Cash starts singing.
“I’m walking on sunshine” Luc calls out a minute in, he earns looks from Cash and Atlas but they switch to the song with no discernible pause, completely in sync with each other.
“Sweet child o mine, guns and roses” Trick calls out, next.
Once again they switch easily. The others all take turns as I sit there completely in awe of not only Atlas’s talent but Cash’s too. What makes it even more impressive is that Atlas is still playing with me on his lap and every now and then he chuckles at a song suggestion and kisses my head not pausing in playing.
It is honestly awe inspiring and I can’t actually believe I’m lucky enough to experience it. They mess around for a bit longer and I compliment them profusely once they’ve finished which they both try to brush off but their happy smiles tell a different story. I have a feeling that Cash wouldn’t want to play music without Atlas and the same can be said about Atlas when it comes to playing without Cash. They just mesh so incredibly well, which I guess comes from being as close as brothers, it would be almost impossible to find anyone else that they’d mesh with like that. I hope that one day they get to play in front of a crowd screaming their names. They really are good enough and I’m not just saying that because I’m in love with them all. Yes I’ve admitted it to myself again, I’m going to have to talk to them tomorrow, I may as well carry on admitting some hard truths to myself right now.
“You ok, Ever?” Atty asks quietly resting his head on my shoulder, since I’m still sat on his lap.
“Yeah” I pause, lowering my voice and deciding to be honest, “I don’t want to leave tomorrow” I say looking back at him and hoping he gets that I don’t want to leave him.
“I know Princess, me neither” he admits just as quietly, his arms tightening around me as he drops his head to my shoulder. My heart sinks to my feet. I need a minute to get myself together.
I tap his arms and he lifts his head, dipping so he can look me the eye.
“I’m going to go and make dinner for everyone, it’s only fair since Rafe’s done most of the cooking” I say and I know I don’t fool him but he kisses me softly and releases me.
“It’ll be ok, Princess” his raspy voice says just before I get up and I squeeze his hand to let him know I heard him.
Once I’m in the kitchen and around the corner so I’m out of sight, I take a deep breath and force my melancholy thoughts away. My brain just can’t seem to stop thinking about how when we leave here, we will also be leaving Atlas too. My heart actually hurts at the thought of leaving him. I decide the best way to distract myself is probably by cooking. With that in mind I decided to make something a bit more complicated than I had planned.
I find the ingredients to make lasagne and even decide to take it one step further and make my own pasta. Whilst I’m working I try to focus solely on what I’m doing and push away any thoughts that try to rise away. By the time I put it into the oven I’m already starting to feel better. There’s not enough time to make bread so I use the same dough recipe as I did for the naan breads for Luc’s birthday yesterday and adapt it slightly to make it garlic bread, once that’s done I decide to make a batch of cupcakes too even though we’ve still got brownies left. I just want to be busy.
I’m so focused on what I’m doing that it takes me a minute to realise that I’m being watched. Riot is just sitting at the counter and watching me, a concerned look on his handsome features. When he realises I’ve noticed him he smiles and opens his arms. I practically fall into him.
“Are you ok, Sunshine?”
“I don’t want to leave him” I admit.
“I know. We don’t either. Trust me, not only will he not be able to stay that far away from you for as long as he was away before but we aren’t going to fucking let him this time. Especially since it’s obvious that there’s something pretty damn big going on. We don’t