Yours Truly

Chapter eleven: The date

Elle's POV

I walk into the deadheads, my heart beating a million times a minute. Butterflies filling my stomach. I finally made it to the brink of the clearing by the lake. I can see Newt coming out of the other side of the clearing. His hair was wet and sticking to his face. There was a picnic with candles and flowers. For a second I just stayed in the cover of the woods, nervous to go out there. I clutched the letter in my clammy hands. But soon enough I had gained the courage to take another step making my way into the clearing. "Newt?" I say quietly, still feeling extremely nervous. He then looks up at me surprised, his beautiful brown eyes glancing into mine. "Love, what's going on?" Newt asks. There it is that name again, it caused butterflies to overflow my stomach and my heart to start beating even faster than I thought possible. "What do you mean Newt?" I ask, suddenly confused. 

"Minho told me that Ably wanted to meet me here." Newt said walking over to me. "Why are you here? What's all this?" He asks gesturing towards the romantic picnic that had been set up. At this point so many thoughts are going through my mind, so many emotions taking over my heart. I felt happy at first because I thought he made this picnic for us, then confused when he didn't know what was going on, and then sadness that he didn't do this. All I can seem to do is look down at the letter in my hands. "What's this love?" Newt asks me. "A note I found on my bed, i-it said it was from you." I say beginning to choke up. "Oh love please don't cry." he says, raising my face to meet his by guiding my chin. "Can I see it please?" he asks me. I hand him the letter and for a second there is silence as he reads it. "Love I didn't write this," Newt says.

"But it says it's from you if it wasn't you then who did?" I am completely confused and upset that someone was playing with my feelings. All the sudden it's like puzzle pieces click inside his head, I can see the gears turning. "Minho..." he says under his breath. "What?" I ask. "It was Minho," he says. "Why would he do this?" I ask, even more confused now. "It's nothing love," he says, beginning to turn around. "Well clearly not, I mean look what is set up," I say grabbing his wrist. "And I didn't get all dressed up for nothing." I say with a little smirk. I can see his cheeks begging to burn a bright red. "And there's no way i'm letting this food go to waste." I say pulling him over to the blanket. 

I set down cross legged and Newt sits with his legs outstretched in front of him facing towards me. I grab some food and put it on a plate and he does the same. While i'm eating I can feel his eyes on me, not in a creepy way but in some sort of an admiring way. "You're staring." I say with a smirk on my face not looking up from my food. "Well how could I not when you look so beautiful tonight." he says smiling. Wait did he just call me beautiful? He was just being nice right? He doesn't like me like that...right? We continue to eat our food as we watch the sun begin to set. "Wanna go for a swim love?" Newt asks. I just nod my head and smile. We both get up and head towards the water. Newt takes off his shirt and shorts leaving him in his boxers.

"Newt what are you doing?" I ask a blush creeping up on my cheeks. "Well you don't expect me to swim in my bloody clothes do you?" he says laughing before diving into the lake. For a moment Newt was under the water but he soon came to the surface spitting out water that got in his mouth and pushing his hair out of his face. "Well are you coming?" he asked me, laughing a little bit, it was only then I noticed how scared I was to be in a swimsuit in front of him. I wasn't exactly skinny, I had bigger thighs and a bit of a stomach so I was worried what he might think. "Turn around." I say spinning my finger gesturing for him to turn. He just laughs but still does as I ask. I slip off the dress and slip my hair into a sloppy bun leaving pieces out to frame my face. I slowly wade my way into the water making my way to Newt. When I get over to him I take a deep breath before I tap him on the shoulder saying that he could turn around. He turns around his eyes instantly looking into mine. He then looked me up and down and I put my arms over my stomach trying to hide myself but he had already seen me. He takes my wrists moving my arms away from myself. "You don't need to hide yourself from me, love."

