#you know you shouldn't tempt me lmfao

[lcstinfantasy]

closed starter for @soughthope || juniper & kie

it was never easy to move on from the love of your life. even worse when said love of your life chooses one of his best friends over you. she saw the way they looked at each other. the lingers touches, never breaking eye contact. something had always been there. she's not sure when it started to become so obvious and part of her hated both of them. at least right now. her heart felt heavy and her chest ached with each breath she took. juniper wanted jj to be happy, that didn't mean she was happy about it. it's been rough on the girl and she's started to avoid her friends. it was still too new, too soon. couldn't find it in herself to be around them, risk the chance of running into either of them. she had texted john b about a few of her things still at the chateau and to let her know when she was able to sneak over there without anyone being there.

which is what she is doing now. in the spare bedroom (pretty sure it used to big john's). the sight of the room makes her breath catch a little because there were so many nights she just spent time here with jj. she throws the duffle she brought with her onto bed as she searched the room for her things. a few sweatshirts, a ring, a necklace, and a few little things from some of their dates. call her sentimental. her head snaps up when she hears the screen door open and close. john b had said no one would be around. "jb?" she called out, moving out towards the hallway. stopping in her tracks when she comes face to face with kie. "oh."

[silvervioletvalentine]

🖤🎱¡i can see you baby¡🎱🖤

Pairing: Auston Matthews x Cherrie!

Word count : 3.2k

Summary : in which sneaking around behind her boyfriends back turns into meetings in hallways and ‘I love you’s.’

Warnings : mostly fluff I think. Tiny bit of smut but barely mentioned . This is my first try at writing something that isn’t 10k, soooo, I don’t know. It��s not my best cause I had to stop myself from writing a full plot but I’m trying lmfao. Let me know what u think xoxo

'You brush past me in the hallway

And you don't think I, I, I can see ya, do ya?

I've been watchin' you for ages

And I spend my time tryin' not to feel it'

Cherrie tried so hard not to glance up from her drink as she felt a familiar hand gently brush up against her lower back, lingering on the bare skin that was  showing from the low cut of her dress. She Felt him hesitate for a moment, his step faltering as though he wanted to stop all together and say something to her .

She knew he did.

And She knew what he wanted to say, and what he wanted to do too. She knew him. And she knew All the things that he wanted to whisper in her ear, all the promises that he pleaded for her just  to hear , If only she would just give him one chance.

But she knew better.

At least , she liked to act like she did. As though she didn't want to go running straight to him. So as he brushed past her in the crowded hallway , in a group chatting with all of their mutual friends. 

She pretended not to see it. She Pretend not to feel it.

She knew that he had been watching her for ages , longer than the whole night . She knew him. And he knew her more than any other person on the planet ever would, because he had gotten underneath her skin. His hands beneath her shirt and his body beneath her sheets. He was becoming something that she missed, something that she knew she shouldn't keep entertaining. Something that she shouldn't have .

He tried to be slick with it, tried to be subtle. Like he didn't think that she could see it, as though she didn't have clue. But she could see him, she always had.

He had wanted her from the very first moment she was introduced to him, a shy smile on her lips, in a pretty dress as her boyfriend boasted about her to him. Auston had been frozen still  , drink halfway to his lips as he watched her , his brain going quiet , hardly blinking as he felt his stomach sinking and heart racing , he felt it then. And he felt it now .

One look into her eyes and it was over for him. And he cursed the day that his best friend had met her , enraged that it hadn't been him first. Hating having to linger on the sidelines, watching her kiss somebody that wasn't him.  Knowing that it could be , would be , stung just as bad.

He didn't think that she noticed. But she did. She saw him. She always had.

But this time she pretended not to, as he brushed past her again for the second time that night , She turned back to her boyfriend , taking a deep breath and pushing down the need to follow him straight out of the door and never look back.

'But what would you do if I went to touch you now?

What would you do if they never found us out?

What would you do if we never made a sound?'

