Your POV

Sitting in my room alone has got to be one of the most mundane things I’ve ever decided to do with myself. Music wasn’t helping, TV wasn’t helping, hell, I didn’t even have a craving for my favorite candy. So I did what any sensible teenager would, I went for a walk out in the dead of night.

My parents aren’t ever home, so why wouldn’t I? My phone was boring me, my friends were boring me, I was just bored. So I slipped on a tank top with a jacket over it and skinny jeans. A normal style.

With my phone in my hand I left to venture out into the night world. I soon lost my way, and my curly hair was blowing in my face as I was shivering. I was starting to get paranoid, noticing all the people around me, becoming hyperaware of my surroundings. The cold didn’t help me either. I was shivering, looking for the way home.

Suddenly, I felt a hand on the small of my back, and I about jumped out of my socks, screaming as I whipped around to view my attacker. His hands were up like he was being arrested, but there wasn’t malice in his dark eyes. Instead it was sympathy. I put my hands that went up in defense down and stared at him. We didn’t say anything at all. Not until he spoke.

“Are you okay?” he asked me. His voice was something that made me want to hug him. Nothing about him was bad intentions. But I nodded anyway. I just needed to find my way home. “You sure? You’re shivering.”

I looked down at at my hands and indeed they were shaking, and my teeth were chattering. I don’t know how I didn’t notice before. I knew I was cold, but not this cold. When I looked back up at him, he had the kindest smile I’ve seen on a person and immediately I knew I could trust him.

“Didn’t notice, huh?” he laughed as he took off his jacket. It was leather, but it looked warm. I was envious. “You want my jacket?” He gave me this look that screamed ‘just take it’ so I cautiously held out my hand for it. When it landed in my hand, I looked over it. I slid my arms through the sleeves, and either this guy is a walking heater or I’m colder than I thought I was because this jacket was warmer than anything. I wanted to keep it forever.

“Where do you live?” he asked me, walking alongside me with his hands in his pockets. I stopped walking to look up at him.

“Baker Street,” I answered honestly. If I couldn’t trust an attractive stranger with a leather jacket that who could I trust?

“What the fuck, dude, that’s like a long ways away from here.”

I looked back up him like he was crazy. Of course it wasn’t a long way, I haven’t been walking that long, have I?

“I’m serious. I could drive you back there, but it’d take a while. Why don’t you just come home with me and I’ll get you cleaned up. Your parents won’t mind?” How he knew I still lived with him was beyond me, but he didn’t look a day over 20. There wasn’t much I could really do at this moment. I could either die of hypothermia or get a ride to this stranger’s home. “It’ll help take the edge off, I could tell you a bit about who I am?”

I nodded in response, curious about this guy before me.

“My name’s Jack, I live by myself, and I’m in a band. That’s about it, really. I’m not that interesting. I do have a dog, though.”

My eyes lit up when I heard the word dog. Surely he can’t be a serial killer if he has a dog. That’s it, I’ve made up my mind. I’m trusting him. “I’m Anna,” I smiled up at him from my small height. He sure did tower over me. “It’s nice to meet you.”

“Here, let’s go in my car so you don’t have to be out here for very much longer.” If Jack was a serial killer, he was a really bad one. Or good one. He looks too kind to even try to hurt another human being. When we got in, he wouldn’t stop smiling at me, as if I told him my super secret special cookie recipe. That’s how big his grin was. It made me feel uncomfortable at the same time it made me feel warm and fuzzy and I wasn’t sure which feeling was the right one.

When we pulled up at his apartment, my curly hair was blowing around in my face, getting stuck in my mouth. I pulled it away and continued to gaze up at his building. He let me in, and the smell from his jacket was now all around the place and I wanted all of it around me one hundred percent of the time. This was my new favorite place to go and I didn’t even know the person that inhabited it.

“Welcome to my lair,” he grinned as he set his keys in the key place. I heard barking and immediately looked around for the dog, and when he brought her out, I fell in love with her. Dogs are my weakness. “So this is Olivia, say hello Olivia,” he cooed to her. She licked my hand and I let out an unexpected giggle. He looked up at me with a bright smile on his face. “Anna is going to be staying here until she is all better, so make sure that you make her feel comfortable.” Jack kissed her head, and there is nothing more adorable than seeing a grown man with a tiny dog talking to her as if she’s the only precious thing he has in this world.

“So Anna?” I turned around to answer him, my curls hitting my face. “You want to take a shower? It’ll help you get warm.” I nodded and followed him to the bathroom. His apartment was rather roomy for one person and his dog, but I guess he liked it that way. Jack showed me his shower and how to turn it on. “I’ll get you a towel and some dry clothes, you stay here.”

I yawned after he left, examining the shower as if it was a battle to fight. I started to take off Jack’s jacket and my shoes and socks as I turned on the water. I heard a knock at the door and opened it to find Jack with a handful of what looked like his clothes and a towel. His face was kind of red when he handed me them, and scratched the back of his neck. “I don’t really have a girlfriend, so I don’t have any girl clothes. It’s okay if you borrow mine, right?” I smiled and nodded and took the clothes gratefully. When I closed the door I couldn’t help but squeal to myself. It was just my luck that this guy had picked me up. He doesn’t even have a girlfriend.

