Best Friend Confessions (Audio Script)

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Yeah, yeah put those pillows right back against there, and we… yep, there. Okay, good…

You’re a genius! If we stretch the fitted sheet over the back of that one, we can tuck it in…. here…

Or we could turn the couch around and use the back of it to hold it up? What do you think?

No, no… if you have another idea, let’s hear it, because we definitely need to make this part bigger if we’re all going to fit. I swear, I don’t remember this being as hard when we were kids.

Maybe it’s because we were smaller back then…

Oh… what’s your idea?

We could have two of them, yeah… but wouldn’t it be more fun if we were all together?

I think I might be overthinking this. Is it possible to over-engineer a blanket fort?

God, that’s a statement I never thought I’d make.

Yeah, you’re right… Okay, let’s give the first idea a try and if we can’t make it work, we’ll switch things up, how’s that?

Good! You grab those chairs… yep, good. Now, if we set them up facing each other, yeah yeah.

Nice, that’s great. Then we can then put the flat sheet over the top…

Add weights on the seats to hold it tight, and we can tuck it down behind the couch so it stays…

Ta-da! Okay, what do you think? We’re all going to have to get up close and personal, but I think we’ll all fit.

Now, let’s get this other sheet down on the floor so we can start adding pillows for ultimate comfy vibes.

Plus, it means less laundry if we insulate the blankets from direct contact.

Here, you take one end and go inside… I’ll hold the other end back here, yeah, just take that end, cool.

Think there’s enough headroom in there?

Awesome, right, now to just put so many pillows in there it’ll be like climbing into the world’s softest ball pit.

I can toss them in for you, and you set them up, yeah?

Oh, right… these big ones. Where do you want them? We can start with them or use them last…

Nice, we can then put the flat sheet over the top.

Yeah, good call, first option it is. Better lumbar support for our aging spines.

Excellent work. Roomie dream team. High five?

This didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. All that planning we put in paid off, didn’t it?

Between the floor plans and the architect, we were really well appointed for our…

I’m joking, I’m joking!

I know, I overplanned but hey, it means we have like… an extra hour to kill now and we can just relax.

Or, we can make a snack station inside the fort…

What? No, we totally can… we can just use this bit here, like a table… yeah, like that.

Somewhere safe to put snacks and drinks while we’re all watching the movie, plus phones or whatever so nothing gets lost or stood on.

Not that I’ve knelt on my phone and had to replace the screen and pick glass out of my knees before or anything… I just think it’s a good idea, is all.

Plus with that shelf behind us we can store extra plates and drinks and stuff…

Which means less moving around, less interruptions. I know you hate those.

Besides, the more still everyone is, the less clean up we will have to do around the rest of the apartment tomorrow.

No, I think it’s okay, seems solid… but let me check, hang on...

Yeah, okay, that’s looking good… there’s some extra sheet so we might end up with a little slack, but it’s not going anywhere.

So we’ve got pillows, snacks set up, a movie plan, and a million blankets… Anything else you can think of? I feel like I’m missing something.

Like more blankets, or maybe another side table or anything?

Yeah, you’re right, let’s leave it then and we can grab whatever else we might need later.

Then yeah, we’re pretty much ready… and if anything else comes up we can deal with it then.

No, I know you don’t, the unknown isn’t my favorite thing either. But it’s whatever happens is going to happen basically… and it’s just a blanket fort movie night, right, baby? It’ll be fine.

Hmm? Did I just call you “baby?”

No, I didn’t, I—I mean I don’t think I did at least.

Did I?

Oh god, uh… it just kind of slipped out, I didn’t mean to say it. I didn’t even know I had—

Wow, that’s kind of embarrassing. I don’t know where that came from… crap, I’m really sorry. I don’t know… did that make you uncomfortable?

I mean, I feel like I kind of do need to apologize. It came out of nowhere, I was just trying to make you feel better, because I know the uncertainty makes you anxious and… yeah… it surprised me just as much as it did you, though.

I swear, I didn’t mean to make anything weird, or make you uncomfortable or anything like that.

I was thinking too fast and… it just… came out, you know?

I’m not acting awkward, just trying to explain is all, because I don’t want anything to be awkward.

I mean we’ve known each other for so long, and we’ve always been such good friends. I don’t want you thinking I suddenly want more…

I mean, that would be really awful of me, and, like, really unfair.

No, god. No! I’m definitely not trying to say being with you would be awful or unfair, that’s not what I meant. I just meant it would be unfair to suddenly change course without, like… for you to feel like you had to do things differently or…

I mean, we’re roommates and friends! You live here, so feeling like things changed when you didn’t want them to… I just don’t want you to feel uncomfortable in your own apartment… or like upset or anything, or… oh my god, I’m going to stop rambling now.

Really, are you sure? I mean, it was definitely something out of the blue.

