Oliver's POV: Recap:
"Young lady you are in some serious shit!" I hear Davie say at me. I rest my forehead on hers and sigh in frustration, but she just laughs at my frustration. "Girlfriends? Maybe another date after this one?" I ask her, instead, she just kisses me and says, "girlfriends."
Currently: Oliver's POV
We both hop down from the monkey bars and I introduce her to Davie, Gerardo and Jay. "Everyone this is my now official girlfriend, Reese," I say with an arm wrapped around her waist. Jay throws her hands up and falls to her knees saying, "thank god you finally came out! I thought you were going to find Narnia in that closet before you came out!"
I stick my tongue out at her, "the lion is the best!" I say to her.
"Alright we need to go home," Gerardo says before taking Jay to the car.
I turn to my girlfriend and best friend and say, "goodnight babe, see you tomorrow? Same place, 12?" I ask her. She nods and calls for someone to pick her up, they arrive a few minutes of waiting. Then we all drive back home.
We get through the door of the house, Davie and Gerardo are pissed. "Goodnight everyone, good luck Ollie." She tells everyone before running upstairs, so she doesn't have to hear the fight or the yelling. I sit down on the living room couch with Gerardo and Davie following right behind me.
They sit down on the couch opposite from me, and Davie sighs, putting his head in his hands and keeping it there for a few minutes. Gerardo just looks at me. Davie, (eventually) lifts his head from his hands and looks at me before speaking. "You didn't miss curfew, so you didn't break that rule. So thanks for not breaking half of the rule. The other half of the rule was to tell us where you are going when you leave, which you didn't do. Why?" Davie says looking pissed, with his eyebrows scrunched up so much it makes one eyebrow.
"I didn't tell you guys because, I guess, I just forgot that I have parents now that need to know where I'm going. I haven't had parents for years! This is the first time I've had to tell someone other than Jay where I was going." I say, half lying, but half telling the truth. Gerardo sighs but nods. "Okay, that's reasonable. You have a warning this time, but next time you pull another stunt like that? You're grounded no questions asked young lady. Now go to bed." He tells me pointing upstairs. I nod my head and do as I'm told (for once) before they can take away not giving me a punishment.
I head into my room and collapse on the bed. When my phone starts ringing playing Highway to Hell by AC/DC. I pat my pockets down, looking for my phone. I answer the call and its Reese, "what's up babe?" I ask loving the feeling of the word 'babe' on my tongue.
"I just wanted to make plans for a second date, maybe a movie and then we go to the park again?" She asks me with hope in her voice before she adds, "if you want to."
I nod my head before I realize that she can't see me, and I feel stupid. "Yeah! Sounds great, Friday night I'll pick you up at five. Sound okay?" I ask her. There's a pause and I hear her marker squeak on her calendar that she uses to keep track of everything she needs to.
"Yeah sounds perfect Ollie, oh shit my aunts coming to make sure I'm asleep. Sweet dreams." She says before hanging up. My room door opens, and Jay opens the door and walks in like she owns my room. She sits down on my chair that's suspended from the ceiling. She brings her left leg up and crosses it on her lap. She leans forward a little and folds her hands.
"You kissed Reese wearing that," she says gesturing to my outfit, obviously judging my clothing. "Next time, before you go on a date let me pick out your clothes. You didn't spend enough time in the closet to have a good fashion sense." She tells me before leaving my room. I swear to god she acts gayer than what I do! I think to myself as I laugh at her gay joke.
I strip down to my bra and underwear and fall into bed. I fall asleep very quickly and fall into a nightmare almost instantly. But the most important thing I forgot about was that my body is 99% bruises and they haven't seen the bruises since I first got hurt.
Gerardo's POV:
I collapse on to the couch with my husband following what I did. I lift my arm for him, and he cuddles into my side. I ruffle his hair and I kiss it gently, "we're official parents as of today! We even disciplined one of them!" Davie says to me and holds out his hand for me to high-five.
I laugh at his own childishness and high-five him. "We did it," I say to him and kiss his lips which quickly turns into a heated make-out session. Our tongues start to fight for dominance, mine almost immediately winning when I bring Davie on to my lap and squeeze his ass.
