Alexander King and The Girl Next Door

Chap 14

All I wanted was peace and quiet. And maybe a nap, but I really wanted to just chill.
"Noooo please Sean!" Rosie is dangling off my brother who is trying to get the remote away from her. I'm laying draped over one of the love seats, and chase is camped out on one of the couches. Alex is in the kitchen making popcorn and bringing drinks in for everyone. Sean finally just hands over the remote giving up, while Rosie squeals and plops down on the other love seat. Sean lays across the couch purposely bothering Chase, but Chase doesn't do anything about it. I think he has a headache.
Alex comes in and immediately frowns.
"Guess I'll just eat all the popcorn by myself in the kitchen," Rosie and I both shriek and scream out
"No!" He grins and turns around,
"Thanks for sharing kitten," I grin at Rosie, I get the popcorn. She sticks her tongue out and waves the remote around.
She picks some god awful movie that I couldn't care less about, and pretty much presses the sleep button on me.
I'm under the big blanket with Alex, who's practically a space heater and I'm already exhausted from a long day.  I curl up into Alex's side and watch the movie a little, before I feel my eyes shutting and I don't even fight to reopen them.
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I wake up with my heart pounding out of my chest, my vision is blurry and I can hear my heart beat and all my blood rushing in my ears. Slowly I adjust to being awake and my vision becomes less blurry, but it's still hard to see because it's practically pitch black outside. I feel tears pouring down my face, and I'm freezing because of the cold sweat on my spine. I hug Sean's sweatshirt closer to me and breath in the smell of my brother. It calms me down and reminds me that Sean is right over on the couch, and that he's fine. I look across at the love seat and see Rosie sprawled out with her mouth wide open, breathing steadily. Chase is lounges across the coach with Sean, facing each other. Chase breathes very deeply and his movement is very obvious. I then look at Alex who, when he fell asleep must have pulled me down with him. Now I'm laying tucked into him and I can hear his heart beating through his plain t shirt. Everyone is here, everyone is safe.
That was possibly one of my worst nightmares, I came home and found Alex and Bel slumped over my kitchen counter, Alex sitting in front of Bel, almost as if he died trying to protect her. Two bullets in his head and blood dripping out his mouth, Isabel was pale, her lips blue. I can't remember what happened I just knew it was terrifying.  In my dream I then ran upstairs looking for Sean, Chase and Adrian. Adrian was sitting at his office desk with a letter opener in his back, and Chase was slumped in the hallway riddled with bullet holes. Sean was laying with his body against my bedroom door, always the one to try and protect me. I just remember knowing that it was all my fault. All the people I loved and cared about were dead and gone, all because of me. I was then grabbed from behind and my face was shoved into the pillow on my bed. I could feel my oxygen supply getting cut off but I remembered seeing Matt's face and hearing his voice.
"Nobody could love you, and the only people that ever would died. You will never have anyone Amelia,"
Right when I would've died in my dream I shot awake.  And obviously I disturbed Alex in the process.
"Shhh kitten go back to sleep, it's early." He wrapped his arm around me and pulls me back, but the moment by wet face comes in contact with his shirt he opens his eyes and begins to worry.
"What's wrong?" I look up at him and whisper back.
"Nightmare, its fine, I'm fine," I close my eyes and curl back into him when I feel his hand lift my chin up.
"Do you want to talk about it? I really don't like to see you crying," I shake my head no, because I truly do not want to talk about it. It's just me being childish. I mean for god sakes everyone is seated around my they are obviously okay. They aren't leaving me. I just need to calm down.
"Okay kitten, for now," I nod my head my eyes already closed and my head on his chest. He wraps his arm around my shoulder and tangles his fingers in my hair, massaging my head while I try to fall back asleep. I keep thinking about how the last time I cried, I was so scared, and how I triggered Matt to assault me. I should've known it'd make him angry.
I am glad that Alex cares about me. I could honestly use some TLC right now, I loved Matt. We had been together for years. I thought that maybe one day we'd get married, and that I'd be able to spend the rest of my life with the handsome quarterback. I never would have thought he'd go as far as he did. He had lost his temper numerous times while we dated but never had he raised his hand at me, nor threatened to do so.
Everything just escalated so quickly, and I couldn't stop crying. Next thing I knew I'm on the ground, my face stings and my hip feels like I got slammed into a wall.
Oh fūck it, I'm never gonna get back to sleep.

A/N: Hey guys so this one is kinda cute, I'm thinking of doing Alex's perspective for the next chapter just cause I feel like we all need a mental update on how Alex is doing. I really don't want to have one of his friends or some rando telling Amelia about it so my solution is just see it from his side.

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