Let Love Bleed Red

Chapter 14

*Ash’s P.O.V.*

I went to the last room on the right as Casey had told me, and pushed open the door. I walked in to the room, right in to Eoghan.

“Oops, sorry!” I rubbed my head where it had smacked into his chest. Eoghan chuckled.

“Let me kiss you better.” He kissed my head, then my lips. He tasted so nice and had a particular smell that I couldn’t get enough of. I hugged him, taking a deep breath through my nose, smelling him.

“Are you smelling me?” He laughed and I blushed.

“You smell nice..” I noticed a bundle of cloth in his hand. I grabbed it from him and shook it out. Yes! Something decent to wear! I pulled the shirt over my head, letting out a sigh of relief.

“Thank you!” I stood on tip toes to kiss him. Damn he was tall.. My lips crashed against his, kissing him. He put his arms around me, pulling me closer. We sat on the bed, kissing for ages, our arms wrapped around each other.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door. We pulled away from each other, breathing kind of heavily.

“Come in.” Eoghan’s voice was husky. Jeez, he was sexy.. His mum came in, looking like she knew she had interrupted something.

“Um, dinner’s ready guys. You should go down and eat, it’s getting kind of late.” I looked at my phone, it was 7.30. We’d been making out for hours! Woah..

We got up and went downstairs to eat dinner. It smelt really good and all of Eoghan’s family were sitting at the table, including Lucys’ boyfriend Jason. We sat down beside each other and everyone began to eat, talking and laughing as we did so.

When we finished dinner, Eoghans’ mum stood up and collected all the plates and glasses. I stood up.

“Here, let me help you.” I started gathering plates as well. I walked in to the kitchen with them. Mrs Walsh followed me, saying I didn’t need to help but I didn’t listen. I put the dishes in the dishwater and stood up. Eoghans’ mum was standing in front of me. She put her arms around me and hugged me tightly.

“Thank you for your help.. I hope you know you can make yourself at home in this house, and be yourself.” I nodded into her shoulder, feeling tears well up in my eyes. It had been so long since I’d had a mother figure in my life.. I hugged her back tightly.

“Thank you..” We pulled away and I went back out to the dining room. Eoghan came over to me and took my hand.

“Come on.” He led me out to the sitting room and sat me down on the couch. He picked up a cardboard box and opened it.

“What do you want to watch?” he started pulling DVD’s out of the box. He pulled out The Lion King and I reached for it.

“This! We’re watching The Lion King!” It was one of my favourite movies. Eoghan got up and put it in the DVD player. We settled down to watch it, cuddling up on the couch.

*Later*

I stretched and got up. I looked around. It was dark outside, telling me it was late. The stars were twinkling brightly and it made me feel calm. We went upstairs, stopping outside Caseys’ bedroom door.

“I don’t want to leave you..”  I dithered around in front of the door, rubbing my arms to keep warm.

“You don’t have to then.. Get dressed and come in to my room.” He winked and smiled at me before going off to his room. I went in to Caseys’ room, expecting her to be asleep.

“Ash? Is that you?” The lights were off but she was awake. She sat up and turned on a bedside light.

“Yeah, did I wake you?” I felt bad, if I did wake her. It was a school night after all.

“No, no, I was awake anyway. Are you going to bed?”

“Yeah.. I’m, um, going to stay in Eoghan’s room tonight..” I felt my cheeks warm up, that didn’t sound right.

“Oh. Okay! I’ll see you tomorrow then.” She lay back down and turned over, trying to get to sleep. I borrowed some pyjamas, grimacing at the bright colours. I puled them on before going to Eoghans’ room. He was already in bed so I got in beside him. He wrapped his warm, muscular arms around my waist, pulling me back against him. It didn’t take me long to fall asleep in his warm grasp.

(I'm sorry it's so short, I literally had to force myself to sit down and write this chapter)