Please Come Back Home (Nathan Sykes Fanfic)

Chapter 10

We made our way back to the dock as Nathan carried me bridal style. I climbed up the ladder and he followed me as I walked up the dock and grabbed a towel that was sitting on the patio. He took my hand and led me up the back staircase, as we were both soaking wet. He pulled me into his room and I pulled his shirt that I was still wearing off while I was facing the bed, I grabbed my shirt and was about to put it on when I felt his arms wrap around my waist once more and his head on my shoulder. I turned my head to look at him. He was just so amazing that I couldn’t even begin to describe it. I whispered into his ear “Where are we going?”

He looked at me and said “I can’t tell or it’ll ruin it. But dress for the outdoors.” before pecking me on the lips.

“But this is all I have with me. I didn’t pack for the week.” I replied while smiling.

“Well than you can just borrow some of mine.” he answered with a wink. God it just killed me when he gave me that wink and I must have gone into shock or something because he was now waving his hand in front of my face while holding some clothes for me to wear.

“Oh yeah, sorry.” I said while shaking my head and taking the clothes. “Okay, um can you like… turn around or something?”

He just looked at me with a smirk and raised an eyebrow “How do you think you got into that outfit last night?”

“Okay point taken but you and I both know that I was gone by that point… so turn around.”

“Fine, fine.”

When I was done changing I took a look at myself in the mirror and saw behind me not only Nathan staring at me, but I guessed he was starting to take after Tom because he was standing there shirtless. I spun around on my heels to look at him and realised that he did have a six-pack in real life and it wasn’t just photo shopped like Tori said it probably was. He put a shirt and jacket on and I have to say that I was a little bit disappointed, but I put my extra pair of flip-flops on as he took my hand and lead me out the front door and across the street.

I guess that I hadn’t realised that there was a forest just across the road from us even though it was pretty hard to miss. He led me right into the woods following a small path as I pressed myself up against him. We finally came to a clearing that was a large looking field with nothing in it except a large willow tree over a sizable pond. It was pitch black now, but I could still see his eyes glowing under the full moon. He looked at me then led me over to the tree.

“Do you want to go swimming again? Nobody will throw you in this time.” he asked me while a smile tugged at his lips.

“Fine,” I said reluctantly just watching him to see his reaction. His eyes lit up with both mischief and excitement. I started taking off the sweatpants and t-shirt he had given me to wear and hung them over one of the low branches of the willow. I was only in my bra and pants when I turned around. I could tell that he had been watching me again, but after a moment he snapped out of it and took my hand as we walked into the cold water of the clear looking pond.

As soon as I realised how cold it was I squeezed myself against him searching for warmth. He put his arm around my waist and eventually picked me up as we got deeper. He finally put me down so he could go underwater and I did the same after I took my long, thick brown hair out of its traditional ponytail. I noticed that he had started to stare at my hair and I could have sworn I heard a small “wow” out of him. I just smiled sheepishly and pushed myself underwater. When I came up I became aware that I was right in front of Nathan, or he was right in front of me. Either way, he picked me up slowly and I let my legs wrap around him. I put my hands on his shoulders and leaned back so I was floating on top of the water while he moved me around in a circle. I could feel his hands on my legs as he spun me round slowly.

I finally sat up looking at his eyes that were sparkling in the night. I could feel a gentle smile on my face as I looked down and closed my eyes. I let out a small sigh before I felt something. It was him kissing me. I started kissing back, moving my hands from his shoulders, into his hair. Even though it was wet, it was still soft. I could feel his hands, which were now on my back, pushing me further into him as he moved them farther down.

After a minute he had one hand on the small of my back and one on my upper thigh while he was kissing down my neck. “Nathan,” I whispered in his ear, which made him groan into my neck and the vibrations made me groan in return. “I love you.”

He pulled away to look at me. “I love you too.” he whispered while leaning his forehead against mine. I just closed my eyes and cherished this moment. After a while I heard him whisper “I never want to go back.”

“Neither do I.” I said while resting my head on his shoulder. With that I felt him change my position so that he was carrying me bridal style and he brought me out of the water and set me down in the tall grass before laying down next to me. I curled up into his chest and he put his arms around me just like earlier.

“Look up.” he whispered while pulling me closer to him. When I looked up at the sky, it looked like somebody had taken a paintball gun and hit the sky with glow in the dark paint.

“It’s so magnificent.” I said as I looked between him and the sky. I sat up and hugged my knees into my chest just thinking about when I’d have to go home to America. I soon felt his arms around me and his head resting on my shoulder as he kissed my cheek. “You know I’ll have to leave you when you guys stop in Chicago.” I said still looking up at the stars.

“Yeah, I know.”

“I wish that I never had to leave. I honestly think that I am British and there was just some mix up at the hospital.” I said which made him laugh.

“Well just remember that wherever you are, you can look up at the sky and know that I’m under that same sky. I’ll always be looking at the same stars as you, always.” he said, his gaze meeting mine.

“Thank you.” I whispered so that it was just audible.

“Why do you keep saying thank you?” he looked at me questioningly.

I sighed. I knew that this question would come up sooner or later and I would have to answer it at some point. “Well the first person that I thought I was in ‘love’ with played me like a guitar and I later learned that he was put up to it in a game. I never trusted anyone else with love… until now.” At the last part I finally had the strength to look up at him. He didn’t say anything. I finally got up to break the silence and went over to put my clothes back on seeing as I had air-dried.

He came over and turned me around and held me by my shoulders “Sophia, I love you. I don’t want you to feel like you aren’t loved because you are, I know that the boys all love you like a little sister. And I wanted to know if you’ll be my girlfriend?” With the last bit he let go of my shoulders and looked to the ground.

I took my hands and lifted his face up to look him in the eyes “Of course I will!” I said feeling my mouth erupt into a smile. He gave me the most loving hug ever and we stayed there for probably two minutes. When we pulled apart I asked “Do we really have to go back tonight?”

“I don’t think that we do.” he said with a smirk.