Saving Her •Discontinued•

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•Leilani POV•

I woke up with arms tight around me. We were in his bed.

I didn't want to wake him up, so carefully I lifted his arms off of me and walked into his bathroom.

Suddenly while I was searching for a toothbrush, I felt two arms reach around my waist.

"Good morning," turning my head to smile at him. "I couldn't find a toothbrush, do you have one Icould use?"

"There's some in here," he said pointing to a lower drawer I hadn't looked in yet.

We silently brushed our teeth together and went down into his kitchen.

I looked through his fridge, trying to find some food to make us some breakfast.

I saw eggs, bacon, cheese, and plain bagels. I decided to make some egg sandwiches with bacon and cheese on the bagels.

The whole house was silent as I cooked; Luke was on his phone typing something.

•••

We ate in silence until I spoke up. The silence was getting frustrating.

"So, are we going to talk today?"

"Yeah," he said, with his gaze now fully on me.

"I just don't know where to start so I'm going to say it all. I like you, but it's hard to know exactly how I feel when I just met you not that long ago. I want to get to know you more before we get into the whole dating thing. I know that I will be in some sort of danger just being around you and if I'm happy with you then I don't care about the danger. I want to do other things with you too, other than just talking and driving around. I want to know experience life with you and just do things normal people would do when they like someone else."

"I get that and I feel the same way. I really like you and it hurts me so much because I'm not good enough for you. I am going to hurt you over and over again. I don't know how to process my feelings for you. I would really like to do more with you before we start dating. I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to love especially because of the gang s**t I go through and experience every day. It's going to be a new thing for me to try because I've only had one girlfriend and that didn't go that well so I will try my best."

"I just want to see where this goes for us today and then we can talk about getting more serious. So after we eat, what do you want to do?"

"We could go explore some private beaches or we could find some cool shops, I don't know."

"Oooo that sounds like it would be a lot of fun!"

We finished eating and he helped me clean up.

"I need some clothes I don't have any, other than the pajamas I wore here."

"We can stop and get some stuff before we do anything if you want. We aren't very close to home."

"That's fine, but I'm going to pay you back," I said while putting on my pajama shorts. I don't really need them, I thought, his hoodie reached to the top of my knees.

"No baby, you aren't going to pay. I don't need the money and I am happy to spend it on you. I have too much of it anyway," He said, pulling me into his chest and hugging me.

"I know," I say quietly looking up at him. "but I feel bad. I don't want you to always have to buy me things."

"I know, but I want to, baby. You deserve tons of gifts for being so good to me already."

We stayed there hugging for awhile. Eventually I pulled away and suggested that we should go, I wanted to make sure we had more than enough time.
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We got in the car and headed to the mall to get some clothes.

Luke held my hand the whole way there, rubbing his thumb against it.

When we arrived, we went straight to get me some bras and underwear.

I didn't let Luke come in with me because I knew it would've been awkward when all we have exchanged are some forehead kisses.

I went in and out as fast as I could so he wouldn't be waiting that much by himself.

We went to some clothing stores to get me some basic clothes that would last me about a week or so.

I didn't know how long we were here so I grabbed things that were cute and comfy.

Luke helped me pick some things out that he liked when I didn't know what I wanted anymore.
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Luke drove around as we talked and listened to our favorite songs.

We talked about our favorite things and got into random topics. It was so carefree and easy.

It was actually really fun spending time with him; not worrying about being in danger and just living.

I felt so much relief after everything that had happened in the last few weeks.

It felt nice not having to be in fear of John coming back and hurting me.

I missed being so happy and having a lot of fun.

Luke was starting to show me what I had been missing.
A/N

Yes, I know that this was long overdue and I'm sorry.

I hope you enjoyed this even though it was kind of a filler chapter.

I've been pretty stuck with writing because I don't want to make their relationship go really fast.

There should be faster updates but it could just depend.

I hope everyone is doing great and prayers are out for every family struggling or having lost someone.

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