he’s waiting, hides behind his cigarette

I moved my eyes from my laptop to Lila, who watched into my bedroom holding a few of my shirts and sporting a pout on her sinful lips. "The perks of having a girlfriend." I commented in a teasing voice, smirking.

She sighed as she walked to my suitcase, folding my shirts before looking at me again. "You could help me packing FOR YOU instead of laying on your bed doing only god knows what." She protested, she didn't seem annoyed though.

My smirk only got wider while I wondered how we had gone from random crazy consuming sex to...this. One year had done wonders on our relationship, and now that I had even told her about Karlie I felt like I could stop holding back. I could go back to be my usual, sometimes grumpy sometimes fun sometimes good and sometimes bad, self. "Why? You're so much better than me." I retorted. I could do everything by myself, having this kind of help was good though.

"Flattering won't take you anywhere." She muttered as her eyes bounced between two ties.

"It already took me everywhere instead." I said back and shrugged, turning my laptop off and setting it on my bedside table. "Both."

"Uh?" She asked unintelligently before grinning, "Oh okay." She said, leanjng the ties on top of the other clothes. "Do you really have to leave?" She added and pouted again.

"It's just for a couple days baby." I answered as I stretched in my bed, keeping my eyes on her, "Come here."

Lila climbed up onto my bed and straddled my lap, reaching down to tangle her fingers in my hair and kiss me softly. “Hi.” She smiled into my eyes and I slid my hands up the back of her shirt to rest against her silky skin.

“Hey beautiful.” I nuzzled her neck until I felt her relax in my arms, neither of us saying anything for a few moments of peaceful silence. To be able to share silence was, in my opinion, a sign of how far we had come in our relationship.

“Will you get to do anything fun in New York?” She asked, pulling back slightly to look down at me.

“I doubt it.” I shrugged, already knowing I'd be too busy with work to do anything else.

“No? You won’t see a show or go to a gallery or a fancy new restaurant?”

“By myself? What would be the point?” I joked, since I was old enough to do anything by myself, even if it was half the fun.

She laughed and sighed as she slumped next to me on the bed. “Fun would be the point silly man.”

“Fun would be going back to my fancy hotel and skyping my hot girlfriend.” I retorted.

Her face flushed as she grinned back at me. “You know what? You’re right, that does sound like more fun.”

I chuckled and pulled her closer for a longer kiss, this time taking my time savouring her. "Do we have a deal?" I asked against her lips as my own curved into a grin as my hands dropped on her knees and travelled up her silky thighs.

She nodded, straightening herself and keeping her eyes on me. "I'll be waiting for my boyfriend to pop up on my laptop screen."

"That doesn't sound sexy at all." I said back, raising one eyebrow at her but keeping my smirk in place.

"Everything about us is sexy!" She protested in a chuckle as her fingers traced my abs slowly but she didn't fool me. A move that could seem casual? I knew it wasn't really. "But I was thinking about something else you could do. If you want I mean."

I spanked her lazily, making her jump a little. "Tell me gorgeous." I ordered, only smirking wider because the look on her face was priceless.

"Ouch." She faked a frown which didn't last more than three seconds. "There are a few of my paints in a gallery."

"That's generic." I pointed out, this time more seriously because that was a subject I was very interested in. Sex was too, of course, but that I always know where to find.

She rolled her eyes, "I'll give you the address and everything."

"Good girl." I said nonchalantly as I grabbed the hem of the tank she was wearing and pulling it up, waiting for her to lift her arms as she did before I tossed it somewhere on the floor. She shivered and bent over me again, cuddling against my chest. I smiled and kissed her cheek, cupping her ass in the process. "Are you cold? Or shy?" I asked, grinning.

“Shy.” Lila smirked.

I rose a brow at her, since she wasn't shy. At all. “Bend over.” My voice got lower as I issued the command. She had no other option than do that.

“Why?” She asked instead, faking a way too innocent face as she cocked her head to the side and widened her eyes.

“I’m going to spank you for lying.” I said simply.

She bit her lip as she smirked at me. “If you knew I wasn’t shy why would you ask?”

A hint of a grin appeared on my face, because I was also amused by her words, her way to talk, how she, in a way, always teased me. “So that I could give you the opportunity to answer. If you’d have told the truth I would have covered you with a blanket or something.”

She her eyes this time. “I wasn’t cold or shy though.”

