Chapter 10
Falling asleep in your backyard with your feet inside the pool while is freezing outside is one straight way to get a cold. I have no problem with getting a cold, but I got a tremendous problem with getting a cold while getting your period at the same time. The timing couldn't be perfect. I'm sick, it's Friday and I'm on my period.
Not once I left my bed since I woke up, maybe just once to the bathroom, but I could barely move then. Unlucky me, when I get cramps they are so terrible and hurt so bad. It's like I'm being punched and stabbed countless times with no break in between. Pain killers were never a good friend to me since they never actually worked with me, so I'm just left with the pain and a cup of hot tea.
Mary has been giving me these weird things, hoping they'll help but it hasn't done much. I'm so glad she is here to help even though it's her day off. My mom asked her to stay for me but Mary was already planning on staying. I don't know how I will survive without her next week. Melanie will come instead of her. I like Melanie but we don't have that close of a relationship. She is here to do her job and that's all. Mary is more on my side whilst Melanie is on my parents' side. After all they are the ones that pay her and not me.
My dad pitied me today and gave me back my laptop early. I would jump in the opportunity of doing something that has nothing to do with studying but I can barely move to get the laptop from my desk. I would ask Mary but I will feel like a jerk asking her to hand me something that is two inches away from me.
I hear a knock and grumble, not being able to reply. My mom comes in, dressed for work and I look at her confused. She was supposed to take a day off. Well, it's a rare thing for her to do but whenever she says she will do something she does it, so I'm a bit confused to why she is wearing her work outfit. "Hey sweetie, how are you feeling?" She asks me as she types something on her phone. Well, if she were to look up from her phone for two seconds she will know by my looks how I feel.
"What's that?" She looks up and I shake my head.
"Nothing. I'm feeling fine. Are you going to work?" I clutch on my stomach and groan.
"Yeah, apparently they can't work without me so I need to go and fire a couple of people so they will learn that when I take a day off it doesn't mean it's a day off for them as well." If I were my mom's employee I would get fired the same day I got hired. I feel so bad for all those people that are going to get fired.
"I will be back at four. There is a dinner today your dad and I were invited to. If you like and are feeling better you can come along. Your dad and Mary are home if you need anything. I hope you get better." I smile at her and she leaves, not bothering to close the goddamn door.
I throw my head back against the pillow and seconds later Mary comes inside my room. "My poor little girl," she hands me my laptop and I hug her. "Thank you! You are the only good thing from this day." I tell her and she laughs.
"I don't know if you are talking about me or the laptop. I hope the laptop 'cause I'm no object." I giggle and kiss her cheek. "I just gave your cheek germs." I tell her and she shrugs as we pull away.
"Does it still hurt?" She asks as I make space for her on my bed so she could lay next to me.
"Less then before so from horrendous it's now terrible." I place my laptop on my lap as I raise my body to sit up. Goodness, what did I do to deserve this?
"Roxie called to ask why you weren't at school and told me she'll be coming with Marcus." The bell rings and I turn to look at Mary surprised. My dad doesn't allow anyone coming to visit me while I'm being grounded. Does Roxie have a death wish or something?
"I'll be right back." I nod and watch her leave my room.
I turn my laptop on but nothing besides the red light signaling me it has no battery. This day just gets better and better. I place the laptop on my nightstand and listen to the footsteps that become louder with each step. My dad is being surprisingly nice today by letting them come visit. He usually never allows anyone to see me when I'm grounded.
The door opens and my two cheerful best friends burst in. They throw their backpacks carelessly and jump onto my bed. "Our parents are having a small dinner party today." Roxie says as she plugs her phone to my charger.
"I heard."
"You missed Mr. Turner toupee fall of in middle of class." Marcus says, laughing.
"He wears a toupee?" I laugh but it causes my throat and stomach to hurt.
"That's not the best part. It feel on Kitty's desk and she thought it was a rat so she threw it out of the window." I laugh even louder and pity poor Mr. Turner.
