Forgive Me- Part 2

Jaime’s POV

When my mind is pulled from sleep, I realise that Amelia is no longer beside me. I glance around the room but don’t see her, not straight away at least. I look at the door that leads to the bathroom and see that it’s slightly ajar and just see her feet on the floor in the gap. ‘Why the hell is she on the floor?’ I think, confused for a moment, but my confusion was quickly diminished when I hear the retching. The second I hear it I immediately jump out of the bed and rush into the bathroom. Just as expected, Amelia was there hunched over the toilet. I quickly grab a hair tie of the bench and pull her hair back into a pretty hopeless bun. I sit beside her, rubbing her back soothingly as she emptied her stomach contents into the toilet bowl. Apparently all the food was too much after all...

After what felt like an eternity, the heaving stopped and Amelia just sat there, head rested on her arm while she sobbed. I hated seeing her like this. I hear something at the bathroom door and see Jason standing there looking worried, giving me a glance asking ‘is she okay?’ to which I nodded. He nodded back and slowly turned away from the room, his eyes never leaving her. I gently and slowly pull Amelia away from the toilet and over to the sink. I silently hand her her toothbrush and toothpaste which she happily took and then proceeded to brush her teeth very thoroughly. Once she was finished she just sat in the floor and lent against the bench. I sit beside her and wrap my arm around her and she rested her head against my shoulder.

“I’m sorry you had to see that” she whispered.

“It’s okay Mil, I’m sorry you had to go through that”

“It was my own fault, I knew I was eating too much but I kept eating anyway”

“But I didn’t stop you”

“You shouldn’t have had to, hell I shouldn’t have had to either; I should never have stopped eating.”

“You had a good excuse” she just nodded her head with a sigh. I was more than a little worried about her. She had only cried once or twice since I got back and I could tell she was still completely destroyed by what happened but she’s holding it all back. She’s holding in all of those negative emotions and honestly I’m scared of how that’s going to turn out. She won’t even talk about it…

“You wanna have a shower?” I ask her. She loved having showers when she was upset, I have no idea why but they always made her feel better. She nodded against my shoulder and I carefully moved away from her to turn on the shower. She sat on the floor watching me as I grabbed her a towel and some clothes before standing up and checking the water temperature. She obviously decided that it was a good temperature because she stripped and then proceeded to sit on the floor in the shower under the steam of water. “Don’t fall asleep” I joke and she just evil eyes me and flicks some water in my direction.

“Meanie” she said simply. I just laughed and sat on the floor in front of the bench much like I had the first night I had met Amelia. It’s amazing how much has changed since then. “You know what we should do”

“What?”

“We should go see Peter before we leave”

“Seriously? You were just spewing and you want a caramel latte?”

“I can keep down fluids; it’s just foods that don’t agree with me”

“I guess so then…” I glance at my phone to check the time. 3:19 “we should go soon, Jason said we would be at your mums tonight so we would be leaving in two hours or so…” Milly just nods. “You don’t want to get out of the shower do you?”

“It’s so warm” she whines. I can’t help but chuckle at her reluctance.

“How about I grab you some warm clothes?” I ask and she just grins. I take that as a yes and head out to the bedroom where we had dumped our suitcases.

“Love you Jaime” she called after me.

“You better!” I call back. I rummage through her suit case and lay out an outfit for her and grab a coat for myself. I let her know it’s there and she jumps out of the shower straight into the towel to avoid the cool air. She dresses quickly, adds a bag and some earrings, throws her hair up into a bun and then kisses Jason on the cheek before leading the way out.

It’s a freezing walk to the coffee shop. I honestly don’t know how anyone can live somewhere like this. Give me the heat of San Diego over this any day. Unlike me, Amelia seems to love this cold weather. I draw my coat closer around my body and the motion doesn’t go unnoticed. Milly having noticed that I was cold pulled a beanie out of her bag and pulled it onto my head. I chuckle when I realise it’s the same beanie I wore when she picked me up.

“You ruined my hair” I complained jokingly.

“It’s okay, you look adorable” she said hooking her arm through mine.

“How are you not freezing to death right now?”

“I grew up in a town colder than this. I’m used to it. Ps, going by the weather here, it could be snowing at mums, just a heads up”

“Seriously? I’m going to die!”

“Hey if I can deal with the heat in San Diego you can deal with the cold here. At least you can add layers” she laughed.

“Yea, yea. Let’s just get something hot shall we?”

“Gladly!”

We walk arm in arm the rest of the way to the coffee shop and I sigh with relief when we get inside and it’s warm.

“Amelia? Jaime?” a voice asked surprised. I look over to see Peter standing behind the counter. I smile at him and lead us over.

“Hey Peter!”

“Hey! I haven’t seen you guys in ages! Where’ve you been?”

“I convinced Mil here to come back to the states with me”

“Ha, yea that would explain it. Usual?” he asked looking from me to Milly who just nodded.

“Yea sounds good” I confirm. Milly pulls out her money before me and pays Peter, giving me a smug look as he gave her the change. We grab our coffees and the chocolate cake and carry it over to the table we would normally sit at. Milly looks completely content as she sits with her knees drawn up to her chest as she sips on her latte, she really missed this place while we were in America. Yea she made regular trips to Starbucks but it’s not the same, this is her spot. She eats a little of the cake but not much and palms the rest of it off to me. Happy that she still ate something, I didn’t complain. It seemed too soon that we finished our coffees and cake and had to head back to the apartment to leave for her mums. We wave goodbye to Peter, promising to come in again before we leave for America then headed back into the freezing world on our way to the apartment.

When we got back Jason announced we were leaving in twenty minutes so we repacked everything, Milly making sure to grab all the food she had brought at the shops and piled into the car. Milly happily sat in the back of the car again. Stretching out on the back seat with a pillow and blanket and falling to sleep quickly. I chuckle at her and watch the passing landscape with interest. It’s so different to America, the second you leave the city and get out into the country everything is like it’s from a different world. The only trees anywhere to be seen were eucalypt and there was nothing but long dry yellow grass covering the hills. It was beautiful. I shiver inwardly as snow begins to fall from the slightly pink tinged clouds but the feeling passes as soon as I realise where we are. Right here; this stretch of road; this is where it all started. This is where I was getting drenched to the bone; this is where a friendly stranger made the decision to pick up a hitch hiker. This is where I first met her, the girl who changed my life; the girl I love; the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with. This is where Amelia found me.

Notes

Hey guys, sorry again about how slowly I'm getting these chapters up. turns out school takes up more time than I expected... I'll try and write when ever I can to get a chapter up every day but no promises. Sorry!

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