And Then There's You (A Justin Melton Fanfiction)

Chapter Three: And Then She Freaked Out

Justin Melton's P.O.V.

It's been 5 hours and the girl is still unconcious.

I brought her to my condo unit and let her sleep in the guest room.

But, wait. Hep, hep, hep! I didn't do anything wrong to her, ha?

I tried to recall what my mother did whenever I had fever. I put a damp towel on the girl's forehead from time to time. I also checked her temperature as I changed the towel on her forehead. Thankfully, her temperature isn't as high as before (it was 39· when I first checked!). I also wanted to change her out of her wet, sagging clothes to make her feel more comfortable, but, of course I didn't do it because you know... She's a girl and I'm a boy. Duuuh?!

I didn't get much sleep because I was looking after her, waiting for her to wake up. I want to know why she's in this state.

I have some theories in my head. The first is maybe because she was about to elope with her boyfriend. She looked pretty okay, after all. Nah, scratch that. She's too young. I kinda studied her physical features last night to kill time waiting. She seems pretty young, my guess is she's not even in her twenties. She had jet black layered hair that reached her shoulder blades, kayumanggi skin, a cute, small nose and dried lips. She's also pretty tall, I guess she's around 5'7.

But I don't think she was waiting for someone because if that was the case then she wouldn't have been lying on the ground unconcious. I mean she was soaking wet and sick with high fever last night so she must have been under that stupid waiting shed for hours! Someone should have had come for her, but no one did.

It leaves me with another, more likely theory.

She ran away.

From who or what, I have no idea of, since she's still unconcious.

I massage my temples, I feel a headache coming. Yesterday was such a long day and it feels like today will be, too. And, oh, by the way, Joe was just joking with me. He didn't see Erika with some guy, much to my relief. He just made it all up to test if I reallt cared for her, blah, blah, blah. He thought I must have been furious because I wasn't replying to his texts or picking up his calls, so when I did he said "sorry, bro" or "sorry, man" tons of times.

Maybe I was a little mad at him at first, but now, I don't think I am anymore. If it wasn't for his joke or for the need to get load, I wouldn't have seen the unconcious girl under that stupid waiting shed. I wouldn't have been able to save her from dying due to coldness or possibly even from drunk men or hungry stray dogs. Okay, my imagination runs wild. XD

There's something I can't quite distinguish inside me, though. All I know is it's growing and dominating me. Is it the values, traits and gentelmanly acts that my mother instilled in me, working in action? Agh, all I know is that I'm determined to take care and protect this girl whose name I still don't know of.

Funny, just hours ago I said 'I don't trust easily'. There's just something about this girl that made me break down the wall I've built for strangers. I feel like God destined me to meet this girl because she has a purpose in my life and I have a purpose in hers, too.

I don't know what that purpose yet is, since this girl's still asleep. Aish. Is she really sick or just getting some much needed, self deprived sleep?

I decide to grab some energy bars, since I'm low on energy. Ay, thank God walang training today.

"Arf, arf!" I quickly turn to look at the girl. Did she just bark? O_o

Nah, she's still asleep. It's Yuki, pala. Ahahhaha.