Still Here (Zak Bagans fanfic)

Chapter 7

Three months after the best decision of my life, we got our third investigation set up and I was super excited because it was in my home state of Kentucky at the Sanatorium. Zak announced our relationship to the world a week after I moved, causing his fan base to hate my guts, but I was prepared for it. My new best friend has become Aaron, being the goof ball that he is I find him quite entertaining. Our favorite thing to do together was late at night when we were in the hotel, we would sneak out of our rooms and down to the front desk stealing all of the cookies and putting an individual cookie outside of all of the crew members doors. That is until Zak woke up once and caught us, he stole the plate from me and ran down the hallway to our room, locking me out. Now when we sleep in a hotel, he holds me a little tighter so I don't go and steal all of the cookies. I can't count how many videos and photos Zak has of me on his phone doing goofy things with Aaron, always causing a ruckus. He has too many to count of the two of us as well, between the pictures of me sleeping in the van, giving him quick kisses on the cheek, or even just a plain happy selfie of the two of us together. I was happier than I had ever been, and it was very evident in the way we all interacted with one another.

"Dude, come on! It would be fun!" Aaron begged as he was trying to get me to dive into the shallow river with him.

"I don't have a change of clothes, Aaron! I don't want to freeze to death when I get out!" I protested.

"Since when are you so lame? You could wear Zak's jacket, I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you did."

I looked at Zak, getting a loud sigh as he dropped his head and took his jacket off. I looked at Aaron, my eyes lit up in excitement as I took my shoes off and stepped over the railing of the short bridge we were standing on. It was only about a 3 foot drop to the water, and Aaron had been bugging me to jump off the bridge into the river with him for a couple hours now. As we both got over the railing, we plugged our noses and counted to three together. We jumped at the same time, the coldness of the water shocking my body. I swam to the surface and started swimming to the shore where Zak was waiting with his jacket out for me. I climbed out of the water, forgetting that I had on a white t shirt and a black bra as I emerged. Zak stood there on the bank, awestruck that he could see what was under my clothing. Yeah, we have made out plenty of times, even considered taking it to the next level, but with both of our past histories with relationships we decided to wait until we were more established to take it to that level. I think him seeing me like this made him finally realize that he wanted that level to come pretty quickly. He was the one holding out on me, mostly because he didn't want me to feel pressured but I had been just waiting for the day he would finally take it there with me.

"What are you gawking at?" I asked him as he wrapped his jacket around me.

"You. Just making sure I take it all in is all." He responded, softly kissing me on the head, "Good god you're freezing. Regretting that decision?"

"Maybe a little."

Meanwhile, Aaron came dragging ass out of the river, shivering uncontrollably.

"At least she has a warm jacket! I don't have shit to warm me back up." He said with a laugh.

"Guess we better hurry home then huh?" I responded, putting my sandals back on so we could walk to the car.

As we got back home, Aaron immediately ran to the spare bedroom where he had clothes stashed, and I heard the shower to the guest bedroom turn on. Wasn't such a bad idea, taking a warm shower would probably heat me up right now, and besides I needed to get the river water smell off of me. I walked to the master bedroom, Zak right behind me, and grabbed a new outfit to put on for the day before making my way to the bathroom. I heard Zak sit down on the bed and turn the TV on, preparing to wait for me to get out of my notoriously long showers. After I had already undressed, an idea popped in my head, but I was still afraid to ask the question. I wrapped the towel around me and stepped out of the bathroom, looking at Zak half sitting up on the bed watching TV.

"Hey, uh, do you maybe wanna join me?" I mumbled, nervous to even ask.

"You want me to join you in the shower?" He asked me, fulling sitting himself up on the bed.

"I mean, only if you wanted to."

Before I even finished my sentence, he was up off of the bed and stripped down to nothing but his boxers. I took in all of him. All of his rippling muscles, his tattoos I had come to adore so much, and the growth beginning to form inside his boxers.

"I take that as a yes?" I asked, a smile spreading across my face.