Rachel's P.O.V.

Honestly I had no idea how long we stayed there. It felt like forever and only a few seconds all at once. It had gotten to the point where Ashton was lying flat on his back with me straddling him. Eventually I reluctantly pulled away.

"It's late Ash, we should go to bed" I murmured, pressing a small kiss to his nose.

He groaned, sitting up as I climbed off of him.

"Must we?" he whined.

I giggled at him. His hair was messed up from me running my hands through it and his red swollen lips were in a pout. I leaned over to peck them once again.

"Yes, we must" I replied simply.

He sighed dramatically.

"Okay.. I love you" he told me as he stood up, offering a hand for me to take.

I giggled as I stood up.

"You've said that Ash.." I reminded him, with a grin.

He shrugged, a goofy smile on his face.

"I know, but I just like being able to say it out loud" he replied.

I rolled me eyes.

"Your such a dork" I told him as he slung an arm around me .

He just chuckled, seemingly unbothered.

We headed into the tent then and got ready for bed. Though once again we were in separate sleeping bags, I ended up rolling over so that I had an arm slung across his chest. He chuckled lowly as I cuddled into his chest.

"Night Ashton" I murmured, pressing a kiss to his chin as I was too lazy to lean up to catch his lips.

"Night Rach" he responded, his hands instantly tangling in my hair.





I woke up early enough the next morning. Ashton was still sleeping soundly beside (or beneath) me. I stayed lying across his chest for a while, just relaxing before I finally decided I needed to get up. I was careful not to wake Ashton as I climbed out of the tent, wanting to let him sleep. I had noticed he liked to sleep in a lot of the time and that was fine with me.

When I climbed out of the tent I inwardly groaned. Gabby, Calum, Luke and Sasha were all sitting around the campfire (which was currently being used to cook breakfast). Not that I wasn't glad to see them or anything, I just knew how they'd be. I didn't want them questioning me too much over what exactly had happened with Ashton last night. And quite honestly, I wasn't fully sure what we were. I mean, though it was clear we were a lot more than just friends now, we hadn't exactly put a label on it. It was definitely something we'd have to discuss.

"Morning guys!" I called out eventually, cheerily as I walked over to sit down next to Calum.

Sasha and Luke who had been giggling about something turned to look at me along with Calum and Gabby.

"Sooo... How'd your little 'chat' with Ashton go last night?" Gabby asked eagerly, grinning widely.

I shrugged.

"It went fine" I replied.

"Just fine?" Luke questioned, his tone suspicious.

Once again I shrugged.

"Yes Lucas, just fine" I told him seriously.

"Ah your up!" I turned to see Michael grinning widely with Brianna not far behind him, coming toward us from the woods.

"Where were you?" I asked, narrowing my eyes slightly.

Michael just shrugged but Brianna blushed slightly.

"We just went for a walk" she replied casually.

I raised my eyebrows.

"Uh-huh, a walk eh?" I questioned, noticing that Brianna's blush deepened ever so slightly but she nodded.

"Yes Rachel, a walk" Michael replied, plopping down next to me, leaning his arm on my shoulder.

"So, what went down between you and a certain Mr. Iwin last night?" he added, meeting my eye.

I looked away.

"You know I could always go ask him. I mean he's not difficult to wake up-" he continued on but I cut him off.

"We talked about stuff, sorted things out. You know how it is" I replied, indicating between him and Brianna.

"So did you two finally get your shit together?" Sasha asked, and I turned to look at her, unsure of how to answer.

"What do you mean?" I asked back.

"Are you two a couple now?" Luke explained for her.

At that I bit my lip. Were we a couple? I really didn't want to assume anything, though Ashton had made his feelings pretty clear. If he really did feel like that he would want to be a couple, right? Then again I could hardly tell people we were without talking to him about it first.

"Emm.. I don't know actually. We didn't really - erm - talk about that I guess.." I admitted.

Michael raised an eyebrow.

"So what did you talk about? Or did you get much talking done at all?" he waggled his eyebrows suggestively.

I rolled my eyes in response but before I had a chance to respond Luke called out 'Ashton!' and I turned my head to see Ashton climbing out of our tent.

I trained my eye back on the campfire, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. Things were about to get awkward.

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