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Evelyn's POV 

---Almost two months later---

The nights were warm and every second we spent together wasn't far from bliss. We had beach days, night swims, and small picnics on the sand. Summer was almost over and with that came a dreadful feeling I kept pushing away. After my birthday party, Ashton and I agreed to talk with our friends and mend what we could. That's something I admired about him; he was incredibly forgiving. Jax had apologized to Ashton and me the night after my party at the bonfire, pleading that he was so wasted he barely remembered what he had said. 

Ashton and he had hugged it out and exchanged a few words and that was the end of that, at least for now. I could tell Ashton was careful to not leave me alone with Jax and he was never like that before the night Jax had yelled that half-hearted drunk confession. I had spoken to Sophie and realized she had every right to feel like she couldn't tell me about the night Jax saved my life because I did end up spiraling the night I found out. Ashton didn't tell anybody about what I had done, and I kept it to myself as well, we didn't want to worry anybody. Plus, there was no need to make my emotional breakdown known because it wouldn't happen again. I wouldn't let it.

I was taking a swim in the pool before everyone got here for the bonfire tonight. Nicky was coming so I was happy that she was finally coming around more and hanging out with the girls and me. I feel a strong pair of hands snake up from behind me gripping my waist, I laugh turning around. 

"Hi," I say grinning. His eyes are like pools of honey. 

"Hey, baby," Ashton whispers, planting a kiss on my lips. 

My parents had gone on a trip, so it was just my brother and I home alone for two days now which meant Ashton was staying over A LOT more, and Sadie. I heard the door slam pretty loudly last night and Sadie wasn't here this morning, so I wondered if everything was okay between them. Ashton had asked me to be his girlfriend almost two months ago now, so I was in girlfriend heaven. 

"I'm going to go back over to my house to shower and change and then come right back, okay?" He says leaning on the edge of the pool. I float around for a second just admiring his body. 

"Alright well, I'll be waiting. I think I'm going to check up on Sadie, make sure she's okay, and tell Gianna and Sophie to come over." I say now floating on my back. 

"Yeah, that door slam didn't sound too good." He says jumping back in the pool and kissing me goodbye.

 I wondered what was going on with my brother and Sadie, this was the only thing that scared me about them being together. I didn't want their relationship to affect our friendship, what if she doesn't want to come around as much just to avoid him when they're fighting?

I start walking up the pool steps looking at the horizon beside me. The waves crashing, the beauty of the ocean, and the reflection of the sun on the aquamarine, crystal-like water. I had gotten so much tanner over this summer, which of course was expected. My freckled face was sunburned from all the time I spent near the ocean. 

I reach over to the rose-gold colored case where my cigarettes are. I inspected the square-shaped case, running a manicured finger over the intricate details on it. Remembering the night of my birthday, a shudder ran through my body at the thought of my childish outburst. I take a cigarette out and put it between my lips grabbing my lighter from the purse I had outside. I inhale and close my eyes as I blow out the smoke slowly, letting my face soak up the sunlight as I look up.

 My parents would kill me if they knew I was smoking, Ashton didn't like it too much either, but he knew I didn't like being told what to do.... not like this anyway. We hadn't had sex yet and I think we were both getting incredibly antsy about it, every time we ended the night in my bed making out and rolling around the sheets, he would stop me, or in other moments I would stop him. I was just so nervous about it, I felt like the anticipation was driving us both crazy. When he would stop me from moving further into the moment, he would softly ask me if I was sure it was the right time, and honestly, that would make me overthink and we would just end up holding each other. 

- - -

"SO, now that you're away from Ashton for more than a couple of minutes would you like to fill us in on your beautiful love life?!" Gianna half yelled. Sadie and Sophie were here as well, Sadie was on her phone and Sophie was looking at the ocean through my window. 

I shook my head. "What do you want me to say?"