His head falls back in pleasure as I kiss the base of his neck and give him a hickey. I push him on to the couch, so he's on the bottom and I'm on top of him. I just get my belt undone when we hear screaming from upstairs. "Cock-blocks," I mutter as I run and do my belt back up at the same time. Davie groans but jumps up and follows me upstairs.
I open Jay's door while Davie opens Ollie's. I slap his ass and he turns and glares at me, so I kiss him again which earns me a groan before I duck back into Jay's room and he goes into Ollie's. Jay is whimpering in her sleep and is curled up into a ball with her legs tucked into her chest and her hands covering her ears. Her hands are gripping her ears and she has indents of where her nails dug into the backs of her ears.
I take her hands off her ears, and she shoots up in her bed heavily swearing things in Italian. "Holy shit, that was real, that happened oh my god. Gerardo is here just fucking great, now he's going to hate me." She says in Italian, little does she know, I speak Italian too.
"Hey! We could never hate you" I scold her. She looks at me surprised so I take the chance to pick her up and pull her on to my lap.
I kiss the top of her head and ask, "do you want to sleep with Davie and me? He wouldn't mind." I ask her in Italian again, after I had tried to get up and she didn't let go of my shirt. Jay nods, so I pick her up bridal style and leave her room. I poke my head into Oliver's room, and I see her in a corner holding her head in her hands and rocking back and forth.
I keep walking down the hall, and once we reach Davie and I's bedroom, I open the door and lay her down in the middle of the bed. I lay down beside her and pull out my phone and start texting Davie.
Gerardo: Babe, what's going on in there? Btw Jay had a nightmare and is sleeping with us tonight.
Davie: Oliver had a nightmare too and she threw herself off the bed when she woke up. She won't let me near her.
Gerardo: Wanna switch? Jay just wants someone to cuddle with her.
Davie: Yeah sure thx babe
Gerardo: Np
I hear the bedroom door open and Davie crawls in on the other side of the bed. She cuddles into him, and she lets out an exhausted sigh before her breathing evens out and she's back asleep and so is Davie. So I pull a blanket over them, shut the lights off, and gently close the door before I walk down the hall into Oliver's room.
I see her sitting in the corner, legs pulled into her chest with her head in between her knees, her arms wrapped around herself as if she's protecting herself from something. Or someone, my brain says and then everything makes sense. She had a nightmare and now she won't let anyone near her because whatever happened in that dream was nasty to her.
I sit about two feet away from her and start to talk to her. "Hey Ollie, can I come closer? I'm not going to hurt you promise." I say to her but there's no response. I scoot a little bit closer, and now we're half a foot apart, if I reach out, I can just barely touch her toes with my middle finger, but I don't. I sit there quietly for a minute, trying to decide what to do next.
I turn around and stand up, grabbing a blanket off her bed. And in one swift movement I throw the blanket over her shoulders and back off a little so there's some space between us. She pulls the warm and huge blanket around herself, her entire body covered in a blanket. She slowly brings her head up, looks at my shoes. So I crouch down in front of her.
"If I speak to you in Italian like what I did with your twin, will you talk to me?" I ask her in Italian. she looks shocked but nods her head anyways. "Do you want to sleep with Davie and I tonight? We won't mind." I ask her.
But she shakes her head before replying, "no I just want to go back to bed, thanks for everything you did for me tonight, goodnight Gerardo." She then stands up and starts to walk over to her bed, but I wrap an arm around her stomach before she can.
I pick her up and carry her into the bathroom. I sit her down on the bathroom counter and wrap her blanket around her legs. I get out the first-aid pack, trying to not be mad about the fact that her ribs look worse than what they did when she first got hurt.
I get out the bandages and start to wrap her ribs, but she stops me. "It's okay Gerardo, my ribs are fine." She tells me, I shake my head at her silliness and wrap her ribs. She's also far too skinny, but I don't mention that tonight. I bring her back into mine and Davie's room, I lay her down beside her twin and hold her tight. Then we all fall asleep.
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