haunted || l.h.

35

"Hey Luke?" I called out as I walked from the kitchen to the living room.

"Yeah?" He asked with a heavy and exhausted sigh. He had just gotten home from hanging out with Michael, Calum, and Ashton. He's been gone since yesterday morning and I know that when they hang out they get pretty crazy.

"Can you make cookies with me?" I asked and walked behind him on the couch and looked down at him while he rested his head on the back of the couch and looked up at me.

"You want my help making cookies?" He asked with a raised eyebrow while I played with his hair.

"No I just want to hang out with you, and I also want cookies." I said softly and watched a smile appear on his face.

"Okay let's go." He said and stood up from the couch and walked to the kitchen with me.

"Wow so organized." He said sarcastically as we walked into the messy kitchen.

"Leave me alone you're not organized either." I said and gently hit his shoulder as I went over to the counter to get a bit more organized.

"I'm more organized than you." He said and stood behind me and rested his chin on top of my head.

"You are not." I scoffed and went over to the cabinet to get a large bowl.

"Play some music it's too quiet in here." He complained and leaned against the fridge.

"Why can't you do it?" I asked as I put two sticks of butter in the bowl and went to soften it in the microwave.

"Because my phones on the couch and I don't want to get it." He said and rested his head on my shoulder and wrapped his arms around my waist from behind.

"You're so lazy." I said and pulled out my phone, connected it to the speaker, and found something to play.

  I felt him place kisses on my bare shoulder and up my neck. His beard was tickling me like crazy and I could feel his soft hair on my cheek which only tickled me more.

"Look at me." I said softly and turned my head towards him. I watched as he looked up at me with a curious look on his face. I took a gentle hold of his chin and pulled him in for a sweet kiss. He smiled widely when he pulled away, making my heart do a little thing in my chest. His smile is so beautiful and it drove me crazy.

  He quickly licked my cheek which made me scrunch my face up in surprise that he actually did that. I groaned and quickly wiped my cheek as he bursted out into a fit of adorable giggles and peppered kisses all over my other cheek.

"No more kisses it's cookie time." I said and took the bowl out of the microwave and started piling ingredients in the bowl.

"Luke you're getting flour everywhere." I scolded as he dropped an entire cup of flour on the counter.

"Whoops." He said and spread it all over the place.

"Luke oh my god." I said and tried to clean up his mess before he made it worse. Before I knew it I had a fistful of flour in my face and Luke's loud and squeaky giggles echoing in my ears.

"Food fight!" He shouted and cracked an egg on my head. I let out a heavy sigh before I grabbed a handful of flour and threw it at his face. I took a couple of eggs and smashed them over his sandy blonde hair that had flour all over it.

"C'mere babe." He giggles and grabbed the gallon of milk and grabbed me to pour it on my head. When I tried to escape and get away from him we both slipped from the milk that was on the floor. Luke dropped the entire thing which only made this whole thing worse really.

"You have flour in your beard." I said and started laughing at his crazy appearance. 

"You have milk and eggs dripping from your face." He laughed and came closer to me so he could wipe the milk and egg from my face.

"I don't trust you anymore." I said and playfully pushed his hand away.

"You're being ridiculous I'm literally sitting in a pool of milk, come here babe." He said and pulled me onto his lap and held me like a baby while getting the milk and egg out of my eyes.

"Your little nose is so adorable." I said and poked his nose and pushed it up a bit while giggling the slightest bit.

"You're so fucking cute I love you." He blurted out with a wide smile on his face before he realized what he just said. I watched it all process in his brain and watched his face drop as it registered that he just told me he loves me.

"You love me?" I asked with a small smile as I looked up at him. I felt my heart pound against my ribs as excitement and anticipation filled my veins. He can't be lying, he clearly didn't mean to say it. So it must be true. He spoke from his heart and not his mind and that proved that he really meant it.

"What? No no are you serious? No." He denied and let out a slight scoff as he tried to cover it up.

"You love me." I said with a wide smile on my face as I booped his nose.

"I don't-" He started but I quickly cut him off by softly saying "I love you too." I watched the words process in his mind and completely unfold themselves in his brain. He looked stunned for a moment, almost as if he didn't believe what I said was true. But then he got this heart warming, adorable smile and had a slight twinkle in his eyes that I've noticed he only had when he looked at me.

"You love me?" He asked in a mixture of disbelief and surprise but still held a smile on his face.

"How could I not? You saved me." I said and looked up at his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Because I'm just Luke." He said with a shrug.

"You're not just Luke. You're amazing and you're beautiful and you have the best heart in the world. Everything about you is beyond extraordinary." I said and held his jaw in my hand as I looked into his eyes.

"You're beyond extraordinary Paisley." He said and leaned down to kiss me tenderly.