he says pulling me into an embrace. I could tell that newt felt tense so I pulled away a little my arms still wrapped around his neck and his at my waist. "What's wrong?" I ask him with a concerned look on my face. He takes a deep breath looking down but then regaining eye contact with me. "Do you remember the first day you came up from the box love?" he asks me. "No not really I was kinda passed out." I say laughing. "Well it started like any other normal day, the greenie alarm went off and we all went over to get the new green bean. Me and Gally open the box to find no one inside." he says laughing. "Little did I know that you were curled up in a little ball in the corner of the box under a bunch of clothes." he says grabbing my hands now. "I saw that you were bleeding and rushed you over to the med jacks, you needed stitches on your shoulder and were passed out for three days." 

he said, sounding sad now. I squeeze his hands as if to tell him that everything was ok. "I never left your side those three days, I didn't eat, I barely slept. I had no idea why I was so attached to you when I had never even spoken a word to you." he says giggling again. "And then you woke up and ran into the dead heads and up into a tree. You only came down to end up putting a knife to Minho's thoat." We both laughed at this. "You looked so scared," he said, choking up now. "And then that night at the bonfire when you fell asleep in my arms, I thought you looked so gorgeous and sweet. I took you into my hut and we fell asleep. That night you had a nightmare, I held you in my arms until you finally stopped crying. And that's when you told me your name. Elle. That's when I knew..."

he trailed off, placing his forehead to mine holding me closer than ever before. "That I was truly yours." he said letting a tear slip out of his eye. I then place one of my hands on his cheek the other moving up his neck to intangible with his hair. Next thing I knew I was kissing him. This was absolutely nothing like the other kisses we have shared. It was like fireworks and I felt my whole body go numb as I melted into the kiss. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks as his hands pulled me even closer into his chest. Our lips moved in sync. It felt so right. We were putting all of our feelings into this kiss, letting each other know just how much we truly loved each other and how much I wanted him to know that I was truly his as well. We finally pulled away from each other when we were both in desperate need for air. We were silent for a few minutes just regaining our composers. Taking deep and heavy breaths. "I love you." I whisper in between breaths. "What?" Newt asks looking up at me again. "I said that I love you Newt." I say giggling a little bit. It was then he pulled me into another kiss. This one was shorter and sweeter but still just as great as the first. "I love you too Elle." he says into my lips in between kisses.

Once we finally pull away again we look into eachothers eyes. The sun had now fully set the only light we had was that of the moon and stars. "Elle?" he said breaking the silence. "Yes?" I say. "Will you please be my girlfriend?" he asks me, my lips curl into the biggest grin I could possibly give him. I nod repeatedly before hugging him, placing my head into the crook of his neck. "Yes, of course I will." I say happily into his neck. I can feel his chest vibrate as he laughs. He then places a sweet kiss into my hair. As he pulls away. "God you're beautiful." he says, making me blush all over again. I splash him with some of the water. "Hey! What was that for?" he asks. "For staring!" I say laughing my head off. This was what started an all out water war. We splashed each other until we were too tired to keep our heads above water. We headed back over to the blanket and lied down. My head was in his chest and my arms were wrapped around his torso. His chin rested on my head as his arms wrapped around my hips. Our legs tangled together. "We're gonna have to thank Minho now aren't we?" 

Newt asks. "Yes you definitely will." I say laughing. "Why just me?" he asks laughing as well. I move my head to look at him, my chin now resting on his chest. "Because without him you wouldn't have admitted your feeling to me." I said plainly. "I would have gotten there, eventually." he mumbled the last part making me laugh even more. I yawn as I watch the moon and the stars in the night sky "Come on love lets go to bed." Newt says. Moving to get up. I was about to get up when he picked me up, bridal style and began heading towards his hut. "My legs do work you know." I say teasing him. "I know but this is more romantic." he says, making us both laugh. I wrap my arms around his neck to stabilize myself and nuzzle hy head into his chest inhaling his sweet scent. We soon get to my hut where he sets me down. "Here." he says, handing me one of his T-shirts. I blush and thank him for the shirt slipping it on over my swimsuit. I was too tired to fully change my clothes. We both crawl into the bed as he pulls me into his chest spooning me. "Goodnight my love," he says into my neck. "Goodnight blondie." I say through yawning, and before I knew it I fell asleep with a huge smile on my face.