Tethered ? Awsten Knight

Remember when I told you guys a few datys ago this was at 7,000 words?

Well, I ended up moving 3,000 words over to the next chapter, so that's already more than halfway done...and we're at nearly 8,000 for this one.

ENJOY!

________________

Friday Night

8:39 PM

"So..." I played with my straw in my Diet Coke, then lifted my eyes up to Fran. "I talked to Awsten about us moving in together."

We had grabbed a late dinner to catch up and then were going dancing. Awsten was with Chris having a guys night.

"Yeah?" She perked up, but then caught herself since I didn't move and kept looking at my drink "Not good?"

"Well, we've talked about it like...three times now..." I mumbled with a small shrug. "The first time I told him on the way to the airport and he told me he appreciated it."

"He what?!" She scoffed and sat back in our booth. "I think I'm about to take back everything nice I ever said about him."

"Yeah...so I was upset...but we had so much going on that we didn't talk about it until Thanksgiving and I was a mess...he didn't know I was that upset."

"Why wouldn't you have been? So you're not moving in together right now?"

"Nope." I shook my head, then rested my chin in it after I propped it up on the table. "He's not ready...he thinks between us fighting while he was on tour, him coming home...this Erik shit, we should wait for stuff to settle down."

"When will it ever slow down with you two though?"

"I don't know." I shrugged. "That's kind of what I've been thinking. He says he wants to and he'll ask me...but it's like...when...we're around each other all the time anyway...we have toothbrushes and drawers of our stuff at one another's apartments."

"Did he say anything else about not being ready?"

"Tour." My eyes were still on the glass of Diet Coke. "We're apart from each other for like...two months."

"Hmmm." Francesca hummed. "I think he's probably just freaking out a little."

"But why? If I'm the love of his life like he says and he wants to get married and have kids...why is us living together scary?"

"You're not scared?"

"Well a little, but not scared enough to not want to live with him." I took a sip of my drink. "I think I might just pull back a little and keep myself busy with other things."

"Does he know how upset you are?"

"I think so," My heart jumped a little. "I cried to him about it in Houston, and he told me he was sorry and he just wanted to make sure we did it at the right time...because of us fighting while he was on tour...he doesn't want moving in together to be a band-aid I guess."

"Okay, but every time you guys have a fight or disagreement can't set you back."

"I just wish he'd be straight up with me...but he says he does want to move in together...so..."

"He loves you. I'm sure he does. There's got to be something else."

"I hope it doesn't have anything to do with me."

"It doesn't, it's a him problem." She shook her head with big eyes.

"All I want is to fall asleep and wake up beside him every day. I've never wanted to live with anyone else before...well besides you. It never really even came up with Josh."