“Shouldn’t you have bent over by now?” I asked in a voice of such authentic seriousness. My hands were itching.

She gave me a pointed look and then turned her back to me before bending over just enough to put her ass at my level. “Be gentle.” She pouted as she turned her head to look back at me, ready to enjoy the show.

“No.” Was all I said before my sharp hand fell against her backside, leaving it red hot before fading. It was so hard holding back with her.

“Ouch.” She grinned back at me, teasing me, and playing with fire herself. She stood up way before she knew I was done and I pinned her with a dark stare.

“I wasn’t finished Lila.” I retorted, using the full name for effect since I never rarely used it. Unless I was mad, or unless we were playing, just like now.

“Oh? I couldn’t tell.” She shrugged, biting her lip.

I glared at her, even though it was all an act. I had no reason to glare at her except for the fact that she was teasing me deliberately. "Come back here." I ordered, pinning her with a serious look which was taking me a lot to keep.

She shook her head, looking as naughty as ever. "Nope." She replied, even stepping back further to put a bigger distance between us.

I raised one eyebrow slowly, knowing the challenge was on now. "I said. Come here." I repeated my words, hoping they'd have some effect this time but guessing they wouldn't instead.

"If you want me, get up and take me." She smirked even wider, turning around just so slightly to give me a better view of her a.ss. Then she spanked it.

I resisted the urge to groan and kept my face straight instead. "Do you want to play baby?" I asked lowly, letting my eyes travel down her half naked body lazily.

She licked her lips, another move she knew it drove me insane. Good god. "It depends on what game you want to play at Mr Cole."

"I'm not going to chase you." I said back, wondering how long this could last or how far I could push her.

"Too bad." She faked a frown, running her hands up her chest casually as if she didn't know the effect that had on me. F.uck yes she knew instead.

"I'm going to give you 3 seconds for you to come back here." I explained slowly as I kept my eyes on her, "If you don't, I'll get up, shower, and go on with my day."

"You wouldn't do that." She retorted, of course not ready to give up and even if I wouldn't ever admit it? That was part of the fun too.

"The hell I wouldn't." I let out a low laugh, lifting my back off the bed and leaning it against the headboard. "Three." I started.

She set her hands on her hips, staring back at me, "I call your bluff."

I shrugged, because if there was something I hated? Was losing a challenge, even if a silly one. "Two." I went on.

She frowned this time, "That's not fair!" She protested.

I smirked wide, "One." I said and as soon as the word left my mouth I got up, but in that same moment she threw herself at me, our body colliding together.

She smirked back after chuckling, "Almost." She said and looked really amused. "Shower together, that was the plan right?" She added.

I gave her a firm spank. "I don't know do you deserve that?" I asked but at this point I was only playing with her. I had won already.

“Yes.” Lila nodded, her voice breathy as I picked her up, walking into the bathroom.

“Mmm.” I commented unintelligently, shaking my head though I was smiling.

“Stop being so hot.” She bit her lip.

I laughed as I set her down on the bathroom counter. “I’m not sure how to do that.” I grinned. “Lift your hips.”

She lifted off the granite so I could tug her shorts off her legs. “I’m pretty sure it’s not possible.” She replied, grabbing the waistband of my sweats and pushing them down, grinning when shw realized I didn’t have boxers on underneath. She hopped off the counter and sank to her knees, looking up at me as she wrapped her hand around my shaft. She was reading my mind, knowing my needs and desires.

“You seem to enjoy how I look.” I said, looking down on her.

“I enjoy everything about you.” She admitted, leaning forward to take me into her sweet mouth, teasing me with her tongue before sinking down over me.

“Fuck baby….” I leaned forward to lean my hand on the wall and watch as she pleasured me, making me so fucking hard. And lucky. And happy. “God you kill me.”

“Why would I do that?” She asked as she pulled back, looking up as she kept her hand moving against me.

“Because you like it.” I grinned down at her and she shrugged as she bit her lip. “Come up here beautiful girl.”

She stood up slowly, moving her hands up my thighs and then across my stomach, her mouth following her hands. “I’ll miss you.” She admitted, being honest with her feelings instead of afraid of them like she’d been before. We had a helthier relationship now.

“It’s only a few days.” I cupped her cheek and leaned down to kiss her, sliding my tongue into her mouth as I lead her into the shower.

“Just say you’ll miss me too.” She smirked as she pushed her hair back in the water.

“I’ll miss you too.” I grinned, being playful but meaning it too.

