Unlicensed babysitter

Revelations

I jerk awake, blinking the sleep away from my eyes. I wipe my eyes. My body feels exhausted and dehydrated and I remember that I've been crying. Face hot in embarrassment, I swivel my head around to find jennie, hoping she is not laughing at me and my momentary crack.

There's no one around but I hear noise coming from bathroom. I sit up in bed and run a hand through my hair and reaching to the table nearby bed and took the glass of water and drank it. "Jennie?" I call out.

The water sound creases. "In here." She calls out. "Hold on." Some more noise-her drying her hands- taps closes then the bathroom doors opens and she steps out. A smile is on her face and she looks rejuvenated. I probably look like mess. "Finally awake huh?" She chuckles, walking over to the bed.

"Uh, yeah." I say cautiously. Jennie's acting weird and not her normal weird. She is gazing at me too sweet. "How long have I been out?"

Jennie lays beside me. "A few hours. Ten checked in on us atleast twice."

"Ten?"

"The guards that followed me."

"Oh. Mine's name was se hun."

"Nice." Smiling softly, Jennie turns to her side to face me. "So how are you feeling? Are you okay?"

While I am thinking, I feel something slide towards me. I track Jennie's hand moving nearer to me and I flinch away when she gets too close.

"What are you doing?" I ask

Jennie pulls her hands back. "I am sorry...I just... I don't know."

Sighing, I move to face jennie more head on. "Look" I start, "I know what happened between us was.....Intimate, but you have your stop. This is a dangerous game that has deadly consequences with wrong move. After earlier why are you risking it?"

Sitting up Jennie's browse furrows and she dawns a serious expression. Her cheeks turning slight pink." I...." Her face turns brighter, the pink turnip to red. "I like you." She finishes obviously nervous.

Her confession brought my heart to beat like crazy. Well. I figured that out after our impromptu kiss, but that didn't explain why jennie would willingly put herself in danger. It's stupid to ignore something just because you enjoy who is doing it. I like that jennie wants to be with me, touch me, I like to be around her too but I don't like that she's not being smart about it. I'd rather be with her at arms length if it means keeping her heart beating.

"That's stupid." I say aloud skipping important pieces of my train of thought.

"It's not stupid to like you."

"What I mean is, it's stupid to try and treat me like a normal person. You can't keep trying to get close to me without asking. Like me all you want, but it doesn't help anyone if you like me in that way."

Biting the insides of her cheeks, Jennie bobs her head thoughtfully. She brings her head her hands into her lap and fiddles with her fingers. A stranger urge to hold her hands bubbles inside me but I clamp down on it as she whispers. "So does that mean... you like me too?"

I look away and shrug. "I mean.... That's not an option."

"But you do like me?"

"It doesn't matter." I shake my head, not liking this conversation. "Once this is all over we'll never see each other again."

Jennie gives me a look. sad almost. "Who say?"

"I do. Dara probably. The government." An angry sigh passes my lips at the thought of not seeing jennie. It makes me see i don't want to leave jennie. "But that doesn't matter. What I do.... I travel all over the world. We'd hardly see each other and that's if I am even allowed."