"Oh, I brought you today's homework." Marcus tells me and I thank him while Roxie hits him for bringing the mood down.
"Why aren't you using your laptop?" He asks.
"No battery and the charger is on my desk." I explain and he gets up to bring it. I thank him again and obviously Roxie calls him names.
"Shut up, Roxanne." This gets her fired up and she throws herself at him, tackling him to the floor. God, that was fast. Not surprised. The girl used to take Judo lessons when she was younger. She tried to get me into it but my parents preferred that I'll learn something more sophisticated like piano, ballet and gymnastics. I don't do any of those anymore. Sometimes I play the piano but only when my parents want to show off.
She hits him as he covers himself and yells at her to stop but she would continue hitting him. "My glasses! You're going to break them!" Too late she has broken them. Marcus rolls them over and now he has her pinned down to the floor. He holds her hands with one hand while checking his broken glasses and she tries to break free. I didn't know Marcus was that strong.
"Damn it, Roxie!" He glares at Roxie and she glares back at him. He gets back on his feet and sits on my bed.
"You look good with no glasses on." I tell him and his cheeks slowly turn into a reddish shade.
"Geez, just tell him he is ugly with glasses on." Roxie gets up from the floor and fixes her shirt.
"Roxie! That's not what I meant! You look good with and without glasses on. Marcus, don't listen to her." She huffs and Marcus rolls his eyes at her. "Whatever." They both say.
"So you came over to fight?" I ask and they glare at each other.
"I don't understand why you are so upset, when I'm the one with the broken glasses!" Marcus retorts.
"That's what you get for calling me Rox-that!" She slumps onto my desk's chair. She looks at me and then furrows her eyebrows. "Whose shirt is that?" I look down at the black shirt that I'm wearing and scrunch up my nose.
"Uh, mine." I lie.
"Liar. It's Louis'!" She points out and I awkwardly smile. "Well yeah."
"It's from the whole lake thing or you have done the deed?" My eyes widen and I hide my face.
"Oh my god Roxie! It's from the lake!" I hear them laugh but then there is a knock on my door.
"Juliet," I hear my dad.
"Come in," he opens the door and looks at my two friends who immediately get up.
"I think it's time for you to go. Juliet has ton of work to do and she's also grounded so no visits allowed." They grab their backpacks and quickly hug me as goodbye. They leave but my dad stays.
"Juliet, I'll be going out for a bit. When I return I want all of your homework to be done." I nod and he leaves my room.
Time to work.
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It's seven and I'm finally done with my homework. Obviously my dad came before I was done but it was enough seeing me work so he didn't say anything about not being done. They are now getting ready to leave for that dinner party and meanwhile I'm talking with Louis.
"Have they left yet?" He sends. I'm glad you can talk with people on Facebook and there is no need to add them. My parents would know if I had Louis on Facebook as a friend. Especially now after everything that has happened.
"No, they are getting ready." I send back.
"Well that's a bit unfortunate." I sneeze and frown as I read his message.
"Why?" And there it is, the noise that comes from outside under the window of my bedroom. Should of suspected it.
"I'm coming up!" He messages and I immediately go on a sprint of messaging not to come, not now. He has death wish.
"Juliet," I hear my mom knock on my door and my eyes widen. I run to my window and stand next to it. Louis is going to pay for making me get up in such conditions that I am.
"Come in!" I say and sit on my window.
"How are you feeling?" My mom asks. She realizes I'm not on bed and then sees me on the window.
"Not so good, trying to get some air." I lie.
"Okay, but it's cold so why don't you close the window? You don't want to get worse, you got school." I nod and close the window. Obviously they'll care more about education than my health.
A loud grown comes from the window and that's when I realize the window has slammed Louis' fingers. I turn around and see him with his eyes shut as he absorbs the pain. I just slammed Louis' fingers with the window!
"Well, your dad and I are leaving. Do you feel well enough to come?" My mom asks and I shake my head.
"No, my head hurts too much." Not lying. The cramps have stopped but I'm still feeling bad.
