His Hazel Eyes

Chapter 9

After dinner, Michelle goes to her room for an early night. Gerard goes to clean up the mess of news paper and clay in his room because it's already eight p.m and we decided to finish the project tomorrow.

While Gerard does that I help Mikey with the dishes, we talk for awhile about school, Frankie, music, you tubers movies and about how clumsy we are. I told him about how stupid I was and how I got my phone run over so I can't listen to music anymore. "Well if you want I have an old iPod you could have, but you've got to supply your own ear phones." He offered.

"Hey," I say in a serious tone gabbing a finger into his chest, "Don't get me confused, I'm the clumsy idiot who got her phone run over not the clumsy idiot who got her earphones run over too." I see him smirk. "So is that a yes?" He asks. "Yes and thank you so much!" I say moving my finger and hugging my new friend/house mate.

Mikey walks up to his room to get the iPod as I wait in the kitchen. When he comes back to the kitchen he has the iPod but is missing something else. "Where are you glasses?" I ask as he hands me the iPod. "In my room missing a lens." He says sitting down behind the kitchen counter. "What happened?" I say sitting on the counter itself. "Dropped and stepped on them. I'm so clumsy." He says grinning at him self. "Well at least you still have a phone." I say as we both start to laugh.

That's when Gerard walked into the room. "So what do you guys..." He trailed off as he saw Mikey, "Did you break them again?" He asks, and Mikey nods. Gerard sighed, "So what do you guys want to do now?" Gerard asks walking closer to us. I hop down from the counter and stretch my arms. "Do you guys like horror movie?" I ask and watch as the boys exchange a devilish grin. Mikey gets up and walks over grabbing my left wrist and Gerard grabs my right. They start pulling me into the living room where they finally let go. Gerard looks through all the DVDs  (they have a lot) until he finds the one he wants. He inserts it into the slot of the DVD player and joins me and Mikey on the couch.

Gerard and Mikey are on either side of me again. "So what are we watching?" I ask. Gerard looks over at me and smiles, "The Ring." He says in a deep voice. "Dun, dun, dun!" Mikey adds in. My friends are such geeks. We watch 'The Ring' and 'It' till ten p.m and decide to call it a night.

"Night guys." Mikey says as he walks up the stairs to his room. "Good night." Me and Gerard say in unison from the living room. "Okay, I'm gonna have a shower and hit the hay. So is there any thing you need before bed?" Gerard asks me. "No, I should be fine. But the shower seems like a good idea, so I'm gonna have one of those too." I reply. "Okay, well there's a private bathroom in your room and there should be towels in there too. I'll leave one of my shirts on your bed. If you need anything tonight just get me, I'll leave my door unlocked okay?" I smile and give Gerard a big hug. I nod into his chest and walk up to my room. "Good night." I yell to Gerard. "Good night." I hear him yell back.

I don't understand Gerard at all. At first he would barley look or speak to me, and now he's letting me stay with him and lending me his clothes. He's just a mystery wrapped in an riddle. At first I didn't know up how to feel about him and I still don't know, I feel grateful for everything but that's kind of automatic after everything that's happened.

I walk down the hall to my room and close the door, not locking it so that Gerard could come in and drop off the shirt. I walk into the bathroom and turn the hot water in the shower on. I get undressed and and look at myself in the mirror (no in a creepy way). My makeup is super smudged and my hair is a tangled red mess. I sigh and step into the shower.

I look at the untouched soap and search for the shampoo. Once I found the shampoo after reading all the bottles I realize that it looks like an expensive brand. I start to wash my hair with the ocean scented shampoo and I find myself wondering if this is what Gerard's hair smells like, I should find out. I snap out of my thoughts, that was creepy! Don't think stuff like that. I quickly wash and rinse the rest of my body and get out.

I reach for a cream colored towel and wrap it around myself leaving the steam filled room. I walk out into my new room and see a grey pierce the veil shirt on my bed. I lock my door and drop the towel to the floor before putting on my underwear and the shirt. All of Gerard's shirts are like short dresses on me and to be honest I really like wearing them, their very comfortable. I hang up the towel and climb under the covers of the bed. I reach over and turn off the lamp on the night stand.

2 hours later:
I tried to fall asleep I really did but I just can't! I'm really tired too. I can't stop thinking of my dad and I'm terrified. I know he's been arrested and that he can't get to me but I'm still really scared. Gerard said that if I needed anything I could go to him. Maybe he's still awake and we can talk, probably not but its worth a try.

I quietly open and close my door as I leave my room (something I am very good at) and tip toe to Gerard's room. I knock on the door and hear foot steps. He opens it and stares at me with those eyes. He's only wearing grey and red pajama pants, and blush at the sight of his bear chest. He blinks a few times and moves aside gesturing for me to come in. I walk in and follow Gerard down the stairs. He sits on one of the bottom stairs and pats the ground next to him, which I sit on.

"So you couldn't sleep either, huh?" He say staring at me in the dark. I shake my head. "So what seems to be the problem?" He asks.

"I can't stop thinking about my dad, I know he's been arrested but I'm still really scared. I know it's stupid but..." I trail off. Next thing I know I'm being pulled into a hug by Gerard. "It's not stupid at all." He says in a kind and gentle voice. I hug him back and smell his hair (don't judge me its just out of curiosity) and I was wrong, his smells like apples what a shock.

"You can sleep with me tonight, if you want to." He says pulling back. "Um..." I say as he gets up and walks over to his king sized bed. He starts getting under the covers and moves to the left side. He looks at me and ask "Are you coming?" That is not what I expected when I came down here. My cheeks must be the color of my hair by now. "Um... I..." I trail off. 'Oh to hell with it!' I think and walk over to him I get in the bed. I pull the covers over my body and feel his arm over my body, suddenly he pulls me back so that my back is up against his chest. I gasp and feel his warm breath on my neck sending chills down my spine (in the good way) causing him to tighten his grip on me.

"Your safe with me, I'll protect you." He whispers in my ear causing me to gulp. But to be honest I feel really safe right now, in his arms pressed against his warm chest. All thoughts of my father fade and my eyes get very heavy. I fall into a deep and pleasant sleep.