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skin.
| blinked and then blinked again like | was restraining my brain and waking up all at once. Adrenaline still buzzed
beneath makingjittery. | didn't move to get out of the bucket, but | didn't need to. He was right there,
grabbing it fromand placing it on the floor. As soon as his hands were free, he pulledinto his arms.
"Gosh, you are shaking." He commented softly.
"Con, let's get you out of here." He didn't ask any questions as he guidedto the break room and
collected my bag, throwing it over his shoulder. As soon as we left the café building, | relaxed a little. Not a lot,
but some.
"Do we need to go to the police station?" He asked, looking atwith carefully hidden worry, but | noticed it all
the same.
"No," | said, shaking my head vehemently.
"No police," | couldn't risk the policeman seeingthere again after he had warnedabout keeping quiet.
Besides, the police wouldn't
do shit.
He looked like he wanted to object, but I think he also saw my determination. If he wantedto go down to the
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"Alright, my hor yours?" He asked, and | was glad he didn't try to convince me. | didn't have it into
argue with him right now.
"Yours," | didn't want to be in my apartment. Not when it has no comfort to giveanymore.
"Is it alright if James joins us? He is already there, but | can send him away if you want us to be alone."
"It is fine, | don't mind having him there."
"Great, but | will send him out to buy ssnacks for us so we can talk."
Of course, he wanted to talk, but | appreciated that he would wait until we got to his place. | needed a minute to
collect my thoughts and calm down from the entire experience. Now that we had put sdistance between us
and the cafe, | felt myself mentally putting distance between what had happened tothere as well. | felt cold
and empty in the safety of Andy's presence. | didn't want to think about what would have happened if he hadn't
gotten there at the time. Speaking of which... "Why did you show up after closing time?" | asked.
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We continued talking on our way to his houer. Well, he did most of the talking. It felt nice just being able to listen
to him, and it helped too. Hearing his voice, it madefeel like | was safe. We met James outside his building,
and if was heartening to see how they both looked at each other. They were still very much smitten with each
other
"I was just about to go to the store, Andy didn't specify what kinds of snacks | should buy. Is there anything in
particular you want?"
Hend James asked me, he also seemed to notice something wrong because | had never heard his voice be so
soft. | shook my "I am not picky." Andy laughed.
"Don't listen to her, she might eat anything, but if there isn't chocolate or ice cream, then she wouldn't enjoy it."
James smiled.
"Noted, | will be back in twenty minutes. Find a movie to watch while | am gone." He said and walked away.
"So, we are watching a movie?" | asked as we began walking up the stairs.
"Hasn't it becour thing?" Andy joked, both in truth, he was right.
We did watch a truckload of movies together, it was our way to simply be in each other's company and relax.
"Can we watch sci-fi or something dystopian? | don't want reality right now."
"Sure thing, girly. We will watch whatever you want."
It had only been a few days since | left his house, but | could always see a few changes to the living room area. A
new colorful blanket hung over the backrest of the sofa, a new lampshade decorated the table lamp in the
corner. There were more subtle changes too, like the fresh flowers in an old vas that was empty days ago and a
book at the coffee table that | could guarantee wasn't his. He wasn't much of a reader. When he moved to the
couch, | made a beeline past him, ensuring | got the best spot. It was on the far left and had a footrest attached
to it.
"Bitch," he said teasingly, but as he took a seat next to me, his expression soon grew serious, and | knew he
intended for us to have our talk. | didn't want to, | just did not want to think about it.
Grabbing the blanket, | tucked it around me, it gavea sort of comforting weight onthat distanced me
further from the jarring event. He probably saw how little | wanted to talk about it, but | knew he wouldn't let this
go. He was all about tough love when needed and didn't letrun from my problems.
"What happened to the café, Angelia?" He asked.
"1..." | sighed. Best to get this over with.
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| told him about how Ben commenedin the supply doser and that he egr saying whatimer e contidos furt me
all the while settingwith his presence. | didn't know why Ben had turned so hateful wantsin the dink of
an eat becat ned m down and then found someone better? He had his own suppress notes danger to anger
and | had picked for the der buttOSE to bring that anger to the surface? | didn't know, and maybe, | would ser ind
out viny Andy grey nozzangly more posed in 1 continued telling him about the incident. He conlist sit ill,
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"I am going to kill him. He said sharply
"I am seriously going to kill him, you will ballout of prison, alrigh
Even with how hard it had been to retail the story and feel the emotions | had felt earlier, | confint help the small
laugh that cout
"You will do no such thing, he is not worth the prison time. He is just mean bully, | will talk to his ant and tell her |
wont work WILD him anymore."
"Neither will I, that is for damn sure." He sighed heavily as he sat down besideagain his fastation and anger
hadn't lessened, int at least it didn't look like the vein on his forehead wasn't about to burst anymore
"I wonder what she will think of that?" | said.
| respected the woman, mostly because she made it a point to hire struggling students and planned the shit
around our schedule. But, when it cto her nephew, she was failing her other employees hearty