Chapter 4
Freya's POV"What? I mean, yes, yes I won, but you... you were there?"That's when it hit me, he was there, he was the hot guy that took second place, the guy I couldn't take my eyes off, oh my God! He's the guy I crushed hard on that whole weekend we were there, no wonder he seemed familiar!"Yes, I was there, you won over me Freya, of course of course deserved the win, you are phenomenal. You are also perfect, in the last year you have truly blossomed, I thought you were pretty then, now you are something entirely different and I get to share a home with you, a bathroom with you."My heart was in my throat when he suddenly let me go, my arms falling to my sides as I tried to breath."Come on Freya, show me our art class now." He walked out of the room leaving me standing there in shock at what just happened.He's known exactly who I was this entire time, he knew when he showed up at the house the other night, knew he was going meet me officially.I can't believe I didn't even realize it, how could I be so blind as to not see it was him?Finally pulling myself together I slowly walked from the room before seeing him leaning on the wall waiting for me"Finally ready? You are about to be late for your meeting."His voice was smug which actually irritated me a lot."Well let me slam you to a wall and""And what? Go ahead Freya, slam me into the wall, I'm making it easy for you, I'm already against one" He raised an eyebrow at me like he was challenging me."Let's go Andrew, I don't have time for whatever games you're playing with me."I started walking around the building to building C, as I opened the door he pushed it closed stopping me from entering."Seriously!? Come on, I'm showing you the art room but I need to get to the meeting." I huffed without even looking up at him even though I could feel his eyes burning into me.He said nothing as he took his hand off the door before gesturing me to go. I pulled the door open the lead him to the art room.He pushed passed me as he entered the room looking around quickly before pointing to the right wall."Yours" then to the left wall "Yours, and again yours.""Yes, those are mine, how did you""Honestly since last year I follow your art, you never post yourself, you should by the way" he looked back at me then to the wall again "your work is really good, something I draw inspiration from, glad we will have this class together." He looked down at his phone before keeping his head down but looking over to me."You better get to that meeting, it should have just started""Yeah, I gotta go, are you staying or leaving?"That's when he lifted his whole head to look at me, the look on his face was definitely questioning what he thought I'd want but I don't think he could make it out, I wanted him to stay but he needed to leave.I'm not a person he should be giving so much attention to, I don't deserve it number one, plus we aren't supposed to be acting this way with one another, I mean he pinned me to a fucking wall! Tell me how that is appropriate behavior towards a new family member? It's getting out of control before they even fully moved in."Stay" what the hell did I say that for!?His eyes widened as he smirked at me."Yeah, let's go, then I'll bring you home with me."Ummm did he mean it the way it sounded?No, he didn't, I have to stop these thoughts.Walking from the art room I led him two doors down to the drama club meeting. When I opened the door everyone got quiet as they looked over to me."Sorry! Took a bit longer than I had anticipated" I went to take my seat next to Cody, he smiled big at me making me smile back, goodness his smile is contagious.We sat there talking about the next show we were doing, everything that goes with it, auditions, makeup, set design, scripts, the works.4:30 rolled around when Addy stood up."Hey we gotta get going... since we have the show coming up let's do meetings 3 days a week for the next couple weeks to make sure we are all fully prepared, see you all tomorrow!" Her chipper happy voice making me chuckle as we all stood up talking and laughing when I felt a hand on me, that instant shiver running through me told me it was Andrew instantly. I can't believe just one touch makes me feel this way."Bye guys, Addy, tell your mom I'll see her in the morning?""You sure you're riding with us and not him?" Her head gestured to Andrew just as he turned to face us making her blush almost instantly.I felt a pang of jealousy in my chest when I watched her blush but knew i needed to shut that down instantly, can't look at him like that, he's going to be considered my brother, dad would completely freak out."I don't start till next week so I won't bring her tomorrow unless she wants me to?"What? Is he saying he will wake up just to bring me to school when he doesn't have to? Shaking the thought away again, he's just being cocky again to get a reaction out of me.Looking at them both I turned to Addy smiling, hiding the thought of how he will be at home, with access to my things for days while I'm at school."See you in the morning Addy"She smiled then nodded before she left the room just as Cody and Cory walked up to hug me goodbye.Cody's hug lasted longer than usual, tighter too, almost protectively."See you tomorrow Frey, call me tonight?" He whispered in my ear before backing away, I smiled at him them nodded, "I will, promise".After that Andrew grabbed my bag from me as he started to walk to his truck. When we got there he opened my door, putting my