'Hey its late' Will says quietly from the door. I had lost myself in packaging orders, getting as many done as I could. Will and I moved all of the boxes I had filled with orders to the entrance hall ready to be collected by a courier in the morning, before ordering a take-away as neither of us had eaten.

'So what happened with Alex?' Will asks, putting his plate down on the coffee table and scooting slightly closer to me. 'You two a thing?'

'No no. We aren't a thing. I thought there was going to be, but we are just friends now.'

'Oh really? So you are free for the taking?' Will asks, winking and laughing as he does so.

'Oh shush you' I laugh, shoving him over onto his side playfully.

'Don't start something you can't finish' Will says jokily, pushing me back. We tumble around for a few minutes, pushing and shoving and tickling, laughing at the top of our lungs.

I don't know how it happened, but suddenly my lips were on his, tugging his t-shirt over his head as pulled my jogging bottoms down my thighs. Clothes flying around the room with no regard, hands groping each others naked bodies, our lips melded together.

***

When we wake the next morning, I am back in his bed with nothing but his t-shirt on. Will in just his boxers. The memories of the night before come flooding back and I realise what we have done. This wasn't a good idea.

Will made us breakfast in bed, both talking through what had happened. We had decided it was a silly mistake. Will had a girlfriend, and I wanted Alex. We agreed to never tell anyone, to take our secret to the grave.

***

'Look who is back' Alex called across the kitchen when I finally go home later that evening. 'Staying out all night huh?' he asks.

'I was packaging till late so I just crashed on his sofa' I lie smoothly. 'Then I got up early and cracked on with more orders. I can't believe how fast everything is selling out.'

'I think you need to start designing for the second merch drop' George says as he walks into the room to join us. 'Or maybe the same design but on different colours' he adds.

'I was thinking the second to be honest' I say, sitting on a bar stool next to Alex. 'If these had sold so quickly, then there must be more demand. This drop was all black, so I think we change it up.'

We sit in the kitchen for the next hour or so, planning colour ways and throwing ideas around. We settle on yellow, pink and blue. Then we will do one final drop of these designs in white. I ring Will, and he emails the manufacturer for me. If I thought 1500 was a large first drop, the second would be 4500. That is a lot of stuff to store and pack. I gave Will my bank details for the account the sales were going into, and it was done. As easy as that.

Once George had disappeared off to bed me and Alex sat and ordered more packing materials, before going our separate ways and heading to bed ourselves.

I fall asleep almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, knackered from all of the excitement of the past few days.

'Jess?' A whisper from the darkness wakes me in the middle of the night.