Rasion D'tre (SLOW UPDATES)

Chapter 12

Matthews POV

My heart felt as if it might explode. I got in the car and hit my head on the steering wheel, my mind going a million miles an hour. The only words that escape my mouth were 'holy crap' and ' oh my God, that just happened'. It finally was settling in.

The father of the girl I might be falling for, just said to take care of her in the way he never could.

I open the car door as all of what I just ate came out of my stomach. It wasn't that it was disgusting, it was just kinda nerve-wracking. The job of a parent was to care for their children and protect them. That's what my parents did anyway. I then realize her situation and it makes sense.

" Get out of the car, I'm driving," Archer said as she gets out of the passenger seat and basically yanks me out of the driver's seat and pushes me to the passenger seat. " I am not risking my now kinda durable life because you are sick"

I look at her, about to say something but she stops me.

" Don't say anything, and sleep. We'll go home so both of us can change to go to wherever you were gonna take me today."

I lay back and close my eyes. Just as I am drifting into darkness, I hear

" Today was a total shitshow, but you always make things feel normal and I love that about you"

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I wake up to a gentle shake, opening my eyes to find the house that I might as well call ours. She is basically living here, so why not.

I carry the suitcase with me as I watch her run inside the house. I enter the house to hear the shower running. I knew that the sight of her parents had affected her a lot and I just gave her space to be alone and figure out her thoughts.

I sat on the couch and decided to call my close friend, Anthony for the thing we have today.

Hey, this is Anthony speaking

"Hey, is the observatory still open for us today," I ask as I head up to my room and get the clothes I wanted to wear.

"Of course dude" I could feel his smile through the phone, it affecting me also as I break out into a grin "This girl must be special if you are willing to do this for her."

He had no idea.

I heard the water turn off and quickly say bye to Anthony and hang up the phone as I see Archer enter the bedroom, towel covering her back, able to see two faint scars on her each of her shoulders. I feel my stomach drop as I focus more on her arms to see bandages wrapped around both arms as well as her thigh.

My body moves on its own as I reach out and lightly trace my finger over one of the scars on her shoulder, finger tracing to her arms.

She grabs my arm and looks up at me, her eyes showing a kind of embarrassment and surprise. My gaze doesn't waver as I still look at her, eyes asking if it was ok. She let's go of my arm and allows me to continue tracing the scars on her arms. I feel her shiver at the coldness of my fingers and stop and say " you should probably get dressed" and walk out of the room without saying anything else. I close the door behind me slowly and sink into the floor, back still against the door. I look up at the ceiling and feel my face getting hotter as I think about what I just did. I lightly slam my head against the door and laugh in embarrassment. If she doesn't pick up on my liking in her, I don't know what else to do.

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Archer's POV

My heart feels like it's trying to escape my body. I try to push what just happened out of my head and get dressed. I put on ripped jeans that hug my figure and a bra for now. I try to find some of my shirts and realize that I left it in the living room. I open the door to get my suitcase to see Matt fall back and on top of my feet. He looks up at me and quickly gets up, covering his eyes. I tap his shoulder, " why aren't you facing me"