Into your arms

Chapter three

"We're here" John whispered into my ear, I'd fallen asleep. Something that everyone knew would happen, eventually.

My eyes flickered open, searching for him. It didn't take long, because his face was just inches from mine. The jeep engine was off, and the only way of light was coming from the scattered streetlights around the vehicle.

I shifted my weight and sat up. "Oh" I murmured rubbing my eyes and shuffling my hair back

He smiled "Morning sunshine" he said grabbing a duffel bag from the back seat, before he hopped out of the jeep.

I slid my purse on, grabbed my remaining duffel bag and glanced around for Andee, along with the other boys. John was already a few feet ahead of me, with two more duffel bags than he did before.

There was no sign of them. "Where's Andee, and the others?!" I asked looking around while I followed him.

"Home" he said without turning around. "We got here, you were asleep, and you looked peaceful so I told them to just leave us" he said continuing toward the door.

"Oh" I said admiring his house. It was cute, it was two stories, not to small, but nothing gigantic. It resembled little to the house I lived in, it looked much cozier and lived in. "But what about their cars and stuff? Where is Andee staying?" I asked as I climbed up the front porch steps. I glanced to my right finding a porch swing, and if I looked to my left, I'd see a line of rocking chairs. Everything looked neat, like someone had just swept today.

He held down the tongue on his key chain and pulled it from his loop. He flipped the keys around searching for the right one, "She went with Garrett, everyone meets up at my house before the tour and they usually car pull with someone over here so there isn't a ton of cars at my house. We keep the van here, because we have a huge garage in the back. Which I'll put the van in later" he slid a key into the door, turned it and opened the door. "Ladies first" he said motioning for me to go in.

"Thank you" I said shuffling in with my bag. He followed behind me. I was startled by the large solid black German shepherd running towards me.

"Sorry, that's Macy" he said placing his bags down off to the side of the door. He keeled down and petted her. "She's really sweet, you can pet her if you want"

I was puzzled by how quiet she was, no bark or anything. After placing my bags by John's I keeled down beside John, and petted her too. She licked my face and his too. Her tail wagging the whole time.

After a few moments he stood up, and I figured I should too. I gave her one last pat, before venturing to my feet. He smiled at me, "told you" he said winking at me before he relaxed again

Macy wandered off into another room leaving John and I alone. "Wanna meet the fam?" he asked walking a few strides in front of me, but I just stood where I was.

"Sure" I shrugged and walked towards him.

I stood beside him, and he put his arm around me, gently pulling me closer to him. He looked down and smiled, "Cool, watch this" he murmured taking in a breath "We're home!" He shouted projecting his voice upward, then he relaxed again. I grew nervous, knowing they'd expected us.

A mid age couple were the first to appear, which I assumed were his parents. Next were two boys, which I assumed were his brothers. I just smiled, trying to hide how nervous I was.

"Hello dear" a mid aged woman smiled, which I knew was John's mom. She walked up to him sharing a hug and he kissed her cheek.

"Hello" a few other voices chimed in while his mom retreated back to John's father's side.

I choked out a soft 'hello' and a stiff wave. My eyes scanned there faces.

"This is Jasmine" John introduced, he glanced down at me and smiled. I smiled back. "She's going to be staying here with me, for a week or so"

There was a few moments of awkward silence, I assumed they we're all processing John's statement. "It's nice to have you" John's mom finally said cheerfully, "I'm Anne, John's mom, but you can call you whatever you'd like dear"

I smiled, "Thank you"

Another short moment of silence pasted, then John began again "That's my dad" John said pointing to the mid age man who nodded awkwardly and I smiled. He started again, "This is my brother Shane" he said motioning to the tall, tan, muscular boy. I guessed he was just two or so years younger, he looked about John's age. He smiled, I smiled back, John walked over to the smallest boy, grabbing his shoulders, "And this" he said horse playing with him, and the boy laughed "is the youngest, and his name is Chance" John pulled the boy to the ground and continued to horse play.

I giggled a little when John began to lose. Chance couldn't be older than 14 or 15, at the max.

"It was nice meeting you" John's father said smiling before he went back down the hallway, Shane disappeared with him.

"You too" I muttered

"Are you hungry, Jasmine?" John's mom asked ignoring the boys still wrestling

I thought about it for a second, "No ma'am. We stopped on the way here, so I'm good for the night" I said smiling

"Okay dear, well if you get hungry, John will show you where everything is" she turned and disappeared down the hallway

I watched John and Chance wrestle a little more "Okay, enough" I heard John say breathlessly.

