Chapter 5
"How's this?" Finn asks, dropping a pad of paper onto the table where Violet was sat working. She picks up the pad, skimming her eyes over the messy handwriting with a smile. "I can read it for you." He offers, Violet shaking her head in response as she continues to read. "I copied it out of the book."
"I can read it," Violet assures him gently, patting the chair beside her. "You're doing really well Finn." He settles down beside her, head resting in his hand as he watches her finish reading the extract from the book he had copied out.
"Even though it's messy?"
"It could be worse!" She replies, smiling up at him. "And it'll get better with time and practice. Do you want to read to me later?"
"I can do it now!" Finn says, quickly standing from the chair and heading into the living room where the pile of books he had been borrowing from Violet, was growing. She laughs at his eagerness, following him into the living room where she curls up in the corner of the sofa, Finn smiling as he turns to find her sat waiting for him. He sits down beside her, clearing his throat as he opens the book to the correct page. They sit together for a while, Finn slowly reading out the story, Violet gently correcting him on some of the harder words. Finn pauses in his reading, glancing over at Violet who was following the words with her eyes as he read the book to her, smiling as she did so.
"What?" She asks, feeling his eyes on her.
"You're beautiful." He says suddenly, blushing as he realises he had said the words he was thinking out loud.
"Finn!" She exclaims, letting out a surprised laugh, her own cheeks blushing.
"You are." He insists, placing the book in his lap. "Do you want to go away with me?"
"What?" Violet repeats, laughing again at the randomness of his statements. "Finn! Where has this come from?"
"Tommy needs me to go away this weekend," he explains, Violet shaking her head in confusion, unsure where the conversation was headed. "I want you to come with me."
"Ok." She replies with a laugh. "Where are we going?"
"Just to London, Tommy will meet us there, but he wants us to be part of the meetings too." Finn explains.
"He does?" Violet asks with a confused look. "Why?"
"I think he wants you to take notes or something." He replies, brushing his hand through his hair.
"Ok." She says slowly, running her own fingers through his hair. "Of course I'll come away with you Finn." A smile spreads across his face as he pulls her body into his, crashing his lips against hers as Violet laughs, winding her arms around his body.
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"Can I come in?" Violet asks, knocking lightly on the door to Finn's office the following morning. He looks up from his paperwork, a grin splitting across his face as he meets her eye in the doorway.
"Of course." He replies, pushing his chair back from the desk slightly as she shuts the door and heads towards him. She places her own pack of paperwork down on the desk, rounding to his side of the desk, pushing herself up onto the table beside where he was sat. Finn sits back in his chair, looking up at her with a small smile as she puckers her lips at him, hands curled around the edge of the desk as she leans forward towards him, her lips barely brushing his in a light kiss before she sits back again, hopping off the desk and onto her feet. Violet rounds the desk again, picking up the chair from the other side and placing it down beside Finn's. He watches her move around the table, first to place the chair beside him, next gathering her paperwork again, pushing things aside on his desk to place her work alongside his. She leans over him in his chair, taking a pen from the other side of the desk, settling herself back in her chair once she had gathered everything she needs, resting an elbow on the table, chin in hand as she opens the document she was reviewing for Arthur.
"Fucking tease," Finn mutters jokingly under his breath, nudging her foot with his earning another kick in return from Violet.
"Keep your feet to yourself Shelby," she mumbles back, failing to keep the smile from her lips as she watches Finn out of the corner of her eye, still focusing on the papers instead of him. They sit in silence for a few moments, Violet's eyes locked on the paper as she methodically works through the document, Finn's eyes never leaving her, his eyes boring into the side of her head. "Can I help you?" She says lowly, still not looking up.
"Come here." Finn all but growls, gently grabbing Violet by the wrist as he tugs her from her chair and into his lap; she lets out a squeak of surprise at the movement, wrapping an arm around Finn's neck as he throws an arm over her thighs, holding her in place against his body.
"Finn!" She shrieks, playfully trying to push her way out of his arms.
"Nope." He grumbles in reply, cupping her cheeks gently and pulling her head down to his. Violet quickly responds to the kiss, wrapping her arms around his neck. The pair get lost in each other, ignoring the work on the desk that needed their attention.
"Finn. This is an office, not a bedroom." Tommy calls from the doorway, the two teenagers jumping apart, their faces turning bright red at being caught. "If you're quite done, we need to leave for London. The meeting's been brought forward."
"Now?" Violet gulps, turning to face Tommy, eyes wide. "We've not even packed!"
"Then you'd better get going. We leave in half an hour." He states, turning on his heel to head back to the main office.
