"Nick", Zoe murmured as she turned in his arms and on seeing the love and care in his eyes she collapsed into his arms once more more and buried her head into his chest and started to cry.
" Hey, what's up?" Nick asked Zoe, his voice laced with concern, once she'd stopped crying.
" It's you" Zoe answered once she'd managed to get her breathing under control.
"What do you mean it's me" he asked her, with hurt and curiosity evident in his voice.
"I thought that you were dead after what I had seen on the news, and then there is this power cut and suddenly out of nowhere I heard footsteps approaching my front door and stopped suddenly and all went silent, then the silence was broken by a key clicking in the lock." Zoe paused to get her breath back, because as she was explaining all this to Nick she was making herself get upset once again.
"Then I heard the footsteps rapidly approaching me. Then I get pulled to my feet by my waist. And you don't even bother to talk to me whilst you are doing it." Zoe replied and she was now crying again.
"Oh Zoe, I'm so sorry I did not intend on scaring you, as soon as I heard you panicking I know that I had to do something and all that I could think of was coming in and comforting you, so I started to look for your spare key and thankfully it was in the same place as the last time I used it." Nick paused, thinking about what he was going to say next.
"Once I had pulled you to your feet, you collapsed into my arms, and that is why your now in here, on your bed rather than on your sofa, because I realised that once you woke up you would starting wriggling in order to free yourself and I thought that the safest place for you to do that would be here on your bed rather than on that sofa of yours because I knew that if I don't hold you tight enough you would end up on the floor, and I did not want that to happen." Nick explained, whilst stroking Zoe's hair.
" But I thought that you'd come in to try and burglar me, try and hurt me or maybe even something worse."
" Zoe you should know by now that I would never even dream of hurting you, you mean far to much to me for me to destroy our friendship by hurting you"
" But that's what I thought you had come in here for and the thought really scared me."
" Oh, Zoe come here you soppy mare." Nick said, with his arms open inviting Zoe to struggle into him closer for a hug, whilst trying to hide his laughter.
Zoe accepted Nick's invitation for a hug and was grateful that it was him who entered her flat and not some complete stranger.
A/N: Hey guys, thanks for sticking with me on this. If you have any ideas you would want me to include please PM me or put them in a review.