Aspen
It was about forty minutes after my conversation with Ace, and I was sitting on his doorstep after running through the rain, huddling into myself as my whole body shook with the cold.
Jesus... why did it have to be freezing out here...?
My skin was cold to the touch, my clothes soaked and drenched with the rain, and I had nothing on to warm me up.
I sat there for another ten minutes before I heard a car bump up onto the driveway followed by a couple beeps of it locking and footsteps.
I gazed up to find Ace stepping up to me, but his friends weren't here right now. I honestly didn't know where they were.
Ace nodded to me, communicating a silent hi, while stepping up the porch.
He stopped in front of me then, clearly noticing that I was shaking.
His eyes hardened.
"You haven't changed your clothes?" he said in shock. "Jesus, fuck."
He then pried his key into the lock and shoved open the door.
He kneeled down to catch my arm, and winced when he felt how cold it was. "You drive me crazy."
I yelped when he pulled me up and dragged me into his house, slamming the door closed behind him.
My brows drew together when he pulled me upstairs, and I dug in my heels, but it didn't affect him in the slightest.
"Where are you taking me?" I questioned as he pulled me along.
"I'm going to warm you," he responded as we went down a hall, and I felt my skin chill when we entered his bedroom, and then his bathroom.
"What are we doing here?" I questioned in concern.
He only closed the door behind us and locked it, sparing me an annoyed glance before turning on the shower and tapping his shoe when it heated.
His bathroom was gorgeous, honestly. The tile in the shower was beautiful and grey and full of swirls.
Everything was white and grey; like a luxury hotel.
He checked the water a couple times before he turned to me. "Take of your clothes."
I blinked. "What?"
He came closer to me and started unbuttoning my shirt.
I knocked his hands away, taking a couple steps back in concern.
He gave me an annoyed look but didn't seem particularly angry.
It was something else.
"I'm not going to rape you," he told me. "I'll even leave if you want me to, you're fucking soaked."
I never answered.
He gritted his teeth, exhaling, "Fuck."
And I yelled out when he grabbed my arm and pulled me into the shower.
"You're going to get soaked!" I complained.
He didn't respond.
Fucking asshole!
I tried to escape despite us both being fully clothed, but he only wrapped his arms around me and dragged me into the water.
I stopped as the warm water rained down on me.
Oh.
He held me close to him as I stared at his chest.
Oh...
I slowly loosened in his grip, relaxing into him as warmth finally swarmed my cold skin.
That feels good.
I rested my cheek on his shoulder, closing my eyes as his body heat deepened into me like a storm of fire.
I like this.
He lightly slipped his fingers into my hair and pulled it out of my Beanie, but did nothing else to strip me when the warmth hit my scalp.
Oh...
He lightly ran his fingers through my hair, holding me to him as all the cold washed out of my body.
I forgot how good this felt... I really did.
All the pain vanished, all the regret and the fear and the hatred. All I could focus on was him and how warm he was.
He was like a campfire.
He held me tightly to him for another twenty minutes, burying his face in my hair while we stood there like statues.
But after a while he pulled away, making me gaze up at him hazily.
His eyes looked warm now.
"I'm going to get you more clothes," he whispered gently. "Stay in here for as long as you want. Just get warm."
He walked out of the shower then, and wrapped a towel around himself while he stepped out of the room.
I pressed my back to the wall and sank down, letting the water fall on me as I closed my eyes and tipped my head back.
This feels good. I like this.
I really did.
I didn't know how long I'd been there, but I dozed off for a little. It could've been an hour or two, or just a minute, but while I slept, I woke to a gentle shake, and I opened my eyes to find Ace there.
"Hey," he whispered, smiling softly at my blank stare, "come on. I got you some clothes."
I let him guide me out of the shower and turn it off, and I changed drowsily into a long T-shirt and a new pair of panties while he turned his back to me to not look.
When I was done, I stared up at him as he turned to me, and he smiled as if seeing me in this long T-shirt amused him, but he took my hand and I lazily followed as he guided me back into his bed.
"Just rest," he whispered, pulling the covers over me. "I'll be up to check on you in an hour, okay?"
I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, feeling his presence stay for a moment before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.
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