As The World Keeps Turning

Chapter 10

Karma's POV

Waking up in Amy's arms is one of the best things I've ever experienced in my life hands down... After kissing her of course. When I wake up, I feel at peace. For once I didn't wake up being attacked by thoughts and worries, it was great. I sigh and snuggle deeper into Amy's embrace and smile to myself. This is perfect. She's perfect really... I STILL can't stop being mad at myself for not realizing things with her sooner, and I'm not sure I ever will. I feel Amy start to shift and wake up, and I can feel my heart flutter in anticipation of just talking to her.

I feel her lean in to press a kiss to my shoulder, and I can tell that she's not sure whether I'm awake or not. She pushes my hair away from my neck and trails slow, gentle kisses all the way up to my jaw and to my cheek. I turn my head to catch her lips and she laughs in surprise.

"Well good morning sunshine." She smiles at me and I feel my insides melt a little.

"Yeah, it is a good morning." I kiss her nose. I can't help but think to myself how amazing she looks even after just waking up. I don't even think she knows how beautiful she is. I lean over to place a gentle kiss on her lips, mine just barely grazing hers. I kiss her again with a little more pressure, and she responds immediately. These kisses aren't last night they're not rushed and desperate, they're slow and passionate. I can feel her smile into the kiss and I feel myself get even happier, if that's even possible. We finally end up just laying there in each others arms. Amy's eyes are locked on me, and all I can see coming from her is pure adoration.

She eventually sits up and looks at me. I raise my eyebrow at her in questioning.

"Karma, I want to take you on a date."

"Wait, do you mean like, a real date?"

"Yes silly. A real date. I think you deserve it." She smiles at me and blushes a little.

I sit up and take her hands in mine. "Amy, I'd love to go on a date with you."

"Great! We can start in an hour. I have some ideas." She throws me a devious smile and hops off of the bed. "You can go shower in mine, I'll use my moms room. Take your time, there's now rush." She kisses the top of my head and starts to leave. But before she reaches the door, she quickly turns on her heel and comes over to kiss my lips again. And again. She blushes at me and turns to actually leave the room this time, leaving me sitting on her bed with my heart racing.

Amy's POV

I quickly go to shower and run down to the kitchen. The plan is, I'm gonna try to make Karma and I breakfast. I really want to do something cute and fancy, but who am I fooling, all I usually eat for breakfast in the morning is a donut. I shake my head and begin to rummage through the fridge. I suddenly get the idea to make pancakes with chocolate chips. They're simple enough, and Karma loves them so it's the best of both worlds really. I'm about finished pouring some batter on the griddle when Karma comes walking down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"Wow Amy... Did ya do this for me?" She smirks.

"Of course, anything for you." I wink at her.

"I'm impressed, this looks really good... And so do you Ames."

I blush again before I can stop myself and Karma walks over to give me a sweet kiss on the cheek.

"Ok, let's eat."

The pancakes are actually really good, and I'm proud of myself. For this date today, I had a couple of ideas that were kinda old school and I couldn't be any more excited. Lauren lent me her car today because she is sleeping at a friends anyway so everything is all set. I tell Karma that I have some things planned for us, and the grin on her face makes my stomach flutter.

In the car, I keep catching Karma stealing glances in my direction, like she's afraid I might just disappear. I drive with one hand on the steering wheel and one with my fingers laced between hers. We eventually pull into the lot of a stable, and Karma looks at me with excited shock written all over her face. Karma has always been a horse girl. I, on the other hand, have always been scared of horses. She's been begging me to go and all I've said is no, so that means that she hasn't been able to go either.

"Amy... This is a stable, you know that right? Like, with horses."

I breathe out a laugh, "Yeah I do know that Karms."

"You hate horses..."

"No, I don't hate them. I just find them a bit intimidating that's all. I think it's about time that I get over that, don't you?"

At this point, she's jumping up and down with excitement in her seat. "Yes! I'm so excited! Can we go nowww?" She whines to me.

I get out of the car and go around the front to open hers. She steps out of the car and courtsies, "Thank you madam." She says with a smile on her lips.

I go and talk to the stable owner to set up a trail ride for us. In the meanwhile, Karma is running around petting as many horses as she possibly can, looking happy enough to just spontaneously combust or something. When everything is all sorted out, one of the stable guys leads us to the tacking area, and goes to lead two horses from their stalls. Karma's horse is a beautiful chestnut mare named Lady who actually matches her perfectly, it's pretty funny to me. And for me, a sleek buckskin stallion named Spirit.

The whole riding thing wasn't as terrifying as I thought it'd be. It was kinda fun actually. The best part of the whole thing though was watching Karma having a great time and glowing with happiness. The smile on her face tells me right away that our first official date is a major success so far. After an hour or two, we're back at the stable grooming the horses down and getting ready to leave.

"Amy, I had so much fun. Thank you soooo much! Best date ever." She pulls me into a tight hug and kisses my forehead a bunch of times.

"I'm so glad that you enjoyed it, but we still have a little left to go!"

"Really?" Her eyes light up with excitement.

We lead the horses to their stalls, thank the stable boys and make our way to the car. The next stop on my list is going to be music related. Anyone who knows Karma knows that music is so important to her, and she's love to just sit around and play with instruments all day. I want to take her to a new music store in town that has a huge selection of guitars and little rooms to practice and even record in. She hasn't been there yet and I'm so excited to go try it out.

When we get there, she immediately takes my hand and runs to the acoustic guitars. Her eyes light up when she gets her hands on the most beautiful guitar in the place, and takes it straight to the little recording room. We spend hours in there. She plays around with the instrument and even sings a little. I just watch, and she probably notices that I don't stop staring at her the entire time but who cares, I love looking at her. When she sings, my whole body reacts. My heart races, and I feel completely drawn to the words she's singing. Everything about it is beautiful and I never want it to end.

Before we know it, it's almost 7:00 so we make our way out of the store. I take her to one of her favorite italian places for dinner and we have a great meal. Although, under the table I could feel her feet teasing me the whole time. It's been a long and busy day and I can't wait to get home.

By the time we pull into my driveway, Karma is dozing off after our long day. I lean over to kiss her cheek. "Karms, we're here baby." I blush when I realize that I just called her "baby".

She looks over at me and smiles, obviously having heard what I called her. We make our way into the house and straight up to my room where we flop onto the bed. I sit up on my elbow and look into her beautiful eyes.

"Did you have fun today Karms?" I ask, even though I already know the answer.

"Amy it was amazing. And you're amazing. And I love you for being so amazing." She gushes.

I lean in to kiss her lips, letting myself linger there for a while. i pull her into my embrace, and it isn't long before we fall asleep in each other's arms with our foreheads pressed together. It's hard to imagine that life can be any better than this, and honestly the only way I see is going is up. I can only hope that this time I'm right...

*This was probably my favorite chapter to write. It was just SO CUTE. Like wow. Anyway, I was a little tired of everything going wrong all the time so I thought this chapter was a nice break. I hope you guys likes it :)*