Pieced Together Again

Confessions- Chapter 10 (Part 2)

*Alexander’s POV*

I lay in bed for three hours thinking about what Andrea had just told me hours before. I had to admit that it took a lot for me to hold in my anger. I felt horrible and guilty for some reason that I couldn’t explain. She had gone through a lot and I hated that guy for hurting her so badly, but I couldn’t help but be envious of him too. He had been there for her in a way that I never was. He encouraged her to go out there and perform and he had held her as she cried over her uncle.

Even though she hadn’t told him that she loved him it was obvious that she did care for him and I’m pretty sure that she had started to love him. I don’t know if I come off as creepy to her, but have you ever had someone in your life that made you so happy and not alone that you always wanted them with you or just around you? I’ve always felt that way with Andrea around. She was someone that I could talk to and I was always glad that she held no barriers when she spoke to me.

As I heard her even breath next to me, I couldn’t help to think what our life would have been if we had both stayed in the houses we grew up together. She probably would have been my girlfriend and we would have planned to go to the same college together. She wouldn’t be this broken girl that she was now. She would have been happy. If only we had never moved…

And that was why I felt guilty; if my family would have stayed then I could have found a way to convince her family to have their uncle stay with them. We could have gone to school together and I would have been her first boyfriend.  But now that I think of it, I was only thirteen when we had moved. I couldn’t have done much to stop them, I was just a kid.

I still hated that guy though. He had taken her innocence away. She would never go to out anywhere without looking around to make sure that he wasn’t there. Since I couldn’t be there for her before I was going to make sure that I was there for her now. Now was the time when she really needed someone.

With all these thoughts running through my mind, I was finally able to fall asleep after a couple of hours.

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I woke up to something digging in my nose. I opened my eyes and the first thing I noticed was my dark brown walls and then I realized a socked foot was poking my nose with the big toe.”What the heck!” I shout as I bat the foot away. Then I feel the bed quake and before I could think it’s an earthquake, I hear laughter. I sit up and see Andrea holding her stomach as she laughs.

She finally catches her breath to say, “You should have seen your face! Finally you wake up!” I couldn’t help but laugh along with her. Just as her laughter dies down, she lunges at me and I’m so shocked that I tried to flip over and only managed to cause both of us to tumble to the floor, the white silk blankets wrapping around the both of us. We both let out squeals of surprise, well mine was more like a grunt, and I was too manly to squeal.

I landed on top of Andrea and since I couldn’t catch myself in time all my weight landed on her. She let out a heave as I fell on her and I quickly arranged myself to hold myself above her. We looked each other in the eyes for a second and then we burst out laughing once again. We laughed for so long that no sound was coming out of our mouths.

After we were through with our random laughter I asked Andrea, “So what was all of that?”

“I wanted to see how you would react. You still looked half asleep,” She pulled the blanket away from us and she went to make the king-sized bed and I went over to help her.

“Well, yeah! You were poking my nose with your toe. What time is it anyway?” I asked turning towards the clock.

“It’s 9:30 A.M. I need to start leaving soon. My boss called me in so I have to go in by 12:00 P.M.” She finished the bed and went to her bag to grab her things and she headed to the bathroom.