Alexandrea's P.O.V

"Ohemmgeeeeee!!!!! I'm happy for you, I mean I expected you to end up with Nick but I'm okay with Eli too. Wait....how is it a problem?" Her deafening screaming made me put a little distance between my phone and I.

"I don't know....I'm not even sure if I actually like him and even if I do, he doesn't like me back. At least not that way" I said frowning. I stood up and undressed while putting my phone on speaker.

"Of course he does! You are amazing so why won't he?" She said and I can picture her rolling her eyes at me.

"If you were a guy, would you want to date a blue eyed weirdo with scars and night...." I said almost blurting out that I have nightmares. "Night time sleeping" I lied. I pray she buys that even if it doesn't make sense. I want to tell her, I really do but I'm afraid of being judged. I know she is not the judge-ey type but people change so I'll tell her soon.

"I have no idea what that means but if I was a guy, I wouldn't judge a girl by her physical beauty. I would judge her according to the her behavior and that's what matters. So don't doubt yourself okay?" She scolded and I sighed. I picked up the grey sweater given to me by grandma and put it on. It's a little above my knee but I'm going to sleep anyway so it's okay.

"Okay, so what will I do now?" I asked her as I snuggled up in bed.

"What do you mean by what will you do? Tell him, duh" she yelled and I rolled my eyes, pulling the duvet up to my chin.

"I can't, at least not now" I pouted and I heard a sigh through the phone.

"Okay, since you are not sure of your feelings, tell him when it suits you" she said and I smiled as I thought of how lucky I was to have a best friend like her.

"Thanks Bex" I said " hey! That rhymes!" I realized and I could picture her shaking her head at me.

"Really Alex?" She said out of disbelief and I rolled my eyes.

"So, Luke....." I trailed off. She is probably blushing by now.

"Shut up!" She hissed through the phone and I laughed. Yep! I was right, she is blushing.

"So you guys are a thing now?" I asked.

"I don't know...." She trailed off making ng me raise an eyebrow.

"Don't you like him?" I asked.

"I do.. I think so but I feel like he doesn't want to be with me and I don't like being too attached in a relationship so I won't have my heart broken" she said truthfully and I sigh. She is right though.

"It doesn't seem like he doesn't like you to me because I'm pretty sure I walked in on you guys making out at the hospital" I teased.

"Alex! We weren't making out! It was just a short kiss" she said.

"Mhmm, I believe you" I said sarcastically.

"But if you think he likes me then let's wait and see what happens then" she said with a little tiredness in her voice making me glance at the bedside clock.

8:58pm

"I guess you're already tired, so goodnight" I said and she mumbled something that sounded like 'sleep tight' before hanging up.

I closed my eyes and groaned in frustration when I realized that I won't be able to get any sleep any more. I should have slept in the afternoon, I thought as I tossed and turned around in bed. It's not that I can't sleep, I can but it's been a week since I last had a nightmare and I'm afraid if I sleep they will come back so I decided to go downstairs for a late dinner.

My mom was surely in her room now I realize as I tiptoed down the stairs. I walked to the kitchen then saw some pasta and sauce. My stomach growled loudly and I looked around in fear. I microwaved it and took it upstairs to my room. I locked my room door and sat on my reading table still in SpongeBob printed socks, my underwear and the sweater. I closed my legs across one another and begin to eat the pasta while watching some funny video clips on YouTube.

I finished it minutes later and I dropped it in the kitchen before tiptoeing back to my room. I sighed and wished I had a laptop so I could watch something. I started doing my homework and finished it an hour later. It was a little bit past 1am so I decided to do yoga. I watched as the woman on the phone went to a baby pose. I went on my knees about to do the pose when a sudden movement from my window scares me. I looked at my window and a shadow is there trying to open my window.

I grabbed my reading lamp and walked slowly towards the window for safety. As I got closer, the figure started looking familiar and I find Nick knocking on my window. I dropped the hand holding the lamp to my side and unlocked the window as he jumped in. I closed it and face him.

"Why are you here? What do you want?" I whisper-yell as I dropped the lamp back on my reading table. His eyes scanned my body until they reached my bare legs lingering there.

"Nick!" I whispered again bringing his eyes back to mine. If my mom caught us here, she will have the wrong impression and most likely murder me but now that we are not on good speaking terms, well...

