, and stop giving me shit. Just because you don't like him doesn't mean I have to as well. If you took enough time to peel yourself off Jack, you'd see just how nice he is for himself.'

'He's an arse! A liar! He's an ugly asshole.'

'Do you hear yourself, Beth? You sound horrible.'

'What the fuck is wrong with you? You're such a bitch sometimes! I swear I never knew you were this weird when I first met you!'

'Sorry? You're the one slagging people who've done nothing wrong!'

'Aw fuck off, Rachel. Get off your high horse! Whore,' he coughed, turning away.

'Fuck you,' I said coldly - picking up my crutches, I marched past her and out the door. Hobbling down the hall in my bare foot and pajamas, I went to Tony's dorm. Knocking repeatedly on the door, I felt pretty silly as Jaime answered.

'Rachel? What are you doing here, at half 10, in you pajamas?'

'Um, I had a fight with Beth. A big one. Can I, um, come in?'

'Sure, you wanna stay? She can be pretty stingy.'

'Yeah, she can. I don't want to be a pain but, uh.'

'Tony's away to bed, he's probably asleep now. I don't think he'd mind if you slipped in with him, he seemed pretty stocked when he got home anyway.'

'Really?'

'If I woke up with the surprise of my girl lying next to me, I'd be happy. I'm sure he'd love to wake up next to you.' I looked at the various doors in the small hall and felt nervous as I pondered on the offer. 'Last on your right,' whispered Jaime, 'I'll see you in the morning.'

Thanking him, I went up to the door and slowly pushed down the handle. Entering the pitch black room, I panicked as I realised that I had no idea where the bed was. I put down my crutches and followed a quiet groan that had came from him seconds before. Feeling a bed, I hopped round it and slid my bad ankle under the sheets. I gently placed my body on the mattress and slid my other leg in. Relieved that I had successfully got into the bed without waking him, I turned so that I was facing his back and shut my eyes. I wasn't touching him, so I was't able to figure out how he was lying. Trying to ignore the fact that what I did seemed rather odd, I let myself fall off into a dreamy wonderland.

My eyes fluttered open as Tony got out of the bed, from what I could gather it was the middle of the night. The door opened and my breathe caught a little as I caught a glimpse of him sleepily exiting the room - he was naked. I heard the faint sound of the toilet flushing, soon followed by the sound of running water. Moments later, Tony entered the dark room and slid into the bed. Taking me by surprise, he pulled me in closer to him and placed his head against mine. Half asleep, he mumbled something as he wrapped his arms tighter around me. I relaxed in his embrace and allowed myself to fall asleep again.

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'Psst,' whispered Tony into my ear. 'Wake up.'

'Awake,' I said, burying my head in his chest.

'Want to skip class today?'

'And do what?' I asked.

'Well, we'll be the only ones home...' he seductively nibbled my ear before placing a kiss on my neck. 'I've got a few ideas.'

'Fine, but we have to pretend that we're going at least.'

'Good point, better get up then.' Rolling out of the covers, he stood up and grinned at me widely. I gestured towards his nakedness and he went extremely red as he remembered. Diving to one side, he pulled on a fresh pair of boxers and sighed in relief once they were on. 'You have no clothes. I'll give you a top and some old shorts, will that do?'

'Yeah, sure,' I said.

Tony handed me a large top along with some old shorts of his and I stood awkwardly as I wondered where I should change.

'What's wrong?' he asked, pulling on a pair of jeans.

'Where do I change?'

'Here?' he said, 'if that's okay with you. There's the bathroom too bu-'

'No, that's fine. Look away,' I joked.

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Taking a seat at the table, I took some toast and began to spread butter on it as the guys all talked away. I was happy they weren't acting weird about me staying over.

Looking up to Tony, I could tell that he was growing impatient. I stood up and walked over to the high cupboards. Standing on my good foot, I went on my toes and pretended to search for something in the cupboards. I pushed my bum out and allowed the shorts to slide down a little, teasing him ever so slightly.

Pretending as though I couldn't find what I was looking for, I sat back down and grabbed a banana. Peeling it slowly, I began to eat it as my eyes steered away from Tony.

'You eat so slowly,' moaned Tony to Jaime as he was barely half way through his cereal.

'I'm not really hungry,' said Jaime, pushing the bowl back. 'I think I'm just gonna go now, I need some fresh air.'

'You feeling okay?' asked Tony.

'Yeah, I think I have the flu coming or something.'

'Oh, dude,' he said sympathetically.

'It's cool, see you all later.'

As I continued to eat the banana, I tried to hide my grin as I caught Tony watching out the corner of his eye. It's working, I giggled to myself. Withing around 10 minutes, all the boys (with the exception of Mike) had left.

'Right,' he said, grabbing his backpack, 'I'm out. See you at lunch.'

'Bye,' was said in unison as he exited the dorm.

My eyes shot round and landed on Tony. A grin came over both our faces.

Finally, we're alone.