"Well, have you guys had sex yet?!" She smirked, at this Sophie and Sadie's attention now snapped back on me. I blushed, feeling my neck get hot. I walk over to the mirror adjusting my jean shorts. "No Giana, we haven't," I say shyly but in a stern tone. Her eyes go wide, and she frowns once she hears my response. 

"Ummm, why the hell not??" She asks crossing her arms. 

"Yeah, why not?" Sophie now asks. I shoot her a look, curious much. "Guys, I don't know it just hasn't been the right time for either of us, I guess. I mean we want to; trust me we want to. It'll happen naturally, I won't have to force it." With that, they agree with me. I'm suddenly feeling so tired, my social battery is going to be at an all-time low tonight, I already feel it. 

- - - 

The girls start watching Cole and Damien have another wrestling match on the sand and I laugh at the way they take it so seriously. Ashton kisses me on the cheek and tells me he has a surprise for me tonight, which intrigues me deeply. I get a rush of excitement in my chest wondering what it could be. He starts walking towards Jax to their usual spot on the sand in front of the fire. I see Sadie sitting by herself near the shore, so I make my way over to her. 

"What's going on babes? I heard that door slam pretty hard last night. What did he do?" I ask, sitting down next to her. That's when I saw her crying. Sadie isn't the most emotional person so when she cries it worries me half to death. 

"I caught him texting some girl, I don't know who it is. They weren't even flirting, not really. But we never keep things from each other, I've never even caught him looking at another girl Eve. I don't know what's been going on with him..." She says, leaning her head on my shoulder. 

"I'll talk to him, he's an idiot if he messes this up. Come on, let's grab a sprite and see Damien and Cole's wrestling match. I vote Damien." I say, pulling her up with me as I try to brighten the mood. I assured her things were going to be okay and that I would talk some sense into my brother. 

An hour passes by and we're all surrounding the fire, talking about how we're all going to be going to the same college. Jax was saying how it's a good school, but the tailgates were even better. Gianna rolled her eyes at this and laughed. 

"Well, cheers to that." She said, making a toast with a Diet Pepsi in hand. 

"Who invited Allison and Sarah?" Cole asks, I almost get whiplash from how fast I turned around. Nicky is with them with an apologetic look on her face. I wonder how they convinced her this would be a good idea. Ashton gets up as soon as he sees me get up. 

"Relax, I'm not here to steal your boyfriend," Allison says. 

I laugh, because that might be the funniest thing, I've heard all week. Sadie's standing beside me now and she gently shoves me out of the way. 

"Honey, you couldn't steal her boyfriend even if you tried. You're not welcome here." Sadie snaps at her. Allison uncrosses her arms and starts walking over to Damien and sits on his lap. 

"You sure about that?" She says snaking her arms around Damien's neck. Wow, sleeping with him just to get back into the friend group, that's devious of her. Damien looks uncomfortable and Cole just looks plain shocked. 

"Guys, come on. It's not that serious she's with me now." Damien says throwing his hands up. I sigh and look over at Ashton, just to prove a point and show him that I'm secure in our relationship I'm going to let her stay. 

"Babe it's fine, honestly. It's like she's not even here." I say to Ashton, Sadie sits back down shooting Allison a cold glare. Gianna and Sophie raise their eyebrows and shoot glances at me making sure I'm good. 

"Hey Nicky, you look cute tonight," I say hugging her. She hugs me back and smiles sweetly at me. As for Sarah, she rolls her eyes and sits next to Damien and Allison. Cole decides to start freestyling to lighten the mood and surprisingly it works. Everyone's laughing again but I have my guard up.

 I see Jax shoot me a look mouthing the words "You good," over to me as he smokes a cigarette. I nod my head, feeling Ashton's gaze burn holes in the side of my face. As if he was trying to prove something Ashton puts his hand on my thigh as I nod my head, telling Jax that I'm fine. Jax's gaze follows Ashton's hand, and he looks away, taking a long drag from his cigarette. I'm suddenly irritated that Ashton is behaving like this, but I don't let it show. 

