My Best Friend's Brother (Completed)

Chapter 24

The Next Morning

I didn't wake up to my alarm, since it was Saturday morning. But I woke up to the bright light that shined into the room, I should've closed the curtains before I went to bed. I rolled over and grabbed my phone which sat on the bedside table. When I clicked the button, it said that it was 8:32 in the morning. I didn't sleep very long, but the small amount of sleep I did get was wonderful. The bed was extremely comfortable.

I slipped out of the bed, and grab my clothes. I was hoping it would be okay with Zachery that I wore his clothes home, rather than mine. Because mine is already dirty. I planned to hand it back Monday morning.

I walked out of the room, and downstairs. I wanted to grab a bottle of water before I left. As I have a little bit of a hangover. When I walked into the kitchen, I saw Zachary standing there, cooking at the stove. Whatever he was making smelled great.

" Hey, good morning. I hope you slept well." Zachary said the second he saw me.

" Hey, good morning. I slept well. Your bed is very comfortable. I'm just looking for water. I didn't think you would be awake. So I just figured I would head out. I didn't want to disturb you." I replied

" no, no worries. Go ahead and grab yourself water. It's in the fridge. And yeah, I get up quite early. There's no way you would've woken me. I go to sleep late, I wake up early. The joys of being the boss."

" Hey, thanks for everything. I'm sorry I kind of crashed at your place. I hope I didn't ruin anything. But, I hope I have at least helped you a little bit with work. Or at least with something."

" no, you can say anytime you want. You kept me a great deal of company. But, I did appreciate your help. And especially your company. This house can get so lonely sometimes. I truly hate coming from work to home. It doesn't even deserve the word home. But, you made me enjoy myself last night. Even though I was doing work. Honestly, I hate to ask this of you, but maybe we could do it another time? We truly don't even have to work, we can just hang out. I don't get many people to hang out with me."

" Absolutely. I would love to hang out with you again. Even if that means doing insane work. But, I don't want to disturb you anymore, I figured I would just head home. I hope it's OK, I just figured I'd go home and leave with the sweats and return them to you Monday?"

" yeah, that's fine. Honestly, you can keep them if you want. I have tons of clothes."

I nodded and walked over to the fridge. Grabbing myself water. I said goodbye to Zachary and headed out of the house. Once I was out of the house, I headed to my car and got inside.

I started up my car, and begin to head home.

Anthony's POV

" So what's the plan? Am I just supposed to show up to her? How is that even supposed to work? She wanted to close the door, she wants nothing to do with me!"

I couldn't see any of this going a good way. I can only see her being very upset with me.

I don't want to upset Marissa, I don't want her to hate me. We ended on somewhat good terms, and I don't want it to end badly. I care about her. And I want to be with her, but she has made it clear that she does not want to be with me.

And I do not want to force her into something that she does not want. Especially when she has been explicitly clear that she doesn't want it. So I refuse to make her upset.

" Anthony, chill out! I'm gonna be honest, I don't have an exact plan yet. But maybe I can go and visit her for a few days, maybe next weekend or something? And find out some things. I know she isn't with anybody at the moment. And that's very helpful."