Her Biggest Fan (Book 3 of JAF series)

Chapter 31 Perfect Fit

With the  2 month long UK tour looming ahead I am becoming more and more anxious. Leaving Andi for 3 weeks isn't settling well with me. She's definitely come far in the last 2 months but I'm still afraid she needs me and that she will relapse into depression if I leave. I wish I could take her with me but I know that's quite impossible.

She points at the night sky as she snuggles closer to me on the blanket a cool breeze sweeps over us. "Look! A shooting star! Make a wish!"

"You saw it first." I laugh and kiss her forehead. I see her eyes close and she mumbles something. "What did you wish for?"

"If I told you then it wouldn't come true." She says with a little laughter in her tone. "I'm going to miss you." She says quietly.

I prop myself up on my elbow and stare down at her. She stares back, her face closed off, but her eyes tell another story. They plead with me to stay close, to remember her.

"I'll be back before you know it." I bend down and carful stroke her cheek then I kiss her deeply, feeling longing and love in her lips. She finally breaks us apart so she can breathe.

I lay back down next to her. And she grabs my hand. "I know you have to go. But can you promise me something?"

"What?"

"When you leave on tour.... Or I do, promise me you will always keep me with you. In your heart."

"Andi of course I will! And you have to promise that you will do the same."

"I promise."

"Never leave me?" I ask, curling on my side and wrapping her in my arms.

"Never." She whispers.

I now regret leaving the ring at home tonight. This would be the perfect time and place to propose. But after the outburst I stopped carrying it with me always, with Andi I've found that nothing is certain. And I don't want to do it at the wrong time, I want her to be completely sure in her answer.

"You know," she says, turning towards me and resting her hands on my chest, "the guys give me a hard time about you... us."

"Really?" I kiss the end of her nose and she wrinkles it. "What do they say?"

"That we are acting like a couple of teenagers."

"Oh? And they didn't even catch us making out in the locker room after gym class." I can't hold back the laughter and she can't either.

"Hunter..." She draws hearts on my chest and avoids my eyes. "Are we really acting like teenagers? Am I doing something wrong?"

Classic Andi, seeing a problem and immediately placing the blame on her shoulders. I move my hand from her back and place it on her jaw, tracing her face. "Andi, you have nothing to worry about. You're my kind of crazy. That's the only thing that matters."

"Thanks Hunter... I just... I never thought this could happen to me."

"What me falling for you?"

"No! Well yeah." She bites her lip, even in the light from the headlights shadowing her face I can tell she wears a look of concentration, contemplation. "I never thought anyone could love me for me."

I hold back a joke, she's just revealed something to me and I'm carful to hold onto her trust. "You are the most amazing and stunning girl I have ever met. There's no way I couldn't love you. It just made sense, loving you makes everything right."

She shifts and I can tell she's uncomfortable. "Well... It's getting late. I have an early appointment tomorrow and my shrink hates it when I'm tired." She tries to get up but I hold on tighter. "Hunter let me go."