#bhorap

 Description: Barbara is an actress looking for the oportunity of her life, after a life-changing audition in NYC she meets the hypnotizing Ben who invites her to a party that she’ll never forget. After sleeping together, both promise themselves to forget the encounter, but none of them counted with fate reuniting them at the most unexpected place.

Here you'll find: fluffs and smuts! ✨

Maia Mitchell as Barbara Benavides.

Ben Hardy as himself.

Chapter 1. Green eyes

It was mid-October when Barbara received a call from her agent.

"Hey, Barbs!", she'd said on the phone. "I know it's been a while, but I have some good news for you..."

A week after the call, Barbara hopped on a plane to New York city, she was going to audition for a role that could change her career for good.

"Hi, my name's Barbara Benavides and I'm here for the part of ..."

The audition went perfect, but from experience she knew better and held her expectations low. She was aware that a good audition didn't always mean an actor would get the role. Plus, she knew that a ton of other girls had auditioned for the same part.

Instead of letting the thought of not getting the role linger in her head, she tried to distract herself on her phone. She scrolled through Instagram and Twitter, not finding comfort in any of them. Everyone looked too happy on Instagram, and everyone seemed too depressed on Twitter. It was making her anxious.

She then remembered what her best friend, Cole had suggested when he and his girlfriend Lili drove her to the airport.

“It may be a nice opportunity to... you know, meet people”, he’d said. Lili nodded in agreement, she sighed knowing where the conversation was going.

“Yeah, maybe. But you know what?”, I retorted, sipping on my Starbucks cup. “I’m done with y’all, men suck!”

“Well, you might as well try a girl this time!”, he cackled before taking a drag of his cigarrette. “It’s never too late to be bicurious.”

“What does that mean?”, Lili broke in, arms crossed on her chest, a menacing look on her eyes.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated in her hands, taking her back to the present. Her eyes darted in its direction, scanning the screen, looking for the name she’d been waiting to see for six months. Instead, she saw the name of her agent on her inbox.

Agent Amber

How was the audition, sweetie? 

She moaned in distress and stood up. If she was going to be in NY, single, alone and miserable she would at least make the best out of it.

A thunder shook the city.

Barbs looked up from her half-eaten sub to the sky and frowned. The weather was matching her feelings and she wasn't amused by it.

She took a picture of the sky and posted it on Instagram.

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Having finished her lunch, she decided to go for a walk and hit the stores. After all, a depression driven shopping spree never hurt anyone.

She entered her favorite clothing store and started looking absent-mindedly around the racks. She wasn't looking for anything special, in fact she didn't even need clothes, her stay in NY was for a night only and she had everything she needed neatly folded in a bag back in the hotel.

What she wanted was a distraction from her thoughts, from her pain. She'd promised herself not to expect a call or a text message from Harry that day, but still, seeing that he didn't try to contact her even on such an important day hurt her in a way that she didn't understand.

Six months had passed, but for Barbara it felt like a week. They'd dated for two years and she thought they were endgame, but not only Barb thought so, her parents did, and her friends, even Harry thought so. Otherwise he wouldn't have proposed, would he?

That was before catastrophe happened. Or better said, before Diana happened.

Harry cheated on her with a girl he met online. He cheated and not only once, he cheated on her for a whole year. Even after he'd proposed, even after she'd said yes and even after they'd moved together, he continued with the lie until one night, she found Diana herself sleeping on the couch with an also sleeping Harry in her arms.

Barb was left devastated. And ever since, she'd been feeling heartbroken and unable to forget him or what he did.

Before she could do anything to stop it, she found herself inside a fitting room with three dresses, a crop top, a pair of mom jeans and smudged mascara all over her cheeks. She felt miserable and abandoned. Those feelings intensified when she was alone and stressed.

Five minutes later the cashier gave her a curious look when it was her turn to pay for the clothes. She was sure as hell that she looked a mess after her breakdown, so she made a mental note to fix her make up whenever she had a chance.

In that moment she was feeling just dumb. Dumb because of crying for an idiot that couldn't give her the respect that she deserved, dumb for crying for him even after six months and dumber for keeping fate that he would somehow know that she was going to be in New York for an important audition and send her a cutesy text saying how much he misses her and how much he wishes he hadn't been a dick to her.

