What If It's All A RomCom? - Ted Nivison x Reader

Chapter 19: Open and Honest

"....Wha-Wh--" I'm not even sure if I heard him correctly. Ted completely sits up off of me to pull his boxer briefs and shorts back so I can properly sit up as well, blushing faintly at the familiar warmth in my belly.
"What do you mean you think it's a hickey?"
"I...I was..." Ted's nervousness from before seemed to have completely disappeared, as if it was never there. Now, he's smiling, holding his fist in front of his lips to try and hide it. "I was-I was trying to be optimistic. That's definitely a fuckin' hickey.."

After I collect my pants, ONLY my pants because Ted ripped my FUCKING panties off, I carefully shove passed Ted as he begins to cackle to himself, getting a good look at my neck in the rear view mirror before I return to the passenger seat. Sure enough. That's a big fuckin' hickey, and it sounds like Ted thinks that's absolutely hilarious.

Ted crawls out from the backseat to move back in the driver's seat, cackling proudly to himself as he grabs his glasses before sitting down. Cocky little prick. He sounds like a rebellious teenager that just succeeded in getting their teacher to ask 'What is updog'.
"Oh you sound reeeeal pleased with yourself over there.." I slowly shake my head at Ted, giving him an unimpressed but amused little smile. "You absolute fucker."
"Oh come on! That's funny! This is funny!" Ted holds his hands out defensively as he laughs, his eyes squinting from how big and proud his smile was.
"How is this funny?!" I furrow my brows at Ted, shrugging my shoulders out at him.

"Because--Be-Because--" Ted keeps cutting himself off with his own laughter, his face going red from just how funny he found this situation. Y'know, the situation that I'M exclusively in? Because of HIM? "Because not only--not only are you now out a whole-ass pair of underwear, you've got that big fuckin' thing! So you've got, like--HA--you've got two different problems in two entirely different areas!"
Ted's sentence melts out into an airy cackle as he absolutely loses it. He smacks his hands down in his lap and leans forward against his steering wheel, shaking his head.

"Of course it's fuckin' funny to you, Ted!" I raise my voice at him with a nervous laugh, shaking my head at his hysteria. "You're not the one with the fuckin' palm sized hickey!"
"Oh come on!" Ted leans away from his steering wheel with a chuckle, wiping under his teary eyes. "It's not palm sized!"
"Look at it! That's huge!"
"It's like--It--ooh....ok It-It looks fine! It's fine!"
"Are you fuckin' seeing this??"
"I'm seein' it!"
"You expect me to head back with you like this?"
"They've seen you with a hickey before!"
"Ted."
"What?"
"We went to the Rainforest Café with them earlier."
"Yeah. What's that got to do with--"
"Did I have this fucking hickey when we left?"

I can see the gears turning in Ted's head in real time, his hazel eyes staring back at me as he connects the dots. I see the exact moment he gets it, his eyes beginning to sparkle with a nervous but amused little chuckle, turning back to his wheel again.
"Alright..." Ted let's out a long sigh. "We'll make a stop at Walmart on the way back. We'll get you some makeup to cover it.."
"I'm not going inside.." I scoff with a smirk.
"...I will get you some makeup to cover it."

As Ted insists that he'll be the one to get the makeup, he starts his truck back up again and pulls out of the clearing by the house we had parked by, finally getting back on the road. As we pull further away from the dead end, another truck passes us. Curious, I turn my body around to watch the truck go down the road, and sure enough, I see it slow down and turn into the driveway just before we get too far to focus on it. Oh, and there's a little stain on the backseat, where I was laying. Little white stain. Wonderful. Nice fuckin' job, Ted.

"...Pretty sure that truck was the person that lives there.." I mention, turning back to sit in my seat properly with a quiet hiss. Ooh, it does not feel good to have nothing on underneath these pants.
"Oh. Shit." Ted glances at his rearview mirror, still housing that proud smile along his blush-toned lips. "They'll probably just think we used their driveway to turn around.." We eventually get out of the suburb, one that will always been in the back of my mind from now on, and end up downtown once more. He drives us more towards the direction of the airbnb we've been staying at, but he pulls into the nearby Walmart just by our street, parking in the parking lot.