Cradle Broken Glass

Chapter Twenty Six

Layla slowly opened her eyes as she heard someone moving around the room. She stretched in the bed she was laying in, feeling the most content she had ever felt in her whole life. She searched the room until she saw Eddie coming from the bathroom and making his way back to the bed.

"Shit, I didn't mean to wake you." He said as he noticed that she was awake. All Layla did in response was hold her hand out for him to take. Their fingers entwined with each other and she pulled him back into bed, where they pressed against each other's warmth. He wrapped his arms around her and started to stroke her thighs as she wound one of her legs up his waist, and cuddled into his torso, kissing his chest as he sighed with content. They stayed, wrapped in a warm cocoon of sheets, and feeling like they were the only two people alive. Layla had never dreamed that intimate contact could ever be this good and give her so much peace.

She soon felt the urge to go to the bathroom and started to get out of the bed. Eddie groaned in frustration and pulled her back to him, clinging onto her like a koala and pouting at her. She laughed at how childish he was being.

"Do you want me to pee on you?" She asked as she tried to get out of the bed again. He gave a frustrated groan and let go of her body, cuddling back into the sheets and burying his face in her pillow. She looked around for something to put on as she was butt naked, and quickly grabbed his flannel that was still on the floor from the previous night. She threw it on and did up two low buttons, leaving pretty much everything for show.

After she came back from the bathroom, Eddie raised his head up and stared at her intently, not moving.

"What?" She asked, feeling self-conscious over how she looked in his shirt.

"Come here." He said and pulled her back onto the bed. He pulled her mouth down to his and kissed her slowly and passionately. He rolled her body underneath him and continued to kiss her, as her legs wrapped around his back. Their lips broke away from each other and he kneeled above her on the bed, her legs still clenching onto his thighs. He leaned over her body to his night stand and opened up one of the draws, taking out his polaroid camera. He lifted it up to his eye and pointed the lens down at her. Layla brought her hands up to her face and squealed as he started taking pictures of her, half naked and wearing his flannel. He laughed as she tried to hide, but he continued to take intimate pictures that captured her beauty. He got off the bed and told her to sit up. She did as she was told and sat on the bed with her arms behind her back, and the flannel seductively hanging off of her body. He stood in his boxers by the bed, snapping polaroid after polaroid of her, as she moved around like a vixen. Layla got up off the bed and came towards him, and he continued to take pictures as she did so. She got to him and grabbed the camera from him. She leaned in and kissed his cheek, while she pressed the shutter to take the picture of them both. When it developed, she admired her work, and started to push him onto the bed. She straddled Eddie's hips and took a picture of him laying under her, his hair strewn over the sheets sexily, and she could see her thighs on either side of him in the picture. She leaned down and placed a kiss on his chest. He pushed her upwards and started to take his boxers off of him. Once he had, he grabbed Layla's hips and guided her down on top of him. Layla let go of the camera and the pictures as he did so, moaning out as he entered her. Eddie lazily splayed his hands on either side of her ass, massaging it, as she started to move up and down him. She ground her hips down as she rode him, her hair falling in front of her face. Eddie grabbed his flannel she was still wearing and pulled her down to him, taking one of her breasts into his mouth as he kissed her chest. She moaned and started moving up and down him faster, causing her to feel a knot of pressure come undone inside her. Layla started to scream out in pleasure as she came around him, causing him to be set off too as he grabbed her hips and slammed her down into him. Their movements gradually slowed, and Layla collapsed onto Eddie as she recovered. Eddie, still breathing heavily, leisurely moved his hand from around her waist and picked up the camera that was next to them. He aimed the lens at Layla's body, stretched out on top of him and pressed the shutter. She grabbed it off of him, and moved to his side, bringing it up and pointing the lens at them both as he put his hands around her shoulder and pulled her into his body under the quilts. Once the photo was taken and developed, they both looked at it, observing their blushed cheeks, pressed against each other intimately for the photo.

*****

They hadn't left Eddie's room all day and Layla loved it. They had spent the past fifteen hours cuddling, listening records, fucking, eating and drinking gallons of cups of coffee. Layla couldn't pick another day in her life that would ever live up to this one. She was currently leaning against Eddie's naked back, her breasts pushing up against him as he called a pizza place nearby for delivery, most likely looking like a sloth as she did so. She had never felt comfortable in her body, ever, let alone when naked. But Eddie made her feel like she didn't have to worry about that. He made her feel like she was sexy and beautiful and alluring, and she didn't even know how to put into words how thankful she was that Eddie Vedder had been born.

After he made the phone call, he leaned back into her.

"Should be here in about an hour, considering we ordered just about everything on the menu." He said, and you laughed, since he wasn't exactly wrong. The record player suddenly stopped as Tommy by The Who finished, and Eddie got up to go and change it. Layla noticed the guitar leaning against the wall next to his record collection.

"Eddie?"

"Yeah hun?" He answered as he turned back towards her.

"Play something for me." He breathed in deeply as she asked him, and picked up the guitar, making his way back to the bed. He sat down and placed the guitar in his lap, gently tuning it. She moved so that she was leaning against the pillows at the head of the bed and angled her body towards him as he scooted closer to her. She looked up at him and admired the small frown line that always appeared between his eyebrows when he was concentrating. He plucked the strings of the guitar and started strumming a song. She recognised it. Derek and the Dominoes. He started to sing.

"What'll you do when you get lonely
And nobody's waiting by your side?
You've been running and hiding much too long.
You know it's just your foolish pride.

Layla, you've got me on my knees.
Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down.
Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down.

Layla, you've got me on my knees.
Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane.
Please don't say I'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain.

Layla, you've got me on my knees.
Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

Layla, you've got me on my knees.
Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind."

Eddie gently raised his head up and looked at her. She had tears welling in her eyes, and she didn't want them to fall. He placed the guitar on the floor next to the bed and took her into his arms, placing gentle kisses on her mouth, face and neck.

"Eddie?" Layla asked again, her heart nearly bursting at his proximity and what he had just done.

"Yeah?" He answered back, his head buried into her neck as he awaited her response.

"I fucking love you." She finally said, as she grabbed Eddie's head and forced him to look at her. She pressed her lips against his with ferocity and they collapsed into each other, completely oblivious to the world around them.