Words to Me

Julia

"I hit my head." I say sitting down on my now upright chair placing a hand to the spot where my head hit the floor and find it a bit wet. "Excuse me." I mutter standing up, I manage a few steps before stumbling and falling, right into Andrew's lap.

Instinctively I shut my eyes during the fall, I felt so lightheaded. When my landing is softened, I open my eyes to dark fabric, it takes me a second to realise what I'm staring at and I immediately try and pull back almost falling on my ass had Andrew's arms not caught me. 

"Oh my god I'm so sorry." I mutter still in the same awkward position he caught me in.

"Woah there, maybe you need a bit of help. It's alright though" He helps me up, standing up with me his tall frame towering over my short one. 

I stay like that for a second my face still very red and I notice a tint of red to his as well before Jon interrupts. "Well let's get you home then before you fall into any other mens laps."

I nod trying to pull away but Andrew holds me firmly against him, his grip on me doesn't hurt instead it's rather reassuring. "I think maybe I should help you walk." he says softly. His eyes wander from my own going to my hair, he gently touches a part of it and I cringe.  He frowns as he pulls his fingers away, slick with blood. "You're bleeding, why didn't you say anything?" Andrew looks extremely concerned. 

I shrug. "I didn't think it was that bad." 

"Well it is we are taking you to a hospital." he says looking at the others standing behind us, Jon paying the bill and Davey and Rob watching us. 

As soon as I register the word hospital I panic and start shaking. "No! I'm fine, just take me home please." 

It takes a second for Andrew to respond. "On two conditions the first, is that you let us take care of that when we get back." I nod. "the second is this." And with that he lifts me up off the ground cradling me in his arms. The sensation of suddenly being in the air startles me and I cling to Andrew gripping onto his shirt tightly as he starts walking to the door only to turn around again to address Davey. ''Hey Davey can you grab her things please." 

"Yeah, no problem." He starts gathering up my things as Andrew begins to walk again.

Up until this point I was absolutely terrified of being off the ground and I finally manage to gain my voice again. "I can walk you know."

He glances down at me briefly. "You can't walk three steps without falling." He adjusts his hold on me and I panic wrapping my arms around his neck for dear life. I just sigh knowing he's right. 

As he approaches the door I see the waitress standing there watching behind  us and I do the most childish thing I could. I pretty much snuggle into Andrew and flip her off my hand grazing his hair, and I smirk at her. I turn back around as Andrew looks down at me questioning what just happened and I just shake my head but that only makes me feel dizzy and I rest my head against his shoulder closing my eyes. 

"I just feel dizzy." I mutter into his shirt.

He slides me gently into the car sliding in next to me. The rest of the guys shuffle in and start driving to my apartment, apart from Andrew they had all been to my house before at some point. Whether it had been gaming or when I was in relationship we had gone on double dates. But that was quite some time ago. 

My head is swimming from all of the memories that have come flooding back and I lean against  Andrew, my vision darkening around the edges. 

"Oh no you don't, you can't fall asleep. Not after you hit your head like that." Andrew mutters trying to keep me awake. I try to but my eyes just feel so heavy, and sleep seems like a nice escape. 

"M'kay." I mutter trying my best to stay awake. And somehow I do, the next thing I know Andrew is caring me in the door and Julia begins barking loudly. Jon who was leading, takes a step back, not used to seeing my rather large dog bark as she was always quiet. 

"Down Julia." I say reaching down as she jumps up on Andrew's legs nuzzling my fingers. 

She whimpers softly and stops barking, padding along behind us as Andrew follows Jon up to my room. For once I'm glad I actually cleaned. 

"Jon you know where everything is why don't you and the rest get comfy there's plenty of food and drinks as well. It's my fault you didn't get to finish eating so help yourself to anything. I baked a cake last night so there's that too."

"Alright, you okay with handling her Andrew?" 

"Yeah go on down." Andrew responds stepping into my room and out of the doorway do Jon can walk past. 

I can feel his steady breathing as he sets me down onto my bed gently. "Do you have a first aid kit?" 

"Um yeah under the sink in my bathroom on the left." I gesture to the door that leads into the adjoining bathroom as Julia jumps up onto my lap resting her head against my leg. 

As he searches for it he keeps talking. "This is a really nice bathroom, very spacious. Where did you get your dog? Juliet?" 

"Thank you, one of the best things about this place. Julia, she was a rescue I got her as a puppy when I moved here to help me adjust to the change." 

Andrew comes back in but he's not carrying the kit. "Weren't you able to find it? I'm sure I had one." I ask confused. 

"Oh no I was able to find it but we are going to have to clean up the blood from your head, it's too much to just wipe off." he trails off and I get what he's going for. He shifts around awkwardly, normally I would be extremely embarrassed but I'm too tired and my head is killing me. 

"Okay, so I have a bath. I'll keep on my underwear and bra, if you're fine with that." I realise what I'm proposing and get a little flustered but try to hide it. 

"Ehm yeah. I'll just go and draw a bath for you then." he disappears into the bathroom and I hear water running. 

I look down at Julia and rub her head, massaging her ears. "It's been quite a day." 

Soon Andrew comes back out and he carries me into the bathroom setting me down on the edge of the tub, now that the adrenaline has worn off I can feel just how sore I am and groan trying to take off my clothes. 

"Here let me." He gently helps me undress, every once in awhile his warm hands graze my skin causing me to shiver. 

He helps me get into the tub and begins to gently rinse water through my hair, carefully massaging the area around the cut to clean out the blood. Neither of us say much as it happens. But I will admit I was slightly upset when it ended, it felt exceptionally good. After it was cleaned up he helped me up and wrapped me in a towel sitting me on the counter to finish up with the first aid kit. 

"Do you think you will be alright dressing yourself?" He asks putting the kit back under the sink, I'm half tempted to say yes but i'm not that selfish. 

"Yeah, can you just bring something in here please, all my clothes are in the closet and the drawers in there."

"Yeah I'll be right back, stay put."

He quickly returns with some clothes before he walks back out again. It still hurts a bit to get dressed but I manage before slowly making my way back out to my room only to find Andrew sitting on my bed, Julia draped across his lap on her back allowing Andrew to pet her stomach, her tongue lolling to the side. 

I smile. "That's a first." He looks up at me ready to get up but I wave it off. :"No sit I'm fine you've done more than enough."

I make my way over sitting next to him on my bed petting Julia as well, it's quiet but it's not awkward, and I feel a peace wash over me I have not felt in a long time.