Jodie woke up the next morning with a massive headache. He couldn't remember anything from the night before, but he'd guessed that he'd been drinking. Where did Levi put those paracetamol tablets......... He walked out of his room to find Raoul asleep under several blankets on the couch. She looked so cute when she was asleep......
He heard an annoyed cough to one side and turned to see Levi. He guessed that he was going to tell her what had happened last night.
"Jodie, come talk to me in the kitchen now."
He gulped nervously and followed her to the kitchen, holding his head, as with his hangover every footstep sounded like the world was about to end.
Levi passed him some paracetamol tablets and a glass of water, which he gratefully took.
"Do you remember anything from last night?"
"No, what happened?"
"First of all, you went out and returned hours later with her, then you randomly took your shirt off-"
Jodie felt himself flush bright red. He considered a change of name and location for a moment, just to escape the embarrassment.
"I did what?! Shit, I hope she doesn't remember......"
"Yeah that's what I thought, she looked all freaked out, then you confessed true love to her or something."
Jodie felt like the embarrassment would eat him alive, he couldn't remember being this embarrassed since- that didn't matter!
"No........" he held his head in his hands.
"She then puked and passed out, and when she came around she didn't seem to remember anything you did or said so I think you're safe."
Jodie breathed a sigh of relief, but instantly regretted it as another wave of pain hit his head.
"Jodie, you go rest. You need some sleep after last night."
He stumbled to his room - glancing happily over at Raoul peacefully asleep on the couch as he passed her - and threw himself under he covers. He fell asleep almost instantly.
Raoul woke up suddenly. Where was she? How did she get here? Who's clothes were she wearing? She felt a little heavy headed as she dragged herself off of the couch.
Levi noticed the girl stumble off of the couch.
"Morning, well more like afternoon."
"How did I get here?"
"You got drunk and Jodie took you back here."
Raoul nodded in reply.
"Where is he?"
"He's in his room asleep." Levi gestured towards a door half eaten by something. Raoul didn't want to know what had eaten it.
Raoul took a few uneasy steps into his room. There he was, curled up into a ball under the blankets, his expression fairly neutral as he slept.
She stared at him for a few moments, as he lay there in his worn The Beatles shirt and black sweat pants with holes in the knees. He had a Marilyn Manson tattoo on his right knee, she noticed.
She smiled and glanced around his room, it was pretty small and cramped but he had made it his own. The dim sunlight trickling through a missing section of his ceiling was enough light to see his room. There was a single shelf above his bed, containing an empty peanut butter jar filled with loose change, a moth eaten teddy bear that was probably from his childhood. Raoul couldn't help but smile at the thought of a tiny Jodie clutching onto that bear. A several well-read paperback books cluttered the end of the shelf, and on closer inspection Raoul saw that they were mostly Dickens books.
The rest of his walls were covered in posters, everything from South Park to band posters covered his walls.
She turned back to the sleeping boy, curled into the fetal position with the tip of his thumb resting on his lips. Raoul could've sworn that she felt her stone heart begin to melt slightly at this sight.
"I must like you more than i thought" she whispered softly to herself. She shook her head and turned to leave.
She felt something holding her back as she tried to leave. She turned back to see Jodie clasping her wrist with his hand, one side of his hair at an angle from where he'd slept strangely. He was blushing too.
"W-What did you just say?"
