Caught Between Two Worlds (paul stanley x oc fic)

Part 23

The next morning Ava woke up curled up with Paul. She smiled to herself as she watched him sleeping peacefully. Ava moved closer to him and rested her face in the crook of his neck listening to his steady breathing. Ava sighs as she snuggles closer to him. In his sleep Paul rolls onto his side and wraps his arms around Ava tightly.

"Paul...." Ava murmurs as Paul shifts slightly in his sleep.

"Paul please get up..." Ava whispers in his ear.

"ugh...what if I don't want to"

Paul responses in a husky voice, "what if I just want to stay here with you...hmmm...plus we can continue where we left off last night" he said as he disentangles himself from her to look at her.

"Paul...I honestly don't think that that's even possible....I barely got any sleep thanks to you..." Ava responses in a huff as she yawns.

Paul smirks at her comment. "well I guess that means mission accomplished...plus it didn't seem like sleeping was on your mind anyhow"

As Ava rolled her eyes at his comment, she came to a realization and rolled over towards the nightstand by her side of the bed and started rooting through it.

"what are you looking for?" Paul asked, which was met with a triumphant "ah hah!" as Ava passed Paul a bottle of Tylenol.

"take two..your doing to need them..." Ava said "I'm really surprised that it hasn't hit you yet since you were pretty wasted last night..."

"well I did sober up last night" Paul responded as he popped two of the pills in his mouth and swallowed. "so I'm pretty confident that I'll be fine.."

"just to let you know...you thought you sobered up but you still were wasted...I mean I had to wash you in the bathtub..." Ava said smugly

Paul looked over at her with a slightly glare "so your saying to me that while I was still drunk you took advantage of me"

Ava smiled up at him "oh sweetie I didn't take advantage of you...I just gave you a push that's all...after that it was you who took the reins last night"

"so I was really that drunk last night?" Paul asked

"oh yes you were...those girls were practically giving you a continuous beer bong of cocktails down your throat" Ava explained

"I'm sorry I worried you...I just needed liquid courage to get me through that photo shoot" Paul said as he looked at Ava with a slight smile.

"what do you mean?" Ava asked

"well, I mean I really just wanted to be with you but our manager and Norman agreed that it would be better for my image if I was photographed with those women instead of with you. It's only cause they don't want the public knowing about our relationship I guess." Paul said as his smile slowly slipped off his face.

"oh..." Ava responded as she scooted away from Paul on the bed "I didn't realize"

"No! that doesn't mean I don't have feelings for you. I love you Ava" Paul said as he scooted to sit next to her. "Just because they don't like it doesn't mean that we have to stop" Paul said reassuringly as he leaned down and kissed her softly.

"now can we please get off this subject and go see your cousin" Paul said asserted as he got out of the bed and put on a pair of boxers and walked into the bathroom.

Ava still laid in the bed touching her lips as she ran the sentence through her head over and over again

"he said that he loves me...he really loves me" Ava said to herself as she smile grew as she got out the bed to change and go see her cousin.