Lips

Ashley's P.O.V.

I walked upstairs and entered James' room. He was just lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling. When he saw me he tried to get up but I stopped him and helped him sit up, slowly.

"Here, eat your breakfast," I said to him, not looking him in the eyes. I don't know what happens to me whenever I'm around James. I get really shy and stuff. I feel this feeling that I have never felt before and it stresses me out. I have a love and hate type of relationship with that feeling. I can't even describe how I exactly feel.

I turned to go because the silence was quite awkward but James stopped me.

My eyes widened when I heard him but quickly, as I turned I relaxed my shocked face and looked at him questioningly.

"Can you feed me? I-I mean my hands..." He trailed off, raising his hands. My eyes once again widened and I blinked rapidly as to process what James said. He looked at me pleadingly.

I sighed...

James P.O.V

I don't myself know how I even got the courage to ask her to feed me. I could feel my ears and cheeks getting hot. I wanted to scream but I don't know what took over me. I wanted Ashley to feed me.

Well, it was an excuse to stay with her a little longer. As days go by, my feelings for her keep getting stronger and I can't seem to handle it now.

I just want her to stay with me forever. I want to make her feel special. I want to bring her breakfast every morning. I want to see her beautiful face every morning I wake up.

But I'm just too shy to tell her that she is my mate and it makes me angry. The feeling of emptiness keeps eating me inside.

So, now I'm just gonna say that to her because she will find it out anyway when she turns.

'Good luck James' Tristan said in my brain. I secretly rolled my eyes.

"Alright but only because you got all that because of me." Ashley accepted while pointing at my wounds.

I nodded and tried to hide a smile that was creeping up on my face.

Ashley sat down beside me and scooped porridge to feed me. She blew over it and then fed me.

"You know you are too much." She said.

"Why and how?" I asked getting scared.

"I can't even feed myself and you are making me feed you," Ashley whined.

I laughed. 

"So cute," I said under my breath, "well you agreed. Now you can't back down."

She just pouted and continued feeding me.

My hands were completely fine but it was pleasing to give some trouble to my soon-to-be-wife. Was I thinking of too far? Yes. Did I care? No.

Once she was done feeding me, she placed the bowl on the bedside table and looked at me. 

"Is something bothering you?" I asked. 

"Yes..."

Ashley's P.O.V.

"Yes..." I trailed off. I wanted to confess my feelings to him. I know it is quite random but I don't want to hold my feelings back. It is suffocating to do so. So I decided to do it

"I want to tell you something..." I trailed off, once again. My hands were already sweaty and damn I could feel my face getting hotter by the second.

"Um... What do you do when you get embarrassed?" 'What the heck?' I thought but like literally what was happening with me. That was so dumb that I can dig a hole and die there. I stopped the urge of facepalming and laughed nervously. James was looking at me as if I had lost my mind but then his eyes softened. 

"Why are you so nervous?" He asked laughing. I slouched and pouted at him.

"I don't know how to tell you the thing that I wanted to tell because it's so hard to express it in words!" I whined while flailing my arms around like a child. James laughing died down a bit as he looked at me...admiringly? 'What? What am I thinking?' I thought as I felt my cheeks getting hotter by the second. 

I stopped what I was doing and looked down at my lap. I heard James clear his throat. 'Awkward~' I thought. 

Silence washed over us. I gently looked up and saw James looking off into the distance.

"I want to tell you something too. And I think it's time for you to know about it too." James spoke and looked at me. My heart skipped a beat at that. 'What the heck?' He looked ethereal under the sunlight that entered through the window. 

James' eyes caught mine and it felt as if everything slowed. I felt an instant connection between the two of us. All I could do was stare at his handsome face. My heartbeat quickened and James looked away. I once again looked down. Man, I swear, I have never felt like this before.

"Alright, I guess I'll go first," James said. I looked up and saw that he was already looking at me with soft eyes.

"O-Okay." I stuttered and mentally face-palmed. I observed James' face. He seemed to be thinking.

"Well, to start with, you know that every vampire has a mate?" James asked. I don't know where it is going, now. Nevertheless, I nodded because I read about it in all the different types of fiction.

"So, the thing is that I have a mate and you have a mate too." He continued. 'Woah! Why so suddenly talking about mates?' I thought and various other thoughts came to my mind. What if he knew about my feelings and wanted to tell me that he had a mate that was not me? I could feel sweat forming on my forehead and palms.

"Um...you get to know who your mate is by different types of signals like having a liking to them immediately on meeting them, or by wanting to see them when you are not with them. Getting a feeling of instant connection between the two." He explained and my eyes went wide. It was as if he had answered my unasked question. I was feeling all the things he said. does that mean-

"You are my mate?!" I blurted out. James' eyes went wide as well and his mouth was left slightly opened.

"How did you know?" He said/yelled in surprise while he grabbed both my hands in his.

"I have been feeling all the things you said for a long time!" I said smiling. I was relieved that he was my mate and I found him so quickly. Well, thanks to them kidnapping me.

"And that is what I wanted to tell you before. I get so giddy just by listening to your name and shit what not!" I was literally jumping up and down.

I calmed down and looked at James to see that he was smiling softly while staring at me.

He started leaning closer and my eyes closed instinctively. I could feel his breath on my lips and then our lips touched. Our lips started to move in sync and everything seemed to have dissolved. James brought his one hand to the small of my back and pulled me even closer. I rested my hands around his neck and played with his hairs.

The kiss was passionate yet sweet. I felt overwhelmed, in a nice way.

When we broke our kiss I heard wolf-whistling and clapping. I looked at the door, embarrassed. There stood everyone beside Tristan.

They started to tease us so I hid my face in James' chest while smiling like a fool.

"I'm proud of you my sis!" Ashton yelled and came running to us and crashed on top of me and James.

"Dude move! You're heavy!" I yelled while trying my hardest to move him aside. Michael made a noise and jumped on top of us too.

"Agh! No! I can't breath!" I yelled. And just when the others were going to jump too Tristan came.

"Sorry to break your sweet moment but we have trouble." And that was enough to get everyone on their feet.