Last Hope {a paramore fanfiction}

Chapter Twenty Two

Taylor's POV

I woke up, with my face right in front of this flame of hair. Bethan didn't have orange hair like Hayls or the strawberry blonde kind most redheads had. It was like she had all the fiery autumn leaves in her hair, mixed with small strands of brown and blonde. Autumns my favourite season. And it made sense for me to make this a good reason behind why I liked Bethan's hair. That, and the fact it was Bethan's hair. And Bethan is beautiful.

I thought about her beauty but how fragile she was. It made me sick thinking about how Sam hurt her. Those dicks the other night as well. How could men do that to some innocent girl they didn't know?

I saw that my arms were around her. In the night, she had rolled over and I must have wrapped myself around her. No wonder I slept well. I wasn't ready to tell her, but I hadn't been sleeping well either, thinking of the what had happened to her. I couldn't get the image of her bloodied face unless I was looking at her.

She was still asleep. I took this opportunity to bring her closer to my chest. I didn't know how much more time I had in LA, how much more time I had with Bethan. I inhaled her scent, a mix of her coconut shampoo and the lavender from the bath the day before. That day. I hadn't felt such a feeling. One of unexplainable and confused electricity. Like when I played my first Paramore show or when Bethan played "Last Hope" for me for the first time. It seemed to always come back to her. Seeing her in her underwear wasn't what I noticed and cared for; it was that in the moment of awe I went to kiss her. I was ready to move on from this awkward friendship. I always talked myself out of telling Bethan about my feelings. I'd think about the logistics and if she even felt the same way. Then something like that would happen, and I'd forget it all. I'd just live in that moment of staring into these beautiful blue eyes, that would stare back at mine, and in that moment we would be on top of the world.

I closed my eyes again, happy to have Bethan close and to still have our fingers interlocked. However, she began to stir and I nearly jumped out of my skin. She rolled over on my outstretched arm under her head, her eyes still closed. They fluttered open and I was greeted by those eyes. In any other situation I would have jumped up and apologised and left. But her eyes beckoned me to stay.

We didn't say anything. We just looked at each other. A smile played across our lips. I wrapped my arms around her and brought her in for a hug. "Thank you taylor...T-Tay," she said, giggling into my chest. I hugged her tighter. I don't know how many times I'd told her this, and began to doubt it. But feeling her breathing next to me, her body next to me, I knew it was true. "Everything will be okay B-Dawg...Bethan."

10th February

I spent the next week or so mostly with Jeremy, Hayley and the Paramore team. We were organising shows and dates and whole lot of other exciting yet strenuous stuff. Bethan had been in the house a lot by herself. She was okay, seeing how she'd recovered quite a bit and every night I came home to a dinner and a note with a cheesy joke.

Today, the meetings got canceled because Hayley was under the weather, so I had lie in. There was soft knock on the door that woke me out of my half awake, half zombie state. I looked up to see the smiling Bethan. My body fluttered as I saw her. It had felt like years without seeing her and now she was here, all of her beauty came back to mind as well as holding her close.

"Morning Aurora," she said and I noted the white tray in her hands. Next came the smell of bacon and waffles, along with coffee. I began to drool. "Who's Aurora?" I yawned as I reached over to my bedside table to put on my glasses. "Sleeping Beauty you dim whit," she giggled and put the tray down in front of me. "Thanks Bethan, but why?" I laughed. "How many times have you done this for me and I've done nothing? You're actually doing work," she smiled. "We need to get you ready for the return of Paramore." When she said that my smile faltered as I remembered I had to tell her that we were going to Australia soon and out on promotion.