Here is an updated/ rewritten chapter 1. It has been bothering me for a while and I feel much better with this chapter. As always let me know what you think and Thank you to those who have responded to this story in any way. Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Background noise

"So what happened with you and Teddy last night," Chelsea jokingly asked Elizabeth as they were both hung over and chowing down on some Chipotle.

"Oh, you know the usual. He came, I conquered, and he left." She replied nonchalantly.

"Well, I do think one of these days you two will have a normal relationship beyond friends with benefits." Chelsea responded, scraping her burrito bowl.

"Probably not. We talk somewhat regularly but he never stays over and I never call the next day. I think as personal as we have gotten is him telling me he doesn't speak to his father right now. I mean, it works for both of us. I am scared shitless of a relationship and he gets sex with no strings attached. We're both only 22, so it's not like I think we'll be getting married tomorrow."

"So, will you ever let yourself feel more?" Chelsea asked interestedly.

"I'll never let him know it if I do," she replied truthfully.

"If you do huh," Chelsea screamed from down the hall.

Elizabeth sat there and thought of Teddy. His olive colored skin, broad shoulders and back muscles for days. The first time that she had met him was at a party. He had been drinking but really just nursing his beer. His tousled hair feeling the wind as they all sat around the bonfire and she laughed at his expressions of annoyance at the drunks. She picked up her beer and grabbed another from the cooler before sitting down next to him in a lawn chair. Her immediate reaction as she looked at his large hands and his forearms was arousal. The things I'm sure he could do with those, she thought smirking at herself.

"Do you always nurse a beer or is that only reserved for parties so you can sit here and shun the rest of us?" She asked as she handed him a beer. Teddy looked over at her as she crossed her legs and he could feel her self-confidence from where he sat. He usually had to initiate conversations with girls and the ones that initiated with him were always the ones he never cared for. He studied her big brown eyes that looked at him with desire and he took the beer from her. Her long brown hair had that wavy look as if she had just come from the beach and her tan skin complemented it. A sexual chemistry was ignited right there and he had never felt it this strongly with anyone else.

"Are you always this forward?" He asked as he opened the beer and chugged it. Elizabeth watched him chug the entire thing becoming even more turned on. Her body had never reacted to anyone like this so fast and the excitement was almost enough for her to take him right there.

"Always. Elizabeth." She spoke as she put her hand out.

"Teddy." He smiled at her as he shook her hand only to feel even more aroused. She smirked at him and returned to her beer.

"It was nice to meet you. I better get back to my friends." Elizabeth stood and walked away knowing that he was staring at her ass in her shorts and she was thankful she had picked the perfect shorts for it. She went to Chelsea and started talking knowing that Teddy was watching her so she did everything seductively; every move and with every word. Teddy watched her admiring her game and the fact that he had never met anyone like her. She was confident, fun, and extremely sexy and watching her personality dominate the party was even more entertaining. They music finally quieted as he watched her friend stand.

"Here's to some of our last semesters in school; preferably my last semester in nursing school. And here's to those that still have time left like my best friend Elizabeth here. May God have mercy on your souls." She yelled and he watched Elizabeth nudge her in reply and laugh.

"I bet I graduate and pass the NCLEX before you do." He watched Elizabeth joke and then drink the rest of her beer. A nurse; that's even better, he thought when he lost sight of her. He looked around and saw her walking into the detached garage and he figured that was his cue. He opened the door and followed the music upstairs to find her on the bed looking at her laptop.

"Hi." She smiled at him and she closed it.

"Hi." He replied and he could tell she wanted this as much as he did. "Nursing school huh?" He asked and immediately felt regret as he mentally smacked himself. Elizabeth laughed and walked over to him whispering in his ear, "I do much better with demands than questions." Her breath on his ear instantly gave him an erection and he let out a small breath of challenge.

