Can You Hear Me?

Chapter Twenty Four:

    I slowly open my eyes the next morning and the memory of what happened last night is still in my mind. I look over to see that the other half of the bed is empty. After everything that happened last night he just leaves without even waking me to say good bye, hell even a simple note or text would have worked. With a sigh I get out of bed and make my way down stairs. Once I'm down stairs I lazily make my way to the kitchen. When I look up I see s shirtless Ethan standing over the stove making pancakes. He turns to me and gives me that killer smile and says "Good morning." "Um good morning. What are you still doing home you normally have already left for school by now?"  "Yeah well I still feel bad about everything that has happened so I was hoping that you would stay with me today and we could do whatever you want." He walks up to me and wraps his arms around my waist pulling my body against his, I wrap my arms around his neck and listen as he speaks. "Please stay baby, let me start making it up to you." I give a simple nod and make my way to the counter.

"So what do you want to do" Eth asks as he makes his way back to the stove. I sit and think for a second and then a idea pops into my head. "Can we go to the beach?" "Sure whatever you want babe but first breakfast." "Ugg why" I say as I slide off the counter and walk to the table. "You know what the doctor said. You need to keep your weight up and by up I mean a healthy weight, not like how you were before." I roll my eyes and look down at the table.

"Ash come on now, you haven't even been out of the hospital for a month." I continue looking down and think back to the time I did that. I gently run my fingers over the scars and think back to that day. Ethan then lifts my chin and looks me dead in the eye. "Hey none of that matters anymore. All that matters is that you're safe and alright now." I give a small smile and grab his hand as he uses the other to set down the food.
~time skip~

The sun felt so warm and just so good on my skin. The sand was hot and the water was nice and cool. I wore my black bikini and Ethan wore his trunks, the day was perfect. No one was at the beach since most people are at work or in school. "Race you to the water" I yell as I stand up and run towards the water. "Oh no you don't" yells Ethan, I smile as I pick up the pace. Suddenly I feel his arm around me and lift me as he ran. I tried to escape his grasp but it's no use. "Ethan put me down" I say as I laugh. Just then he runs into the water with me in his arms.

The water is so cold against my warm skin that I shiver and shake for the first few seconds. As soon as Ethan sets me down I splash him with water. "Oh this is war" he says as he splashes me. We continue to splash each other for like the next 5 minutes.

Eventually Ethan picks me up and spins me around. All we manage to do is laugh as I kick the water with my feet splashing it around. His grip on me is so strong that I can feel how muscular his arms are. Finally he stops spinning me around and sets me down. I'm so dizzy that I need to hold on to him to keep my balance. I place my hands on his chest to stabilize myself and he places his on my hips. Eth chuckles as I start to steady myself, "Shut up" I say with a huge smile. He smiles and looks me up and down, he then slowly kisses me. I can taste the salt in his lips from the water but they taste just as sweet.

Suddenly I hear thunder crack above us. We break apart and look up at the sky above, it's filled with grey clouds that are blocking the sun. Then the rain releases and comes pouring down on us. We look back at each other and start to laugh again. After a couple seconds of laughter he leans back down and kisses me harder and more passionately then the first time. Once we separate we run back to his car.

As soon as we get home we run up stairs to change. Ethan grabs basketball shorts and I put on my short shorts and a tank top. We walk down stairs hand in hand, I sit down and Ethan puts in a movie. While he was setting up the DVD I got up and hugged him from behind. I knew he was smiling when I did this, when he was done he put down a blanket and I gave him a confused look. Eth walks back over to me, picks me up and lays me down on the blanket. He then kisses me but when we break apart he wraps me in the blanket like a burrito. I just couldn't help but laugh as he picks me up and places me on the couch.

After awhile of being a burrito I ask Ethan to unwrap me and place the blanket over the both of us. I lay my body against his shirtless one and rest my head in the crook of his neck. He gently places his head on top of mine and wraps his arms around me. While the storm raged on outside I was nice and comfortable in Ethan's arms. Honestly there is no other place I would rather be.