Scattered Leaves

Chapter 6: 10 days

Autumn woke up at 10:30. Was it a weekend? No, it was just Tuesday wasn't it? How did she sleep through her alarm or her phone call from Devon? She sat up and looked down at herself.  She didn't even change into her pyjamas, she fell asleep in her bra and jeans. She stretched herself out and groaned from the pain.

"Morning." A voice grumbled in her ear.

Autumn jumped in surprise and saw Devon laying beside her. He wore a dark red shirt and black jeans.

"Run out of shirts?" He joked.

"No." She laughed. "I fell asleep before I put one on."

"Oh, well you are exposing more then your bra you know."

She looked down at her wrists. "Yeah."

"It's ok Autumn."

"How did you get in anyways?"

Sarah was leaving when I got here. I told her I was going to drive you to school and she said whatever, let me in and left."

"You let me sleep in?"

"Well you slept through my wake up call."

"I suppose I did."

They stared at each other for a moment. Devon loved the colour of Autumn's eyes. They were pure violet. She was so beautiful. Even her black eye and fat lip went down.

"I counted your cuts. There are no new ones. I'm proud of you."

"I didn't feel like cutting last night, it was strange." She shivered and Devon took her pale body in his arms. He held her like a boyfriend would his girlfriend.

"I'm so proud of you."

"Thanks?"

"Want to go to school now?"

Autumn wrapped her arms around Devon and sighed. "Not yet."

He laughed. "Ok, then what do you want to do?"

"Cuddle."

"Want to ditch today?" He smiled.

"Can we?" Her face brightened at the mention of skipping the school day. She sat in Devon's lap, hoping he would say yes. She wanted a day of bliss for so long, a day of relaxation, where she'd have no desire to cut. Where she could spend the entire day with someone she really cared about and that really cared about her.

"Tell you what, if we can watch some of those movies over there we can stay here all day."

"Ok." She hugged him and got up to show him the movies. On her shelves she had many different genres of movies. She had horror, sci-fi, thriller, action, some romance and a section just for her Tim Burton movies. "What do you want to watch?"

She heard the bed squeek as he got up to look at her movie collection.

"You have all of the Saw movies?"

"Yes I do." She enjoyed the Saw movies, they were gorey, strange and very interesting. Whoever created it had a very twisted mind.

"Can we watch them?"

She nodded, grabbed the first Saw movie and popped it into the DVD player. they made their way to her bed and laid down with the remote beside them.

Autumn laid cuddled up to Devon with her head on his chest. She enjoyed laying this way, she could listen to the movie and his beautiful heartbeat at the same time. She was comfortable and she felt at home. His arm around her made her feel warm, despite the fact she had no shirt on. She didn't intend on keeping her shirt off, but she couldn't bring herself to getting up and putting one on. She didn't want to get off of him.