Strength in Numbers

"Why don't we take this conversation somewhere more private, hmm?" Aaron suggested shooting a glance back at the bus.

I nodded and led him to my car. We got in and Aaron just looked at me, expectant. I bit my lip and laced and unlaced my fingers, trying to think of where to start. Aaron waited patiently for me to collect my thoughts. He simply took my hand in his and smiled as he intertwined our hands.

I blew out a breath. "Ok well, it started about a month before Warped. Austin made me go to some stupid awards dinner or something as his date, and then totally abandoned me to bang a blonde." Aaron shook his head with a smile on his face. "Exactly! Anyway, I was bored and just drinking alone when out of nowhere comes no one other than Jaime."

"From Pierce the Veil?"

I nodded. "He had apparently just gotten out of a breakup the week before and was lonely and drunk as all hell by the time he came over to me. I, on the other hand, was just extremely bored." Aaron shot me a look. "Ok, yeah, I was shitfaced. Anyway, Jaime and I ditched the party to run around the beach like little kids, then we fucked." He arched an eyebrow. "Stop judging! When I woke up in the morning he had left, but left me a note with his number explaining about his breakup and how he wasn't looking for anything permanent and blah blah blah. We texted for a bit and were cool. The problem came in when I went with the guys on Warped, because my best friend is Austin Carlile from Of Mice and Men who allows me to go on tour with him and the guys because why the fuck not?"

Aaron laughed. "Brilliant reasoning."

I smiled. "Thanks. So anywho, on Warped Tour at one of the first handful of dates I run into Jamie. We caught up a bit and fucked because the sex was good and we were both available for casual sex. Then Mike started chatting me up and getting me drunk, and we fucked. Next was a threesome with Jack and Alex of All Time Low, and from there it was just a slow spiral downwards. By the end of Warped Tour the only band members I hadn't slept with where the ones in committed relationships, but no one was being weird about it. We'd joke around or whatever, but no one hated me for sleeping around."

Aaron nodded, his face giving away no sense of judgement. "So why is this a problem?"

"There, young jedi, is the thing. It wasn't, until I made the fatal mistake of sleeping with Alan. Austin was trying to prevent it from happening, but it only made us want to do it more. So we did. Twice a day, for a week...exclusively." I pinched the bridge of my nose. "I suppose it is my fault for giving the impression that we were dating by only screwing Ashby for a week, but I though we were just being annoying and rebellious together. Then the next week, when I came out of Bring Me the Horizon's bus after a long night with Oli, Alan was furious with me. I had no idea why and it only made him madder. When I told him everything between us was completely casual and I wasn't looking for any kind of real relationship he stormed off and hasn't had an actual conversation with me since. He's only hurled insults at me when Austin's not around to beat him for it. And everyone but Austin hates me now because they all think I was cheating on Alan with them and that's why Alan was mad."

Aaron just nodded.

"You hate me too now, don't you?"

He shook his head.

"Really?"

He smiled. "Of course not. I'm not going to hate you because Alan's a dick. I already knew that." He pulled me into a tight hug. "Don't worry, Silver, everything's going to be fine." He pulled back to smile quickly before checking his phone. He frowned. "It's kinda late."

"Oh, I'm sorry. You have a show in the morning don't you? I'll just go home now, sorry to keep you." I was so embarrassed at keeping him from sleep. I was flustered, and couldn't find my keys, only making it worse.

Aaron chuckled and caught my wrists. "Calm down, that's not what I meant." He pressed a gentle kiss to my lips. "I meant, it's kinda late for me to send you home alone. Why don't you come bunk with me tonight? We don't even need to have sex so the ginger princess doesn't get his panties in a bunch."

I laughed so hard I snorted. "Alright, Pauley, seems fair."

When we got back to the bus, Alan had gone to bed and was snoring, loudly. Austin was in the back room writing while Phil and Tino played video games. I gave Aaron a wicked grin.

"I thought you didn't want to have sex," he whispered as I pushed him onto the bunk.

I straddled him and shut the curtain. I kissed him for a minute before dropping my head next to his ear. "You said we didn't have to. I never said I didn't want to."

He chuckled.

We had just gotten our shirts off when we heard Alan stirring. Aaron and I froze, staring at each other wide eyed, but laughed when we heard Alan continue to snore even louder.

"Mmm, Sil," Aaron mumbled against the kiss when I gently began to stroke him.

"Hmm?"

"One second." He pecked me once more on the lips before rolling off me to stick his arm under the curtain. His tongue came out as he blindly searched the drawer under the bunk before he pulled out a condom.

I laughed. "You should really make those more accessible."

He raised his eye brows. "Should I now?" He winked.

I laughed again as he carefully slid on the latex. "Alright, not exactly what I was going for, but yeah, I suppose more sex between us is a reason too."

He rolled on top of me again and began kissing and nipping at my neck. "Oh so there will be more sex?"

I grabbed him and he groaned, bucking his hips towards me. "Let's see how you do for now, then we'll decide."

He flashed me a wicked grin. "I wouldn't say that if I were you."

"And why n- Ohh," I moaned as he was suddenly inside me.

"That's why," he whispered edging deeper.

My inner porn star moan, that usually only came out when I stretched in the morning, bubbled to the surface. Aaron kissed me to keep me quiet as he gently found his rhythm.

"You're incredibly loud," he chuckled speeding up slightly.

I ground my teeth to keep quiet and Aaron was slightly amused. Two can play at that game, big guy. I wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled him deeper, quickly.

"Fuck," he groaned dropping his head.

I felt my way around his body as he moved, looking for any sweet spots. He seemed to like when my hands were in his hair. My nails dragged gently from the crown of his head to his back.

He slammed into me harder in response. "Shit, Silver," he moaned.

I was so close, and I could feel he was too. Within the next few seconds we both climaxed, then we just laid there, panting. Wow.

Aaron grinned at me before pulling the covers up around and snuggling close to go to sleep. I vaguely heard the muffled sound of a sob before I fell alseep in Aaron's arms.

Notes

Ok, enjoy! Sorry if I don't get a chance to update during the week, it's because of school. And at the moment it's competition season for me, so if it ends up being a bit between updates, I'm so sorry. I'll try to not let that happen! - Anna