"Aidan! Come on! Enough video taking!" (y/n) calls out to him as she urges him to sit down and he walks over to sit on the other side of the sandmen, looking at her as she leans back to enjoy the view. Aidan decides to do the same, enjoying the moment and when he leans his hands back behind him, he freezes when he feels his fingers brush against hers. He looks over to see if she noticed but she doesn't and he lets his hand rest over hers.

They two watch as the sun sets over the horizon, the night slowly taking over and (y/n) jumps up to walk into the water. She holds up her dress, tying it around her thighs and crossing her arms in comfort. Aidan leans his head in his hand as he watches with a smile, a mischievous idea popping up in his head as he stands up to creep behind her.

"Aidan!" She yells when he suddenly picks her up from behind and spins her around, begging him to put her down as he walked further into the water. "Don't you dare!" She gasps and he chuckles, setting her down in the water before he gasps in surprise when water hits his face.

She had splashed him and he smirks at her. "Oh, now you've done it!" She shrieks as he splashed her back, chasing after her as they ran across the water and splashed each other lightly with the salty water. "Not the hair!" He yelps as water gets dunked over his head, shaking his long hair and brushing it back before he does the same to her.

"I give up! Stop!" (Y/n) chuckles, sputtering out the salty water as she wiped her eyes. Aidan stops and wipes the sand off her cheeks, noticing her shivering lightly and he decides that it was time to go home. They walk out of the water and they dry off before heading to the car again, driving back home. The brunette gripped his steering wheel, trying to decide whether he should say something at home or tomorrow-but they were going to Toronto tomorrow and he would be too busy to say anything about his feelings for her. He looks over at her and sees her watching the stars as she leaned her head back against the seat.

I need to tell her before she leaves.

I need to know...

The drive home was silent and the two got out of the car to split away to their bedroom to shower and change into their pjs. "(Y/n), can I talk to you? Like after." Aidan asks and she looks at him, nodding.

"Yeah sure. I'll come over to your room later."

"Oh, yeah ok." He flushes, quickly escaping to his room. The girl was confused by his quick retreat but shrugs and freshens up before changing into a long sleeve nightgown. She made sure to wash her hair as many times to get the sand out, praying that she got it all before she stood in front of her friend's bedroom door and knocked on it. "Come in!" She peeks in and catches a glimpse of him shoving his clothes into his wardrobe, mumbling about needing to make a habit of doing the laundry every week and turns to face her with pink cheeks. His hair was wet and he brushes it back with his fingers, his breath stuttering as he sees her in a soft purple nightgown with her semi-wet hair falling over her shoulders.

"Cool! I didn't know you drive a race car!" (Y/n) nods to the race car suit Aidan had in his wardrobe, confused for a second but then realised it was the suit Envision sent him.

"Oh! I didn't drive one but I'm friends with one of the companies for electric racing. They sent this to me. And the photos." He nods to the photo hanging on the wall and she looks at it, adoring how cute he looked in the third picture.

"So what did you want to talk about?" She asks him and he sits down on his bed, settling on it and she stands in front of him but he pats the space next to him so she sits down.

Just say it!

Aidan stutters, his heart thumping widely in his chest as he looked at (y/n) and he moves to hold her hands to steady himself as his cheeks turn pink, her looking at his hands in surprise until he spoke up. "(Y/n)... I-uh... shit I really like you." He blurts out, holding his breath to assess her reaction.

"What?"

"I like you. As in like like." His heart slowly breaks when she removes her hands from his, noticing the pain in her eyes.

"Why?" She asks him and he looks at her in disbelief. "You like me as a friend-"

"-no, I like you more than a friend. (Y/n), what do you mean why? Why wouldn't I like you? You're caring, you're beautiful, you make me feel over the moon when I'm with you. My heart can't help but want to be with you. I missed you so fucking much when you went back home. I just wanted you with me, I wanted you close."

"Aidan, stop-"

"-please, for the 4 months I've known you, I've fallen for you. I think about you constantly and my heart only skips a beat around you. I-"

"-Aidan we can't..." (y/n) cuts him off of his confession, almost tearing up and his heart hurt seeing her look so upset. "We're too different. I'm just ordinary, I'm just me. One in a million and you're famous, you're an actor and an artist. We live on different continents for fucks sake! Our lives are different!"

"I don't care!" Aidan exclaims, holding her cheeks and hearing her breath hitch from his touch. "Please, please tell me you feel the same. (Y/n) I need to know at least before we end this. If there's a chance-"

"-I like you Aidan." His hopes jump up but he didn't like how sad she looks still. "But I don't know if this is as friends or more. I've never been in love before. I don't want to hurt you. I know I like you, a lot, but I have no clue if I can differentiate whether or not it would be more. I don't know how to feel Aidan, I don't know how to understand this. Please I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't hurt me. (Y/n) I want to take this chance with you. If down the road you only see us as friends then I'm happy either way-"

"-don't say that-"

"-please. Give us a chance."

"I... I want to give it a try too... but the long distance. We're always busy and it's hard-"

"-we can make it work. I want to make it work." Aidan brushes (y/n)'s hair away as she holds his hands.

"Aidan, I've never been in a relationship before. This is my first, I've never-I don't know how this works-I don't know what to do-"

"-we'll take it slow." The brunette says in a soft tone, seeing how panicked and frightened his girl was. He was surprised to learn that she had never been in a relationship before and he promised to be gentle with her, guide her through the both of them being a couple. Despite being younger, he would lead her through everything only if she was comfortable with it.

"What if you find me boring... I've never even kissed someone before..." his breath hitches with a flutter at her confession and she looks away in shame but it wasn't anything she should be ashamed of.

"That doesn't matter to me. As long as we're together (y/n)." Aidan smiles softly as he lifts her head up by her chin, seeing how flustered she was already by his simple touch. He would be lying if he didn't find this absolutely adorable. "Will you go out with me (y/n)?" She blushes, blinking at him with wide eyes.

"Yes... yes, Aidan. I would love to." His heart soars and he pulls her close.

"Just tell me if it's too much." He whispers, leaning over to press a lingering kiss on her cheek to test her boundaries. "Was that ok?" He notices her skin feeling hot immediately as he brushes his thumb against where he kissed her, her nodding but he tuts softly. "I need to hear words."

"Yes..."

He smiles and moves down, brushing his lips against her jaw. "And this?" He kisses her jaw and he hears her suck in a breath.

"Yeah... that was ok too..." she breathes out and he looks up at her to see her eyes closed shut, his stomach flipping from her reaction as he moved down to her neck. "Wait, I'm ticklish-"

"-it'll be fine." He breathes out with a smile, kissing her neck and he shudders from her soft gasp.

"Aidan..." she clutches his shirt as he kissed her once more against her neck, humming softly from how sensitive she was to his touch before leaning back to look at her. She was extremely flustered and he enjoyed how sheepish she looked before releasing his shirt to fiddle with her gown.

"How was that?" He mutters softly as he brushes his fingertips against her neck, watching how she shudders against his touch.

"Good. Not ticklish..." she flushes and he chuckles lightly before pressing a kiss on the top of her head.

"We should get to sleep. We have an early morning tomorrow." (Y/n) nods and moves to get up, hesitating like she thought she was expected to say something or do something and Aidan smiles warmly at her. "Just go to sleep. You don't need to do anything else."

"...ok. Goodnight Aidan."

"Sweet dreams (y/n)." He grins as he watches her quickly leave his room like a frightened mouse, dropping down on his bed while fist-pumping the air.

She said yes!

She actually said yes to going out with me!

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