"Fine. Take off your clothes." He demanded and she stripped for him; never taking her eyes off him and he pinned her to the bed and she tore off his clothes. He couldn't remember the last time he had been so desperate to touch someone or kiss someone and he did, all over her body. He fucked her hard and in about five different positions that night as he couldn't get enough of the way she said his name when she orgasmed. After their last session, he left his number with her and left. He couldn't be in a relationship right now and most definitely not with her. She was the most detached woman he had ever met and he knew developing any feelings for her were a loss, but thoughts of her and that night preoccupied him for weeks. All of their mutual friends told him not to get attached to her and he decided to just let her go, but fate had other plans.

He walked into his friend Freddie's house as he was having a thanksgiving party since everyone was back from school. The scene was usual with people drinking, girls dancing, and games played when he saw Elizabeth. She was in leather skinnies, nude pumps, and a grey blazer with her friend Chelsea as they both were playing beerpong. He watched her do cute little dances every time she made one and the guy across the table was eye fucking her like crazy. Teddy knew he had to have her and he wouldn't be able to stand seeing her leave with anyone else. He kept his distance knowing that acting like her boyfriend in front of everyone would only push her away forever. His friends finally found him and he talked with them refraining from giving her any attention in hopes that it would draw her in first. It must have worked because with an hour of not looking at her, she finally came over to him.

"Hey." She snapped at him probably upset that she had to make the first move again.

"Hey, I didn't even see you here. How are you?" He asked nonchalantly.

"I'm good. Busy with school. So, are you going to be at all of these parties from now on?" He watched her squirm probably because she never had to work this hard before but neither had he.

"Looks like it." Teddy kept his answers short and his attention focused on his drink. He could tell it was working because she just kept standing there.

"Wanna get out of here?" She asked and he looked up at her, grabbed his keys, and led her out to his car.

They lay breathless on her bed as they both recovered from their multiple orgasms for the night. Elizabeth turned over to him and he couldn't help but be captivated by her blushed cheeks and her look of content.

"Um, Can we make this like a regular thing?" She asked him nervously and he found it extremely adorable considering he had never seen her this way before.

"What do you mean? Friends with benefits?" He asked excitedly as she ran her fingers up and down his abs.

"Yeah." Her eyes looked up at him studying his response.

"Only if at parties that we're both at we only leave with each other." He demanded and he watched her think about it and her fingers danced on his chest making him smile. He didn't even care about the possible consequences for him because he would take her any way he could get her. She reluctantly agreed and he decided to take her one more time before he left as he took one of her fingers in his mouth and sucked on it. "Smart boy." She smiled as she climbed back on top of him. It was a year of their visits being at the end of parties or with a simple phone call and Elizabeth noticed herself becoming too attached to Teddy and began dating someone else. He was fun, good looking, and someone she knew she couldn't fall in love with. He was a fix but not Teddy. She kept talking to Teddy late at night during studying and he hadn't expressed any discomfort with her dating which only made her want him more. He would be online and distract her long enough that she was tired for clinical s the next day. It was mostly flirting until he then started to talk about his recent hookups in detail with her.

Teddy hated the fact that she had begun to date someone and he knew she didn't even like him. He couldn't for the life of him understand why she was doing it and the entire thing just pissed him off. He saw her online and decided he had enough and he wanted to piss her off too. He began to tell her of a rendezvous he had never had but she would never know.

Latersteddy (12:30am) : I hooked up with this chick this past weekend and she was one of the best I think. She was just crazy in bed.

Elizabeth hadn't expected a message like this and felt her heart drop. She waited, measuring the right response knowing that he was trying to get a rise out of her.

Elizabethrawr (12:35am): I'm glad you had fun considering your most always lame in social settings.

Latersteddy (12:36am): I'm a fun guy and I definitely showed her just how fun I can be...

Elizabethrawr (12:38am): Well, if only everyone was lucky enough to get you in the form I usually do. I'm sure you rocked her world. I have no doubts. Anyways, I gotta get off for tonight, we're drawing blood at clinicals tomorrow and unless I want to be "that" nurse who butchers a blood draw, I better go to sleep. Laters as you would say.

Latersteddy (12:39am): Peace

She stared hoping he had something better to respond with but he signed off. She wanted to cry at the thought of him in bed with someone else and she did for most of the night.

Elizabeth woke up that morning renewed and thankful that a full day of clinicals was the exact distraction she needed and decided right then, no more Teddy.