Zodiac Lovers

Chapter #9: The Restless Night

She takes a few more minutes in the shower, and gets out. She grabs a towel and wraps it around herself. She finds a hairbrush and combs her hair. After she finishes, she sits on the bathtubs side.

She sits there for practically an hour. Her hair was pretty much dry.

She finally snaps back to reality, and gets dressed in the clothes Justin gave her. They were a but big for her, but they worked. He left her a gray long sleeve shirt, and blue jogging shorts.

She opens the door and walks out. Justin was his way out of his room at the end of the hall on her right. He looked up, and saw her.

"You ok? You were in there for a while."

"Yeah."

He walks up to her. She hugs him, which surprises him. But he hugs her back.

"I set you up on the couch."

She slowly nods.

He let's go of her and leads her down the stairs to the living room.

The couch already had a sheet, blanket, and pillows on it.

She sits down, leaning forward. Arms on her legs. Justin takes a seat beside her on her left. He leans forward as well. The same position as her. He looks at her hands, they were fidgety. He puts his hand on hers to stop them. She looks at his hand, then at him. He smiles warmly at her. She tries to smile back, but she looks at her hands again. He pulls his hand away, and he leans back on the couch, hands resting behind his head. She looks at him. His eyes were shut. She hesitates, but slowly starts to lay on his chest.

His eyes snap open when he feels her head on his chest. He sees her put her legs on the couch, getting comfortable.

Justin's shocked. It takes him a minute to realize what she's doing. He hesitantly puts his arm around her. She smiles to the warmth of his touch. It relaxes her, she closes her eyes.

Soon, she falls asleep on Justin. He watches her. He gently brushes strands of hair from her face, and strokes her cheek. Aquarius moans in her sleep. He removes his hand from her cheek.

Instead, he carefully takes Aquarius off him and lays her down on the pillows on her right. He gets up and puts her legs up on the couch. Finally, he covers her with a blanket.

He looks at her one last time before he goes back up the stairs, and back to his room.

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Aquarius starts screaming and thrashing around in her sleep.

A minute passes, and she's still screaming and thrashing around.
Finally, she snaps awake. She sits up, panting and sweating.

A light is turned on above the stairs, and foot steps are heard coming down.

"Aquarius!? What's wrong!? What's going on!?"

She franticly looks up at him. Slightly panting now.

"Aquarius?"

She looks down.

"You don't talk to your mother, so you can't talk to others. Am I wrong?"

She closes her eyes, "No. You're right. My mother doesn't care if I have nightmares. She doesn't come to see if I'm ok. She doesn't show any interest."

She opens her eyes, still looking down, "I don't know how to talk to others about my feelings. I think they won't care."

"You're wrong about that. Your friends care. You can talk to any of them." He walks to the couch and takes a seat beside her.