Friendly Encounters- Chapter Five
He bit down on her lip, and Blair gasped. As she opened her mouth, he used the opportunity to sink his tongue inside her mouth. They both groaned out loud at the contact. His tongue swirled around inside her mouth, memorizing every crevice and corner and making Blair his. She Gusot her tongue with his, and Chuck had to grip her hips to steady himself. The passion was threatening to overtake them both.
She Gusot her hands in his hair, and they kissed for what felt like hours. He finally broke the halik and looked at her face, and he had to admit he loved what he saw. Her lips were swollen from his kisses and her eyes were burning with lust. Blair stared back at him, and she knew that they had crossed the line but she didn’t care anymore. She grabbed his sando to bring him back down to her lips. Chuck went willingly.
He picked her up and brought her to his desk, her back slammed against the wall. His mouth was back on hers and she reached out to unbutton his shirt. Blair tore at the buttons and some of them popped out and went all over the floor. She didn’t care though; she just needed to feel him. She pulled his sando out of the waistband of his pants, and he was finally free of it. Her hands immediately went to his chest and she felt the crinkle of his chest hair.
Her hand went to explore one of his nipples, and he let out a sharp gasp when he felt her hand. He helped her shrug out of her amerikana and there slipped the shoulder of her tuktok down. She moaned, as he placed kisses all over her neck and collarbone. Blair’s hand traveled down south and she gasped when she encountered the strength of his arousal for her. She carefully touched it; she was a little scared of it because she had never done this before.
She wanted to please him and she knew that he had bedded hundreds of women. Her fear was laid to rest when he groaned out her name. “Oh my god, Blair. I want you so fucking bad.”
A thrill went through her at his words. “Me too, Chuck.”
He looked at her. “Yeah?”
She swallowed hard. “More than I’ve ever wanted anybody in my life.” She just hoped that had admission didn’t scare him away.
His eyes glazed over with madami than just passion, but she didn’t have a chance to decipher it because his mouth was back on her lips and his hand was cupping her breast. She arched up into his touch. Just as she went to unzip his pants and his hand had creeped into her panties, there was a knock on the door. They sprang apart each other, as though they had been burned.
“Fuck.” He said, as he ran his hand through his hair. Whoever had just interrupted him when he was with Blair, was going to pay. He hastily put on his sando and saw that Blair had scampered into the bathroom.
He wrenched opened the door and saw that it was Nate again. “Now, what do you want?”
Nate winced at his sharp tone. “I just wanted to apologize for coming over here yesterday and asking how to win Blair over. That’s something that I have to figure out myself.”
“Yeah, you do.” He scoffed. “How could you expect me to give you tips on how to score with my best friend?”
Nate shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I just needed a little help because in all honesty Blair doesn’t seem into me that much and I really do like her.”
Chuck felt a pang of guilt at Nate’s words. If he only knew what he and his girlfriend had just been doing. He shuddered at the thought. “I don’t even know what to tell you Nate. I just can’t help where Blair’s concerned. We always promised each other that we would never tell anybody anything about the other.”
“Not even a little something.” Nate pleaded.
“Didn’t I just tell you that I’m not going to tell you how to get with my friend? Come on, man.”
Nate nodded. “You’re right, I’m sorry that I bothered you. I’m going to go find Blair and try to work things out with her.” He hurried down the hallway and Chuck sighed in relief. Now he just had to deal with Blair, and he was already not looking pasulong to that.
She opened the bathroom door slowly, but did not dare look at him. She had almost cheated on her boyfriend, and she was not proud of that. It actually made her feel pretty horrible.
Chuck walked over to her and cupped her cheek in his hand. “Blair?”
She finally looked at him and wet her lips. She immediately wished she didn’t because his eyes followed her tongue back into her mouth. “We will just forget that just happened. That’s all, there’s no need to make a big deal out of it.”
He felt himself get angry, but he didn’t want to take it out on Blair. But she shouldn’t be denying what they both knew was happening between them. “Forget it? I don’t fucking think so.”
Blair walked away from him, she desperately needed the space. “We have to forget it Chuck, or it’s just going to ruin our friendship. And I don’t want that to ever happen. Plus, I’m with Nate.”
“You’re with a guy who bores you.” He shouted. “But that’s not how it is with us. I know you can feel it, Blair.”