I chuckled slightly. He was up and by my side before I'd finished.

"Later Johnny!" Chance called behind him as he disappeared the way the others had.

I was caught off guard when I felt his arms around my waist. It wasn't too long after that I felt his breath against my cheek. "Well, hello" I murmured looking up at his face, I searched it for a long moment before relaxing into his beautiful hazel gaze.

"hello" he breathed, smiling. He rested his hand on my jaw bone, searching my face like I'd done his just seconds before.

His face suddenly went blank, and his eyes kept searching. I knew what he was going for, and before he could pull away, I continued what he'd started.

I took a light breath, before closing my eyes and letting our lips mesh. Once he felt mine touch his, he relaxed and pulled me closer, taking control. We stood there for a long moment, feeling one. I wrapped my arms around his neck.

I lost myself, melted away. I'd kissed a couple boys before sure, but they never had this effect on me. This spark this, rage, my mind raced, thoughts going every which away. The moment ended, all to soon, and I felt myself fighting the urge to continue.

He stared at me for a long moment, and I smiled, pleased. He laughed a little and hugged me, tight.

"I'm really glad you decided to come Jasmine, I can't wait to get to know you better" he whispered still holding me tight against him

"I'm glad too" I murmured, relaxing into him.

I breathed him in, and we parted.

"Want to see a tour of the house?" he asked walking over and grabbing a few duffel bags

"sure" I murmured following his lead

We walked down to the basement, that was converted into his room. It was pretty big, lots of space. He had his bed, a TV, two couches, couple of dressers, a closet, and a bathroom. It was cozy.

He laid his bags on the floor by a dresser, and I did the same. "you can hang your clothes up in the closet, or in the drawers, I don't mind"

I smiled "Thanks" I wondered around his room, stopping to look at all the photos on the wall, or the random pieces of paper where I assumed he wrote lyrics and such.

He walked up beside me. "I wrote that about wanting to fall in love, but not being in love, just not caring and going with the flow, about finding love, what it might look like or feel like" he said motioning to the sheet of paper I was looking at. I glanced at the scribbled title it read 'whoever she is'

I quickly read the lyrics, "Yeah, I know that song" I took a deep breath before I started to sing it

He smiled, and began to sing along with me. My heart skipped a beat when I heard his voice, I'd heard it before, but not like this.

I stared at him in complete awe, as he sang.

He stopped when he realized he was the only one singing, and his cheeks went rouge then quickly back to sand. "Why'd you stop?" he howled embarrassed

"Why'd you stop?!" I laughed, "you were doing fine by yourself" I muttered walking over to his bad and sitting at the end.

"thanks" he said walking over to me and taking a seat "you can sleep in the bed if you want" he said patting the middle of it

"And where will you sleep?" I asked raising an eyebrow. He motioned to the couch accross the room. "No!" I protested, "you're sleeping in the bed with me" I informed him

He looked at me, then gave me a devilish grin. "Fine" he agreed

My phone rang in my pocket, I stood up and pulled it from my back pocket. "One second" I said lingering away from John, I headed for the bathroom. After I was in I locked the door and picked up the phone. "Hello?" I asked

"Hey" Jasper's voice sang, "Just checking on you"

"Oh" I started "I'm fine. How're you?"

"Good. I'm going threw LA tomorrow, I'll stop by and we could have lunch or something. I miss you." his voice killed me, my brother was my best friend, and I hated lying to him.

"Well, I would, but Andrea and I decided to visit Chandler, she had a few friends here so" I could feel my throat tighten "I miss you too though" I could feel it grow tighter

He was quiet for a long time, finally he said "Oh, well, I can stop by there… if you want… if not, we'll just do something when we both get home…" his voice worried, but honest

"sure, I'd like that, I have someone I want you to meet, anyways" I said absently. I couldn't lie to him, not anymore.

"Okay, 1 o'clock tomorrow, we'll meet at the T.G.I. Friday's, do you know where that is?"

"Yes, I do" I said softly, "I'll call you tomorrow, love you"

"Love you too" and he hung up

I walked from the bathroom, knowing tomorrow would be interesting. I was going to come completely clean about this whole ordeal. But right now, it was time to get some sleep.