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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 5, 2016 6:02:09 GMT
Ashley allowed herself to look up at him and played with a piece of her hair nervously " I-I was just wondering if you happened to um...remember what we um talked about when you weren't feeling well I mean if you don't it's totally understandable you were really sick so we just...we don't have to...I mean we can just act like it never happened... if you wanted to " she forced a nervous smile her cheeks still red.
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 5, 2016 6:09:19 GMT
"Ashley. Full sentences." he reminded her, one eyebrow raising slowly as he surveyed her in confusion. She was flustered - extremely flustered. The truth was, a lot of the past few days was foggy, coming back to him in bits and pieces and slowly becoming a whole picture of his week once more.
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 5, 2016 6:15:18 GMT
Ashley looked genuinely frustrated with herself then just blurted out "youkissedme" she inhaled sharply and stared up at him with wide helpless eyes "I-I mean we kissed a while ago..remember...and I tried to talk to you about it and you said not now so I said ok but then we were snuggling because I was trying to warm you up a-and then we kissed and I just...." she stared up at him helplessly "I was hoping that um...you could tell me what that means..."
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 6, 2016 6:52:53 GMT
He frowned, feeling his skin crawl unpleasantly. It wasn't that the idea turned him off - the timing was just... not good.
"Ashley, I'm sorry if you - if you felt like I was leading you on." he sighed, deciding maybe, for once, honesty was the best policy. "I really like you. Things are just... hectic. Right now." He couldn't divulge any information about his current career related issues - never to a civilian - but he needed her to know that it wasn't anything she'd done.
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 6, 2016 8:17:43 GMT
"Oh..." Her voice broke off looking completely disenhearted "I- I understand y-y-yeah totally" she looked down at the ground dejected and embarrassed "that makes sense I was looking to into it really just I'm forget I sad anything" she took a deep breath trying to keep calm why did she always let herself fall for the wrong men, as opposed to eating her ice cream she stayed silent simply twirling her spoon around in it.
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 7, 2016 3:31:37 GMT
He reached over and grabbed her hand abruptly, across the table.
"Just... let me sort some other stuff out. Then we can really talk about it. Okay? I promise."
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 7, 2016 3:57:51 GMT
Ashley stared at him expressionless for a moment then opened her mouth to speak taking a deep breath "no" she responded she took another deep breath and forced herself to continue "I understand if you don't want a relationship right now....or you can't have one right now but don't leave me on the hook...I won't allow it if its a no then it's a no" she tried to look stern but her entire body was vibrating with nerves, this was the most courageous thing she had done since moving out of her parents house "I'm not saying I will jump at the next guy I see but...I-I am tired of waiting " she remained silent for a moment forcing herself to remain eye contact but she lost her nerve and looked down blushing "this could use more syrup..." she changed the subject stirring her icecream
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 7, 2016 4:31:06 GMT
He blinked, watching her with his jaw slack. She'd always been beautiful, but he wasn't sure he'd ever been quite so attracted to her. "Come here." He tried not to be so... demanding with her. He'd sort of tried with Charlotte, too, to control himself, but she was so fucking frustrating that it was nearly impossible. Charlotte had craved the attention, though, the fights better than nothing at all, but with Ashley, it was different. Without waiting to give her a chance to act on his demand, he hooked his foot around the leg of her chair and slid her away from the table, leaning in to grab the seat next to her thigh and tug it the rest of the way next to him. It all seemed to flow as a single swift movement, as he pulled her sharply off of her seat and onto his leg. "Sorry, I just - " his eyes darted to her lips for a moment. "Sorry."
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 7, 2016 5:16:17 GMT
Ashley stared at him with wide eyes a small squeak escaped her lips but other than that, she really didn't have a chance to respond until after she was seated on his lap, she bit down on her lower lip her eyes staying wide "w-what are you doing?" She asked in a helpless whimper telling him she wasn't going to wait took all of her strength she felt herself wavering as he looked at her with that smoldering expression "I don't understand, what do you want?" she took a shallow breath and cocked her head to the side.
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 7, 2016 5:34:39 GMT
"You." he replied, simply.
One hand slid around her lower back, as he straightened himself in his seat and adjusted her on his lap slightly, to make them both more comfortable. He reached over across the table and dipped his own spoon into her ice cream dish, taking a tiny bite.
"I don't know what you're talking about, thats the perfect amount of syrup." he looked up at her again. "You have to still be able to taste the vanilla."
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 7, 2016 5:48:08 GMT
Ashley dropped her jaw slightly unable to help herself from blushing furiously a shy giggle escaping her lips, it took her a moment but she pulled herself together and narrowed her eyes "2 seconds ago you said you needed time and to sort stuff out ..what changed within that time period" she crossed her arms once again trying to look stern and skeptical but real she just looked at him with wide adorable eyes worried that this was all just a game to him and in a few seconds he'd pull back again and change his mind.
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 7, 2016 5:51:58 GMT
He raised an eyebrow back in the face of her 'stern' look, not buying it for a second. "Nothing. I just... changed my mind." he assured her. What was he supposed to say? He didn't like the sound of her wandering around for whoever else? That he thought she was hot when she was finally standing up for herself? "I like spending time with you. I don't need to make it more difficult than that. Simple works."
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 7, 2016 5:57:39 GMT
/Ugh/ she was so easy, smiling as he spoke she slipped her hands into his and squeezed it gently
"I like spending time with you too"
she peered up at him through her lashes as she took another bite of her icecream a tiny bit dripping from her spoon onto her finger due to her not taking her eyes off him, she slipped the tip of her finger into her mouth licking it off and smiled contently.
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Post by Thorfinn Rowle on Jan 7, 2016 6:17:40 GMT
He watched her for a moment, his eyes darting from her mouth to her eyes but he resisted. Later.
"Maybe let's not mention this to Broderick. For a bit. Or Charlotte."
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Post by Ashley Godfrey on Jan 7, 2016 6:20:43 GMT
Ashley didn't look very comfortable with keeping something like this from her uncle and her bestfriend but she understood why he would want to
"If either of them happened to ask me then I would have to tell..but if they don't ask then I wont tell ok?"
She widened her eyes hoping that was good enough because she really didn't think that she could do it.
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