It has been a few days since everything happened. Matthew, Luke, and James are my main visitors, Ariana and Jai sometimes visit me but not often, and Beau, well he hasn’t tried coming to see me once. Of course if he wanted to see me he couldn’t. He’s not allowed.
“Hey Andrea” Luke said as he walked in with a plate of food for me.
“Hey.” I smiled.
“How are you feeling?” He asked sitting down.
“Better.” I answered, “Where’s Thor?”
Thor hasn’t been allowed to stay in the room with me because the guys think that he is going to hurt me or something stupid like that.
“Skip is bringing him down.” He answered passing me my food. I took in the smell of the food and smiled looking down at what I had, which was eggs sunnyside up with a side of toast and bacon.
“Thank you.” I smiled.
“Oi here’s your dog.” Skip exclaimed as he walked in.
“Thor!” I proclaimed and he jumped on my lap making me almost lose my food to the floor. I patted his head and made him sit at the end of the bed.
“What is he doing here?” Luke fumed as he stood up, “He is not supposed to be here!”
“He wants to see her.” Skip said. I looked over to see Beau behind him looking in at me, “This is his house.” He acknowledged.
Luke was fuming, which was weird because a couple of days ago I thought he hated me. He moved to the side, “10 minutes” and Skip and him walked out leaving Beau and I alone. Well gee thanks guys.
I shuffled in my bed feeling uncomfortable that he was here.
“May I?” He asked pointing to the chair beside me.
I nodded my head and he sat down quietly. Thor was quick to notice and started growling at him. I patted his head and he calmed a bit but was still tense, just like me.
“How are you feeling?” He asked with concern.
“Better.” I answered.
“Good, good.” He mumbled.
I nodded my head and went back to eating my food.
“Look I’m sor-“ He said but I put my hand up.
“Don’t apologize. I should have listened to you.” I stated.
“No, I should not have hurt you.” He continued. He shuffled closer to me, “I miss you. I miss sleeping next to you even though we you were only there once, but I miss it.” He added.
I started at him not knowing what to say, the only thing that came out was “You don’t even know me.”
“I know more than you think.” He said and got up. He went to walk out but I stopped him, “Wait where are you going?” I asked.
“To think” and he left.
A few moments later Luke walked back in, “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine.” I lied.
What did he mean he knew more than I thought? How did he know so much? I patted Thor’s head and he dug his head into my side. I smiled and finished my food then went back to sleep.
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“Oi is she awake yet?” Someone asked, James I think.
“Shut up.” Luke spat, “She will be up when she is up.”
“I’m up.” I groaned.
“Did we wake you?” Luke asked.
I opened my eyes to see Luke sitting close to me with a book in his hands and James at the door with Matthew. “No you didn’t.” I rubbed my eyes and sat up carefully.
James and Matt walked in and they both gave me a smile and Matt came over and gave me a hug. I loved his hugs, they made me feel wanted.
“There is somewhere we want to take you.” James smiled.
“Where?” I asked.
“Yeah, where?” Luke asked defensively. I don’t know what has gotten into him lately but he has been on me like a fish to water.
“To the book store.” Matt smiled.
I quickly jumped up out of bed and grabbed my coat, “Let’s go!” I proclaimed with a smile on my face.
“Wait, you need to get dressed first. You aren’t going in your pj’s.” James said laughing.
“Right!” I said and plopped back on my bed.
James went and got me clothes. He brought back and white tank top, a pair of blue jeans with my big grey sweater and my black boots. I went to the bathroom and threw them on, pulled my hair back in a low bun, threw some make up and on and came out to see Beau in the room with the others. I could feel the tension in the room.
“She is not going anywhere.” Beau fumed.
“She has been trapped in this room for days, the least we can do is take her out.” James explained
“And away from you.” Matt muttered.
Beau grabbed Matt and threw him up against a wall, “You want to repeat that?” He spat.
I ran over to them and tried to pull Beau off of Matt, ”Let him go, Beau!” I begged.
He wouldn’t release him then Beau was pulled off by James and Matt fell to the ground.
I went down to him and took his face in my hands, “Are you okay?” I whispered and he shook his head yes.
“That’s it, we are out of here!” Luke declared.
Luke came over to Matt and helped him up along with me, holding onto my hand a little longer than wanted but it felt nice, his warm hand in mine. He finally let go when we all started walking out the door, including Beau.
“You aren’t coming.” Luke said as he kept walking.
“Like hell I am.” He said back.
“Fine, if you come you stay away from her. You don’t touch her, you don’t look at her, you don’t think about her. Understand?” Luke declared.
“Understood”
