Crooked Hearts

13. All Fall Down

'Stand by the door, and it feels like rain, that's the sound, that's the sound on your window pane. Take to the streets, but you can't ignore, that's the sound, that's the sound you're waiting for. If ever your world starts crashing down, whenever your world starts crashing down, that's when you'll find me'

~Harry~

I'm lying side by side with Aria on the floor of the lighthouse. We're both in our underwear now, wrapped in each other's arms, staring up at the sky. The stars and moon are now disappearing beneath the brightness of the rising sun. The stars or the moon don't actually go anywhere, they just disappear because the sun's light is just so bright.

Science and all that.

Aria's figure is nestled against my chest, my arms wrapped around her as we watch the stars disappear.

"Can you recognize the constellations?" I ask her.

"No, never have." She says.

"Me neither."

As we watch the sky, I take the time to take in all this madness. I have a practically naked Aria Wilde wrapped in my arms, on the floor of an abandoned lighthouse, in Rio, Brazil. If you told me a week ago that this was going to happen, I would've called you crazy. But now.....

The sex we just had wasn't long or anything. It lasted for about fifteen minutes, or a half hour at the most. There were some condom problems, but apparently, Aria had a box in her backpack. (Fancy that) It wasn't even painful or whatever, not a lot of screaming involved. But there was a lot of moaning. I don't know how I'm going to break this to the lads, much less management. They'll freak out, obviously if pictures of me and Aria crusading around Rio go viral, especially gossip sites and the fans. They'll go bonkers for this. Gossip sites will assume I've been swept up into a Brazilian romance, (which I kind of did) and the fans will also go crazy, thinking I've got myself a new girlfriend (which I also kind of did)

But I don't care.

Aria is here, right now with me in my arms. And I don't care if the whole damn world knows, I like it. I like being with Aria and I like what's going on between us. To be honest, I don't even know what this whole thing is. It feels crazy and unreal, but it also feels good. I like the way being with Aria this way feels.

"Aria...." I whisper, closing my eyes and burying my face in her neck, brushing my nose against her smooth skin. God, that sweet, minty smell.

"Hmmmm?" Aria says.

"You smell so good, it's making me crazy." I say, into her soft skin.

She laughs, and starts stoking my hair with her fingers. "I've always loved you curls." She says.

I peek at her through one eye, "Did you? That's interesting." I grin at her then, "You used to fancy me, then?"

"I thought you were cute." She admits.

"So you did fancy me." I smirk, "Not surprised. Everyone fancies me."

"Cocky." Aria says, smacking me.

"It's true."

"Whatever."

I laugh and draw her closer to me. The coldness of the atmosphere is perfect for her body heat. I smile and Aria comes over and kisses my cheek right on one of my dimples.

"What was that for?"

"I love your dimples. Always have."

I grin wide, exposing both my dimples while drawing lazy circles on her sto