The Before and After Project (An Emblem3 Fanfiction)

Chapter 16

Gabby’s POV:

“Wake up! Babe, the sun is rising…” Wes shook me slightly and I immediately woke up. Babe? Hmmm I liked the sound of that coming from him.

“Since when did you call me babe?” I croaked, still groggy from sleeping.

“Nice morning voice” he teased, ignoring my question completely. I looked up at him, still positioned on his lap.

“You don’t like my morning voice? Well geez. It’s your fault for waking me up anyway” I huffed. I really don’t like people waking me up if you haven’t noticed…

“Getting in a huff with me now are you?” he teased.

“Pshhh no. I’m not five…”

“Sure you’re not”

“Shut uuupp”

“Just watch the sunrise will you?!” he chuckled and tilted my head so that I was looking out across the water and at the sunrise. It looked like someone had painted a picture with the way the colours were splashed out amongst the clouds.

I sighed and leaned back into him. This moment was magical. It seemed like I’d been having a lot of magical moments lately, and for some reason they all included Wes. It was like the universe was hinting at me or something.

“It’s so beautiful Wes…” I breathed and grabbed his hand that was resting on my shoulder, squeezing it ever so slightly. I paused and waited for a response but was met with silence. “This is the moment where you say “not as beautiful as you babe”…” I joked and turned my head to look at him to find he was fast asleep. “How is that even possible?” I chuckled to myself and studied his sleeping face.

He looked so peaceful that it made me smile. I hadn’t seen him like this since…well ever. He was always awake before I was and I was such a deep sleeper anyway that I didn’t ever see him asleep. They say you look younger when you’re asleep. Although he didn’t, he just looked cuter.

My hand absentmindedly reached for his face, I paused right next to his cheek not wanting to wake him. Before I had the chance to pull away it seemed that there was almost some magnet between him and I in that moment. He shifted in his sleep so that his head was gently resting on my hand.

I struggled to contain the “aww” that wanted to slip out of my mouth as he nestled into my hand. This boy is making me soft…or maybe Drew did that…

Ugh, Drew. I’d almost forgotten about him completely. Sounds horrible, but it’s the truth. I guess my brain was subconsciously trying to keep him out of my mind for now so that I could be happy for a little while.

I had no idea how I was going to break it to him. I still wanted to be friends, but I didn’t want to do the whole “it’s not you it’s me” thing. No matter how close to the truth that was.

Wes shifted again, snapping me out of my thoughts. He moved away from my hand this time, almost frowning in his sleep. It was weird, it was like as soon as I thought of him he was coming closer and as soon as I thought of Drew he moved away.

Maybe I’m just weird, but once again I felt like the universe was telling me something. The longer I stayed with Drew, the more I would be pushing Wes away and I couldn’t handle that even slightly.

I gently kissed him on the cheek, not that I wanted to wake him…but I felt a sudden urge to.

He smiled softly with his eyes still shut as I pulled away.

“I could get used to waking up to this every morning…” he breathed, his morning voice sounding dead sexy. Oh wow, I only discovered I had feelings for him a couple of days ago and I’m already calling him sexy. This is progressing fast…