The irritation dissipates as the hours roll by, that's when my brother and Arlo make their way to the bonfire. I see Sadie's hand twitch. "Arlo! Long time no see." I say politely. 

"I know dude, you're still as short as I remember though." He says laughing. I introduce him to Ashton and the rest of the guys as I see my brother pull Sadie aside. They must've made up because a few seconds later they're all over each other again. 

"Hey umm, I'm going to be staying over at Sadie's house tonight so Ashton for the love of God don't let my sister do anything stupid," Ayden says and I roll my eyes, but then I realize Ashton and I are going to have the house completely to ourselves tonight. My heart starts racing at that fact and my palms get incredibly sweaty. I move a strand of hair away from my face and hug Sadie goodnight before she leaves. "Seems like just the right time huh?" She whispers in my ear before leaving with Arlo and my brother. 

Jax heard what my brother had said to Ashton because, for the rest of the night, I don't know if he suddenly had a stick up his ass, but he began flirting with Sarah like it was his new job. I was repulsed by her giggles, the weirdest part of it all was every time she laughed at something he said, I would catch him looking at me. What the hell is his problem? Mind you this man saved my life so it's not like I want to be a bitch to him but Sarah out of all people???

Slowly everyone said their goodbyes of course except Sarah and Ally, then as they were both leaving with Damien and Cole, Ally whispers to me "Careful, he might fuck you and forget you as he did with me." At this point, I'm just going to have to learn how to ignore her bullshit. 

"Hey, this is different. Don't let her get in your head." Ashton says grabbing my waist once we are alone. We put out the fire and picked everything up. Once we were done, I was so exhausted. 

We were alone now, completely alone in this beautiful beach house. My heart started beating rapidly. Oh boy, is that what the surprise is? Did he know we were going to be alone tonight?? He walks beside me as we walk up to my dock. 

"Can you close your eyes for me?" He whispers. I look at his honey-dew-colored eyes and his dark brown hair, some of it falling on his forehead messily. God, he's beautiful, I think he realizes how nervous I am because when he grabs my hands and feels how sweaty they are he smirks. That fucking smirk, ugh. "Come on, you can trust me. You're going to love it." He says, revealing those beautiful dimples of his. I take a deep breath in and close my eyes, the second I do I feel everything so much more intensely. I'm immediately a mess of nerves and anticipation, he keeps his fingertips on my hips as he makes his way behind me. 

I feel a soft, silky piece of cloth being wrapped around my head. 

"You're blindfolding me?!" I ask, grinning with excitement now. I hear his light chuckle and my heart melts. "Ashton, I-" 

"Shh, just wait." He says in my ear, and a shiver runs over my body. I feel him guiding me towards what I believe to be the house. He tells me to be careful and just let him be my eyes, so I do I trust him blindly...literally. 

He stops me and I'm guessing we're back inside my house because I smell the saltiness of the ocean being replaced by a scent of roses. 

"You ready?" He asks. I nod my head squeezing his hand. I feel him slip off the cloth that was covering my eyes and what I see before me turns me into a ball of emotion. 

"Ashton," I whisper, he looks at me proudly waiting for my reaction. Rose petals leading up the staircase, spread out all over the living room. Candles lined the edges of the staircase. I turned around to face him and almost bumped into his chest. 

"What is all this for?" I ask, with a huge grin plastered on my face. I see his dimples appear. 

"It's for you, you deserve to be treated like this. Just so you know, this night can end how we usually end our nights cuddling, talking, or holding each other ...or not. I never want you to feel like I'm doing something because you have to do something back, that's not what this is Evelyn." He says, he makes me feel so comfortable always and I appreciate that more than he'll ever know. I kiss him softly and then pull away gently, his dark eyelashes brushing against my cheek. He kisses my neck once, twice, three times and I breathe out the air I was holding. 

