Road To Us || Porco Galliard

⤜Chapter Twenty-One⤛

You awoke to the sun burning into your eyelids and assaulting your face. Sand lightly buffeting your skin and the squawk of seagulls and sound of waves crashing against the shore.

What the hell?

You sat up, confused and in a daze.

What were you doing at the beach?

"(Y/n)! You're awake!" Colt came running over and skidded to a stop, sand spraying on you.
"Colt what the heck. What the heck?" Sweat beaded on his forehead as he laughed nervously.

"Oh hey (N/n)! You're awake!" Marcel jogged over with a grin. "Do you like the surprise?" You sighed and nodded before curling up on the warm sand with your eyes closed.

"Hey hey hey! You can't just go back to sleep!" Marcel exclaimed, tugging on your cheek. Colt pulled on one of your arms and starting dragging you, despite your sleepy protests.

"Colt. What are you doing?" You heard Reiner's voice.
"She wanted to go back to sleep so I thought you two would be able to help." You were lifted up and you opened one eye to see Porco staring right back down at you. You smiled awkwardly.

"You can put me down. I won't go to sleep or anything." You say, squirming in his arms slightly. He shrugged with a smile.
"I don't mind princess. Whatever you prefer." You blushed slightly and looked away.

"We're still here you know." Colt and Reiner stood there rather awkwardly. You stuttered out an apology as Porco made a noise of annoyance.  Marcel walked over, kicking up a little bit of water with each step.

"We all going swimming?" He asked looking around. His eyes landed on you and he smirked upon seeing you in his brother's arms.
"Sure. Let's go in." Porco said. "Here get on my back." He said to you. You complied, and seconds later you were peering over his shoulder as he walked through the water. You were hyper aware of his large hands on your thighs, supporting you as you held his neck loosely.

"Hold on a bit tighter, these waves are a bit bigger." He raised his voice over the crashing of water against sand. You tightened your grip and nestled your face into the crook of his neck. You could feel the water come up to your hips and you giggled.

"H-hey, that t-tickles!" Porco laughed as he kept on ploughing through waves.
"Sorry." You murmured by his ear. His face burst into a vibrant red and an idiotic grin stretched on his face.

"Here, there aren't any waves so we can just float." He said, helping you down from his back. You looked back to the land and gasped.
"We're pretty far out!"
"Yeah. All the others were body bashing and stuff and I figured you were still a bit sleepy so this would be good." He replied, stretching his limbs on top of the water like a starfish.
"We're out past all the waves." You say quietly, mimicking Porco's splayed out body.

The two of you lay there as if you were paralysed. The tide didn't take you anywhere, but instead left you alone as you closed your eyes.

"(Y/n). (Y/n). We need to go." Porco's voice broke through your half asleep brain.
"Huh?" You groggily pulled your body up to be upright in the water.
"Look." He pointed at a big wave coming towards you and your eyes widened.
You both laughed as you saw back to shore, seeing Colt and Marcel waving their arms frantically. The wave was getting closer and closer.

You weren't going to make it.

Porco grabbed you, and pulled your body against his tight. You closed your eyes and held your breathe as the wave came crashing down. You clung onto his toned figure, terrified of letting go. The two of you were churned around, tumbling under the water.

You landed back on shore, all your weight on the man below you. You coughed and gasped for air, pushing your soaked hair from your face. Porco looked at you and laughed, sitting up so you were on his lap.
"You okay there princess?" He asked, pushing a strand of hair you missed behind your ear.
"Yeah." You laughed. His hair was down, covering most of his eyes. You pushed it back like his normal style. His grey eyes glittered with laughter and you swore his cheeks were flushed pink. You eyes followed your hand along his jawline and then to his lips. He held your waist and your upper back in his arms as if he was still protecting you. Staring at his lips, you unconsciously leant in, and he did the same, both of your eyes fluttering shut as you could feel the other's heart beating.

"Woah are you two okay? That was insane!" The two of you pulled away before your lips could touch to see Colt running over, Reiner and Marcel right behind.
You got up to meet them, your legs still a little bit weak and wobbly. Porco got up and instantly wrapped an arm around you to keep you upright.

"Yeah we're good." Porco answered. You nodded with a smile.

"Thanks for protecting me Pock." You said quietly, looking at your feet burying themselves in the sand.
"All good (Y/n)." He replied, looking away.

Marcel and Reiner looked at Colt with a little bit of annoyance.
"They were about to kiss! Why'd you interrupt?!" Marcel whispered angrily. Colt flinched and have a pained smiled.

"It's too soon!" He said scratching the back of his neck. Reiner sighed and nodded in agreement. Marcel looked at you and Porco, watching how his little brother interacted with you.
"It's bound to happen. I don't think we need to interfere anymore." He murmured.

The water droplets in your hair caught the light of the sun and glittered, matching the glittering of your eyes as you laughed with Porco.
You leant up and he lowered his head for you to fix up his hair. You pushed it all down in front of his eyes. He growled in annoyance and grabbed you playfully. You let out a little scream before he started his tickle attack. The laughter from the two of you rung out across the beach.

"See?" Colt whispered. It looked like something out of a movie; the two of you playing around. Reiner sighed.

"I want a romance like that."