Continued from previous chapter

"Are you going to come with me?" I asked nonchalantly.

"What do you mean? When?" William asked, taking a bite of his sandwich.

"When Lin picks me up? Are you coming?"

"Of course!" He said, putting down his food. And taking my hands, he started dancing with them, I just let them hang limp, and he swung them around. "Are you ok?" He asked.

"Yes." I looked down at my lap. I looked at my lap for about 3 seconds, and then shook my head. I felt him lift my head to look at him by my chin, then I felt his hand on the back of my head.

"I love you." He added, then he leaned in, and kissed me. I loved it when he kissed me. I clung to it, he started to pull away, but I wrapped my arms around his back, so he couldn't, I just didn't want it to stop. When I did this, I heard him chuckle a little, and he pulled away the tiniest bit, just so he could say something, "I'm serious."

"What?" I was confused.

"I love you." He looked at me, "I'm serious, Abigail I love you."

"I love you too." I whispered, realizing this finally. After I said this, my phone buzzed in my pocket, I awkwardly fumbled it out, and checked it. "He's here, we should go." I started to stand up, and grabbed my backpack, and started downstairs, taking Williams hand. We got downstairs, and walked outside.

"Go over to your dad, there's something I have to do really briefly." He let go of my hand, and kissed my cheek.

"Ok." I replied, and he ran over to the bike racks, and I knew what he was going to do, however I walked over to Lin.

"Hey, you ok? William called, he said that I should pick you up, what happened?" He asked, and all I did to respond was hug him, and right after, I started crying, I guess I needed to. "Hey hey, it's okay, you're okay." I let go, then turned around, as I heard yelling from the bike racks. "Holy crap, your boyfriend has a dirty mouth." Lin said.

"He's never sworn in front of me." I shrugged. "I guess he's traditional."

"What happened?" He asked again, pressing on.

"I think I just gave up." I looked down at my feet.

"I know. It was bound to happen, just, why? Why now, although I take it it has something to do with your angry boyfriend over by the bike racks."

"Yeah. Yeah it does."

"Alright. How long do you think this is going to take?" He asked, referring to William, who, coincidentally, started to walk back to us.

"Sorry, I had to deal with something." He apologized, slipping his arm around my waist.

"Yeah, we heard." Lin informed.

"Oh, sorry." He laughed a bit.

"Yeah, we should go, I didn't exactly drive here, so, yeah, we should be leaving." He started leaving, and the 2 of us followed.

We took the subway back to the apartment, and all in all, that took about 20 minutes.

"Where's the box?" William asked Lin. Box? What box?

"It's in the closet, I'll go get it, go get started in her room." Lin responded. What were they talking about?

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Just, just, sit down!" Lin yelled, grabbing a box from the top shelf of the hall closet. I sat down in the couch, awkwardly though, something was going on, and I was confused. About a minute later, Lin came over with a smallish box, and sat next to me. Instead of explaining what was going on, he looked at me, like a parent looks at their child when they have a fever, I wasn't sick. "You're not okay." He began, and I started to contradict him, but he cut me off, "I'm serious, I know that you're not okay, it's blatantly obvious. Everyone knows that you're not okay, and that's okay, you can let go, you need to let go, take a break." He hugged me, only letting go when William walked in.

"Finished." He announced, and returned to being thoroughly confused.

"Awesome, here's the box, it has her favorite movies, and some other little things. I'll be out here, I have crap to get done."

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Come on, I'll show you." William took my hand, and started to lead me toward my room. I followed him in, and he had built a fort out of my blankets, and my collection of 10 pillows (not counting the decorative ones, I just really enjoy pillows.)

"What is this?" I asked, as he pulled me to sit next to him in the blanket fort.

"This," he said gesturing, "is a fort." He smiled at me.

"Yes, I can see that, but why?" I asked.

"Well, we knew that this day was coming, so, Lin made a little box, it has your favorite movies, and candy, and other little things in it that you would like, and we planned this all out, now," he said, covering me with a blanket and handing me Sprinkles The Bear, "we're going to watch the first movie that I pull out of this box."

"You did all this to try and cheer me up?" I asked.

"Yep." William was at the TV, putting in a disk, I couldn't see it.

