never letting go || lrh

Electricity or butterflies?

My phone rang, disturbing us from our moment. I groaned and reached to my back pocket.

«Hello?» I said.

«Hey, where are you?» I recognised Aylin’s voice. I was not in the mood to talk to her. I know I had given her the green light to act up on Luke, but I didn’t expect them to hook up! 

«I’m with Ash.» I replied coldly.

«Oh, uh, okay?» She seemed taken aback. «When will you be home?» She asked.

«Dunno.» I replied, and hung up. I felt bad, but shook it off. I looked back to Ash.

«We should head home, it’s getting late.» I looked at my watch, indeed, it was 11PM, and Ben was expecting me home a lot earlier. «Wanna come to my place?» I offered, yawning.

«Sure.» He chuckled, and placed an arm around my waist and we made our way back to the car. We drove home silently, I was already drifting off to sleep. As we pulled up my driveway, he placed his hand on my thigh and rubbed it gently, to wake me up. I opened my eyes, and unbuckled my seatbelt. I opened the car door, and hopped out. I had trouble walking, I was so sleepy, so Ash walked over, and picked me up with ease (thanks to his gigantic arms)  bride-style. I giggled and wrapped my hands behind his neck. He walked up the couple of steps that led to my front door. He let me down, and I put my key in the door, and opened it, trying to make the least noise possible. As I walked in, I found the TV still on, and my brother asleep on the couch, a bottle of beer in his hand. I chuckled and pushed the door closed behind me. Ash and I crept up the stairs, and walked into my bedroom. I went in the bathroom, stripped off, put on one of my brother’s oversized tshirts, washed my face, brushed my teeth and walked back out, leaving the room to Ashton. He walked in, and I crawled into bed, pulling the covers up to my neck and closing my eyes. I could feel myself falling asleep when I felt the bed tip. I opened my eyes, he had turned the lights off and was joining me in my bed. When he lay down, I pulled myself closer, threw my arm over his stomach, placed my head where it belonged -in the crook of his neck-. Our legs intertwined, and he had his arm wrapped protectively around my waist. I couldn’t help but realise he was wearing nothing but his boxers. I smiled secretely to myself.

«Goodnight, Ash.» I said, kissing his neck.

«G’night, Maddie.» He kissed the top of my head, and I fell asleep, content.

******

I woke up around 10 AM, and found Ash on his phone, scrolling through Twitter. I burried my face back in his neck to hide from the source of light. He looked down at me.

«C’mon, sleepy head, we have to get up!» He said, way too enthusiastically. I groaned, and tightened my grip around him. 

«I don’t want to.» I whimpered. 

«Maddie..» He warned me.

«What?» I looked up at him, smiling teasingly. He was also smiling, he had set his phone to the side of the bed, and had wrapped his arms around me, holding me very -very- tight. «Ash, don’t hold me so tight!» I squeeked.

«What do you mean? I’m not holding you.» He answered, grinning.

«Let me go, Ashton!» I said laughing. «I’ll get up!» I said, out of breath.

«Promise?» He teased. 

«Yes, I promise, now let me go!» I shouted, as he released the grip, not letting me go completely though. I smiled at how comfortable I was. «You should go get dressed.» I noted, glancing down at his almost naked body. 

«I should ideed.» He grinned, gave me a quick kiss, and walked to my bathroom. I grabbed my phone, and scrolled through Twitter. I had a notification, so I clicked on the little box. As it was loading, I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. When I looked back down, I read :

@Ashton5SOS has mentioned you in a tweet.

I clicked on the link, and read the caption. «This cutie @MaddieGoneCrazy was tired last night!» I clicked on another link to see a photo of us, me sleeping, my arms and head resting on his bare chest. I smiled and got all warm and fuzzy inside. I favourited and re-tweeted it, just as he walked out the bathroom, fully dressed. 

«C’mon, you promised you’d get up.» He smiled.

«Fine, but I’m not getting dressed.» I got out of bed and pouted.

«That’s fine by me.» He walked over, and planted a sweet and innocent kiss on my lips. The butterflies exploded in my stomach, and I smiled into the kiss. He pulled away.

«You ready for some late breakfast?» He smiled, I nodded. We walked down the stairs hand in hand, and into the kitchen. We got out the bare necessities : bread, Vegemite, Nutella, and left-over pancakes. I set everything on the table, and Ash put 2 pieces of bread in the toaster. He came back to the table a minute later, and put a piece of toast on my plate, and sat down opposite me. He spread Vegemite over his toast, and I put Nutella on a pancake. We ate in comfortable silence, and just as he swallowed his last piece of toast, his phone rang. He answered and I reached out to grab the Vegemite. I spread a thin layer on my toast and ate in.

«Hello?» Ash said. I couldn’t hear what the other person was saying. «Oh, hey Luke.» *mumble* «I’m at Maddie’s house.» *silence* «Hey mate, you there?» Ash said. *mumble* «Okay sure, I’ll be back soon. Bye.» He hung up. He looked at me as I finished up my toast. I smiled at him, and cleaned everything up with his help. I was washing the plates over the sink, when I felt him wrap his hands around my waist from behind, and he rested his chin on my shoulder. I stopped, dryied my hands, turned around to face him. We looked at each other, and when I saw him glance down at my lips I slipped my hand around his neck, and pulled him in for a kiss. It was slow, and sweet, he was nibbling gently on my bottom lip, and the familiar rush of butterflies found its way in my stomach. He pulled away.

«I have to head home soon, I’ll help you clean up and I’ll be off.» He pouted. I kissed him again.

«Get working!» I smiled and handed him the teatowel I was holding. We cleaned up for another 10 minutes.

«I’m gonna go now.» He said, putting the last plate back into the cupboard. We walked to the door, and I looked up at him.

«Thank you so much for last night, I hadn’t had this much fun for a long time.» I smiled sweetly. 

«I had fun too, it was nice being just the two of us, you know?» I nodded, as he opened the door. 

He walked out, and bent over to kiss me one last time. I smiled and closed the door behind him. The butterflies faded away slowly, as I remembered the electricity rush I felt when I kissed Luke. I coudln’t tell which one I prefered... Electricity or butterflies? 

One thing was for sure : one was a jerk, and I had to keep my distance.