Not Warriors- Awsten Knight

Chapter 24

To say that Awsten and Claire had a good day together would be an understatment. 

It was late now, the sun finally setting and they were making their way back to the hotel, after the record shop they went on a long walk talking about everything and nothing all at the same time and it probably wouldn't of taken so long if Claire hadn't made him stop every 5 seconds so that she could take pictures of him and their surroundings.

She just didn't know that he was sneaking pictures of her all day too, there was an odd sense of familarity to the day that they had together and it made him feel good.

"Did you uh want to come back to my room maybe?" Claire asks him shyly, and he takes her hand in his squeezing it lightly. 

"Of course, do you want to order food and watch a movie?" he replies and she nods.

"That sounds really nice." she tells him honestly.

Neither one of them were expecting to run into their friends in the hotel lobby, and they were too lost in their own conversation to notice until they quite literally ran into them still hand in hand.

"Hey guys, have a fun day?" Geoff says teasingly, looking at the both of them and then down to their interlocked hands.

"Sure looks like they did, doesn't it Geoff?" Chris joins in on the teasing and Claire groans.

"Don't y'all have tequlia shots to take? Or lives to find that don't involve relentlessly making fun of me?" she shoots back defensively.

"Come on guys leave them alone." Collin says to the boys and Awsten nods in his direction to thank him. 

"Okay cool so glad we got this out of the way, if you need me. Don't, but also I'll be in my room." Claire says frustratedly, pulling Awsten with her towards the elevator. 

"Have fun!" Jawn shouts behind them.

"Use protection!" Derek adds in, laughing.

"Or don't! Being an uncle would be kind of fun!" they both hear Tyler shout and Awsten laughs once they are in the elevator with the doors closed.

Claire releases the grip she has on Awsten's hand, dramatically burying her face into her hands, and he places a hand on her back rubbing it softly.

"God I hate them." she groans out and he chuckles.

"No you don't." he tells her, and she hates that he's right. 

The elevator dings, letting them know that they were on the floor and they slip out making their way down the hallway and into her room.

Claire places her bag down on the desk, taking her camera out removing the SD card and grabbing her laptop so that she could sit down on the bed and go through the pictures that she had taken today. 

"Are you going to sit down?" she asks Awsten looking up, and she's concerned by the look on his face. She could tell that he was thinking, but couldn't figure out what had him frozen in place.

"Aws what's wrong?" she asks him gently, and she watches as he swallows thickly, looking up at her, she swears she can see tears forming in his eyes.

"I just think that there's somethings we need to talk about." he mumbles. She nods her mind racing at the number of things that he could be talking about.

"Okay. Sit and lets talk." she says shakily, placing her computer to the side patting the bed next to her. 

Awsten sits, sighing "I don't know where to start or even how." 

"Maybe anywhere would be good, mainly because you're scaring me." she tells him truthfully.

"Okay so the albums." he replies, knowing that he was taking entirely too long to get to the point.