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“Alright and that’s a wrap for Smosh Games everyone!”
The team applauds as for most of them, this means they get to go home. All that’s left is a Smosh Mouth episode with Amanda and Shayne, which already has a fairly small on set crew.
”Jesus Arasha, I thought you and Courtney were gonna start making out again!”
Arasha laughs at Amanda. “Not unless it’s a ticketed stream again!”
Everyone starts laughing, they just finished recording a video where the three of them, along with Angela, dressed up as dudes and played Madden. With how much fun everyone behind the camera was having just watching, they knew the fans were gonna love this video.
Speaking of Angela, she was the only one not laughing. Arasha got up to go talk to Spencer, so that left only her, Angela, and Courtney to sit on the couch. Something seemed off with her though, and this was one of the rare times she didn’t have a hunch what it was. Typically can read Angela like a book; ever since they became co stars, it felt like the stars alined for the two of them. They became immediate bffs and one of the strongest duos on the channel. But this time was different. Angela was just staring at the floor bouncing her leg. Clearly caught up in her thoughts. So Amanda decided to take the initiative in figuring out what was wrong, without making it too big of a scene.
She put her hand on her co stars shoulder ”We rough housed too hard back there?”
Almost immediately Angela swatted her hand away and stood up.
”No! I mean no, sorry I’m fine. I just… need to go to the bathroom! I’ll text you after you’re done with the show!”
Amanda and Courtney quickly glance at each other before Angela forces a smile and swiftly walks out of the room. Only giving as much of a nod to say goodbye to everyone. With most people gone or talking about what they wanted to do after work, nobody was really paying attention to this except her and Courtney.
”Hey Court, did Angela seem weird to you?”
”No yeah that’s why I was looking at you, you seriously couldn’t smell that?!”
Oh my god.
It didn’t take long for Amanda to figure out what Courtney was implying. She had a fake mustache on so she couldn’t smell much besides the sweat of her upper lip, and Arasha was too busy to notice. But in hindsight it felt obvious.
Angela started her heat cycle.
“Oh shit.. do you think you’d be able to talk to her? I have to go on with Shayne in 5 minutes.”
”Oh, yeah of course. Him and I were actually gonna go out to dinner after that so I was planning on hanging around anyways.”
”Thank you so much, just please let me know what happens.”
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As Amanda and Shayne were doing the outro for that weeks episode, Courtney walked in and stood against the wall next to a couple of the team members. Looking at Amanda and shaking her phone to signal that she texted her.
Amanda checked her phone to see a text saying:
“Talked to Ange in the bathroom before she left. She said she really needs you to come over and help.”
As much as she tried to hide it, Amandas face turned bright red reading this; and with Shayne sitting only a couple feet across from her, he could tell something happened.
”Everything good?”
“Yes! I mean yes! all good… how about you? Court said you guys are going out to dinner?” It was an obvious conversation changer and they both knew it.
”Oh yeah, just gonna grab a couple of drinks nothing crazy, you’re more than welcome to come with?”
Amanda got up and slowly started creeping to the door while facing Shayne. “Oh, I’d love to, but I mean it’s getting late and I don’t want to intrude; but I’ll catch up with you guys tomorrow…! Have fun!”
Amanda waves goodbye to everyone and walks straight and firmly to her car to head over to Angelas place.
Once she got there she unlocked the door with the spare key Angela gave her and was greeted to all the lights off.
”Hey Ange? You awake, Courtney told me what happened and I just wanted to drop some things off for you.”
Before leaving she made a stop to the break room to get a bottle of sprite, her favorite soda, and some candy. Hoping that it would help her feel better. Looking around though she couldn’t see anybody home. The place was practically abandoned, except for the groaning coming from Angelas room.
Amanda set the snacks down and went over to gently open the door. God, the smell of her in heat was intoxicating. Before she even opened the door she could already smell it and it made her want to tear the door down and climb in bed with her. While they’ve been close friends for as long as they’ve known each other. The past few months Amanda has been falling in love with her co star and didn’t know how to tell her. It feels so cliche to have an Alpha yearning for an Omega like this, but as much as she tried to hide it, all she could think about when closing her eyes at night was the pillow she’s hugging is Angela, and she’s there to protect her.
”Hey Manda, thanks for coming over.”
Angelas voice sounded groggy and partially muffled by her laying against a pillow. The room was dark except for her phone which she’s been doom scrolling on ever since getting into bed.
Opening the blinds Amanda took in the sight of getting a better look at Angela’s bed. She made a circle out of pillows and blankets, and put some of her favorite things in it to give her a comforting nest to spend her heat cycle in. One of the things she brought with her in it was a pile of Polaroid pictures from the fridge she’s taken of the two of them. This was making butterflies dart around in the older woman’s chest. It felt impossible to get any words out with the aroma in the air.