"I want to go to the room," I whisper. At this, he looks down at my eyes with a serious expression, like he knows this moment means a lot to me like he means business in the sense that he intends to make every moment of tonight as perfect as possible for me. He swoops me off my feet and I laugh at how romantic and movie-like this moment is. 

"Don't you dare drop me..." I laugh, smiling from ear to ear, wrapping my hands around his neck.

"Never." He whispers, walking up the stairs with me in his arms. Ashton can have any girl he wants; I mean the day I met him there was one throwing himself at him. He could've been like any other guy and fucked her again, he had once already. He could've pushed aside what he thought he felt for me, and he didn't. He was straightforward with me from the beginning. 

We make it to my bedroom safely and he gently puts me down on the bed. There are as many rose petals in here as there are downstairs and candles on my drawer set and where my smaller mirror is as well as on the window stools. I swallow nervously but confident and trusting in him. 

"Evelyn, I want to tell you something. I-,"

"I love you," I blurt out. "I wanted to say it first, I'm sure I felt it first so it's only fair," I say quickly. 

"Evelyn I'm going to tell you right now, I'm almost 100% positive I felt it first but you're the first person that's ever made me feel inexplicably grateful to still be breathing. You helped me look forward to each day. Your faint freckles..." He starts running his hand across my cheekbone not breaking eye contact. He's doing that thing where he stares into my soul and it makes me feel so vulnerable, so naked.

 "Your green eyes with that hint of blue around your pupils, the way your hand trembles in the slightest way whenever we've been kissing for too long and you're breathless. I've fallen so deeply in love with you that every time I think about the future, you're right there next to me. You've made this summer so meaningful, all I want to do is continue to live this life with you. All I want from you is to allow me to be in it." He says with such confidence my legs might've given out if it wasn't for him holding me up. 

The moment is filled with such sexual tension, such love that it almost suffocates me. "I'm so in love with you." That's all I can manage to say because that's all that I feel. All I want to do is show him how much I love him, and I can't manage to do that with words anymore because my body needs him, I need him to erase every trace of ever being touched before him. 

"I want to do this, I want you. I want you tonight, please." I whisper.

He kneels in front of me and looks up at me, I lose my breath. He starts kissing my inner thighs as I'm standing up and I feel my balance start to whither. "Fuck," I say. 

"I got you." He whispers. Ashton's hand is running up and down my legs and with one swift motion of his thumb he caresses me in between my legs through my jean shorts and I gasp. He stands back up and I take off his shirt, revealing his flawless complexion and his happy trail right below his belly button. I could see why they call it a happy trail...

I see his lips part as he slowly pulls on my bikini strap exposing the parts of me, he hasn't seen completely bare before. He bites his bottom lip, and it makes me bite mine too. He lowers his head until he's teasing my breasts with his tongue making more than a few eager moans escape from my lips. 

"Baby," I whisper. "What do you want baby, tell me, I want to hear you say it." He says confidently, in that demanding tone again, I feel myself getting wetter. 

"I want you; I want all of you." I practically beg.

"Say it." He says, and I feel my cheeks go red, and when he notices the effect, he's having on me physically he smirks, trailing kisses down my stomach until he reaches my core. "I want you inside me," I say shyly, now I'm blushing but I don't care. 

I want him to see the effect he has on me. He starts kissing my lips with overwhelming desire and I reciprocate the hunger of the kiss back as he pushes me gently on the bed so that he's towering above me. I notice the faintest freckles by his eyes and how defined his cupid bow is. "You're perfect," I whisper looking into his eyes. He smiles softly and I see the lust in his eyes shift back to the love he was describing he has for me earlier. His gaze swept every part of my face until he lowered it back to my body. He started taking my shorts off and my heart was in my stomach and the familiar ache came back just 100x more intense. I felt him take my bikini bottom off and I felt myself start trembling, it must have been the nerves and desire mixed, making an enticing combination. 

I see him take a moment to admire me, the glow of the candlelight reflecting off his face. He looked so sexy. I could see the smallest drop of sweat coming down his forehead, making a strand of his hair stick to it. He looked so good like this. Our eyes meet again, and he smirks grabbing an ice cube out of the glass of water on my nightstand. When did he bring that up here?

