A/N:
Here's the next chapter for you guys.
I hope you like this one, I watched The Notebook and made myself a playlist of love/heartbreak songs to listen to while I was writing this so that I could get into a good mindset to inspire me.
Let me know if it worked yeah? I hope you guys like this chapter.
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The next day was going to be a busy one. After the exhibit we had a night in with room service per Hanna's request and got some rest to prepare for the next day.
"So, we're going to Camden Market for the day and then King's Cross Station?" Emily asked.
"Why are we going to a station?" Hanna inquired.
"Hanna have you ever heard of Platform 9 and ¾?"
"From that Harry Potter movie? What about it?"
"King's Cross station is where they filmed it." Emily said.
"Actually, it was filmed in Pancras, which is beside the station." I said.
"Okay you big know-it-all." Emily said rolling her eyes sarcastically, her sarcasm taking me by surprise.
"Dude… what's with the harsh attitude?"
"Sorry…" she smiled apologetically.
"Never mind, we better get going."
As we all exited the hotel Emily and Aria walked ahead while I hung back to talk to Hanna.
"Hey Han can I ask you something?"
"Sure what's up?"
"Listen, it's our last night here and I was wondering if it's okay if I take Aria out just the two of us tonight, we haven't really had any alone time since we got here."
"Of course Spence, what were you thinking?"
"Just dinner and a walk in the park."
"Awh that's cute, well I'll tell Emily, we can grab something in the hotel and then I can try and get details out of her about her night with Chloe." Hanna said with a mischievous grin.
"Ha, thanks Han, but hey go easy on her okay, you know she's not the most comfortable with discussing her sex life."
"I'll be gentle I promise." She winked.
"Hey you two come on, let's go." Emily yelled as she walked back towards us, they had obviously gotten a lot further without us noticing.
"Be there in a minute Em." Hanna yelled back.
"Okay, let's go."
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When we reached Camden market Aria's eyes lit up. She was like a kid in a candy store. The stalls of trinkets and jewellery were endless as well as many clothing and fresh food stalls.
Aria wandered through each of them and I watched her closely as she inspected all of the beautiful homemade pieces of jewellery on sale.
"Spence, what do you think of this one?" she asked as she held it up to her neck.
The necklace part was intricately woven pieces of brightly coloured fabric with another, looser thick black strand of fabric which hung diagonally and connected back to the main necklace with small moonstones hanging from it.
"It's beautiful… Why don't you buy it?"
"It's $90."
"What?!" I squeaked.
"All of these are homemade and they're eco-friendly materials. It's expensive and labour intensive to make these." She explained.
"Oh, of course."
She smiled at me and kissed my cheek.
I followed her out of the stall and we made our way toward Hanna and Emily who were sitting down eating lunch.
"Guys, why didn't you tell us you were buying lunch?"
"We were hungry, and we couldn't find you guys."
"Wait here and we'll go get something, you coming Spence?"
"Would you mind just buying me a sandwich? I have to go to the bathroom."
"Okay, don't go too far though." She said in a stern tone of voice
"I won't mom, I'll be back in a couple of minutes."
"Hurry back!" she wandered off in search of food and I turned in the other direction.
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After lunch, we hopped on a train and made our way to King's Cross Station (or rather Pancras) to see what all the fuss was about.
I had Googled it and found out that there was in fact a man-made Platform 9 and ¾ where you could get pictures taken, and there was also a Harry Potter gift shop.
We waited in the queue to get our pictures taken, where I wrapped my arms around Aria's waist from behind after noticing her shivering, earning myself a giggle and a kiss.
"Ugh, guys please stop with the cuteness you're gonna make me vomit." Hanna said.
"Nice Han." I said shaking my head.
"Come on guys, we're next!" Emily said excitedly.
We stood at the trolley and got into our positions, we had already decided what we wanted to do beforehand, since we found out that one picture costs £10 and we wanted to be in one together.
Aria put her hands on the bar and held on, as I wrapped my arms under her stomach and lifted her, making it possible for Hanna and Emily to grab onto her legs and hold her in place. Once she was steady, I moved downward slightly, to hold onto her waist/thigh area. We put on scared expressions to make the picture complete.
When it printed out it was perfect. It looked like Aria was being sucked through and Hanna Emily and I were trying to pull her back. Aria giggled at my side when she looked at the picture.
I put the picture into my bag and we made our way inside the gift store. After about 5 minutes we left.
"Are they actually serious? Is there anything cheaper than £40 in there?" Hanna yelled, very unimpressed by the ridiculously sky high prices of everything on sale.
"I'm telling you I'm going onto Ebay later and I guarantee I can get all of that stuff for less than half the price they're charging." She said, clearly very annoyed.
"Forget about it Han, you don't even like Harry potter" Aria said, slightly bemused.
"That's not the point, it's the principle!"
"Alright, do what you gotta do…"
"I will!"
