Something I'm Not 2- History (Sequel)

Chapter 24

I shake my head still sobbing. "No, he took it all away, Harry. Every last bit of it." I say. My hands found his shirt and I had globed onto him by instinct. "What did he do now?" he asks and I bury my head in his shirt. "Told them I quit my job and I can't return to school next semester because I missed my exam, leaving me with an F." I tell him and he ends up rubbing my arm. It took him a long minute to respond but it was just a simple, "It's okay." Even though I knew it clearly wasn't okay, it helped just very slightly. I hated how he could still make me feel secure in his arms. I could feel his chest rising and falling just a little quicker than normal due to his wounds and started to back away but he pulled me back. 

"You're okay as long as you stay here. Do you want anything? I don't recall you eating very much at Jacob's." he says and wipes under my eyes with his thumb. 

I shake my head no and pull away from him, trying to recoup. "No, I'll be fine." I tell him and hug my knees. He stared at me for a moment before pushing himself up off the bed and slowly walking out of the room. I ended up hearing him in the kitchen but before I knew it, I grew extremely tired, and didn't have the energy to fight it anymore. The scent of his bed put me to sleep. But this sleep was a deeper sleep. A sleep I haven't gotten in a long time. 

(Harry POV)

She slept like she hadn't in years. I had made dinner and went up to get her and she was passed out, one pillow under her head and the other hugged tight to her, almost like the way she'd sleep against me. It made me smile just a little. I still see little things in her that tell me she stills loves me. It'll just take her a while to look past the things she's learned about me. I had pulled the blankets up over her and she didn't budge. I had waited and waited for any sign of struggle, a yell or struggle of some sort but no, she just kept sleeping. I had slept on the couch downstairs to leave her be until she came running down the stairs late the next morning and made me sit up a little too sharply. She had looked frantic. "What's wrong?" I ask and she just stared at me looking very disoriented. "How long was I asleep?" she asks and I check my phone for the time, 11;30. I run a hand over my face and sit up. Her eyes traveled down to my torso and once she caught that I had noticed she awkwardly looked away. "14 hours." I answer raspily and she continues to look at me in a daze. 

"Why? What's wrong?" I ask and she runs a hand over her face and sighs. "I just...  " she begins and I half smile at her confusion. "Not used to sleeping that much without a nightmare?" I ask and she stares blankly. "Yeah." she answers slowly and I stand up, her eyes traveled back down again and I tried not to make me noticing obvious to her so I walked to the kitchen to grab the milk to drink. "So, do you still want to go pick up your dog today?" I ask her and she leans on the bar a distance away from me. "Um.. sure." 

"And if you want we can go get you some clothes, or I can call Jessica and you can go with her if you don't want to go with me." I tell her while looking down at the gallon of milk in my hand. She looked a little frustrated now. "Jessica helped you send me to that hell hole, why would I want to be with her again?" she asks coldly and I look at her still a little shocked to hear her so harsh. 

I hold my hands out with a shrug. "Okay, then we can go. Not a problem. Unless you want to stay in my clothes." I half smirk and she frowns further. "No." she says and I end up laughing as she walks away. I put clothes on and pushed my hair back before waiting on her to come down stairs. 

She looked a little uncomfortable in the car sitting quietly as I drove. I don't know why. Maybe she just didn't feel comfortable being around me yet, I don't know. "If you wanted to, I could talk to Rick and get you back into the company. Do you want to start working again or do you still want more time?" I ask her and she shakes her head. "What? Dress like someone I'm not everyday and act like someone I'm not around a bunch of bitches? I couldn't do that again." she says coldly and I glance over at her. "You're pretty much world wide known now, Rick could get you into pretty much anything. That modeling position is still available, it depends on what you want."