Runaway Lover // Andy Leo

Chapter Nine

I roll over onto my side, allowing the familiar sheets to bring me out of my slumber.

"Took you long enough." Andy says sarcastically, making me jump. I open my eyes to find myself back at the Rebellion's headquarters and in what had come to be Andy and I's shared bed. I cock an eyebrow at him and try to sit up. "Woah, careful." He helps me up, and as a wave of nausea washes over me I remember what happened at the maintenance building. I bring a hand up to the back of my head, feeling the dried blood where I remembered it to be. I groan, embarrassment flooding over me.

"I got knocked out, didn't I?" I look up at him sheepishly. He nods, a smile playing on his lips. I pull my legs up to my chest and groan, burying my face into my lap. 

"I'm more useless than I thought." I mumble to myself, not intending to be heard.

"Hey, you're not useless! Your feet served as a great way to open doors!" He laughs, making his face light up. I glare at him.

"How on earth did you use me to open doors if I was unconscious?" I turn my glare into a quizzical one.

"I carried you out and used your feet to open the doors. Great thinking on my part, don't you think?" He grins. I grab the pillow from behind me and throw it at him, smiling when it hits him square in the face.

"That was not great thinking, Leo. That is abusing the unconscious!" I try to sound as If I'm angry, but it doesn't work very well due to me laughing at the bewildered look on his face - It doesn't seem to have crossed his mind that I would throw anything at him apparently.

A grin slowly takes over his face, and a loud knock echoes through the room. "Yeah?" He calls out, turning to see who is knocking. Megan pops her face around the door.

"Hey, everyone's ready downstairs if you guys are? Dave's got the cake out and everything! He's a mess, but don't tell him that." She surveys the room that she has entered as she talks - Andy and I sat on his bed, both with messed up hair - and gives me a quick wink before leaving again.

"Why does she keep winking at me?" I ask myself more than Andy, before getting up and going to my pile of clothes that have come to live on a chair in the corner. I pick up the only dress that I own and go to the bathroom to change. I sigh as I see myself in the small mirror hanging on the wall as I change, and decide to tie my hair up into a bun before going back out to meet Andy.

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When we get down I see that all of the tables have been pushed together to make one massive one that holds various items of food and drink. Everyone crowds around, helping themselves to whatever they want. I recognise some of the people that we rescued yesterday as they chat away to everyone as if they hadn't just spent 5 days with the Ravens.

"Hey, comatose!" Dave waves from his place in a group of people, of which I see everyone that went on the mission yesterday. I glare at him from my place and hear Andy chuckle beside me.

"That's just rude." I mumble.

"Hey, he's only making a joke. It won't be the last one made either - just warning you." He grins down at me and places a hand on the small of my back. The touch surprises me, but I try to not let it show and allow him to lead me over to the group.

"Nice to see you made it here without falling over, cupcake." Dave smiles at me and takes a quick glance at Andy's hand on my back. "But it seems you have your knight in shining armour with you." He gives Andy a glance that I can't read before handing us both glasses filled with pink liquid that I presume is some sort of cocktail. I thank him and take a sip, immediately tasting the bite of alcohol. The taste makes my face screw up and I put it down on the table as everyone laughs at me. I elbow Andy, attempting to get him to shut up, and Megan (who has clearly had several more of these since I last saw her) whistles at us. Beside me Andy smiles - and if I didn't know better I'd say he was blushing - and places his drink on the table next to mine.

For the next hour or so I stand and engage in small talk with various different people as Dave and Andy ran off about ten minutes after we got there, and Megan and Brandon had abandoned their drunk making out to go and sneak off somewhere to do god knows what. I speak more to Benn, Brent and Hayden (all of which make jokes about me being knocked out) about them growing up within the Rebellion.

"Sam!" I turn my attention from Hayden who was talking about something Benn did to embarrass himself to Andy, who is jogging across the room toward me.

"What?"  He grabs me arm and starts dragging me away without even answering. "Andy, what are you doing?" He drags me toward the corridor that leads away from the room.

"We're going somewhere. C'mon." He smiles at me and slows down as we take a right into a part of the building that I don't know. Knowing that my questions won't bring answers I shut up and follow him down two more corridors so that we're alone.

"Andy, what on earth are you doing?" We slow to a stop and he turns to me, grinning like an idiot. "Are you drunk?"

He shakes his head, taking hold of my other hand with his and entwining our fingers. I look up at him, unsure of what he's doing. His eyes sparkle in the dim light, making him look libidinous and dark. He smirks at me and lowers his head. My heart flutters and my stomach flips as he gets closer and stops about a centimetre away from my face. He looks into my eyes and I answer him by pressing my lips against his.