"What are you doing Ashton?" I smile nervously. 

"Don't be nervous Evelyn, I'm going to help you. Since I'm not the only one sweating..."

I was flustered and I felt my body heat up, maybe the ice cube was a good idea. I grasped at his hand when he placed the ice cube on my belly button and began rubbing it all over my stomach, when he kept lowering it until I felt a cool sensation on my inner thigh, I squeezed his hand at the unfamiliar pleasure that shocked my body. He then brought the ice cube to his mouth and sucked on it; I heard the crunch of him biting it. Oh my God, why did that just turn me on so much? He pressed his body against mine and started kissing my neck, he nibbled on my collarbone lightly and I pressed on his lower back so his hips would press into mine. I was becoming increasingly impatient.

"Give me." I moaned. He leaned on one arm and pulled his pants down; I threw my head back as I arched my back just enough so that I could feel his erection. 

"Hey, look at me, look at me, Eve. Are you sure you want to do this right now we can stop the second you say stop." He says breathlessly as he pushes my hair away from my face. 

"Don't you dare stop right now. Yes, I'm sure. I love you." I breathe. 

"I love you so much." He says back. That's when I feel him enter me and I'm greeted with a sharp pain that soon turns into pleasure. I wince as he moves inside me with deep strokes and a steady rhythm that reminds me of the waves we saw earlier. 

"Fuck..." I breathe. A pleasure-fueled groan escapes his lips, and he pauses when he sees me wince. 

"You okay baby?" He asks gently. "Don't stop, don't stop," I plead. That's all he needed to hear before giving me what I so desperately needed. 

"You feel so fucking good baby." I moan, he wraps his hand around my neck and squeezes as his strokes become more urgent and less gentle and my stomach drops, filling with excitement and pleasure. I rocked my hips back and forth following his rhythm and now we were both moaning against each other's skin. 

"You're all mine." He whispers in my ear and that sends me into a frenzy-like state. I was so wet, and I could feel him throbbing inside of me. I moaned in his ear as he moaned into mine and became one.

"Tell me you're all mine.."He demands as his rhythm changes to deeper, firmer strokes. I dig my nails into his back and moan his name loudly. "Ashton, oh my God, yes...yes...yes-" I trail off, barely able to even speak. He had lifted one of my legs and pulled it out of me. I practically whimpered at that looking at him wide-eyed. 

"Don't give me that face baby, just wait." He said panting, sweating more now. I wanted to lick it. He entered me again but now it felt different, wetter, deeper, I screamed louder. 

"Keep your eyes on mine." He says, with an expression on his face that tells me he desperately wants me to be in this moment with him, and I am.

 "I'm yours, I'm all yours babe there's nowhere else I want to be right now." I moan looking at his eyes as his gaze goes from me to my breasts moving back and forth because of the force of his strokes. 

I moaned and screamed his name for the next hour and a half until we couldn't take it anymore.

"Baby, I'm gonna cum." He said breathlessly, not taking his eyes off mine. 

"Me too, I am too." With an explosive moan, my legs were now shaking, and I found relief instantly as we collapsed into each other.  

We were both so spent by the time we were done, but we laughed at the fact that we had a bunch of candles to blow out now. 

"I love you, Ash," I said looking up at him as we laid back down. He was running his fingers through my hair as he kissed my lips and sucked gently on my bottom lip. 

"I love you so much." He whispered into my shoulder. 

**Hi guys, I've checked out your stories and wow I am so glad I have something to read at any point of the day now. I love interacting with you guys.**

What do you guys think of this chapter?? Do you want to hear more of Ashton's POV or Jax's POV lately?? What do you think will happen between Ally and Evelyn next? Or do you think Ashton's jealousy is going to run loose now that he and Evelyn have shared such an intimate moment?**-Ingryd