Welcome to New York, It's Been Waiting. (Josh Hutcherson Fanfic)

Leaving.

I woke up and was a little confused as to where I was. I opened my eyes slowly and realized that I was in a hotel room. Oh, Josh's hotel room. Just then the events of last night replayed in my head. I felt so embarrassed but then remembered Josh. He had kissed me. I like Josh, I do, but this is complicated. What are we now? We are not technically together, are we?

I soon realized I had to go to the bathroom and looked at the time. 3:30 am. I slowly got up out of the bed and heard some movement behind me. I turned around and saw Josh moving slightly in his sleep. I grabbed my bag and slowly tip toed to the bathroom and turned on the light and shut the door. I went to the bathroom and then washed my hands. I changed into my pajamas and looked at myself in the mirror as I pulled my hair back into a bun. I had more color in my face than I had last night but I was still a little pale. I grabbed a glass of water and drank about half of it and immediately felt better. As I was rinsing out the glass I heard a knock on the door.

"Maddie? You ok?" I walked over and opened the door to reveal Josh standing there rubbing his eyes and yawning. He was still in his black v-neck from last night but he had changed into some basketball shorts.

"Hey, I'm  sorry. I didn't mean to wake you. I really had to pee"

"You sure? That's all you did?"

"I didn't throw up Josh" He raised an eyebrow at me

"I promise. All I did was use the restroom, change and then I was drinking a little water."

He searched my face for any sign of a lie, but gave up and pulled me in for a hug.

"Let me guess, Ashley told you to make me leave the door open?" He laughed and rubbed his hands up and down my back and said

"yeah, she told me to keep a foot in the doorway so you couldn't close it." We stood there for another minute with his arms around me.

"C'mon, let's go back to bed" He started to pull me away but I didn't move.

"Josh. Wait." He stopped

"What is this? What are we?" I asked as I pointed to him and me.

"What do you mean?"

"After last night, after that kiss, we can't be... just friends anymore" He chuckled and ran his hand through his hair.

"I was kinda thinking we could be together"

"Oh, um. Ok"

"Madeline, what's wrong? I though you wanted this too" He looked a little hurt. How could I turn him down? He is the sweetest guy I have ever met.

"It's just... I..." I took a deep breath and continued

"This is just different. I didn't think I would ever find myself in another relationship so soon. I'm sorry Josh. It's just gonna take some getting used to. But I promise, I'll get there"

He smiled and walked back over to me, took my face in his hands, and kissed my forehead gently. I slowly closed my eyes as I ran one of my hands up to meet his. 

"Josh?"

"Hmmm?"

"how did I get to the bed?" I asked him as I smiled

"well you fell asleep on the couch and you were starting to look uncomfortable so I took you to the bed. It was kinda funny actually. As soon as I laid you down, you sprawled out on the middle of the bed. I had to move you over to one side so I could lay down too" I smiled and looked down cause I was blushing a lot. I looked back up and planted a small kiss on his lips

"Thank you Josh"

"C'mon. Let's get back to sleep. Okay?" I nodded and he led me to the bed and we laid down on our separate sides. As much as I wanted to be wrapped up in Josh's arms and feel the warmth and comfort that he gave me, I'm not sure if I would be comfortable with that yet. I mean I still tense up when he just barely touches me. Must be a habit from thinking that Ben was always going to hit me.Thanks Ben. Josh somehow knew that I wouldn't be to comfortable with him wrapping his arms around me just yet, because he laid down and went to sleep.