Strawberries & Cigarettes

Chapter 17

TW: minor sexual content ahead.

Hold up, real quick! It will be a girlxgirl scene so if it's not your cup of tea then feel free to skip over it!!

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May 22, 2015

"I missed you, Spence!"

Aurora rushes to stand up from the couch and sprints over to Spencer, instantly wrapping her arms around his lanky body that he nearly tumbles back from the impact.

Missing him will always be an understatement.

"Why did you come home so late, mister? I want good excuses!" she says with a giggle, resting her chin on his chest to look up at his face when he hugs her back.

"I won't be able to give you an answer if you strangle me to death!" Spencer shouts out, a chuckle leaves his lips, and he lowers his eyes at her while he brings his hand up to pat her head.

She pouts, placing the side of her head against his chest to hear the delicate rhythm of his heartbeat.

Her strangely strong arms refuse to let go of him.

He tries to walk forward with Aurora clinging to him but it's no use, she looks like a baby koala hanging onto their mother koala.

Which in this case, the mother koala is Spencer.

Spencer sighs. "Rory, the floor is safe to stand on, you know... You can let go now and not act like a freaking annoying tick."

Aurora huffs out but unlatches herself off of him and takes his hand to drag him over to the black marble kitchen island.

She struggles to jump up on the countertop but after multiple attempts, she finally hoists herself up and sits at the edge with her feet dangling off.

"Where are my good excuses, Dale?" Aurora jokes with her hands folded on her lap, lifting an eyebrow at him.

He slowly blinks at her, keeping a serious face, but a smile threatens to spread on his heart-shaped lips

"I—" he interrupts himself to laugh out loud, a hand of his quickly covers his mouth to try to remain serious. "Sorry, it's just — your face, it's too funny!"

She laughs with him, often pausing to compose herself but his unusually choppy laughter causes her to laugh yet again.

Moments like these are golden and she cherishes them with no doubt.

They haven't hung out with only the two of them recently, so Aurora didn't realize how much she missed being comfortable with her beloved best friend until now.

"Okay!" she shouts out to cease his laughter, her hand rubbing her abdomen from the ache of laughing too much and uncontrollably.

His index finger wipes away the tears brimming in his eyes, he scrunches his eyebrows together and asks her, "Wait, what was your original question?"

"Why did you come home late, Spencer! It's almost nine o'clock!"

Spencer raises his eyebrows and forms his mouth into a circle. "Oh, my annoying boss wanted me to work overtime — paid though. Thank the Lords!"