Pov Grace

'It's me,' he says as he takes a hold of both my hands making me drop my pillow, 'do you remember me?'

I take a few seconds to respond, giving myself the time to take in his features. It felt like 100 people were talking to me in my head and it was really hard to focus, but eventually I manage to recognise the guy in front of me.

'Noa.'

As soon as I spoke out his name my mind was clear.
I smile as I pull one of my hands away from him and move it to his cheek.

'I'm so glad you're here.'

I pull back both my hands as I wrap my arms around him. Feeling him stiff up before wrapping his around me.

'I'm so glad you're here,' I repeat as I lay my head down on his chest.

Then all the emotions of the past few hours hit me like a slap across the face and I just break down in tears. He moves his hand up and down my back in a comforting motion not saying much.

But eventually when my sobs quiet down he does decide to speak up.

'What happened?' He asks.
'I had a little nap,' I shrug.

'I don't remember, I uh.. I'm pretty sure I hit Cosmo and oh no.. I've been horrible to Eros I need to go apologise.'

I pull away to get up and try to walk towards the door stumbling on my legs. Apparently, I had taken off my knee jail too.

'Grace, I think you should sit down.' 'No, I'm fine I need to say so..' 'Grace, sit down,' he demands.
'Fuck off, don't have to shout,' I mutter as I turn around, now heading towards the bed to sit down and listen to what I've been told.

The boy is just staring at me in awe.

'You look like you've survived an earthquake and tornado at the same time,' he states.

'Do you think they'll update my room?'

He laughs as he shakes his head and drops down on the bed next to me.

'I think they'll pick the box over a new room. Otherwise, us builders have to repair tables and chairs on a daily basis.' 'Oh no, a table, that will cost you weeks!' I joke.

I jolt to the side as he pokes my side as a response.

'I say it'll take you hmm a week.'
'2 days max,' I respond. 'Bet.' 'Bet, what do I get when I win?' I ask.
'A star.'

I laugh at his idea of a reward.

'What do I get?' he asks.
'A kiss,' I joke. 'Hm,' he says thinking about my reward.
'I was joking.' 'Hm.'

He lays his hand down on my cheek placing his thumb on my lip. I lift my head up slightly, looking right into his eyes.

'That's a shame.'

I feel my cheeks fire up as we stare into each other's eyes. But then my eyes wander down looking at his lips.

Am I.. are we.. is this happening? Am I allowed a guy I've only known for a little bit more than a week to kiss me?

'I'm so sorry,' he mutters as he pulls his hand away. 'For what? Did I do something wrong?'

'No no no you're.. you're doing everything right it's just.. you've lost your mind a few times today and I.. I don't want you to do something you don't want to. I
It was stupid of me to even try to kiss you, it's only been a few days.. but I just feel weirdly attra..'

I cut him off by placing my lips down on his. A soft quick press before I move my lips away again.

'I might have lost my mind, but I definitely would've punched you,' I whisper our faces still only a few centimetres apart. 'Oh and you got blood on your face,' I add.
'So do you,' he whispers back.

He takes a hold of the back of my neck and leans forward our lips colliding as the space between them disappears again. I move my hands to his hair and loosely pull on a few of his wavey strands.

'Ahem.' Someone clears his throat as he knocks on the door.

Quickly our hands are down our sides again as we pull back and turn our heads to the door.

'Eros! I'm so sorry for yelling at you, I didn't know what came over me,' I explain as I notice the boy hiding half his body behind the door. 'I em.. yeah.. no, it's okay. Cosmo wants to look at something, but since you've caused him a bloody nose.. are you okay with him coming in?'

I look at Noa as I catch him rolling his eyes.

'Yeah, that's okay.'

Eros opens the door a bit more as Cosmo comes walking in. Dried up blood still lingering underneath his nose.

'Sorry,' I whisper ashamed.
'Don' worry m'lady. I just wanted to take a look at your neck.'
'Why?' Noa asks. 'Cus Gio was practically beggin' me to open up his neck. Thinkin' I'll find a tube and I just want to see around where I need to start diggin',' he explains.

'What has my neck to do with that?' I ask.

'You were stabbin' at your neck to get out the neck tube that we proceeded to insert into a weird object that fell out of the sky and started this whole psycho moment remember?'

'No?'

'Grace, how much do you remember of the past few days and before?'

I stare at Noa as I try to think about the question asked.

'I uh.. I remember most of your names and some occupations.'

'What about Eliah or Theo?' Noa asks. 'Who? Have I met them?' I ask. 'And your parents?' Eros adds.

'Oh my they must be so worried do they know I'm here? Will they get me out?'

I hear a few dissatisfied sighs around me.

'What did I do this time?'

'You didn' do anythin' m'lady.'