Somniphobia

Chapter 6. Understanding

Aria POV
I woke up whimpering softly from a nightmare I just had. I tried to get up but I felt strong arms wrapped around my waist securely. I looked over to my side where I heard soft snoring coming from someone.

I realized it was the scary man that had his arm wrapped around my waist tightly. I smiled to myself as I remembered how he told me that he didn't like being touched but here he was touching me.

I felt special and wanted knowing he was comfortable with touching me when he clearly hated others touching him. Although I loved being near him I knew I needed to stop this because I was just gonna burden him.

Like my mother always said no one would want a childish brat like me in their life and no one would ever be capable of loving me because I'm too much to handle.

Those words replayed in my mind constantly that I started actually believing them. I grabbed his arm gently trying to pull it off of me so I could get up and leave but instead he tightened his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him.

My eyes widened as he mumbled something sleepily near my ear that I couldn't understand. My whole body stiffened up so I wouldn't wake him up.

I waited another two minutes or five maybe just to make sure he was fully asleep again and wouldn't wake up again. I grabbed his arm again as gently as possible pulling it off from around my waist.

I gently put his arm down on the bed before slowly sitting up on the bed getting ready to crawl off the bed. Just as I began to crawl off the bed I felt someone grab me by my neck and push me back down onto the bed firmly.

My eyes widened as he hovered over me with an angry expression while tightening his fingers around my neck. "Where are you going princess?" He asked me almost angrily.

"I-I-I-I w-wa-was g-go-going t-to t-the b-ba-bathroom." I lied because of how scared I was. He let go of my neck staring at me with a stoic expression on his face now.

"Go and come back here once you're done." He ordered me commandingly. I nodded my head silently while getting down from his bed. I could feel him watch me rush towards his bedroom door to go use the restroom.

"Use mine." He demanded stopping right in my tracks before I could leave his bedroom. I turned around staring at him with an uncertain look. "Hurry." He ushered me to go.

I walked into his bathroom closing the door slowly before locking it to make it seem like I was going to use the restroom when in reality I didn't need to.

I waited by the door silently acting as if I was using the toilet. I waited until a minute or two passed before I walked over to the toilet and flushed it to make it seem like I finished using the toilet.

I walked over to the door opening it slowly peaking out my head to see if he was asleep again. He was laying on his back with his arms behind his head and his eyes were closed.

I tip toed out of the bathroom making my way over to his bedroom door so I could leave back to my room. "Get in this bed right now or I'm gonna introduce you to your first punishment little one." He spoke up suddenly.

I closed his bedroom door turning around slowly with bright red cheeks. "I w-wan-..." he cut me off. "Get in the bed Aria." He demanded. I walked over to his bed timidly crawling back onto the bed where I was sleeping.

I sat up on the bed instead of laying down knowing I wasn't gonna fall asleep again because of my nightmares. "Lay down and go to sleep." He told me. I laid down closing my eyes acting as if I was going to fall asleep.