Always Us.

Stay with me?

Josephine's POV:

"Stalking me?", I texted him with a smirk on my face.

I'm secretly happy that he was looking me up, and I think the like was unintentional, which makes it all the more embarassing for him. I giggle, imagining his face right now.

A beep startles me, and I look at my phone. He sent me a nervous emoji. That's it? I wanted to have a conversation with him. I get this weird confidence, and make up my mind to call him. Yeah, come on Jo. You can do this.

I search his name on my phone, but the contact isn't coming up. Huh? Did he not save the number on my phone? I didn't even see what he put as the name of the contact. I search through my contacts, one by one, and suddenly I see it. 'Your Hardin', he's named himself. I laugh at that, and call him.

Wait, did I think this through? Oh god, what if he doesn't answer?! "Jo?", I hear suddenly from my phone. I nervously say, "Hi." Oh god, i've messed this up already. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb, um-" "Jo, what are you talking about? You're not disturbing me, like at all."

I smile, "So, why were you stalking me?" I hear a deep breath, and he says in that thick british accent, "I, um- it was by mistake. Um, can we move on please?" I hear a breathy laugh, and I laugh as well. His laugh makes me smile and feel warm inside. What?

Next thing I know, we've been talking for 2 hours and it's really late now. We talked about so many things, and I feel like I know every little detail about him now. 

Suddenly he asks, "Jo,..uh.. do you have a boyfriend?" Whaat?!  Does he really think  that?

"Of course not!", I say. "Um..do you?" "Nope. Actually...I've kind of never had an actual girlfriend before.." NO FREAKING WAY.

"You've never dated actually?!", I say with so much surprise and disbelief in my voice, that he laughs. "Why is that so hard to believe?", he asks with a snort.

"I MEAN HAVE YOU SEEN YOU?!", i ask unable to stop myself. SHIT did I just say that?! He laughs out loud and says, "Wow Jo, I didn't know you saw me like that. Thank you for the compliment but I don't think many girls would like to even go out with me, and I've never been interested in a girl like that.."

"Reallyy?! Come on, lots of girls would be more than ready to be your girlfriend, so don't expect me to believe that, Hero Fiennes Tiffin!" "Oh really?! Well then, would you be ready to be my girlfriend?", he asks suddenly stopping his laughter.

I took a sharp breath. WHAT DID HE JUST ASK?! IS HE JOKING? WTF DO I REPLY TO THAT??! Of fucking course, I'm attracted to him but are we really ready to take it a step further and is he even interested in me like that?! Suddenly I hear a deep throaty laugh, "I'm joking Joooo, release your breath!"

Oh. I don't know if i'm sad or happy that he was joking. Not wanting to make it awkward between us, I say, "I know I know Hero, stop teasing me!" I then say that I'm really tired so I'm going to go to sleep, and we say goodnight to each other and cut the call.

Why do I feel sad that he isn't interested in me? I mean, this shouldn't be anything more than a friendship, because if things didn't go well if we were involved romantically, it would affect the chemistry in the movie. Okay Jo, Hero is just a friend, and you shouldn't think of him as anything else because you're only going to end up hurt.

Hero's POV:

FUCK, is she mad at me? I shouldn't have said that UGH. The conversation was going perfectly fine and you had to let your feelings overpower you. I acted like I didn't mean anything but a joke by that line but it wasn't. It so wasn't a joke. I've never felt this way to a girl. I've never smiled just by a girl's presence in the same room as me. I've never wanted to see a girl's smile the first thing I wake up in the morning and make sure that that smile is never removed from her face. I've never wanted to kiss a girl this bad. I want to brush back that little twirl of hair from her eyes and just soak in her beauty. How can this girl do this to me? She's making me a soft person and making me smile whenever I'm around her and I never smile without a reason. She is. She is the reason I smile.

I want to go to her room and make sure she's okay. I don't want her to feel bad. What if she hates me now? I need to get to that room ASAP. I get out from my room and stand outside her room. It's almost 3AM. What if she's sleeping? I just man up and knock on her door. I hear a creak from the bed inside and the door is pulled open. 

Jo stands there, in a messy bun, a grey tank top and shorts, and SHE LOOKS SO DAMN CUTE AND HOT AT THE SAME TIME. She looks very tired, her eyes are droopy and I immediately regret my decision to wake her up right now. She rubs her eyes with her tiny hands, and asks, "What's wrong, Hero?" I started stuttering AGAIN because her appearance was throwing me off right now. I somehow get out the words, "Are you okay?" She looks at me, confused, "Why wouldn't I be?" Oh no. Maybe she didn't even care. She pulls me out of my reverie by placing her hand in mine and pulling me into her room.

She closes the door and turns and smiles at me. She sits down on the bed, and pats the seat next to her so that I would go and sit there. "Are you sure YOU'RE okay, hero?" "Um...I just wanted to say i'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.", I say while placing my hands on hers.

I see goosebumps arising on her skin, and she looks down at her bare thigh where both of our hands are placed. I heard her breath hitch. It drove me wild how quickly her body reacts when I just touch it. She looks up at me, and says, "It's okay...I um- didn't take it in the wrong way if that's what you're worried about."

Something comes over me and I place my free palm on her cheek. Her breathing changes. God, does this girl know how much she turns me on? I touch my forehead to hers and we both look at each other's lips and I wanna kiss her so bad right now.

I can feel her warm breath fanning my lips and her eyes are fixated on my lips. I don't know how the energy between us changed this fast, but it did. I looked at her eyes to make sure she was okay with what was happening. She looked at my eyes then, and all i could see was desire. Not being able to resist it anymore, I leaned in and caressed her lips with mine. And then, with no warning whatsoever, she pulled my shirt and pressed her lips to mine, in a passionate kiss.

I reciprocated with the same intensity. God, her lips were so soft. I laid her down on the bed and continued kissing her. It was fiery,raw and passionate. It was better than anything I could ever imagine. 

She put an arm around my neck and pulled me closer. Both of us broke away just a little bit, gasping for air, and went right back to it. Nothing in this world could ever compare to what I had felt for her just then.

She broke away the kiss suddenly, and looked into my eyes, while I pulled back reluctantly. She still had her arms around me, and we were lying on the bed with me on top. "Hero, what are we- what are we doing?" "I don't know Jo, but if you're not okay with it, then- then i'll stop. I'm sorry.", I say while getting off of her. She suddenly pulls me back by the collar, and says,"Will you stay here tonight?" "If that's what you want and you're okay with it, then yeah. Sure.", I smile, immediately feeling better. She lies next to me and pulls the covers on top of us and puts an arm around my waist and buries her head in my neck. I look at her adoringly, plant a small kiss on her forehead,put an arm around her as well, and close my eyes, feeling content.

Heyyoo, this was a A LONG CHAPTER but I won't be writing until like at least a few people start reading it, which I don't think will happen, but if you do, vote and comment what you think about this chapter!

All love.