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Chapter Eleven

Hands Down-Dashboard Confessional

Breathe in for luck

Breathe in so deep

This air is blessed

You share with me

This night is wild

So calm and dull

These hearts they race

From self control

Your legs are smooth

As they graze mine

We're doing fine

We're doing nothing at all

My hopes are so high

That your kiss might kill me

So won't you kill me

So I die happy

My heart is yours to fill or burst

To break or bury

Or wear as jewelry

Whichever you prefer

The words are hushed

Let's not get busted

Just lay entwined here

Undiscovered

Tulip took Cassidy and Elain back to Tulip's Uncle's place and helped him to the spare bedroom. Tulip found him some clothes while Elain filled a big bowl with soap and water.

"You got it from here?" Tulip asked Elain.

"Yeah, thank you."

Tulip looked between where Elain was sitting on the edge of the bed to where Cassidy lay, his eyes closed. "All right. I'll leave you to it then. Holler if you need anythin'."

Elain didn't miss the wink Tulip gave her before shutting the bedroom door and she shook her head with a smile. She glanced at a sleeping Cassidy before soaking a wash rag in the warm, soapy water and then wringing it out before peeling the sheet back from Cassidy's chest. She gently cleaned the blood off of him, focusing on her task. Her hands were gentle as she passed the rag over his skin and she couldn't help but think of how she'd seen Cassidy only a few hours ago, buried inside that girl from Toadvine. It stung, but she wasn't angry. She had no right to be. Still, she realized on the drive from the hospital, Cassidy with his head once again in her lap, that it bothered her. She shook the thoughts from her mind and focused on cleaning Cassidy up. She tried her best to keep his manhood covered as she wiped off any blood on his thighs and legs. She looked up at his face to find he was looking at her, smirking.

"If I get these pajama bottoms up your legs, you can do the rest?"

"Ah, you're no fun."

She rolled her eyes and he chuckled, seeing how red her cheeks were. She got the pajama bottoms on up to his mid-thigh before turning round and letting him pull them the rest of the way on. When he was done she handed him the shirt Tulip had found and he leaned up a bit and pulled it on. She sat back down and pulled the rag out of the bowl, wringing it out again before gently cleaning his face and jawline. He watched her intently and she pretended to ignore him. She leaned back to inspect his face and when she was certain he was clean she got off the bed and grabbed the bowl, leaving the room to go dump it and wash her hands.

When Elain came back Cassidy's eyes were closed. She stood for a moment, looking down at him then to the door before toeing off her Converse and laying down on the bed. She didn't hesitate to snuggle up next to him and when Cassidy wound his arm around her waist and held her against him she smiled. It didn't take long for either of them to fall asleep.

Elain woke up to the sound of the alarm on her phone going off. She hopped out of bed and frantically grabbed it out of her small cross-body bag that she'd thrown onto the floor hours earlier. "Crap!"

"Mmm what's that?" Cassidy mumbled.

"I've got to go. Church service starts in ten minutes and Jesse's expecting a big crowd. He's doing this raffle thing," Elain explained as she slung her bag over her head. She paused and looked at Cassidy. She'd been sound asleep and quite warm and comfortable and she really wanted to do nothing more than curl up with him again. "You'll be okay?" She knew he would be, but she still worried.

"I'll be fine. Why don't you stay seeing as you're late anyway?" Cassidy patted the space she'd just vacated, not wanting Elain to leave.

He had a dreamy smirk on his face. God, could he stop with the smirking, she thought, realizing just how much she liked when he did just that. Elain warred with herself. "Jesse's probably worried."

"I noticed he does that a lot."

Elain shrugged. "He's my big brother."

"Yeah and you're a grown woman," he tried. Really not wanting her to leave. He worried that if she left, whatever had been happening between them the past few hours would stop.

Elain stood there fiddling with the honeybee key chain hanging on her bag. "I know it's just…there's a lot of…history there."

Cassidy remained quiet and Elain knew he wanted her to continue. "I have to go. I'll see you later." She hesitated before saying, "I'm glad you're okay Cass" and opened the door.

