Hey readers, I've been getting a lot of reviews and PM's asking for me to upload my stories, sorry but there won't be many for a couple weeks until all my assessments are over and handed in. I'm far too busy, and obviously school work has to come first =/ Although I love knowing that you actually miss my stories. Thanks, oh and sorry this one is a shorter update then usual, like I said I've been busy.

Chapter 12: I Promise

Brax P.O.V

I woke up on my back, staring up at the ceiling; I looked to my left where Charlie was sleeping, her naked back facing me. I rolled on my side and moved up closer to her, my hand sliding up her knee and along her thigh to her hip where it rested. I brushed her loose brunette hair off her shoulder blade with my nose, before placing a kiss on her smooth tanned skin. I continued to peck her back, before I felt goose bumps rise under the touch of my lips.

"Stop it babe you're sending shiver's up my spine." Charlie said, her voice deep with sleep, I smiled and ran my hand up the side of her body, feeling all the goose bumps rise under my hand.

"Good morning gorgeous." I said as I kissed her shoulder. She looked over her shoulder at me before she rolled over to face me, settling herself in front of me. I slid closer to her, before wrapping my arms around her petite frame, holding her close to my body, I ran my hand up and down the side of her body trying to reduce the amount of goose bumps she had on her skin.

"No it's not." She grumbled, as her tiny hand slid under mine. I laughed to myself, she wasn't a morning person, I kissed her forehead.

"Well it is for me, I got to wake up next to the woman I love, who is beyond beautiful and looking incredibly sexy right now." I smiled, as I looked down at our naked bodies, before looking back up to her. I looked back up at her to see her once grumpy, tired face replaced with a cute little smile and red cheeks, I laughed at her.

"Brax...!" She squealed, as she buried her head into my chest, hiding her embarrassment from me. I laughed as she snuggled her head into the groove of my neck, I felt her feather light lips kissing and sucking at the base of my neck, I moved further up the bed trying to escape from her lips, it was driving me crazy, it sent shivers down my spine and caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand on end. Not to mention her doing this also sent something else standing. It didn't work though, she moved and pushed her weight on me, I fell on my back and soon enough her naked body scrambled on top of me, straddling my waist she leant down, her little hands on my chest, leaning down to kiss my neck, slowly and passionately. My whole body began to tingle and I felt myself harden, I looked up at Charlie's whose face was pleasantly surprised, her eye brows raised.

"I can feel something is excited..." She smiled cheekily as she looked down at me, she sat back up, sitting down on me, her body slipped down over me and she squealed slightly, as she placed her hands on my chest. I moved my hands up her back, before sliding them back down her smooth back to hold her at the hips, holding her on me. She went to leaned back down so begin her usual sexy, tease act before she'd actually let me take control but instead, I caught her by surprise, not wanting to wait. I flipped her over onto her back and pushed inside of her, she groaned and her hands found their way to my hips, holding me there, then her phone rang.

"Ignore it." I mumbled into her ear as I moved further inside of her, her hands dropped from my hips and reached for her phone.

Charlie P.O.V

I looked at my phone, wondering who it was that was calling me, I didn't really want to be interrupted at the moment.

Ruby Buckton Calling

"Shit Brax its Ruby!" I said, as I looked up at him, he obviously didn't really care; he was caught up in the moment. I rolled him over and sat up on his waist, with him still inside of me, I had my phone in one hand, and my other on his chest.

"Behave." I said as I sat up on him with more stability and answered my phone.

"Hey Rubes." I said as causal as I could.

"Hey are we still up for brunch, or now lunch?" She questioned, I snapped my head towards the clock, 10:26am. Brax had already gotten bored of the waiting game, so he leant up and began kissing at my neck, and slightly rocking his hips, forcing him inside of me inch by inch, I sucked in a breath and tried to hide my moan as he began sucking on my skin.

"Are you okay?" Ruby questioned, obviously noticing my delay in reply.

"Um, yeah sure thing." I said, squeezing my eyes closed and biting my lip, trying to hold back my moan of pleasure as he rolled his hips.

"Want to meet up now?" She questioned, as I pushed Brax's back back onto the bed so he could no longer kiss my neck, I looked down at my cute boyfriend, who was hot, and horny, and only wanting to do one thing.