She whirled around to face him. “So what if I can feel it? It doesn’t matter because as soon as I sleep with you, then you’ll discard me, like you do with all the other women in your life. Our friendship is the most important thing to me and I don’t know if I would be able to survive without it.”
He put his arms around her waist and she reluctantly let him. “It wouldn’t be like that, Blair. This is different. I would never discard you, as you put it.”
Blair closed her eyes, when she felt his hand go up to the base of her neck and start to massage the tension away. “It’s too risky. I’m staying with Nate, and that’s the end of this discussion.” She made to ilipat away from him but he wouldn’t let her.
“Does Nate make you feel like this?” Chuck asked, as he put his hand on the tuktok of her chest.
“No.” She breathed back.
“Does Nate make your puso thump and make you feel as though you can’t breathe?” He asked, as he leaned down to place soft kisses on her neck.
“No.” Her eyes rolled back in pleasure.
“Then shut up and halik me.” He whispered in her ear.
Blair didn’t know what else to do, so she complied. Her hands Gusot in his hair as their mouths melded together again. Chuck’s hand went straight to her asno as he massaged the curve of it. Their tongues Gusot again as they dueled for control of the kiss. He growled as she licked a path up his ear and his hand went to her breast. Blair sensed that this was going to get out of control quickly again, so she stopped it.
She broke their kiss. “I sinabi no, Chuck. We can’t keep doing this.”
“Why the fuck not?” This was the segundo time she had left him with a hard on and he was getting frustrated now.
She sighed. “I’ve told you that I don’t want to ruin our friendship and that’s final. I have to go find Nate. I’ll see you later.”
“Blair.” He called. She stopped in her tracks and turned to face him. “We can’t go back to being just mga kaibigan now. Not now that we know how it is between us.”
She shook her head resolutely. “We will just be friends.” Blair said, as she left his suite.
XOXO
God, what had she been thinking to halik Chuck like that? Their relationship would be broken now, and she didn’t want that. She wanted to be there for Chuck like he had always been for her. She remembered the first time she had comforted him.
XOXO
She ran into his house, and saw him curled into a fetal position in the middle of the kusina floor. She knew what was wrong, but she wanted him to tell her anyways.
She placed a hand on his back. “Chuck. I’m here. What’s wrong?”
He shrugged her hand off of his back and pounded his hands in rage on the floor. She let him howl for a few minutes, until she tried again.
“Chuck. Talk to me.”
She still didn’t get a response, and she knew the only way to get his attention was to yell at him. That would bring him out of his stupor. “Listen to me, you’ve got to talk to me. It’s me, Blair!”
He finally raised his head and looked at her through red rimmed eyes. It was obvious that he had been crying. “Blair?” It was like he didn’t even know that she had been there.
She wiped some of the tears off his face. “I know what’s happened and I want you to know that I’m here for you.”
He stifled a sob and threw himself into her arms, while he cried until he had no madami tears. She soothed him, sa pamamagitan ng talking to him and smoothing back his hair. They must have spent hours in the kitchen.
He lifted his head again. “How could she have left me, Blair? She was the only one that ever truly loved me and now I’m stuck with only Bart.”
He placed his head in her lap and Blair tried to comfort him the best she could. “I don’t know how you’re feeling Chuck because my mother didn’t die, but I don’t even want l to imagine that kind of pain. And I don’t even like my mother sometimes but I would never want to be without her. I’m sorry, Chuck.”
He sighed. “I just don’t know what I’m going to do without her, Blair. My mother was the one that always understood me and how is it going to be with just Bart around? I’m actually even scared to think of that, he barely talks to me now, as it is.”
She shifted on the floor, the weight of his head was starting to hurt her legs. “I know that you’re in mortal pain Chuck, but I will not have you talking like that. You know that your mother wasn’t the only one to pag-ibig you and understand you. I do. I pag-ibig you and I always will, we’re best mga kaibigan and you know that I will always be there for you.”
Chuck reached blindly for her hand. “I pag-ibig you too, Blair. You’re the one person in my life that doesn’t judge me and that means everything to me. Promise me something.”
“Anything.”
“No matter what happens in our lives, I want us to promise each other that we will always be there if the other needs it.”
She smiled. The first smile she had felt all day. “Chuck, I will always be here for you and nothing will change that. We’re basically each other’s life and nothing could drag me away from you. Ever.”
