Beauty and the Beast (Paily)

Ch.6 Feisty One

  Paige's POV:

As I'm starting up the motorcycle I feel Emily's hands hesitating to go around me, so I put my hands behind me and search aimlessly for her hands. I feel around for her wrist and set her arms around my waist and lace her fingers together. I lightly tap the top of her hands, a signal to tighten her hands around me. Once I feel her hands tighten and feel her turn her head to talk to Hanna, I look down at her hands around my waist, I trail my thumb lightly over her fingers. I smile at the softness of her skin, the way my skin tingles when it collides with hers, the laughter I hear next to my ear from a joke Hanna said, the warmth I get from her body, and from all that I conclude that I never want to move from this position. 

I break out of the trance once I hear Spencer's car starting. I grip the handles of the motorcycle and put my feet on the pedal, making myself ready. Once I finally get all thoughts of Emily out of my head I feel a weight on my shoulder, it's not a heavy weight and it's put very softly there. That's when I finally realize that Emily's head is on my shoulder. All other thoughts escape my mind as Emily's the only one I'm thinking of. I can't think of anything to do other then smile, but I keep the smile small hoping no one sees. 'This girl will be the death of me.' I think as I finally start driving out of the parking lot. 

I stop the motorcycle once we're at the lodge and that's when I noticed that Emily's head position hasn't moved since we left the parking lot, it wasn't a long ride only about 10 minutes because of all the trails you have to follow. I wait for a while thinking that Emily will move, but once I noticed a small snoring sound next to my left ear I realize she's sleeping. I just sit there for a second, listening to her soft snoring sounds. I smile to myself at the cuteness of Emily falling asleep on a motorcycle ride and at the ridiculousness of me actually sitting here just listening to her snoring. Once I hear the other motorcycles and Spencer's car coming I start trying to wake Emily up. 

I put my hand behind me to her waist level and poke at her sides with my fingers. "Come on sleepyhead wake up." I feel her shifting her head, snuggling her head more into my neck. It feels uncomfortable since the helmet she's wearing is hitting my cheek, but I chuckle when I hear her mumble inaudible words and at the feeling of her breath tickling my neck. I see my gang hopping off their motorcycles and Spencer and Aria getting out of her car. I breath a sigh of relief. 'Finally someone can help' I thought. 

"Hey can someone help me out over here?" I ask. Everyone's attention quickly turns to me and Emily. As everyone starts walking towards me, I quickly regret my decision to call them over when I see all the grins and smirks on their faces, even Spencer. Once everyone was standing near me and Emily, I opened my mouth to start speaking but was interrupted by a loud snore in my left ear. There was a small moment of silence before everyone around us started laughing. I didn't laugh but I had a smile on my face, I wasn't thinking about how funny the loud snore was, I was simply thinking about the look of Emily's peaceful sleeping face in my mind. 

Once the laughing subsided Hanna came closer and put her hands on Emily's shoulders and shook her lightly. "Emsy wake up." Hanna said softly. 'How many nicknames does she have?' I think to myself, but the thought quickly leaves my mind when I feel Emily's head lifted off my shoulder, making me instantly miss the tingling feeling I had. I turn around to see her, I smile at the adorable pouting face she's making. Her hair is a bit messy from the helmet when she took it off and handed it to Hanna, but she still looks amazing. She has her hands balled into a fist covering her eyes as she tries to rub the tiredness from her eyes. Her lips are in a pouting face 'probably from being woken up', I think to myself.