Michelle's P.O.V
We sat down, resting our backs against the rock so that the shade hit us from behind. It was way easier to see this way.
Andy took a deep breath besides me and smiled up at the sky. "Do you know what Ashley told me the other day?"
I turned my head to look at him. "What did he say?"
Andy turned to me and smiled softly, resting his head on the rock. "He said I should be careful."
"Of what?" My heart skipped a beat as many possibilities raced through my head. Had Ashley seen something? F.E.A.R guard? Another survivor?
Andy chuckled lightly. "He said if I didn't start making a move, he was going to make one."
All thoughts of a F.E.A.R uprising left my head as fast as they had come in the beginning. Make a move? What was he talking about?
"On you that is." Andy winked.
I could feel a blush emerging as I realized what he was talking about. Making a move on me. As in, trying to woo me.
He reached over and tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. That blush made its way to my cheeks and glared in a parade of reds and pinks.
I mentally slapped myself for being so human. Yeah that's right, I said it. Showing my feelings involuntary is such a disadvantage of being human.
Andy chuckled soflty. "That's adorable."
My stomach did a thing. I don't know how to explain it but it did a thing in excitement and confusion all wrapped into one.
How did this escalate so quickly?
I frowned slightly. "Don't get me wrong Andy, I'm not opposed to this but... why did this turn around so quickly?" I asked.
A minute ago he was just as awkward as me and now he's being all smooth with me telling me I'm adorable. What the hell?
I will never fully understand how Andy works. Never.
I looked back at Andy and his confident smiled quivered. "I don't know." He said simply. "I don't know why." I sqinted a bit at him.
"It's okay. You can tell me what's going around in your head." I said encouragingly. This was my chance to understand him a little better.
If only he would just open up to me.
He took a deep breath and put his head in his hands. "Listen, I don't know how to do this okay? And it's frustrating because I really want to tell you a lot of things but everything I come up with in my head is stupid." He said.
It felt awkward watching his leadership character falling apart. It was unsettling.
"Just say it. It doesn't have to be poetic, artistic, or clever, or anything like that." I reached for his hand in an attempt to comfort him.
He looke up from his hands and sat in a cross-leged position facing me. One of his familiar deep breaths filled the air around us as he tried to smile again.
"Michelle, you know about the vision I had when I first met you right?"
"Aha." I nodded.
"And how that vision in particular told us that you were special. It told us that you were a rebel just like the rest of us." I nodded showing Andy that he could proceed. "Cool. But I also saw something else."
I cocked an eyebrow in fake wonder as I already knew that he had seen us together. Chuppy had told me and so had Ash but I couldn't let Andy know that.
He had trusted them with the secret and C.C had been the first to break his trust with it.
"Something bad?" I asked.
Andy smiled. "No. Not at all. I saw you and I holding hands under the moonlight." He sighed. "I told the guys about it and since then they have been pushing me to make a move on you but I'm so awkward around everyone and everything that I can't."
There was a small pause before he continued. "Anyways. There was also something else that I saw. I didn't tell the guys about it but I also saw you and I kissing." Okay now that was a surprise.
My mouth opened slightly as I tried to realize what he was saying. When the kids had told me that Andy and I had been walking at night holding hands in his vision, I often tried to convinse myself it wasn't romantic.
These guys have a thing for holding hands and walking around wasn't necessarily a romantic thing to do. But this kiss? I'm confused.
"And it wasn't a friendly kiss Michelle, I kissed you. A real kiss." Andy said.
It was my turn to take a deep breath. "But when do you think this is going to happen? I mean now that I know-"
"But you don't get it. It already happened." Andy interrupted.
I thought back to the night we took the walk round the wasteland and how we were holding hands. We had kissed that night. We had.
The future was already in motion.
"Oh my God." I smiled.
"The thing is though that, that concludes my prophecy. It doesn't necessarily mean that we end up together because I didn't get to see what came next. I don't know what happens." Andy said. "But I do know one thing."
"What?" Die suspense! Die!
He looked up at me and gave me an awkward smile. "I know that I like you. Like, I mean I like you like you and I want you to like me back. It's cheesy and stupid I know, but when I see you smile at me, it hurts. My heart goes into a frenzy and it hurts so good." He took a deep breath. "And I need to know if you feel the same way becasue since that kiss I can't stop cursing at myself for not letting you know how I felt sooner. I'm sorry."
My heart was beating so fast, I couldn't even control my breathing anymore. It felt like my heart was on fire.
My oh so wonderful mouth was acting up again and I didn't know if I was going to be able to talk or not.
He stared at me expectantly trying to figure out what my every movement meant. It didn't mean anything. It jut meant I was dying. You know, nothing big or important. The usual.
I opened my mouth but before I said anything, an involuntary sigh escaped my lips.
Damn my human self.
"Every time I see you or even remember that you exist, my stomach goes into a dance. It jumps around and plays tag with my heart because it doesn't know how to control itself around you. My heart skips a beat when I picture you in trouble and just thinking about you disappearing makes me want to cry. I've never felt like this with someone else but I know it's a good thing." I took a pause.
"It's hard to really tell you what's going on in my head because sometimes not even I can understand." I said after the pause and looked at him waiting for a reaction.
He didn't do anything.
"But I do understand one thing. I do like you Andy. I like you like you and you make me feel all nervous inside. And I don't know if I want to get rid of that feeling."
"Goddamnit." He whispered and then crashed his lips against mine.
A/N:
Yay! He told her!