I mean it even took me by surprise, so if it did the same to you then that’s totally okay…

A… a little excited? Like excited how?

Was it like… what I said or… how I said it? Or like, because it was me?

Because like all of those, or none even, are fine… or if you don’t want to tell me, that’s fine too. You can’t like, get it wrong, you know?

I might be, yeah, a little nervous. This has fully gone off script and people are coming and I have no idea what I’m doing.

It’s just… I didn’t expect to say anything like that, or to call you that… and the way you’re looking at me… your response… I wasn’t expecting that either.

I mean, of course you had to respond. I was talking to you after all, but like, the way you just said you’re feeling… I didn’t expect that.

Like I said, I don’t want to make things awkward or uncomfortable for anyone, we live together.

Are you uncomfortable?

Okay, good. I’m glad you’re not… because that would suck. We’ve known each other forever, we have so many of the same friends, so avoiding discomfort and stuff is good. There’s just a lot to think about, and thinking about those things wasn’t on my bingo card for today.

I mean, yeah, maybe, I don’t know… maybe I did like it… and maybe, I’ve thought about you like that before… not in a while though, I swear I’m not just like, waiting around for you to—

Well, when we first met I kind of wondered, but then we got closer and it just kind of got sidelined…

We moved in here, together, and I didn’t want to be the weirdo hitting on his roommate.

But… why do you ask? Is it something you’ve thought about?

A bit? Like at the beginning or is it something you’ve thought about after that, or maybe, was it more recently?

You don’t have to tell me right now, or at all, if you don’t want to…

Like I said, we’ve got people coming over later, maybe now isn’t the best time to get into it.

Unless you want to get into it now, we do have some time…

Thanks to all my overplanning.

But we can definitely leave it until later and maybe talk about it then… it’s whatever you’re comfortable with, okay?

Oh… oh wow.

(Surprised)

So you thought of it then… and now.

I mean, I’d ask why you didn’t say anything but, I didn’t either… so instead, I wanna ask… how recently? When you say recently, like, when?

Oh, so then yeah, recently recently… wow.

What… what kind of things were you thinking, then? Like, at first and now… is it just, like, us together for a night or like… in a relationship or… something else?

Me? Yeah, I did… I have thought about it too. A lot, actually. I just… had no idea you did.

But I guess you thought I didn’t either.

Our timing is, truly, terrible.

All this confessional hour right before we have a house full of people and… it’s a lot, huh?

Didn’t expect to call you baby and definitely didn’t expect all of this to come out… well, at all, really…

But, is that such a bad thing, do you think? For this to have come out I mean.

Yeah, it could be… something to explore, even just talk about when we get the time… or when we make the time.

You want to talk about it now? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like waiting either, but we don’t have to rush anything,

We have time. We have lots of time, actually…

If you want time to think more, or to just to process, I’ll give you as much time as you need.

I mean we’ve waited this long, mainly by accident apparently, but we can wait a bit longer.

We could wait until everyone leaves and stay up and talk through the night, if you want?

Whatever feels best for you.

I don’t want to wait either, I don’t want to wait for tomorrow… or tonight.

We’ve got some time now, a few hours at least, and we’re fully prepared, so if you want to use this time to see where things go… what it could be like, well, I’m open to that.

Yeah? You like that idea?

Good… because I do too. I really do, because I really like you, and I want to show you how much.

Especially with you looking at me like that, being so close. Is it… would it be okay if I got closer? If I put my hands… here?

Oh yeah? Is that doing it for you?

Well, then is there anything else I can do for you, baby?

God, I’ve been waiting so long for this… we’ve waited so long… and if I’d known, maybe I wouldn’t have waited at all.

I mean I wouldn’t have waited to kiss you… to do anything else, everything else… whatever you want me to.

I love the feel of your lips on mine. Such a perfect fit, so soft and…

Yes, more please…

Fuck, kissing you just makes me want more, need more.

Can I take these off? Get them out of the way?

Good.

Fuck, look at you. So beautiful… you look incredible, just, fucking incredible. And the way you feel when I run my fingers up… here…

Did that tickle? Sorry, I just can’t get over how good you look.

Here, come here, baby, right here, lie down on this blanket. Let me see you, feel you.

I love the way your breath catches when I kiss you here… slowly, trailing over your skin like this…

The way you arch and shift… the feel of your skin… it’s so fucking hot… makes me want to run my hands here, up between your legs and…

Mmm, yes, push your thighs apart so I can kiss you… here… and here…

Is that not what you want? No? Then where do you want my kisses, baby?

Use your words… Here? You want me to kiss your pussy?

Mmm, fuck you taste so good. Such a beautiful pussy, so pretty.

Do you like the way that feels, when I use my tongue here to tease you? You like it when I play with your clit like this?

It’s so fun to tease you, but… fuck, I am a selfish man and I want more… I need more.