"You look so beautiful." Auston breathed out quietly to her on his birthday , hidden away in the bathroom with her.

His arms around her waist as he tucked his head into the crook of her neck, kissing down her soft skin, trying not to leave his mark. Teeth just grazing her jaw. So tempted to do it. To show her boyfriend, his best friend, just what they were doing. He wanted him to know, wanted him to see that she was his just as much as he was hers.

He wondered what she would do if he went to touch her now , if he opened the door and let them all see the truth. He knew that she would pull away, that she would tell him that this needed to move fast and keep quiet.

But Auston was selfish and he was in love , and all he wanted was for her to admit that it was real. That it was him. He Wanted her to dump her boyfriend and run away with him. To say fuck it to everybody else, because nobody else mattered to him but her.

"Shhh Auston.." she sighed in pleasure , tilting her neck.

Feeling him smiling smugly against her skin as he kissed his way down to her chest , the sound of his belt buckle coming undone , the lowering of his zip filling  the small bathroom.

Her breath hitching as she felt him, her dress hiked up above her hips as he pressed her against the door. And it was dangerous  , it was risky and her heart was pounding because anybody could walk

past and hear them.

But the party was too loud and everybody was celebrating Auston while he fucked her in his bathroom. Not wanting to let her go.

And all she could think dazedly was, what if they never found us out?

Could she really do this forever with him? Could she keep to whispered wants and quick touches? Longing kisses and stolen goodbyes? Could she really ever move on from this? From him?

She felt Austin's breath tremble against her lips , felt him whisper her name and she knew.

'Cause I can see you waitin' down the hall from me

And I could see you up against the wall with me

And what would you do, baby, if you only knew?

That I can see you'

Auston was laughing breathlessly against her lips as she finally met him in the hallway , having waited for her for almost half an hour before she was finally able to slip away.

He twirled her around in her pretty dress , shaking his head slowly  in awe at her. His grin never leaving his face as he pressed her up against the wall, eyes meeting her own.

"You coming to Greece with us?" He asked her hopefully. Not wanting to spend two weeks without her. Their mutual friends having decided to have a holiday together during the off season.

She nodded her head, smiling as she kissed him before whispering to him like it was a secret . "Guess what?"

He grinned. Running his fingers through her hair . "What?"

"It's just me this time." She told him. Feeling the guilt of doing this kicking in but quickly pushing it away as she watched his face light up, eyes going wide with excitement at the thought of having her all to himself  .

He looked down at her with baited breath , heart racing in his chest  .

"Don't joke with me." Hw warned her . Biting down on his lip. Feeling like he was the only one between them that was feeling this way.

If she asked him to jump, he would say , how high? But what he didn't know was that she would do the same thing.

All he had to do was ask.

"I'm not. You have for me all to yourself for two weeks matthews. Don't waste it." She said. Laughing against his lips as he attacked her mouth into a hard kiss, shutting her up before he told her her loved her right there and then .

And if only he knew. She felt it too.

'But something's changed, it's somethin' I, I like

They keep watchful eyes on us

So it's best that we move fast and keep quiet'

It had started out as mutual attraction and manic sex In dirty bathrooms , fucking each other when he could sneak her away. Loving for the thrill of it, it was never meant to be anything more than that.

But somewhere along the way, Auston had gotten attached . And Cherrie found it increasingly harder to deny what she was feeling. Found it harder to push him away, to turn him down. To try and convince him that this couldn't happen forever.

And the quick kisses turned to lingering ones, and his hands reached for hers behind her back while he talked to her boyfriend casually, as though she wasn't holding his heart in her hand . And then he started staying  the night. Started imagining his clothes beside hers in the closet, starting dreaming of what it would feel like to have her on his arms, to call her his to all his friends.

And they thought that they were being sneaky, that their love was subtle. But what Auston had forgotten was how well his friend knew him.

