Kissing the Concrete

Waking up on the floor in the same dress as I had worn to the party, I quickly realized I must have passed out of tiredness. Next to me, Andy was still resting on my shoulder. In the bed I saw Jenna and Nix, spooning together. How sweet.

My biggest problem was to find a way out of here without waking anyone up. Especially not Andy. I still did not feel comfortable having him around me all the time. What was difficult right now was a way to move Andy so that his head wouldn't fall down towards the floor. The only thign currently supporting his upperbody was me, and I needed to take a shower, put on my clothes and leave.

It took me a bit of replacing and a few instances of almost making Andy fall over, but after a while I finally succeeded in getting up. I noticed Jenna opening her eyes.

"Good morning Iris. Had fun last night?" She whispered with a morning voice.

"Yeah. Well, kinda. You had fun, I see."

"Mm..." she said, pulling Nix closer to her.

"Could I use your shower? I need to leave, but I wanna change. You should propably throw this dress in the laundry soon."

"Yeah, yeah, sure. Are you just gonna leave Andy here?"

"He's kinda the reason I'm leaving..."

"No questions asked?"

"No questions asked." I responded.

I grabbed my bag and went straight into the bathroom, only afterwards realizing that my pants were soaked in beer. Whoever did this was gonna pay. Luckily, I still had my jammies, that definately could pass for regular chill clothes. As I went into the shower, I thought of last night. Atleast I had been kind. Atleast I didn't have to feel like I owed Andy after that morning when he had comforted me.

Wait. I didn't owe Andy worth shit. I never had. He had bullied me for years, tormenting me every single day of school. Yet I had spent my entire night comforting him, even though he had tried kissing me and I had felt extremely uncomfortable in his arms the same night.

I love you Iris. Don't ever leave me.

He had told me he loved me.I'm so sick of his games. I don't like this. He's gonna ruin me. He's gonna get what he wants, he's probably gonna get my heart and then he's gonna bring me down, humiliate me. Why can't he just leave me alone?

The warm water from the shower was extremely satisfying and I ended up just letting it pour down and drip off my skin for the longest time. After a while, I took my towel, dried off all the water still left on my body and grabbed my pj's from my bag. The black shorts and the black t-shirt was extremely comfortable and it felt right just walking around in my jammies.

I whiped the rest of the makeup from last night off my face. Probably should have done it earlier, before it made such a mess on my face. Atleast I didn't wear any lipstick, or else I probably would have looked like a clown at this point.

I pulled out Jenna's hair dryer from the cabinet, plugged in my earbuds in my phone and started listening to some music, fighting as best I could the urge to sing along. Just as the second song in my playlist went of I got a text from an unknown number.

"Hey, where'd you go? - Andy"

"What the hell? How did you get my number!" I responded, frustrated.

"Nix."

I opened the conversation with Nix and typed furiously.

"WHY DID YOU GIVE ANDY MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER???"

Nix responded. "He wanted it. I thought you guys were on good terms. What is the problem?"

Another message from Andy. "You still didn't answer my question?"

I texted Nix. "I'll murder you." I got a quick response "Whoah. What the hell happened between you two?"

"I don't want you to give out my number to people I don't trust."

The Andy conversation kept going. "Whoah, saying that you don't trust me? That's a bit harsh!"

Right. Nix and Andy were in the same room.

"Well why would I? You were my worst enemy for years and now you suddenly say "I love you"? How the hell am I supposed to trust that? Are you insane or something?"

"He said he loved you?" Nix texted me.

"Look Iris. I was drunk, I felt broken. I felt lonely and someone decided to comfort me, not just anyone, but the one person who I was an asshole to since she was in freshman year. Despite me having constantly brought her down, she still felt like she wanted to help me. I thought we had a connection."

"We didn't. Quit playing your mindgames. I don't wanna be humiliated anymore. It is just my nature not to leave crying people alone."

I texted Jenna to meet me in the bathroom. She obliged and I opened the door for her seconds later.

"What the hell is going on Iris?" She whispered. "He said he loved you?"

"Yeah, that is why I needed to leave. They don't know I'm here, do they?"

"No. No questions asked means no telling no one."

"He's playing games again, I'm sure of it. I don't wanna be a part of his stupid plan again."

"Calm down Iris. It's okay."

"What do I do?"

I got another text from Andy. "I'm not playing games. I'm willing to do anything to make you realize that. Now where are you?"

"Maybe it's not all games. Maybe there is some truth to it. I'm not saying you should date him, I'm just saying...don't give up on him? If that makes sense at all to you."

I brought up my phone and started typing.

"In the bathroom. Jenna's house. Just please don't hurt me."

Only seconds later someone knocked on the door. Jenna opened it to reveal Andy. As she made her way out of the bathroom to meet Nix back in her room, Andy approached me and wrapped his arms around me.

"I would never do anything to hurt you again Iris."

"I just don't know if I can trust you yet."

"I hope you will someday."

Notes

This is definately not my favourite chapter so far. It's not awful though, I just think it's not dramatic enough.

Question: what do you think about Iris in relation to Andy? Should they be friends, despite Andy admittingly loving Iris? Should she reject him? Or should they become a couple? I think I already know what I will write about though. I mean, it's an Andy fic.

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