bag in before waiting for me to climb in."Ready?" He said to me while staring at me intently with the door still open as he leaned his body towards me."Yeah, let's go home Fenrir" I smiled as his eyes grew to me calling him by his last name before he smiled back.His smile made my heart skip a beat, could he possibly be any hotter, this isn't fair.Closing my door he walked to the driver's side as I scooted over to the door opening it before scooting back over.He opened the door the rest of the way but stood there for a moment just looking over at me, his stare makes me nervous, my chest even feels tight. How does he make me feel like this? I've never felt this way before.Smiling at him as he finally climbed in to start the truck."See I can be nice too" I smiled a goofy cheesy grin at him making him chuckle lowly shaking his head."Yeah, okay little Frey, you can be nice, when you want to be?""Pretty much" I said cocky before turning to face the window with a smirk on my face.'I can be cocky too' I thought to myself.Once settled in the truck we headed home.Chapter 5Freya's POV continued....Driving in silence, something felt off, before he was so dominate and demanding yet now that we are alone in his truck he is quiet and seems to be stewing about something."Okay, what's wrong? Did I upset you somehow?""What are you talking about, how could you upset me?"His tone was cold, distant, I really did do something to upset him, but what?Oh...."Is it that I told Addy to have her mom come get me in the morning?"Silence filling the truck, it was awkward. Great we are going tobget home and my dad is going to think I was rude and upset him already, before he even spends his first night at his new home."Look, I'm sorry."He glanced at me before looking at the road again so I continued. "I only told her to have her mom get me because, well, it's what we have always done, but also because why would I make you wake up that early when you don't have to just to drive me somewhere you don't even have to be at for another week? I wasn't meaning
Andrew's POVWhen she grabbed my hand to stop me from wiping off her eyelash my heart skipped a beat, I actually felt nervous of her light touch but even more so by the way she maintained eye contact with me as she blew it off my thumb.Feeling tingles by touching her was one thing, feelings I cam control because I know what is going to happen, but her grabbing me, holding onto me, that unexpected touch, that was something different all on its own.Her eyes looking into mine were indescribable, my want to pull her into me, crash my lips to hers was overwhelming but I knew I couldn't do that, it's wrong to even think she would be okay with something like that from me.All I want is to get close to her but I need to back off, but how when she looks at me like that, the breeze gently blowing through her hair making her scent of vanilla with the hint of lavender surround me, she was breathtaking and doesn't even realize it.So when she let my hand go them turned to skip off down the strip
Freya's POV Leaning against my bedroom door, taking a deep breath while I gather myself together.Breathing out deeply I pushed off my door, walking to my desk I placed my bag down on my chair before pulling out the work I needed to get done."Shit, I'm going to be up all night with this."Setting my desk up I went to my closet, grabbing my towel off the hook on the door I kicked off my shoes then shimmied out of my clothes before wrapping the towel around myself.Making my way to the bathroom I locked the door going to his room, my hand sitting there for a moment as I listened to him shuffling around.My body wanted to open the door but my brain screamed at me to turn around to take a shower, I listened to my brain obviously.Once I hung up the towel, looking at myself in the mirror, looking down at all of me I shook my head.'I'm pretty, right?'Shaking my head at my thoughts I stepped into the shower, the hot water cascading down me felt amazing when I heard music turn on, it was m
Andrew's POV 'Would it be wrong of me to go in her room while she sleeps?Hell yes it would, snap out of it! Go to sleep!'Worse thoughts ever, what the hell is actually wrong with me, I sound like some crazy obsessive person about a girl I shouldn't even think twice about now.I mean last year, at the art show, the moment I saw her something seemed to shift inside me, then seeing her artwork, my heart fluttered.To see how her mind could work through her art was something so intense, you could feel her loss, feel the pain in every stroke but then you see see the change in it, the part where love existed, happiness.She was a remarkable artist, losing to her felt deserved, I couldn't put so much of myself into what I do, not like her.I began following her on social media, her time lapse videos of her working were sensational, she was a young artist with the soul of an old one in her work.She never posted herself though, never anything outside of her art or her photography, the only
