Love at First Fight

~Andrew~

"Andy, come back to bed." I glare at Mellissa standing beside me in front of my bedroom door.

"Get the fuck out of my house." She gives me a sad look. Mellissa and I had a thing a few years ago when I went out of town with my parents for the holidays. We dated for about a year and she cheated, I didn't know she was in town or anything until she showed up at my bedroom door. Cassidy must've left the door open when she left since she didn't have a key.

"But baby," my glare grows stronger.

"Get the fuck out and don't you ever come anywhere near me again." I slam my bedroom door in her face. I hear the front door slam shut as I lean back on my bed and wince. I grab my phone and call Cassidy but it goes straight to voicemail.

I call Chloe but the same thing happens, I keep calling Chloe because I know eventually she will pick up. "What did you do?" she snarls and I frown.

"Just let me talk to her. Please just let me talk to Cassidy." I hear shuffling.

"I don't want to talk to him." I hear her say but everything goes quiet afterwards.

"You don't have to say anything, just listen. The girl was someone I dated a few years ago. She lived in Colorado, I don't know how she got my address. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing was happening. I didn't have the physical strength to push her off because of the accident. I hated every second she was there. I kicked her out the second you left. Please Cassidy." the line goes dead and I just sat there with my heart breaking.

Why do I have to fuck everything up?

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My bedroom door opens and I watch Chloe and Cassidy walk into the room. Cassidy's cheeks were stained with tears and red blotches. "I don't know what the hell happened with you two. She's not saying anything and I barely heard what you said on the phone but I know for a fact both of you need to figure this shit out right now because neither of you deserves to be miserable."

Cassidy refuses to look at me, "Her bag is downstairs. I will pick her up in three days." Chloe runs for the bedroom door, Cassidy tries to run after her but Chloe makes it out of the house faster than Cassidy could get there.

I walk down the stairs slowly and see her sitting on the couch searching for something but she groans. "She took my phone." she groans. I frown and sit on the stairs trying to forget the pain but nothing works. I start to feel dizzy, "You need to get back upstairs." She looks at me with eyes full of sadness and pain.

"I'm fine." She sighs and rolls her eyes as she walks over to me.

"You are just as stubborn as I am. Get upstairs." she holds a hand out to me and helps me back up the stairs. She gets me into bed and walks out of the room again.

When she walks back in I see a bottle of water and some Tylenol in her hands, "Take this and get some sleep." I shake my head, "I don't really want to talk to you or anything right now. So please just take the damn medicine and take a nap." I frown and take the medication out of her hands.

Our fingers brush and everything in me screams to pull her towards me but she pulls her hand away so fast I couldn't even get a grip if I tried. I take the water and take the pills, Cassidy walks out of the room and closes the door behind her. I lean against the headboard and rub my hands over my face. The stubble on my cheeks scratches my hand and I sigh.

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I hear something clink to the side of me and my eyes fly open, I look over at Cassidy with a frown on her face and a plate of food in her hand. "I doubt you've eaten anything so I brought you some food." I look down at the grilled chicken sandwich and some chips.

I go to say something but before I could she walks out of the room. I look down at the sandwich and take a deep breath, I start eating slowly and wait and see if she comes back to my room.

After two hours she hasn't come up or said anything from downstairs, I slowly get out of bed and make my way downstairs. I see her sitting in the living room with her arms wrapped around her legs and her head buried in her knees.

I sit next to her, making her look up at me. "You should be in bed." I shake my head and reach out to her but she backs away.

"What do you want me to say? What can I say to make all of this go away and you will let me hold you?" she shakes her head.

"You can't say anything. How am I supposed to even know how you feel if I didn't even know about this supposed girlfriend of yours? How am I supposed to believe you when you say you love me or anything like that when I barely know you anymore?" I shake my head.

"You do know me. You know me better than anyone, Mellissa and I just hooked up here and there, but that was three years ago. Buttercup you mean everything to me." she frowns.

Neither of us says anything, we just look at each other in sadness. "How can I fix this?" she shakes her head.

"I don't know." I start to reach for her again but she pulls away again. I watch her breath falter and see her shake a little.

"Please let me hold you." she shakes her head.

"I don't think that's a good idea." I frown and start to get up from the couch when she looks up at me and frowns. "Don't leave. Just stay, please just stay." her eyes start to water as I sit back down, I take a stuttering breath as she begins to cry. She doesn't want anyone to console her, she just wants someone to sit with her while she cries.

We sit there until she goes silent, "Are you okay?" I whisper, she looks up at me after rubbing her eyes with the backs of her hands.

"Physically or mentally?" I frown.

"Both."

"Physically, I'm fine. Freezing but fine. Mentally, I'm screwed up in the head. I fucked up last night and now everything is so fucked up in my head I can't even think straight anymore." I grab the blanket hanging over the couch between us and stretch it out for her to use. She lays it over her legs and sighs.

"I'm sorry about last night." she shakes her head.

"I shouldn't have hid it from you or kept the fact I was taken off the pill." I frown and look down at my hands in my lap.

"We both fucked up. I know we talked about it this morning but I am sorry for getting so upset." she shook her head and took a stuttering breath.

She doesn't say anything else, we just sit there. I groan as my head starts pounding, "You should go lay down." I shake my head.

"I'm not going upstairs unless you come with me." she frowns. "We don't have to do anything or even speak to each other. I just don't want to be that far away from you." she frowns and hesitates before she nods and reaches for my hand.

We walk upstairs and I lay down on the bed trying to force the headache away. I feel my eyelids get heavy as the bed dips down slightly. I try to open my eyes but I have a hard time keeping them open, "Get some sleep. As much as I want to right now, I won't leave you." I frown and take a deep breath as I shift into bed. I get under the covers and take a deep breath.

It will probably take me a long time to get back into good graces with Cassidy now but I will do everything I can to keep her in my life.