You Chose Mine

Chapter 17

I yawned as I stretched rising from my bed. I smiled at the memory of last night, its fun having the boys in the house. I checked the time '7:19', 'Almost time for the new nurse's morning rounds' I thought to myself. I swung my feet over the edge of my bed when I felt something beneath my feet. I heard someone groan from below me, when I looked down I saw Luke.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"You invited me to stay over last night, remember?" he said. I smiled as I rested my head on the edge of the mattress as he looked up to me, "I know about you guys staying over but last time I saw you, you were sleeping in my spare bedroom with Calum..." he smiled to me as he ran his hand through the front of his hair.

I love his hair so much better when it's not in a quiff. No product, just his soft, shiny blonde hair; and when it's under a beanie it's even better. "Yeah, well he likes to be a starfish in bed. Sometimes I wake up with his hand on my face or his leg on top of my crotch" I laughed at him.

"You could have had the other half of the bed, I wouldn't have minded" I told him.

The night he slept over we slept in the same bed. He refuses to let me take the couch or even go to another room. He said it was rude to kick a girl out of her own bedroom. That night we ended up talking, watching random episodes of the Simpsons and movies. We never made it to the end of one of the movies and I fell asleep in his arms. I woke up with his arms around me and it was the most complete I've felt in a long time.

I've always felt like something was missing, ever since my aunty went into that coma but when Luke is near I feel whole again.

"You looked too peaceful..." he said. He placed his hand on my cheek and rubbed his thumb against my skin "You looked like you needed the sleep" I smiled at how much of a gentlemen he was being. I stood from my bed and sat down next to Luke, I used my right arm to support my weight so Luke's body was between my arm and my side.

"Did you like the party last night?" I asked.

"I liked spending time with you" he said. I smiled as he rose from his spot; bring his body closer to mine.

"You know what else I liked from last night?" he mumbled in my ear.

"What?" I questioned, his lips pressed to the spot just below my jaw.

"The way you were dancing with Kennedy" his husky voice whispered.

I chuckled as he pulled his body back a bit to look at me, "I may have been helping Kennedy get some but there was only one person I was looking to impress last night" I told him.

I saw his cheeks heat up as his dimple appeared; I ran my hand over his cheek, letting my fingers fall into the dimple. He lent in and placed a kiss on my nose and trailed kisses down to my jaw and down my neck, then back up and stop just in front of my lips.

"It took everything in me not to get up and dance with you last night, not to kiss you in front of the boys, resist touching you, and resist holding you in front of Kennedy" he confessed.

He placed his hand on top of mine; his free arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me in closer.

"What's stopping you now?"

He chuckled, his breath fanned against my skin "The fact that my band mates are next door"

'Next door?' I thought to myself, suddenly a switch clicked in my head.

That's my auntie's room.

I faked a sigh before telling him I need to be down at the shop to pick up something by 8, he took the excuse and I told him to sleep in my bed for as long as he likes. I found something casual I could wear to the hospital but quickly walking into my auntie's room to find Ashton sitting on the edge of the bed going through an old photo album.