I Love You

Chapter 7

"Everything okay?" Autumn said from behind me. I looked over at her and shook my head, "I'm sorry to cut this short but I left my best friend on a bad note. I need to see her, could you take me?" She nodded and offered her hand, "Come on let's go." I have never been so grateful for someone who I just met to be so understanding. I grabbed her hand and intertwined our fingers. "Let's turn in the stuff so I can go and drop you off." I squeezed her hand as a thank you and moved closer to her. After we turned in our things we walked to her car and rode in silence. "Thank you Autumn for everything today. I had a great time with you." She parked the car in Katie driveway after she followed my directions and reached across the console to hold my hand. "It was my pleasure you are so fun to hang out with. And on the plus side you're a great kisser." We both chuckled and I looked over at her, "I guess I'll see you in class." She smiled and squeezed my hand, "See you tomorrow pretty girl." Oh screw it. I leaned across the console and kissed her for the 3rd time today. It was also the slowest kiss we've shared and I definitely wasn't complaining. I hummed into the kiss showing what I was feeling and she hummed as well. Why do I feel like I am being watched. You're just being paranoid everything is fine. Smiling I broke the kiss and put my forehead against hers. "Okay I'll see you tomorrow Autumn." She smiled and pecked my lips one more time before moving back to her seat. "See you tomorrow."

I smiled and got out of the car walking to the door. I turned and waved at her when she pulled out of the driveway and drove away waving. What a night. Using the spare keys Katie gave me and unlocked the front door walking inside. Hm I guess only Katie is home. Locking the door I walked upstairs to her room getting ready to apologize for not responding to her. When I opened the door I was met with a sleeping Katie. She was asleep on top of her covers with her knees up to her chest and her head on top. She is so adorable.  I admire her to be able to sleep like that. Who am I kidding she can sleep anywhere and anytime. I should know by now I have been her pillow many times. I laughed lightly and went to set my stuff on her dresser quietly. "Even the light is still on. Was she waiting for me? Don't be ridiculous," I whispered to myself. When I got closer to her I noticed she had some tear stains down her cheeks. I caused this, how could I be so selfish. I shook my head to myself and slowly reached out to move her into more of a comfortable position to sleep in. She slowly started to stir and I sat down in front of her still moving her. "Vi?" She said in her sleepy voice. Gosh that's so hot. QUIT IT. "Shh yeah it's me. Can you move onto your side for me?" She just fell over to her left side and I had to hold back a laugh. "Very graceful Kat." Very quietly I heard her whisper, "What did I do wrong." I froze for a second not expecting that. I could feel my heart break a little. She thinks it's her fault. Oh God what did I do. "Kat go back to sleep we'll talk tomorrow." She mumbled something but I wasn't able to hear. Without thinking I reached my hand out and started to slowly rub her leg. After a couple of minutes of me admiring her I went to get up when I felt a hand grabbing mine.

I looked back over and saw her tired eyes looking at me. "Stay." You don't deserve it. Go sleep on the couch. You hurt her. "I think I'll go sleep on the cou..." She squeezed my hand slightly pulling, "Please." I can't say no to her. I can't cause her anymore pain. "Okay, okay, just give me a minute." I squeezed her hand for reassurance and she let go. I walked over to her dresser wanting to change out of my clothes. I grabbed a T-shirt and some spandex I found. Looking back over at the bed I saw that Katie had fallen asleep again with the steady rise and fall of her chest. Quickly changing I walked over to her light and turned it off. I walked over to the bed and picked Kat up into my arms. I lifted the covers and set her back down making her groan. I crawled over her carefully and got under the blanket bringing it over the both of us. I sighed at the warm and comfortable feeling of being in a bed and opened my eyes to look at Katie. She is so beautiful it's insane. "You will never know what I feel Kat because you deserve so much more. No matter how much it hurts me." I whispered to myself before I let sleep overtake me. The next morning I woke up in a mess of limbs.  Katie and I's legs were tangled while her head was in the crook of my neck and both our arms wrapped around each other. I smiled at our position and looked over at the clock on her dresser. 6:00am. Why am I awake right now class starts at 8:20am. I breathed deeply and felt Katie stir. "Vi go back to sleep." Katie said in her deep and groggy morning voice. She borrowed more into my neck and let a breath out. I couldn't stop the goosebumps that appeared and had no doubt that Katie had noticed. But she was right we still had about an hour of sleep. Closing my eyes I quickly fell back asleep.

The next time I woke up was from Katie's alarm on her phone. "Kat turn it off." I groaned moving closer to her. I heard her laugh against my neck, "Well with that morning voice and you holding me, I kind of don't want to move." Now her answer would have left me a stuttering mess if I was fully aware. But I was just waking up and barely aware of anything other then sleep, I had only held her harder to me as a response. "Vi you gotta let me go so I can turn it off." She was poking at my collarbone now. I just groaned and let go of her because the alarm was getting to the point where it was annoying. I heard her move and then the noise stopped and I could feel myself starting to fall asleep again. Well that was until I felt myself being pushed onto my back and then a warm body on top of me. "Vi wake up." She started poking my cheek knowing that I was falling asleep again. "I don't want to." I didn't hear anything from her but I could still feel her on top of me. When I felt a kiss on my cheek is when I finally opened my eyes. "There she is. Which by the way screw you for being so comfortable." I couldn't help but laugh at what she said and then I noticed our positions. Oh my gosh she is straddling me. Okay Violet keep your cool. Check your HORMONES YOU... "Good morning to you too Kat." She smiled her amazing smile but then it started to fall. Oh, yesterday. Right. I brought my hands her hers that she was playing with and caught her attention. "I'm sorry for yesterday. I didn't mean to hurt you. That's the very last thing that I wanted to do. I was just so caught up in my head and then Autumn and I hung out..." Katie cut me off saying, "I know." I immediately stopped talking giving her a confused look. "How do yo..." "I saw you leave with her before I walked to my class." Realization came across my face "Oh." I couldn't help but notice she looked kind of sad about it. Weird.