The Best Friend's Contract

"What if I don't want to join?" I ask.

"Then... I'll stay at home with you. We can have the whole place to ourselves," He leans in closer as a smirk appears, winking afterwards which causes me to chuckle; realising that it's actually quite tempting even though it's only a joke. "How... tempting," I wink back, not realising the distance between us have lessen as he chuckles.

"So, what's your choice? Out camping or stay at home with me and we can spend 'our' own quality time," He laughs even louder before teasingly placing his free hand on my waist.

"The thought of staying home with you when you have it all sorts of ideas is creeping me out. So, bud, we're going camping." I reply, walking past him as he follows beside me, his chuckles getting louder and louder with every step he takes. The sun is shining brightly above our heads as we walk towards a shady tree; catching up with Alain, Marc and Mia. My lips curve up into a smile at the sight of Alain running around with Mia, teasing her without giving her a chance to run away. "Idiot brother!" Mia shouts, laughing.

"Put it over there," Marc says, pointing near the tree; gesturing for Aidan to place the bag there.

The morning seems to have passed rather quickly than expected as we both prepare ourselves. Aidan and Alain were busy putting up the tents for tonight while Marc and Diana were prepping chickens for the barbecue in a couple of hours. As for Harley, Mia and I... we gathered firewoods.

My eyes wander down to my wrist watch and see it's fifteen minutes before four; leaving me to look up, seeing Aidan near our tent.

"Want some help?" I ask as soon as I'm close enough, causing him to look up and meet my eyes.

Within seconds, I'm already crouching to match his current position. "I'm just finishing. By the way, I want to show you something." He replies before standing up, gesturing for me to follow him. "What are you going to show me?" I ask, bumping onto his arm.

He chuckles, "It's a surprise. It won't be one if I tell you," He replies, looking down at my hand that has been hitting onto his for the past couple of minutes which has probably annoyed him.

To my surprise, he starts to grab onto my hand which causes my eyes to widen before looking up at him but he doesn't seem phased. His eyes are looking down as he walks without even bothered by how or more shocked I am by the sudden gesture.

Not only does his hands are perfectly warm to ease the coldness from creeping in my body but it seems to also fit perfectly with mine.

"There. That would keep you still," He continues to speak, referring to my hand while I try my best to hide away the smile from appearing on my face. For some unknown reason, I feel happy for the way he's treating me now even though it's not any different than the way he used to treat me.

"So... "I awkwardly mutter.

"So?" He raises an eyebrow, "How's this holiday in Texas for you? Brings back some old memories?" He asks, wanting to start a conversation instead of keeping quiet.

"If you think the memories are like when you ran around naked in the backyard... then, yeah. Good unforgettable memories are really haunting inside my head but if you're talking about how we used to go around looking for flowers, I still remember how much you liked daisies." I reply.

Aidan responds by laughing, "I think when it comes to running around naked or seeing each other naked when we were kids, it's pretty much a win-win situation. You've seen me naked and I've seen you naked... don't you think we were fated since we were kids? Fated to see ourselves naked?" He laughs even louder, leaning his head back as he doesn't even try to control his laughter from getting louder. Both of us ends up staring at each other with smiles plastered on our faces.

"Here we are," He interrupts, pointing down the river; causing my eyes to widen at faded memories that starts to appear, again.

I see a younger version of Aidan and I playing by the river as we both laughed, enjoying the wind blowing onto our skin while both of our mothers were watching us. They had smiles on their faces; showing how much they liked seeing us together even though we were kids ... as if they had imagine us being more than just friends when we grow older.

"Come on!" He says, grabbing onto my hand as we run towards the flowing river.

Both of our laughters fill the surrounding as he let go of my hand to take off his shirt and pants, leaving him standing there in his boxers. What attracts me most is the beauty of his body; lean and somewhat toned, not too bulky but just perfect. My eyes wander down to his abs, staring a bit longer than I should without him realising, eyeing his every movement as he jumps into the river.

"Are you coming in or what?" He asks, turning to look at me; seeing that I'm still frozen at the same spot. He has a smile plastered on his face, causing me to smile back before slowly taking off my blouse, seeing him eyeing my every movement, too. As my hands move down to unbutton my jeans, he seems busy eyeing my upper body. Once I've stripped down and only leaving me in my bra and underwear, I start to make my way towards the river before jumping in; splashing water at his direction. It doesn't take us long to start splashing water at each other as we laugh out loud, enjoying this moment as we did when we were kids. To my utter surprise, he grabs me by the waist before pulling me in the water, causing me to scream as I drag him with me. As soon as I've floated to the top, I immediately wrap my arms around his neck as he instantly wrap his arms around my waist, letting me wrap my legs around his waist. Both of us are busy laughing, not realising how our position would actually affect our feelings to flutter but I spoke too soon, he realised. His brown eyes are piercing into mine, slowly his laughter starts to die down, leaving me smiling up to the sky afterwards before looking down to meet his eyes, again. They are eyeing my entire face, somehow remembering my every features.

Slowly, he leans in to brush his lips against mine. Within seconds, we're already kissing each other as I close my eyes to the rhythm of our kiss. There's something going through my veins by the way he kisses me ever so softly, as if attracting us further. Just like that, I unwrap my legs around his waist but my arms around his neck remain tight, letting him place both of his hands on my hips.

Without me realising, his lips are already moving down to my jawline and my neck, letting me lean my head up; letting myself enjoy the passion. He's not kissing me eagerly but slowly, as if he wants this very moment to last... as if he's afraid of it ever ending too soon. As we both pull away, he lets out a deep sigh as he leans his forehead against mine; eyes closed before a smile creeps in, "I'm sorry... I don't know what got to me," He looks up at me, saying.

We both pull away, letting the distance between us to increase before turning to look at Mia, after hearing her voice calling out our names. She has a relieved look on her face as soon as she sees us here, together. "The sun's setting. Are you guys coming?" She asks, making me frown.

"Me too," I mutter.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

"What's wrong with the sun setting?" I ask, feeling a little bit curious.

"You'll see. Come on," Aidan pulls me out of the water as we both quickly get dressed after slightly drying our bodies. Then, we make a run for it back into the same path we took to come here.

Just as I'm about to ask a question, Aidan stops running, causing me to follow his gaze; seeing him eyeing the sunset. My eyed widen in surprise at the beautiful colours of the sky, turning orange and a little bit tint of pink. The spot we're standing right now is the most beautiful spot to see the sunset which is by far... extremely calming.

"I never know about this," I mutter under my breath. "It's so beautiful, here. You can see it clearly," My voice causes him to turn and look at me with a small smile plastered on his handsome face.

"We found out about it a few years back. By, we, I mean Alain, Mia and I. We were busy wandering around and somehow... we were led to this exact spot." He replies, slowly taking a seat on the grass.

"I'm glad you found it," I smile,

continuing to eye him; even though he doesn't realise me staring but it feels better that way. I can keep on watching him without being bothered by him catching me staring, because for some reason, I want to remember this moment... this moment where I'm sitting here watching the sunset at the best spot in Dallas, with my one-year-husband.