EroticReverie

Sloane Avery

Both of our phones have been blown up, and continue to be blown up as Callum takes me back to his house. He's been home for a month, and I hadn't even known. While Callum posted on social media, he never really posted about anything in his life. Just pictures here and there of events or gatherings. I'm excited. For the first time, in a long time. He's back home, he's living here. He has a house. He's staying. What would everyone say about the fact we wanted to be together? Would they be upset? Would they still take Liam's side and decide that even after what he did, that his brother dating his ex fiance was too much? I didn't care. I didn't care anymore. Not after the way he kissed me, not after the things he said. I was tired of living my life for others, worrying about what they thought, or sparing their feelings. Because, what about MY feelings? 

I text my mother back. I ignore the several questions, and the pleas for me to come home and talk to her. I simply tell her. 

"I'm with Callum. I'll be home in the morning. Talk then. Love you. Please tell his mother the same." I hit send. Turning off my phone. 

Once my phone is slid into the cupholder, Callum takes my hand and lifts it, kissing the back of it, settling it on his lap with his other hand on the wheel, his thumb stroking the the back of my hand as he drives. I just look at our hands , a small smile on my face. 

I can't believe i'm in his car, with him. I can't believe I just made out with him, told him I loved him, and had his fingers inside of me, and one of the best orgasms I've ever had in my life. I didn't want to compare him to Liam, but it was hard not to. But, there was also, nothing to compare. Hands down....that kiss....the way he'd looked at me while making me cum....not even my best sex with Liam, even comes close to what we just shared. 

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We pull into a neighborhood within the city, it was one we always drove around it. The houses were big and expensive and lavish, much like our own homes. But every single house was perfect, it didnt look real. They looked more like homes than the overly extravagant ones in the community we both had lived in as kids. There was just something about them.

"you live here?" I ask, nearly breathless and he smiles to himself, and looks over to me. 

"yeah." she says and then looks back at the road, driving slowly through the gated community. Every single house was covered in christmas lights, sparkling through the snow that had fallen earlier today, thick snowflakes were falling now from the sky, making it look like we were in a snow globe. Each house was breathtaking, some with colored lights, some with white, some with green and red, or a mixture, but all of them looked incredible. It's my favorite part about Christmas, the decorations. The lights. 

"I cant believe you live here." I say wistfully, my eyes darting from house to house as he rolls slowly down the streets. 

"I heard the Draper's moved out of their place." I say as I feel excitment grow at seeing my favorite house. Hoping it's lit up. Even houses that are in between owners are decorated. Home owners associations are a bitch for most communitys, but thanks to their rules, every house has to be decorated during Christmas with lights. They ACTUALLY send out pamhplets every year with aceptable and unacceptable amounts of decorations. But anyone who lives here, has the fucking money. So I dont feel like it's too much to ask. Or maybe i'm just selfish and love the wonderland it turns into this time of year too much to care. 

The Draper's house was the best house. It was everyone's favorite, and it was my dream house. I always told everyone and anyone when I was little and we'd drive through the community on the week of Christmas when they allowed people that didnt own homes here, to come look at the lights during certain hours. But I always told everyone I'd live in that house someday. It's at the back of the community, tucked away up on giant hill. It was it's own little special spot. Maybe that's why everyone loved it so much. 

"Your hand is sweating" he laughs. 

"I can't wait to see it." I say quietly, whispering as if talking too loudly will break the magic of the sea of lights and falling snow. 

"They always did white lights." I say, as if he doesnt know. I see him smile.

"It's always the most beautiful..but...just once I wish they would have done rainbow lights. It'd be even more perfect with rainbow lights." I whisper still and he turns to look at me and smiles. 

"Yeah. I remember." he smiles and nods. 

"Do you want to go see it, or want me to drive around the rest?" he asks. 

"The rest...save the best for last." I whisper and he smiles. 

"Which one is yours? Show me." I say. 

"Guess." he says with amusement and I chew my lip. 

As we drive through the rest of the streets, I see houses with several cars, knowing they're obviously not his. I point to a few with no cars in the driveway. Guessing wrong everytime. 

"Did we already pass it?" I ask and he shrugs. 

"Maybe." he says and I smile and then take a few more guesses.

"I give up. Just show me yours." I say and he laughs. 

"You'll see once the tour is over, not like I'm gonna take you to a strangers house for the night." he teases and I bite my lip. 

"Okay, fine, go to the Draper's house" I say with giddyness that has me perking up in my seat. 

"You have to go that way." I point when he turns the wrong way. 

He just laughs. 

"Im serious! This way only goes to the private drive , and we can't get in that way." I say and he laughs.

"Sure we can." he shrugs. 

"No, we can't" I say, and tugs his shirt sleeve. "Just go that way Callum" I say and nod back in the other direction.

"Sugarplum." he says and looks at me and then is turning around the last bend before the turn onto the hidden private road that has it's own gate.

"you have to go around the way Callum!" I say, my excitement making anxious, as if it'll poof and disappear if I dont see it right this instant. 

The way to view the Draper house was the public road that behind the trees that kept it out of view. A road the owners specifically installed just for the purpose of Christmas time and allowing people to view the house.

