Lara's P.O.V
I more snuggled into a warm hard-smooth thing. I heard giggles.
Warm hard-smooth thing?
Giggles?
What's going on?
I was feeling way too lazy, to even open up my eyes. I felt something going down my body. Involuntarily, I opened up my eyes and saw none other than John. Of-course. I narrowed my eyes at him. "What are you doing here?" I asked, trying to move away from his embrace. But, as usual, failed. "I came to sleep with you." John said, closing his eyes. "What's the time? Don't we have to get ready? Ashton, may come anytime soon." I said, snuggling more into him. "Baby, just go back to sleep." John caressed my hair.
"John, what's the time? It's important for us." I said, getting serious. Not having any option, John checked the time in his phone. "It's 9:00 pm." John said, nodding. "9:00 fucking pm!! I slept for 3 hours!! I need to get ready. John get ready!!" I said-screamed. "Baby it's ok. Their are still 30 minutes remaining." John said, pulling me more closer. Well, he tried, as I had my hands on his shoulder to prevent him from pulling me close. I gave him the best stern look.
"Okay, I get it. We need to hurry." John said, getting up from the bed. "I'll go and get ready. Meet you soon, baby." John said, giving me a small peck on my lips. I gave him a slight nod. I too got up from the bed and went into the bathroom to have a warm shower.
After the shower, I wore a nice black colour cross back cami dress. Which came till my mid-thigh. It had thin straps and a showing back. I was about to start with my makeup, when, the door of my room burst opened revealing John. He wore a sweat shirt with blue jeans.
"Are you rea-" John stopped in mid-sentence as he was gawking at me. "No, I just need to apply some light make-" I was about to complete my sentence, but, was cut-off by John, "Change." John gave me a stern look. "What?" I asked, confused. "Change that dress." John again said but, was more like a order. "No." I said, shaking my head.
John closed the door and came close to me. He was about to say something, when Mia entered in the room. "Were you guys about to have-" I cut-off Mia in the mid-sentence. "No. Take him away with you. He isn't allowing me to wear this dress." I said, with my eyes on John. "John. Tristan and Leo are waiting for you downstairs. Let us get ready." Mia said, coming in between me and John. "I'll get you. Lara. Trust me." John said, with a mischievous smirk on his face. And, went out the room. A relief washed over me. If Mia wouldn't have had come then, John would have had made me changed the dress.
I didn't notice, but, Mia was wearing a off-shoulder black one-piece dress till her knees. The dress showed-off her curves. "You look beyond hot." I said, slightly hitting her shoulder. She left out a small giggle. "I don't think, John will be able to keep his hands to himself." Mia said, with a smirk on her face. "Yeah, sure." I said, laughing. "Let's get ready." Mia walked towards the dressing table. I nodded. We both just applied a light makeup. I applied some mascara and a peach colour lipstick. Mia applied some mascara with a winged eyeliner and a red lipstick. We were done by 9:35 pm
or so. We both went down the hall and came across the guys, watching some movie.
Tristan waved towards us, "join us." I went and sat beside John and Mia sat beside Leo. After a minute or so, there was a knock on the door. Here comes, Ashton. I hope everything goes well. I opened the door revealing, Ashton. He had a big smile on his face. I smiled back. "Won't call me inside?" Ashton gave me a smirk. "Yeah, get in. I just had some thoughts running in my mind." I gave him an embarrassed smile. Ashton just left out a small giggle. We both went inside the hall. "Hey, man." Leo wished him. They all wished Ashton and he wished back.
We all settled down on the couch. Ashton didn't have a single idea, what was about to happen. Ashton seemed in a great mood. But, we had to do it. "Ashton, we need some answers." Mia said directly to him, without even knowing us anything. We all were looking each other wide eyes. "Huh? What answers?" Ashton seemed confused, of-course. "Well, if the conversation has already started about it, then, I don't think, we should delay it anymore." Tristan said, with his arms fold. "What are you guys talking about?" Ashton asked confused. "Let's come directly to the point." John said, giving an assuring look to Ashton.
"Do you remember, Louise?" Mia asked, with a raised eyebrow. "Of-course, I do remember Louise." Ashton got serious. "Did you kill her?" Mia asked, like an idiot. Directly. "Umm...ignore her. What she meant is, you remember? We were dating each other, when, Louise got missing?" I asked, nodding. "Of-course, I do remember, each and every thing. So, what?" Ashton asked, irritatingly. "Well, have you done something to her? Did you kill her?" Leo asked, with a hesitating look on his face. "Wait...what?" Ashton scoffed. "Are you guys nuts?" Ashton asked, wide eyes.
