Weakness

27. "I wasn't planning to."

LIA

I wake up feeling extremely hot. I'm wrapped around someone and their wrapped around me as well. The feeling is foreign so I open my eyes wide to see what's going on. It was a bad idea to open my eyes because as soon as I open them, the sun that's beaming through the window hits them which makes me close them almost immediately. I notice that I'm in Justin's room and once I do, all of the memories from last night flood back in. I do remember everything. I don't know whether this can be a good or bad thing.

My head is pounding and I have a terrible headache. I'm never drinking again. It wasn't entirely all my fault because Joseph was the one who kept giving me drinks. Damn him.

I feel someone shake next to me. Justin. I'm still wrapped around him but in all honesty, I'm really comfortable and he's wrapped around me as well so I don't think he'll mind.

"Are you awake?" I question once I feel that he's awake.

"Yes." He mumbles, snuggling closer to me while saying so. This makes me shiver because I'm getting to see a side of him that I always knew was there but I just didn't think he'd ever show to me.

His head is placed on my neck, his arms and legs hang loosely around my body and my arms and legs do the same to his but my head is placed normally next to his.

I bring my hands up to play with his hair. I don't even know why I'm doing this and I'm even more surprised that he's letting me.

"Sorry for throwing myself at you last night." I jump right to it because I don't want to make this awkward or bring it up later.

"It's alright. I knew you wanted me anyway but damn." He chuckles and I feel the vibration on my neck as he does so.

"There's the Justin that I know." I point out, smiling to myself. I feel his lips turn into a smile on my neck as he leaves a soft peck on it right after. I continue to play with his hair and I then bring myself to gently tug on a piece which makes him release a very low moan but I still heard it.

"You called me Lia last night..." I'm glad that I remember what happened last night because of this. I kind of want to forget the fact that I threw myself at him but at the same time I'm glad that I remember because if I would have forgotten then I would have been trying to make myself remember either way.

"I did."

"It took a while but you finally did it." I smile at him. I'm not mad at him for anything that happened last night. He stopped me and I'm glad that he did.

"Yeah but don't get used to it."

"I wasn't planning to." I respond.

"I like cuddling with you." He randomly brings up and his words increase my good mood. Despite the terrible headache, I'm not feeling so bad because his playful and good attitude is making things better.

"And I with you."

"I don't want to get up... I'll be forced to face reality." He confesses.

"What do you mean?" I ask, needing a further explanation.

"I don't like to think about my feelings and I know that once I lift my head from your neck and look at you, all of my thoughts are going to return and I'll be forced to think about them." He sighs and once again he shifts his head more into my neck.

"Oh.." I don't know what to respond back. He just confessed something, right? I'm guessing that this means that I'm not the only one having some sort of feelings here.

"Are you admitting that you have feelings for me?" I dare myself and decide to ask.

"Yes. Possibly." He admits and I feel my heart flutter a bit.

"Oh. Okay." I don't know how to respond to this...

"Mhmm."

"You were cute when you were jealous the other day at school." I tell him.

"I wasn't jealous."

"Hmmm sure you weren't. You can't stand Chris." I say.

"Okay fine I'm a bit happy that you decided to go to the party rather than hangout with that idiot." He responds.

"I knew it." I chuckle.

"Justin do yo--" Pattie swings the door to Justin's room open and stops mid-sentence once she see's me. I see her eyes widen and a couple of emotions flash through her. At first she's shocked, then she seems happy, and now I just don't know. I have no clue what she might think of this.

"Oh no..." Justin mumbles and he then removes his head from my neck and sits up on the bed to look at his mother.

"This isn't what it looks like. We were at a party last night and I decided to let Amelia stay here because she wasn't feeling well, that's all." Justin explains to his mom.

"I would have slept in the guest room but we were just tired and.." I begin to add.

"If nothing happened then it's fine. What's done is already done but for next time I would like you to sleep in the guest room better but you know that I don't mind having you here, Lia. You can stay here anytime you want." Pattie gives me a warm smile.

"Okay but don't worry it won't be happening again." I reassure her.

"I'm just telling you just in case it does but I like having you here. You're good for Justin." She says.

"Okay mom what did you come in here for?" He changes the subject.

"I came in here to ask if you wanted to get breakfast but it's fine, you can go with Lia."

"Okay." He replies. With that, there's nothing else left to say so she just smiles and leaves the room, clothing the door behind her.

Justin lays back down on the bed, snuggling his head on the pillow and he then surprises me by dragging my body against his.

"Let's continue sleeping and we'll go get breakfast later." He mumbles as he snuggles himself closer to me. I, of course, can’t resist him so I snuggle myself closer to him as well. This is a side of Justin that I don’t see very often but I’m glad that he’s possibly starting to open up and show it. 

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Double update since I made you guys wait for the last chapter long enough! Hope you liked it.