Chapter 12

Who's wearing the Pants?

Ah yes free time for this, I'm not entirely sure if I'll actually be able to do the once every other day release soon because I have a ton of assignments pouring in.

I'll keep you posted in Updates if that happens.

But let's get back to it for now.

I'll just say it, I was completely and utterly speechless when that happened.

At first, I tried to convince myself I misheard her. However, I knew if I asked her I would have gotten the same response. I stood there in silence, just staring at her waiting for her to say 'just kidding!' or something.

It didn't happen.

Instead, I just stared at her like an idiot. After a good amount of awkward silence I finally said "Aren't we a little too young for marriage?"

Great, That's the worst part of the problem, not the fact we didn't know each other, not the fact we weren't in love, just the fact that we were a little below the mark for wedding bells. I mentally slapped myself for choosing the worst reason for why that was a bad idea. Then my mind latched on to a thought, "What if she does love me?" I thought to myself. I shook that thought off, we didn't know each other at all! How could she love me? Then I remembered how we shared a bed, how worried she was about my injuries, how embarrassing it was for her to ask it... Maybe she did love me. If we got married then we would be a husband and wife, yeah I'd have a hell of a lot of explaining to do with my parents, but I could enjoy it while they were gone. Not to mention... what a husband and wife do once they get married... we would technically be able to do that... and that... Then Vanessa broke me out of my train of thought.

"O-oh, right... It's just," She said to the floor "if I get married I won't have to go home and I could live here with you instead. like how a husband and wife live."

"Oh..." I responded, well great I guess I was just getting worried (and excited) over nothing. "Well, I can't exactly marry you, but you can stay as long as you need, when my parents get home I'm sure they would let you stay if you explained the situation."

"Really?" she said, looking up to me and smiling. Dammit, she was cute, at that point I kinda wished I hadn't said no the proposal. Vanessa looked at me for a few seconds before she started to blush again. "I-I'm really sorry I asked so suddenly, I just didn't want to go back home and I thought that if I stayed with someone I r-really liked, I could manage not being home for a long time."

Someone she really liked... This time I was the one blushing intensely.

"B-but," Vanessa started again looking at me with a bit of confidence "If things don't go the way you say, would you marry me?" I stared at her began tot think. If I said yes, it would mean if things went wrong with our plan I'd marry her. This wasn't a super bad thing, she was a really pretty girl that was seriously interested in marrying me. Then I thought of the reasons behind her proposal, she didn't actually love she just wanted a escape route if things went south. I wanted to say no, but when I looked her in the eyes, her confidence was slowly wavering, she stared to look panicky.

"S-sure thing Vanessa." I said without thing, well damn this wouldn't well in the future. I just had to hope things did work out well in the end. Vanessa burst into a fit of happiness, she hugged me again, crushing my sore body once again but I didn't really mind, she was really soft and had been a while since I had been hugged by a cute girl.

"H-hey I appreciate the sentiment," I said softly pushing her off me. "I'm still a little sore though. I think I just need to day to rest." Vanessa quickly got off and blushed.

"S-sorry Andrew." she said.

The rest of the day was me in my bed trying to recover while Vanessa went out to the store to buy groceries.

"Are you sure you want to go out on your own?" I asked trying to get out of my bed, however my body just wouldn't let me get out of bed. "It's fine," Vanessa said near my door, "I'll be fine on my own. I'll be back soon alright Andrew?" I felt like a little kid the way she said that. "Alright, just stay safe." I said and she left the house. As I lay there in my bed, I noticed the bag at my computer desktop, it was Vanessa's bag that she was carrying when I found her in the alley. I stumbled out of bed and walked over to it. I was curious as to what was inside since it seemed to be the only thing she took with her when she left her home. I opened the bag and looked inside to find a laptop, mouse, and charger. Why did she only pick these to run away with? Yeah she played Minecraft but was she that serious about the game? I put it back and walked back to my bed so she wouldn't get mad at me for snooping through her stuff. As I got back on my bed, I heard the door ring, it must have been Vanessa since I had realized I had forgotten to give her a house key. It took me a while to get to the door but when I finally did and opened the door, Vanessa was standing there holding several bags of groceries. "Are you okay holding all those bags?" I asked her trying to take some of them, but quickly realized I didn't have the strength to hold them. "It's okay Andrew, I can hold them. I'll out them in the kitchen while you go back to bed okay?" Vanessa said while walking into the house.

If we did get married, I'm not sure if I'd be the guy of the relationship.

So... I am INCREDIBLY off with the scheduled released, but I have good reasons.

I help with my school play as well as do other things that take up a lot of my free time plus actual school work to do.

From now on, you'll have to settle with at least two chapters a week at the most, depending on how much time I have.

But I'm back and I will continue the story for the one person who actually likes this garbage.

(And don't worry, Minecraft will actually be apart of this fiction soon)

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