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Arrows and Mustangs: Chapter 8

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Connor’s life was in shambles.

He had finally decided when and how to tell Ellie the forbidden phrase, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t nervous as hell. All he wanted to do was crawl under a rock every time his dad smirked at him whenever Ellie was around…like now.

Connor was sitting in the backseat with his girlfriend and he glared at the rearview mirror every time he saw his dad peek back at them.

The week of the fateful trip to the Kenway’s summer cabin finally came and while Connor was happy to be able to spend the time with his grandparents and Ellie, he was nervous about the whole forbidden phrase thing.

Should he slowly work up to it? Or should he just say it?

He had a long winded speech he probably was never going to say in his head.

Then he remembered, if his dad could do it on the fly and get away with it, so could he.

God, he was doomed.

The long, winding gravel road they were on finally started to straighten out and Connor could hear Ellie’s small intake of air at the sight in front of them.

The cabin was huge, if it could be called a cabin at all.

The two stories of the cabin seemed like it fit perfectly among the forest surrounding it. It was perched on the top of a hill and the hill made a gentle slope down into the lake.

Smaller trees scattered throughout the yard and Connor was thrilled to see a rope swing hanging on a tree near the lake.

It was almost like the pond at his home.

Haytham parked in front of the cabin and Connor quickly hopped out so he could grab Ellie’s bag. In the few other times he actually mustered up the courage to ask his dad for advice on the forbidden phrase thing, Haytham had suggested just doing small things like this for Ellie.

He said that girls noticed those things for some reason.

Ellie arched a brow at him as she got out. “I could have got that,” she laughed.

Connor stared down at the large duffel bag and shrugged. “I—“

He was interrupted when Ellie pecked him on the cheek. She gave him a bright grin as she rubbed his arm. “Thanks.” She turned and grabbed her other little bag out of the back seat and Connor couldn’t stop the dopey grin forming on his face.

A snicker caused him to look at his dad and he rolled his eyes.

Haytham looked like he was trying to hold in his laughter and was doing it unsuccessfully as he covered the laugh with a cough.

Connor knew that this was going to be one interesting week.




Ellie knew that this was going to be a good week the moment the car stopped in the cabin’s driveway.

Edward, Tessa, and Jenny were already there and Jenny had led Ellie to a room toward the end of the hallway upstairs. “You can stay in here,” the older woman said, opening the door.

Ellie stepped in and she loved how cozy the room looked. A quilt that looked handmade was lying on the bed and the furniture even had a rustic look. She turned and grinned at Jenny. “Thank you.”

“Just as a warning,” Jenny began, closing the door behind her. She crossed her arms with a small smirk. “Tessa is going to be on you and Connor’s back the whole time you’re here. She was worried about you guys sneaking into each other’s rooms to shag so…”

The temperature in the room seemed to rise about 10 degrees and Ellie had never felt more mortified. “Oh…um…thanks for the warning?”

Holy crap! Sure, she and Connor were taking steps in that direction but Ellie had no intention of doing anything like that while they were here. Ellie and Connor had agreed that it would be disrespectful to the Kenways if they did.

Jenny let out a small laugh. “And I thought Connor was the jumpy one.” And with that, she walked out the door.

Connor happened to be right outside when she did and Ellie could see Jenny smirk at him. Connor gave Ellie a bewildered look as he stepped inside with her duffel bag. “What was that about?” he asked, setting it on the floor.

Ellie sat on the bed with a huge sigh. “Oh, nothing. She just told me that your grandma is going to make sure we don’t sneak into each other’s rooms or anything the whole time we’re here.”

Steam was literally coming out of Connor’s ears as he cleared his throat and looked away. “Great, cause we do that stuff all the time,” he grumbled. Ellie could see the glint of humor in his eyes, despite his embarrassment.

Ellie giggled and stood up, making her way toward him. She wrapped her arms around him with a big grin. “She’s just looking out for us. It’s not like we were—you know—going to do anything while we were here.”

