"Did it hurt?" Thalia asks me, getting closer to my face each time.

"Did what hurt?" I give in to her questions and she laughs to herself before answering me.

"When you fell from heaven." She trails off and laughs again.

She hides her face in my chest as her giggles become ever lasting. She's been laughing for the past ten minutes but I wasn't even tired of it yet.

"I just love corny pick up lines." She sighs as her laughter dies down.

I was in a room full of high fuckers and my sweet Thalia, I was tempted to get high myself but restrained myself because I was the designated driver. I had to drive Thalia back home safely .

"Thalia, Thalia, you..." Duke stands up but trips over his own feet when he attempts to come over here.

He falls in front of Thalia, causing more giggles to come out of her. She had only eaten one brownie and was acting like she ate five. But I guess that was just her personality.

She didn't need the weed, half of the time the way she was acting was her being herself.

"Let's dance!" Hanna stands up on her own and starts 'dancing' or whatever the fuck that was.

"But there's no music.." Zack trails off and plops down on the floor, laying down face first on the carpet.

"Dance with us Heath!" Zoe's annoying high pitch voice calls for me but I pretend not to fucking hear her.

I just wanted to stay here in my spot on this couch and watch Thalia. I grunt when I see her walking over here but Thalia surprised me when she wraps her arms around me tightly.

"No. The only person he can dance with is me." She tells her and I smirk at her, watching Zoe glare down at her.

She better wipe that glare off her face, she rolls her eyes and sits back down. Thalia let's go of me and gets on all fours.

"I wanna lay on the floor too! Duke lay with me." She looks over at Duke who was passed out, leaning on the foot of the sofa.

"Heath will you lay with me on the floor?" She asks gently and I was going to say no but the look she gives me is impossible to turn down.

I sigh, in annoyance as I get down on the dirty ass carpet and lay on my side besides her. She smiles at me and lays her cheek on her hand.

" I ated a weed brownie." She bursts out laughing for the tenth time today.

"My dad is going to be mad." She holds her hand up to her mouth as she erupts in laughter.

"Do I sound like I ate weed?" She asks, gasping her face turns serious.

"You make no sense, so yes." I trail my finger down her cheek and tuck away hair from her face.

She closes her eyes as I gently trail my finger over her face, she relaxes into my touch and when I stop she jolts awake.

"I wanna leave now. Can we go?" She gets on her knees and stands up.

"Duke we're going." She shakes Duke aggressively and he's wide awake.

"Where are we going?" Jasper asks, even though nobody was fucking talking to him.

"We're going somewhere?" Zoe chimes in and I roll my eyes at the sound of her voice.

"You're not." I tell her and she frowns.

"We're leaving." I tell them and wrap my arm around Thalias small waist as I help her out the house.

"We forgot something!" She stops and calls out for Dukes slow ass.

"I didn't know we were leaving. You two were just going to leave me?" He sniffles and Thalia stops, looking at him carefully before hugging him.

Are you fucking serious.

"Of course we weren't Duke. We just forgot about you. But we weren't going to leave you." She pats him on the back as he continues to make sniffling sounds.

"Oh okay, thank you for the hug that I so desperately needed. No, don't pull away just yet." He wraps his arms around her tightly and glances up at me, smirking at me letting me know he's doing this shit on purpose.

"I won't." She says kindly and lays her head on his chest.

"Alright, enough. Let's go." I pull her out of his arms and she pouts holding her arms out for him.

"No! You can't separate us! Help! Help me! Somebody! I'm-I'm being token away!" She shouts and I have to put my hand over her mouth before I have people out here believing her.

"Yes! Help! Help her! No, help us! Please!" Duke joins in pleading out for help. This is embarrassing as fuck. If I didn't like her so much I would've just left her here.

"Is everything okay here? Does this young lady need help?" An old lady comes out from her house looking worried.

"No"

"Yes"

Duke and I speak at the same time, the lady looks at me with my hand over Thalias mouth. I curse at how it might look and she slowly backs away before running into the house.

"Duke get in the fucking car." I snap at him and he rolls his eyes at me. Thalia tries to break out of my arms and I look at the lady who returned with a phone in her hand.

Thalia breaks free when I get distracted and starts fucking running away. God fucking help me.

I start running after her but she crosses the street and starts yelling.

"Fuck." I curse as I chase after her. I look back at the old lady who looks terrified at the situation.

"Run Thalia, run like the wind!" Duke encourages and Thalia breaks out laughing. She stops for a second as she holds her stomach and I take my chance to grab her.

"Hey.." she frowns when I catch her and pick her up.

"Let me go. I don't know this person. Hel-"

I put my hand over her mouth and she licks it but I keep it still before she shouts again. She's never getting fucking high again.

I get her into the passenger seat and Duke sits in the back before I take off driving. I sigh at everything they just put me through.

