Spell Checked by C. G. Powell Page B

remark before they headed back into the bedroom.
     
     
    ~~~***~~~
     
     
    "How are you feeling Mae?" Gemma asked, concerned about her friend’s welfare.
    "I'm feeling much better, thank you."  As long as Beck was near, she was fine.
    "You guys slept through lunch.  If you’re hungry, I can have some food sent up," Meredith suggested.
    "Food sounds good, I'm starving.  Keeping Beck warm has completely drained me of energy.”
    Aidan returned Beck to bed and piled the pillows in back of him so he could sit up.
    "I was just about to call room service, what would you like from the menu?" Mae asked Beck playfully, pretending his home was a luxury hotel.
    "I hear the steak bites with hollandaise sauce here at Chateau Beckett are exquisite," Beck replied, playing along with Mae’s game.
    “That sounds delicious,” she smiled.
    "Steak bites it is,” Meredith repeated, getting up to tell the kitchen staff.
    Gemma and Aidan stayed until they were finished eating, then went back to the game room down the hall, leaving Beck and Mae alone once more.
    “I challenge you to a game of Starcraft,” Beck said, handing Mae her laptop.
     
     
    ~~~***~~~
     
     
    Gemma could hear noise coming from the bedroom and felt she and Aidan needed to investigate.
    YOUR FORCES HAVE ENGAGED THE ENEMY could be heard down the hall as they walked closer.
    YOUR FORCES ARE UNDER ATTACK    “No fucking way!  Stop cheating,” Mae yelled at Beck.
    “I did not!  Now concede or face my wrath…”  Beck shouted back.
    Gemma and Aidan stood at the door laughing at Beck and Mae, with both laptops in bed, completely engrossed in their game.  “We should film this Aidan…Nerds in their natural habitat,” Gemma laughed, as she and Aidan turned to leave.
    They were walking down the hallway when Aidan confessed to her, “I have never seen him this happy.”
    “Mae either,” said Gemma.
     
     
    ~~~***~~~
     
     
    The game was over and Mae had lost horribly.  When she noticed a thumb drive sticking out of his USB port, she grabbed the thumb drive and quickly jumped off her side of the bed.  “Is this where you keep the cheat codes Mr. Cheaty McCheater?” she accused him, holding the thumb drive in the air as she stood on the side of the bed opposite him.
    “Mae I need that, it is for work,” Beck said, climbing out of bed on his side and dashing around the bed to catch her.
    She tried to crawl back across the bed to get away but was too slow.  Beck grabbed Mae by her ankle, flipping her onto her back, dragging her half way off the side of the bed.  She quickly wrapped her legs around his waist, so she wouldn’t fall off the edge of the bed as he leaned over her, pinning her arms above her head.
    “Where is my stick, Mae?  I need it,” he demanded as he relaxed his grip.
    “As far as I can feel…I would say in your pants,” she joked feeling Beck get hard against her through his clothes.
    He started to go pale.  “I need to lie down,” he said half-winded, letting go of her wrist and crawling on to the bed beside her.
    She pulled the thumb drive from her bra where she had safely secured it and placed it in his hand.  “You don’t look so well, should I get Aidan?” she asked.
    “No.  That little run around the bed wore me out.  I just need to lie down for a minute,” Beck said, rolling over to his side so they could spoon with his arms wrapped around her.
    “By the way, I like the way you look in my PJ’s.”  Beck thought of her running around the bed in his clothes; on her they were sexy.  He felt wanted, knowing she took them so that she could have a piece of him with her.
    Mae nudged her elbow back into him playfully.  Again, she had been busted for taking his clothes.  “I’m not giving them back.”  No matter how things turned out between them, it would be the one thing to remind her of him.
    For Beck, all of this was new.  He had forgotten what it was like to fall in love, having never lived in the moment