PART II
ANDREW'S PERSPECTIVE
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Tiana mocked a little child, with every tug there was a whine, with every word there was a protest. "You're such an asshole Andrew." Tiana yelled.
"A asshole always telling me what to do!" She cried, trying to tug her hand away.
She groaned shaking her arm. "I'm being kidnapped for the second time this week!"
I rolled my eyes throwing my head back reminding myself for the 80th time that she was highly drunk. People turned our way and I smiled in apology indicating she was drunk.
Well at least you aren't far from home.
With one hand gripped around her arm and the other clutching onto her bidazzled high heels and cluch, I dragged her along. "I have to get you home." I said.
Tiana hit my arm slightly making me hiss. "I don't want you to take me home! I want you to leave me alone."
Agian a few people turned our way, thinking of the worst and I winced as a few stopped. "Sister." I said, thinking of the most incespicuase word possible.
"As much as I want to, leaving you alone is the last thing I should do right now."
She let out a sarcastic sassy tsk. "At least now you know from your rights and wrongs you asshole!"
I tugged her fast and close under my arm, she gasp in surprise stumbling close to the floor, but lucky her she was caught.
Her arms wrapped around my waist and quickly regained her balance once again grumbling. "If only you were this rough when we were together maybe things would have worked out"
I laughed a little. That was a lie even for her.
"You need to be quite." I snapped, bitting back the anger that was boiling with in.
Tiana smirked wickedly knowing that she had pushed one of my buttons. I forgotten that she was always so manipulating and hypocritical when she was drunk.
"You were always so gentle with me," she sighed. I shook my head deciding that it would be fun to play along. "If you wanted rough Baby, you should have said something."
Tiana giggled I saw that she was blushing but then she hit my shoulder. "You should of did something."
Okay then
I tugged her close in my chest so that our lips would almost touch and gripped on to her hip thrust her hips within my pelvis, coming ever so close to her lips. "We should have communicated."
Her breath quickened and her eyes were in lust, she waited for me to kiss her; but as much I wanted to I didn't want to take advantage of the situation so made her look at me. "Not when your drunk baby."
She let out a tsk smiling, quickly bounced on her toes pecking my lips. "Point for me" she giggles hysterically. I rolled my eyes hiding my blush and giddiness with a stubborn tug down the the street.
"I'll let you win this time."
She smiled proudly and flicked her hair and I laughed shaking my head. For quite sometime we walked in silence passing through the late night city, I loosened my grip around her arm held her hand instead.
I smiled, it was as if I was back to were we started and now I was completely happy.
"Are you feeling better?"
Tiana looked up at me as we walked she gently laid her head on my shoulder, humming in response.
"Maybe we should sober you up, are you hungry?"
She giggled shaking her head, placing her hand on my chest. "My hero." I rolled my eyes but then again who else would be. So we walked down to the nearest cafe down by my apartment building, below it there was a small cafe served with the gratest of foods. "Come On then"
Suddenly Tiana tugged on my arm making me turn around quicker than ever making me stumble in surprise to, suddenly the sadness and longing in her eyes peered through all the drunkenness.
"I still remember what you said to me."
My eyebrows crunched into confusion. This was not what I was expecting at all.
"What do you mean?"
Tiana sighed dramatically throwing her head back and throw her free arm in the air.
Wow was I this bipolar?
"I would never lie only if it was ever nessary" she said air quoting and mocking my voice.
Cutie.
Still had no idea what she meant though.
"I never said that!" I protested crossing my arms over my chest. She too had no idea what she was talking about.
Tiana shot me a blank stare then took a wonky step towards me; instantly I grasped her waist in support she wrapped her arms around my neck pulling me down to her level as if she was about to tell me a secret.
Her eyes scanned my face eyeing me gently as if she was lost in her own little world, looking at me the way she use to, looking at me as if she was lost in memory.
"I know you lied to me Andrew..."
I bit the inside of my cheek in nervousness, I had to play this as confident as possible. To what ever it was she couldn't have possibly found out.
"Lied about what Baby?" I whispered, I couldn't help but tuck a short strand behind her ear. Her eyes fluttered shut and she leaned into my touch completely lost. Leaving me in complete awe.
