Chasing Her

Layla

I feel the morning sun shine down on my face as I peel my eyes open. I blink a few times letting my eye adjust to the blinding light.

I wiggle my toes as I smile. I love waking up with the sun in my face. Not. I groan a little not wanting to get up and shut the blinds. I try to ignore it and close my eyes again. Then when that doesn't work I throw a pillow over my face. It was dark. But then I almost die from suffocating

I grump incoherent words as I uncover my face coming to a descion.

I had to get up and shut the blinds. I have to be brave. I try to throw the covers off finding they were unusually heavy. I looked down to see a arm resting on it. I looked up to see Ashton sleeping peacefully next to me. How'd he get there. I tried to think of what happened last nigh, but nothing came to mind

Wait! Did we? No. No! I slowley lift the covers fearing the worst. I let out a sigh of relief to see my cloths still on.

Okay. So if we didn't do the 'the deed'. Then what happened. I layed there for a few minutes lost in my thoughts. A snoring sound interrupted me.

I looked to Ashton to find him not only snoring, but drooling on my pillow. I scowled. Really? I just washed my bed. Aside from snoring and drooling he was actually cute sleeping. He was curled up to my side. With his arm thrown over my waist and his leg twined with mine. He was quite the cuddler. He looked peaceful. As if nothing in the world mattered. A light bulb popped into my head.

I reached over to the night stand and slowley brought my phone up. I unlocked my phone silently and opened the camra. I snapped a few pictures before satisfied and put my phone back.

After that I just layed there not wanting to wake him up. After about five minutes I couldn't do it anymore.

I reched out my hand to his face. I lifted a eye lid. Dark brown eyes met me. I quickly let go freaked out. I giggled lightly. Then I squished his cheeks together so he looked like a pucker fish. Then a pinched both of his cheeks and cooed how cute that was.
I decided to lift a eyelid. Once again dark brown eyes met mine. But this time they moved. A startled squeek escaped my lips as Ashton laughed.

"Ashton" I scolded. Lightly hitting his arm playfully. He just smiled a secret smile before cuddling deeper into my side.

Before I knew what was happening, fingers connected with my bare skin on my stomach in a tickling motion.  I squirmed laughing.

"A..ash...Ashton" I said between laughs. "Stooop." Ashton climbed on top of me as I thrashed about. I stuck out my hands and started tickling his sides. A deep laugh escaped his lips as he fell of the bed pulling me and the covers with him.

We landed with a thump on the ground. We kept tickling each other. Until eventually Ashton locked my arms under his legs. And it was just him tickling me.

"Puuuhhh-leeaase" I yelled. My sides hurting from all the laughing.
"First tell me I'm hot" What?
"Never" a barley got out.
"Aww you shouldn't have said that" His death fingers seemed to be everywhere. I couldn't take it.

"Your hot"
"What I don't think I quiet heard that" he said as he cupped one hand over his ear.
"Your hot" I screamed.

"Oh why thank you." he grinned before getting up. He stuck out a hand to help me up. Ignoring is out stretched hand, I ungainly got up.

I stuck out my tongue walking around him and to the bathroom. He laughed followimg me.

"Where's Alsion and Derek?" I asked putting tooth paste on mine and his tooth brush.

"Oh they're both next door. They woke me up last night saying something about Derek and a dog." I nodded my head continuing to brush my teeth.

Ashton brushed his teeth and soon we were both needing to spit. We looked at each other a second before Ashton made a hand gesture telling me I could spit first. I shrugged and bent my head to spit.

I wiped my mouth on the hand towl. Ashton following my movement.

I tried to push Ashton out of the bathroom.
But he wouldn't budge.
"Ashton. Out" he turned around and gave me the puppy dog eyes.

"Why?" he questioned.
"Because. I need to take a shower and I'm not taking one with you in here. Now get out."

"Why Layla? Do I make you nervous."
My heart fluttered in response. I blinked once or twice. Did he make me nervous?
There was a simple answer to that.

Yes. Yes Ashton made me nervous. Was I going to admit that to him? No.

"Why would you think that?" I asked him. He took a step closer to me. I could practically feel his body heat. I unconsciously took a step back.

He smirked before taking another step towards me. This one was big and deliberate. We were now chest to chest.

My heart stopped for a second before beating rapidly. Could he hear it. It was so loud and fast I thought it was going to burst out of my chest any minute.

"Layla" he said running his hand through my hair. A conflicted look crossed his features. And then he asked the impossible.

"What happened all those years ago."