Proud - Keep You

Chapter 21

Later that night, you were curled up on the arm chair in the corner of the room with a pillow and a blanket, looking out of the balcony up to the moon, singing the song Proud in your head to remind you of Ivy, who you could just about remember her face. Aston was fast asleep in bed and seemed to have forgotten you were there. Although, the arm chair would be your bed tonight, as what Aston said earlier “don’t annoy me again,” made you too scared to do or say anything!

Drifting in and out of a sleep, you thought about the memories you and Aston shared before he went into The X Factor and how everything was perfect, but now... Nothing was the same. As Aston had grown up in the public eye, you missed the hyper Aston and were left with a serious Aston. Your eyes shut softly and stung from the amount of tiredness they were going through to the point that when you heard Aston shuffle and get up from the bed, you couldn’t wake back up. You were too tired to.

Aston’s POV:

I’d gotten up to go to the bathroom, but just as I was about to get back into bed. I looked up at (Your name) who was fast asleep in the arm chair, curled up and looked cramped. Sighing, I realized that saying for her not to annoy me again has made her sleep there... She was actually too scared to say or do anything, it hadn’t gone unnoticed. What I didn’t realize that it was gonna make her sleep in the most uncomfortable arm chair in the world, and I couldn’t just let her do that... That would be torture from that chair!

Walking quietly over to her, I realized she was definitely fast asleep. I pulled the blanket it off from her and slowly manoeuvred my hands around her torso, so that when I pick her up she’ll be in bridal carry. And when I did pick her up, that is how she came, but picking her up woke her up suddenly. “Shh, it’s okay,” “what you doing?” She mumbles tiredly, she buries her head into my neck, and begins to fall asleep again, “putting you into bed. That chair isn’t good enough for you to sleep on,” I whisper to her, as I put her into the bed and place the covers over her body, before I walk around the bed and climb back into bed on the other side. As I’m settled down, I pull (Your name) gently into my body and spoon her, “night,” I whisper to her “night,” she whispers back. I didn’t want to say ‘I love you’ because the tension between us was already high and saying that could be a risk of tipping everything over the edge.

I was woken up in the morning, by (Your name) trying to fidget her way out of my grip, which tightened when I fully realized what she was trying to do. As my grip tightening makes her freeze and goes into shock mode. “What are you doing?” I mumble, pulling her back slightly “trying to get out of your grip,” “why?” “So that I don’t annoy you,” she says quietly as I frown, “look, I wanna say I’m sorry... Okay. I realized that after saying that you seemed really scared to do or say anything,” “what? You knew!” She gasped shocked “yeah, it didn’t go unnoticed,” I whisper as she frowns “plus, I was pretty harsh on you for no reason, even though it was my fault I did what I did... I had no idea and I thought I was doing her a favour,” I said quietly as she was listening “sorry baby,” I said quietly, as she smiles and then turns over placing a delicate kiss onto my lips, “it’s okay, and... I’m sorry too,” she says which makes me confused “what for?” “For annoying you and having a go at you even though you didn’t know she had anything to do with Kevin,” she sighs, but I smile “so you believe me?” I ask, a grin starting to grow, but she sees it and smiles “of course,” she giggles innocently as I smile and kiss her quickly and then jumping out of bed. “We better start packing,” I state “I haven’t got anything to pack, and we don’t have to leave by...” “Twelve,” “twelve and it’s only eight... Baby we have plenty of time,” she says “come back to bed,” she adds with puppy eyes and a pout, as she invites me back to bed, as I grin not being able to resist and get back into the bed before slowly and softly placing my lips back onto hers for a sweet morning kiss. “Mm, I love kissing sessions with you,” I mumble seductively as she grins “I love them too,” she winks before straddling me and kissing me again so that we have something to do in the mean time before twelve.

Oritsé’s POV:

“When is Aston coming back?” Fay asks, as we are all at my house “err... Nine, isn’t it?” Marvin replies “yeah... Nine hour flight,” I state “and then he’ll have to go back in a few weeks,” Jasmine replies. He still hasn’t found (Your name)!

But none of us knew what he had in store for us!