Bloodstream

Chapter 31

A/N: Hello loves

Lauren's POV
It's funny how things turn out, I moved and left everything behind with my step brother to attempt to pursue a dream that at this point seems unreachable. I ran away from a relationship that ended horribly, it left me crushed and hopeless and I tried to fill a void that was left in me with a couple meaningless relationships and several drunk one night stands. I was left thinking that being in love was something idiotic, that nothing good can come out of it except leaving me to crash and burn when it comes to an end. I put my walls up to try to prevent myself from getting attached or to being able to let love in. Only for those walls to be easily torn down by a cute neighbor that happened to move in across the hall.
I was immediately captivated by her, maybe it was how she seemed like such a normal girl, she didn't look like those girls that would be out clubbing every night and hooking up with every one they see. She was the simple, cute girl next door; she's an effortless beauty. Her smile is one of the most beautiful things in this world, her eyes can make you melt, how she was just herself. She's the perfect girl and the best thing about this is that she's mine.
Today we celebrate our first month together as a couple, we were going to spend to whole day at her apartment and do absolutely nothing. It's going to be great. We were going to make a big fort in the living room and I was going to try to make Camila cookies, to show off the skills I have learned from helping out at the shop. In my bag I had her gift, in our time together I took the liberty of taking a bunch of pictures of us, sort documenting our relationship. With those pictures I made a scrapbook. It's a bit childish for my taste but I'm sure she'll like it.
I knocked lightly on her door, for some reason I was nervous, I wasn't sure why. The door swung open and her eyes met mine, I stepped inside and before I could do anything else she cupped my cheeks and pulled my into a kiss, I slowly dropped my bag and wrapped my arms around her waist tightly, I backed up a bit closing the door and she smiled pulling away.
"Happy one month." She whispered pecking my lips softly.
"Happy one month to you!" I kissed her cheek and she bit her lip.
"Nice pajamas." She smacked my butt and I turned around giving her a wink. We agreed we'd spend the whole day in pajamas so we didn't have to worry about anything else but us.
"Why didn't you wait for me so we could make the fort together?" I pouted and looked at the fort she had made.
"Because you're making me cookies so I thought I'd start on the fort." She wrapped her arms around my waist from behind and kissed my shoulder. I turned around and tugged a strand of hair behind her ear, I rubbed her cheek with my thumb, her eyes moved down to my lips quickly before looking back up into my eyes, She smiled cheekily as I started to lean in, she closed her eyes and tilted her head to the side, rubbing her face slightly on my hand like a kitten, I placed a soft kiss on the corner of her mouth and she grinned, her eyes still closed. I went down kissing below her jaw line and she giggled. Her hands played with the hem of my pajama pants as I moved up her face placing soft kiss all over it until I pressed my lips lightly on hers, her soft lips grazed against mine sending shivers up and down my spine, we lingered before slowly moving our lips, the smell of her hair was intoxicating, and the softness of it felt amazing as my hands got lost in it, she took a deep breath and hummed into the kiss making me smile, her fingers scratched my lower back gently as my hand travelled to her neck, then down to her shoulders. We slowly moved to the couch trying to not break kiss, we pulled away briefly and quickly reconnected as I she sat back on the couch and I placed myself on her lap. She placed her hands on my butt as I deepened the kiss. My breathing was getting deeper as the room got hotter. I pulled away and gave her light pecks all over her face causing her to giggle. I pulled away from her and she leaned in biting my chin.
"Ouch!" I squealed and she laughed.
"Make me cookies." She squeezed my butt and I nodded.
"Right away Camzi." I kissed her cheek and sat up walking into the kitchen, luckily she had lined up all the ingredients so the only thing I had to do was mix them together.
I got to work and she came over by me to watch me.
"You're doing great." She rubbed my shoulders and I smiled proudly.
"I've learned from the best." She chuckled and went to take out some corn kernels. She took out a pot and set it on the stove.
