Overcome

Chapter Twenty

My mom screams of joy when I step in the door. I hesitantly walk to the kitchen, a little scared on what's happening. I slowly take out the mugs and start to wash them.

"So how was is it?" she screeches, overloading with joy.

I turn around, "How was what?"

"You went to the barn! Ohhhh! That's why you disappeared! How was it?"

seriously, the enthusiasm that's happening is not normal.....

"Mom, we went and got breakfast then went shopping." I hold up the mug that I was washing to show what I bought.

Her face drops a little, but then she said "These are some big ass mugs!"

"Hey!" I laughed, "I like them, don't judge!"

Her phone rings and I don't pay attention to her talking.

"I have a work emergency" she says when she hangs up. "Are you guys good?"

I nod and start to boil water for the hot chocolate. As mom leaves, my hot chocolate is just getting done.

Justin strolls in, I notice that he still looks so vulnerable. Somethings still bothering him, and it's bothering me to think that's something is bothering him.

He looks at my hot chocolate filled mug, "You're going to watch movies now aren't you?"

"care to join" I say in one of those fancy accents.

"I would be honored to" he says in an accent that could'nt even be recognized by the actual person who speaks it.

"Wowwwwww. That was awful"

"Accents were never really my strong point."

Once we both have a giant mug with a giant marshmallow in it, we make our way downstairs to the den and surf for movies.

"What about paranormal activity?" he asks.

"Okay, I can do scary movies, just not those. Plus You already saw it." I point out.

"Insidious"

"Seen it."

"World War Z"

"Seen it."

"The Omen"

"seen it"

"Okay, what do you want to watch?"

"I got the perfect movie." I say as I put on Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.

"Every. Single. Time." he says as he falls back on the couch.

"He never gets old, and don't lie, you love these movies too."

A lot of hour's later, we were watching the last scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part II. Mom came home five hours ago. She tried talking to us but Justin (I told you he loves these movies) and I toned her out to listen to the movie. But now, I'm really tired, all my hot chocolate was gone forever ago and I didn't want to miss any part in the movie to go make more.

"Gina, I don't this that we should go to the barn just for one more night." Justin says when the movie is over. "Please don't be mad at me" he adds quickly.

"Nope, I get it, I'm tired, I'm going to bed."

"Good, I don't want to have to go looking for a half sleeping body at four in the morning again."

"What happened that night anyway" I ask because I never gotten the chance.

"I went to go apologize to you because I know I was being a jerk. I knew that you were going to be up since you were so mad and because you are now nocturnal. Then I thought I would apologize and sleep would catch up to up so then you would just pass out and be fine. But we both now, our life can't be that simple. Instead of finding you in your room, I find the window screen out of the window next to your bed. You almost gave me a heart attack. I went out to the barn, driving slowly just in case you past out on the street or something, but thank god, you were in the barn, basically fainting, but you were in the barn."

"Wow, I'm stupid" I say when he was done talking.

"Sometime, yes. but most the time your actually pretty smart."

I blush from the compliment just because I haven't really gotten a compliment in a long time.

I fall asleep for about an hour, I jolt awake dreaming that Justin never got to see his parents, but something bad happened to them. I don't know what but they were in the hospital. I just remember in the dream that I went to room 214 in the hospital to visit them, then I jolted awake before I saw what was really wrong.

Now I lie there awake, thinking what could that possibly mean. Get Justin to see his parent, duh.

I walk into his room, as always, he's sitting up, awake.

"Justin" I whisper as I sit down next to him. "You got to sleep."

Then it hits me. All the times I walked in on him in the middle of the night or that he was able to drive me to the barn, I didn't open the door loud, he was already awake. Staying awake was the only solution for him to lose the nightmare. Then sleep probably caught up to him and that's when I started to hear his sleep talking.

"It's okay, go to sleep" I coax.

I prop myself up against the wall and pull him towards me so that he's laying down.

"Go to sleep, don't worry" I coax again.

After a while he falls asleep, I try to stay awake just in case if anything happens, but I feel my body swaying. I lay down, still holding Justin holding him so he knows I'm still there. Soon I fall into a deep sleep too.