/THE DRESS HAS LESS CLEAVAGE SHOWING AND THE LENGTH IS SHORTER TO SHOW OFF THE HEELS/
I wake up in the brand new apartment me and Ash had just moved in to. Apparently Amber and Nate had decided to take the apartments below us.
I get up and stretch only in my underwear and a big grey sweater of Ash's. I feed Aniease and pet her while she eats, I feel Ash's heavy present behind me and I feel him wrap his arms around my stomach. I turn in his arms to see he's only in his boxers.
"I have my very first day at work." He whispers.
"What do you have to do?" I ask taking his hand and going into the kitchen.
"Just highway patrol at first." He says
"You want eggs?" I ask and he nods, I crack an egg on the pan and it crackles "will you be safe?" I ask
"Yeah, it won't be much." He says getting closer to me, I stir the eggs.
"That's good." I say looking at him and he pecks my lips.
"I'll be able to make it to the gallery thing." He reassured me and my eyes go wide
"Shit! I forgot!" I shouted
"Just chill, baby." He grabs my hips tightly.
"What time do you have to leave?" I ask and he looks at his silver watch
"In forty minutes." He looks at me.
"Just get ready." I say pointing to the room with a spatula and he puts his hands up in surrender
"Yes babe." I smile putting eggs on a plate and put it on the table. I sit down and drink my green tea in a big mug. Ash sits down in front of me and he starts to eat.
"I might go into town." I say looking out the window at the beach view "or maybe go to the beach."
"Just be safe." He says putting the plate in the sink
"I know babe." I uttered. He kissed my forehead and I hugged him tightly. "Don't get hurt." I mumble between his chest
"I love you." He whispers letting go
"I love you too!" I yell before he can leave.
I sigh, getting up and grabbing Aniease and sitting on the couch watching a movie, cuddling with Aniease. My eyes start to feel droopy when I heard a knock, I slowly walk to the door and crack it open to see Amber smiling with her bikini on.
"Come on girl!" She walk in closing range door and going into my room and taking out my black bikini lined with burgundy. She throws them at me and goes into the living room playing with my cat. I shut the door and put on my bikini seeing my scars are barely noticeable. I put on a white transparent cardigan and walk out putting on sandals.
"Come on Amber." I say grabbing two towels, sunscreen, and a long big shirt for after and putting them in a bag. We walk down to the beach and I put my towel on the sand and put sun screen on. I put on my sun glasses and lay back
"Ugh, you're no fun." She whines and lays back along with me "how have you and Ash been?" She asks and I nod
"Amazing." I say smiling "how are you and Nate?"
"We're good." She says quietly
"What happened?" I ask looking at her taking off my glasses.
"I still feel like he's cheating." She sighs
"Don't worry." I say touching her hand "right now relax." I grab her hand and I run to the waves.
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Me and Amber walk different ways to our apartment. I hop in the shower quickly and wash my body and hair. I wrap the towels around my hair and body, I walk out and dry off my hair, I slip off the towel that was around my body. I wore the same thing as before, I walk out of the room and sit on my couch eating yogurt. I answer my phone that started to ring with Zander's name flashing and a picture of him.
"Hello?" I say putting the phone to my ear
"Hey, we still on for tonight?" He asks me and I bite down on my lip
"Yes." I simply say
"Great! I already have your drawings hanging and a lot of artists will come and see them." Zander says and I smile even though he can't see me
"That's wonderful." I say softly
"Is everything okay?" He asks me
"Yes. Everything is perfect." I breath in happily.
"That's great! I'll see you tonight, bye." He hangs up and I turn off my phone smiling like an idiot. I lay down in the couch and Aniease lays on my hollowed out stomach that need food to become bigger, I look like I was an anorexic a bit. I pet Aniease and she purrs lightly while I start to watch Family guy.
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I wake up when the door barges open and Ash comes in. I rub my eyes gently and he sighs sitting at the foot. He puts my feet on his lap and stares at me
"What's wrong?" I asked putting my hand gently on his cheek, he presses his face more into the palm of my hand.
"No, nothing is wrong." He smiles at me in a day dream. He grabs my hand and kisses it, lingering his lips on my knuckles that where slightly bruised from punching Mason. "You're such a badass." I chuckle at what he says randomly
"Thank you." I say sitting up on his lap. He intertwined all of our hands and puts them to his side and kisses me gently and then he starts to get rough. I take off his shirt and he takes off mine revealing my exposed skin. I unbuckled his pants and he picks me up kissing and sucking on my neck when he puts me on the bed. He takes off his pants becoming naked, he slides off my underwear and gets back on top of me.