Connor sighed and rubbed her back. “Yeah…want to go down to the lake for a bit?”

Ellie knew he was just trying to change the topic, and she decided to go along with it. “Sure, are we just going to walk or are we swimming?”

“Either one is fine with me.”

Picking up her tennis shoes, Ellie said, “Let’s walk.”




Haytham didn’t know whether to feel sorry for his son or not. The last three days were surprisingly relaxing, despite the fact that he was around the people that usually made his blood pressure rise.

Call it fatherly instincts or whatever the hell it was, but Haytham knew that Connor was planning. He also knew what he was going through. Ziio was the only woman he ever said those words to and he remembered how nervous and jumpy he felt at the time.

Which brought him back to his dilemma. Should he help his son out or just let it happen? He rocked back further in the rocking chair on the porch of the cabin as he watched the teenagers swim in the lake.

He was suddenly reminded of the summer he brought Ziio up here when Connor picked up Ellie and threw her into the water, laughing.

Haytham remembered doing that to Ziio. It seemed like centuries since it happened and it caused his heart to ache a little. He took a swig of his scotch, letting out a long sigh.

“Jesus, if you stare at your drink any harder it’ll catch on fire.”

Haytham looked to see his father walking out of the cabin. Edward slowly made his way over and plopped down in the other rocking chair with a heavy sigh. “What’s on your mind, son?”

Haytham shrugged, gently swirling his glass. “Remembering the past.”

Edward hummed in understanding.

The two men sat in a comfortable silence for many moments, just watching the lake. Ellie had just sprinted out of the water and was now running away from Connor, who was right on her heels. Both of the teenagers were laughing and looked like they were having the time of their lives.

“They remind me of you and Megan, you know,” Edward suddenly chuckled.

Haytham barked out a laugh. He kept forgetting that his parents remembered Ziio by her American name. “You can’t be serious.”

“I am! He’s awkward and overthinks everything like you do and she’s just like Megan, admit it.”

Haytham spluttered, but then realized that his father was partially right. Connor was just like him when it came to women. Sure, Haytham could act like a charming bastard when he wanted to, but Ziio had a gift of seeing past that act, which caused him to act like a nervous idiot instead. Connor, on the other hand, did not have the charming mask in the first place and was just hopeless.

The second statement his father made, however, did not click for Haytham.

“How is she like Ziio? Entertain me,” he asked sardonically, taking a sip from his scotch.

A loud laugh bellowed from Edward’s lips as he took a swig of his own drink. “Oh please, you don’t see it?”

Haytham arched a brow with a frown.

“You’re bloody serious? You can’t see it? Jaysus,” Edward laughed. He turned toward Haytham and set his drink on the railing. “She just has the same attitude Megan did. They’re similar spirits.”

Haytham still couldn’t see how his and Ziio’s relationship was like his son’s in anyway, but he could see what his father was talking about when it came to Ellie and Ziio being alike.

He knew that if Ziio was alive, she would have loved Ellie to death.

“So, have you caught them shag—“

“Don’t even!”

Trust his father to ruin a moment.




The week was almost over and Connor still didn’t say the forbidden phrase.

He desperately wanted to, but every time he was alone with Ellie, the words died in his throat. Would she think he was saying it too soon? What if she didn’t say it back? What if he was just overthinking the whole darn situation?

The couple was sitting on the end of the dock, letting their feet dip into the water. The moon was full and shining brightly on the surface of the lake and the sounds of the forest around them reminded Connor of the reservation. It was a truly peaceful moment and nothing could ruin it.

Ellie’s fingers slowly found his and Connor looked away from the beautiful sight around him to the beautiful sight beside him.

Ellie was looking up at the moon with a content smile on her face. She had claimed that she looked horrible that morning, since she didn’t put on make-up and had her hair in a messy bun. Connor couldn’t imagine why she said that, he thought she looked beautiful no matter what.

