It's us against the world

24 - "will you be my girlfriend?"

During our meal Leah doesn't seem herself and it looks as if something is bothering her. "Le what's the matter?" I ask her.
She looks up at me, then looks back down as if to say something but doesn't.
"Le, tell me what's up" I continue to ask her.

"Ok. Maybe I do have something I want to say but I don't know how to." She says, close to a whisper.

I smile at her "that's alright, you just try for me alright?"
She moves some food around on her plate then begins to speak "I- I- I don't know how to say this at all without it being awkward if you don't want to but-" she trails off so I pick up

"But what Leah? I'm not that scary" I giggle at the end

She chuckles to herself and continues "so I just wanted to tell you that I really like you, like a lot, too much even, and I just wanted you to know that I've fallen so much for you and I cant do much else than what I'm about to do."

I smile softly "Leah, I really like you too. It's not like actually, I think its love."

She looks down at her plate and starts to pick with her food, then looks back up at me unsure if she should say but she does anyway
"I just want to ask you if you would maybe, possibly, consider being my girlfriend?"

I nod with a massive grin on my face "yes Leah of course I would love to be your girlfriend! I love you so much."

She smiles to herself "thank god you said yes, I was so stressed, I was about to back out, but I guess there was nothing to loose there so here we are. Girlfriends."

I smile "yeah, girlfriends."
I pause, "but you do know we are gonna have to keep this on the down low for a couple years right?"

She nods, sadly "yeah but it's fine, because we get to be together and that's all I care for. We can tell Beth and the team though? And my family? And yours?"

I reply with a smile "yes of course we can tell Beth and everyone like that, who wont let our secret slip. Your family too, if you want to that is. I'm pretty sure the team already knows or they have suspicions of us so it won't be too hard to break the ice for them."

I don't really want to tell my family. My dad's super homophobic so I haven't told him that I'm gay yet, let alone dating a woman older than me. In fact, my whole dad's side of the family is homophobic, I don't think I could tell them. I'd be too scared for what they might do to my mum. They always blame her for everything.

I don't want to tell my mum either. She will just get in the way of everything. I know that Leah is really close with both her parents, but my mum is just too over the top. Since I've told her I was gay, she's sent me non-stop messages about how proud she is of me. I'm obviously happy she's supportive of me, but she's just too supportive.

I might need to tell Leah but I don't want to jeopardise our relationship that we have just started so I might leave it till later on. She might even break up with me because I'm not close with them.

I'll just forget about it, and resurface this later. It's too much of a heavy topic for now. Plus I have other things on my mind.

We have finished our dinner and I've washed up our dishes, we sit on the sofa together while Leah gets a movie ready for us.

She wraps her arm over my shoulder so I snuggle into her so close I can feel her breath on my face and ask her sweetly "can we watch a romantic movie tonight, please."
I smirk and add "girlfriend?"
I puff out my bottom lip and flutter my eyelashes so she huffs "yes, but only because I love you that much."

She puts on The Notebook and I cuddle up even closer to her with a small smile on my face.

About 15 minutes through the movie she pauses it and asks "do you remember what you said to me this morning?"
I look up at her smirking and reply innocently "no I don't think I remember, why?"

She goes into tickle me as she knows I remember so I add, before she could get one touch on me
"fine, I do remember Leah. Don't you dare tickle me, I swear you will loose out on your chances if you tickle me. Never ever will you get it if you tickle me."

She immediately takes her hands away, instead placing them around my waist, and replies "ok, my love, just remember I will be waiting for you."

I smile and play the movie again, cuddling tightly into Leah and resting my head on her chest, watching the rest of the movie together.

When the kissing scene comes on, I snuggle tighter into Leah feeling butterflies everywhere, she realises what this is doing to me so she kisses my forehead lightly and the butterflies intensify.
I look up at her and see that she is smirking at me, I just look back at the movie to distract myself.

Once the movie finishes, I get up and tell Leah "im going to bed Le, you coming?"

She nods "yep coming now."

I go to run up the stairs but I manage to stub my toe on the first step and wince in pain "fuck me,"

Leah manages to hear me as she is right behind me and replies, under her breath "Give me a chance."

I smile, overhearing her little comment and sneakily reply "what if I gave you your chance right now?"

She instantly asks me confused, as she didn't realise she said that out loud, "what?"

I smirk in response "you heard me, your chance is now."

I lean up to her and quickly kiss her before running away, up the stairs and into her room, hiding under her covers till she comes charging in behind me and rips the covers off me, a bit too eager, revealing a giggling little human underneath.

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A/N: ITS DONE!!!! THEY ARE OFFICIALLY GIRLFRIENDS!!
Sorry it took so long, i wanted to get Leah to do it but it took so long so that their characters could build together and not just suddenly jump into a relationship, which to be fair is the case for a lot of lesbian relationships...
Anything suggestions are very much welcome and do not worry...
I have A LOT of drama coming up in the next couple chapters.
Something is gonna happen next chapter and i have it all planned out (im so excited for it icl)
Have a good day xx
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