Lucky Me

Loyal

Lucy's POV

"are you sure you're okay?" I asked Chris as we left the bar. "yeah" he nodded, quickly guiding me into the back of an Uber that was waiting curb side. It was only a little past 11pm and we had planned on spending all night there with the rest of the guys. Chris closed the door and the driver took off down the street. I looked back at Chris and he could see I was concerned. "I'm perfectly fine sweetheart, some of the others are leaving soon, so I figured there was nothing wrong with leaving too, y'know, make the most of the time we got too" he winked at me. I hummed at him in response, but it was definitely not like him to bail out early on a night out- unless he'd had too much to drink, but tonight he was almost sober. I decided to just go with it and believe him- it had been a strange day all round really and I was secretly glad to be heading back myself, just to get a little quiet time with him before I was flying back home again.

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Chris' POV

The room was dark save for the light of the Tv we had on. Sound on low and neither of us actually watching it. I was layed back on the pillows, Lucy resting against my bare chest, holding her hand and running my other hand over her bare shoulder. This was, hands down, the best part of the weekend right here.

"I gotta use the bathroom real quick" Lucy sighed as she tried to sit up  in the bed. But my childish whining in protest had her giggling. "I'll be like 2 minutes!" She grinned at me as she prized my hands off of her skin. I playfully pouted at her and she rolled her eyes in amusement before grabbing my discarded t-shirt off of the floor. "Why would you do such a thing?!" I gasped as she covered up her bare body with the garment. She flicked her hair from being tucked into the collar and looked over her shoulder at me. "you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" I sighed brushing my finger down her arm. "Covering up in front of me is a crime" I added, yet she rolled her eyes again at me. "I'll be back in a sec" she grinned, choosing to ignore my comment. 

I watched her slide off the mattress and walk across the carpet and into the bathroom, shutting the door without a second look at me. The smile on my face had yet to falter since we had gotten back. Being around her was just what I needed. But as I thought about her- about how happy she made me feel, I hoped I made her happy too- but then that dark heavy feeling started to crawl up from my stomach, flooding through my chest as my mind turned back to those hateful comments I had read about her a few hours ago. 

I'd not missed the fact that my phone was lighting up with notifications whilst I had been making love to her. I ended up throwing it across to the sofa at the other side of the room as it was becoming irritating, going off every damn second- and I had a pretty good idea what it was about too. But as my eyes glanced from the culprit of my irritation, back to the bathroom door, I couldn't help the urge to go and grab it. 

So I did.

Dozens upon dozens of comments and tags on my social media. Pictures of us all out tonight, questions about who the girl was with me. My so-called 'fans' thinking it was their right to pass comment on her and what she looked like and how she was not 'worthy' of a man like me. I felt sick. Hurt. Disappointed. I ran a hand down my face as I felt my eyes filling with unwanted tears. Didn't they realize that they were hurting me as well as her for the shitty things they were saying? It was crap like this that made me want to quit. Wish I could live a normal life and be happy. Man, I thought that the hurtful comments they made about Jenny were bad enough, but these? Damn, people were just ugly. Ugly on the inside, worse than any comment they could possibly make about another human being. I-

"You okay there?" I jumped at her voice being unexpectedly close behind me. I looked over mu shoulder at her as I moved my phone from her line of sight. "ha, yeah sure" I sniffed, and blinked hoping to God she couldn't tell I was upset. I was thanking the Lord I'd turned the lights off earlier. "you sure?" she smiled up at me, taking my hand. "yeah" I smiled back at her, I glanced down at my phone and saw a text message off Scarlett. "It's just Scar asking if we got back safe" I smiled and flashed the screen at her. She didn't look but smiled up at me and nodded. "that's sweet" she said, before reaching up and pressing a kiss to my cheek. "I can't wait to spend more time with her" she added, letting go of my hand and moving back over to the bed. "I was so nervous to meet all of them" she admitted with a shy smile, looking down to the bed she was now sitting on. Her legs crossed and her hands sitting in her lap. Her dark wavy hair framed her  face delicately. Her rosy cheeks gave her face that look of pure innocence, along with her angelic smile. She just totally had me. How could anyone think so negatively about someone that made me so God damn happy? 

"Come to Boston with me" 

Lucy's POV

I sat there on the bed looking back at him as he blurted that out. "huh?" I blurted out back at him, looking as shocked as I felt. He smoothed his hand over his ruffled (sex) hair, glanced at his phone briefly before throwing it back down onto the couch and shooting over to me on the bed. He was still naked as he sat there on the end of the bed, twisting at the waist to turn to me. "Come to Boston with me" he repeated sounding a little breathless. His eyes wide and desperate as he stared at me, awaiting my answer. "I-I know it's not planned- but I was thinking about it. You have the rest of the week off, a-and I'm driving down to Boston for a week or two. You could come with me, spend a few days at my place before you have to fly back for your shift at work" he said, a slight neediness to his voice. 

I chewed on my lip as I sat staring back at him. The uneasiness of dropping everything and changing my plans so fast wasn't something I was normally comfortable with. "Sweetheart, I want to be with you for as long as I can." He said, clearly anxious about what I was thinking, "I can change your flight, that's no problem. You have more than enough clothes to last you a few extra days." he added, "please darlin'" he said, looking at me with those big blue eyes and I huffed out a sigh. "are you sure Dodger will wanna share you again?" I asked, looking up at him from under my lashes, seeing the biggest smile erupt onto his face all night. "He loves you just as much as I do" 

And then my heart exploded.