He tried to smile but he found that he face was frozen, he just couldn’t do it. He squeezed Blair’s hand tighter. “I promise you too, that I will be there if you ever need me. You’re my life and that’s how it’s always going to be.”
“You’re absolutely right, Chuck.”
XOXO
She tried to clear her head as she walked to Nate’s but found she couldn’t. She remembered that araw vividly in her head when they had promised to always be there for each other and it was a promise they had never broken. It was a promise made of friendship, but they had crossed that line today.
Blair was becoming madami distressed sa pamamagitan ng the second. She wasn’t thinking of Chuck merely as a friend, she wanted more. Much more. She had done the impossible. She had gone and fallen in pag-ibig with Chuck Bass.”
XOXO
“We need to talk, Nate.” Blair sinabi as she walked into his house ready to get a few things straight with him.
He led her over to the couch. “What’s going on, Blair?”
She turned to face him. “I need you to stop going to Chuck to discuss me. He’s my best friend, it’s not like he’s going to tell you anything about me. And don’t you think that it’s kind of crazy to do that?”
Nate glanced at her, but then looked at the soles of his expensive Italian loafers. “I’m sorry Blair, I just get the feeling that you’re not into me that much and I really do like you. So I thought maybe Chuck could give me some tips on what you like so I could surprise you with something.”
Blair felt the guilt churning in her stomach, he was just so sweet. “I do like you Nate, it’s just that you can’t go to Chuck about me. I mean, I’m not going to go to one of your mga kaibigan to find out information about you. We’ll learn that stuff about each other as we continue dating.”
He moved closer to her on the couch. “You’re right, Blair. I’m sorry now that I even did it. sa pamamagitan ng the way, Chuck was quite rude to me.
A burst of laughter spilled from her lips before she could contain it. “That’s Chuck for you.”
Nate looked at her suspiciously. “I want to ask you a question, but I don’t want you to get mad if I ask you.”
“I’m not going to be angry. Go ahead.”
“Okay. Is there madami than just friendship between you and Bass?”
Blair gulped quickly, suddenly desperate for some oxygen. “Of course not, we’re only friends. I mean we’ve been mga kaibigan for such a long time that I could see why you would think that but we’re purely platonic.” She lied, Blair knew that they had gone way past the stage of just friends, but she didn’t want to admit that to herself. Because then she would also have to admit, that she could never have a relationship with Chuck, it just wouldn’t work.
“Are you sure?” Nate asked.
“Yes. Absolutely.”
He grinned at her and went to halik her. They shared a passionate halik and she hated to acknowledge it, but she felt nothing. There was just one problem with Nate, he wasn’t Chuck.”
XOXO
She had been avoiding him for the last few days, but she knew that she needed to face him now. She spotted Chuck in the courtyard and went over to him.
“Hey. How are you?” Wow. This was definitely awkward.
Chuck gave her the once over. “Waldorf. Are you finally talking to me again?”
“Since when have you ever called me Waldorf?”
“And since when have you avoided me, Blair?” He was angry.
She wanted to reach out and grab him, but she knew that was a very bad idea. “I haven’t been trying to avoid you, it’s just that I feel a little funny about what happened last week.”
His anger evaporated instantly. Chuck pushed a piece of her hair back. “That’s because you know what we could have, Blair.”
She grinned at him. “Is this Chuck bass I’m talking to? What happened to the man that once told me that he would never have a relationship?”
He moved his thumb over the pulse point in her arm and she felt tingling where his fingers rubbed. “Things change, Blair.”
“Are you serious?”
“I’ve never been madami serious, Blair. I just know that I want you.”
She felt the heat rise at her words, because that was what she wanted too. madami than anything.
She put her arm on his shoulder and saw his head lower, and she knew that he was going to halik her. She stalled him. “No. I can’t do this right now.”
Chuck watched her run away from him and he couldn’t help the grin that spread across his face. Blair wanted him just as much as he wanted her. He knew that he should feel scared that he wanted a relationship with her but all he felt was a strong sense of elation. He knew what he had to do now. He was going to seduce Blair Waldorf.
To Be Continued…
A/N: Another chapter completed. I had so much fun Pagsulat this particular one. How much longer do you think Blair and Chuck will be able to resist each other? Let me know what you thought.