He remembered when his mom said that the truly beautiful people were the ones that were beautiful inside. She was never more right. Ellie was a beautiful person inside and out and Connor found himself wondering why he was scared to tell this wonderful girl beside him how he really felt about her. Ellie was there for him through so much even before they started their relationship and she had been a solid rock for him when his life seemed like a chaotic storm.

He honestly didn’t know how the last year and a half would have been like if she didn’t hop over his fence that fateful summer day.  With these thoughts in mind, he suddenly wasn’t afraid.

“Ellie?”

Her green eyes met his brown ones and she grinned up at him. “Hm?”

“I—“ he paused and cleared his throat before starting again, “I love you.”

Ellie’s eyes widened and her mouth fell open slightly as she stared up at him. Right as Connor was starting to panic; a wide smile replaced the shocked expression and she said, “I love you too.”

Connor didn’t hesitate to pull her close and press a soft kiss to her mouth.

It turned out that his dad was right. Moments like this just happened on their own.

Connor wasn’t going to tell him that though.




Ellie couldn’t shake the euphoric feeling away even after she returned to Saratoga. Her big bear of a boyfriend finally told her he loved her. She desperately wanted to tell anyone who would listen, but she also wanted to keep it just to herself.

The whole moment in general was perfect and Ellie was on cloud nine. Nothing could ruin her mood now. Not even the little snot that was pretending he was drowning at the moment.

Ellie’s job as a lifeguard was infuriating sometimes, but she liked it overall. It was kids like the one in front of her that made it frustrating. The boy looked like he was about 10 years old and he was fake drowning right in front of her.

Her whistle’s shrill pitch cut through the air when she finally had it. “You can get out of the pool or stop doing that,” Ellie ordered, arching a brow at the kid.

He rolled his eyes and swam toward the other end of the pool.

“Wow Miss Lifeguard, you’re mean!” a fake nasally voice said.

Ellie glanced down to see Desmond smirking up at her. Connor and Claudia were rolling their eyes behind him.

“Don’t try me,” she laughed, scanning the water of the pool again. It was slightly cloudy today, so she didn’t need her sunglasses for once. Not to mention the weather caused less people to come by the pool so she didn’t have much to worry about.

Apparently, days like this were the days her friends and Connor decided to visit. “Make sure I don’t drown okay?!” Desmond laughed, tossing his wallet to Connor, who was now sporting a deadpan expression.

Ellie waved off Desmond’s comment and started watching the pool again. Due to the fact that this pool was at a clubhouse, it wasn’t that big. It only had two diving boards. One was about five feet tall while the other was shorter. The other lifeguard was manning the shallow end of the pool while Ellie took care of the deep end and the diving boards.

Desmond was already leaping off the shorter diving board, whooping as he splashed into the water.

“We’ll be over in the corner. We’ll try not to bother you,” Claudia stated, shaking her head at Desmond.

Ellie nodded and kept watching the water. She didn’t mind not being able to hang out with them right now. The plan was for them to go to a movie tonight anyway.

The 10 year old from before was back in the deep end and he was making his way toward the ladder. He got out and started to speed walk toward the diving boards. He slipped a little climbing up the little ladder on the taller one, causing Ellie to tense up a little.

He paused on the edge of the diving board, looking out into the water. Desmond, meanwhile was hanging out near the bobbing rope separating the deep end from the shallow end.

“Connor! Do a flip or something dude!”

Ellie looked at the corner Claudia and Connor camped out in just in time to see Connor pulling his t-shirt over his head.

Okay, now Ellie was disappointed about not being able to hang out with them.

The muscles in Connor’s torso and arms flexed as he tossed his shirt aside. Ellie had to literally force herself to look at the little boy jumping off of the diving board. Ever since she and Connor had stepped up the ante in the physical part of their relationship, she found herself staring and thinking about him in that light more often than she ever did. Not that she had a problem with it.

The kid awkwardly flopped in and quickly resurfaced and dog paddled over to the ladder. Meanwhile, Connor had stepped up on the taller diving board. Him being the athlete he was, he was easily able to do a flip off the diving board. Ellie watched and waited for him to resurface before looking toward the 10 year old again.