So lost in each other, running around Greece like it was something they could do for the rest of their lives . They missed the watchful eyes on them, trying their best to move fast and keep quiet.

But mitch saw them.

He watched warily , lips pinching in unease as Austin's eyes lingered on her smile, saw the way he made the most stupid jokes just to get her to laugh. Trying out any dish that she ate  , even when he knew that he would hate it. Watched as he made a fool of himself just to keep her eyes on him.

He saw The way his friends hand reached for hers when he Thought nobody was watching . The way they snuck out when they thought everyone else was asleep , sneaking down to the beach to be together . Wrapped around each other in the sea, kissing underneath the moonlight as it bathed down on them.

Mitch's eyes widening in complete shock as he watched them giggle, watched them kiss and roll around in the sand. As though she didn't have a boyfriend that was also one of Austons best friends, a friend of theirs too by extension  .

So the next morning , Mitch confronted him. Unable to keep quite.

He looked at Auston in disappointment and Auston knew that he had been found out.

But instead of being panicked or scared, he just felt a sense of relief wash over him. Relieved That he wasn't alone in his secret anymore.

"What are you doing man?" He sighed out . Worried. Knowing that this couldn't end well. Somebody's heart was going to get broken  and he didn't want it to be Austons.

Auston just shrugged , eyes drawn to the window as he watched Cherrie walk across the beach, picking up shells for them to paint later . To take home as a bonus memory.

"I'm not doing anything." He tried to shrug it off. The guilt . But his love overpowered it.

He wanted her. And nothing was going to ever change that.

Mitch shook his head at him, frowning . "This isn't fair to him auston. If this Is serious..." they shared a look. One that told Mitch that it was. That this wasn't just some stupid fling.

"He needs to go. You can't keep doing this."

He just laughed in defeat. Running a hand over his face sadly . "You don't think I know that?" He scoffed. Heart aching . "You think I meant for this to happen? Think I meant to fall in love with her?" He snapped back at him defensively.

Mitch's eyes widened , startled , and Auston saw his shock, and laughed bitterly .

"Yeah. I love her. Not so simple huh?" He muttered. Not sparing him another glance before muttering  . "Keep quiet about this. It has nothing to do with you." Before leaving.

Heading straight for her  without any hesitation .

The smile only returning to his face when she turned to proudly show him the shells that she had collected.

Austons arms sliding back home around her waist as he leant his head against her shoulder  contently , kissing her there .

Leaving Mitch to place his head in his hands and groan . 

'That I could see you throw your jacket on the floor

I could see you make me want you even more

What would you do, baby, if you only knew?'

Cherrie felt her heart squeeze in her chest , a girly giggle falling from her lips as she watched Auston throw his jacket into the floor. Covering a giant puddle beneath her door as she slid out of his car , her expensive heels not getting ruined by the muddy water as she stepped onto his jacket instead.

Then she squealed as he suddenly lifted her up, leaving his jacket on the floor as he ran across the driveway to his front door. Carrying her in his arms like a bride , laughing loudly as the rain soaked the both of them.

And Cherrie felt herself fall for him even more as he looked down at her, pushing her wet curls from her face before he leant down the rest of the way to kiss her . Shutting the door behind them with his foot before gently lowering her feet to the floor again.

The joy was clear on his face and Cherrie wondered if those were rain drops or tears in his eyes , then he sniffled and she knew.

"Is it over? Really over?" Hope filled his voice.

Having begged and pleaded for her to leave her boyfriend for months now. But the final straw had been when they returned home from Greece, watching him greet her with a kiss, watching her go back to being with him as though Auston hadn't pictured getting down an one knee at that beach. Surrounded by pretty shells and her even prettier smile.

So he had told her that he wasn't going to do this anymore. That she had to decide what she truly wanted.

It hasn't even been a day. Then she was calling him up asking him to pick her up from the party. No boyfriend to be seen.