"I'm sorry" he slurs looking at me and I furrowed my eyebrows at him. His green eyes have a darker shade and are bloodshot, his lashes are drooped, his shoulders are slagging and he's not really standing straight but more like crooked. His shirt is black with grey colored italics that says, IT'S HARD TO BE AS HOT AND COOL AS ME and dark faded jeans.

"What?" I say surprised that he is apologizing.

"I'm sorry for the things I said, please forgive me?" He pouted and I narrowed my eyes at him. He stumbled back a bit and walked over to help him as we sat on the edge of my bed. I could smell the faint whiff of weed as I sat beside him and keeping a safe distance.

"You're high" I realized looking at him.

"And you're not sleeping" he smiled and I noticed he didn't have any dimples. Dimples are part of the things that made me actually like Eli because they are my weakness.

"Why are you high?" I asked getting annoyed.

"I'll tell you if you tell me why you are not asleep" he smiled and laid back on my bed. I don't get why he's smiling because there's nothing funny about this.

"You said I should stay away and I did, and now you're here telling me you're sorry? Sorry for what exactly? For insulting my ugly scars? Or for dragging you into my pathetic life? Or for being rude to me for absolutely no reason? Which one exactly?" I almost yelled but then I remembered my mom is asleep.

"I-"

"No! Just tell me which fucking one you're sorry for?" I cut him off as I felt tears about to come and I quickly wipe them away. He was silent and didn't say anything as he kept staring at my ceiling.

"Are you hungry?" I asked after a long silence. As much as I want to slap him right now, he's still my friend. I think.

"Um..yeah" he says giving me an amused look. I stood up and opened my chest of junk food. I threw a chip bag at him and he caught it. He was still looking at me with amusement visible in his eyes.

"What?" I snapped.

"You just blew up about how I was rude to you and how I called your scars ugly and your life pathetic then now you are asking if I'm hungry and offering me chips?" He said and a chuckle escaped his lips "you are really something Alexandrea"

"Hurry up and finish your chips so you can get out!" I said ignoring his comment about me. He moved further on my bed and leaned against the wall as he cut the bag of chips.

"I'm staying here" he said as he threw three chips in his mouth.

"No you're not" I said

"I am"

"I'm meant to be staying away from you, shall I remind you of what you said the other night?" I said and watched as he threw another handful of chips in his mouth.

"You should" he muttered and furrowed my eyebrows. What is this dude saying?

"Yes and you should stay away from me as well" I said.

"That's the problem" he said, look confused.

"Huh?" What does that mean?

"I can't" he said and I felt warm inside. He can't stay away from me?

"What do you mean? Why?" I asked getting more confused by the second.

"Because..." He trailed off. "I don't know" he said as he crumpled the empty bag of chips and aimed for my dustbin at the corner of the room.

"It won't enter" I said suddenly interested in the fact that he wants to throw a crumpled empty bag of chips in my dustbin. I'm weird, I know.

"If it does, I'm sleeping with you and if it doesn't, I'll leave" he smirked.

"Deal" I nodded. I'm almost certain that it wouldn't enter because my dustbin is at the far corner of my room. I bit my lip nervously as he threw the crumpled bag. The crumpled bag bounced off the edge of the bin and entered it.

"I guess I'm sleeping with you" he smirked

"You're sleeping on the floor not with me" I rolled my eyes at him. I brought out a sleeping bag I never used because I was never able to go camping or for sleepovers and tossed it to him.

"Fine" he pouted and laid the sleeping bag on the floor. He staggered as he stood up and started pulling off his shirt before I stopped him.

"Whoa! whoa! whoa! What do you think you're doing?" I raised an eyebrow.

"I can't sleep in jeans and shirt, it's not exactly comfortable" he smirks as he pulled his shirt over his head. My eyes stay glued to his face as I force myself not to look at his body.

"Okay" I shrugged to show that I'm not affected by his...lack of complete clothing. I turned around and sat back on the yoga mat while he removed his jeans revealing Frozen printed boxers. He looked at me in regret and I started laughing.

"Frozen? Oh God!" I laughed again. "You never seize to amaze me"

"I don't like it, Grandma probably bought it by mistake" he said as his cheeks turned a bright pink. "Besides I didn't laugh at your SpongeBob socks or the reason why you have a chest full of junk foods in your room" he added

"Your Grandma buys your boxers for you?" I laughed again and harder this time clutching my stomach.

"Are you done?"he rolled his eyes at me as I wiped a tear that escaped while I was laughing.

