rule no.1

CHAPTER 7

ROXANNE

Even though I'm still mad at Charly I let him lean on my shoulder while watching the movie. Zacs' fallen asleep leaning against the armrest and Charly's watching the movie. I think he's fallen asleep.

About half an hour passes and Zac wakes up. "What's going on?" He asked me. He's still half asleep and a bit confused.
"You fell asleep." He thinks for a second before standing up.
"I'm gonna go to bed. Are you staying here with Charly down here?" I nod and he walks out of the fort.

There's a lot more space on the couch now that he left. I go to lay down but I'm pulled back up by Charly. "Don't go, You can't leave me Roxanne." His voice is shaky but his eyes are shut tight.
"I'm not going anywhere Charly. I'm just laying down." I lay down and he lies on top of me.
"Promise that you're not gonna leave Roxanne." He asked me. "Why aren't you promising?" I can feel his tears against my neck where his head is hiding.
"I promise." He lets out a shaky breath before tightening his grip on my body. His arms are wrapped around my torso and his head is flat on my chest.

"Do you want to go back to your room?" I ask him. He nods against my chest. "Let's go." He gets off on top of me. His eyes are red and his face has lost colour. The spark that's usually in his left eye is gone. He walks up the stairs in front of me and opens his room door.
"You can go to the bathroom first." He mumbles obviously not wanting to talk. I leave him sitting on his bed as I close the door to the bathroom. Once I've brushed my teeth I exit the bathroom, he's still sitting on his bed. I don't think he's moved an inch since I went to the loo, I don't even think he's noticed I've come out.

"Charly you can go now." I tell him as I sit down next to him. He still doesn't move. I place my hand on his shoulder to see if I can get a response out of him. No response. There's only one option left and I wouldn't normally do this.

Slowly, I creep up behind him, my hands move around his waist and my head resting on his shoulder. "CHARLY!" I scream into his ear. His body jerks around. "Thought I lost you there for a second. You can go to the bathroom now." He stands up and walks to the loos.

I cover myself with Charlys' duvet or whatever they call it in America and drift off.
I don't even think it's been 10 minutes since I've been asleep but Charly wakes me up. "I'm sorry. For shouting at you." I mumble a reply while getting comfy again so I can sleep.
"It's fine, just let me sleep." Charly hooks an arm around my waist and pulls me into his body and then falls asleep himself, I fall asleep not too long after.

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I wake up at 5am and obviously I can't go back to sleep even though I only got 2 hours of sleep, so I decide to read. I'd much prefer to be reading on my Kindle but my phone will have to do so for now. I get out from under the covers to go grab my phone which I left on Charly's desk.

Five minutes later my body is back under the covers and I am reading. I decided to read Wreck and Ruin by Emma Slate. About halfway through, Charly starts to move around alot so I turn around to see what he's doing. His arm is stretched out and looking for me but his eyes are still closed.
I rolled over, now laying on my stomach, phone in hand, facing him. Charly stopped moving his hand when it touched my back. He slid his hand down my body until he reached my thigh, hooking his arm around it he pulled my leg onto his body. My leg was curved at a 93 degrees angle spread across his own leg.
His hand moved up and down my thigh for nearly 3 chapters until he groaned again. He grabbed the arm that wasn't dating my phone and dragged it up to his hair. He's more flexible than I am, I'm very offended. And the fact that he did all this with his eyes closed. I ran my hair through his hair till the hand on my thigh died and his breathing slowed.

I had about 100 pages left when I started crying. HE'S DEAD. I wanted to cry my heart out but I didn't want to wake anyone in this house up. I mean there's no reason to be crying this much, it wasn't even one of the main characters who died but I was emotionally attached to him and like two people who were really nice both died. At the same time, there wasn't even any time to recover in between.

I heard someone shuffling next to me. "Darling, do  I need to kill someone?" Charly asks. Why do people talk about death so much? He reaches out and wipes a stray tear from my cheek. He moves closer and presses a kiss to my forehead.
"Why are you crying?" I don't reply, I just shove my phone in his phone. He looks at the words printed onto my phone a bit confused. He just hugs me for a few minutes then lets go, his touch lingering on my body. "Go to sleep, it's 7am on a Saturday." He says.
"I don't need to finish this book first." I look back at my phone and carry on reading.
"How long till you're finished?" He questioned me.
"Like 20 minutes maybe." I reply while still reading. He gets up and walks into the bathroom.

Charly's still not out of the toilet and I've finished the book. I open goodreads to rate the book and add the rest of the series to my tbr. I put my phone down on the nightstand just as he exits the bathroom. "Done?" He asked me. I nod in return.
He joins me back in bed and falls asleep.

a/n
ok but if you've not read wreck and ruin you are missing out.