-Sam
He bit down on her lip, and Blair gasped. As she opened her mouth, he used the opportunity to sink his tongue inside her mouth. They both groaned out loud at the contact. His tongue swirled around inside her mouth, memorizing every crevice and corner and making Blair his. She Gusot her tongue with his, and Chuck had to grip her hips to steady himself. The passion was threatening to overtake them both.
She Gusot her hands in his hair, and they kissed for what felt like hours. He finally broke the halik and looked at her face, and he had to admit he loved what he saw. Her lips were swollen from his kisses and her eyes were burning with lust. Blair stared back at him, and she knew that they had crossed the line but she didn’t care anymore. She grabbed his sando to bring him back down to her lips. Chuck went willingly.
He picked her up and brought her to his desk, her back slammed against the wall. His mouth was back on hers and she reached out to unbutton his shirt. Blair tore at the buttons and some of them popped out and went all over the floor. She didn’t care though; she just needed to feel him. She pulled his sando out of the waistband of his pants, and he was finally free of it. Her hands immediately went to his chest and she felt the crinkle of his chest hair.
Her hand went to explore one of his nipples, and he let out a sharp gasp when he felt her hand. He helped her shrug out of her amerikana and there slipped the shoulder of her tuktok down. She moaned, as he placed kisses all over her neck and collarbone. Blair’s hand traveled down south and she gasped when she encountered the strength of his arousal for her. She carefully touched it; she was a little scared of it because she had never done this before.
She wanted to please him and she knew that he had bedded hundreds of women. Her fear was laid to rest when he groaned out her name. “Oh my god, Blair. I want you so fucking bad.”
A thrill went through her at his words. “Me too, Chuck.”
He looked at her. “Yeah?”
She swallowed hard. “More than I’ve ever wanted anybody in my life.” She just hoped that had admission didn’t scare him away.
His eyes glazed over with madami than just passion, but she didn’t have a chance to decipher it because his mouth was back on her lips and his hand was cupping her breast. She arched up into his touch. Just as she went to unzip his pants and his hand had creeped into her panties, there was a knock on the door. They sprang apart each other, as though they had been burned.
“Fuck.” He said, as he ran his hand through his hair. Whoever had just interrupted him when he was with Blair, was going to pay. He hastily put on his sando and saw that Blair had scampered into the bathroom.
He wrenched opened the door and saw that it was Nate again. “Now, what do you want?”
Nate winced at his sharp tone. “I just wanted to apologize for coming over here yesterday and asking how to win Blair over. That’s something that I have to figure out myself.”
“Yeah, you do.” He scoffed. “How could you expect me to give you tips on how to score with my best friend?”
Nate shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I just needed a little help because in all honesty Blair doesn’t seem into me that much and I really do like her.”
Chuck felt a pang of guilt at Nate’s words. If he only knew what he and his girlfriend had just been doing. He shuddered at the thought. “I don’t even know what to tell you Nate. I just can’t help where Blair’s concerned. We always promised each other that we would never tell anybody anything about the other.”
“Not even a little something.” Nate pleaded.
“Didn’t I just tell you that I’m not going to tell you how to get with my friend? Come on, man.”
Nate nodded. “You’re right, I’m sorry that I bothered you. I’m going to go find Blair and try to work things out with her.” He hurried down the hallway and Chuck sighed in relief. Now he just had to deal with Blair, and he was already not looking pasulong to that.
She opened the bathroom door slowly, but did not dare look at him. She had almost cheated on her boyfriend, and she was not proud of that. It actually made her feel pretty horrible.
Chuck walked over to her and cupped her cheek in his hand. “Blair?”
She finally looked at him and wet her lips. She immediately wished she didn’t because his eyes followed her tongue back into her mouth. “We will just forget that just happened. That’s all, there’s no need to make a big deal out of it.”
He felt himself get angry, but he didn’t want to take it out on Blair. But she shouldn’t be denying what they both knew was happening between them. “Forget it? I don’t fucking think so.”
Blair walked away from him, she desperately needed the space. “We have to forget it Chuck, or it’s just going to ruin our friendship. And I don’t want that to ever happen. Plus, I’m with Nate.”
“You’re with a guy who bores you.” He shouted. “But that’s not how it is with us. I know you can feel it, Blair.”