"The scar on your head. I know it's not from some broken cups." She whispered.
Her eyes sparked in the street light when she looked up at me and smiled as her thumb ran over the scar. "But I think I have an idea of how it might of happened."
A army of goose bumps mergers all over my body and I sighed with defeat; she has and forever will have me wrapped around her pretty little finger.
But then agian I wasn't the one to be played, especially from Tiana, when drunk. "You have no idea what you are talking about." I grumble taking her hand away tugging her down the road agian.
Two more blocks.
"Where you in a fight?" She asked angered.
"Something like that."
Half a truth.
Tiana said nothing, I could tell by the corner of my eye she was staring daggers at my back and I knew exactly what she would say. She caught up beside me as her hand snuck around my bicep, slowly and ever so shyly.
"I told you not to get into any more fights Andrew."
"Well Princess your not in my life anymore so you can't tell me what to do." I mocked sticking out my tongue at her even though my aggression for this conversation was about to explode.
Tiana fell silent for a moment, then rolled her eyes but laid her head on my shoulder. "You promised. Now look at you."
I sighed and couldn't help but smiled down at her, kissing her forehead. "Baby I'm fine, there is absolutely nothing to worry about "
"I know your fine, only because I'm here." she yawned. I chuckled softly wrapping my arm around her, pulling her closer to my side. "-but you still got hurt and I wasn't there to help you."
Once agian I looked down at her catching her stare, once agian she reached for my scar shaking her head.
"I should of been there but I moved on too quickly.."
I sighed catching hand. If I wasn't able to talk to Tiana about our relationship when she is sober, I can sertently get the truth while she was drunk; so I asked her the most complicated question.
"Then why did you?"
Tiana bit her lip and I let out a gently let out a laugh, "I dare you" I challenged. I mean, the answer I was hoping for was already in my head but then agian it was a different sinario when Tiana was drunk.
"Because I knew if I stayed our realationship would've fallen. I knew that one of us would get bored, one of us would fight, one of us would try to find a way out, both of our hearts would have been broken."
I was silent but angry, there was no such thing for this kind of excuse. Because the way I saw it, were so happy, in love and most definitely never bored.
I scolded shaking my head. Drunk Tia it is.
"I don't think your telling me the truth Tia, because you and I both knew that we would have got married at some point. We were so happy."
She held my hand and brushed my knuckle gently, a way of telling the truth. But I knew there was something more.
A tear slid down her cheek and instantly I stopped us. My heart had melted to the bottoms of my chest and I felt my stomach twists into determination.
I creased her tears away and looked into those big brown eyes, searching for some type of answer, wondering if she was still as drunk as before but I see nothing more than the regret and sadness she held.
"I double dare you okay. I'll tell you the truth behind my scar.-" her eyes lit up in in such wonder and she held back a stutter but I interrupted her, speaking as if she was a toddler.
"-Only if you tell me why you wanted to leave, okay?"
She nodded as I did.
She opened her mouth. "I - you first" she objected. I gulped nodding, holding up my pinky infront of her face with a reassuring and hopeful smile; just like we once did when we let out a promise.
She fell into awe and stared at me for a moment but regardless she wrapped her pinky around mine giving her absolute oath.
So I began with a promise.
"When you left I signed up for the Governmental Military, I went for three years and got cut on attack of a mission two months before you arrived. I bled out and passed out, people thought I wouldn't make it, but I was saved. They have given me a month off due to head and coma injury which is why I'm here now."
Tiana stood silent processing my words she took a breath searching for any signs of lie on my expression, she loosened her grip around my finger and took a step back turning away from me. "Ohmy god"
"Tia-"
Tiana turned right back around hitting my chest, pushing me backwards. "You could have been killed you fucking idiot!"
I gasped with the sudden contact of a wall behind me and quickly regained my balance. "But I wasn't, I'm still here"
A sudden hit came to my face, leaving me a deep painful sting. "But your going back!"
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she let out a cry. "Who would've been the farther to my child!?"
"W-what?"
"I was pregnant Andrew!!"