"Yeah sure Rubes. I'll be there in 20, love you." I said as I threw the phone off the bed, I pushed up off Brax with my hands before heading for the bathroom. I turned around to see Brax with a surprised look on his face, and obviously a bit cut up.

"What's wrong babe?" I joked, he didn't answer just looked at me.

"I've got 15 minutes to have a shower, so it's either you can lay there sooking, or let me help you out..." I added, as I turned the water on in the shower. I turned around to see him standing there.

"Quickie?" He questioned, his cute face looking down at me. I just smiled and grabbed his hand, leading him into the shower behind me.

Ruby P.O.V

"Hey Rubes." Charlie said as she sat down on the other side of the table, dumping her hand bag on the chair next to hers.

"What took you so long?" I questioned as I took a sip of my coffee, she said she'd be here in 20 minutes, that was 45 minutes ago.

"I had to have a shower." She said as she sipped out of her coffee cup.

"A 45 minute one?" I laughed.

"Brax came with me..." She said.

"Oh my gosh, I really don't want to know." I moaned, I knew what they would have been doing.

"Sorry Rubes." She said, her face going slightly red.

"So by the sound of that Brax and you are well and truly back together and going strong." I said happily, Charlie mirrored my smile.

"Yeah, we are." She said happily. I think they finally now don't take each other for granted, especially Brax he spent a whole year thinking she was dead, and now that he knows she isn't he won't let her go. I'm surprised he didn't come here with her.

"Good because you have no idea how much he missed you when you were gone, you have absolutely no idea." I stressed, her forehead crinkled and her eyes were sad.

"He tells me he was having a hard time dealing with it, but that's all he said, whenever I bring it up he changes the subject because 'he doesn't like thinking about it.'" She said.

I remember back to the days of when Charlie was 'dead', I steered clear of the Braxton's completely, but by odd chance when I did run into Brax I could smell the alcohol on his breath, and sometimes even off his clothes.

"Yeah it wasn't good, and I didn't help any, I stayed away from him at all costs, treating him horribly, I blamed him you know Charlie... He was drunk all the time, it was constant, he stopped surfing, stopped working at Angelo's, the business was back peddling fast because Heath was struggling to run it, but Brax couldn't care less. He rocked up to your wake drunk, and after I kicked him out he spent the night drinking down on the beach... Casey came to me constantly, begging me to hear him out, and saying that we should have been there for each other because we were both suffering but I couldn't. He was a broken man, completely broken." I said, as I looked up to Charlie her eyes watering, on the verge of crying.

"I'm so sorry Ruby." She spoke her voice shaky, wiping away a tear before it could fall.

"It wasn't your fault Charlie, it had to be done." I said, putting my hand over hers and smiling.

"I just don't know why he wouldn't tell me this..." She said, as she wiped the rest of her tears away.

"You know what Brax is like, well as a matter of fact you know what all the Braxton's are like, they hate showing emotion and he probably didn't want to talk about it, it was a rough time for him." I said sincerely, I knew it was a rough time, because I went through the same thing to. Even though his relationship with mum was both physical and emotional, I still knew what he went through.

Brax P.O.V

I was placing the new bottles of liquor up on the shelves at Angelo's when I felt her arms circle around my waist; I looked back over my shoulder and saw Charlie's face staring up at me, a smile placing on her lips.

"Ruby told me." She said, her smile dropping.

"Ruby told you what...?"I questioned, as I turned around in her arms, wrapping one arm around her shoulders and placing a kiss on her lips.

"Told me about what happened to you when I was gone." She said carefully, looking up to judge my reaction. I sighed, Charlie had asked me about it many times, but I shrugged her off because I didn't want to talk about it, but now I had to.

"And..." I said, not sure of what I should, or what she wanted me to say.

"You have to promise me that if anything happens to me again then you'll" I cut her off.

"Hey, hey don't talk like that please." I stressed, my heart beat rising just at the thought.

"Babe, this is serious. If something does happen to me you have to promise to look after yourself, no drinking binges and shutting people out." She said, my throat getting tight.

"Yeah, okay I promise, but as long as you make me a promise." I said, wishing to compromise.

"Yeah sure." She said quickly.

"You have to promise me that you'll never, ever leave me alone ever again." I smiled; she mirrored my smile before leaning up on her toes.

"I promise." She said, before her lips touched mine.