Can’t Help It

Chapter 25

viLelouch's POV

Erika and Andy arrived in Green City late in the afternoon. Andy stopped the car beside a bungalow house. It has a wide veranda and was surrounded by evergreen shrubs.

While unloading their luggage, an old man approached them wearing a very warm smile.

Andy rushed to jump for a hug to her Grandpa who caught her with open arms. She introduced Erika who was also welcomed warmly by John.

Entering the house, Erika smiled at the thought that Andy's family must really love the woods and the like.

Again, wood themed, the house felt like Andy's apartment and it also gave the same calming feeling.

'hehe'

John asked if they were hungry and want something to eat. Both declined. They just want to rest their battered bodies from the long ride.

"So, this is your room?" Erika asked.

It was smaller that in Capital City but emitting the same vibe.

"Is it okay if we sleep here and on the same bed?" Andy reluctantly asked, her voice shy and unsure.

"Yeah—" Erika agreed without giving it so much thought.

Andy nodded, "Then, I'll take a shower first and rest."

Erika hummed then like a flick of a lightbulb—

'Wait, the same bed?'

But before she could react, her companion already vanished in the shower.

[*******]

Erika was drying her hair and sat on the edge of the bed. She was staring at Andy who's sound asleep like a log.

Feeling tired, she slid herself beside the sleepyhead. She curled on her side and stared again to the girl beside her.

As time passed without drifting her eyes away, her heart pounded a little faster than the last until it became out of rhythm. She raised her hand to caress the sleeping damsel's face but stopped in mid air and clenched it instead.

'The fuck with this'

She groaned and rolled on her side.

She was fighting the urge to touch the girl. She turned her back against Andy—

'ugh'

… then turned back again, then back and rooled back again.

'ugh'

This time, she slid her arm to Andy's waist, made herself closer and snuggled in her chest.

'tsk'

She can't help it anymore.

'duh'

'I love to snuggle my pillow'

'Yeah, I'll blame this to the pillow'

She smiled then drifted to sleep.

[*******]

Andy woke up feeling warm.

She shifted her body and noticed that something's on her. She stirred and blinked then there she saw Erika snuggled up on her.

'the hell'

She felt the warm coming up to her face and to her ears then her entire body shuddered. Also, her heart thumping.

She relax herself and did not move an inch for awhile. She doesn't want Erika to wake up. She just stayed right there.

Then Erika groaned sleepily, tightened her grip on Andy's waist and shifted her head up to the crook of the girl's neck.

Andy turned her head away on the other side and closed her eyes suppressing all the butterflies.

'I've never been this tortured before'

Not long Erika woke up, her eyes directly stared at Andy who was smiling awkwardly.

When she realized, she's still snuggling on the girl, she wanted to jump out of bed but kept her cool.

"Good morning?" she smiled, keeping her composure, moving away a little to stretched out her body.

She acted like everything is natural.

Andy by then let out a deep breath she didn't know she'd been holding and sat on the edge of the bed, "It's midnight."

"Oh," Erika yawned.

"Fix yourself up and meet me in the kitchen," Andy said. "We'll see what's there to eat, I'm hungry."

Erika just nodded after another yawn then watched the girl's back disappeared through the door then rolled back and forth on the bed in joy.