"You know there's this thing called microwavable popcorn." I said and she rolled her eyes.
"I like making it myself better." She started to get the popcorn going as I put the cookies in the oven.
"Done." I said and she clapped.
"I didn't get to taste the batter, I always let you!" I turned around and grabbed the bowl and scrapped up some of the batter that was left there with my finger, I poked her nose with it and she scrunched it, I kissed the batter of her nose and I put my finger against her lips, she parted her lips and sucked the batter off my finger.
"Yum." She said before biting down on my finger.
"Why do you always hurt me? Ow." I tried taking my finger out of her mouth but she just smiled and bit down on it a bit harder. The popcorn started to pop and she finally let go of my finger, I held my hand close to my chest and gave her a pouty face. She pouted back and came closer to me pressing me up against the counter.
"Can I kiss it better?" She said taking my hand.
"If you bite it again I will push you off the balcony." She laughed and shook her head.
"I promise I won't." She kissed my finger softly and then held my hand intertwining our fingers, she leaned in puckering her lips a bit, I smiled and puckered mine pressing them up against hers. The popping of the popcorn became distant as we kissed, it felt there was nothing around us, just us two in an empty room. I began to smell something burning but I didn't bother to pull away from the kiss so I just reached my hand out to turn off the stove, suddenly a scorching heat hit my arm.
"Shit!" I pulled away and saw I had pressed my arm up against the pot.
"Again?" She laughed and I rolled my eyes and turned the stove off, I took the lid of the pot and popcorn started to overflow out of the pot onto the floor. She laughed even harder and backed up into a wall; she slowly slid down to the ground and held her stomach laughing. I looked at my burnt arm and just laughed at myself for being an idiot. She grabbed a handful of popcorn that had fallen and she threw it at me. I gave her a quick glare and went down on the floor grabbing her waist and pulling her close to me into a cuddle, her laughing died down and she grabbed my arm.
"You're such an idiot."
"I'm sorry." I said against her ear and her giggled.
"You're my idiot so it's okay but I have to take care of this." She stood up and extended her hand out to me, I grabbed it and she pulled me up and took care of my burn.
"Thank you babe." I sucked on my bottom lip as she finished up wrapping some gaze around my arm.
"You're welcome." She kissed my arm over the gauze and smiled.
"I have your gift." I said and she beamed. I took her hand and walked into the living room; I picked up my bag and opened it taking out the scrapbook.
"I made it myself." I said handing her the scrapbook, she took it and went over by the couch, she sat on it Indian style and placed the book on her lap.
"What is it?" She asked I sat next to her and opened the first page; it was a picture of us we took on our first date, the one where we were kissing. At the top of the page it said one month.
"Well you know how I like to take pictures, right? Well this is what it was for." I said.
"Aww." She smiled and started to look through the pages.
"How come it stops here?" She said seeing that after going through some pages it came to a blank.
"Well it still has to be filled; from here we'll start our second month and so on." I said and she nodded and kissed my cheek.
"This is cute, thank you." She said getting off the couch and grabbing my face kissing me quickly.
"I got you something too!" She went to her room and came out with a small dark blue box in her hands.
"Remember when we walked into that antique shop and I saw you staring at the rings." She said and I nodded.
"Well I saw you looking at a particular one and I took the liberty of buying it." She handed me the box and I gushed. I opened it and inside was a small silver ring at the top it had three pearls, a big one in the middle and to small ones beside it. I smiled and looked up at her.
"You remembered?" I said and she nodded. I took the ring out and tried it on to see which finger it would fit, finally it rest perfectly on my ring finger on my right hand.
"Thank you so much." I wrapped my arms around her neck and she kissed my cheek.
"Never taking it off." I said and she winked.
"Good girl." I pulled her down to sit on my lap and kissed her.
"Can we go in the fort? I worked hard on it." She said against my lips and I nodded.
"Let me get the cookies!"