forum Under The Painted Sky (O/O CLOSED)

Started March 18, 2019 by Deleted user

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Lucas squeezed her hand tightly.

“I failed her, you know,” he said softly. “When we were fourteen, I promised her I would protect her. I told her that was my only goal, and I failed.”

“You didn’t know, Luke. Neither of us did. She tried to tell us, I know, but… She didn’t say anything,” Ashley murmured as they stepped through the door. “That made no sense. You know what I mean, though.”

Lucas didn’t say anything. He merely closed the door and pulled Ashley to him.

“When we have kids,” he started softly. “We’re going to do an entire background check on every person they hang out with. Especially if that person is their love interest.”

Ashley chuckled softly and buried her face in his neck, wrapping her own arms around him. “When… I like that you say that. When we have kids,” she mused softly. “Have I told you how much I love you today?”

Lucas hummed, kissing the tip of her nose.

“You have not,” he murmured. “Do tell me, Ash. Tell me you love me.”

“I love you so much, Luca… I love you like the moon that chases the sun every night, simply wanting to be with its lover,” Ashley murmured, reaching up to press her lips to his gently.

Lucas pressed their lips together harder, holding her tighter.

“I love you, too, Ash,” he murmured. “For as long as there’s life on Earth, I will continue to love you.”

Ashley hummed and closed her eyes, tightening her arms around him. She lifted a hand to cup his cheek, brushing her thumb against his skin.

Lucas kissed her harder, pulling her closer to him, pressing until her back was to the wall.

“Thank you for being mine,” he whispered against her mouth. “Thank you for loving me.”

“Thank you for giving me a chance. I know it’s weird dating your sister’s best friend,” Ashley murmured back, right before she slipped her tongue over his lips. He might have her against the wall, but that didn’t mean he had an advantage.

Pink exploded on Lucas’s cheeks when her tongue trailed his lips. No matter how many times he tried to take control, she would always come out on top. He bit down on her lip in return, tugging on it before prying her mouth open with his tongue.

Ashley bit back the groan that tugged at her throat. She pushed her own tongue against his, her hands shifting to his chest. Gripping his shirt tightly, she tugged him closer to herself.

Lucas tugged on her shirt as a silent request, leaving her mouth to trace kisses down her neck to the spot where he knew she was most sensitive at.

A puff of breath escaped Ashley’s lips when Lucas pressed kisses down her neck. She felt him tug on her shirt and placed her hands flat against his chest.

“Eden,” she murmured, reminding him that his sister was in just the other room.

Lucas breathed heavily. “I guess you’ll have to be quiet then, huh?” He muttered, lips still on her neck. “But you’re right. I’ll refrain from doing this.”

Ashley shivered at his words. Dang him. Dang him and his smart mouth, which would get her in trouble with both it’s words and actions.

“You’re a pain in the butt sometimes, Lucas,” she breathed, drawing gentle, teasingly light, fingers down his chest. Shapes were drawn against his shirt with a touch that was hardly there, and she knew what it would do to him. Just as he knew what he was doing to her.

Lucas gritted his teeth at her teasing, releasing a shaky breath.

“You little…” he breathed. “Damn it, Ashley. Let me have you. We can be quiet.”

Ashley didn’t hide the shiver he sent down her spine. She smiled up at him, all innocence as she met his eyes. “Maybe we should have gone out instead of staying in… We don’t want her to hear if something slips out, so we?” she murmured, lightly pecking his lips. “Or are you absolutely sure we can be quiet?”

Lucas glared at her, his cheeks bright pink at her teasing. But she wasn’t the only one good with words.

“I don’t know, Ash,” he breathed, his hand brushing against the exposed skin of her stomach. “Can you?”

“I think— think I can,” Ashley breathed, closing her eyes again. She leaned back against the wall, his teasing touch making her heat up even more than she had been. “It’ll be a fun challenge… See who can stay the quietest…”

“Game on,” Lucas muttered before he firmly clasped their mouths together, hands already lifting her shirt up, letting go of her mouth to slip it off before capturing it again.

It had been a torturous game.

Ashley let out a slow breath as Lucas laid beside her, her eyes shut tight. That… was definitely an interesting round. She didn’t know who’d won, didn’t think they were really even keeping track after a while. All she knew was that it had been incredibly hard not to make a single sound while Eden was in the other room. It was just weird to think of her best friend being under the same roof as her when she was doing this. So… she stopped thinking about it for a while.

Lucas panted heavily, wrapping an arm around his girlfriend and pulling her closer. That was a difficult round, but definitely exciting. He didn’t know who won. He had stopped caring. He really wished his sister had been blasting music, though, because if they’d been even a little loud…

“That was fun,” Lucas breathed. “Though let’s try to not do it when Eden’s just next door.”

Ashley grunted and curled up closer to him. “Agreed. Next time she’s home, we can see if my house is empty,” she mumbled. “And then we can go there instead.”

“Deal,” Lucas chuckled. “It totally works for me.”

“Good,” Ashley murmured, kissing his jaw tiredly. “Let’s go to sleep for a bit. And then we can decide what we want to do for the rest of the day.”

Lucas tightened his hold on her.

“Sounds like a wonderful idea,” he murmured. “Sleep sounds perfect. Sleep well, Ash…”

Ashley hummed and snuggled into him further. “Night, Luca…”

[TIME SKIP: MONDAY]

Eden missed Sterling terribly. It was annoying. Usually people got a peace of mind when they slept, but not Eden. She’d fallen asleep Saturday night and woke up half an hour later due to a nightmare. It hadn’t caught the attention of her brother, but it was enough to keep her up all night. And the other night as well.

So now it was Monday and Eden was tired and exhausted and beyond annoyed. She missed Sterling, too, so there was that. But she couldn’t see him. There was nothing of hers that she could offer him. She was a useless, broken dish that couldn’t be reused. Surely Sterling wouldn’t want someone like that, however nice he was.

But then she saw him conversing with a female—though they weren’t alone, there were a few males and other females present, too. But it was the way that the girl was talking to Sterling that got her blood boiling. Standing close, making unnecessary contact, blatant flirting… Eden realized with annoyance that she was jealous.

She immediately tossed that emotion way with just as much difficulty as she had in walking past Sterling without so much as a glance.

Sterling hadn’t heard anything from Eden over the weekend. He hadn’t heard from her, or Lucas, or Ashley, either… It worried him a little, but he supposed that no news was better than bad news. If something had happened, he hoped they would have told him.

So on Monday morning, he was just taking to some friends, ignoring one of the girls’ blatant flirting. She was actually beginning to get on his nerves when he watched Eden walk by, silent and sullen. He’d blinked and stepped away, gently pushing the other girl to the side as he made his way toward Eden.

“Eden… You’re okay. I didn’t hear from you all weekend,” he greeted her softly.