The kid was staring at Connor with wide eyes and Ellie thought it was cute. Both Connor and Desmond pulled themselves out of the pool and made their way toward the diving boards again. Ellie noticed that the boy was watching her friends closely before he finally pulled himself out of the pool and made his way toward them.

Ellie quirked a brow in curiosity as the boy walked over to her boyfriend and tapped him on the arm. Connor made the kid look like a munchkin and it made Ellie grin.

“Can you teach me how to do stuff like that off there?” he asked, pointing toward the board.

Connor glanced at Ellie questioningly and Ellie gave him a shrug. They were the only ones swimming right now, so she didn’t mind.

“Okay, so you want to jump as high and as far out as you can before actually doing the flip, you don’t want to hit your head on the diving board,” Connor began to explain. Ellie immediately knew that he had taught someone how to do this before. She could just imagine him with one of the kids from the reservation and teaching them the same thing.

The image in front of her and the one she conjured up in her imagination caused her heart to swell and she couldn’t stop the goofy grin from coming to her face even if she tried.

She was so going to tease him about it later.




Connor was beyond relieved when he and Ellie were finally alone that night. He enjoyed hanging out with Desmond and Claudia, but he just wanted to spend time with his girlfriend now.

They had decided to park out near the lake and they sat on the hood of his car, watching the moon rise in the sky.

“So, about the boy at the pool, he wasn’t the first one you taught to flip, is he?”

Connor grinned, glancing over at her. “No, he wasn’t.”

“I’m going to guess Andrew,” Ellie giggled, pulling her knees up to her chest.

Connor couldn’t hold back a laugh. “How’d you know?”

Ellie snickered and gently prodded him with her finger. “I just do.”

Connor shook his head in amusement and put his hand on the hood behind her, leaning back on it. She scooted closer so she was leaning into his side and he heard her sigh happily. He honestly loved it when she did this. It was nice to have someone this close to him.

He remembered the first time he parked in this spot with her and his whole body started to tingle at the thought. Connor had been wondering how to repay her for the intimate moment they shared. She made him feel so good at the time and he wanted to make her feel that way too.

The problem was that he had no idea how to do that.

Both Josh and Desmond had dared him to watch porn during high school at some point, so he knew what things he could do, but he knew that wasn’t an accurate depiction of what he wanted with Ellie.

It made him feel infinitely better that Ellie was just as inexperienced as him, though. Why don’t you just ask her what she wants you idiot? You know she would tell you.

Deciding to get the awkwardness and embarrassment out of the way, Connor cleared his throat and glanced down at her. “Uh, Ellie?”

“Hm?”

“Remember the night of your graduation?”

Ellie looked up at him mischievously. “Yes. Why?”

Connor rolled his eyes at her coy expression. Then the embarrassment attacked. He cleared his throat and looked away. “I-I want to do something like that for you, but I don’t know what…” he trailed off, hoping she got the hint.

A gentle hand on his cheek turned him toward her again and Ellie was looking up at him with a warm, loving expression. “Connor, it wasn’t a favor you need to repay. I wanted to do it. I only want you to do stuff when you’re comfortable.”

Connor sighed and gently took the hand on his cheek in his own and rubbed his thumb on her palm. “It’s not that I’m uncomfortable. I just…want to make you feel good too,” he mumbled, staring down at their intertwined fingers in embarrassment.

Crap, one would think he would be able to be more open about this now.

Ellie leaned forward so he was forced to look at her again and their gazes met. “Connor, I have some idea of what you can do…you really don’t know?”

Connor furrowed his brow slightly. Great, now she thought he knew nothing about sex and stuff. “I know about stuff, I just don’t know what you would like.”

Ellie gave him a curious look, but Connor could see the teasing gleam in her eyes. “How do you know about stuff?”

Connor arched a brow at her. “Seriously? I should be asking you that,” he laughed. How did she know how to make him feel less embarrassed without even trying?

Ellie pinched his arm with a chuckle. “Touché, considering that we both lack experience.” She paused and tugged on his braid. “I was serious though.”

