piece by piece~j.d

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Aubrey groaned with the weight of Josh who fell on top of her dramatically, he wouldn't move and though being strong she was in no shape to push him off when he was holding on for what seemed like dear life. She was lucky that she was on the bed and a soft surface, not something hard where he might have just about broken her bones. Josh and his damn muscles.

"Piss off! What do you want from me?" Aubrey asked as she gave up on attempting to move him off of her and opted to instead running her hands through his hair and focus in on his cheeky smile which in turn lit up his blue eyes and for the first time in a long time, she saw his real smile and heard the laugh that made her heart flutter, like her favourite melody playing in his ears.

"Why're you looking at me like that?" Josh questioned, for a split second he looked worried. "Is everything okay?"

"I just really love you, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me. To be honest, I have no idea what I did to deserve you." Aubrey lent down to kiss him softly. "I just want to scream about how much I love you to the world, constantly."

"I don't mind if you do. You're beautiful, Aubs." Josh chuckled, his forehead still pressed gently against Aubrey's, no shame in the proximity whatsoever. "I go crazy every time I think of you."

"Were we meant to have plans today? Because this feels like a day where I should get to stay in your arms..." Aubrey paused while she evaluated their positioning, looking up at him and grinning widely. "Or underneath you I suppose would be a better way to put it."

"I wouldn't mind, if you get what I mean." Josh smirked and winked with a chuckle, only getting a slap from his very loving girlfriend in return. "I was kidding, chill out babe."

"Very chill Joshy, I am very relaxed."

~~~

By some miracle the pair had fallen asleep, it was rare that they both slept during the day, but there was no denying that fact when Bailey and Adam walked into the house looking for them and found them curled up in one another's arms, Josh lying half on top of Aubrey as she held him close to her chest.

"Aww too cute." Adam cooed as he took out his phone taking a few pictures, he was smiling thinking innocently that it was cute but Baz was smirking instead. "He's going to love these photos."

"Yeah." Bailey dismissed him, and instead walked into the kitchen to fetch the biggest glass he could find, followed by filling it up with water from a bottle in the fridge. "What do you think? Good idea?"

"If it was anyone else doing it, I'd say that Josh would kick your ass, but Aubrey would knock you out before Josh could even blink." Adam warned, though Bailey was used to pissing off his sister and knew how to deal with her less then positive reactions to things.

"What's life without a little fun?" Bailey smiled and turned the glass upside down, unfortunately for him, his aim was slightly off and he got most of it on Josh's shirtless back. A lack of reaction from Aubrey was made up for by the high pitched screech that emitted from Josh's mouth, promptly waking Aubrey up, her jumping as she felt some of the cool water drip down onto her.

"Bailey. You have three fucking seconds." Aubrey threatened and for the second time of the day she was trying to get Josh off of her. "Dunkley you better move your ass quickly."

"No it's okay, weirdly enough I do enjoy Baz's company and I do want him alive." Josh denied as he pinned Aubrey down. "No need to punch him in the head like I know you desire, he doesn't have enough brain cells to spare in the first place."

"Hey!" Bailey exclaimed crossing his arms and huffing.

"I tried to warn you against it." Adam taunted, putting his arm around the blonde boy and squeezing his shoulder. "I got some cute photos for the two of you by the way."

"Thanks, now get the imbecile out of the room while we get ready for the day. What exactly do you guys want though?" Aubrey asked, finally able to push Josh's weight off of her, though he kept one arm wrapped around her.

"We thought you guys might like to have a game night." Adam smiled. "A lot of other partners are away by now so we need to band together and keep each other company."

"Who's gonna be there?" Aubrey asked.

"Me and Kim, you two and Bailey said that Ebony didn't have any plans." Adam listed. "We're going to have a few drinks and maybe end up getting a bit drunk in the end. If you guys are in?"

"What do you think babe?" Josh asked, looking over at Aubrey who nodded, feeling pretty good about the idea. "We'll be there, you guys go ahead we'll just meet you there once we get ready, I know Aubrey doesn't want to be seen with her bed head."

"Okay, don't take too long."

"We'll be right over."

~~~

"I'm here, we can start." Aubrey announced as she threw herself on the couch in Adam and Kim's house. "Is the food here?"

"Of course there is." Kim said, going over to hug Aubrey and then grabbing her hand. "Come to the kitchen and pick whatever you want to eat."

"I'm coming too, I could eat absolutely everything right now." Ebony laughed as she joined the other two girls on their short walk into the kitchen. "Do you have any jelly beans? I really love jelly beans."

"It might just be your lucky day, if you look in that draw second from the bottom you'll find a stash of lollies that Georgie hasn't yet found." Kim said, flicking a hand out to point Ebony in a round about direction, the girl excitedly went looking and was lucky enough to find it. "What do you want Aubby?"

"Popcorn if you have any, if not I'll take some of your rice cakes." Aubrey asked and Kim reached into the cupboard and pulled out both. "You are a saint Kim, I love you."

"Love you too." Kim chuckled as she set the packet of the popcorn into the microwave. "How are you doing, do you have any idea of who the person was that told everyone about everything?" Kim said as Aubrey jumped up and sat on the countertop, nibbling on her rice cake.

"Unfortunately not, nothing more has come out though so I guess that's a good thing. I just never know what I can tell people, obviously I trust you both though. You've both been so sweet to me since that has happened." Aubrey assured them, not making them think that she was cautious around them.

"Yeah, that's good." Ebony smiled and stuffed some jelly beans in her mouth, though removing all of the liquorice ones. "Those are gross."

"Agreed. Come on lets go back, we have to finish this monopoly game at some point during the night." Kim suggested and the three girls laughed and made their way back to where the three boys had already started to set up the board.

"I call being the dog!" Aubrey exclaimed as she took a seat beside Josh. "You can fight me for it."

"I already called dibs." Bailey shook his head and held up the little piece.

"You're always the hat, you can't just steal my dog!"

"It's going to be a long night," Adam sighed as he handed the hat piece to Bailey and got him to give Aubrey the dog so that there would at least be a little less fighting then necessary, because once it was go time everyone knew that the competitive natures would return in full force.

"You're going down Dunkley." Aubrey mumbled as they all figured out who was going to start.

"I wouldn't be so sure Smith."

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