My Sweetheart

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑤𝑜

I wake up to the alarm. Shutting it off, then realizing something is different than the way I fell asleep. Are Alex's arms around my waist?? Wait, we are spooning. I get massive butterflies. I get my phone and try not to move too much. I snap a picture, even with the flash on. Alex doesn't even wake up, he's a heavy sleeper. I observe the photo, god I'm smiling like an idiot. 

I keep telling myself no don't have feelings for him, it will ruin the friendship. But something about Alex is just, impeccable. I snap out of my short thoughts. Turning over, Alex still has a grip on me. 

"Alex," I say. "Alex," I say again. He stirs a little then opens his eyes a little bit. The way his face softens when he lays his eyes on me. It makes me smile so much. "Alex we have to get up" I whisper. He notices his arms. Slowly taking them off, I get a little sad. 

"Okay okay," He responds. I then see him slowly falling back asleep. I lightly smack his chest and he jerks up. "I'm up," He says actually sitting up. I do the same thing and we both just sit and stare into the distance. We probably sit there for five minutes before I get up to go use the bathroom. 

I come back and Alex is still staring. 

"Alex," I say. 

"Yeah?" He says. I smile a little. 

"We need to go meet George," I tell him. He nods and gets up. We walk downstairs and slide our shoes on. 

"Lillyyyy I'm tired," Alex says. I laugh. 

"You can sleep in the car okay?" I say holding onto his arm as we walk to George's car. I sit in the middle seat with Alex so he can sleep on my shoulder. 

"Ready?" George asks us. 

"Yep" I respond. Alex is already passed out on my shoulder. I pull out my phone and snap another picture. Ugh, I'm falling hard for this boy. 

-T I M E- S K I P-

We arrive at the airport and I shake Alex awake, now very excited to see our friends. He jolts up. 

"Are we here?" He asks. I nod, George finds them and we pull over and load their stuff in. We all give them a big hug saying how much we missed them. Getting in the car, Nick and Clay's family wave goodbye as they wait for their ride. 

"So how was your vacation?" George asks. 

"Yeah, how was it?" Alex chimes in. I just sit back and listen to all the boys talk amongst each other. I love how great our friendship is. I started being friends with Nick and Clay around elementary school. But everyone knows I'm closer to Alex than anyone else. And everyone knows Alex is closer to me than anyone else. It sucks that Karl isn't here. 

"So what's going on with Karl?" Nick asks. 

"We don't really know. But it's around the time of year when everything happened with his mom. Remember? This happens every year." George responds. 

"Yeah, I keep texting and calling but no answer," Clay speaks up. 

"It's okay, he knows we love him and that we care for him. He just needs space." Alex says. This kind of made the rest of the ride kind of depressing because now we are all sad about Karl. Karl is basically the glue of the group, without him nothing is really the same. 

"Oh my god. So when we were walking getting off the plane, Clay fell and just face planted in the aisle in front of everyone, knocking like two other people over" Nick says laughing. 

"Bro!! It wasn't funny. It was so embarrassing I swear." Clay says covering his face. We all start laughing. 

"How does that even happen??" I ask laughing. 

"My shoes were untied..." He says softly. That makes us all laugh even more. They then start exchanging stories of the things they did during their vacation. 

"Nick I remember when you weren't paying attention and ate YELLOW snow," Clay says. We all look at him in disgust. Then start laughing again. 

-T I M E- S K I P-

We drop Nick and Clay off at their house, then George drops Alex and me off at mine. We just decide to have Alex sleepover again at this point. Alex and I quietly enter my house and go up to my room. We get back under the covers and simply just pass out. We were so tired. 

I wake up and Alex and I were spooning again. Why does this keep happening? It's never happened before. Am I upset about it? No. No, I am not. I feel Alex stir so I close my eyes and pretend I'm still sleeping. 

"Lilly I know you're awake." He says in his morning voice. 

"Yeah I know," I say. 

"Are you okay with this?" He asks. 

"With?" I ask. 

"You know what. The cuddling" He responds. I giggle a little bit. 

"Yeah, I am," I say. He gives a please hum and goes back to sleep. How the hell can this man fall asleep so easily. Well, there isn't a point in getting up so I decided to fall back asleep as well. Before I do, I notice Alex has pulled me closer to him and has his arms wrapped around my lower waist. I have so many butterflies right now. 

A/n: okok so i might not update for a while bc its like one of the spur of the moment writes. but i have an idea of how i want this story to play out. sorry it might seemed drug out.