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We got back to the hotel some time later, all the while listening to Hanna's rant about the ridiculous prices.
I was showered and ready to leave and make our way out to begin the evening I had planned, I was now sitting on the couch in our room waiting for Aria to finish doing her hair and get dressed.
"Hey Spence, do you wanna go and see if the girls are ready?"
"They don't need to be ready." I said smiling in the mirror at her, receiving a confused look.
"What? But we're going out to dinner? We'll never get anything to eat if we don't leave soon."
"We will be leaving soon, because WE'RE going out to dinner."
"You mean, just you and me?" she said, her smile growing larger.
"Yep." I smirked at her.
She put her hair straightener down on the floor, got up from her seated position on the floor and moved over to where I was seated. She straddled my thighs and her lips immediately found mine. She used the fact that she was only clad in underwear to her advantage as she pulled away and stared down at me, biting her lip before running a hand through her down then moving her fingers down from her cheek to her neck, over her breasts and across her abdomen, forcing my gaze to follow and take the perfect figure sitting on top of me.
She leaned back in, but instead of resuming our kiss she dragged her lips to my ear.
"We should go…" she whispered, and before I could respond she was gone.
After I pulled myself (back) together and after Aria finished getting ready, we made our way out of the hotel and to the restaurant I had made a reservation at earlier that day.
I held the door open for Aria to walk through and I followed after she was inside, we walked up to the host at the front door.
"Good evening ladies, do you have a reservation?" the man asked politely with a smile.
"Yes, it's Hastings for 2."
"Perfect, if you'd like to follow me I will show you to your table."
We followed him swiftly inside the restaurant and were shown to our table.
"Have a wonderful evening."
"Thank you." I pulled the seat out for Aria and took up the seat across from her.
After our waiter took our drink and food orders, Aria smiled at me and tilted her head before she spoke.
"Why didn't you tell me it would be just us tonight?"
"I wanted it to be a surprise..." I looked at her and smiled, slowly I moved my hand across the table and took hers in mine, running my thumb across the back of her hand before I continued, "We're leaving tomorrow, and we haven't had any proper time just the two of us. I wanted to spend our last night here with you and only you."
"If you wanted us to spend more time alone together while we were here why didn't you say so?"
"Because it wasn't just a trip for us, it was for Hanna and Emily too. I love them both and I wanted us all to have a good time, I didn't wanna ditch them or take you away from either."
"Spence, we all know you're a good friend, the girls would have understood if you told them you wanted us to do something, just the two of us." She smiled.
"I know they would have, I just didn't want to ask them to give up something from their trip just for us, you know?"
"I know. But hey, we're here now, alone, so let's enjoy it." She said squeezing my hand in hers and giving me a tight smile.
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After dinner, I took Aria for a walk through Hyde Park, which was just a few minutes from our hotel.
I noticed her shiver and I quickly took my blazer and placed it around her shoulders; she turned towards me and kissed my cheek lightly before she took my hand and interlinked our fingers and we walked through the park.
We walked for a while, in a comfortable silence enjoying the beautiful park before we stopped at the lake located in the centre of the gardens and took a seat on a nearby bench.
Aria sat beside me and leant in close, capturing my lips in a passionate kiss, before she moved her head to rest on my shoulder, and she held onto me tightly sighing contently in the process.
"I wish we could stay like this." She whispered.
"What do you mean?" I asked as I pulled her chin up, so that we were looking into each other's eyes.
"I just wish that nothing had to change. I wish that we could just stay here together, forever. I wish that we didn't have to go to different colleges. And I wish that I didn't have to apart from you. I just wish that time would stop, and that things wouldn't have to get so complicated." Even in the darkness the moonlight shone on her face and glistened with the tears rolling down her cheeks. My heart was breaking seeing her with tears in her eyes at the thought of us not being together every day.
"Aria. I wish those things too. I want us to be together, all the time but when the time comes for us to go to college, we're going to have to be apart. I don't want to be 130 miles away from you but we have to live our lives. You want to be at Yale and you want to follow your dreams, and I want to be at Princeton. I want us to be together too, but even more than that, I want you to be happy. Art makes you happy and going to Yale will make you happy. When you're happy, I'm happy and that's all that counts. It's only as complicated as we make it, and we can make it simple. It doesn't have to be hard; we just have to do everything we can to be there for each other. I love you and nothing will change that, ever. I'll do anything to make you happy, anything at all."
She threw her arms around my neck and pulled me into her, hugging me tightly. "Don't let go…" she whispered.
"Never."
I don't know how long we stayed like that, but eventually the cool night air began to take its toll and we had to get some circulation back. I pulled back slightly and held her face.
"I love you, Aria. Please don't ever forget that."
"I love you too Spence. I know I'm being crazy, I just don't know what I'm gonna do without you." She said, laughing slightly.
"You're gonna meet some great people, and make awesome new friends who are as amazing and talented as you are, and then you're gonna call me and tell me how happy you are."
