stuck in the middle | muke triangle

9:

Tessa's P.O.V.

I felt my my stomach drop.

Tears started to form. I noticed that Luke saw me and quickly getting off her and start to put on clothes. I close the door and run downstairs.

I go outside to Michael, he sees me coming, a worried look on his face. I run up to him and hug him, he held me tight as I let go of him.

"We have to go. Can you take me home?" I ask him

"Of course, c'mon!" He said guiding me to his car.

We hopped on and he started the car; as he drove, I could see Luke staring at me in the distance. I shook that image out of my head and focused on Michael.

"Just take a left here and keep going and I'll tell you when you need to stop"
He followed my directions.

We passed several houses until mine came.

"Stop here, this is it" I say looking at it, "you can come inside if you want"

"Sure" he said unbuckling his seatbelt, I did the same and got out of his car. He followed inside.
"Do you live here alone?" He asked curiously. Shít, Taylor.
"Um no, let me text Taylor quickly" I say getting out my phone and texting Taylor.

Me: Tay, I'm home already. Get here safe, love you.

Taylor: mmmkayyy

She's probably drunk. But I know even if she is, she'll never drive drunk. She'll probably sober out, or spend the night there. I sigh and realize Michael is still there. Shoot, he probably thinks I'm weird.

He's just staring at me.

"What?" I ask blushing and looking down at my feet.

"Nothing, you just looked cute" I blush even harder at his words.

The image of Luke pops into my head.

How could he be having sex with another girl like that? Well, he has the right to have sex with her, but it's all too much.

Tears start to fall down my cheeks. All Michael does is hold me. Whispering that is gonna be okay, and with that simple action i drifted to sleep; but not for long.

I wake up to Michael holding me in his arms, carrying me bridal style. He saw that I was waking up. "Shhh, is this your room?" He whispered, pointing at my bedroom door. I nod and he brings me to my bed. He takes off my heels, he was about to leave; but I grabbed his arm.

"Michael?" I whispered tiredly.
"Yeah?" He whispered back.
"Stay." He nods. I rub my eyes and sit up, "I'm going to change, wait here?" I half say, half ask.

He nods and sits on the bed. I go to my bathroom and change into some joggers and t-shirt. I go back and see Michael.

"If you want you can go home, I'm sorry I kept you here. Just wanted company because of what happened today.." I say looking down.

"It's okay Tess, I wanted to stay and make sure everything turns out alright but I figured it'll be weird without you inviting me" he says with a chuckle.

"I have some basketball shorts and some shirts that were my brothers, want some?" I ask him.

I don't talk much about my brother Dylan, he died because of cancer 3 years ago. We didn't get along much but I wish we did.
"Sure" he says.

I grab a random shirt and some basketball shorts and give them to him. He goes to the bathroom to change, as he does that I turn on the AC and lie down on the bed.

Michael comes out of the bathroom and turns the lights off, everything being complete darkness. He lies beside me, we both are lying on our sides; facing each other.

"Close your eyes, love" he says softly, "You need your beauty sleep" he places a kiss on my forehead.

We fall asleep next to each other, but we kept our distance.