A Bit of an Introvert

CHAPTER TWO

I look up and saw a guy with a black hoodie with black hair. "A-are you okay?" He asks stuttering with a worried face while kneeling in front of me.

"I'm terribly sorry, my dog just suddenly ran" Hee said with a apologetic face.

"I-its okay I'm just glad that it was safe" I say as I try to stand but my knee was in real pain so I suddenly lost my balance.

I closed my eyes waiting for impact but felt hands preventing me from falling.

"T-thanks" I say shyly as it was embarassing for the stranger whom I just met help me from falling flat on my back

"Can't​ you stand?" He asks, " I dont know..." I say as I felt a sudden pain in my body. He looks down at my knee seeing blood on it.

"Can you walk a little bit? We need to clean your wounds" He asks.

"I think I can"

...

"I know it was near here" He mumbles to himself.

It's only been a few awkward minutes and we were already lost in the street. Great.

My eyes suddenly widen as I felt a hand on my waist and my left hand was above his shoulder.

"W-what are you d-d-doing?" I stutter out as we are in a really really uncomfortable position.

"Oh umm we're just going to convenience store near here so I needed to have a better hold of you to make sure you won't fall. I'm not a pervert or anything" He rambles looking down. As we walk I look at him and notice his face and his ear was red as a tomato. Did he have a fever or something?

We were both walking, with his hand was in my waist and another hand was holding my bike with his dog (whom I almost hit with my bike) behind us wagging its little tail happily like it hadn't experienced a near death experience only a while ago.

When we got to the front of convinience store, he helped me sit down on a bench in front of the store and got inside.

A few minutes later, he got back with a plastic bag in hand. He got in front of me and kneeled down infront of me.

"D-does it still hurt?" He asks and bites his lip nervously.

"Y-yeah" He takes out the cotton buds out from the plastic seal and the betadine. He puts some betadine in the cotton buds and dab it it onto my wound.

"O-ow" I groan in pain.

"I-Im s-sorry, I'll be careful" He apologizes as he continued to work in silence.

"T-thank you so much for helping me" I say while looking at him.

"No, it's okay besides it was my fault that you have this, I'm terribly sorry" He says and immediately broke eye contact with me and looked down.

Author's P.O.V

When he was done putting betadine on Charm's knee, he put a band aid on it also in her wrist.

"There, it's finished" He says standing up slowly.

"Oh! I'm sorry but I need to get going now I have an errand to do" He says hurriedly.

"Oh, its okay" Charm said looking at him smiling. When she was going to ask something she got cut off because the boy was starting to run away.

"Hah.." She sighs heavily. "I forgot to ask his name.. but I managed to remember his face, he's got black hair and mildly pale skin" She mutters while slowly reaching for her bike.

She managed to walk slowly to not feel the pain in her knee. "I think mom will get worried when I get there" She says to herself thinking her about her mom's reaction.

When she was getting nearer, she saw a familiar figure in a red jersey. It was August walking inside their house, when she got to the house her mom and brother saw her, and as expected her mom got worried but her brother looked furious.

"Who did that to you?" August asks angrily with a calm but scary tone while helping her walk inside.

"No one. I just fell from my bike" She says making August's face soften a bit.

"How?" Her mom asks.

"Well..there was a dog running across the road and I panicked and fell" She explains as they got inside the house and August set her down in their sofa.

"Jenny! Please take care of Charm's injuries" Her mom says to Jenny who was nearby.

"No mom it's okay. It's already clean" She says pointing at her wounds.

August raises an eyebrow and asks "Who cleaned it?" While looking at her suspiciously.

"Just a friendly stranger" She replies.

"You klutz. Next time pay attention when you're riding your bike so you won't cause trouble again okay?" He says teasingly and ruffles her hair.

"Okay~"