What is Love? (Ashton Irwin || AU)

Ashton || 20

"I don't have a skull, or bones." Olaf says on the T.V. I chuckle slightly and look over to see Sammy sleeping. This girl is always sleeping I swear. I'm sure she'll blame this one on the medicine.

After admiring Sammy for a few seconds I hear her grandma walking up the stairs. I look up to see her walking through the doorway with two plates of food.

"Oh, I didn't know she was sleeping." Her grandma says.

"I didn't either until just a few seconds ago." I respond.

"I'll just take her food back down. Do you want yours now?" She questions.

"Uh, sure, why not?" I say. She hands me the plate and then turns and leaves the room with Sammy's food.

I eat and watch frozen until I hear Sammy giggle. I look down at her and smile.

"Olaf makes this whole movie." She says with her eyes still closed. "What's that wonderful smell?"

"Dinner. Do you want some?" I ask her. She nods her head and opens her mouth. I giggle and then give her a bite of my food.

"That's good." She says after she finishes what's in her mouth.

"Do you want your plate? Your grandma brought it up while you were sleeping, but she took it back down." I say.

"I was not sleeping." She retaliates.

"Yes you were." I say.

"Was not." She says, smiling. I laugh at her.

"I'll go get your food if you want?" I ask more than state.

"No," she says finally opening her eyes. "I want to get up. I don't want to sit in this bed all the time." She says. I decide not to argue against it and place my plate on her nightstand to help her up. I pick her up bridal style and she grabs her crutches and then I descend down the stairs. I place her on the ground and she uses her crutches to start walking towards the kitchen.

"Oh shit. My food is upstairs. I'll be right back." I say.

"Ok. I'll be in the kitchen." She responds and then continues to the kitchen. I run up the stairs, nearly falling, and grab my plate. I go back down and sit across from Sammy at the kitchen table.

"Here's your food Samantha." Her grandma says as she places the plate in front of her.

"Thanks." Is all she says before she basically devours her food. I look at her astonished and she notices. "What? A girl can't eat?"

"Uh, n-no. I've just never seen a girl eat like that before. Every time I've eaten with a girl she would barely eat anything."

"Well, Irwin, I'll have you know that I'm not your typical girl. I, unlike those other girls, like to eat. Therefore, I will not hide it." Sammy says. I just stare at her wide eyed and she smirks at me while taking another bite of food.

"Have you fallen in love yet?" I hear Sammy's grandma say. Sammy and I both break eye contact and look down. I feel my cheeks heat up and I look back at Sammy to see hers turning a light shade of pink as well.

I speak before my mind registers my thoughts and say, "I don't know." Sammy's head shoots up and she looks at me wide eyed. I look away from her, feeling my cheeks burn in embarrassment even more.

"Um, excuse me." Sammy says and I look up to see her getting up from the table. She goes to the back door and steps outside. I stare at the spot where she was just a moment ago before getting up myself and following her. When I step outside I find her in the exact spot I knew she'd be: the end of the yard against the fence, facing the beach. The sunset hitting her in the most perfect way. Her hair blowing lightly in the breeze. I walk up to her and, as if I've been doing it for years, I wrap my arms around her shoulders from behind.

"I'm guessing you want me to explain." I say, breaking the comfortable silence between us. "When I say 'I don't know' I mean just that. I don't know exactly how I feel. I mean think about it, we've only known each other for like a week. I do know that I feel something for you. I'm not sure exactly what that is yet, but I want to figure it out. I want to get to know you in every way possible. I want to spend every waking second of every day with you until I figure out whatever this feeling is. And maybe even after that." Sammy stays in silence after that and I don't know whether to be grateful or regretful for saying everything I've just said. I start to loosen my hold on her, but she grabs my arm, stopping me.

"Stay." That's all I needed to hear to wrap my arms around her tighter and hold her as close as possible, for as long as possible.

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I hope this is good enough for you guys. I haven't been feeling creative lately.

-Kourtnie<3 xxx