"Okay then, go back to bed." She approaches me and I raise myself from the window to cover Louis, whom is still hanging by the window while his fingers are being smashed with the window. She kisses my cheek and I hope to god my heartbeats are not as loud as I think they are. One side is me being terrified she'll see Louis and the other side is worrying that Louis will fall.
"I'm guessing we'll return late but if you need anything Mary is right here. Call me in case of an emergency."
"I don't have my phone." I tell her and she remembers.
"Oh, then use the house phone. Goodbye." She leaves and I wait two minutes before opening the window and helping Louis come inside.
"I am so, so sorry!" I grab both of his hands and scrunch my nose up as I notice they are super red.
"It's fine, I only need some ice." I nod but I'll have to wait until my parents leave to get some ice.
"Only until my parents leave." I say and take him to my bed.
"You could kiss them better." He grins and I chuckle but do it. I kiss both of his hands and caress them, hoping it will soothe the pain.
"I'm really sorry." I apologize and he shrugs. I truly do feel terrible for doing that to him.
"It's kind of my fault, I shouldn't of had come now but I just-" he stops and I frown.
"You just what?"
"I really wanted to see you." This makes me want to smile so much but I try to sustain myself. It's hard since everything in me goes wild.
"Does it hurt a lot?" I ask changing subjects.
"Less than before but I still need the ice." He tries to intertwine our fingers but flinches as he tries.
"I'll be right back." I get up from my bed and head out but then he stops me.
"Are you wearing my shirt?" He asks and that's when I run out of the room. Louis knows exactly how to make nervous and embarrassed.
I see my parents at the door and say goodbye to them both before going to the kitchen. I look for something to place the ice in and right when I find it I hear my parents leave.
"Why do you need ice?" Mary asks as I grab everything I need.
"I smashed Louis' hand with the window." I tell her and she looks at me surprised.
"Let's hope you didn't break the poor guy's hands." She says and that only makes me much more nervous. I didn't think of the option of breaking them. Oh my god! I have broken Louis' fingers! He won't be able to play any instruments anymore!
"Look at what you did, she is now freaking out!" I hear Louis from behind me. This kid truly does have a death wish. My parents could walk in any moment but no, he will walk around the house like he owns the place. Might as well just call them and tell them he is here.
"Let me check them." Mary grabs his hands and moves his fingers to which he flinches, making me even more nervous than before.
"They are okay. Some ice will help." I hold the pack of ice on top of his hands and he sighs.
"Better?" I ask.
"Yeah, let's go back to your room." He says and as I'm about to reply Mary beats me.
"Now, I like you Louis but you be careful with what you do. If you do anything to my little girl I'll break your fingers and even more. Don't lock the door of your room, you hear me?" We nod and go back upstairs. That was awkward and sweet.
We lay on my bed and decide to watch a movie while his hands feel better. But he demands on me holding his hand, saying that my warm hands balance the coldness of the ice.
"What do you mean you haven't watched any of the Harry Potter movies?" He yells.
"I mean exactly what I said. I barely ever watch movies."
"Wow! We are watching all of the Harry Potter movies now!" He looks for the movie and I groan.
"I don't want to watch movies all night!" I whine.
"Oh really. You want to Netflix and chill?" He grins and I look at him confused.
"Huh?"
"You don't know what that means?" He asks and I shake my head.
He places the ice and my laptop on my bed and then I see him unzip his pants. "Louis!" I yell and he bursts into loud laughter.
"Oh my god!" He keeps laughing.
"Should of had seen your face!" I glare at him and hit him.
"You are such an-" I stop before saying something I shouldn't say.
"Such a what?" He challenges.
"I hate you."
"I love you too. Let's watch the movie." He grabs the laptop and places it in the middle of us.
"Want something to eat?" I ask him and he shakes his head as he grabs my hand and kisses it. "We should turn the lights off." Louis was about to get up but I pulled him back down.
