Jaiden (Drew Chadwick) Fan Fic

Chapter Six

Jaiden's POV

I wake up curled into Drew's arms, his breaths easy, effortless. My face is crusty with day old tears and I realize that it is five o'clock in the morning. I lay my head back down on the pillow and try to close my eyes and fall asleep, but I burst awake when I close my eyes and my mother is staring back at me. I creep out of bed, wearing Drew's oversized hoddie and my Abercrombie sweats that I had bought despite my mother's protests. I grab a mug out of the top cabnet and strain to get the tea out of the top cupboard, right above the stove, where dad always kept it. I trip and I land on the tile. I groan as I try to get up, but my body won't let me. I stare at the ceiling, hoping that somebody will find me. I hold the cool glass mug to my cheek, letting it cool me down. 

Drew's POV

I come down the stairs and see Jaiden laying on the floor, a mug pressed to her cheek. I go over to her, and I shake her awake. She looks up at me through bleary eyes, and I smiled down at her, kissing the tip of her nose. At first, I just lay beside her, and she nuzzles into my chest, and I let her, because I love the way her body is molded against mine. We lay there for a while, our breathes and heartbeats synchronized. After a while, I picked her up and I layed her back in bed. I made her favorite coffee and I went out to the store and picked up her favorite chocolate chip muffins. I walk back into the house, and Jaiden's still wrapped in my sweatshirt, her hands folded around a mug of coffee. 

"Good morning, babe." I said, kissing the top of her head as I passed her. 

"Oooo!! You got me muffins!" she snatches the bag away from me and grabs a huge muffin. 

I watch her eat it with caution, a huge silly grin on my face. 

"So, what do you want to do today? We could just stay home. Watch movies, and just be so anti-social for a whole day. Just you and me." I suggest. She places teh sad, half-eaten muffin on the table and comes up to me, resting her hands on my knees. She just stares at me for a while, letting silence fill up the space between us. 

"I want to sing today. I don't know what song, but I just want to sing. I need to. My mom used to do that whenever things got hard. It was supposed to relax us, and take our minds off of our troubles." she smiles faintly, and I know that she aches for her mom again. 

I pull her into my arms, and I hear her muffled sobs. I hate it when she cries. I can't stand to see her unhappy. 

"Then that is what we will do. Whatever song you want. I brought my guitar. It's still out in car but I can get it. Why don't you go take a shower and I will take you somewhere where it will just be you and me, singing together. How does that sound?" 

"That sounds good." Tears gather in her eyes, and pool over. I wipe them away with my thumbs and kiss her deeply. I feel my lips tingle and I let her go, smiling at her before going out to my car and getting my guitar out of the back seat. 

Jaiden's POV

I get into the shower and I let the warm water just flow over me at first. There is no better feeling on a weary body than the warm water. Steam fills the room, and clouds up the mirrors. I feel like a little girl again. Mom would write secret messages in the steam and when I would get out there they would be, in her loopy handwriting that only I could understand. And somehow, everything was good. My day never really started until I saw that message. It made me feel complete. Whole, in a way that only my mom could fill. 

Now, I look on the mirror, and there is no message there. I take a deep breath to stop the tears from coming, and I wrap my towel around my body, walking out of the bathroom with my head down; blinking fast to keep the sobs from coming. I look in my closet and try to pick through all of the clothing I have. But, ultimatley, I go with a Sunkist t-shirt and a pair of jean shorts and flipflops. I put my sunglasses on, grab my phone and purse, and go down the stairs meeting Drew down there. 

Drew's POV

I drive her to our beach. The beach where I first kissed her and played the song that was intitled to her. I smile every time I pass by this beach. The beach of us. I walk up to the shore, feeling the breeze waft over me. I lay my guitar on a rock, and I pull Jaiden towards me. She smiles at me, and she kisses my cheek lightly. 

"Race you." she whispers into my ear, and takes off towards the water. 

She kicks her flip flops off and runs into the water, splashing little drops of water my way behind her. I run in after her, feeling the water splash against my thighs. She smiles at me a few feet deeper in the water, her sunglasses covering her eyes, and her smile taunting. 

"Come on, Drew." she taunted, "You scared?" 

I smiled and started to walk towards her slowly. She walks backwards as I get closer. I finally scoop her up in my arms, and she squeals as I twirl her around and around. She twists in my arms so that she is face to face with me. Our clothes are soaked, but we don't care anymore. She kisses my lips, softly at first, and then I press my lips firmer against hers, and she kisses me back harder. I look at her, from her wet hair to her beautiful toes in the water, and I can't help but want to kiss her and just take her away with me. 

"Hey, if we had a house somewhere, would you live in it with me?" I whisper in her ear softly. 

"Of course, I will love you forever, Drew. You are everything to me. I don't know what I would do without you." she buries her head in my chest and I kiss the top of her head. Wanting to have a house to take her to. 

"I wish I could take you away from all of this. So, you could be happy." 

"But, then what about the guys? And the XFactor? This is your guy's big break and you need to be there with Wes and Keats. Or else there will be Emblem Two. And that's not as catchy as Emblem Three." I smile at her little remark and she smiles back. 

" I wish we didn't have all these things in our way. I just wish it was you and me. Nothing else." 

"Same here. But it happened baby. And that's where we are at right now. And that's kinda where we are gonna stay for a while. Unless, you suddenly quit Emblem Three and I just stopped having a life. But, what fun would that be?" she smiled, and for a second I really wanted to quit the band. Just so I could be with her. 

"What if I did quit the band? What if we could be together and we wouldn't have to worry about anything? Not anybody else but us?" 

"You know you can't do that. And I don't want you to. That would mean ditching the guys on your way to fame, and you know you can't do that. Not when that's all you've worked for." 

I look down at the water around my legs, making the bottom of my cargo shorts wet, and feel my stomach do a flip. The thing that I had worked forever for, now within my grasp, and we were so close. 

"I'm sorry. I have to go back." I whisper so softly I almost think she didn't hear me. 

"Do you what you have to do. I understand completely. Drew," I snap my head up to meet her eyes, "I love you, and I will be here when you get back. Go, impress Simon." she kisses me, and I hold her close to me. 

"Please don't leave me. I don't know what I would do without you." 

"I wouldn't dream of it. Don't worry about me, though." 

"I will never let you go. I love you, Jaiden." 

"I love you, too."