Light Me Up [HS AU]

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Waking up next to Peyton splayed across my bed, naked and sleeping peacefully brought a smile to my face. She stirred slightly when I crawled out of bed and went to the bathroom to get a shower. Once I'd showered and put on clothes I checked on her, and she was still fast asleep. I went into the kitchen to make her a cup of coffee, and was met by the sight of Morgan and Niall sitting on the kitchen counter drinking coffee and eating pancakes. When they spotted me, they both started sniggering. 

"What?" I said with an eye roll. 

They both looked innocently at me, shrugging and holding up their hands. 

"Don't give me that, just let it rip, let me have it..." I sighed and leaned against the kitchen counter opposite them. 

"That's what she said..." Niall mumbled under his breath, making Morgan chuckle. I narrowed my eyes at both of them, making them splutter out with laughter. "What? It's not completely untrue, is it?" Niall said with a cheeky smirk on his face. Morgan threw one leg over the other and folded her hands over her knee. 

"Something you'd like to enlighten me on?" she said, and looked at me. "Have you defiled my best friend?" 

"Oh my God," I sighed and rubbed my face, before I grabbed a second cup and filled it for Peyton. "I'm going to go give her a cup of coffee. You two grow the fuck up in the meantime." 

I walked back to my bedroom to the sound of Morgan and Niall laughing their asses off. I was relieved to see Peyton still fast asleep, lying on her stomach. I carefully sat down next to her on the bed and placed her cup on the nightstand. She took a deep breath in her sleep and started to move a little. I put a hand on her lower back and traced little circles on her skin. She stirred and stretched, before she looked up at me and smiled. 

"Good morning," I said and smiled at her. "I got you a cup of coffee."

"Thank you," she said sweetly, her voice small and unused. She made to sit up, but looked at me as she registered she was naked. She bit her lip and seemed to be shy about sitting up.

"I think we're past that," I said with a small laugh, gesturing for her to go ahead and sit up. 

She sat up and pulled her knees up to her chest barely covering her nakedness. Her hair was a mess of unruly waves that she gathered in a high bun on top of her head with a hairband. The curve of her shoulders and neck were a work of art when her hair wasn't covering them. She smiled shyly, since I was gawking at her like a creep, so I cleared my throat and handed her the cup of coffee, I had fetched for her. 

"Thank you," she said with a smile as she took the cup. She sipped it and nodded, telling me I had gotten her coffee preference right. "That's good coffee." 

"Good. That's... good." I grimaced at my own awkwardness, and she chuckled sweetly. We sat in silence for a moment, none of us were ready to break it and unlike normally it wasn't uncomfortable to be silent with her. With Willow comfortable silence wasn't a thing. I caught myself thinking of her, and immediately felt wrong. A splash of guilt spraying over me; guilt towards Willow for sitting there comfortable with someone else, and guilt towards Peyton for thinking of Willow while she sat there, naked and vulnerable in my bed, where I had sex with her not even eight hours ago.