kiss me ➳ taylor caniff

chapter twenty-one

Magcon Denver - Day One

"Hey everyone!"

The crowd cheered, and I felt Sam's eyes on me, watching me intently as I spoke to the crowd.

"So Denver, you've been waiting,"

There was more screaming, making me smile.

"We've been waiting to come to you as well," Matt spoke.

"So now we're here," Jack J said quickly. Music began to play and we did our typical routine, dancing and having a great time.

"You look cute," Taylor whispered to me, kissing my cheek before walking away. Everyone had seen that, and it was very obvious that I was blushing.

I met a girl named Daniela who ran a fanpage for me, and she was really excited to meet me. She even cried, so I made sure that she knew I would remember her. I couldn't forget that.

Afterwards, we all went out downtown, almost like DC.... except there were fans everywhere.

"Guys, we love you all but can we please just have privacy?" Matt asked.

Police came and sent people home, and that's when it hit me that we made it. In DC, we could run around the streets without security or fans following after us. In Denver, we barely had any freedom.

"Now let's go," Matt said after nearly everyone left. The few that stayed weren't too crazy, they did giggle a lot but they didn't interfere. Sam began to count and Taylor grabbed my hand, starting to run down the street.

The warm May weather made everything about this perfect. In DC, it was cold enough for snow to be a possibility while we played tag, but now it was weather in the mid 70's at 8pm. Sam didn't tell us any type of boundary, so we could be going anywhere. I knew that it was most likely the same rules as DC, but Sam and Dillon wouldn't know.

We finally stopped, going into an alley just like before.

"Well would you look at that," Taylor laughed, sounding out of breath. The familiar authors sounded, sounding closer than we both expected.

Moments later it went off again, signaling he had found someone else. We crouched down, hugging our knees against our chests.

"Hotel," He whispered.

"What?" I asked, cocking my head to the side.

"Let's go back to the hotel,"

He grabbed my hand and headed down the alley, taking a turn between other buildings and jogging. I don't know if he knew how to get to the hotel from here, but I trusted his judgement. We turned onto a busy street with cars at stoplights, a flashback of that night in San Francisco coming back to me. I smiled, squeezing Taylor's hand as the walk symbol came up.

"Imagine how long they're going to be looking for us," He giggled, running quicker as we approached the hotel.

We got into the lobby, very out of breath may I add, and headed to the elevator.

From: Rupp the pup 🐶

Where the hell are you guys?!

I laughed, putting my phone back into my pocket and taking my room key out instead. We shut the door behind us and Taylor pinned me against it, leaning in so our noses brushed.

"Baby,"

I nearly melted.

"I-I want to be honest with you,"

I nodded for him to continue, his face getting red.

"Damn, I can't do this here," He groaned.

"Do what?" I asked, following him as he walked off.

"Tati, I want you to come meet my family, and I..." He took a deep breath.

"I want to make love with you somewhere that isn't a hotel room," He finished, emphasizing the word love.

"Okay," I managed to say. He nodded.

"I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure you know I love you and won't fuck this up for us again," He sighed, wrapping his arm around my waist and kissing my temple.

"When would we go there?" I asked.

"Monday,"

"Okay,"

There was a knock on the door, and we both knew it would be some of the guys.

Taylor walked over and opened it, Aaron bursting into the room with a red face.

"I ran... All the way here..." He breathed, leaning against the dresser.

"Why?"

"First of us to find you guys wins $50, guess I win,"

Dillon and Sam came in, their mouths dropping when they noticed Aaron beat them.

"Did you guys come back here to fuck or something?" JJ asked.

I noticed Taylor.. flinch?

"No,"

Sam and I made brief eye contact, and I looked away as quickly as I could. It was once and I didn't like how he made me feel guilty for being with Taylor again.

"Well whatever, use protection when ya do," JJ winked at us, all of them exiting the room and leaving us to ourselves.

Taylor took his shirt off but this time I didn't ask to wear it, getting up to take a shower instead. I felt sticky and sweaty from running throughout Denver.

"Here," Taylor walked in, setting some of his clothes beside the towel and leaving the room. He must be really trying, because old Taylor would do that smirk and climb into the shower with me.

Not this Taylor.

I smiled, shutting off the water and climbing out. I put on the shirt he had given me, and of course it was big so I didn't have the need to wear pants with it, just like how I typically roamed around at home. I crawled into the bed and Taylor automatically wrapped his arm around my waist.

"Goodnight," He mumbled sleepily.

"I love you," I smiled, taking his words from last night.

"I love you too.. Loser,"

We both laughed and I finally shut my eyes.