“I’ll only answer if you answer.”

“I read some romance books before. They were—uh—graphic,” Ellie explained sheepishly, looking out toward the lake.

Connor thought the light blush on her cheeks was cute.

“Josh dared me to watch a porn video in high school, and Desmond did the same while we were roommates,” Connor admitted. Jeez, his answer felt much more…dirty, compared to hers.

Ellie’s brows shot to her hairline before she cleared her throat and set her hand on his leg. “What were you thinking then?” she quietly asked, biting her lip.

Connor cleared his throat and leaned forward, telling her what he was thinking in her ear.

Connor had never seen her face turn into the shade of red it was now. She looked up at him with hooded eyes. “Backseat. Now,” she said quietly, hopping off the hood and making her way toward the back.

Connor’s heart thudded in his chest as his eyes followed her. It started to race when he thought about what was about to happen.

Here goes nothing….




Ellie almost didn’t know what to think, but the bubbly feeling in her abdomen was controlling her every action now.

Connor had followed her into the back and they were now lying down in the back seat with her on top of him. Their kisses had never been more hungry or sloppy, but Ellie didn’t care. They all had a sweetness about them that only Connor seemed to have the ability to give.

Eventually, Connor gently pushed her back and turned them so she was below him as his lips latched on to her neck. Ellie bit her lip to keep the sounds that wanted to escape in. She couldn’t believe that this was happening. She never wanted to ask Connor to do something like this and she was willing to wait. He always seemed so nervous when they were intimate.

Then again, he seemed a little offended when she had questioned whether he knew about how to make a girl feel good or not. Maybe she shouldn’t doubt him from now on.

He rested a hand on the seat next to her head as he pushed himself up slightly, looking down at her. Ellie’s breath hitched in her throat and her heart thundered even more at the look in his eyes. I’ve unleashed a monster, she thought with excitement.

His dark eyes seemed to devour her, and she could see the caring look behind the hunger. It made the bubbly feeling in her abdomen grow into a deep ache.

Ellie couldn’t believe that she made him react like this.

His free hand slowly traveled down her side toward her hip and Ellie couldn’t help but arch into his touch. His fingers gently traced the waistband of her shorts and Ellie had to hold back a whimper. He was going so slow!

Right as Connor’s fingers reached the button of her shorts, a bright light shining through the back window caused them both to stiffen. Connor looked out the window and his eyes widened. “Shit,” he hissed, slowly sitting up.

“Is it the police?” Ellie hissed in fear, slowly sitting up. Well, they technically couldn’t get in trouble, but they would still be in an awkward situation if it was.

“No, it’s an old couple,” he sighed, wiping a hand down his face as he sat on the edge of the seat.

Ellie giggled at his exasperated look and she sat up as well, taking his hand in hers. “Connor, we have plenty of time to do all this stuff. We don’t have to do it now,” she reassured, leaning forward and pressing a kiss to his cheek.

Yes, she was disappointed too, but she believed what she said.

There was plenty of time for him to steal third base.

Ellie thumped his shoulder and climbed up into the passenger seat. “Quit pouting,” she giggled, winking back at him after she got situated.

Connor pouted even more and leaned forward to where their faces were inches apart. “No.”

Ellie bit her lip and leaned forward, trying to be coy as she kept her lips from barely touching his. “Trust me, I want to continue this as much as you. But now’s not the time, hun,” she teased before pressing a soft kiss to his lips.

Connor sighed after she pulled away and climbed up into the driver’s seat. He still looked disappointed, so Ellie decided to use the new magic words. “Hey.”

He looked at her before he started the car.

“I love you,” she said with a broad grin. Even saying the words caused her heart to skip around in her chest.

His disappointed look slowly turned into a soft, caring one and Ellie felt like her heart was going to burst. “I love you too,” he whispered back, leaning forward.

They didn’t leave until ten minutes later, but Ellie didn’t care.
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These two are the perfect, adorable, cute etc couple I can't stand it!!!