Chapter Five

I was walking down the street, hands in my pockets I wasn't really focused on where I was going. It was mainly by luck that I actually made it back to my house because inside my head was so confused that there was no way I would have been able to navigate myself back otherwise. There was only one thing I was thinking about.

My kiss with Axl.

It had been playing on my mind for the last few days and in the mean time I had no idea what to say to him. I knew what he wanted, he wanted them to be together and I was just deciding if I wanted that as well. But I was scared, I hadn't really been in a relationship before and this was new territory. It was all new to me and I wanted it to be perfect, even if I had no idea what perfect was.

I opened the front door of I house and stood in the doorway, a hand still resting on the door as I wondered what was going on. There was a delicious smell coming from the kitchen but I knew for a fact that neither one of my parents were home, they'd both gone into Indianapolis for a getaway leaving me to fend for myself. My eyes narrowed as I contemplated what could be going on, it could be my parents' home earlier, which I really doubted or it could be a complete stranger who had decided my house was the one in which to steal some food.

I shut the door as quietly as possible, wincing as the clicking of the latch made a noise. I peeked around the corner and gasped, there was Axl stood in front of the oven muttering to himself.

"Axl?" He whirled around, spatula clutched to his chest as his eyes were wide with fright, realising who it was who had startled him he chuckled and waved the spatula at I.

"I was wondering when you were getting home, school finished two hours ago. Lucky for me it took me this long to convince your parents to tell me where the spare key was hidden." His cheeks went pink when he realised he'd given a bit too much information away and he spun back around to check on whatever it was he was cooking.

"Axl." I moved closer. "What are you doing here? Why are you cooking? And where did you get that apron from?" He chuckled as he looked down at what he was wearing, it said "The cookies are hot and so am I."

"I'm here to ask you out for dinner, and when I say out I mean in." He smiled slightly as he gestured to the table. "In here. So what do you say?"

I was speechless, if I wanted perfect I realised that this was as close as I was ever going to get. I nodded gently with a smile as Axl came closer to lead I to the table, he pulled out my chair and tucked it back in when I was sat on it.

"You didn't have to do all this." I muttered, feeling really shy all of a sudden. I felt his fingers under my chin, pulling it up gently so that he could look into my eyes.

"Yes I did." He gently kissed my forehead before going back to the oven. I could feel my face warm and played with the tablecloth that he'd found somewhere.

"So, what are you making?" I asked, chancing a glance up at him and finding him stirring something. He chuckled as he turned to face me slightly.

"It's a surprise."

I usually hated surprises but I thought that if it tasted as good as it smelt, then I would be able to wait for it. While Axl was cooking I looked around at what he'd managed to do with the table, there were two wine glasses out and I smiled when I thought that the most that would be in there was juice of some kind. He'd found the fancy china and had laid it out perfectly, I smiled as I traced the dove on my plate.

It was like something out of a movie, I decided as he flashed me another grin before declaring that the food was done.

He came over with the saucepan, spooning some onto my plate. He took more food out of the oven and smiled when he saw it wasn't burnt, he brought that over to the table as well and sat it down next to the saucepan.

We both looked at each other before helping ourselves. He had made my favourite, lemon chicken. How he knew, I didn't have a clue but he did and that's what made me take his hand over the table before giving him a smile. He grinned back at me before tucking in and I actually laughed aloud when I saw the surprised expression on his face.

"You didn't know you could cook did you?"

"I'm pretty much awesome at everything so I knew it would be great." He shrugged it off, smiling at me.

"So modest." I laughed.

He winked. "You know it." They chatted lightly over the dinner and when it was finished Axl gave I another surprise in the form of dessert, it was strawberries and ice cream which they took over the sofa, they sat close together as I leaned on him.

Axl would never tell me but he'd actually been planning this ever since we had kissed, the last two days hadn't been good for him with me ignoring him so he decided to take it up a notch and my god it had worked. No one could resist the ax man he grinned to himself as he felt my body against his. It was a great comfort to him because he really liked me, more than he liked Morgan or any of those other girls.

They would never get this kind of treatment off of him, I mean he basically begged her parents for this.

He looked down at me and kissed the top of my head, I looked up at him and smiled. Yeah they would never get this from him. But he wanted the answer to a question that he'd been dying to ask me as soon as he'd first laid eyes on me.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" He whispered, making sure to keep eye contact.

I took a deep breath but I knew the answer. I'm pretty sure you know the answer too. "Yes. I would love to be your girlfriend." I squealed when Axl gathered me up in his arms and pulled me onto his lap, luckily the ice creams had already been finished and the bowls placed on the table otherwise there would have been a slight problem.

Axl grinned down at his new girlfriend and couldn't help the smile that came to his face. It was the best thing that had happened to him in so long, he forgot about his previous heartbreaks he forgot about everything but the girl in his lap, his face inched forwards until we were kissing.

Yeah, this was about as perfect as it was ever going to be for the both of us. I knew that, and that's why I responded with as much passion as I could muster. My first boyfriend. Axl Heck. It could have been a lot worse.