If Only

Chapter 43

Austin's POV

Garrett leads me over to the couch and gently places me down, "Garrett, did I actually hear the words I'm sorry come out of your mouth?" Garrett gives me that dark look telling me to shut my mouth, "It slipped out, and none of this would have happened if you would have just stayed in your dorm room." I place my hand on my back as I moan in pain. "Well excuse me for trying to save you from getting kicked out of college again." Garrett sits down on the floor next to me bringing his knees up, "You need to stop thinking that you can save me, and you need to start letting me do what I want." Garrett growls at me and I am starting to think that his attitude has to do with something more than meets the eye,

"What is going on?" I ask carefully sitting up on the couch and Garrett just turns his head and looks at me, "What are you talking about?" He asks and I can see his knee bouncing up and down, "You show up to my dorm room in the middle of the night, and I find you attacking one of my neighbors." Garrett scoffs and turns his attention away from me and to the TV screen. "Garrett Huntsman, don't sit there and ignore me." I scowl him as I reach for the chain around his neck and pull it closer to me making him turn towards me, "You have some explaining to do, and we are going to start with why you showed up so far away from the frat house." Garrett wrenches the chain out of my hand and stands up to tower over me,

"YOU'RE NOT MY PARENTS OR EVEN ONE OF MY CLOSE FRIENDS, SO DON'T THINK FOR ONE SECOND THAT YOU CAN TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, AND IF YOU DO IT AGAIN I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE AN ENEMY OF MINE!" Garrett roars loudly and I can see the anger built up in his eyes, but I couldn't ignore that part of me that wanted to know the truth, "Why did you stray so far from the frat house tonight, and why did you show up in the hallway?" Garrett lets out a loud frustrated snarl as he picks up a chair in the living room and hurls it into the kitchen. "I HAVEN'T BEEN BACK TO THE HOUSE SINCE PSYCHOLOGY CLASS THIS AFTERNOON! I COULDN'T GO BACK TO THERE BECAUSE I KNEW THAT IF I RAN INTO LOGAN I WOULD DO SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ME MY THIRD STRIKE!" I look at Garrett with surprise, and I can't say that I expected this kind of reaction from Garrett over something that had nothing to do with him.

"You haven't been to the fraternity all day?" I gently scoot closer to Garrett who is now pacing around my living room like a caged animal ready to attack, "What happened in class today kept playing over and over again in my head, and for some crazy reason that I can't explain, I just had this feeling that I should check on you." I sigh knowing that my feelings for Garrett are getting more and more complicated the more we spend around each other. "That is why you showed up tonight, you were worried about me?" I can't say that I am not touched by this, but I know deep in my heart that I need to get control over myself before I ruin everything.

"As if, the only reason I came to check on you is because I need to do damage control between you and Logan, I don't need Alpha Delta Fraternity getting a bad reputation because of Logan." It hurts me a little listening to Garrett's words but I know when it comes to Garrett you need to take the good with the bad, even when bad outweighs the good. "Well you did your job, and as you can see I am okay." Garrett looks at me and raises one of his eyebrows, "My back didn't hurt until you attacked that guy." Garrett rubs the back of his neck, "Do you think I can stay here tonight? Cassidy in one of her foul moods and I don't think I can deal with that on top of everything that has happened today." As much as every fiber inside of me is screaming at me to say no, my heart which is much louder is telling me the opposite.

"I guess so, Jonathan and Katie won't be back until the morning." Garrett half smiles at me as inclines his head, "What are you watching anyways?" Garrett asks changing the topic of conversation. "I was watching my favorite movie Titanic." Garrett looks at me with an odd expression on his face as he rolls his eyes and start laughing, "I can't believe that you are the type of guy that actually watches these sappy romance movies, these movies are for girls." I glare to him and scoff, "Everyone needs a good romance movie once in a great while." Garrett keeps laughing as he rolls on the floor clutching his stomach, "You should like a girl Black." Garrett takes the remote away from me and switches the channel to some show that I don't know, "I was watching that." I snap at him as I reach for the remote but Garrett keeps it just out of my reach and with the pain in my back there is not much I can do. 

Garret and I spend the rest of the night watching a really interesting show called 'My Haunted House' on Travel Channel. "I need to get some sleep, it is 2 in the morning and I have things to do tomorrow." I say as I try to stand up but I can't."Let me." Garrett says as he once again helps me up off the couch and helps me upstairs to my room. Once we are upstairs I decide that I will just sleep in my clothes due to the fact that Garrett is here, and I am extremely body conscious."Thank you helping me, and I have to say that I ended up having a great time." Garrett just nods his head as he pulls his shirt over his head and tosses it to the floor, "I'll be down here if you need me." he flops down the floor as I get cozy in my bed, 

"Night Garrett." I say looking up at the ceiling as I try to push down the raging feelings that want to overcome to. "I'm trying to sleep, go to bed." He grumbles and as I peek down at him I see his eyes are closed and he looks rather peaceful at the moment. "Can you please stop staring at me." He says without opening his eyes. I turn on my other side as I close my eyes as I fight these feelings for Garrett I have for the rest of the night.