Life in Technicolour.
Thirty Three: Those nights belong to us.
Riley walked out of her therapist’s office and I stood up and greeted her.
“Hey” I said kissing her and taking her hand as we left.
X-X-X
“So what did you talk about?”
“You” She said as we sat curled up on the couch watching 101 Dalmatians
“Really? Why me?”
“Because she asked me about you”
“What did you say?”
“That I love you, everything about you the way you snore just a little bit when you’re asleep, and how cute you are when you are asleep or when you eats the peanut butter straight out of the jar with the spoon and you think that I’m not looking, and then they way that you still wears bow ties on stage even though they’re so incredibly outdated and how I just love you and think you’re amazing and adorable and how much I fucking love you”
I stared at her, my heart swelling with happiness, she blushed and looked down at her hands, I moved closer to her and wrapped my arm around her, kissing her temple. She sighed and relaxed, I slid my arm around her waist, I kissed her again, moving her slowly so that she was lying down on the couch. The kiss started out slow but it ended up with the both of us minus all of our clothes and me rummaging around under the couch for the box of condoms I kept there.
“What’re you looking for?”
“This” I said opening the box and taking one out, I ripped the foil open with my teeth.
I know the neighbours could probably hear us, and when they knocked on the door and heard Riley screaming my name I think they got the idea of what was going on and left. When we were done we just lay there, holding each other for a long time, but something had changed in the air, something was different, sure we cuddled after sex most of the time but this was different, the more I thought about it the more I realised what had just happened, we’d made love properly for the first time, even if it was on the living room couch.
X-X-X
It’s been three months since Riley tried to kill herself, so much has changed now though, everything is just so much better, our relationship is even stronger now mainly just for the fact that we’re actually listening to each other now and everything is going so much better.
Riley had also started working, she said it was nothing major, but I was super proud of her and everything she’d done now. She was working for AP because Matt spoke to someone when he found a load of her old work from high school up in his attic, and now she was working for them.
It was great for her too because she got out a lot more and she got to do gig reviews and meet a shit tonne of other bands, she was working on a gig review of one of the smaller bands that she saw last night Motionless in White they were called, kind of creepy looking, but cool guys from what Riley had told me. I wandered into the office and found her typing away on the computer.
“Hey beautiful” I said, she turned around and looked at me, her eyes raking over my chest. I was only wearing shorts and sneakers due to the fact that I’d been lifting weights so I was kinda sweaty, I knew she liked it, call me conceited I don’t care.
“Hey handsome” She said turning back to the computer.
“Is this for the band you saw last night?”
“Yeah” I said “They’re actually pretty good”
“Hmm I see you made quite the impression, signed copy of their album?”
“I’m just good at my job” She grinned up at me.
“Mmm I know you are” I said leaning down and kissing her softly, when I pulled away she blushed and bit her lip.
“You’re all sweaty”
“I know, I was working out” I said, flexing, she snorted with laughter “What?”
“Nothing you just make me smile”
“I’m gonna go shower, so I’ll be back in a bit”
“Okay, I love you!”
“Love you too babe!”
I went through to the bathroom and took a quick shower, washing myself off before I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around my waist. I went into my bedroom and dried off, pulling on some boxers, board shorts and a T-Shirt before going into the kitchen where Riley was making something to eat. I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed the back of her neck before resting my chin on her shoulder.
“I love you Riley, so much” I said tenderly.
“I love you too Zacky”
“Can I ask you something?”
“Of course you can” She said turning around in my arms.
“If I hadn’t… I hadn’t asked you to marry me, would you have… done what you did?” She frowned.
“That’s a difficult question to answer Zacky” I nodded “But I don’t think I would have, I don’t know… but I think now, three months on I’m in a much better place mentally than I was then”
“So if I asked you… again… what would you say?”
“Again I don’t know”
“When I asked you originally, I was thinking more along the lines of running away to Vegas to get married, church weddings are boring” I stated matter of factly.
“A Vegas wedding huh?”
“Yeah, I thought you’d prefer the idea too if we ever did get married”
“I do”
“Yea—what?”
“I do prefer the idea, let’s go”
“T-To Vegas?”
“Yes Zacky, c’mon let’s go have a shotgun wedding”
“I love you” I laughed as she pulled me toward the front door.
“I love you too, now come on Baker” She grinned at me “Let’s go get married”
“Hey” I said kissing her and taking her hand as we left.