Outside, she held up her phone in front of her face and tried fixing the mascara with the sleeve of her sweater as passer-by's just ignored her existence. Somehow her eyeliner was intact.

"Wow! I'll have to get another one of those...", she thought ironically while looking at how good it looked even after crying a river.

They hadn't talked in months, but being alone and with her anxiety reaching astronomical levels, she missed him more than ever.

Barbara walked distractedly, going nowhere in specific now that her only day in the Big Apple was ruined by the memory of her ex. After a couple minutes a single drop fell on her forehead, she looked up and then another one fell on her chin, then another one on her cheek and before she knew it she was running for cover from the copious rain that fell over NY.

She looked around and noticed that all the businesses in that area of the city were either closed or already barricaded with people wet from head to toe. After what felt like ages, Barbara finally found her salvation: a coffee shop placed just on the corner of the street. It looked empty and cozy enough, so she sprinted for the entrance.

About two meters were separating her from the warmth of the café when a smack on her left side put her off balance, Barbara closed her eyes already feeling how rain water soaked her butt but instead was surprised by an arm that hugged her back to her feet.

"Excuse me! It wasn't my intention...", a deep voice said.

She looked up and the greenest pair of eyes greeted her.

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Okay, that was chapter one! :D

Lemme know if you enjoyed it so far and if you’d like me to tag you in the next chapters! Thx for reading!!!

Roger: I am an immortal sex machine.

Brian: My amplifiers can destroy armies.

John: You know, fellows, I don't look half bad in this cardigan Mum sent me for Christmas.

Freddie, Roger, & Brian: .....

Freddie, Roger, & Brian: Bitch.

❤ Chapter 3. The Party.

Word count: 1511 words.

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Narrator's POV.

The place was packed.

Ben and Barbara had arrived in Ben's car and now he'd left her alone to look for his friend. She stared at the decoration trying not to open her mouth in awe. There was everything you would expect from a NY party: red flowers in magnificent white pots that were lined up in front of every wall, tables full of silver plates with the most expensive looking snacks, fountains that were definitely not full of fruit punch and baskets serving what looked like French patisserie, purple lights that made everything and everyone look eerie yet elegant and sexy... Barb thanked the gods she had bought the dresses she tried on before.

She felt tempted to try one of those French desserts, she stretched an arm and someone snickered behind her back. A group of girls staring at her, whispering and giggling. She reached for the glasses instead and helped herself a drink from the bubbly liquid. It was delicious, she couldn't put her finger on what exactly it was though. Something mixed with strawberry.

"Ah, you found the fountain!", a skinny man with brown hair talked. "Be careful, miss... Some of my funniest moments came after drinking too much of this", he looked familiar, but Barb didn't know from where.

Ben laughed and hugged him by the shoulders.

"Barbs, this is the guy I told you about..."

"Ohhh, you were talking about me, Benny boy?", the guy gave Ben love eyes.

"All the time, babes!", the man said "awwww" and engulfed him in a tight hug.

What the fuuuuuckkk?, she thought. The guys seemed to know each other very well, Ben seemed happy and comfortable around the new guy. They soon started talking low and laughing at inside jokes. Until the girl cleared her throat...

"Ahhh, and you are?"

"The name's Barbara! And don't worry I won't steal your man from you, dude."

"That's what everybody says, but truth is...", he leaned to whisper in her ear. "Ben's a slut!" she almost spits her drink.

"Hey, man! What you saying about me?"

"Just the usual, baby!", he played hurt, a hand on his chest and all that. Barbs instantly loved him!

"Yeah, whatever... Barbs, this is-"

"The kid from Jurassic Park!", she chirped. She finally recognized him and was immediately star struck! "OMG, I'm a huge fan!"

"Oh, God! When will I get rid of this curse, Ben? WHEEEEN?", he put in a disgusted face and screamed dramatically.

"Oh... I'm sorry! Don't you like when people recognize you from that?"

"What? No! I love it!", he grabbed her arm and started walking. "Come, walk with me"

Barbara turned her head to give Ben a confused look. He just snickered and shrugged.

"Ummm, I don't get it"

"Baby, I was just pulling your leg! Recognize me from JP, The Pacific, a Cheerio's commercial... I don't care where from!"