"Take a breath Sloane" he says with amusement and I whimper, which just makes him laugh. 

"What are you doing Callum" I say, shaking my head as he drives up to the gate. 

"Saving the best for last." he says. Then grabs his phone, and unlocks his screen, and pulls open and app as I just sit there, looking around.

"You cant just sit the car here, even if you live in the community Callum, they're gonna think you're-"

But I stop talking. I shut the hell up when the gate opens out towards us slowly and my eyes grow wide.

"How did you-" I pause as he then starts to drive forward.

"Callum." I say and grip his hand , my nails digging into the sides of it. 

"Easy Sugarplum. I'd like to keep my hand." he says , but my heart is in my ass....or my throat...I dont know where the fuck it is, cause I feel like it's beating everywhere. 

"Callum." I say as he taking the private drive, that swings through a dense area of trees. 

"Callum!" I practically squeak as the the trees grow less dense, and I can see the lights sparkling now, the end of the long driveway coming to end, ready to open up in to the wide mouth of a drive that sits at the front of the house. Rainbow lights. 

"rainbow lights." I whisper. "Callum! There's rainbow lights!" I then yell and slap his hand and he laughs. 

"Look!" I point at the very obvious display of light. The whole damn house covered in them. The trees on the main property draped in them, tears fill my eyes. 

"I see Surgarplum. I see." he laughs gently and then grabs my hand to keep it from continuing to lightly smack his. I slap my ofther hand to my mouth with a gasp as it comes fully into view. Tears streaming down my cheeks. 

"Wanna guess again?" he asks. I don't even take my eyes off the house, my mind only focused on the fact the Draper House is lit up like fucking Vegas with rainbow christmas lights, and it looks as perfect as I always knew it would. 

"Guess again?" I ask, shaking my head. "Guess what?" I ask, nothing registering. I'd just been excited that somehow he had access to get us up here.

"Guess which house is mine Sugarplum." he says softly. 

I hear his words, but it takes a second. Then, then my head turns from the house and I look at him. My brows lifting as he looks at me with a smile. 

"You...live...here?" I ask, the thought never even occuring to me. 

He smiles. 

"You always loved this house." he says. "So I loved it too." 

My lower lip trembles. "Callum, you bought the Draper house?" I ask, my eyes full of tears.

"no. I bought the Sugarplum house." he says. 

Fuck. I start to sob. My eyes looking to the house, the rainbow lights a blur through the curtain of tears that wont stop filling my eyes. 

"Everyone else knows it as the Draper house Sloane....but it's always been the Sugarplum house to me." he says and I look back at him and he reaches over, taking my face in his hands.

"If I couldnt have you...I wanted something for myself that reminded me of you...reminded me of the girl whose eyes lit up every year we drove by it at Christmas time...her face all dreamy and wide eyed...telling everyone how perfect it was...but if only they'd put some rainbow lights on it...then it'd be even better." he says.

"I love you Sloane, and I just needed something, some part of you for myself. I bought the house the second I heard it went on the market....I knew I wanted it. I knew I needed it. You were still engaged to Liam when I bought it...if I couldnt have you...then I wanted the house I always secretly imagined us in." he says and brings his forehead to mine, and brushes his nose over mine.

"You might need time Sloane....but let me be clear with you...because I'm not making the same mistake I made four years ago.....i don't want to only get to IMAGINE a life with you...i want a life with you...I want it to be real....and I want to start the life with you I should have when I was eighteen. I wish I would have been more selfish back then..I wish I hadnt cared what your brother thought, or what Liam had wanted....because I always knew you were meant to be mine...and fuck....I hate what he did to you Sloane...I dont want you to think I'm glad that he cheated or put his hands on you, because im not, im really fucking not." 

I'm full on sobbing, blubbering like a fucking baby. Shaking my head. "I know" I croak. I know what he's saying.

"How we got here doesnt matter" I say. "I know what you're saying and you dont want to say it because of how it sounds, but im so glad it happened Callum. I dont care. I'll say it. I'm glad, because it means I'm here with you, right now." I say and he nods. 

"So let me be clear again Sloane.....I don't want to fucking live here alone Sugarplum, and i'm hoping, whenever you're ready, whether it's tonight, tomorrow, or a year from now, that you'll live here...with me....and we'll leave the fucking lights up all year long....and we'll have the cutest fucking kids...and we'll get as many dogs, or cats, or whatever you want...a fucking horse...a pig, I dont care. I just want a fucking life with you Sloane Avery. That's all I fucking want. I don't care what it entails, as long as you're in it. You ARE my life Sugarplum. Always have been. So I'm asking you now, ......start a life with me Sloane...make my fucking dreams come true and tell me I get to live the rest of forever with you as mine." he says. 

My heart is breaking into a million pieces, bursting at the fucking seams. He's shattering myheart, giving me a fuckin new one, and making me feel reborn with his confession , wiping away everything ugly that my heart held onto before this. 

I nod. 

"You're my life too Callum. Yes." I nod, and his lips press to my tear covered mouth and he kisses me even harder.

"Welcome home Sloane" he breathes, and I grab his face and kiss him even harder.