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9:27 pm

(Emmas pov)

I come back from getting food with James, carring the paper bag in my hands and setting it on the dining room table.

It's already getting dark, it felt like we didn't do anything today other than sleep in and hangout with eachother.

Grayson and Ethan sit in the living room, Grayson lays his head against the back of the couch, almost calling asleep.

I suddenly get a good idea.

"Hey, do you guys wanna go in the hot tub?" I ask. Ethan perks up.

"Sure, em." He replys.

I smile at him and James yells out a "Yes!" From the dining room.

Grayson groans and gets up to change into his swim suit.

We take some pictures and hangout in the hot tub before Grayson heads inside to shower and James goes to eat, complaining about how the food was getting cold.

It was just Ethan and I, under the stars.

He smiles at me, moving closer and sitting next to me.

He seems nervous, and I just sink myself into him to tell him that it's okay and I'm here with him.

"You look really adorable in that swim suit by the way em." He said.

I blushed at the way he was flirting with me.

"I really don't." I replied to him, laughing.

He rolled his eyes.

I held his hand and he blushed at me, causing me to smile at him like a total goofball.

The whole universe seemed to align that night, under the stars my hands fit so perfectly in his.

God, I really like you Ethan. I thought.

A part of me wanted to tell him so bad, but what if he didn't like me back?

"Emma?" Ethan asks me.

My back is rested against his bare chest and his arm is around me, I hold onto his hand tightly.

I turned to look at him, my blue eyes meeting his dark ones.

He swallows.

"Emma, I have been really scared to say this but here it goes..." He pauses.

I look at him, and smile. Our eyes don't break gaze once.

"Emma, I really like you. I really value our friendship, but I like you way more than a friend. I just feel amazing when I'm with you and you make me so happy."

My heart flutters and I climb onto his lap in one swift movement, wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Ethan, I like you too. Will you take me out sometime ?" I ask him.

I have never seen him smile so much before.

"Did you really just ask me out? Isn't that my job?" He laughs.

"Don't be sexist." I say, rolling my eyes. "And besides, we both got what we wanted." I whisper.

And at that moment, in the Vegas hottub, he kissed me.

Ethan pressed his warm lips to mine and smiled into the kiss.

I wrapped my legs around his waist more as we deepened the kiss.

We break away and catch our breathes.

"Wow." Ethan breathes.

I just pull him in for a hug and I love the way his bare arms hold me close to him.

Wow.

Tonight was unreal.