Heart of the Truth

“To getting drunk, and saying fuck it to life!” Indie toasted into the air. She was now staying almost permanently with Jimmy and his family while her parents sorted through their problems. Her father had not wanted to drag her into their own problems when she should be having fun. His views had changed dramatically lately, as had her mom’s, he was trying not to be so strict with her, knowing that he had lost a lot of the control that he had once had on his baby girl a while a go.

“Hey Brian, Johnny. Why the long faces?” Jimmy and Matt broke out into drunken laughs. If looks could kill, they wouldn’t be here right now. Johnny and Brian had spent the whole night sulking whilst trying to convince their girlfriends not to drink. Neither Natalie nor Beckz listened.

Jimmy got up and started spinning around in circles with his arms out, Indie got up to join him. Both were laughing away content in their own little worlds. The rest of the group laughed at the two, Chloe getting up and immediately falling over. She began playing with the sand making pictures in it with her fingers. Matt scooted off of the handmade bench to sit on the sand next to his girlfriend joining her with her creations. The other couples started to break away from the fire, sitting only a few yards away at most, except for me and Zacky.

I stared of into the flames of the fire as if in a trance just thinking as Zacky sipped his beer quietly beside me, his eyes trained on where Jimmy and Indie were still spinning. The thoughts in my mind all jumbled together, one minute my thoughts were on the wedding the next my mum but at the end of every thought pattern was Zacky. I thought back to the conversation I’d had earlier in the evening with the girls.

Could I really be in love with Zacky, I mean it’s not like it was impossible, we will be spending the rest of our lives together.

“Zacky,” I turned my head from the fire to look at a slightly tipsy Zacky,

“Yeah babe,” he turned to look at me and placed a short chaste kiss on my lips,

“What does ti amo bam- bambina mean?” he smiled and placed a harder kiss on my lips, I wrapped my right arm around his neck to make it easier to kiss him, he pulled back slightly and rested his forehead against mine, his emerald green eyes staring deeply into my ice blue ones,

“It means-” he gave me another innocent kiss on my lips, “- I love you baby, it’s what I have been trying to say for a while, but we kept getting interrupted,” my eyes lit up an incredible amount as I leaned into to give him a hungry kiss, he lifted me so I was straddling him; swiping his tongue across my lips asking for entrance. I allowed him in, my tongue battling his for dominance. He won though and I let him explore my mouth. Cat calls and wolf whistles could be heard from our friends, but they were distant in my mind. In my mind it was just me and Zacky, Zacky and I, sitting their on the beach kissing like the other was the air we needed to breath.

I pulled away slightly like he had done before and leaned into his ear,

“Ti amo bambina,” I whispered, he laughed into my neck shaking his head,

“Babe, you say bambino as I am a man, it’s masculine,”

“A man hey? I thought you were a boy not a man!” I laughed at his pouting face,

“Yes I am. I am the man of the house I think you’ll find hun so…” He stuck his tongue out at me. I bit his tongue and he moved so he could give me another kiss.

Suddenly I was lifted up and just as suddenly placed back on my feet. Zack stood up with me and after calling a quick bye to the others, he dragged me up the beach until we were running. When the exit closest to our street appeared, he changed his direction dramatically making me fall in the sand. Dragging me back up I couldn’t help but giggle as I followed behind him as he pulled me along by our intertwined hands, eager to get home.

Making it back to the house in fifteen minutes flat he pulled out the key quickly unlocking the door and pulling me inside quickly, he locked it back up again and pushed me up against it.

He attacked my lips with his own, taking my wrists and pinning them above my head. After a few minutes he placed short quick kisses along my cheek and jaw down to my neck. His hands ran down my arms to the hem of the hoodie toying with it slightly. My mouth slightly parted in a moan as his teeth sunk in slightly to my sensitive spot under my ear.

My right hand came down to hold on to his neck, my left going down further to explore his back. He removed the hoodie from my body slowly and as soon as it was gone I ran my hands up his torso removing the short sleeve top he wore. He gave me another short sweet kiss, resting his palms on my cheeks, the tips of his fingers lying slightly in my hair. We stopped kissing and opened our eyes staring into the others. I could feel the smile of his lips on my own,

“Do you want to do this?” He whispered quietly against my lips. I grabbed the back of his head giving him a long sloppy kiss. His arms lifted me up, a giggle escaping my lips; then shoved me against the wall at the bottom of the stairs. Skilfully, he removed the sweat pants from my legs leaving me in only my bikini. Placing me down, he grabbed my hand and ran up the stairs faster then I thought causing me to stumble a few times in the process. Shoving me up against the wall again he began kissing and nibbling at my neck and collar bone. He found my sweet spot behind my ear, creating a huge hickey. When he decided it was big enough he continued to trail his lips round to the back of my neck.

Using his teeth he pulled apart the ties of the bikini, leaving it to fall from my chest and hang down from my waist. I used my arm to cover my chest, suddenly very self conscious of my body. Shaking his head against my shoulder he used his hands to remove my arm and kiss each breast. The moment my arm was by my side, he moved his hand to my back undoing the ties behind there, grabbing it he tossed it down the hallway and moved his lips back to mine.

Lifting me back up, we made it back to our room with no more distractions. Carefully laying me on the bed, he crawled in between my legs and continued his assault on my lips. Finally he removed my bottoms and as soon as they were off I used my feet to remove his swim trunks.

Taking my hands in each of his, he gave me a slow sweet kiss then looked in my eyes. “Sure about this?” he whispered,

“Never more sure,” I whispered,

“Good.”

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“Marry me Hayley?” Zacky asked as we were coming down from our high, I kissed his chest then laid my chin there,

“I am marrying you Zacky,”

“No I mean imagine that we weren’t arranged to be married and we met and everything and we were here now like we are, would you marry me?” I looked at him for a moment then nodded,

“Yes I would, I love you Zacky,”

“I love you too Hayles,” he gave me a huge kiss on the lips rubbing my back, I pulled myself up to straddle his waist, he broke away and raised his eyebrows,

“Again?” he smirked, I nodded as he rolled us over.