~O.O~

Jesse had been worried long before she showed up and church service was almost over. Especially when he realized she was wearing the same clothes she'd been wearing the day before. She assured him she'd been with Tulip all night, hanging out and catching up, and she apologized for not calling and letting him know where she was. Again. He'd believed her and of course she knew Tulip would tell him the same if he asked her. He'd given her a stern look when he asked if she'd taken her medicine the night before and said if she was going to be out like that again she needed to at least take her medicine with her. He fixed her a plate of breakfast at the kitchen table before he left her to go converse with some of the regular church-goers that were gathered in the dining room.

Elain spent the day sleeping in and out and if she wasn't asleep or in the kitchen eating a snack she was reading. She woke in the middle of the night. The lamp on her nightstand was still on and the cover of the paperback she'd been reading when she fell asleep was stuck to her calf due to the sticky heat. Her next thought was that if her book was sticking to her, Cassidy still hadn't fixed the AC. Her mouth felt like sandpaper so she rose from the bed and left her room to go get a glass of water. As she stood in the kitchen, leaning against the stove and gulping down water, Cassidy entered, wearing the same clothes from that morning.

"I thought I heard-" He stopped mid-sentence, staring at her, and her brow furrowed.

She realized she was standing in the kitchen in the mint green t-shirt she'd changed into that morning and a pair of white boy short underwear. Her face flushed and she looked anywhere but at his face, until she noticed he hadn't averted his eyes.

Her eyes narrowed. "Don't be a perv."

His eyes snapped up to look at her own. "I'm not! I swear! God as my witness! Not that you aren't nice to look at…I mean…I wasn't lookin' at-" He had been, in fact, looking at the way the boy shorts hugged her behind.

"You're ramblin' Cass," she told him and she couldn't help but smile a tiny bit at how his cheeks were a bit red. "I see you made it back okay."

"Yeah. I was planning on going to go to the hardware store to get some parts for the AC, but I uh…what was that this morning?" He hoped she wouldn't say that it was nothing. As much as he'd tried the day before to forget about her at Toadvine, it hadn't worked one bit.

Elain set her glass of water down on the counter and summoned some courage. She walked over to Cassidy and leaning up on her tippy-toes she kissed him. She pulled back when she realized he wasn't responding.

"I'm confused," he said, looking down at her.

"I know. I have been too. About my feelings for you, but I like you Cass. I really like you and I want to get to know you more and I'm sorry I've been sending you such mixed signals. I just needed to decide what I really wanted."

"And you've decided?"

"Yes I have," she said before kissing him again.

This time he responded, pulling her against him with one arm and winding his free hand in her hair. Elain pulled away and grabbed one of his hands in hers, pulling him down the hall and into the room. She shut the door and locked it and turned to find him right behind her. His lips were on hers again and they moved toward the bed and they broke apart as Cassidy lifted her and gently tossed her onto it. Elain giggled as she bounced on the mattress and Cassidy crawled over her, his lips quickly finding hers again. She opened her mouth and their tongues met, a little shiver working its way down Elain's spine and to her center. Cassidy groaned when her nails dug through his hair and he reached down and trailed his fingers down Elain's hip and thigh. Elain giggled when he tickled the back of her knee and she brought up her leg to wrap around his waist. She was very, very happy she'd decided to listen to heart and not her head as Cassidy's kisses moved to her jawline, his scent filling her nostrils. Up so close and personal he smelled like white clover and alcohol.

They remained like that for a while, just wrapped up in one another. Neither one of them was in a hurry to move things further, both just enjoying that things had progressed to this. Their kissing grew slower and slower until Cassidy rolled off of Elain and pulled her to him. They lay there, just listening to the sound of the other breathing, when Elain started to cough. Cassidy got up and went to the door, peeking out of it to make sure the coast was clear before leaving. He came back with a glass of water and handed it to Elain.

"Thanks," she said, sipping the water and patting her chest.

"You all right?" Cassidy asked, his brow quirked.

"Yeah. It's just the heat."

Cassidy left the room again and came back a few minutes later with a box fan, the white plastic now yellowed with age. "Found this in the attic," he explained as he plugged it in. He turned the knob on top and the blades whirred to life. Elain sighed at the breeze that started to fill the room.

"So that's why you haven't fixed the AC. You've had a fan," she teased.

"Well more like I'm not entirely sure what it is I'm doing."

"I thought so," She said as she set the glass of water down on the night stand and flicked off the lamp. Cassidy climbed back onto the bed and she let him pull her to him. She smiled when he pressed a kiss into her hair.

"Goodnight Cass," she whispered.

"Goodnight love," Cassidy answered, smiling.