Austin unlocked the door to his place and suddenly I got very nervous. Why did I stay? Was this forced? Did he feel like I was intruding? Shit. Shit. Oh shit. But then he turned around and he smiled, gestured that I could go inside and I slowly entered his place.

Austin unloaded his bags and when he was ready he came out again and I was actually a little bit surprised. He had a really, I mean really, big tee and sweatpants. I had never seen him dressed like that and he held up one of his own tees and a second pair of sweatpants. I pointed at me with a confused look and he smiled.
"Yes, for you" he said and handed them to me. I walked over to the bathroom and I changed into them. I had to tighten the string completely on the sweatpants and the tee almost reached down to my knees. I laughed and walked out and Austin bursted out laughing and clapped his hands.
"Fuck, it was just as I thought" he said and I walked over and sat down on the couch. He followed me and he sat down beside me, turned on the tv and asked if I wanted to see a movie.

I must have fallen asleep because suddenly I opened my eyes and I saw a sleeping Austin before me. I was under the covers on his bed and it was dark outside. Slowly I sat up and noticed I only had the big tee on and that the sweatpants was laying on the floor next to me. I got out form bed and looked at Austin. He was still sleeping so I walked over to the sweatpants and looked at my phone. It was almost 3 in the morning and I had two missed calls. Both from an unknown number. I looked at them and I got the chills, but I decided to listen to the voicemails that the person had left.
"What are you doing?" Austin asked and I looked over to the bed.
"I woke up and saw that I had two missed calls, so I was going to listen to the voicemails" I said and looked at him. He looked tired and he had bed hair. It was cute in a way I couldn’t describe. Austin rubbed his eyes and put his arms under the pillow, and looked at me.
"Lavender" the familiar voice in the voicemail said. Austin sat up when he saw how my face dropped, and he looked worried.
"What is it?" he asked and I just stared at the phone. I pressed the next message button and started to listen to the next voicemail.
"I checked out the farm Princess, what a nice farm. And Carol got pretty and that man named Austin you’re hanging out with. What a lovely man he is. Failed marriage, dead mother. Tattoos and even some time behind bars. Even if it was just for a few days. And what a lovely house he has, and how lovely of you to watch a John Travol…" and the message ended. I just stared at Austin. My father had watched us while we watched From Paris With Love. He had been to the farm. He had been to see Carol. He had… he had checked up on Austin.
"Essie?" Austin asked and looked at me.
"He was here" I said and looked at him.
"Who was?" Austin asked.
"My father" I whispered and Austin stared at me. He looked surprised and shocked.

I couldn’t go to sleep after that. Austin tried to calm me down but it was hard when all I could think about was that my father had been so close, yet not here.
"You don’t have to be scared, he won’t do anything to you" Austin said.
"I’m not scared because what he can do to me, I’m scared about what he will do to you, and Cory and Carol… He was here Austin" I said and looked at him. Austin just stared at me.
"How do you know?" Austin asked.
"He said ‘and how lovely of you to watch a John Travolta movie’ before the message ended" I said and looked at Austin. Austin looked shocked.
"It’s okay, I can take care of myself" Austin whispered and wrapped his arms around me. But his beating heart revealed that he was ust as scared and nervous as I was.