"Roger that!" they were walking to a whole separate room on the other side of the venue. "And... where exactly are you taking me? I thought I was here with Ben"

"Wha-? And I thought you'd said you wouldn't mess with my man, bitch!"

"Heeeeey! I mean, not that I'm no bitch, but wtf?!", he laughed and squeezed her arm.

"Takes one to know one", a wink. "I'm taking you to meet the squad before you drown on that champagne and start taking your dress off"

"Oh, good idea!", she nodded and brought the drink to her lips.

"And btw, my name's Joe"

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Barb's POV

"OH. MY. GOD."

I don't know how it happened, but from one moment to another I was sitting ON TOP OF A 20-STORY BUILDING with the one and only, the OSCAR WINNER Rami Malek himself and the rest of the cast of Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic based on Freddy Mercury's life.

"Why didn't you tell me you were in BhoRap?!"

"I thought you already knew", Ben said matter of factly. "I mean, I played Roger Taylor, how could you have missed that?"

"Yeah, I must've fallen asleep during your parts", the boys laughed at my comment and Joe yelled:

"ROASTEEEDD!", Ben just rolled his eyes at me.

"Ben's famous for not telling girls his roles", Gwilym broke in. "But I'm pretty sure you remember him as Warren."

"Warren?"

"X-Men?", Joe added with a hiccup. It wasn't even midnight and he was already drunk.

"Oh, no. I was never a big fan of X-MEN"

"What about The Pacific?" Rami slid in the conversation. A simultaneous UGHHH filled the table.

"Man, not again!", Gwilym slouched back with both hands on his head.

"Why?" I asked "What's with The Pacific?"

"Nononono, DON'T ASK!", that was drunk Joe pointing a finger at me.

"Well, Barbara... Let me tell you the story of how I was casted in The Pacific miniseries", collective UGHHH again. "Do you want the long version or the short one?"

"None of them, man!"

"C'mon! You'll scare her off..."

"Long version it is, then!"

In the middle of that mess, I caught Ben eyeing someone on the other side of the room. I followed his sight and found a blonde girl standing near the entrance, she craned her neck as if she were looking for someone. Suddenly, he rose from his seat.

"I'll be back in a second"

"Yeah, yeah" Rami answered. "As I was saying... it all started in the year..."

"Is that his girlfriend?" I raised my palm and pointed at it with the other hand in the direction of the girl.

"Oh, who?" Joe perked up at the first sign of gossip.

"Why won't anyone listen to my story?" Rami whined.

"Yeah, man, so sad", Gwilym replied in a monotonous voice, then turned to Joe and I and inquired: "Who's Ben girlfriend?!"

"Umm, Barbs? I thought that was you" Rami said.

"What?!"

"Yeah, I thought the same?", Gwilym chimed in.

"How?! I just met him!"

"Y'all are wrong, though", Joe whispered leaning on the table. We came closer to hear him better. "Ben's girlfriend is..."

The remaining three exchanged nervous looks. Joe looked back at Ben and the girl, then again to us.

"Ben's girlfriend is... ME!" Rami, Gwilym and I yelled at him for his dumb joke. "But you already knew that"

"But anyway...", I started. I wanted to make clear my position in this party. "I'm just asking because I don't want to be the reason why Ben's ass gets dumped or something worse"

"Nah, you're ok", Gwilym assured me. "As far as I know, Ben's single. So relax"

"Welp, whatever!" Joe burped and attempted to stand up "It's my party and I ain't spending it here sitting with you nerds...", he looked around and grabbed a blonde girl by the wrist, then made her spin elegantly. The girl let out some giggles, she was so radiant my self-esteem went down three levels. "May I, Rami?"

"Have fun, man!", he replied but then raised a menacing finger "but not too much, you two..."

"I'm coming for 'ya later, babe!", the blonde blew a kiss to Rami and then walked off with Joe by the hand.

I gave a curious look to Rami, "Oh, that's Lucy, my girlfriend. Sorry I didn't introduce you, Barbs"

"Don't worry! She looks kind" I gave Rami a friendly punch on his shoulder "and gorgeous, you lucky bastard!", he laughed sheepishly, I can't tell for sure but he seemed to blush at my comment.

