Lauren felt sick as she walked down to dinner. She had had the six-monthly fitness test earlier that afternoon and she still felt like throwing up. She spotted Rat at the end of the line and hurried towards him so they could chat like boyfriend and girlfriend do.
"Hey," Rat said in his Australian accent. He smiled at her, and pecked Lauren on the cheek.
"Hi!" Lauren grinned mischeviously, before tasting bile and straightening her face.
"So, what you getting to eat?" Rat asked.
"I dunno. Not much though, I feel sick right now. What about you?"
"I was waiting to see what you had."
"Oh..." Lauren grinned at him and rested her head on his shoulder. "So you hear about my fitness test today?"
"Nope. You forgot to text me," Rat put on a wounded look before laughing. "So what happened?"
"Oh, same old thing, ya know. But this nurse was a trainee and it took twice as long - and when she couldn't figure stuff out she kept me running."
"Ouch." Rat smiled sympathetically, "Not too good then, eh?"
"No way," Lauren agreed, "And she said that I have to run 5km every two days and not have desserts for a month. I was like, 'I'm fully fit though!' She was like, 'Well, apparently, you've over-estimated that.' I was like 'PISS OFF FATTY' but since I'm skating on thin ice to stay at CHERUB, I didn't say anything. It's so dumb though!"
"Aaaaw," Rat said sympathetically, "My poor baby."
Lauren grinned. "DON'T think I'm your posession. I'm still better than you at martial arts, remember."
"Shut up. I haven't been at CHERUB for as long as you!"
Lauren stuck her tongue out as they sat down at their table. The conversation tickled over until the two had both finished eating and were just listening to Bethany ramble on about the boys she'd made out with recently. After a little bit, Lauren signalled to Rat to go upstairs with her and Rat, eager not to miss a snog, followed enthusiastically. When the two went intom Lauren's room, Rat kicked the door shut and said with his arms spread wide, "So, what now?"
Lauren grinned. "I need my homework done," she said, "So no snogging...for now."
Rat's expression changed to wounded. He reached forward and put his arms around Lauren and gave her a hug.
Lauren giggled. "Stop it," she chuckled, as Rat sneaked his hand down her shorts.
"You sure, my little girl?" Rat made a fuss of kissing Lauren's neck as he pulled her onto the bed. "This seems more fun than homework, darling Lauren. Let's stay here...who'll know?"
"Rat..." Lauren's pleads were getting weaker. She was enjoying it and Rat knew it. Rat snuck a hand up her shirt and got it around her boob.
"Ooh...they've grown," Rat chuckled.
"You horny dick," Lauren giggled, before giving in and snogging Rat back. Rat realised they were getting somewhere and tried pulling Lauren's shirt off. But Lauren remembered her homework and pushed him away.
"Sorry," she gasped, pulling her shirt down, "But I really have to do my homework, Rat."
Rat was wounded. He'd just started enjoying himself. "Fine," he muttered bitterly, "I guess you aren't in the mood. I though we were getting somwhere and..." he walked closer to Lauren and put his hands on her waist suggestively, "I thought we could do something we would both enjoy..."
Lauren giggled again. She wasn't sure what to choose as Rat gently guided her towards the bed, then pulled her close as he lay down on Lauren's huge bed.
"No," she said firmly, "Rat, you're manipulating me."
Rat stood up abruptly. "I'm not getting anywhere with you, and I haven't for ages. I might as well go talk to Bethany, I'm sure she won't have any homework which takes priority."
"Rat..." Lauren begged desperately as Rat reacher for the door. He turned back.
"Yes?"
"I - I...I've got homework...can you help with it? Then we can have some time to ourselves, and I'm sure I can make it worth your while."
Rat looked at her longingly, before shaking his head. "I know what you're like, Lauren. You'll have more and more homework...and we won't get anything done."
Lauren shook her head with frustration. "Please, Rat," she pleaded, "Just stay here with me...it'll take 30min max. It'll be 7:30 then and we'll have 1 and a half hours to do whatever we want."
Rat smiled, as he loked at his watch. "I guess I could..." Rat grinned suggestively, "But how about homework later and snogging before? Otherwise, I might as well go snog Bethany all night long."
Lauren looked up at Rat and breathed his smell. She nodded a tiny bit, and Rat took this as a cue to grab her round the waist and kiss her while his hand went up her shirt and his other hand pulled the elastic of her shorts. Lauren smiled happily and fell onto the bed, with Rat lieing beside her. Lauren grabbed his bum and the two snogged for a while, until Lauren got bored.
"Okay," Lauren said in gasps between Rat's tongue being in her mouth, "We need to stop...Rat...stop...please, Rat...STOP!"
Rat jumped up abruptly, shocked by the ferocity of Lauren's last plead. Lauren smiled, before saying firmly, "This is boring now. Let's do some homework together, eh?"
Rat was annoyed. "I'm too turned on now," he said as he shook his head firmly, "We could keep snogging...or maybe we could go the whole way..."
"Or maybe not!" Lauren snorted. "No way, Rat. I'm sick of you begging to have sex...We can do it when we're sixteen. And we're not. So, same as always, the answer is no, and the answer to you staying in this room is also no. Goodbye!"
Rat pleaded desperately. "Sorry, Lauren...I'm a pig...can we just be friends?"
Lauren said, "OUT! We may be friends if you leave me alone...bu I'm going to have to think carefully about it. And DON'T get your hopes up about having me as your girlfriend anytime soon!" She slammed the door, rubbed her hands, and sat down to do homework.
