Title: Love Story
Author: h_weasley/acroley84/carlyquartermaine
Summary: Kristina fights for the right to choose.
Rating: PG-ish
Warnings:
AN: Thanks for all the reviews. It's nice that my first Ethina fic has been so well received. I would have had this up yesterday but Internet was down all day. This is the end but I will be writing more Ethina fics soon.
Chapter 7:
"Did you hear something?" Kristina asked pulling away from Ethan's kiss. They were on the couch at the lake house Kristina was 'studying' and Ethan was 'helping'. Alexis, Sam and Molly went out to dinner for a mother/daughter thing. Ethan was surprised Alexis left them alone but things had changed a lot in the almost two months since Ethan rescued Kristina.
Sonny and Alexis were fairly easy to win over about the Ethan and Kristina dating thing. In fact they didn't put up a fuss at all. Alexis put forth some curfew restrictions but Ethan could live with that. He just wanted to be with Kristina.
"Ethan? Did you hear that?" Kristina asked again. Ethan smiled at her appearance. Her lips were swollen from all of the 'studying' and he hair was a mess. The straps of her tank top were sliding down her slender shoulders. "What are you smiling at? Was that a car? Is mom back?"
Ethan shrugged,"I don't know." He said. "I didn't hear anything." He leaned forward to capture her lips again.
"No," Kristina whispered pulling away. "I think I heard a car."
Ethan groaned,"So?"
"What if my mom walked in right now?" Kristina asked. She disentangled herself from her boyfriend and picked up a book.
"Might want to do something about the way you look," Ethan told her sliding over to the other side of the couch.
"What do you mean?" Kristina asked.
"You look like you have been making out with your hot boyfriend." Ethan chuckled.
She jumped off the couch and ran to the bathroom. She was gone a few minutes and she came back looking parent presentable.
"You're very jumpy." Ethan said when she sat back down.
"Look, I was floored when my parents said it was ok for us to date. I don't want to give them any reason to change their minds, got it?" Kristina told him.
Ethan nodded, "I still think you were imagining that car." Ethan muttered under his breath.
Before Kristina could respond the door opened and Alexis walked inside,"Hello you two." She said.
"Hi," Kristina said. "Was dinner good?"
"It was."Alexis replied.
"Where is Molly?" Ethan asked.
"Sam took her for ice cream."Alexis said. She crossed her arms and smiled at Kristina and Ethan. "I talked to your dad and we have decided that you have been really great and have followed all of our rules and abided by curfew. We are really proud of you."
"Thank you." Kristina said.
"We have decided that if you keep your grades up and don't do anything crazy like fly off to Vegas then we can loosen the reigns a little." Alexis advised her.
"Meaning?" Kristina asked.
"Well… you're eighteen. Instead of you coming home at 10:00 on school night's maybe you can come home at 12:00 and maybe you can stay out until 2:00 on weekends. "Alexis said.
"Really?" Kristina asked with excitement. She jumped off the couch and gave her mother a hug.
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
"You're welcome." Alexis smiled at her daughter. "Remember to thank your dad too. And don't make us regret this."
"I won't." Kristina promised.
"Yeah. Thanks we will behave." Ethan told Alexis.
"I'm going to go and have a drink with Jax." Alexis told Kristina. "You too have fun studying."
Kristina was thrilled. "What should we do now that I have more freedom?" Kristina said.
"We will figure something out." Ethan said nonchalantly but his mind was already working on a plan.
Kristina leaned over and kissed him.
"Is this behaving?" Ethan teased. "We promised to behave."
"No," Kristina said playfully. "We promised not to fly to Vegas. I have no intention of leaving this couch tonight."
"I like that plan," Ethan surrendered to her lips.
Kristina walked into the Haunted Star and was surprised to see she was alone. "Ethan?" she called. When he didn't respond she looked at her watch. It was two minutes until 8 and Ethan told her to meet him at 8. "Ethan?"
Ethan came out from the office. "Hi, right on time." He said and greeted her with a kiss.
"So, what the plan for tonight?" Kristina asked.
"I want to make up for a night I screwed up." Ethan explained. He motioned to the wall. Kristina saw a projector screen set up. On the floor were pillows and blankets and a picnic basket. "You said you have seen Casablanca?"
"Some of it." Kristina said with a smile. "But I would love to see the whole thing-with you."
He led her over to the blankets and she sat down gracefully. "Then let's do this." He started the projector before joining her on the floor. Kristina scooted close to him and he threw his arms around her. "Is this good?" he asked before the movie started.
"Perfect." Kristina replied and she kissed him. Then they settled in to watch the movie together.
