Let me help you- Janthony

Part 11- sunrise

Anthony's POV
I wake up the next morning with Jasmines arms wrapped around me. I check the time and it's 5:17, too early to get up but since I'm already awake, I can't fall back to sleep so I just appreciate the feeling of Jasmine laying next to me, wearing my shirt.

Then I remembered telling her I love her When I thought she was sleeping. It wasn't such a big deal since I've told her that before and she's said it back but it was different this time and maybe I dreamt it because I swear I fell asleep just moments after but she said it back with the same genuine tone I had. Plus it didn't even feel like a dream. Well it did but not like I was asleep kinda dream, like a 'I can't believe that just happened' sorta dream.

She starts to stir in her sleep and I think she might wake up so I decided to fake sleep to see what she does when she does wake up.

Her eyes flutter open, when she looks at me, I close my eyes just enough so they look closed but I can still see her. She smiles then starts wiggling me, "wake up Ant" she says, she sounds excited

I open my eyes, "good to know you'd wake me up at 5:30am just because you're awake even though I let you sleep when I woke up." I chuckle

"Come on get up" she wiggles out of my embrace and stands up

"It's to early jas" I protest. She grabs my hand and pulls me up.

She tells me to put my shoes on, "you confuse me some times Cephas" I say as I put my shoes on, she puts hers on too.

She pulls me out of my apartment, "we're still in our pyjamas Jas where are we going" I ask but she doesn't answer. She just smiles and continues pulling me along with her.

We make it to the roof, "what are we doing here" I ask her. We sit down and she kisses my cheek.

"Shh, just wait" she smiles. After a little the sun starts to come up and it leaves a soft golden light across the city.

"Greatest city in the world" I whisper. She leans her head on me and we sit and watch the sunrise in silence, a comfortable silence.

After the sun comes up, "best first date" I say

"Who said this was a date?" She raises an eyebrow with an adorable grin on her face, "I just didn't want to watch the sunrise alone."

"Oh shut up, you wanted me here and this is definitely a date" I say.

"Never said I wanted you here, just someone so I'm not alone"

"You literally dragged me up here"

"Fine, obviously I wanted you here" she rolled her eyes and grabbed my hand, "I love you Anthony" she said

"I love you Jasmine" I couldn't stop my smile, my face started to hurt.

We sit for a little while longer in silence, "Over a year ago we met here and I had no intention of getting to know you at all but now I'm in your shirt and we're watching the sunrise and that's just... crazy to me, I love you. I was scared to admit that to my self but I really do love you Anthony" she smiles

"When I first saw your face, you were standing right there and I couldn't get over how gorgeous you were, still are" I smile back

I looked at her wearing my shirt, "Eyes are up here Ramos" she chuckles

"I can't get over that you're wearing my shirt" I spot her eyes

"I never thought we would've gotten this close" she sighs

"Literally, you're currently leaning on me and I'm about to fall over just so you fall on top of me" I start to lean back

"Stop that" she laughs and leans away from me.

We go back to my apartment and I get a call from the police. They said that right now there is no evidence of abuse, since they haven't talked to Jazzy, so they can't arrest him but she can get a restraining order and he won't be allowed near her, around her place of living and her workplace.

He wouldn't be allowed in the apartment building or the theatre. She would have to go to court to get him arrested and she wasn't ready for that but a restraining order would do. Since it was her apartment not his, he just lived there with her, he had to leave.

Jas decided she wanted to stay with me for awhile and I was fine with it. So we went back to her apartment and she got some stuff, if she needed more or wanted to stay longer she could go back, it's just down the hall. While we were there we also cleaned up a little after the mess Brady made.

She started crying, I hated seeing her crying. I hugged her, "you alright" I stroke her hair

"I'm fine, he's finally gone. It's over" she sniffed.

I smiled at her. "I just don't know how I let it get this bad" my smile faded

"It's not your fault jas" I assured her.

"He said he did everything he's done because he loves me and that it's my fault I didn't love him back that made him mad"

"And in the beginning everything was fine until it wasn't."

"Please never hurt me" she cried

"I could never hurt you" I told her. "Or anyone really, except that guy who hurt you, he's a stupid motherf-"

She interrupted me, "calm down" she giggle, her eyes still filled with tears. I wiped them away and kissed her forehead

"Thank you" she whispered. I don't exactly know what she's thanking me for but there are a few things I could think of though she doesn't ever need to thank me, I would have done everything I did for her whether she asked me to or not.