"Here we are." I lead her to the door and push her through. Tyler is sleeping on the couch and when I close the door he wakes up. "Hi Josh I thought..." He looks at Leyah. "who's that?" "That is Leyah, she's a twenty one pilots fan and I met her in the pub. So I asked her to come with me" Tyler looks at me with a face knowing why I invited her. He's angry with me and stares into my eyes. I shrug my shoulders and smile. While Tyler sits up I push Leyah towards the couch. She sits down and closes her eyes. She looks nauseous. "So you want to drink something?" I ask. "Eh yes I would love to have a coke please." she says shyly. "And you Tyler?" "I would love to have a beer." I go take coke out of the mini fridge and hear Tyler ask something to Leyah, but I can't hear what. "Do you like some ice in your coke?" I ask. "No thanks" She says. When I come back with two beers Leyah has pulled up her legs and wrapped her arms around them. "So do you guys want to watch a movie or something?" I go sit between Leyah and Tyler. Leyah is shaking. "Do you want a blanket or something?" she sips from her coke and nods. I take a blanket out of the box and I put it over her. I put on a movie from Netflix and settle me down next to Leyah. While watching the movie I wrap my arm around her shoulder and pull her closer to me.
While the closing credits are playing Tyler gets up. "I'm going to sleep? See ya tomorrow. Don't forget we are leaving early tomorrow." He glances at Leyah and shakes his head in disappointment. Leyah looks with sleepy eyes at me. "So eh do you want to stay over?" I look her right in the eye, but she looks away. "I don't think that's a good idea. I should go home my roommate is probably worried." She's gathering her stuff and tries to tie her shoes again when I grab her hands. "Please stay, just call your friend. I can't let you go home this late." "But eh I have no sleep stuff and you guys have to leave early tomorrow. I don't want to be a harassment." I brushed back a curl that was stuck to her forehead. "Common let's go to my room." I lead her to the back of the van an open a door. Out of my closet I take a soft shirt and give it to her. "Here you go, there is a bathroom at the other side of the van. You can use the red towels. I'll wait here." I see at her face that she's feeling lost. So again I grab her hand and point her the way to the bathroom. "Take all the time you need, just come back to my room when you are ready." She steps through the door and closes it right before my nose.
Back in my room I undress myself. I take out my sweatpants from the closet and pull them on. I hope she doesn't take too long. To kill the time I take a book from my bedside table. I'm trying to ignore it,but guilty feelings are taking over my mind. You should have sent her home! You fool! You couldn't send her home so late! She's a girl, maybe this city is full of rapists. Yes it was a good idea.
"Leyah! Finally! Where are you? I'm trying to call you all night! I thought you were kidnapped or something." "Ehm, I'm still at Josh's place. We watched a movie and he asked me to stay over. I'm crazy I know, but he didn't give me a choice." I hear Jess and my other roommate scream on the other side of the line. "Oh my god Leyah! That's amazing! So eh are you guys? You know?" I see her winking in my mind. "No of course not!" Are we? Do I want to? I honestly don't know.
"He just asked me to stay over because it was late and he didn't want to send me home." Yes, he just wanted to be nice. We don't even know each other. "But eh Jess he's waiting for me so I have to go. I see you tomorrow? Love you!" I put my phone down and dress out. I take the shirt of Josh and pull it on. It smells the reality hits me. I'm here and Josh is waiting for me in his room, Josh Dun from twenty one pilots. I'm breathing very heavy and uncontrolled. I splash some water in my face and grab the wash basin. Okay, be calm. I grab a red towel and dry off my face. Gathering my stuff together I open the door of the bathroom and try to sneak to Josh's room. "Oh hi Tyler." He's taking a bottle of water out of the mini fridge. "Hi" I see him look at my bare legs so try to pull down the shirt as far as I can. "I uh Josh asked me to stay over." Tyler's face expression changes. "Of course he did. Well em good night Leyah." "goodnight Tyler."
She opens the door and walks in. "Where can I put my stuff?" I'm staring at her bare legs, they look so good. She coughs and I look up. I feel my cheeks turn red and I stumble "You can put them on the chair." So she did and there she stood awkwardly. "Are you going to stay there all night?" I joked. She looked up to me with scary eyes. I pulled the sheets away and after some hesitation she stepped into the bed. I watched her lay down and I closed my book. "Let's go sleep." I turned off the lights and whispered a goodnight.