The Bad Boy Hero

Epilogue

The school hall was packed solid and I couldn’t help feeling incredibly uncomfortable by it all. Mum was by my side clutching my now free arm as we moved through the crowd. She was being irritatingly excited which made me automatically not excited. Soon enough she disappeared from my side to start flirting with a P.E teacher, I rolled my eyes just because she was no longer married automatically meant she needed to flirt with anything that moved. Why did I agree to bring her here again? Oh yeah she threatened to invite Jasper around for tea again. Speaking of where was the said boyfriend? I began to search the packed room for him, I passed Mattie and cringed, he was with his mum and no one else which would have been sad if he wasn’t such a tosser. I saw Tess with Jake and promised I’d go over to see if she was alright after I got my results. Where is Jasper? I continued to look for him and sighed with relief when I finally found him. His grey eyes were already staring over at me, there was a small impish smile on his face that anyone else would mistake for a smirk but I knew who that smile was for. That was my smile. The one he had on when I’d catch him gazing at me in English, or at lunch, or anywhere really. But more importantly it was the smile he had been wearing this morning. My cheeks burned at the thought of last night.

Jasper was stress pacing; he had already had 5 cigarettes, since he had taken up smoking again after my accident, as he hung out of his window dangerously. Until finally he perched himself on the edge of his bed sighing bare shoulders rising and falling rapidly as his breathing took off, I glanced over the top of my book at him smiling softly at how nervous he was. Softly I closed my book and knelt behind him “Don’t worry,” I whispered, I began to massage his shoulders and he almost sighed with relief as he melted into my touch.

“But,” he began, his voice a low murmur

“No buts,” I smiled continuing over his shoulders “It will be ok,” I kissed his cheek

“It’s ok for you,” he sighed resting his head on mine “You’re getting A’s in everything,”

“It doesn’t matter what I’ve got,” I promised continuing to work on his shoulders as he tucked himself more firmly against me. “You have done so well this year,” I assured him kissing his cheek “And I don’t doubt you’ve done brilliantly,” He relaxed a little more and I tucked my arms around his waist and I rested my chin on his shoulder and we were peaceful for a moment. I wished everyone else could see him like this, nervous, sweet, harmless. Everyone else saw something he wasn’t, well wasn’t always. Jasper turned and captured my lips softly at first until we crashed onto his cloud like pillows; he ran his fingers through my hair softly like I was delicate, he always thought of me as delicate. I’ll show him delicate. I wrapped myself around him tighter rolling us both so I was looking down at him softly with a mischievous look on my face, Jasper raised an eyebrow but didn’t question me as our lips melted together again, I could feel his breathing take off again and I smiled against his jaw as I moved my kisses to along it

“Annie,” he groaned, his voice suddenly thicker than before sounding husky “You’re not helping my stress levels,” I noticed how tense he had become and giggled slightly until he began to move away from me “Give me a sec,” I fell back onto his pillows watching his shoulders rise and fall as he tried to calm himself, he did this often and it just showed how much he cared about me that he didn’t try to push me any further. But tonight was different; I didn’t want him to leave me. I felt almost hungry for him like I needed his warm touch. I knelt up on his bed still gazing, nearly longingly, at him.

“No,” I found myself saying before my brain could catch up with the rest of me, he turned to give me an odd look but I drew him closer with my protest with a curious look on his face.

“No?” in response I captured his lips again and he swept me up in his arms crushing me against his chest, we fell once again onto the comfort of his pillows only Jasper made sure he was above me, never breaking our kiss. “This is a bad idea,” he told me in his husky voice his nose trailing along my jaw as his lips found mine “Let’s go down stairs and watch a movie,” he suggested as he broke our kiss looking down at me I caressed his shoulders letting my hands slide down his side then back up his back. I felt every inch of him shiver at my touch “I don’t want to ruin what we have,”

I looked up at him simply “I don’t care,” and quickly captured his lips again...

...I saw him making his way over to me smiling softly as he did, I moved through the crowd too so I could get to him quicker...

...He pulled my legs around him his hand gliding from my stomach up my back to hold me close, that’s when he pulled me against him urgently like his life depended on that moment and the moment only as he brought my lips back to his, husky voice moaning my names into my lips...

... A group of people passed between us and I could no longer see his smiling face, I frowned like the sun had suddenly gone out. I need to see him again. When the people finally passed he wasn’t there anymore, I suddenly forgot we were in the 6form I worried that he wouldn’t find me before we got our letters and- his arms closed around me waist “Don’t worry,” he whispered kissing my neck once again reminding me of the night before “It’s going to be ok,”

“It is now,” they began calling last names for people to collect their results

.... I want you. Three little words that drove me insane when he spoke them in his husky voice, I couldn’t stand it anymore I...

... “I love you,” he whispered into my ear, not ‘I care about you’ like we usually said, actually love. My cheeks burned and my last name was called. Before I went I turned to him.

“I love you,” I promised relief washed over his features and he pulled me into a long kiss, my name was called again and he leant his forehead on mine “even though you are a fake bad boy,” I giggled and ran off before he could say another word. When I got my brown ominous letter I turned to see him grinning at me. His grey eyes shining as he held up his open letter to me. I had never felt so proud of anyone. My Jasper. My fake bad boy. My hero.

 

~The end~