X-X-X
“So what did you talk about?”
“You” She said as we sat curled up on the couch watching 101 Dalmatians
“Really? Why me?”
“Because she asked me about you”
“What did you say?”
“That I love you, everything about you the way you snore just a little bit when you’re asleep, and how cute you are when you are asleep or when you eats the peanut butter straight out of the jar with the spoon and you think that I’m not looking, and then they way that you still wears bow ties on stage even though they’re so incredibly outdated and how I just love you and think you’re amazing and adorable and how much I fucking love you”
I stared at her, my heart swelling with happiness, she blushed and looked down at her hands, I moved closer to her and wrapped my arm around her, kissing her temple. She sighed and relaxed, I slid my arm around her waist, I kissed her again, moving her slowly so that she was lying down on the couch. The kiss started out slow but it ended up with the both of us minus all of our clothes and me rummaging around under the couch for the box of condoms I kept there.
“What’re you looking for?”
“This” I said opening the box and taking one out, I ripped the foil open with my teeth.
I know the neighbours could probably hear us, and when they knocked on the door and heard Riley screaming my name I think they got the idea of what was going on and left. When we were done we just lay there, holding each other for a long time, but something had changed in the air, something was different, sure we cuddled after sex most of the time but this was different, the more I thought about it the more I realised what had just happened, we’d made love properly for the first time, even if it was on the living room couch.
X-X-X
It’s been three months since Riley tried to kill herself, so much has changed now though, everything is just so much better, our relationship is even stronger now mainly just for the fact that we’re actually listening to each other now and everything is going so much better.
Riley had also started working, she said it was nothing major, but I was super proud of her and everything she’d done now. She was working for AP because Matt spoke to someone when he found a load of her old work from high school up in his attic, and now she was working for them.
It was great for her too because she got out a lot more and she got to do gig reviews and meet a shit tonne of other bands, she was working on a gig review of one of the smaller bands that she saw last night Motionless in White they were called, kind of creepy looking, but cool guys from what Riley had told me. I wandered into the office and found her typing away on the computer.
“Hey beautiful” I said, she turned around and looked at me, her eyes raking over my chest. I was only wearing shorts and sneakers due to the fact that I’d been lifting weights so I was kinda sweaty, I knew she liked it, call me conceited I don’t care.
“Hey handsome” She said turning back to the computer.
“Is this for the band you saw last night?”
“Yeah” I said “They’re actually pretty good”
“Hmm I see you made quite the impression, signed copy of their album?”
“I’m just good at my job” She grinned up at me.
“Mmm I know you are” I said leaning down and kissing her softly, when I pulled away she blushed and bit her lip.
“You’re all sweaty”
“I know, I was working out” I said, flexing, she snorted with laughter “What?”
“Nothing you just make me smile”
“I’m gonna go shower, so I’ll be back in a bit”
“Okay, I love you!”
“Love you too babe!”
I went through to the bathroom and took a quick shower, washing myself off before I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around my waist. I went into my bedroom and dried off, pulling on some boxers, board shorts and a T-Shirt before going into the kitchen where Riley was making something to eat. I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed the back of her neck before resting my chin on her shoulder.
“I love you Riley, so much” I said tenderly.
“I love you too Zacky”
“Can I ask you something?”
“Of course you can” She said turning around in my arms.
“If I hadn’t… I hadn’t asked you to marry me, would you have… done what you did?” She frowned.
“That’s a difficult question to answer Zacky” I nodded “But I don’t think I would have, I don’t know… but I think now, three months on I’m in a much better place mentally than I was then”
“So if I asked you… again… what would you say?”
“Again I don’t know”
“When I asked you originally, I was thinking more along the lines of running away to Vegas to get married, church weddings are boring” I stated matter of factly.
“A Vegas wedding huh?”
“Yeah, I thought you’d prefer the idea too if we ever did get married”
“I do”
“Yea—what?”
“I do prefer the idea, let’s go”
“T-To Vegas?”
“Yes Zacky, c’mon let’s go have a shotgun wedding”
“I love you” I laughed as she pulled me toward the front door.
“I love you too, now come on Baker” She grinned at me “Let’s go get married”
Notes
Whelp that's it guys, hope you enjoyed, the stories that I've posted on Mibba that are completed in on there I'm just gonna post them all at once, but ones that I update will be updated at the same time on here if that makes any sense at all? Okay cool :DFiona
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