Beth's family stayed for dinner and left just before Andrew arrived. He's in Beth's room now and I wait for him to tell me what's going on with her leg. 

I jump up from the grey couch when he closes the door behind him.

'It's just infected, but she already knew that. I gave her some strong medication so she will be acting a little odd for the next few hours. Just keep an eye on her and call me if you need me.' Andrew says, putting his hand on my shoulder.

'Thank you so much.' I pull him into a hug and the smell of his coat brings me back to when I was fifteen years old.

'And you? Are you doing ok?' He asks, patting my shoulder.

'Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.' I smile.

We catch up and when he leaves an hour has passed like it was just five minutes. 

I open the door of Beth's room and see her watching television as Aristo is sitting by the window, watching the show with her. She looks up at me with a big smile.

'Hey.' I grab the hands she's holding out to me.

'You should lay down next to me.' She says, patting the space next to her.

I walk to the other side of the bed and lay down next to her. She follows me every move and turns around on her side to face me, studying my face with a frown. Her hand touches my neck and she moves closer to me.

'You truly are handsome.' She whispers.

'Thank you.' I chuckle.

Her finger trails up my neck to my face, tracing my jawline. She needs to stop. This may be innocent to her but it's really turning me on.

'I want you to move in with me.' She says out of nowhere.

I sit up a little to think about what she just said. Just last week she was going on and on about how us living together wasn't a good idea yet, and now she asks me to move in with her? 

I see her trying to kiss me, but she ends up kissing the air and looking satisfied while doing it... I frown, looking at her. Ah, yes, now I understand. She is high on painkillers.

'Babe, you're not thinking clearly. It's the medication talking.' I rest my hand on her hip, but she moves away with an angry look.

'Excuse me? I don't see any pills talking to you, handsome man. It is me talking.' She frowns.

'Right?' She touches her own lip.

I try to keep my smile under control, but I can't help but burst out into laughter and to my surprise Beth joins me for a few seconds before looking angry again.

'If you don't say yes, we might as well break up.' She moves her hand away and stands up.

'Ho, ho, stop.' I wrap my hands around her waist and pull her back onto the bed.

While she's on the painkillers she won't be feeling any pain, but she is still not allowed to walk. She needs to rest her leg, Andrew told me this before he left.

Beth falls down onto the bed giggling.

'Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.' She starts to laugh louder, and Aristo lifts his head to look at us.

'Just try to sleep, Beth. We'll talk about this tomorrow.' I tell her while pulling the sheets over her body.

'Ooh, Beth is high, so we can just treat her like a...' She thinks for a moment. 'How are you treating Beth?' She asks.

What the fuck did Andrew give her?

'I am treating you like a person who needs to get some rest.'

'What if Beth doesn't want rest? What if she likes to go bungee jump? Huh? What will you do?' 

When I open my mouth to answer her she puts her hand over my mouth. 

'I'm going to tell you what's Beth's going to do's, ok?' Her eyes get big. 'Oh.' She sighs. 'She wants to eat chocolate cake...'

Beth brings both her hands to her face and squeezes her cheeks while staring next to me with a dreamy look. She is fantasizing about cake, isn't she?

'I will order chocolate cake if you try to sleep, ok?'

'Hé now, don't go changing the subject. Beth asked you to move in with her and we all--' She stares at me, waving her hands around in the air. 'Want an answer.'

'Believe me Beth, you don't want me to move in with you. You told me yourself, but I will say yes, just to get you to fall asleep.'

'You are talking a lot of jibber-jabber, you know? I never said I didn't want you to move in with me.' She pokes herself in her chest. 

'I said... I will never, ever, never, nowhere, move in with you.' Now she's poking her index finger in my chest.

She giggles again.

'Loophole.' She says in a low voice, copying me.

'Ok.' I sigh. 'Don't worry tho, I will be here the next few months until you're healed and then we can talk about this again.' I say.

'Yeey!' She throws her hands in the air but hits her headboard instead.

I lay down next to her again and she turns around to look at me.

'Men are shit.' She says.

'I know.' I sigh.

'I would never try to rape someone. And I don't think you would do that either.'

I'm glad she doesn't categorize me under the "shit men". 

I intertwine my fingers with hers and she tells me what happened in the garage and everything that Bakker did to her. I think I'm taking advantage of the medication while she's telling her story, but it would be horrible of me to tell her to shut up. 

She tells me what that other man had to do with it and I regret not getting Bakker and that other man kidnapped and tortured.

'Oh, Mendes.' She turns around and reaches for something on her nightstand.

'You need to sell my car and buy me a black Audi RS7. I want it next week please, thank you.' She tells me while putting her car keys in my hand. 

'You also need to grab my card because it's a few grand more expensive than my BMW. The code is...' She whispers it a little too loud. 'Just buy it please.'

I stare at the keys in my hands. I will sell her car and buy her the new one, but I will be the one paying for it. There is no way I would let her spend that much money on a new car, all because some piece of shit did this to her.

Beth turns around and sighs. A few minutes later I know she has fallen asleep and I grab the remote from her nightstand, putting on a lame tv-show. 

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