Bandmate ||Ricky Garcia||

《s e v e n t y - e i g h t》

Audrey's POV

"Why did you leave when I told you I had something to tell you?" I raise an eyebrow the moment Ricky's golden eyes appeared besides the door.

"You didn't say emergency so I assumed it could wait..." his nervous laughter bounces off the the walls around him. He opened the door wider for me to come in.

"Well its not an emergency per se. Hey, where is everyone?" Strangley everything was dead silent. No wonder everything little word resonates 100 times louder.

"They're still asleep." He says and he takes me out to the patio.

"Its almost 1pm?"

"Yeah their sleep cycle is kind of fucked up right now. You want anything?" We sit on on a bench facing the glistening pool.

"Why don't we go for a swim?" I asked as my eyes stared at the deep water. Maybe it will help me change my mind...

"Uh sure but did you bring a swimsuit?"

I shake my head no, "Can I just borrow some trunks?"

He smiled at me and ran off to change and get me an extra pair. What am I doing? I could feel my legs start to shake and my lips start to quiver.

"Here," I hear his voice from behind and next thing I know he jumps in front of me. I noticed he didn't have a t-shirt on and his pure skin was happily exposed.

"Thank you," I said and got up. I had on denim shorts and sweater with a tank top underneath. "Turn around."  I said stripping off my sweater.

"Nothing I haven't seen before," he says before turning around.

"Yea but I don't want you looking right now," I quickly jumped off my shorts to his trunks. "Okay I'm good now." I adjust his shorts.

"Last one is a rot-" before he could finish I pushed pass him to the water. "Hey that's cheating!" He jumps after me and I  use my weak noodle legs to keep myself upfloat.

We threw water at one each other and laughed when one of us got water in our eyes or mouth. We did that for a few minutes before I remember the reason for me coming. I started to swim to the edge and tried to push myself up. 

Chills drizzle my skin the moment I feel his hands around my waist helping me up. I run my hands through my face to get rid of the fat water drops. "I really wanted to talk to you.'' 

He pushes through the water and places himself in between my legs right under my eyes. The water reaches to his chest, and from here I can see through the clear water the way his toes clench. 

''I thought us jumping in the water was the end of that...'' He mumbled out pushing his dripping hair to the side. I shoke my head and bit the inside of my cheek.

"I'm leaving in 3 days Ricky and you're busy trying to build up FIYM again and we're both going to be really busy doing opposite things and-''

"Woah chill you're talking too fast. Audrey, we've been busy and we still manage to make things work.'' 

"But what if it doesn't work this time. You're still trying to figure out the a lot of personal things and-''

''And you want to leave me before you have to deal with another problem of mine, is that it? I'm sorry if I have caused you so much trouble.'' He starts to swim away before pushing himself up the edge. 

"That's not what I'm trying to say, Ricky. I just think that us being so far away won't end up working.'' 

''Distance isn't the fucking issue here. I can fly there and make room for you.''