She sighed heavily , feeling guilty for the weight that was lifted from

her shoulders as she hugged Auston close to her. Cupping his face in her hands as she smiled up at him "I see you Auston." She told him softly "just you. And you're the only thing I want to see now."

He kissed her. And he knew . That She had chosen him.

As his phone started buzzing with furious texts and concerned messages , all from their friends and his best friend . He turned off his phone because none of it mattered anymore , no one mattered now that he had her. In his arms .

No more rushed kisses. No more hiding away.

"I love you." He whispered.

She smiled.

'I could see you in your suit and your necktie

Passed me a note saying, "Meet me tonight"

Six months later.

Cherrie was biting down on her bottom lip to try and contain her smile as she looked down at the note that he had slipped her, letting out a small confused giggle.

It was her birthday and they were surrounded by all their friends , and she was back in a pretty white dress that her friends had forced her into. With flowers in her hair and a smile permanently plastered to her lips as she looked up at the man she loved in amusement  .

Meet me at midnight . The note read.

She laughed softly.

"You know that we don't have to sneak around anymore right?" She reminded him quietly , laying a hand at the back of his head to lay a soft kiss on his jaw. Running her fingers through his hair as she did so.

Auston just smirked a little , shrugging his shoulders as he handed her a champagne glass. It was eleven , and he met Mitch's eye across her shoulder for a moment. His friend tapping his watch, wiggling his eyebrows at him excitedly .

Auston flushed and looked aaay, then back down to Cherrie instead. A much better view .

"I know. But you're still gonna come running to the gardens with me right?" He teased her quietly . Hands lingering on her waist.

Referring to the gardens at the back of his home, where they had first met and then continued secretly meeting for months . It was their spot now. Something that began as shameful turned so beautiful .

It was his favourite place for them to be together, just the two of them. Like it always should have been.

She laughed lightly, smirking too as he leant down to kiss her softly.

"I'll see you at midnight." She promised . Thinking that it would be another night of acting like hormonal teenagers in their gardens , kissing by the roses.

Instead. As midnight came by. She pushed through the archway to the gardens and paused  as she heard soft music playing , freezing by the wall of roses as she looked out at the scene currently  playing out in front of her.

Swallowing down the lump in her throat as she made eye contact with a grinning Auston, all dressed up  in a suit and a neck tie. Coming towards her with tears in his eyes, her heart racing as she looked behind him.

Saw all their closest friends giggling and smiling as they watched them, gathered on either side of a makeshift isle . There were her favourite flowers scattered everywhere, and she looked down at her pretty white dress and the small roses in her hair and suddenly it all made sense.

"Oh my god Auston." She almost cried to him in a whisper as he finally reached her.

Hand cupping her mouth shakily as he looked at her with watery eyes. Letting out a shaky laugh too.

Taking ahold of her hand gently , he blew out a long, nervous breath.

"You can totally say no by the way!" He started by saying. Making her laugh shakily , looking up at him in both disbelief and amusement .

Because this was such a Auston move. He hadn't  even proposed yet here he was, ready to marry her in their garden at midnight.

"I'm totally not going to." She murmured to him with a tearful smile. Assuring him. Giving him her shaky hand and watching in disbelief as he carefully slid a diamond ring onto it.

"Yeah? You're gonna let me be your husband?" He whispered. Wide eyed and hopeful. Heart pounding in his chest. Because this was all he had dreamed of.

Cherrie let our a tearful giggle, nodding her head over and over again before she pulled him into a soft kiss.

So in love that she might stop breathing.

"I'm gonna be your wife." She shook her head in amazement "we're terrible people." She then said.

Auston just shrugged as he slowly led her over to the isle , "then we'll be terrible people Together. For the rest of our lives." He replied. Grinning down at her like a lovesick idiot .

"I can't believe you saw me." Be breathed out.

"Oh I saw you then and I see you now." She laughed. Squeezing his hand three times. The stars intertwining their name .

"I love you." She said.

"And you know that I love you. You're the one."

Oh, I see you, I see you, baby

I see you!