Love Makes The Heart Beat

Chapter 22: Poconos

I leaned my head into the crook of Ethan's neck inhaling the smell of his wonderful cologne, his arm wrapped snugly around my shoulders. Sitting on an angle my left leg was crossed and slung over his left leg and my arm wrapped around the front of his waist, it was sooo comfy. I was growing tired of staring out the window aimlessly at cars and nothing in particular. 

Reese and AJ chatted excitedly to our right about what they wanted to do first when we arrived at the cabin. My mind began to wander to the past three days.

I've spent each and every one of them going to sleep and waking up with Ethan, now that I got a taste of it...I don't think I could ever fall asleep without him by my side again.

Our time together has been amazing and I couldn't help but sigh out loud at the thought of last night. It stood out to me the most because our make out session was the most heated one we've ever had.

We got as far as neither one of us having shirts on as he moved his body passionately against mine, we were both moaning and out of breath. I wrapped my legs tightly around his waist trying to bring our bodies closer together, before he finally realized what we were doing and put a stop to it...damn him for being so respectable!

"You ok love?" His velvety voice asked breaking me out my thoughts.

"Hmm?" I asked as my mind was still in a flurry. What if things would have gotten further? What if he wasn't in the right mind set to stop us? Would I regret having sex with Ethan?

His chest vibrated slightly as he laughed at me. "I said are you ok?" He repeated the question rubbing his thumb against my cheek as his hand cupped the back of my neck.

"Yea I'm ok babe, just a little tired." I made up an excuse not wanting him to know what I was really thinking, I was grateful he couldn't see my face...I knew it was red with embarrassment.

"Take a nap then love, it's gonna be a little while before we get there." He said bringing his lips down towards mine kissing me softly.

We were currently seated in the back row of a 12 passenger cargo van, Aiden's bright idea that we rent it to car pool up to the Poconos. We barely had enough space to shove all of our luggage in...he forgot that we were going for a full week and there were 5 girls going. We pack everything!

Carter, Alex, and Gemma were in the row directly in front of us and in front of them sat Zac, Hailey, and Brianna...thank goodness for that! Aiden and Chad were seated comfortably up front.

The radio was on and Aiden was tapping his hand on the steering wheel, while shaking his head to the beat. Chad was playing with something on his phone, he was bopping his head to the beat too.

It made me smile to myself...no wonder why they were best friends. They couldn't be more different, but were exactly the same.

I haven't spoken to Zac since Thanksgiving. After our falling out which ended up with me running upstairs to Ethan, he left my house to go home and I haven't seen him since...up until today.

We all decided to meet up at Aiden's this way we could park our cars along his winding driveway.

When we pulled up to the front of Aiden's I couldn't help but smirk as Hailey came out of the house. The swelling to her lip went down, but you could still see the scab where I busted her lip...haha!

My eyes began to flutter closed as I allowed myself to fall into sync with the rhythm of Ethan's breathing.

"Mikaila, love...it's time to wake up." Ethan whispered as he tangled his hand into my hair rubbing the back of my head soothingly. "We're here love."