She whirled around to face him. “So what if I can feel it? It doesn’t matter because as soon as I sleep with you, then you’ll discard me, like you do with all the other women in your life. Our friendship is the most important thing to me and I don’t know if I would be able to survive without it.”
He put his arms around her waist and she reluctantly let him. “It wouldn’t be like that, Blair. This is different. I would never discard you, as you put it.”
Blair closed her eyes, when she felt his hand go up to the base of her neck and start to massage the tension away. “It’s too risky. I’m staying with Nate, and that’s the end of this discussion.” She made to ilipat away from him but he wouldn’t let her.
“Does Nate make you feel like this?” Chuck asked, as he put his hand on the tuktok of her chest.
“No.” She breathed back.
“Does Nate make your puso thump and make you feel as though you can’t breathe?” He asked, as he leaned down to place soft kisses on her neck.
“No.” Her eyes rolled back in pleasure.
“Then shut up and halik me.” He whispered in her ear.
Blair didn’t know what else to do, so she complied. Her hands Gusot in his hair as their mouths melded together again. Chuck’s hand went straight to her asno as he massaged the curve of it. Their tongues Gusot again as they dueled for control of the kiss. He growled as she licked a path up his ear and his hand went to her breast. Blair sensed that this was going to get out of control quickly again, so she stopped it.
She broke their kiss. “I sinabi no, Chuck. We can’t keep doing this.”
“Why the fuck not?” This was the segundo time she had left him with a hard on and he was getting frustrated now.
She sighed. “I’ve told you that I don’t want to ruin our friendship and that’s final. I have to go find Nate. I’ll see you later.”
“Blair.” He called. She stopped in her tracks and turned to face him. “We can’t go back to being just mga kaibigan now. Not now that we know how it is between us.”
She shook her head resolutely. “We will just be friends.” Blair said, as she left his suite.
XOXO
God, what had she been thinking to halik Chuck like that? Their relationship would be broken now, and she didn’t want that. She wanted to be there for Chuck like he had always been for her. She remembered the first time she had comforted him.
XOXO
She ran into his house, and saw him curled into a fetal position in the middle of the kusina floor. She knew what was wrong, but she wanted him to tell her anyways.
She placed a hand on his back. “Chuck. I’m here. What’s wrong?”
He shrugged her hand off of his back and pounded his hands in rage on the floor. She let him howl for a few minutes, until she tried again.
“Chuck. Talk to me.”
She still didn’t get a response, and she knew the only way to get his attention was to yell at him. That would bring him out of his stupor. “Listen to me, you’ve got to talk to me. It’s me, Blair!”
He finally raised his head and looked at her through red rimmed eyes. It was obvious that he had been crying. “Blair?” It was like he didn’t even know that she had been there.
She wiped some of the tears off his face. “I know what’s happened and I want you to know that I’m here for you.”
He stifled a sob and threw himself into her arms, while he cried until he had no madami tears. She soothed him, sa pamamagitan ng talking to him and smoothing back his hair. They must have spent hours in the kitchen.
He lifted his head again. “How could she have left me, Blair? She was the only one that ever truly loved me and now I’m stuck with only Bart.”
He placed his head in her lap and Blair tried to comfort him the best she could. “I don’t know how you’re feeling Chuck because my mother didn’t die, but I don’t even want l to imagine that kind of pain. And I don’t even like my mother sometimes but I would never want to be without her. I’m sorry, Chuck.”
He sighed. “I just don’t know what I’m going to do without her, Blair. My mother was the one that always understood me and how is it going to be with just Bart around? I’m actually even scared to think of that, he barely talks to me now, as it is.”
She shifted on the floor, the weight of his head was starting to hurt her legs. “I know that you’re in mortal pain Chuck, but I will not have you talking like that. You know that your mother wasn’t the only one to pag-ibig you and understand you. I do. I pag-ibig you and I always will, we’re best mga kaibigan and you know that I will always be there for you.”
Chuck reached blindly for her hand. “I pag-ibig you too, Blair. You’re the one person in my life that doesn’t judge me and that means everything to me. Promise me something.”
“Anything.”
“No matter what happens in our lives, I want us to promise each other that we will always be there if the other needs it.”
She smiled. The first smile she had felt all day. “Chuck, I will always be here for you and nothing will change that. We’re basically each other’s life and nothing could drag me away from you. Ever.”