"I have the clapping method." I clap and the lights turn off. I once saw it in some commercial and begged to my dad to have it installed. Roxie makes fun of me but I'm not the one who needs to get up to turn the lights off. Who is laughing now, Roxie?
"You're so spoiled!" Louis teases and I hit him and hear him groan. Thinking I hurt his hands I apologize but turns out he is messing with me.
"I don't swear but if I did I would call you so many names!" He laughs and after bickering for some more we return to watching the movie.
In the middle of the movie, when the main character Harry is playing that brooms game my eyes wander to Louis. There is something about him when the lights of the laptop shine his beautiful face. It compliments him so much. His blue eyes look darker but they glisten. I love the way he smiles when something funny happens on the movie. He is so focused on the movie he doesn't notice I'm starting at him. I should look away before he realizes. He has been doing me little quizzes in the middle of the movie to check my understanding of it.
I come closer to him and he immediately reacts by wrapping his arm around me, bringing my head to lay on his chest. "So, why did Harry's broom go crazy?" Louis asks. Shoot! I wasn't watching.
"Uh, the other player hit him?" I reply unsure.
"No, that's what happens when you stare at me instead of watching the movie." My eyes widen and I gasp. My nose scrunches up out of awkwardness and he looks down at me. I keep my eyes on the screen but he raises my head to look at him.
"Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?" His thumb caresses my lower lip and all I can do is stare.
His face comes closer to me and we both close our eyes as we come closer to each other. I feel his lip touch mine by a glimpse and all my body fills with goosebumps.
"What did I say about closing the door?" Mary claps to turn the lights on and Louis and I pull away from each other, causing my laptop to fall to the ground but luckily it landed on the pillow that Louis threw to the floor before.
"You said to not lock the door, we only closed it." Louis replays and Mary glares at him. "Don't be a smart mouth!"
"But that's the only smart he is." I tease and Mary chuckles. Louis fakes laughing and acts annoyed.
"I'm not talking to you anymore." He huffs and I chuckle.
"Well, I'm downstairs and I'll come back to check on you again!" She leaves the door half open and that's when I realize to what she interrupted a minute ago. I was about to get my first kiss! Louis was about to kiss me! And he called me beautiful!
"So," I say, awkwardly.
"I'm not talking to you." He responds and I chuckle.
"It was just a joke. I'm sorry." I do the puppy's look just like he does it on me and he sighs.
"Okay, I accept your apology." I smile in triumph and reach for my laptop when suddenly I felt something very cold on my back.
"Louis!" I yell and throw the ice away from me. "Revenge!" He yells and I grab some of the ice that fell on my bed and push it down his shirt.
He jumps out of my bed and takes the ice out of his shirt. "Okay, truce." He picks my laptop and places it on the nightstand.
His phone starts ringing and he takes it out. A frown appears on his face and he cancels the call. "What's wrong?" I ask.
"Nothing." He replies and gets back on bed. "Let's continue watching the movie."
We return to watching the movie and I find myself loving it so we watched the second one. I don't remember if we got to watch the third one or fell asleep during the second one but I do remember a big bird. We fell asleep on each other and it was the best sleep I ever got.
But Mary came to check on us like she said and woke Louis up, but as she woke him up she woke me up too. I pretended to be asleep and watched as Louis didn't want to wake up. My parents were going to be home soon and he had to leave but I didn't want him to leave so I held onto him like he held onto me. Mary eventually threatened on spilling ice al over him if he didn't leave which got him to wake up.
"But I'm so comfortable with her here." She hits him and he groans.
Louis ends up getting up and Mary leaves the room. He comes back to bed for five more minutes and plays with my hair. "I wish I didn't have to leave." I wish that too.
He plants a long kiss on top of my head and Mary comes back in. "I'm leaving!" Louis says and I inwardly sigh.
"Goodnight, beautiful." He whispers in my ear and seconds later the whole room falls silent.
Goodnight, Louis.
A/N: can Louis please come cuddle with me while we watch Harry Potter?! Please!!!!!! Anyways, after trillions years later I finally update! Hope you like the chapter :)
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