Haunted

Chapter 31

Songs for this chapter

Kiss Me Kiss Me - 5 Seconds Of Summer

Last First Kiss - One Direction

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I snap my eyes open and look at her in shock.

She's standing there, blushing and looking at the ground. Did she really just say that or..?

She looks up again and smiles at me unsure. "I really do", she whispers and I stumble backwards.

I trip over Ariana's bag, fall over and my head hits the wall. Her eyes widen and she quickly runs over to me but, honestly, I don't even feel anything. Anything except of the butterflies in my stomach.

"Shit, Luke, you alright?", Ariana asks as she bows down to help me up. "You..", I gasp and she smiles a bit. "I have a voice, yes", she giggles.

She's talking. She's talking and she knows exactly what she's doing. But the most important thing is she loves me.

"You..", I begin again. "You love me?" She blushes before she nods at me smiling. "That's.. amazing!", I shout and pull her into a hug. She looks up at me with the most precious little smile on her face and giggles.

I crash my lips onto hers and that's when I feel it. The feeling that everyone describes as fireworks around your head. I've been waiting for this longer than I actually knew.

Ariana kisses back, her lips feel so soft and I was right, they're so damn kissable. She slightly pushes me backwards and I press my back against the wall. Ariana pulls onto my hair and I grab her waist while our lips move in sync.

Suddenly she smiles into our kiss and pulls away. She looks at me with her beautiful eyes and says, "I waited for this since like forever." Wow.

She bites her lip and giggles quietly before she pulls my head down to hers and kisses me again. This time it's me who pulls away. "I.. I don't.. I don't understand this", I stutter overwhelmed and Ariana sighs.

"I can imagine.. Did I take this too far?", she asks. I laugh and shake my head. "I kissed you, remember? You just kissed me back, babe", I wink and she raises her eyebrows. "Babe?", she asks and smirks.

"Oh.. well.." "I like that. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to stop calling me princess", she winks and I laugh. "Never ever, don't worry, princess."

She quickly gives me a kiss on the cheek before she smiles at me. "How scary is talking to me?", she grins.

Oh, shit. I forgot that she doesn't know that we talked before.

"Very", I reply quickly and she laughs. "It doesn't seem like it." "But it is. By the way, I love your voice", I tell her smiling. "Well, I love yours too", she giggles and I can't help but kiss her again.

"I was so scared to tell you", I mumble a few minutes later. Ariana cuddles up to me and smiles. "I never would've told you if you wouldn't have told me", she giggles and I kiss her hair.

We're sitting on my bed, doing absolutely nothing but enjoy the moment.

"I thought I got friendzoned", I laugh and she joins in.

"But it doesn't even make sense..", she says after a few more minutes of silence. "I never even talked to you, how could you fall in love with me?" Oh, you did.

"I don't know..", I say slowly. I'm not good at lying, for god's sake.

She just shakes her head in confusion and I'm glad she doesn't ask any further questions. "Thanks for sitting down next to me that day", she mumbles and rests her head on my chest. "It changed my life." "Not as much as it changed mine", I say and she laughs.

If she only knew how much I actually know and how much she really changed my life.

"I expected you to ask more questions", Ariana says and I cough nervously. "I'm just too.. caught off guard at the moment", I reply and she seems to buy it.

"Luke?" "Mhm?" "Why did you wanna sit next to me?" "Because you're hot obviously", I wink and she slaps my head laughing.

"No, seriously. Was it because of the others?" "No! No, I just thought you're interesting", I say and she furrows her eyebrows. "Because of my past, yeah?"

"No! I mean yes.. Listen, you were pretty and seemed interesting. And I thought maybe I could break your shell. I just wanted to, okay?", I say and she sighs. "Of course", she mumbles sarcastically. "Would you please believe me?", I say a little bit annoyed.

"Look at that, we've been together for about half an hour now and we already have a little argument", I sigh and her eyes widen. "Luke, we're not.."

Oh. Yeah.

"I mean.. Uhm.. Well.. Would you.. would you like to be my girlfriend? Or what are we?", I ask unsure.

"I'd love to", she says quietly. "To be my girlfriend?", I ask, still unsure. "Hell, no, Luke. To be America's next topmodel. Of course I wanna be your girlfriend!", she shouts and hugs me laughing.

I sigh in relief, then I softly kiss her. She kisses back but breaks the kiss after a few seconds.

"What will happen next?", she asks and I shrug. "It's your decision. We can tell the others or we can keep it a secret." "I wouldn't mind if they know", she smiles and I nod.

"We'll tell them then. Next thing is, I can tell them but you could also do it." Ariana gulps before she says, "I don't know about that, Luke.. I mean that I talk to you doesn't mean I wanna talk to everyone.."

"I understand. It's fine, I'll tell them", I say and she sighs. "I talk to you because I trust you, you know? But I don't trust everyone.." "Why not?", I ask and she shakes her head.

"I don't know.. we all were friends but I just.. I can't", she sighs. "It's fine, really. You don't need to talk to them", I say but she shakes her head again. "I owe it to them. I will talk to them. I mean why not?", she says. "But not now.. I gotta plan this."

I laugh. "That sounds crazy, what do you wanna plan?" "I can't just walk up to them and be like 'Hey how are you? Haven't talked to you in a while!' They'd probably get a huge shock", she grins. "Next week is Calum's Halloween party! Halloween's supposed to shock people", I tell her and she laughs.

"Sounds like a good plan", she grins and rolls her eyes. "Seriously though, why not?", I ask and she looks at me thinking.

"Luke, can I ask you something? Why are you so weird?", she laughs. "C'mon, it's gonna be fun!", I tell her and after a few seconds she nods. "Okay. We'll do that", she says and grins.

"Perfect", I smile and cuddles up to me again. We sit in silence and just when I open my mouth to speak up again it hits me.

Michael was right the whole time. She only talks to me because I like her.

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