He tried to smile but he found that he face was frozen, he just couldn’t do it. He squeezed Blair’s hand tighter. “I promise you too, that I will be there if you ever need me. You’re my life and that’s how it’s always going to be.”
“You’re absolutely right, Chuck.”
XOXO
She tried to clear her head as she walked to Nate’s but found she couldn’t. She remembered that araw vividly in her head when they had promised to always be there for each other and it was a promise they had never broken. It was a promise made of friendship, but they had crossed that line today.
Blair was becoming madami distressed sa pamamagitan ng the second. She wasn’t thinking of Chuck merely as a friend, she wanted more. Much more. She had done the impossible. She had gone and fallen in pag-ibig with Chuck Bass.”
XOXO
“We need to talk, Nate.” Blair sinabi as she walked into his house ready to get a few things straight with him.
He led her over to the couch. “What’s going on, Blair?”
She turned to face him. “I need you to stop going to Chuck to discuss me. He’s my best friend, it’s not like he’s going to tell you anything about me. And don’t you think that it’s kind of crazy to do that?”
Nate glanced at her, but then looked at the soles of his expensive Italian loafers. “I’m sorry Blair, I just get the feeling that you’re not into me that much and I really do like you. So I thought maybe Chuck could give me some tips on what you like so I could surprise you with something.”
Blair felt the guilt churning in her stomach, he was just so sweet. “I do like you Nate, it’s just that you can’t go to Chuck about me. I mean, I’m not going to go to one of your mga kaibigan to find out information about you. We’ll learn that stuff about each other as we continue dating.”
He moved closer to her on the couch. “You’re right, Blair. I’m sorry now that I even did it. sa pamamagitan ng the way, Chuck was quite rude to me.
A burst of laughter spilled from her lips before she could contain it. “That’s Chuck for you.”
Nate looked at her suspiciously. “I want to ask you a question, but I don’t want you to get mad if I ask you.”
“I’m not going to be angry. Go ahead.”
“Okay. Is there madami than just friendship between you and Bass?”
Blair gulped quickly, suddenly desperate for some oxygen. “Of course not, we’re only friends. I mean we’ve been mga kaibigan for such a long time that I could see why you would think that but we’re purely platonic.” She lied, Blair knew that they had gone way past the stage of just friends, but she didn’t want to admit that to herself. Because then she would also have to admit, that she could never have a relationship with Chuck, it just wouldn’t work.
“Are you sure?” Nate asked.
“Yes. Absolutely.”
He grinned at her and went to halik her. They shared a passionate halik and she hated to acknowledge it, but she felt nothing. There was just one problem with Nate, he wasn’t Chuck.”
XOXO
She had been avoiding him for the last few days, but she knew that she needed to face him now. She spotted Chuck in the courtyard and went over to him.
“Hey. How are you?” Wow. This was definitely awkward.
Chuck gave her the once over. “Waldorf. Are you finally talking to me again?”
“Since when have you ever called me Waldorf?”
“And since when have you avoided me, Blair?” He was angry.
She wanted to reach out and grab him, but she knew that was a very bad idea. “I haven’t been trying to avoid you, it’s just that I feel a little funny about what happened last week.”
His anger evaporated instantly. Chuck pushed a piece of her hair back. “That’s because you know what we could have, Blair.”
She grinned at him. “Is this Chuck bass I’m talking to? What happened to the man that once told me that he would never have a relationship?”
He moved his thumb over the pulse point in her arm and she felt tingling where his fingers rubbed. “Things change, Blair.”
“Are you serious?”
“I’ve never been madami serious, Blair. I just know that I want you.”
She felt the heat rise at her words, because that was what she wanted too. madami than anything.
She put her arm on his shoulder and saw his head lower, and she knew that he was going to halik her. She stalled him. “No. I can’t do this right now.”
Chuck watched her run away from him and he couldn’t help the grin that spread across his face. Blair wanted him just as much as he wanted her. He knew that he should feel scared that he wanted a relationship with her but all he felt was a strong sense of elation. He knew what he had to do now. He was going to seduce Blair Waldorf.
To Be Continued…
A/N: Another chapter completed. I had so much fun Pagsulat this particular one. How much longer do you think Blair and Chuck will be able to resist each other? Let me know what you thought.
-Sam