”Yeah of course. Well it’s getting late so I’m gonna let you sleep for the night b-“
“Please don’t go Amanda. Please just stay a little longer… I really really need you to help me right now.”
Those words latched onto Amandas heart like an anchor and forced her to stop in place. As much as she was trying to muster up the will to leave, seeing Angela beg like this was putting her in a trance that activated her paternal Alpha instincts.
“Okay, but I have to get up early tomorrow so only for an hour okay?”
”Okayyy.”
Looking at Angela, she was wearing the exact same shirt and jeans she’s been working in all day. She shouldn’t be laying around in dirty clothes like that when she isn’t doing well, she needs something fresh.
”I left some sprite and candy for you on the counter by the door, why don’t you go have those while I run you a warm bath okay? I know those help a lot with heat cramps.”
“Angelas head perks up hearing this like a little dog. All of her mannerisms are just so adorable that on the drive home from work every night, whatever cute things Angela did will play on loop in her head.
After Angela effortlessly finished the sprite bottle and entire bag of candy, Amanda came over to help her to the bathroom and get out of her clothes. To be polite she didn’t look as she got into the bath but she would’ve given anything to worship Angelas body as she stepped into the tub.
Even if other people would find this weird, neither of them cared. After getting out of bed Angela was practically glued to Amandas arm as she helped her get out of bed and in the tub. They chained arms and Angelas head rested on her co stars bicep. Amanda of course didn’t mind this, but she was trying incredibly hard to hide the burning love she has for her Angela.
“You can come in if you want.”
Fuck fuck try coming up with an excuse!
”I shower in the mornings, so I don’t wanna mess my hair up sorry. But it does look warm! Is it helping your cramps?”
”A bit yeah.”
God her co star was so gorgeous. Sitting behind her and above the bath, Amanda took a snapshot in her mind of this, obsessing over every part of her sticking out of the water. If it wasn’t for the fact that she wasn’t in rut, she would’ve knotted Angela the second she stepped into the bath. She was so stunning, and Amanda didn’t know how she was lucky enough to have met her. But she needed to focus on caring for her first and foremost, so she tried to making talk to distract herself from her desires while scrubbing soap on Angelas back.
”So, Courtney said you started your cycle earlier than you thought?”
Angela paused for a moment. “Yeah, I have an app that tracks my cycles, so I thought I’d be okay to come into work today; and it was all going fine until we did the Madden video together. I know we were all just messing around but after you started throwing me around, I started getting cramps. I thought one of you guys just fell on me funny, but once we finished recording I could smell that it wasn’t.”
Hearing this, Amanda looked away from the almost foggy mirror to hide the blush rapidly taking over her face. Having Angela begging for her support during a heat cycle was one thing, but knowing she was the cause of it starting in the first place made her internally scream.
”Oh! Oh okay yeah, well I’m glad I was able to come over and help then…”
Even if she didn’t want to admit it earlier, she was addicted to this attention and needing Angela was giving her. She knew though that all of this was only coming from her being in heat, and Amanda being the closest Alpha to her. But apart of her also thought maybe it wasn’t just that. With how Angela was talking and saying that she needed her specifically, it almost felt like if their cycles overlapped better… That can’t be true. Angela just wanted help from her bff.
Not knowing what else to say, Amanda sat in silence with Angela as she finished up the bath for her. rubbing soap through her hair, massaging her back, and eventually drying her off and getting her into a fresh pair of pajama pants and an old t-shirt she left behind at Angelas house ages ago; she was surprised she still had it.
On the walk back to the bed she could feel Angela nuzzling against her arm as she held onto it for support getting back into her nest. Her spirits definitely seemed to be up after spending some time close to each other. But with Amanda not being in rut, she unfortunately wasn’t able to fully help Angela feel 100% better. But at the very least she was able to satiate as much as she could for tonight. Maybe if she’s still hurting tomorrow she could come by again?
Nonetheless though, Amanda got her a cold glass of water, heat suppressants to take in the morning, and fixed her sheets before saying goodnight. As much as Angela tried protesting, Amanda did really need to get going.
“But Manda, I still need help…”
“I know babe, and I helped as much as I can, but I gotta get going. I’ll text you first thing in the morning though I promise.”
”Okayy, thank you for caring for me at least. I needed this.”
Angelas started dozing off saying this. It broke Amandas heart seeing how much Angela was hurting, but at least she was able to help take some of the pain away from someone she cared about so deeply. Before she left for the night she sighed taking one last look at her sleeping Angela, already sound asleep, to remember this night by.
”Of course Angel, that’s what friends are for, right?”