"Yep" I smiled and folded my legs as I sat on the yoga mat. Closing my eyes, I begin to meditate. I felt Nick's eyes on me and I opened my eyes to to glance at him.

"Dude! Quit staring, it's creepy" I said playfully.

"I'm not, you just seem to surprise me everytime" he says with an amused smile. "Yoga? At midnight?"

"I guess I'm full of surprises" I joked "but seriously, stop staring. It makes me feel like you're judging me" I said and loosened my hair from it's messy bun.

"I already told you I wasn't, there's actually nothing to stare at" he smirked and watched as I try to put my hair back in it's messy bun after scratching it.

" Asshole 2.0" I rolled my eyes and stretched my hair band further so that I can make it pack my hair tighter.

"Tell me something I don't know"he smirked and I rolled my eyes. "Aren't you gonna sleep?" He asks as he snuggles up on the sleeping bag.

"Nope" I said.

"Why?" He asks again.

"Because I don't want to" I shrugged and hissed in annoyance when my hair band cuts making my hair tumble messily down my face, shoulder and back. That was my favorite hair band...

"Your hair is really long" he says and I rolled my eyes.

"Really? I didn't notice" I reply him as I brushed the strands away from my face.

"Do you need another hair band?" He asks again.

"Well yeah"

"Ok" he nods and snuggles further into the sleeping bag.

"Well..."I trailed off and he gave me a questioning look "you were going to give me an hair band?" Is this guy normal?

"No, I wasn't. I just asked" he said. What?

"Well why did you ask if you know you weren't going to give me? God! You're so confusing!" I threw my hands about in frustration.

"I have an hair band but I'm not giving you" he states and I'm dumbfounded.

"What? Why?"

"Because I don't want to" he says and relaxes in the sleeping bag on the floor.

"You know what? Shove that hairband up your ass. I don't want it anymore." I said and folded the yoga mat then kept in in my closet. I stormed towards my bed and was about to climb it but I hit my foot on the wood under it. Out of instinct, I sat on my bed and pulled my foot up to examine it after screaming before quickly covering my mouth so I won't wake my mom. And guess what? Nick was smirking at me the whole time from the sleeping bag.

"I think it's bleeding" I pouted as I stared at the swollen skin stained with a little blood.

"It's not! You're just overreacting" Nick rolled his eyes as he appeared beside me. He examined my swollen toe and pressed it applying pressure.

"Nick! What the fuck!!" I screamed as I shove him away but he doesn't budge. He releases his hand from it and there's a lot of blood on his thumb.

"Oh! It's bleeding" he says and I rolled my eyes.

"All thanks to you, it's worse! Just go back to the floor and sleep" I groaned and buried myself in my covers even though I won't sleep.

"Can I sleep here with you?" He pouted.

"No way! No!" I shook my head as the image of my father pops up in my mind.

"I promise I won't bother you, the floor is really hard" he whined and I thought about it before my father pops up in my mind again. I'm really insecure and I have trust issues. What assurance do I have that he won't try to do anything to me?

"I'll sleep on the floor" I said and I stood up. He's going to have one hell of an hangover tomorrow anyway so it's better he sleeps on the bed.

"I'm not that kind of person, you know! I don't just go around touching every girl I see. I'm not a pervert!" He says getting angry.

"I know" I said still standing by the side of my bed.

"Then stay with me. Share the bed with me" he says as he looks at me intently.

"No. I- I can't" I say and look away from him to stare down at my SpongeBob SquarePants printed socks.

"You think I'm going to take advantage of you?" he said and it sounded more like a statement than a question. I don't answer as I just stare at my socks.

"Nevermind, I'll just sleep on the floor" he scoffs and makes his way back to the sleeping bag. I don't look up from my socks as I played with the ends of my hair. I eventually look up and found his back faced to me with the sleeping bag covering it. I sighed and made my way to my bed. I slid in and drew the covers up to my chin as I stared at the ceiling.

I checked the time on my phone and my jaw dropped at the time.

4:26am

It's almost clear morning so I don't think I'll have the nightmares. I took a deep breath and thought about Eli's cute smile before drifting into unconsciousness slowly.

Here's the hairband, and don't cut this one! ,I heard a voice say faintly and something wrap around my wrist before unconsciousness fully took over.

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Writer: Hello sweethearts!

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It's over 2,800 words, just for you! The cells in my fingers are dead, hehe!

*Eli, Eddy,Luke and Nick are seen hanging from the ceiling upside down with their hands tied and their mouth duct taped*

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4/7/2020