"Why in the heck, I would do that? She was like a little sister to me. What's wrong with you guys? What's making you think that?" Ashton asked, frowning. "Ohk, I don't know, if it's right or wrong to tell you, bu-but, we got a call from an unknown caller....still we are getting those ca-calls.." I said, stuttering a little bit. "What calls?" Ashton asked, with a worried face. "The caller asked us to get to the bottom of this murder. Like, the caller said that, someone from our group has helped Louise's aunt in that murder...so whoever the murderer is, we need catch him before, 4th of May." John continued, further. "What the actual fuck? I can't believe it. Can you guys tell me the whole story? If you don't mind. I really want to help you all out. Especially, in solving the Louise's case. I don't have a sister. She meant a lot to me. I want to help her, if couldn't earlier, then, now." Ashton said, with his eyes sparkling with tears.
So, that's it. We told him everything. From the beginning to the ending. We told him all the things, which happened to us few days ago. By the time, we told him everything, it was almost 10:30 pm. I could say, that Ashton was in great shock. He was in utter shock. "Why don't you just get a hold of Louise's aunt and force her to speak the truth?" Ashton asked, with a questioning look. "You seriously think, Louise's aunt will tell us the truth?" Tristan asked, with an eyebrow raised. "Of-course, we need proves for that." Mia said, with her arms fold. "Today is 1st May, we have more 3 days to go. We need to find out the proves as fast as we can." John said, gritting his teeth.
"But, your group contains only you people. That, means....you five. If the killer is from your group...then, who is it?" Ashton narrowed his eyes while shaking head. "We don't know. I don't even remember, who used to spend time with us." I said, scrunching my nose up. I scoffed. Leo ran his hand through his hair. The hall fell into a great silence, once again. The caller was now getting into our nerves. We had no clue. Not, a single clue. We didn't know, from where to start and from where to end. Everything was falling apart. Suddenly, the silence was broke by Ashton.
"Is even that fucking caller sure, that, the murderer is from your group?" Ashton asked, with a stern look. "We don't know." Mia said, shaking her head. "Let's start from the beginning." Tristan said, with his eyes on the floor. I nodded. "Let's do it." John nodded. "It's for everyone's sake, not, just for Louise." Leo said. We had to do something. "Umm...before we start discussing the things out...umm...shouldn't we have our dinner?" Mia asked, after some time, with an awkward look on her face. "She is right...our brain will definitely need some energy." I sighed. "Okay, then, let's start with our dinner.." Leo said, with a tight smile. We all brought the dinner equipments to the dining table and got settled. The dinner was done in silence. No one spoke anything. It was a comfortable silence.
After dinner, Mia wasn't feeling well. So, she went back to her room. Leo and Tristan cleaned up the dining table. So, I asked them to take rest for some time. "I'll help you with the dishes." Ashton said, joining me in the kitchen. I was about to say, but, John spoke before. "Hey, no, man, it's okay. I mean, go and take some rest with Tristan in his room. I'll help my girlfriend to clean up the dishes." John said, giving him a warm smile. "Umm...you both are in a relationship?" Ashton asked, looking at me with his wide eyes. "Umm..yeah, we are." John gave me a smile. I smiled back and too at Ashton. "Well, congrats bro!! Finally, you got her." Ashton said, giving John a hug. After, some time, Ashton went to Tristan's room to have some rest. I and John completed our work and went back to our respective rooms.
This night was long and hectic. I removed my makeup and went to have a nice warm shower in my bathroom. I needed to clear my mind. After the shower when I came out, I didn't know, he will be sleeping in my room again. I exhaled. "Are you planning to sleep here tonight?" I sighed. I was so tired from all these thinking. "Aren't you happy?" John frowned at me. I shaked my head and went into the closet to change into some comfy night gown. I took out the silky grey night gown, when I felt two pairs of arms on my waist. I sighed. "What happened?" John asked, kissing my hair. "Nothing, just tired." I said, turning around. "You will feel better tomorrow morning. Come on, let's go to sleep." John said, pulling me with him. "I need to change." I was trying to remove his hold from my wrist. "Why?" John asked, slightly turning back. "Huh?" I raised my both the eyebrows at him.
"I don't want to lose you, Lara. You mean a lot to me. Whenever, you are around me or with me...I-I just feel like to make love to you. I don't want to leave you alone, even for a fraction of second. I always want to have you in my arms, sleeping. I want you beside me everytime. I don't know, why I am saying this right now. I-It's just, I want you. I-I love you. Lara Anderson. I know, this isn't the right time to say all these stuffs but, just to let you know about it." John said, with so many emotions in it. He was expecting me to say something. But, I was speechless. I-I was in cloud nine. "It's okay, if you want to wai-" I cut him off in mid sentence. "I love you too. John Joseph. I don't care, if we get apart in this journey. But, always remember, I'll always love you. John." I said, with a big smile on my face. "You don't know, how much I am happy!" John hugged me tightly, saying this. I hugged him back. I loved John and I always want to be with him. No matter what. "We will overcome challenges, together." John said, kissing me.
I smiled slightly breaking apart. "I love you." John said, with a cute smile. "I love you too." And, his lips met mine. The kiss was hard and passionate. It felt like, he wants me. I don't know, how we ended up on bed. And, we again made love to each other. We weren't mean to be apart.