Chapter 11

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Finally, free time to do this.

Sorry I was late with this, a lot of stuff happened on the weekend.

Alright, back into it!

I was expecting a serious scolding from Vanessa.

I was expecting to get within eyeshot of her, then receive all Hell from her, like when I was sparring with my brother a year back, and we broke a lamp; my mom wouldn't stop yelling at us for at least two I walked into my living room, Vanessa saw me. Time stood still, I was mentally preparing myself for more of the loud yelling I got before I was knocked out. Then Vanessa ran over to me and tackled me to the ground.

This was unexpected to say the least.

"You made me so worried!" She said holding me tighter. At this point, I realized two things: I was in more pain than I thought since being tackled hurt more than what I originally expected, and that Vanessa was seriously scared for my health. My brother couldn't have killed me, there was no way that he could kill anyone. Then the thought struck; A fight with a brother, with one of the fighters falling into a sleep... maybe something similar happened at Vanessa's home. With her brother in mind, I could think of a few scenarios that could play out like that.

"Sorry Vanessa, I guess we both got too carried away." I said trying to ignore the pain in my body. Suddenly, Vanessa realized that she was crushing me and quickly got off. She blushed and awkwardly sat back down on the living room couch. I stood up and stared at her. She looked like she had been crying, I felt like crap for making her feel worried about me. I walked awkwardly towards her.

"I- I'm fine, also, again I'm sorry I made you worry about me." I said shifting my feet. Things were really awkward, a minute passed before my brother came downstairs. He looked at me but didn't seem to realize the situation.

"Welp," My brother said putting his arm around me "I guess we can call that fight a draw. In other news, I only came in for a little visit, so I'll be heading home now." He walked over to the door and put on his shoes.

"So, you're going now? Shouldn't you wait for your wounds to heal?" I asked while he opened the door. "Nah, I gotta go show these off before they heal, say I fought off a thief or something." He said with his signature smirk on. I didn't hate the smirk as much as I did before, I guess that fight did help relive some stress about him.

After he left it was just me and Vanessa again. It still seemed slightly awkward about the situation, but I wasn't one hundred percent sure what was making it awkward. I had been unconscious for a few hours and by the time I was alone with Vanessa it was around 5 in the afternoon. I had decided to make dinner and went to the kitchen I checked the fridge and noticed I was low on supplies, I would have to go shopping tomorrow. I quickly made some mac and cheese for the two of us and put them on the plates.

Vanessa was watching me from the living room while I was preparing dinner, I could tell she was staring at me despite her attempts to look like she was reading a book from my bookshelf.

"Vanessa, you can stop reading now, it's time to eat." I said putting a plate on the table. She walked over like a deer, making cautious steps like I was going to shoot her for her hide. I simply sat down and ate, I kept thinking about what might be the thing that was so awkward between us. My body was in auto-pilot while I ate.

"Was it because I did something that resembled life at her home?" I thought while putting my plate with the other dirty dishes. Vanessa quickly followed my example and did the same, our eyes met for a few seconds before she looked away.

"Hey," I started "I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but I'm sorry if I did." Vanessa looked at me with concern before answering, "Thank you, I guess it's obvious that I'm uncomfortable with... fi-fighting, but that's not what I'm worried about."

This confused me, was she concerned about her family? Was she going to talk about the bed sharing situation again? I really didn't want to think about it again, but it was almost the end of the day and I didn't know how much more of bed sharing with a pretty girl I could take.

"Oh, uh... what's wrong then? Is something really bothering you?" I said trying to meet her eyes. She tried to move her eyes towards me. She was blushing harder than I had ever seen her blush before.

"I was wondering... um I mean I-I wanted to ask... If y-you uh wa-wanted to," Vanessa rambled, whatever she wanted ask was clearly embarrassing for her "I wanted to ask if... Will y-you.. uh will-"

"Hey," I said putting my hand on her shoulder "you can ask me anything. You don't have to be embarrassed about asking me something." This apparently didn't help her as she seemed even more nervous. She took a deep breath and looked my directly in the eyes.

"Andrew, will you pl-please marry me?"

Well, That's all the time I got. As much as I enjoy writing these, I enjoy playing video games more and I'm short on time for casual stuff.

Holy crap this weekend was busy, if I ever get busy again, I'll let you know in the update story I also made.

Let's hope that doesn't happen to often

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