Tainted

Chapter 3

I'm late with updating, but it's a long chapter :)

Adian laid in his king-sized bed in the cold dark room. Even though the temperature had recently plummeted that night he was still protesting turning the heat on until November. He reached his arm out of the warm under the blanket and grabbed his cell phone for the third time and composed another text message to Alyssa. He had deleted the first two with offers for her to come lay in his bed because didn't want to wake her up at 3 a.m.

The past month hadn't exactly been what he expected when he signed up for a roommate. When he agreed to let her stay there it was because he wanted to look out for her. She seemed to really be struggling in Detroit and he had never been able to resist the chance to play hero to a damsel in distress. He knew he would have to make some changes in his life to adjust to having another person in his life and home-like not flushing the toilet when he knew she was in the shower. Although if you let her tell it he had the annoying habit of needing something out of the bathroom every time she got ready to use it. He'd done it so often that he started telling her he had an internal alert that went off whenever she pulled her pants down. If only that were true maybe he would have had a better chance of getting into them again. But Alyssa seemed to be standing by her word that they were just roommates and not having sex with him. He didn't think he'd care since he had more than a few options, but for some reason he really wanted her. She was like forbidden fruit.

Adian noticed the glow of the bathroom light illuminating under the crack of his door indicating his roommate was awake. When he heard the toilet flush and the sink turn off he seized the opportunity to get her in his room.

"Psst! Psst!" he loudly whispered. Alyssa stopped in from of his door unsure of what she'd heard if anything at all. She only heard one set of footsteps when he came home so she assumed he was alone. Just as she got ready to head back to her room certain she'd imagined the sound she heard it again, "Psst!"

She knocked lightly on the door and was immediately invited in. "Hey" she said in a half sleep state with the TV in her room providing just enough of a glow for him to see her leaning against the wall in a cotton sleep shirt. It stretched around her breast and hips. He noticed the fabric flowed seamlessly over her frame uninterrupted by undergarments proved she wasn't wearing anything underneath.

"What are you doing up? Don't you have to work tomorrow?"

"Yeah, I woke up when I heard you come in and once I'm up I have to go..."

"You going back to sleep?"

"Hopefully."

"Want to get in my bed?" he asked with semi-bad intentions in mind.

Alyssa felt goose bumps rising on her arms. She wasn't sure if it was because she cold or the thought of being in bed with him. Either way she was considering the offer. Adian pat the empty side of the bed to encourage her, that's when she noticed his sheets. Are those the same sheets that were on his bed when I slept in here weeks ago? The fact that he hadn't changed them in so long wasn't what bothered her, everyone slacks off changing linen and she already knew he was far from the cleanest person in the world. What grossed her out was the fact that she knew he had at least two girls in there since then.

"Uhm, no" she said trying to hide the look of disgust on her face as she turned to walk out his room. She stopped short and over her shoulder whispered, "But you can get in mine...If you behave." Before she could take two steps Adian had leaped out of the bed and was on her heels. She wasn't prepared for such an eager reaction but should have anticipated it given that she countered his offer. She hoped he heard the part about behaving because she still didn't want to complicate their living situation by having sex, but after the week she had it would be nice to just be held.