Proud - Keep You

Chapter 10

Laura’s POV:

The whole group soon knew about (Your name)’s kidnapping, which took place over two weeks ago. The group wasn’t the same without her, and the police was told about her disappearance, but like the police usually say. “Sorry, we can’t do much... She’s out in another country,” so much so for doing their job! In fact, that made Aston even more upset. Yeah, we were all upset, but Aston was the one who was hit the most, he stopped: eating properly, sleeping and joking around. It seemed (Your name) was his key to life, because he loved her that much, but as everyone was at Oritsé’s house figuring out a way of where the person would have taken her... Aston was soon triggered.

“I GOT IT,” he suddenly shouted “Kevin took her! It must be him... Why did we not see this before? It’s so obvious! Kevin always abused her to get to me, because he hated the fact I would care for her more than he would. Why didn’t I see this sooner,” Aston tells us, ending up standing next to a wall and then fiercely punching it. “Whoa, Aston! We’ll get her back,” Jasmine stands up and embraces him in a hug, but as he wraps his arms around her for the hug, you could see he squeezes her gently, before angry tears start to roll down his face. “I just want her back... I want her back so much,” he says softly and quietly, “we understand... And we will get her back,” JB says as everyone agrees, “how long will it take?” Aston asks, as he pulls out from the hug with Jasmine, although everyone looks at each other. “None of us know... This could take years... And in the mean time, I need someone to look after Ivy,” he says softly as we know Ivy is looked after by Fay, although Ivy was upstairs in the spare bedroom. “We’ll look after her for this week and then someone else could have her next week. We could do it like that,” Oritsé suggested as Aston nodded “okay. Thank you,” Aston whispers before walking out the door.

Aston’s POV:

Stepping into the house, I sighed and saw Claire was already home as her jacket was already hanging up. “Aston...” She calls through the house “Is that you?” She asks “yeah... It’s me,” I say back to her softly, and even though I don’t look, I know she has come half way down the stairs “still nothing?” She asks softly “yep,” I hiss to her, “Ast... I can’t apologize enough! I didn’t-” “THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU THINK THAT AT THE TIME? IF YOU HADN’T SAID ANYTHING TO HER, THEN SHE WOULDN’T HAVE GONE TO AMERICA AND THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED... And now- And now she’s gone and I DON’T know how long for,” I scream at her to begin with, but this situation was really starting to hit home, so at the end, I started crying with pain that MY best friend has gone missing.

“What do you want me to do?” She asks softly and quietly, but I sigh “do whatever you want,” I say back to her, as I walk off into the living room and grab my IPad to start booking tickets once again, to go back out to America.

Later that night, I woke up on the sofa with a startle and waking up into a pitch black room. I notice that the clock says it’s twenty past one in the morning of a Thursday, and that a blanket has been put over me... Then I notice that there lies a body next to mine. “Aston, baby? You okay?” Claire’s calming and comforting voice asked which comforted me right away, “yeah- Yeah... I’ll be fine,” I whispered as I then feel Claire straddle me “you sure? What something to drink... I’m just about to get off you to you to go to the bathroom,” she whispers, as she then climbs off me, but stands next to me “err... Yeah please,” I whisper as I could feel Claire smile before she walks off.

Five minutes later, and Claire has given me a cup of tea and switched one of the side lights on, so dim lighting is around the living room. Soon enough, Claire is sitting next to me with a cup of tea for herself. “What’s on your mind?” Claire asks, but I could hear her nerves in her voice, although I place my cup of tea down before rubbing my face in my hands, before looking at her with a soft look, then I smiled. “Come here...” I whispered to her as she slowly places her tea down, and edges closer to me, so that I can put my right arm around her and pull her closer into my body, as I kiss the top of her head “that you are an amazing wife,” I whisper to her, as I take hold of her right hand with my left hand and mingling our fingers together, but then I bring her hand up to my lips and kiss it tenderly, all of this makes her smile as she looks into my eyes. Slowly, she reaches up and places her lips onto mine, allowing me to give the kiss back, “I love you,” she mumbles between a kiss “I love you too,” I whisper back, as I start to manoeuvre myself so that I start to lay her on her back. “Mm, do you wanna do this?” She asks “do what? I’m just kissing you,” I say to her, as she frowns “oh... My mistake,” she whispers while she blushes as I smile “but I would love to,” I whisper to her, as she looks at me, but continues to frown “Ast... You have a lot on your mind... And I just feel that, doing it won’t make anything better. It’s not gonna bring (Your name) back,” she says softly while slowly moving out from underneath me, but I clench my jaw and grab hold of her right thigh, which startles her and makes her look into my eyes with a scared look. “Ast,” She whispers, but my grip tightens around her thigh continuously “ow, Aston... Aston! Aston that really hurts, ow... Stop please!” She begs quietly, but then I realize what I’m doing and let go while swallowing hard. NEVER in my life have I ever made a girl go through pain, and instantly I feel hurt as I look down and see a mark across her thigh, but I swallow hard again and look up to her eyes as she looks scared and tears brim at the bottom of her eyes. “Babe- Babe, I’m so sorry... I- I didn’t mean to, I didn’t realize what I was doing... Please forgive me, I didn’t mean to do that, I promise you... Please Claire, you know I would never wanna hurt you,” I beg as I kneeled between her legs and take hold of the back of her cheeks “babe... Please... You know I wouldn’t-” Suddenly, she presses her lips against mine giving a hard and passionate kiss, but then pulls away a few seconds later leaving us a little breathless “I know baby... You’ve just got a lot of things on your mind,” she whispers as I smile “I love you,” I whisper as she smiles “I love you too,” she whispers back, but just as I think we’re about to make love, she smiles and gets up, takes her tea and walks out into the kitchen, leaving me by myself and trying to get over what has just happened in the past two minutes.

I just needed to sleep.