"Barbs?", I turned around and saw Ben standing by the table. I was about to ask what was up when he smiled and tilted his face down a little, an outstretched hand in front of me. I smiled and took it.

"It'll be my pleasure, Ben"

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Btw, do you think Ben's a good dancer? 🤔

I’ve seen some videos from Eastenders and I’m not so sure lol

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And that being being said, I’m also starting a series of imagines... I’ll be posting them here and on Wattpad as well ;)

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🧡 Chapter 2. The proposition.

Barbara was at a loss of words (Where did this guy come from?) so all she did was stare blankly at him. He (as she) was soaking wet, her blond locks pasted onto his forehead, his cheeks were flushed, as if he too had been running for safety.

"Ummm...", he started. Instead, he cleared his throat and led her inside holding her by the elbow. After a few steps a whiff of his cologne hit her and took her back to her senses. She stopped on her tracks.

"Are you okay?", he asked, worry in his voice. "Did I hurt you? I'm sorry it wasn't my intention to..."

"No, no!", she interrupted. "I should have paid more attention to where I was going. I think it's me the one who should apologize for getting on your way", she half smiled feeling embarrassed for almost ending up with her butt in a puddle. And for almost causing his butt to be in a puddle. He smiled back and passed a hand through his blond hair, Barb couldn't help but notice his strong jawline and his pouty lips. She looked away quickly.

"So, ummm... Thank you for saving my butt, I guess I'll see you around?", the girl chirped already walking away.

"Wait!", what now? "Considering this place's full... maybe we could share a table?"

Barbara's POV.

I don't know how long it was. But I'm sure as hell that we ended up chatting for hours. And to my surprise, Ben (yeah, his name's Ben) and I had a bunch of things in common! We both loved photography, dogs, and we were both actors!

"I wanted to be an athlete before", he told me holding his cup of coffee close to his lips. "But as you can see, it didn't work out"

"Wait, what happened?", it baffled me that someone with such a nice physique (not that I'd noticed) hadn't succeeded in sports. But apparently the problem was that he kept having injury after injury, so he gave up on that dream and moved on to the other thing he felt passionate about: acting.

"And what about you?"

"Me?", I sipped on my matcha and shivered. It was warm inside and my drink was comforting my heart and the part of my soul that screamed: he's a dude, go away! But my clothes were still wet and that blew big time.

"Yeah, how did you find out you wanted to be an actress?"

"Oh, I always knew!"

And it was true. My whole life revolved about acting, ever since a young age my mother would drive me to acting lessons so I would finally stop whining about being bored at normal school. Which doesn't mean I didn't go to school, of course I did! But in there, I was like a robot, just moving from class to class, trying to absorb as much common knowledge as I could, I was a nerd in English class and I put a lot of effort into learning my maths but my soul? I reserved my soul for drama club. And after drama club, came community theatre, and after that came the bunch of auditions until I started getting small roles in TV shows.

After telling Ben my complete authorized biography, Harry's face came back to my brain... we'd met in high school at an audition for Romeo & Juliet, we became friends and from there everything went downhill between us.

Ben waved a hand in front of my face to catch my attention.

"Oh, ummm..." I must've looked funny because his green eyes smiled at me from the rim of his cup. "Sorry, Ben! It's been such a long day and I'm so distracted..."

"Don't worry, I've been there", he put his cup down and smirked. Why was this guy giving me one-night stand kinda vibes?

"And... what were you saying?"

"I was inviting you somewhere", he took his phone and scrolled on it. "One of my best friends happens to be in the city and I promised to meet him later".

"Meet him where exactly?"

"Here", he showed me a pic of the most incredible lounge I'd ever seen in my life!

"We're celebrating his birthday now that the whole squad's here. His parties are legendary and since you're nice I thought... why not?", another killer smile. "But if you're not in the mood..." low tone, gaze expectant.

Suddenly, my party alarms were tingling as well as my red flag alarms... Me, a cute boy, a broken heart and a party were not a good combination, but then again... I looked down at my phone: my inbox was still empty.

"You know what?", I said. "I'm in".

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Ok, that’s it for today! This one’s a short chapter, but I promise next one will be longer ;) Lemme know what you think of the story and if you’re enjoying it!

And btw: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LIKING AND REBLOGGING THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER!! I really appreciate it! 🧡