“Good job.” She reached for me at the same time I reached for her, our mouths speaking so much better than our words like they always had.

Once I broke the kiss I kept my eyes bored into hers, a smirk curving on my lips and against her own, "Always."

She shot me a naughty grin and turned around slowly, her face still in my direction not to break eye contact, "Now you can focus on something else."

I felt my smirk get wider as my hands dropped on her hips to grasp them tightly, "Like what?"

"Doesn't this position suggest you anything?" She asked slowly, pressing her a.ss against my erection and making me groan as water cascated over us, "Isn't this your favorite?"

"Uh, am I becoming predictable?" I asked back as I moved my mouth up her neck before biting on her wet skin, making her moan lightly.

"I know you." She said back in a breathy voice and I could tell she was having a hard time behaving.

"I'm still full of surprises." I spun her in my arms and picked her up with no warning, pressing her back against the tiles of the shower.

She gasped a little before recovering, leaning into me to bite my bottom lip as her arms went around my back, "I want to be full of you." She said back seriously.

I shook my head, "Always so impatient." I grinned but kept taking my time instead, just because it always fueled me.

"Do you want to miss your flight?" She asked, faking a frown.

"No." I said simply before rolling my hips, sliding into her as easily as deep.

Lila gasped as her head fell back against the tile and she clenched her inner walls around my thick erection. “You’d think I’d be used to how good it is by now.” She breathed, her nails digging into my shoulders as her body relaxed to my size.

“I hope you never are instead.” I leaned down to take her breast into my mouth at the same time my hips pulled back and then lunged forward making her tighten her grip on my hard body.

“Travis!” Her hands found their way in my hair and she was tugging me closer every time I shifted away, making our connection that much deeper, tighter, stronger.

“You were made for this.” I growled, past the point where I could say something with a sense. “For me.”

“I know…” She nodded in agreement before our mouths crashed together. “I’m yours always.”

I set one hand against the tile wall as her legs locked together behind my back and I held her with one arm wrapped around her tiny body. “When I come back we’ll see what other ways you’re made for me.” I said in a low voice, my hand squeezing her ass suggestively as my teeth sunk into the spot where her neck met her shoulders.

“Yes.” She agreed, nodding as she rode the waves of me, the thick slide of my dick, harder every time I pushed deep.

“Yes?” I grinned down at her and she nodded enthusiastically.

“Everything. I want everything with you.” She said seriously, shaking and pulsing against and around me.

I stared into her eyes, trying to get my brain to work for a moment instead of focusing on my body completely. Her body too. "You always say that but it didn't happen yet." I breathed out as I sunk balls deep inside of her.

She let out a scream and I could see into her eyes the pleasure was almost too much...too much to think, to much to talk, too much to function. That was what we were, too much. "Your fault, not mine." She finally managed to say, choking on her own words.

"When I'll come back, I'll tie to the bed and f.uck this perfection until you can't walk straight." I growled as I squeezed her a.ss into my hands again, flexing my own to give her all of me, a low groan escaping me when I the head of my d.ick hit her soft spot, making her clench around me impossibly tight.

"F.uck!" She moaned out loudly, her nails scraping down my shoulders as her heels digged into my back, "F.uck Travis!"

I watched her fall apart, that always being the best moment...that and when I came hard inside of her. "God, baby." I roared, moving my hips faster so that I was slamming her against the shower wall, my orgasm hitting me hard just a second after hers. My mind went blank with pleasure, all I could feel was pleasure and the way our bodies melted together perfectly.

"Oh god-" She swallowed, going limp into my hold, "That was instense." She said, her voice herratic and her breathing ragged, just like mine.

"Always is." I kissed her neck softly, barely registering that the water was still running. Sliding out of her slowly, I circled her tiny waist to support her and smiled at her, "We're good like that."

“We are.” Lila nuzzled into me as I stared soaping up her body. “I can do that.” She smirked, but I shot her a look and she relaxed, letting me do whatever I wanted since it was worth it and she knew it.

“Your legs are still shaky.” I commented, a hint of a smirk in my tone.

“But I can still walk.” She replied innocently, my eyes glittered down at her and her whole body shook with the promise of what I was going to do to her.

“We’ll see.” Was all I said before I leant her head back into the water to rinse the soap out of her hair.

“Are you really going to tie me to the bed?” She asked, biting down on her lip.

“Yes.” I answered simply.

