Begin Again

Chapter 6

Joe's POV:

Now I've to figure out a way to go out and open the door for Taylor, she's waiting for me out there with the clothes. I look around the bathroom and I notice a pink towel on the hanger next to the sink. But I mean pink...really? And it's not even that long! Ugh I guess I have no other choice. I wrap my lower part in the towel which is barely covering anything, and go out to open the door.

Taylor's POV:

My eyes widen as Joe opens the door half naked. I can clearly see his perfectly defined pecs and oh-so-muscled arms. I quickly cover my eyes with my left hand and give him the clothes with the right one,

"Here you go, the clothes. Now go cover yourself" I'm blushing as I speak.

"Oh thanks" he says with his deep sexy voice. After I hear the bathroom door close I uncover my eyes, still in a shock from what's just happened. God this seems like a great start already.

Few minutes later I head towards the kitchen to make us something to eat. I put some frozen pizza in the microwave and wait for it to be done, still trying to erase his sexy figure from my mind. 

After Joe is done putting on the clothes he follows me to the kitchen,

"They're a little tight but thank you, you're a life saver Taylor" he says smiling at me. Damn Zayn's clothes don't fit him that well so his chest is literally trying to rip out of the blue shirt, that gorgeously resembles his eyes.

"You're welcome" I smile back at him.

"So Taylor, I just wanted to say that I'm so grateful for your help. First you saved my life yesterday and now you're giving me a shelter without having a single compelling reason to do so. I really don't know how to thank you enough...I'm so lucky you were the one who pulled me off the bridge yesterday!"

"Oh please it's nothing. In fact, thanking me now for saving your life just assures me that you didn't want to end it yesterday, so you better face your problems instead of running away from them" I say playfully, "Also one more thing, are you planning on taking my bed again or are you gonna sleep on the sofa bed this time?"

"I'm fine with the sofa for sure" he chuckles. Damn he really doesn't know what's awaiting him, that sofa bed is gonna give him such hard time.

Joe asks me if I need help preparing the food, then he takes the pizza out of the microwave. When everything is ready we head to the dining table I've in the corner of the room to eat. As we eat I notice how Joe is eating as if he's seeing food for the first time in his life, he ate 3/4 of the pizza, he must have been starving since yesterday. Since I've already had dinner I wasn't that hungry, so I don't mind it though.

"So I was actually thinking about giving you my watch" Joe says after we're done eating.

"Your watch?" I wonder being confused.

"Yes, I told you I'd pay you back anything I owe you once I find a job, and till that happens you can have my watch as a guarantee. It's worth $70,000 so I think it'd do the job" he explains. A watch worth $70,000?! Fuck I didn't know he was that rich.

"If your watch is worth this much then why can't you just sell it and solve all of your problems?! $70,000 is more than enough to rent you a mansion and get you plenty of food!" I say sarcastically and he laughs.

"It was a gift from someone special, so I don't want to sell it. I prefer working to get money" he answers warmly.

"Listen Joe, I don't need your money, you don't have to repay me anything. I'm just helping you because I want to do so." Wish I could tell him the actual reason that I'm helping him cause I was in his place few years ago, but I'm not spelling my guts out to a stranger.

Before he replies to turn my offer down I keep on going, "And by the way, I don't think you should start looking for a job until January starts. It's the holiday season so most of the stores are closed, it's almost impossible to find a job at this time so don't waste your energy."

"Oh lord, so I'd have to wait for a whole week to find a job!" he sighs.

"I guess so."

Now I'm so curious to know how such a wealthy guy ended up staying at my place in this ugly building, but I don't wanna annoy him with my questions. But I mean, didn't he say that he'd tell me anything I want of know to reassure me? Well I guess he did.

"Sooo, will you tell me why would someone who owns a $70,000 watch has nobody but me to seek help from?"

The smile on his face faints as he hears my question, "Well I...I did tell you about my friends' situation."

"And what about your family?"

He hesitates a little then he says, "I'm not comfortable talking about my family right now. All I can tell you is that some issue happened at the end of last September, so I had to leave the house and I haven't contacted them since then."

What? He hasn't contacted his family in 3 months?! But I can recall him helplessly calling his mother yesterday in the uber, he seemed to need her...so I'm guessing it's not a typical family-son fight thing.

"Oh I'm sorry...never mind" I smile at him.

When we're done eating we realize that it's already 01:00 a.m. so we start getting ready to sleep. I hand Joe a pillow and a blanket to sleep on the sofa bed, while I sleep on the bed. We wish each other a good night then we turn off the lights.

And as I'm trying to sleep, that moment of when Joe opened the door half naked pops up in my mind. Those sexy abs gosh, and the towel wrapped around...wtf stop Taylor!

I'm dying to turn around to stare at him sleeping on that sofa but I won't do it...what am I even thinking about, I've never been this obsessed with a guy before. I guess I need to force myself to sleep!