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I look at the clock to see it was already five o' clock. I sit up with the covers covering my body
"Do we need to get ready?" Ash asks rubbing my back
"Yeah." I say getting up and putting on my bra and underwear. I fix my face in the mirror and curl my hair putting on a dress that was so beautiful. I put on these black heels and did my eye-makeup as a smoky eye, matte dark red lipstick, and did my eyebrows.
I open the door to see Amber and Nate about to knock. Ash intertwined our hands and we leave in separate cars. Ash holds my hand tightly like he's super nervous.
"Babe, just tell me what's wrong!?" I whine and he looks at me
"You'll know why soon. Just be patient." He smiles and I sigh playfully
"Fine." I punch his shoulder softly with our hands "but you owe me." I say laughing
"Oh, you'll love this!" He loudly says "I hope." He said to himself
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Me and Ash walk in with Nate and Andre behind us and everyone cheers. Zander comes up to me quickly and hugs me tightly.
"Hello Zander!" I hug him back and he hugs Amber and shakes Nate's and Ash's hand.
"Come on, I want to introduce you!" He grabs my hand and Ash smiles at me and starts to talk with Amber and Nate. "Men, this is Elena Gillian!" Zander politely, excitedly, and proudly says and I smile tucking a hair behind my ear then shaking each of there hands while they all kissed my hand. "She has a boyfriend." Zander says
"So what's your expertise?" One man asks me
"Oh! I'm not an expertise, sir." I say "I draw."
"Honey," he starts "this is expertise! It is so beautiful and magnificent!" The man stares at all the drawings in awe
"Thank you so much, sir!" I felt so proud of myself and he shook my hand
"I have an interest in you." He smiles and start to wonder off looking at the drawings and the men follow him.
"Your hard work paid off Elena!" Azande says to me proudly. Like a father happy their child is graduating.
"You helped me Zander." I put my hand on his shoulder and Ash comes putting his arm around my waist, lowly. "Please, enjoy your hard work." Zander says and nods to Ash. I hug Ash tightly of how happy I am and he hugs back securely wrapping his arms around my body. I look at the only view I can see from hugging Ash. They may all be in black and white, but it's all shaded differently. Ash was dressed in a burgundy suit and a black tie, similar to what Mason wore one time.
"Come." Ash said breaking our hug and grabbing my hand softly, intertwining them. "Zander's about to announce you!" Ash nervously and excitedly said.
Zander got on the platform with a big smile on his face and he looked t me then to the crowd.
"Tonight, we are celebrating one of my artists!" Zander shouted and everyone clapped "come up here Elena Gillian!" Zander smiled "you too Ash, her boyfriend." Zander added and everyone laughed. I grabbed Ash's hand and went up there, everyone clapped, Zander moved aside so I can talk.
"Thank you so much for coming." I started "all my drawings aren't just drawings." I sigh "they all tell a story, my story for a fact, it's about being set free from monstrous things." I smiled brightly "and letting go!" I finished and everyone clapped I was about to go off the platform but Ash caught my hand and went to the mic
"Elena," he nervously starts "the only reason I've been so damn nervous all day." He looks at me still holding my hand, not intertwined. "You are the best girlfriend I've had for almost a year! I love you!" He smiled at me "I want to support you and your art every single day, even until I die. I want you to be by my side and for me to be by your side." His hand starts to sweat "because I love you, so..." he trails on and gets on one knee letting go of my hand, I gasp silently "Elena Gillian, will you marry me?" I nodded bringing him back up on his knees and kissing him, everyone clapped and he stopped kissing me to put on a beautiful gold ring. I wrapped my arms around his neck and he put his around my waist. I held onto him tightly and gave him a long kiss.
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We went back home and Ash opened the door for me, before that we said bye to Nate and Amber. Once we got in I jumped on Ash happily then kissed him.
"I love you." I whispered giving him a long peck on the lips.
"I love you too." He let me down. "Go take a shower and go to bed, ill cook us some dinner and we can watch a movie." He said I smiled and gave him one last kiss and went to the shower. I got out my dress and shoes, feeding Aniease, I sat on the bed in my underwear and bra waiting for the water to warm.
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I came out of the shower in a long shirt and just underwear.
"Your turn." I said to Ash leaning on the door frame, he looked at me with a glint of lust and love. He kissed my forehead and went inside the shower. I sat on my spot of the bed with food in front of me, I flipped channels to find a good movie. I finally got Skyfall that was just starting and Ash came out in his boxers omg with wet hair and finally he got an eight pack.
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After we finished eating we cuddled next to each other, face to face, my leg wrapped around his waist. I stared at Ash while his eyes where closed, I had my arm right above my leg and I was lower than him so my face was near his chest. Ash moved his hand to my cheek.
"Go to sleep." He opens his eyes and kisses me. I put his arm around my shoulder and I snuggled deep into his chest, the warmth overpowering me, making me fall asleep.