The Girl Next Door

Chapter 9

I woke up, the sun shining bright on my face. Robin was beside me holding my waist tight, I tried getting up without waking him up but failed. As I got out of his arms his eyes fluttered open. "Where are you going Mills?" He said with his sleepy voice.

"I'm just going downstairs, you want to come?"
"Sure." He really just wanted to stay in bed, I knew it, but lately he was so overprotective. I didn't mind much though, it was just that he always needed to come with me everywhere, I found it kind of cute to be honest.

He got up and practically dragged himself to me. I just laughed. "Robin, you can sleep if you want too." "But I want to be with you." I smiled. " Okay, but I'll just be downstairs."
"I know." I couldn't help but smile more at that.

We walked down together, I looked in the fridge while he sat on the stool at the island of the kitchen. I found some milk for our cereal and turned around to look at him, seeing him asleep and holding his head up with his hand.

I closed the fridge and he jumped at the sudden movement. " woah, u good?" I asked, that must of startled him a lot if that woke him up. It was so hard to get him out of bed sometimes. "Yeah, yeah. Just thought someone opened the door to the house."

"Don't worry, it's just us." I smiled and turned around, grabbing two bowls and putting cereal in them. I turned around to robin who was barley keeping his eyes open. "Robin, want milk or not?" He liked his cereal dry sometimes, and sometimes not.

"No milk." I nodded and poured milk for myself. I gave him his cereal. "Can we go back upstairs now?" I laughed a bit and nodded. We went upstairs and to his room. He got in his bed immediately and put his cereal on his side table. I ate my cereal at his desk and watched him peacefully sleep. That sounded weird, I don't know he just looked so peaceful and beautiful, how could I not look?

After a couple hours, robin FINALLY woke up. "Morninggg" I said trying to tease him a bit.
He looked at me. "How long have I been asleep for??"
"A couple hours."
His eyes widened a bit. "You could've woken me up."
"Oh trust me Robin, I tried."

He laughed a bit. It was 11:40 am. We got ready for the day, and decided to meet up with Gwen and Finney at the park.
We started walking, it was about a 20 minute walk so we still had a while.

We were talking about random crap and Robin stopped in his tracks. I quickly noticed and turned to look at him, he looked scared and nervous. "Robin what's wrong?"
"Is that the grabber?" He didn't look at me, just kept looking in the distance. Anxiety grew in me as I walked up to him, trying to see what he saw. He pointed right at nothing. "Robin, there's nothing there."

"I swear he's there!" A car drove past were he was looking. "Wait. He's gone, he was just there! The car drove past and now he's gone!!" He sounded so scared, like the grabber was going to come for him soon.

I grabbed his hand and rubbed his back. "Hey I think it was your imagination. We're safe don't worry."
He looked down and nodded. I could tell he was still worried that he might be right.

We talked for the walk but he was a bit more quiet than usual. I'm pretty sure he was just shaken up about "seeing" the grabber.

We made it to the park and saw the two siblings familiar faces. "Hey guyss!" I said. Robin said hey. They repeated the gesture to us. "Millie I have missed you so muchhh" Gwen said.

"I missed you to Gwen." I said cracking a smile. Me and Gwen rain to the swings and talked. Robin and Finney were under a tree just talking.