Love in the Limelight

Chapter Fourty Three: Situations

"Bils, Bils wake up" still half asleep I could hear Josephs voice, his hand running through my hair to get me to wake up. "Bils, Maya's been discharged, let's get you both home" I felt him kiss my forehead. I stretched out on the couch, realising how much my neck hurt from my sleeping position. I opened my eyes, the sunlight making me want to shut them again instantly. It took me a minute or so but I slowly readjusted. Joseph had my bag over his shoulder, his hair in a cute sleepy mess, I smiled up at him as he hooked a hand around my waist to help me up from the awful couch. "Where is she?" I asked, trying to focus my eyes so I could spot her, but I couldn't see her. "They are bringing her out to my car, it's just outside" he replied as we walked outside to find his car pulled up to the entrance. We had just enough time to put my bag in the boot before a very sleepy Maya was wheeled out on a wheel chair by one of the nurses. My heart fluttering watching Joseph with the biggest heart eyes as he rushed over to cart her to the car door and carefully help her into the back seat before helping her with her seat belt.

"I'm going to sit with her in the back if that's ok" I said as he passed to hand the wheel chair back to the nurse and thanked her. "Of course beautiful" he smiled as he went round to open the other door for me. I left a kiss on his cheek as I hopped in and sat in the middle, Maya instantly resting her head on my shoulder. By the time I fell asleep next to Joseph on that couch it was already 5AM so I'd only hand about three hours of sleep, and Joseph not much more than that.

The gently rock of drive home made me sleepy. I ended up resting my head on Maya's and closed my eyes, last thing I saw before I did was Josephs smile in the rear view mirror.

*Josephs POV*

As I watched her in the rear view, asleep on Maya, I couldn't help but feel myself beam with adoration and obviously pride. She had literally saved Maya's life and she didn't even bat an eye about it. Plus the fact that she revealed her plans to move I couldn't help but fall in love with her even more. I'd for sure been trying to suppress a sinking feeling that I would loose her at the end of this and that maybe we couldn't last outside of being in this bubble together.

But my mind is more than at ease now.

I dropped Maya home first as Natalia had offered to look after her so that we could go home to try and get some sleep. Billie barely even stirred when we helped Maya out of the car, she just readjusted into her head rest instead and started snoring lightly. I continued home to my place as it was closer than Billie and Sam's, plus I knew Sam wouldn't be home to see her anyways as she stayed at Joes.

I parked outside mine and left her in the car as I took her things to my room before coming back out and carrying her inside. The moment I lay her in my bed she half consciously reached out and pulled me into her. "I've just got to-" she cut me off.

"Nope, you don't have to do anything but cuddle me" she said, her grip on me tightening, eyes still closed. "Fine but only for a minute" I chuckled as I sunk into her. She had her hand around the back of my neck and was hugging me to her chest, I wrapped my arm around the front of her. She subconsciously started to use the hand behind me l to gently run her finger through and play with my hair, a move she knew was a weakness off mine.

I was asleep only minutes later.

"Where are we going?" Billie whispered as I pulled her into one of the many rooms in Maya's place, her party still in full effect down stairs. I slide the sliding doors shut behind us. We found ourselves in what seemed to be a movie room, three large modern white fabric couches lined three of walls and a huge projection screen covered the Fourth. "What if someone catches us?" She giggled, I turned to face her, biting my lip as I looked her up and down in that red dress. "That's a risk I'm more than willing to take" I replied as I pulled her into me, our lips lips meeting in a heated mess. I wanted here so bad and I wanted her now. I couldn't handle watching her dance like that, almost as if it were on purpose to tease me. Safe to say she was successful and I couldn't wait any longer. I used one hand to pull her close to me and the other gripping her face by the jaw, keeping her lips firmly on mine. Her hands gripped onto my jacket by my hips.