She opened her eyes as she started returning my favor, running soap over my body. “With what?”

I gave her a highly amused look as I shrugged. “Whatever I can find. My tie. Or your panties.” Another shiver went through her. “Stop looking at me like that dirty girl.”

“Sorry.” She whispered.

“I’ll do it right now and then I won’t have time to take care of you afterwards. Is that what you want?”

She shook her head quickly. “I can be patient.” She watched as I rinsed myself off, feeling her eyes on me.

“Good.” I reached down to kiss her but it wasn’t a simple kiss. It was a hard, deep kiss that we felt everywhere. “I have time for coffee before I have to go to the airport.”

“I’ll go make some.” She kissed me sweetly again and toweled herself off, letting me watch her until she disappeared.

I got out of the shower and toweled myself off too, regretfully before getting dressed and mentally going through the list I had to take with myself. Beside my laptop, my phone and their chargers, Lila I had already thought about the rest.

"You're thinking hard." My girlfriend's voice broke into the silence of my bedroom and I lifted my head to find her smiling and offering me a cup of coffee.

I smiled her back as I kissed her gently then I took the cup from her hand, "Thank you baby." I said quietly before gulping down a big sip.

"What were you thinking about?" She asked, looking curious as she kept her green eyes on me.

"Nothing important." I shrugged as I sipped my coffee.

She nodded her head slowly, giving me a look over and blushing a little. She was so obvious. "Do you want me to drive you to the airport?" She asked next, combing her wet hair with her fingers.

I shook my head, considering the offer. "No, I'll just call a cab." I paused as I set the now empty cup on my bedside table, "I won't make you waste time stuck in traffic."

"The time I spend with you is never wasted." She pointed out and her smile didn't fade. She was radiant. God knew what I did to make her so happy...beside the obvious, of course.

"Cheesy." I grinned at her in a teasing voice, grabbing her a.ss with one hand when she rolled her eyes and pulling her against me. "What will you do while I'll be gone."

"The usual." She shrugged, setting her hand on my chest, "I'll cry and be desperate because you won't be with me."

A laugh vibrated through me, "Sure." I smirked, then added, "Feel free to stay here as long as you want...you have the keys and everything." I said nonchalantly. It wasn't like I wanted her to feel at home, not completely, I still had limits and needed my space, but it was undeniable, she spent a lot of time in my house, more than I spent at hers actually, there were even a few things of hers scattered around my place. I didn't mind her staying here while I was away, if she even wanted that. Also, at the moment she was still not dressed enough to go anywhere.

“I’ll make sure to rifle through all your things and re-arrange the furniture.” Lila smirked.

I shook my head, I knew her enough to know she wouldn't do that. I had nothing to hide anyway. “Always a little smartas.s.”

“Mmm, yeah but you knew that a before you feel for me.” She pointed out matter of factly and I scooped her up in my arms, cradling her head in one hand while the other splayed against her back. “Oh, Jax wants to go out for Colbie’s birthday the day after you get back. Adam and Liz are coming too.”

I stiffened a little and I felt her watching closely as I swallowed before speaking. Fuck that. “Go out where?”

She shrugged. “There’s a party at my mom’s house the same day with my whole family but then my brothers are taking Will and Rob out and Jax wanted to go dancing or something.”

“With Colbie? Does she dance?” I asked like an idiot, just to buy some time to think. I knew what was about to come and I knew I didn't want to be part of it.

She laughed. “Of course she does. You are the only person I know who doesn’t like dancing.” She pointed out.

I scoffed. “Dancing is just dry humping. We’re not teenagers.”

She shook her head. “Dancing is an art instead. For someone so cultured I’d think you’d understand that.”

I rolled my eyes, thinking that dancing at a club was a little different than the Moscow Ballet. “I have a meeting the day after I get back but I can go out at night if you’re going.” I explained, for once grateful to have a busy schedule.

“Perfect. I can’t wait.”

I gave her a slow grin and kissed her, happy with her reaction. “I can’t wait to be alone with you instead.”

She moaned a little and pulled away. “Don’t start dirty talking me now Mr. Cole you have to leave.”

I laughed and then kissed her again, this time harder, sliding my tongue into her mouth and my hands holding her up. “Be good.” I said finally pulling away and walking out the door with my suitcase. It was the first time I went away and felt like I was really leaving something behind. My baby.

“I never am!” She called after me, making me laugh before the door shut.