"Well, thank you." I said, as he came back over to our little fort, getting under one of the blankets, and pulling me closer to him.

"You're welcome, now shut up." He whispered, and I giggled.

"Sorry." I giggled out.

"You should be, I'm sitting here, and we're about to watch Mulan. I did not know my girlfriend was into such cliche Disney movies."

"I'm sorry, it's cute, and it's classic, so you can't insult it."

"Oh, I can insult it all I want."

"How?" I asked, how can you insult Mulan?"

"Well, for starters, the singing chubby soldiers."

"And how do you plan on insulting them?"

"I don't know yet, I'll find a way."

"Oh my gosh." I giggled out again. He did find a way to insult Mulan, although, I think he liked it, partially because he sang along to A Girl Worth Fighting For, I mean, I did too, but, it's a funny song. The movie ended about 2 hours later, and he got up to switch the DVD, as he did this, he chucked a bag of gum drops at me, which I caught.

"I think Lin will be joining us for this one when he hears the opening number." William said, returning to his spot next to me.

"Oh is it Rent?" I asked, I loved Rent.

"Yes, and I'm surprised my cinnamon roll-esk girlfriend would enjoy such a film." He added.

"Well I do. I'm a theatre kid, it's a pre-requisite." I stopped talking when I heard Seasons of Love start playing via the TV.

"ARE YOU WATCHING RENT?" I heard Lin from his office. "I'M COMING!" He came in the room, and shoved me closer to William making room for him in our blanket fort, "I love this movie."

"So I suspected." William said.

"So I knew." I added, "theatre kid pre-requisite." I said, and high fived Lin.

"I dream casted this with my high school so many times, it came out on Broadway when I was a sophomore."

"Yeah 20 years ago." I noted, laughing a bit. Only to be stopped by his hand over my mouth.

"Shhhh." He said, "we don't have to do the math."

William wasn't exactly a theatre kid, he was a choir kid, so, no, he did not join in when Lin and I started singing along to Take Me Or Leave Me, and he certainly didn't join in on La Vie Boheme. Although, I could tell that he liked it.

"I should go," Lin said, as we were nearing the end, "call was 30 minutes ago." He got up, but pulled William out with him. They had a conversation in the hallway, and yeah, I heard every word. It wasn't eavesdropping, I just, over heard them.

"Make sure she eats the candy I packed." Lin started, and I looked next to me, and the un-opened bag of gum-drops, "I'm serious, she's skipped dinner 2 nights in a row."

"Wait what?" William asked. Crap.

"Yeah, also, you're planning on spending the night, right boyfriend?" He asked, I was unaware of that.

"Yeah."

"Just letting you know, I'm okay with that for tonight, but I just want to remind you that our rooms are side by side."

"Nothing's going to happen." William re-assured.

"Nothing better. I'm serious, I like you but I'm still her dad, and she's still just a 15 year old girl. She's a girl. Don't hurt her." I didn't know Lin was the protective dad type, at least not with William.

"Ok, ok, I won't do anything, I promise."

"Fantastic, I need to go, bye, say bye to her for me." 10 seconds later, William came back in and I had to pretend like I didn't listen in on their whole conversation.

"Abigail," William walked in, "do you want popcorn?" He asked.

"No, not really." I replied.

"Do you want anything?" He asked.

"No, I'm not hungry."

"Yes you are." William said, handing me the bag of gum drops by my side.

"No, I'm okay."

"You're not okay, just eat the dang candy." He said, taking one of the gumdrops and putting it in my mouth. "Now chew." I did as I was told, "good, come on," he pleaded, "you've skipped dinner 2 nights in a row?" He asked.

"Yeah." I whispered.

"That's not good, and you didn't eat lunch today. Come on, you have to eat, please eat. I love you, just, you need to eat." He was kneeling in front of me.

"Ok." I took that bag of candy from his hand, and ate 2. That was the first thing I ate for 3 days.

"Alright, now, next movie." William said getting up to change the movie from Rent to Princess Bride. We watched 3 more movies before it was about midnight. I snuggled back into the blanket fort, and I felt Williams arms wrap around me pulling me tightly into him. "I love you Roonie."

"I love you too."

Thanks for reading

- Abi