Freya's POV Waking up to my alarm continuously going off I groaned with disappointment. I barely got any sleep last night, I just couldn't take my mind off of everything that transpired yesterday.Then that random meet in the bathroom in the middle of the night, mmm I just can't understand where his mind is let alone my own.Slowly lifting myself up I reached over to shut off the incessant beeping when there was a knock on the bathroom door.My eyes widened instantly as I jumped up from the bed, looking in the mirror I gasped at the sight of me so I quickly made it to the door to hold it closed."Sorry if the alarm woke up."The door began to open a bit, pushing me so I pushed harder against it."I'm not decent for you to come in, give me a a little but please?""It's fine, since I'm up want me to take you to school?"I felt my heart skip a beat at the thought, but Addy would kill me to say at the last minute, again, that her mom didn't have to get me. She was still upset about yeste
Freya's POV This day just seemed to fully drag by.Every minute felt like an hour as I watched the time tick by waiting for the day to come to an end.I was looking forward to photography club after school but honestly my mind kept drifting back to Andrew, his eyes looking at me, the way he would move close to me so close we were basically touching, he was intoxicating.Just the mear thoughts of him gave me a sense of, well, arousal I believe.Don't get me wrong, I've been aroused before, I'm 17 for fucks sake, but this was so entirely different, this was all consuming, like my whole body was on fire not just down there.When we were at lunch Addy kept asking me a ton of questions about him, which didn't help me from not thinking about him, it also made me a bit snappy with her because I actually felt a pang of jealousy at the way her eyes would light up when speaking about him even though she barely met him."Want me to come to photography with you since my debate meeting got cancele
Freya's POV Turning around I came face to face with Andrew, he wasn't looking at me, he was staring daggers at Cody behind me.The moment felt like it lasted a lifetime or time seemed to slow around us as I watched Andrew's jaw tighten before he finally looked down at me.The stoned expression softened when he locked eyes with mine, my breath hitched as I watched his jaw relax before he smiled down at me."What are you guys up to?"His deep voice sending shivers through my body when his eyes changed, almost mischievously as I couldn't help the smile that formed on my face while looking at him."Freya and I were discussing going to a movie after your Family dinner Friday." Cody's tone was very matter of fact as he emphasized the word family before his hand wrapped around my waist suddenly pulling me into his side, almost with a great deal of possessiveness shocking me as I couldn't take my eyes off of Andrew.He had rage in his eyes, his jaw tensing up again when Cory and Addy walked
Andrew's POV When I got to her school, seeing her with that Cody guy, rage rushed through my every sense. All I wanted to do was grab him by his neck then slam him into the wall, telling me to stay away from what was mine.Fuck! I have to stop thinking like that, she was happy, smiling at him with this pure joy all over her face. I wanted her to look at me like that, not him but I have no right to want that from her.My body moved right behind her without even really processing how close I had gotten to them when I hear what they were talking about."I know, but I also know it's more than just a movie to you, so seeing it on the big screen would make you happy, I like when you're happy Freya."She then wrapped her damn arms around him, hugging him, he had this look on his face, pure satisfaction in having her that close to him, making anger festering as I held myself back from acting on my initial thoughts.Some other shit was said but I couldn't seem to hear for a few seconds beore s
Five Years LaterFreya's POV "Mom! Tell Stephen he has to stop drawing on my wall!"Walking into Torvi's bedroom I find Stephen with chalk all over his hands and clothes as he is drawing all over the chalk board wall we made inside Torvi's room, covering some things that she had already done.Grabbing the chalk from Stephen he starts to get upset because he wanted to keep drawing everywhere. "I want to color mommy, please!""Come on silly boy, you know you aren't supposed to go in your sister's room, let alone draw over her things. I'll get you the easel out so you can draw on there."Walking out I grabbed the kids size easel out of the closet in the hall before seeing it up in the sun room so he could paint or color, or even do a chalk drawing if he so chooses."Thanks mommy!"He set to making a mess but was all smiles while doing so. Shaking my head with a smile on my face I walked back to check on Torvi."Sorry bug, maybe I will do a wall in his room now too, he's old enough. Do y
Freya's POV After spending three nights in the hospital with my son, Torvi came up everyday with Andrew to see us, we finally are being released to head home."Hello Freya, how are we feeling this morning? Are you both ready to go home today?""Definitely, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed again, not that I don't live it here with you guys constantly help takebcare of us."The nurse laughed as she took Stephen's vitals then checked me one last time."Do you want to shower before you leave or wait till you get home?""I'd like a quick one while I'm here, you know, just my body. Then I will take a full one once I'm back home, my hair is still gross from the last one considering he kept forgetting the conditioner."We laughed together while we had some small talk before breakfast was brought in to me."When you are finished eating I'll come back to keep an eye on little man here while you wash up. We are all going to miss you both so much, plus that little Torvi coming in every day.""
