How He Saved Her

Chapter Twenty- One

Aurora

I love him; it's as simple as that. I'm not sure why I didn't say it yesterday, but I feel it as true as daylight. When I woke up in the middle of the night after yet another nightmare, I opened my eyes to find Oliver next to me. I had somehow wiggled out of his arms so I scooted closer to him and placed myself at the crook of his arm. 

My heart still racing from the nightmare, I lifted my hand up to his face and traced his features. His nose is straight but not too long and his cupid bow is longer rather than a tiny space and his jawline was sharp agaisnt my finger. I loved him, I loved his face. Not more than his heart though. 

"Oliver?", I say to him in the dark trying to find comfort but cannot. I place my hand on his chest and pat him. He opens his eyes, frantic eyes as he tries to make sense of what happened. He finds me looking at him and visibly relaxes, throwing an arm around my waist. 

"Another one?", he whispers and I nod. He sighs, a long depressing one, and tucks a piece of hair behind my ear. "I'm here, principessa. Don't let him get to you. I'll be here." 

I frown at his niceness but he only smiles at me. I place my head on his chest and take a deep breath in. I inhale and exhale a few times before looking up at him. I love you, I want to say. Instead, I let him pull me closer to him and throw a leg over his torso. I close my eye and wait for sleep to take me. I eventually fell asleep with the sound of his heart beating under me. So relaxing that mine follows. 

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I decided to skip school the next day seeing as my head still throbbed when I woke up. That made Oliver's dad move my appointment earlier to 11 o'clock. Oliver had frowned at the fact that he would have to go back to school where as I would he able to go back to his room and hide under the covers. 

"I'll miss you", he says when I laugh at him. I'm already in his bed with the blanket pulled up to my chest. "I'm sure you are going to be bored without me." 

I shake my head, smiling instead. Oliver looks hotter today or is it because I've been staring at him this whole morning? I watched him do his hair this morning, which consists of washing and blow drying. He put in oil that made his hair shine and that prompted me to stare at it for a while. He is also dressed nicely today: White colored shirt with a blue sweatshirt over it. Since when did he dress that way? It makes me want to pull him by his collar in for a kiss. 

The thought makes me let out an involuntary giggle and feeling my face warm at the thought, I cover myself with the blanket. I hear Oliver's footsteps approaching me and not long after, he pulls the blanket away from my face. 

"What's so funny?", he says and I shake my head, my hair falling into my eye. Oliver places his backpack onto his other shoulder and uses his hand to move the hair off my face and behind my ear. I watch as a small smile appears at the sight of my face. He leans down, his head making its way toward my ear. "What was it, principessa?" I shake my head and his groan is loud in my ear, causing goosebumps to pass down my body. 

I shake my head again and he leans away and runs a hand through his hair. "Guess I'll just—" He doesn't get a chance to finish his sentence because when I lean up and grab a hold of his collar, his eyes widen. I bite my lip from letting out a smile and pull him down crashing our lips together. He lets out a gasp in my mouth and I smile wider. Once he starts to get to the rhythm of the kiss, I can feel my heart calming down. 

His phone buzzes on the table and he groans pulling away from me not before I grab his bottom lip in between my teeth making him widen his eye when I do pull away. I fall back down on the bed, my breaths coming in uneven. Grabbing his phone, he turns to me and says,"That was hot, Aurora." My name and the word hot in the same sentence is foreign to my ears but I welcome his words with a smile. "That was crazy hot", he says making me blush harder.