"What did I do to deserve you?" she asked.
"Nothing, all you had to do was be you."
She snuggled into my side and linked our arms together as we began to walk back to the hotel.
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We made it back to the hotel a short while later and I went to take out a pair of shorts and a top to sleep in but Aria quickly stopped me and took my hand, guided me towards the bed and put her hands on my shoulders, effectively making me sit down on the edge.
"Aria…" I began but I was cut off when she pressed a finger to my lips.
She didn't say anything, she only moved her hand behind her back and unzipped her dress, letting it fall to the floor before stepping out of it and kicking it to the other side of the room with her foot. It was all I could do not to reach out and touch her smooth skin as she stood in front of me in only a bra and panties.
A breath caught in my throat when she unclasped her bra and threw it across the room, and I gasped audibly when she slipped off her panties. She moved closer to me and placed a chaste kiss on my lips before she took my hands and pulled me to my feet.
She placed light kisses over my neck and chest as she held my hands by my waist, not allowing me to touch her. She moved a hand and began the same treatment on me as she had done for herself just moments before, by unzipping my dress and slowly undressing me the rest of the way, leaving kisses all over my body. The cold air that had taken over my body while we were outside had quickly dissipated after Aria bathed me in heat with her kisses.
She looked into my eyes before she licked her lips and moved to sit on the bed, I followed quickly and leaned in to kiss her, she pulled back slightly and moved backwards to lay down on the bed, making me crawl up the bed after her and I lay down between her legs while I propped myself up on my elbows and looked down at her, her face was flushed and her chest was moving rapidly. She moved a strand of hair from my face and pushed it behind my ear.
"Make love to me Spence…" she whispered through laboured breaths.
I didn't wait a second longer before I pressed my lips to her. I felt her hands move to my hair and she held on tightly as she kissed me hungrily. I moved my lips from hers and moved to kiss her neck.
I ran my hands along the length of her body as I turned my attention to her breasts. I ran my fingers over her now hardened nipples lightly before alternately nipping at them gently with my teeth and then running my tongue soothingly over them.
After a few minutes I moved to kiss and bite the soft skin of her abdomen, running my tongue downwards slowly, teasingly and she arched her back into ever swipe of my tongue over her soft skin. I slid back up her body and looked into her eyes, which were now clouded with arousal.
"Spence… please…" she pleaded, and I gave in.
I slipped my hand from her side, down her abdomen and over her thigh.
"I love you Aria." I whispered.
"I love you too."
I swallowed the lump in my throat and slid my hand further down. I ran my fingers through her now very wet folds, earning a loud gasp from her. She writhed into my touch as I continued stroking her wet centre. I slowly slipped two fingers inside her as I pressed my thumb into her clit.
"Spencer…" she moaned, slipping her hands up my back to hold onto my shoulders tightly. She pulled me down so that our bodies were centimetres apart, and I buried my face in her neck while she continued to moan in my ear.
Her hips began thrusting to meet my strokes and she dug her nails into my back, trying to catch her breath as our sweat soaked bodies slid against one another.
"Spence… harder… please…" she moaned and I quickly obliged after feeling her tighten around my fingers and wanting to push her over the edge.
I moved back slightly and looked at her, she had her eyes closed.
"Aria, look at me." I whispered, she slowly opened her eyes and they found mine instantly.
I quickened my pace and rubbed her clit with my thumb, keeping a steady rhythm as we stared into each other's eyes, and soon she came undone.
"Oh god, Spencer!" she moaned loudly and held onto me tightly. I kept my pace up to help her ride out her orgasm and slowly slid my fingers from her when she came down, she moaned lightly when I did.
I lay back and tried to catch my breath but as soon as I did Aria was on me. She straddled my waist and attacked my lips, sucking and biting them before she moved down my body swiftly, leaving wet kisses all over my abdomen.
I didn't have time to be teased or to plead because her mouth was on me straight away.
"Oh fuck!" the words passed my lips before I had a second thought and I looked down at Aria as a smirk tugged at her lips and she moved her tongue up and down along my wetness. I let my head fall back against the pillows and closed my eyes tightly, taking in each movement of her wet tongue against my centre.
"Aria…" I moaned as she sucked on my clit, harder and faster with each swipe of her tongue, pushing me closer to where I so desperately wanted to be at this moment. When she slipped her fingers inside me and curled them, the all too familiar warmth in the pit of my stomach washed over my whole body before I had even realised what had happened and Aria held onto me tightly as my body shuddered.
I kept my eyes shut, unsure whether I would be able to open them or not. I felt Aria moving to lie next to me, and she gently kissed my lips before resting her head on my heaving chest.
"Woah…" I said finally.
"I know…" she said, laughing softly.
"You're amazing, I love you so much." I whispered.
"I love you too baby." She kissed my jaw and my neck softly and after that I can't remember anything but the feeling of sleep pulling me under.