𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 - 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛

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Right now I was sat with my neighbour's, they were three young-ish men, one sister and one of their fiancé's and I honestly loved them.

Their home was familiar to me, I used to come here at least once a week, now that I'm older I hadn't been here in a while but the scents from the kitchen were ones I remembered so well.

They had always looked after me as a kid, always looked out for my mom too once they had grown up enough to do so.

They're the exact reason why we never had any problems on this street, why we had no break-ins, robbery's, destruction of property. Nothing.

"Listen little Ross, we know you've been friends with him for some time, with the amount of times he's spent at yours, we've basically watched him grow up too" The oldest started.

I just hum in response, not too sure where this conversation was coming from, but i didn't like where it was going regardless.

"But you need to be careful with him Nyx, he may be sweet and soft but all men can be violent" he finishes.

"What are you trying to say?" I ask, slightly confused. I understand what they were saying but not why they were saying it.

"Just be careful, he can be dangerous okay?"

"I love you guys, truly, but I don't think you know him well enough to be saying that, Charlie would never hurt me"

"I just hope for your sake, that you're right" he shoots me a pitiful smile.

Shortly after I sent Charlie a text, asking him to pick me up, of course he said he would and that he wouldn't be long.

One thing about Charlie is that if he's late, it's because he wants to be, he can make a forty minute drive turn into a fifteen minute drive.

It was lightly raining outside, the sky was grey with clouds and I could tell the weather would only get worse.

I stood with my hood up on the side of the road, letting the rain drops fall on me, eventually soaking my hoodie.

I had always liked the rain, even walking in it never really bothered me. Everything about it was calming, even the heaviest of downpours had me feeling soothed. Sometimes I even chose to walk to or from school in torrents of rain just so I could feel it's drops on my face.

This time was no different, I wanted it to soak me, make me cold, dampen my hair. Remind me of a feeling I hadn't felt in so long.

The screeching of tyres pulled me out my thoughts, before I could comprehend what I was doing my muscle memory kicked in and I was sliding into the less than familiar seats of Charlie's dad's car.

"Why on earth were you waiting in the rain?" He asks, looking confused, "they have a front porch you know?"

"I know, i just like the rain" i say looking out the window, watching people dodge the rain with umbrellas and hoods as we passed by.

"Sometimes I worry about you" he shakes his head with a smile, turning the heating of the car all the way up in his attempt of drying me off.

"Is your car still not ready to be driven?" I ask, glancing around at the leather interior of his dad's Mercedes AMG GT that i had only sat in few times before this.

"Its still fucked" he sighs, running a hand through his soft hair.

"How much longer do you think?"

"Fuck knows, whenever we can get the parts shipped in, a week or two maybe?" He says, still slightly frustrated.

I hum in response, connecting the aux cord to my phone.

I play a song that I know Charlie will like, one that we've sang along to together many times; cocaine jesus by Rainbow Kitten Surprise.

As soon as he hears the first three seconds he gives me this all knowing look.

"Do you want to come back to mine, we're always at yours" he asks and I nod, excited to be back in the King household.

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When Charlie said the car was fucked, i didn't know he meant fucked.

It could definitely be worse but he's lucky it's not.

"Ouch"

"Ouch indeed" he replies.

"Come one" I say, taking his hand to lead him to his own bedroom.

Charlie doesn't look confused per say but he's probably curious why I'm making him trail along in his own home.

Once we reach his dark coloured bedroom, i pull him along to his large windows, holding a finger up to him, as if to say just one minute, i push open the windows and crawl my way onto the edge, i now sat on his windowsill and patted up him up.

Charlie quickly followed suit and just looked at me whilst i looked out towards the quickly darkening sky.

"We should talk" Charlie starts.

"We should do anything but talk" i retort, still keeping my gaze on the sky.

"We'll have to talk about it eventually"

"It" i scoff, as if us kissing was a forbidden topic.

"I didn't mean it like that" he says

"I know"

"We'll talk about it, but first we'll smoke" i say, pulling a joint out from my bra.

"What the fuck Nyx" he laughs at the sight whilst pulling out a lighter.

"What, you don't want a freshly rolled joint that I've kept in my bra for three hours?" I taunt, lighting the joint in mouth before taking a deep inhale.

"There's something I want more" he says lowly, taking it from between my fingers and following my previous actions

I let his words hang in the hair for a moment before responding, "maybe later, but now we smoke"

And thats just what we did, until we were high enough to say how we truly felt.

"I hate this awkwardness between us right now" I say.

"I don't know why its so awkward, we kissed, so what?" He replies.

"Is it awkward because we kissed or is it awkward because we both want more?" I say out loud.

"I haven't been able to stop thinking about the kiss" Charlie said very matter of factly.

"What about it?"

"How much I enjoyed it" he answered truthfully.

"Me too" I whispered as if we would both be scared of my answer.

This was was the first time in the last twenty minutes that we'd made eye contact.

Even though the whites of his eyes were red from the high, I could still see the clear emotions behind them, that was one thing I liked about Charlie, he wore his heart on his sleeve even if he didn't realise it.

Maybe that could be his next tattoo.

"I want to kiss you again" he whispered back.

"Me too" I looked up at him from beneath my lashes.

Charlie quickly cupped my jaw in his hand, bringing me closer to him before angling my head up to him.

Our eyes met for a split second before we both shut them, leaning in for the kiss.

Our lips met and the kiss was soft and delicate unlike our previous ones, almost as if he was trying to savour the taste and the feeling.

Bringing my hand up to Charlie's jaw, i pull him deeper into the kiss, it was like this fuelled him because now he's gently picking me up off of the windowsill, I wrap my legs around his torso as he walks us to his bed only a few feet away.

Charlie gently drops me down on my back and he hovers above me, still kissing me intently.

I trace my hand along his abs, under his shirt, sliding it up his chest, lightly scratching him with my nails, before i could go any further he grabs my hands and pins them above my head.

"Don't" He says in a low voice, between kisses before trailing kisses down my jaw and neck, sucking slightly on a sweet spot just below my jaw, earning him a quiet moan, which in return makes him smile his devilish smirk against my skin before continuing.

Charlie and I continue like this for what seems like forever until we're both out of breath, when he then lays down besides me, rubbing small circles on the exposed skin on my stomach.

"Will you go on a date with me?"

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AN:

I hope you guys enjoy this episode :)

But in other news I've been working on something else!! A couple of things actually.

Also halloween was such a bust and now my whole friendship group is arguing too and I'm starting to resent my own boyfriend so theres always that lmao

Thanks bye!!