Andrew's POV I woke up to feeling a wetness on the bed when my eyes shot open to see Freya trying to sit up as she was breathing heavily."My... water... it broke..."She breathed out heavily as I jumped up out of the bed, ripping my clothes off as I grabbed some new ones out of my dresser as fast as humanly possible before rushing to her side of the bed.I helped her sit up while grabbing her shoes to put on her feet while grabbing her some new underwear with a pad in it, in hopes that may help her out for the car ride.After slipping those on her as she groans while gripping her belly I managed to get some pants on her while helping her into a sports bra before throwing one of her pregnancy tops over her."How far apart are your contractions?""I'm not sure, maybe seven or eight minutes. Go check on Torvi then let Damon know we need to go to the hoSPITAL!"She started panting harder as she gripped herself again, making me rush to check on Torvi before knocking on Damon's door as I
Freya's POV Continued The last few months have been great. I started my job at the college shadowing my professor while taking my classes online for teaching.Things have been running smoothly. The holidays, along with Torvi's fifth birthday party were great. I love having our parents here as well as Torvi's friends from school.I'm due in two weeks but my doctor believes I can go at any time. I'm way bigger with this little man than I ever was with Torvi. My feet hurt all the time and so does my back. I have a constant pressure, down there, making walking for to long very uncomfortable but Andrew takes wonderful care of me and having Damon with us really helps out with Torvi during the days.My last day at the school is tomorrow before I'm on leave, which is a blessing and a curse honestly. The thought of staying on my feet makes me want to just lay in bed for hours but the thought of being stuck at home laying in bed makes me want to go for a walk.It's crazy how that works, my em
Freya's POV I was standing in the shower, the water cascading down my body, the heat seeping into my bones relieving the chill I had been feeling as the steam surrounded me while fogging up the room.I love the feel of the heat running over me, the way it relaxes my body, eases the back pain I had been experiencing making me feel a bit better as I stood there leaning my forehead on my hands that were laying upon the tiles as the water beat down on my back.Lost in the feel of everything I never even noticed the door opening until I got hit with a cold draft as my curtain opened ever so slightly as hands gripped my hips from behind me making me jump a bit from being startled as a small shriek left my lips.Those sparks rushing through my body as butterflies hit my stomach making my care pulse as heat rushed through me in a different way than what the hot water does to me.My body being pulled flush into a hard body behind me as I felt the heat from his breath brush across my neck befo
Damon's POV"La la lala, love.""Wa was wuv.""You are so close my princessa, so close, getting better every day. Do you want a snack before mommy gets back with lunch or do you want to wait?""Keep play with me, I want to color with you."She jumped up to her feet before hopping a bit with a giant smile on her face. I can't even describe how much I love this little girl or how I am lucky enough to get to be a part of her life and watch her grow. I hope that one day I will get to experience this with my own child, but finding a love like Andrew has with Freya seems to be a difficult thing to find.After everything with Cory, I just don't even have the tiniest of umph to want to start dating again. She literally hated me spending time with my family, I can't be with someone like that. We are young, I mean I'm only 22 years old, shouldn't she be happy I'd rather spend extra time with my family, one of which is someone she had grown up with their entire lives, than going out to clubs or
Freya's POV Continued Spending time with our parents was wonderful but it's nice to have our home back without the extra people I felt I needed to keep entertaining when all I wanted to do was sleep in one morning before I started my online classes.Of course I didn't get that because I have Torvi running around the house like a crazy girl while playing, dancing, singing and eating constantly today.She has been on a new level of hyper this morning when she rushed into my room before jumping on the bed at six making me groan as Andrew rolled out of bed to get ready for work. Torvi was playful all while she snuggled up next to Mr, her little hands gripping my face making sure I looked at her."Morning mommy, can I have a pop tart pwease?""Mmm of course my little bug, come on."I kissed her cheek as she smiled at me before I liftednher up to place her down onto the floor next to the bed when she took off running making me shake my head while I chuckled a bit."She has enough energy f
Freya's POV I'm about to graduate college along side my best friend and brother while my husband sits with our parents, along with our precious Torvi in the stands to watch Damon and I walk across a stage to get our degrees.After I told Andrew we were pregnant we had Damon move back home with us the same evening.This past week has been a breeze, even after he was gone for over a year, it went right back to normal without a hiccup. Torvi has been over the moon to have her story time buddy back for bedtimes, she loves her Uncle Damon like another parent.Andrew wanted to call our parents straight away but the next morning when I went to call them he stopped me that time, saying he wanted to wait to tell them in person after the graduation, I agreed with him because I didn't want to miss my dad's reaction when he finds out.I went to get some little things to surprise them with the news too, I can't wait to give it to them later this evening at our celebration dinner.Damon helped me
Andrew's POV Continued After Freya went into the bedroom, Damon and I sat out in the living room for a while longer. I could see he wanted to talk to me about what was going on but was hesitating at the same time. "You know, you can tell me anything, right?"He nodded as he laid his head back on the back of the couch while he sighed deeply."All we did was fight man, it started before we moved in, but once we lived together it was bad, she was always angry, upset with me for something or other. It was just to much, then yesterday it got really bad because..."He got quiet as he swallowed deeply before lifting his head up as he sat forward putting his face I his hands while shaking his head."Because you come over here to much?"He moved his hands, his eyes shifting upwards to look at me."You know that's an issue?""Freya noticed first, then after she said something I saw it too, guess I just didn't pay attention enough, or care really, when she didn't come. But after Frey pointed i