Stronger (Soul Evans x Reader Lemon)

Stronger

A/N 

An extremely late request, sorry about that! This is dedicated to @BabyYukki I've had to rewrite it multiple times seeing as I'm not good with lemons! So much came up while writing this, so I ended up posting it way later than intended, please forgive me! I hope you enjoy!(Btw, the lemon doesn't happen until a bit later in the story)

 
  I woke up due to the sound of the fire alarm ringing throughout the apartment. I hastily patted the bed, seeing that Soul was not sleeping next to me. I got up and ran out of the room, heading into the living room.

  "Soul, I think there's a fire-" I coughed as I fanned away the smoke from my face. Upon opening my eyes, I see Soul cursing loudly while placing a pan into the sink. He had the water running as he stood on a chair to reach for the alarm on the ceiling. After it turned off, he looked down at me before letting out a groan of annoyance. "Wha-what are you doing?" I walked over, peeking over to the digital clock over the stove. "It's 5:30 in the morning, why are you even up? Usually I'm the one who has to drag you out of bed." Soul seemed to have ignored me, seeing as he face palmed and his swearing hasn't ceased. "Sorry, was I not supposed to wake up?" I placed a hand on his shoulder, his red eyes meeting mine. He immediately slumped over me, resting his head on my shoulder as his arms wrapped around my waist. I tensed up at the sudden contact, I wasn't that used to him holding me out of nowhere. "A-are you alright?" He buried his face into the crook of my neck, his warm breath hitting my skin as he sighed.

  "This is so not cool... I was gonna try to make you breakfast for once..." He slumped even further. "But everything started burning." I rubbed his back, I could tell by the sound of his voice that he was greatly heartbroken.

  "It's fine Soul, it's the thought that counts." I felt him tense up. "I mean, the fact that you woke up so early and tried your best means a lot already." I felt his weight lessen, as he stood up straight. As I looked up at him, I noticed his face had become a bit pink. He leaned closer, my heart began racing. Right before his mouth met mine, I quickly stopped him by placing my hand in between us; my three fingers against his lips. He looked at me perplexingly, his eyes shifting from mine to my hand and back up. Soul let go of me, scratching his cheek as he looked away.

  "Sorry, I shouldn't have done it out of the blue like that." He seemed somewhat hurt, and embarrassed. I shook my head.
 
  "No, it's just... Morning breath and all..." I stared at the floor, my face obviously red. I felt too embarrassed to tell Soul how terrified I really was about my first kiss. I've known him since I was twelve, up to us now being eighteen. I honestly didn't understand how he hasn't bothered leaving me, or showing disinterest, seeing as we've been together for about a year now and we hadn't even kissed properly, yet here we were living together. I had always told him that I simply wasn't ready to do anything too intimate with him yet. And I'm surprised that he understood. He's been very patient with me, I couldn't think up any way to show him how grateful I was for that. Words just simply couldn't express it. 

  I began walking over to the bathroom to go brush my teeth. Afterwards, I found Soul standing over the sink. As I walked up to him, I saw that in the pan was a sadly burned pancake. I stood on my tip toes, holding onto his arm as I kissed his cheek. He looked over to me before he rested his chin on top of my head.

  "Sorry for ruining your morning."

  "No you didn't." I hugged his torso as he hugged me back. "You don't need to do anything. Simply staying with me makes my day." I had my ear pressed against his chest, as I could hear how fast his heart was beating. I knew Soul wasn't one to deal with sappy stuff like that, but that was simply my way of speaking to him. It was also quite humorous seeing him act really flustered. As we let go of each other, I began heading over to the fridge. "I'll make us some sandwiches, alright?" He shook his head as he reached over to take the ham away from me.