I took off my wet clothes and stepped in the shower feeling better already. When I was done, I dried my hair and my body as I went to put on Jack’s clothes. Jack had given me one of his long shirts and a pair of loose boxer shorts. I was about to leave when I noticed that instead of putting on Jack’s shirt, I put on mine. So I closed the door and took off my shirt again. Suddenly the door opened, and there was Jack with a face redder than his hand. Because he had been caught red handed.

“Oh my god I’m so fucking sorry,” he immediately tore his eyes away and shielded them with his hand, turning around.

I laughed as I slipped Jack’s shirt over my head. “It’s okay, I’m good now, you can look.”

“I look like some kind of asshole, it’s just when I heard the door open and close, I thought that you had left, and I really had to pee.”

I laughed and grabbed my clothes, holding them tightly. “It’s okay, go pee. Don’t worry about it.” Jack smiled gratefully and went in the bathroom. I was out here with his dog Olivia, and I honestly didn’t care. Olivia was a dog and I could entertain myself with dogs forever.

I was petting her when Jack came out of the bedroom, relieved. He came over to me and his dog and picked her up, smiling at me. “You ready for bed yet?” he asked. I shrugged, but followed him into the bedroom. He grabbed a pillow and a blanket after he put Olivia down, and looked at me for a moment.

“Well, I’ll be in the living room if you need me. You know where the bathroom is, and the creme puffs in the fridge are mine. Goodnight Anna.”

I smiled at him as I looked around the room. “Goodnight Jack.” He leaned down and kissed my head as he left the room, leaving me to feel increasingly lonely. This wasn’t a feeling I wanted to feel. But I did anyway. How is it that I missed someone who was a room away? Who I felt like should be in here sleeping with me, protecting me. I sighed as I crawled into Jack’s bed with his clothes. His clothes aren’t enough. I want him.

Hours passed before I couldn’t take it anymore. I climbed out of his bed and went over to the couch. Jack was still up, watching TV with Olivia in his lap. “Jack?” I asked him timidly. He turned his head toward me and gave me a light smile.

“What is it, Anna?” his voice was raspy as if he wanted to sleep, but he couldn’t.

“Can you come sleep with me?” That was the only way I knew how to ask him. I couldn’t hint at it, I needed him there. Even if I’ve never even had so much as a hug before, I knew that he would make me feel safe.

Jack stared at me for a while until he turned off the TV and let Olivia jump off. “What’s wrong, Anna? Can’t sleep?”

I shook my head and tore my gaze from him. I won’t be able to look at him in the eyes. He came up to me, put his arms around my waist, and held me close. My heart was beating fast and this was exactly how I imagined I’d feel in his arms. Safe. He placed his lips to my head and squeezed his grip around me tighter.

“Okay, I’ll sleep with you. But you have to promise me you’ll sleep. Okay?” I nodded and grinned as I gave him his hug back. Jack followed me into his bedroom and I jumped into his bed, throwing his covers on me, and covering the lower half of my face with his blanket. He chuckled and crawled in next to me. “You don’t mind me sleeping in my underwear, right?”

I shook my head to answer his question. In my head I said i preferred it, but I was not that adventurous. Jack turned around to face away from me, but I pouted. I wanted cuddles. I don’t know why, but I wanted to sleep in his arms. That would be the only way I’d fall asleep.

“Jack?” I asked again, more timid than before.

“What did I say, Anna, I’ll only sleep here if you sleep too.”

“Can you cuddle me?” He turned around to stare at me, and we were facing each other, on his bed. I saw a light smile pop up on the corner of his lips.

“I can’t,” he said after a while.

I pouted, but kept my eyes on his enticing brown ones. “Why not?”

“I’ll fall in love with you.”

His words made my heart leap, but I tried my best to ignore it. “So,” I pushed, my voice cracking.

“Don’t act like that didn’t happen, Anna,” he laughed as he put his arm around my waist. “I heard that voice crack.”

“Please cuddle me?” I asked again. I could seriously cry due to how adorable Jack was being, but I didn’t want to ruin anything we could have. Jack said he would fall in love with me? I’ve already fallen for him. There’s nothing he can do about it now.

“What, you want me to fall in love with you?”

I shrugged and hid my face with his blanket which smelled like him. I didn’t respond and instead put my whole head under his blanket to hide from my embarrassment.

He followed me under, and pulled me close to him so that his mouth was on my ear. “Okay, I’ll cuddle you.” I could scream right then and there, but I didn’t. Instead we emerged from the blanket, and he pulled me so that I was resting on his chest, and our legs were entangled with each other’s. I sighed as I closed my eyes and tightened my grip around Jack’s torso. I fell asleep faster than I ever had before, and I wished more than anything that I could live here with him and Olivia forever.

Notes

AN Also requested from the site of alltimelowfanfiction (and keep in mind on tumblr you can request personals as well) I hope this one is as cute as I tried to make it. Thank you so much for all your guys’ support. You’re awesome as hell. Enjoy xx