L O V E R - a Leah Williamson story

chapter twenty-five

The ride home on the coach was quiet. I wasn't really in the mood to talk after the news of my injury, and Leah understood this, so she just let me lean on her in silence. I appreciated this from her, and I was so thankful for the fact that she knew what I needed and when I needed it. Leah was perfect in every single way.

"Do you want to stay at mine?" Leah broke the silence. I hummed as I zoned back into the real world, with my mood instantly dropping as the adrenaline from earlier wore off. I looked to Leah and saw her staring down at me with a hopeful look in her eyes. I knew that she just wanted to take care of me but I wanted to be alone in that moment.

"Nah, I need to be by myself right now." I explained in a voice so quiet that I wasn't sure she even heard me. Leah sent me a small smile and a nod as I went back to staring out the window and watching as the world went by. I felt my eyes start to close as my eyelids became too heavy to keep open with the day finally catching up to me, the last thing I remember being a kiss on my head from my girlfriend.

I awoke to the feeling of being lifted off of my seat. As I let out incoherent sleepy mumbles I heard two voices coming from the left of me.

"God she looks exhausted." One said.

There was silence on the other end before the other person started speaking. "I know, today must've took a lot out of her." She sighed.

"Well Leah, keep us updated on her."

I smiled as I felt the vibrations from presumably Leah talking. "Will do. Night girls." As I finally had the strength to open my eyes I looked back to see Kim and Katie walking away, it must've been those two that were talking. I began to wake more and noticed that I was cradled in Leah's arms with her carrying me bridal style. She looked down and noticed that my eyes were open.

"Hi there baby, I'm driving you home. Go back to sleep, okay." She quietly whispered into my ear as to not get me too awake to the point where I couldn't go back to sleep.

"My crutches-" I let out tiredly.

I felt her let out a slight giggle. "Don't worry, I put them in the car before I went and got you." I nodded and cuddled my head into her chest. "I'll wake you up when I get to your flat." She continued. I didn't reply as I drifted back to sleep in her arms.

Leah carefully walked me to her car and gently placed me on the passenger seat - she had opened the passenger door before coming to get me - then buckled me in and gave me a kiss on my head before quietly shutting the door and walking round to the drivers seat. Before starting the engine Leah looked down at my sleeping figure as thoughts flooded her head about my recovery.

"Y/n/n."

I groaned and rolled over to face the other side.

"Y/n."

After not replying I felt a firm shake on my shoulders, and in annoyance I let out a huge sigh as I sat up. Noticing the smirking girl looking down at me I stuck up my middle finger and closed my eyes again.

"No stay awake. You have to get inside your flat." Leah replied to my action in a firm tone. I whined as I pulled a face.

"Can you not carry me?" I mumbled out.

Leah let out a hearty laugh which made me open my eyes to look at her. "No but I'll help you up." She laughed out.

Letting out a breath, I unclipped my seatbelt and sat up to open the door with Leah doing the same thing. She walked to the back seat and got my crutches out for me while I waited at the passenger seat for her. After making her way over and helping me up we both began to walk up to my flat building, with Leah standing behind me and holding my waist in place so that I wouldn't fall when I had to go up small steps.