better than this

Blair

Hunter tries coming round multiple times but I tell my mum not to let him in. I need time to cry and be sad before I see him. He texts me constantly to see if I'm okay. I don't respond mostly. I cocoon myself up in my bed and eat cookies and ice cream for a solid six days. I know it's ridiculous but I dated Jax for three years. I haven't been too happy in the relationship for a while but it still hurts to lose something that was such a prominent part in my life for so long. It felt sturdy and safe even when other things in my life started to crumble. And I did care about him.

Suddenly my door bursts open and in waltzes Hunter. I groan and turn over in bed. "Come on. It's about time you get up." He says and I cover my head with my duvet covers as turn and lie on my back. "Don't make me pull them off of you." He warns me and I pop my head out and stick out my tongue. "Right that's it. I'm coming." He says and walks over to my bed before wrestling the duvet covers off me and out of my hands. I laugh at him but he is distracted, staring down at my body. I was sleeping in my underwear, I didn't really expect any visitors. I cough loudly and his head snaps up, "My eyes are up here." I point out and he laughs, embarrassed and scratches the back of his neck. "We're going on a picnic." He finally says, revealing a picnic basket he had put on the floor. I groan again and turn over, putting the pillow over my head. "Uh Blair?" I murmur a response to him from under the pillow. "If you want me to not look at your body I suggest you turn back around..." He tells me, and when I turn around he is smirking at me, a pink blush covering most of his cheeks. I lift up a pillow and throw it at him. "Get lost, perv." I say and he laughs. "I'll wait outside while you get dressed. But I don't want to." He says with a cheeky wink before walking out the room and closing the door.

I stand and pick up my duvet and my pillow and put them on my bed before heading over to my cupboard and grabbing a towel. I walk out, still in my underwear and Hunter swiftly looks up. "Where are you going?" He asks me suspiciously and I roll my eyes. Where does he think I'm off to in my underwear? Oh yeh just going to buy milk. "I haven't left my bed in almost a week. I'm having a shower." I tell him and his face lights up as he begins to smirk, scanning my body up and down, I feel my stomach flip. "Can I join?" He asks me cheekily. "No." I tell him, slightly confused and run into the toilet before I make any bad choices, locking the door and leaving the sound of his laughter outside. I shake my head and smile to myself before turning on the shower.

When I exit he's still sitting on the stairs, staring at a wall. "Do you have nothing better to do than stare at my wall?" I ask him and he turns around. "I'm making sure you don't run away. Also your wall is very interesting." He tells me with an innocent smile on his face. I look at the wall and laugh, it's plain white. I walk into my room and close the door before getting dressed. I put on a pair of black jeans and a purple hoodie before towel drying my brown hair and brushing it into a ponytail, still slightly damp. "Your wall is getting less interesting by the second nervy." I hear Hunter shout from the stairs and shout back. "Just come in. I'm dressed." Seconds later my door opens and in walks Hunter. I take a second to take in his appearance. Today he's wearing a light blue hoodie and his usual black jeans. "You're not wearing your usual attire." I point out and he nods his head. "I don't only own a white t-shirt and jeans nerves." He reminds me and I nod before looking away, swallowing the lump in my throat as I remember my dream from last week.

"So...shall we go?" I ask him and he picks the basket back up before nodding and turning to leave. We walk the twenty minutes to the beach, which is where Hunter planned on having this picnic, and he lays down his blanket in the sun after finding a spot on the crowded beach. He sits opposite me and begins unloading the basket, starting with two cups and a bottle of Ribena which is my favourite drink. I didn't think he remembered. He takes out two tasty looking sandwiches with salmon and cream cheese inside and places each one on a paper plate before handing one to me along with a cup of the drink. He lifts his cup in the air, "To cutting out the idiots in our lives." He says and I smile, returning his gesture and touching his with my own cup.

Hunter

After we finish our sandwiches I pull out a small bag of marshmallows. She loves them. "Sorry I couldn't find a bigger one." I apologise to her and she shakes her head. "It's perfect." She grins at me. Although we only got four each before there was only one left. "I'm having it." She claims the marshmallow so I take it out of the packet. She reaches for it and I hold it behind my head, laughing. She leans across my chest and takes the marshmallow, our bodies millimetres apart. I strategically move my hand further back and she leans to get it, our bodies touching. Her hand touches mine as she removes the sweet from my hold and I get a buzzing feeling run down my arm. She pops it in her mouth defiantly but I'm not thinking about the marshmallow. I'm staring at her lips and trying not to notice that her chest is now touching my own. She stays in that spot, swallowing the marshmallow and staring into my eyes before I lean in. "Are you sure?" I ask her just before I kiss her to be certain. She nods and I move my face in to close the distance between our lips.

Her lips are soft and heavenly against my own, it sends chills down my entire body. I hold the back of her neck as she leans into me and deepens the kiss. After a minute or so I pull away, her face is flushed and slightly pink. "I've wanted to do that since the first night we spoke." I confess, holding her head in my hands. She smiles affectionately at me, I wish I could make her smile at me like that forever. "So have I..." She says and blushes before looking down. I laugh and lower my head to look into her eyes before leaning in and kissing her again.

I feel electric and jump up screaming at the top of my lungs from excitement. Blair bursts out laughing from the floor and I earn a few strange looks from the rest of the beach. "We just kissed for the first time." I explain to a group of strangers sitting nearby who smile awkwardly at me before I sit back down. We just kissed for the first time. I have to repeat it to myself because I almost don't believe it. I smile, feeling warm inside.