"I'm hungry..." Thalia blurts out and Duke right away agrees with her.

"I could eat. Heath buy us food." He says calmly but I ignore him because I don't want to lose my cool.

"I'm taking Thalia home." I tell them and hear Thalia groan as she puts her face in her hands.

"You can't! My dad always tells me to never to drugs and sure I joke about actually doing them but I never intended to! You can't bring me home. Please Heath." She grabs onto my arm and starts begging.

"Fine." I tell her so that she could relax and drive to my house. I hear snoring coming from the back, looking into the review mirror I see Duke passed out already.

"I'm still hungry Heath." She tells me, looking out the window.

"I'll make you something." I tell her and she leans her head on the window, eventually falling asleep.

When I get to my house I have two people sleeping in my car. I roughly wake up Duke and he gets out of the car, stretching and yawning. I walk over to the passenger side and take Thalia in my arms, letting her sleep.

Her head rests on my chest as I carry her all the way into my house. Beau greets me excitedly as I walk in but I make sure to put Thalia down on the couch before greeting him.

"I'm awake!" She shouts and sits up right as I put her on the couch.

"I was awake the whole time, I was just lazy and wanted you to carry me." She admits and looks wide awake, throwing herself on the floor to pet Beau.

"I want a dog. I've always wanted one of my own but my dads allergic." She says as she kissed Beau on his head.

"I'm hungry." She sighs and stands going into my kitchen. I don't even say anything and let her look through my fridge.

"I want chocolate milk." She hiccups and it goes on for a while. She hiccups dramatically when she does, annoying the shit out of me.

"Drink something." I tell her and she throws her head back, with a frown on her face.

"You're so bossy." She mumbled and puts her entire head into the fridge.

"I'm stuck!" She shouts, I roll my eyes before going over there and easily pulling her out of the fridge.

"Thanks stepbro." She snorts but how the hell does she even know about that.

"I guess I wasn't stuck. My hero!" She wraps her arms around me and squeezes extra tightly. I actually liked her hugs so I wrap my arms around her waist.

"Where did Duke go?" She pulls away and walks out of the kitchen to look for him.

I focus on making her something to eat, I don't know when the last time she ate was but I'd make her something if she was hungry. I take out pans and start cooking.

When I turn around her and Duke are watching me as I started cooking. It was fucking cute when Thalia did it but Duke doing that shit is just weird.

"How can you be so perfect?" She sighs in admiration when she looks at me.

I'll never be able to understand how she could just say that about me, I've never heard it before that I have a hard time believing it. I couldn't bring myself to ever say anything too deeply emotional like that.

"Want me to tell you?" Duke smirks and she nods, he leans into her and whispers something in her ear, making her eyes widen.

"I have to find out." Thalia blurted, I can only imagine what it was he told her.

"I was right. You are a freak." Duke snorts out at her and she quickly shakes her head.

"I'm not I swear! I'm just a woman who likes what she likes." She shrugs and moves around the counter to be closer to me.

My eyes trail down her bare legs in those small ass shorts, I haven't said anything about them but I've definitely had thoughts about what they were covering all day.

"Do you workout?" She giggles as she pokes my biceps. She smiles at herself as she innocently looks up at me.

"Sometimes." I answer her, looking at her eyeing my arms.

"Me too. Can't you tell?" She holds her arm out and flexes the little muscle she had.

I've realized it doesn't hurt to pretend so I just agree with her now.

" You're so strong." I play along and she sucks her teeth as she plops her arm down.

"Yeah, I don't skip arm day." She brags, I've taken notice by now when she's lying, it's easy to tell because she can't lie for shit but if it makes her feel better, fuck it.

"I'm pretty much good at everything." She brags about herself, I was going to mention her shitty driving but decided not to burst her bubble.

"I'm still hungry." She reminds me again and I'm reminded about the food on the stove.

"I'm cooking for you." I tell her and stir the steaming pot.

"I like a man who can cook because I can't." She says and I glance at her to see her watching me.

"You're so cute Heath. Boop." She leans towards me and taps my nose with her finger lightly. She does weird things sometimes.

"UGH. I get it he's so cute blah blah blah , who fucking cares? Fuck love" Duke groans, resting his head on the counter top.

"Love? Is this what love feels like? I feel so happy right now. I love love. I think I love weed?" She asks but shrugs it off moving on to the next thing.

"You know what else I love? Food. What do you love Heath?" She asks me with a smile on her face, I get anxious about the question and turn around to focus on the food.

"I don't know." I mumble, hoping she'd skip this fucking question.

"No, y'know what I love? I love Heath, he's so cute and cuddly and grumpy but I love it." She goes on to ramble about love but I can't move past what she just said.

She loves me.

I really fucking hoped that was the weed talking.

Because I couldn't say it back yet.

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A/N

A little insight on Heaths pov..

Hope you guys liked it as much as I liked writing this chapter :))

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