~ Chapter 5 ~

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~ Dean's POV ~

I couldn't help feeling sorry for Riley after she told me about her childhood. I mean I had a pretty bad past too, but her past was terrible. Riley told me that she has never told anyone but Aj about her childhood... She also told me that she feels like she can trust me. Which is a good thing... I hope anyway. "Wait, wait, wait, I feel sorry for her? Do I care about her? D-do I have-" I started to stare off into space thinking.

"Dean...?" Riley said softly. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at her in my arms. "Ar-are you ok?" she stuttered still crying a little. "Yeah, I'm ok." I paused and smiled at her, "The real question is are you ok?" I asked. She let a small smile across her lips. She shrugged and looked down. "I don't know if I'm ok anymore.... I mean I hate feeling like I'm helpless, I hate having to rely on someone to help me stand up, let alone helping me walk. I'm not used to having someone being there to help me. Other than Aj, but she's not always around. I j-just don't know what to feel anymore."

I looked down at her with her head still looking down. I heard her sniffle and could tell she was about to cry again. So I put my finger under her chin and made her look up at me. Her eyes had tears ready to roll down her cheeks. She looked up at me and looked down with her eyes, she leaned into me and hugged me. "Thank you..." She said quietly. "Anytime you need to talk or whatever you can come to me if Aj isn't there." I said wrapping my arms around her hugging her.

"What am I doing? I can't just say that I'm here for her if Aj isn't... I'm not good at that kind of thing!" I was thinking to myself when I felt Riley's arms release the hug. I unwrapped my arms around her, but I was still supporting her back so she could sit up.

She rolled off of my lap and shifted up to the top of her bed and got under the covers. "I know I already said this but I want to say it again... Thank you Dean." she smiled. I smiled back  and nodded, as I got up off of her bed and started to walk out of her room.

~ Riley POV ~

I watched Dean turn off my light and walk out of my room. Shortly after he left I fell asleep with a smile on my face for the first time in a very long time.

The next morning I woke up and decided to attempt to get up on my own. I sat up on my bed, pushed  the covers off of me. I took a deep breath and sighed as I slowly put my legs over the bed and onto the floor. I decided to mostly stand on my other leg, since it wasn't injured. "I did it! I stood up without any help!" I said to myself quietly. I took a step, well I kinda hopped over to the bedroom door. I had a smile on my face when I reached the door, I pushed it open and "walked" to the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" I heard Dean say chuckling because he made me jump. "Gees, could you have been any louder?" I giggled "Actually, yes I could have. But the fact that you basically jumped out of your skin when I said it that loud doesn't give me a need to say it louder next time." He laughed. I shook my head smiling at him.

"So how exactly did you manage to get out of bed without falling down and make a thump loud enough to wake me up, let alone walk?" He said smirking.  "Well I kinda hopped on one leg to the door, I pushed it open and hopped over to the kitchen." I said proudly. "Mmmhmmm..." I heard Dean say as he walked closer to me.

"What are you doing!?" I squealed, as Dean picked me up like a sack of potatoes over his shoulder. "Dancing, what does it look like I'm doing?" He said chuckling "Put me down!" I said squirming trying to get out of his grip. "Nope." he said "Deeeaannnnnn!" I whined. "Whaaaattt?" he said mocking me. "Put me down!" I said laughing a little bit. "Ok, I'll put you down." He said making me curious.

"Dean. Don't. Do. It." I said realizing how he was going to put me down. "Don't do what?" he paused "This?" he said as he threw me onto the couch, and started tickling me. "Ye-yes, tha-t! D-dean, St-op, it tickles." I laughed "What if I don't? Then what?" he asked still tickling my sides. "Th-Then I'll make y-you sto-p." I said still laughing "Oh yeah? And how are you gonna do that?" He asked. "L-like Thi-s." I said and Leaned up kissing him.

My plan worked. He stopped tickling me. I pulled away from the kiss and laughed, "See that made you stop." I said jokingly. "I wasn't expecting you to kiss me! I was expecting you to kick me where the sun doesn't shine..." He said laughing. "Well that was plan B if the kiss didn't work." I smirked and flinched my leg acting like I was going to kick him. He grabbed my leg and shook his finger at me "No, no, none of that!" He chuckled.

Dean started to walk away, but I grabbed his arm pulling him back, making him fall beside me on the couch. "What?" He chuckled a little. "Nothing.... never mind, it was a stupid question." I said smiling. He raised and eyebrow at me "Nothing my ass. what did you want to ask me?" He said smirking. I shook my head and sighed. "Well I uhh... was wondering if you could maybe teach me some of old wrestling move from your CZW days?" I asked closing my eyes and tensing up.

I heard him starting to laugh. "What's so funny? I'm being serious." I said confused.  "What's funny is you closing your eyes and tensing up like I was gonna hit you or something." he chuckled. I rolled my eyes "Well I didn't know how you were going to react to the question... I didn't want to make you bring up your past. I know that you had a pretty shitty past and I didn't want you to feel uncomfortable and feel like you had to teach me some of your moves. I-" Dean cut me off. "Whoa, take it easy there tiger." He said sarcastically. I smiled and looked at him with a curious look.

"Riley, I can teach you some of my moves. That's not a problem for me. I haven't even thought about my past, and I'd rather not think about it. But my time in CZW helped me through all of the shit I was going through." He told me in a serious tone. I nodded and hugged him.

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