Persephone- Completed

Twenty.

"Come on." 

"Okay you're going to have to stop telling me to come on." I laughed and took his hand, letting him pull me up from the sand. "Where are we going now?"

"No where." He pulled his top off and I almost stumbled backwards. He put his hand around me quickly, stopping me from falling. "Take your jumper off." 

"Wh-" 

"Do you trust me?" I nodded, his words were coming out quickly, like he had an urgency. "Then just take your jumper off. You're wearing a swimsuit under there right?" 

"Yeah." 

"Good." He put some space between us and started pulling my jumper up and off my head. I dropped it to the floor and he held his hand out for me. "Promise me something?" 

"Depends what it is." 

"Don't overthink anything for the next hour. Just be in the moment with me. I want you to relax a little." I took his hand and he pulled me into him. "Just do what feels right in the moment like you said."  I looked up into his eyes and he smirked "Promise?" 

"Okay fine. Promise." His smirk grew bigger as he picked me up, wrapping my legs around him. "Em-" 

"Shh." He shushed me and started walking. "You promised no over thinking." I huffed and he laughed. I watched his cheeky smile as he walked, he wasn't watching me, he was looking beyond me, wherever we were heading. He eventually stopped and looked up at me. 

"Are you tired?" He spoke lowly, I could only just make it out. 

"Not really." 

"Good. I need you wide awake for this." I tilted my head and he smiled. "I know I said yesterday that I've got a crush but I realised before I came out this morning that it's definitely more than a crush. I really like you Seph. This isn't going away anytime soon. I know that for sure. But I know what you said yesterday about just wanting to keep this natural and let whatever happens happen." He shook his head at me. 

"You're overthinking. I can see it on your face. Just listen." I put my head back on my shoulders, sighing that he could see right through me. He laughed loudly and I brought my head back. "See this is what I mean. It's so fucking easy to be around you. I'm putting myself in a super awkward spot right now and you just make it so easy."

"Everything's easy with you." He looked at me slightly taken aback by my words, like he hadn't been expecting them. "I couldn't sleep because I was overthinking what I said to you yesterday. I think a bigger part of me than I realise regrets telling us both to wait." 

"I'm so confused." He chuckled. 

"It's not a crush for me either." The second the words left my mouth, I was cold. Like really cold. And soaked. And I wasn't sat on him anymore. I put my feet into the sand trying to stand up in the water after a wave knocked us both over. I pushed the hair out of my face, looking for him in a panic. 

"Sonny?" He was right in front of me. How far could he have gone in a split second.

"That's not my name." His arm wrapped around my waist as he whispered in my ear. His voice hot and low as water from his hair dripped onto my shoulder. "Not for you." He lifted my feet off the sea bed, bringing me up to his height and I leaned my head back into him. 

"What happened?" I laughed slightly.

"I think mother nature gave us a slap on the back for finally admitting we like each other." He chuckled, still keeping his head near my ear. I laughed and he kissed my shoulder making me blush. I put my hand over my mouth, covering a yawn. "Oh my god are you tired?" He spun me around putting me on his hips, a huge smile back on his face. 

"A little." I nodded and buried myself into his neck. "I think it was decaf coffee." I smiled into him, nuzzling my nose into the crook of his neck. 

"Good. Hold tight. Don't let go." I nodded and he started walking. "Okay I need you're help here otherwise we're going to end up on the floor and as funny as that would be, I want to get you to bed before you wake up some more again."

"Em-" 

"Don't try to refuse it. Nothing's going to happen. I just want to know you've had some sleep." I lifted my head up, looking at his face as he pulled us out of the sea. I pushed his hair back from his face so he could see and his eyes lit up. He was so hot right now. Not physically. Physically we were both freezing. "Okay. I'm going to bend my knees. Think you can grab the cups and out clothes?" I nodded and he bent his knees. I twisted, leaning backwards and grabbing all 4 things and quickly spinning back to him. 

"Got 'em." He nodded and started walking again. "There's a shower by the gate back into the garden so we can rinse the sand off." He started up the steps. "You're going to have to put me down eventually Em." I laughed and he stopped, looking up from the steps and shaking his head aggressively. 

"Not happening until you're in my bed sweetheart." I scrunched my face up as I smiled at the word he kept calling me. Adorable. I turned and punched the code in, pushing the gate open and holding it whilst he walked in, letting it close behind us. He turned to the shower and stopped by the wall, letting me put down the things I'd been carrying. "I'll come move these later today." I nodded and he walked into the shower, taking his hand off me to quickly turn it on. 

We both laughed as the cold water washed over us and made any remaining heat leave our body. 

"Okay you need to go on my back so I can see my feet." He laughed and tried to move me.

"Don't move. I can do it." 

"You can?" 

"Yeah I used to have to do this for a routine in cheer." I ducked under his arm and pulled myself around so I was on his back. 

"Your cheer routines are so hot." He leaned his head back against me and I laughed. "And the white uniform. Don't even get me started." 

"You've never said that before." I chuckled at him as he turned the shower off. 

"What that your routines are hot?" 

"That I'm hot." 

"You are." He looked back at me slightly. "Stunning, beautiful, cute. But your personality is the best thing about you. Over rides your looks any day." He pushed the door open and we both stayed silent as he walked up to his room, opening and closing the door behind us as quickly as possible.

I stayed on his back as he shuffled through his drawers, pulling out 2 tee shirts and 2 pairs of his joggers. 

"Okay you can't get changed on me so you're going to have to get down." He pouted as he looked in the mirror. 

"Quicker we're changed quicker we can sleep." He smiled and nodded as I let go of him, putting my feet to the floor for the first time in 15 minutes. Yet I still felt like I was floating.