"It's not that simple"

And then she walked back to the house. It had been a few days since we kissed and things had gone back to normal, despite the fact that I couldn't stop thinking about it or feel sad about her going back to Victor.

Sad wasn't the right feeling, more like anger. she hasn't spoken to me since then partly because of Victor and partly because she didn't know how to continue from where we left off. Hell neither did I.

"Enoch, can I talk to you in my study?" Miss peregrines question brought me out of my thoughts and back to the living room.

"Course, Miss." I said and followed her into her study. She sat down at her desk and motioned for me to do the same.

"I wanted to talk to you about Miss Y/n. About what happened between you, her and Victor" she looked at me a little disappointed.

"What about them?" I asked in an annoyed tone.

"Don't play dumb, Enoch. Do you think I'm stupid? I could hear everything the other night, especially that punch you threw. I wanted to talk to you because Victor came to me and told me that you had attacked him. Is this true?" She already knew what happened, she just wanted more perspective and to hear the truth.

"Yeah I attacked him." I said, this shocked her a bit but she stayed composed.

"Why?"

"Because he was hurting Y/n, Still is actually" I said angrily.

"You noticed that too?" She questioned me and this made me look at her.

"You knew? You knew and you did nothing?" I yelled at her. "You knew what that dickhead was doing and you let it happen?"

"Language. Enoch you have to understand that I needed Y/n to come tell me about it, if I had confronted her like you did it would have only made her hide it more. And quite frankly I'm a little stuck on what to do myself" she said quickly
"look, Y/n is a strong woman but she needs to make these choices for herself, otherwise she'll feel like things are even more out of her control"

"Whatever, I'm done talking Miss" I say and start to walk out.

"I know your scared for her, but she needs you and not so you can make her decisions for her but so you can support whatever decisions she makes"

I pause and take it in and then walk out. I need to talk to her. I walk out the back and can't find her so I make my way to her room.

"Y/n" I say as I knock on the door "Y/n can I come in"

She doesn't say anything but the door opens and lets me inside. After I step in she locks the door. She looks tired and dehydrated, must have been crying. I reach out and touch her face, she flinched but leaned in.

"Are you okay?" I ask as I hold her face in my hands. She shakes her head and walks closer to hug me. I hold her tight stroke her hair.

She eventually pulls away and looks at me. "I'm sorry" she says as she starts to cry.

"No, you have nothing to be sorry for Y/n. You did nothing wrong" I say and pull her back in "none of this is your fault and I'm sorry that you feel it is" I pull away and look her in the eyes. "Do you wanna talk?"

She shakes her head again and moves to her bed. "I think I just need to lay down" she sits down on the bed and moves the blankets. "Can you lay down with me for a while?" I nod and move over to her bed.

I kick my shoes off and lay down, she pulls the blankets over us and curls up on my chest. My arm under her head and her leg hiked on top of mine. We lay like that for a long time, I look down at her head and kiss the top of it and she snuggles in closer.

"Y/n, I'll support whatever you do but just know that I'm here and I love you with all my heart" I say, she moves and sits up to look at me.

"I know you do" she says, I lean up a bit and she moves down. We kiss but for longer than last time, "I love you" she says as he pulls away, I sit up more and she starts to kiss me again.

She straddles my lap so she's in a less awkward position and puts her hands on my neck and shoulders while I wrap my arms around her waist. I want to be with her forever, I want to be close like this forever and I want us to never leave this moment.

She goes to take her shirt off and I stop her "no stop" I say.

She looks sad and disappointed as she leans back.

"No, no. I really want to, I would love to with you but not like this. Your going through a lot right now and I don't want this to be some impulsive thing that you regret." I say as I gently hold her face, I lean in and give her a few soft kisses.

"No, I get it. I don't know what I was thinking anyways. Umm I should probably sleep I haven't done much of that" she says as she gets off of me.

"Do you want me to stay?" She looks down and nods her head.

"Just for a little while" I nod and we go back to how we were before.

I start to drift off to sleep and hear her say "I love you Enoch"

"I love you too Y/n" I mumble as I fall asleep.