no one will ever change

Adrianne raised her brows in confusion and she began to nibble on the inside of her cheek. “Why are you smiling like that..?” She wondered out loud and as soon as the words were out she immediately regretted them. She had such a lousy habit of saying the first thing that came to her mind, and also to question everything surrounding her. She had majored in molecular biology before entering med school, so she blamed her need to know things on scientific curiosity but she knew it was simply who she was. The guy’s next choice of words cause her to chuckle lightly, she looked down biting her lip now. “You’re actually the first person to say that.” She admitted, her blue eyes returning to focus on his face. “Most people would say that I don’t know when to shut up, but in my defense I’m really working on it.” She nodded a few times, noticing how quickly the water she had poured him had disappear. “Need more of that?”

The blonde’s face suddenly fell when she heard the man’s comment, which made her furrow her brows and go over to sit on the edge of the bed. “You’re not from around?” She inquired, her face tilted to the side and she remembered that sometimes there were boundaries that she didn’t have to cross, people’s privacy being one of them. “I’m sorry, you don’t have to answer that.” She quickly shook her head from side to side and stood up again, going back to her previous position on the chair. “Adrianne.” She half smiled when he mentioned his name, but the smile didn’t last long. He got up and began walking, making Adrianne want to say something about it. Her mouth was opened and she had a finger in the air but something told her it would be pointless so she closed it again, and breathed out, leaning back against the leather. 

She stood quiet, hearing him speak. His voice was relaxing, different – in a way she didn’t exactly know how yet. She found herself nodding at everything he was saying, which after a moment made her feel stupid. “Don’t apologize, and just try to get some sleep? I’ll be around if you need anything. So.. um..” She stood up from the chair and began walking towards the door. “Have a goodnight? No wait, it wasn’t a question, I don’t know why I made it sound like that. I’ll just go..” She shook her head, and closed the door behind her. 

Adrianne. Liam mouthed her name as she left the room, and stared at where she had been standing. He had a feeling Adrianne was like a hurricane. She certainly talked like one; the second he thought he was caught up to what she was thinking, she was saying something else and he just trying to keep up with where she was. It was endearing though, it was charming and if Liam was in a better place, he would’ve latched onto that and played around with it. He would’ve tried to flirt and be just as charming back and maybe this night would have gone a whole lot differently. This was a side of himself he did not like showing to anybody and in one night, Adrianne had seen more layers of Liam peeled back than he had ever been able to do with anyone else. Not by his choice, of course, but that didn’t stop it from being the truth. Something had shifted. Something had changed. Even if he didn’t know it yet, Liam’s entire world had been rocked by choosing Adrianne’s door to knock on.

Adrianne grimaced as soon as she felt the unknown man wince when she wrapped the bandage around him, she hoped that this part got to be easier in her future or else she would be doomed. “I’m sorry, I’m being as gentle as I can.” Her voice was soft, when she spoke. She hadn’t been in a situation like the current one before. It was something that only seemed to happen on the crime shows she was obsessed with not on her extremely monotonous life. The blonde didn’t even know the man but she was still worried about him, probably the reason why her hands were shaking when she began to remove the dried blood from his forehead. “Not a problem, and let me know if it hurts, okay?” 

When she was done, she took a couple of steps back, tilting her head while she eyed him trying to see if she had missed a spot. This was what her text books didn’t prepare her for. She knew all the theory, but now she got to put it in practice and she wanted to do her hardest to make the blonde guy in front of her feel better. “I’ll be right back.” She announced, and just a minute later she returned with a glass of water and two painkillers in her hand. “This should help with the pain…” She began to say but she quickly placed the water and the pills on the night stand next to the table when she saw his attempt to get up. 

“No no no.. what are you doing?” She made her way to where he was and she gently pushed him back to the bed again. “I’m sorry stranger, but you can’t get up yet – doctors orders. I’m not a doctor, but I’m studying to be one.. and yeah getting up is not an option right now. Unless you want your stitches to open and it was hard to set them up without the proper tools so you’d be ruining all my work.. and now I’m talking too much and I’m going to shut up in 3..2..1″ She wrinkled her nose, daming herself for being the most awkward person ever. “You have to stay the night. Unless, you want me to call someone to come and pick you up?” 

Studying to be a doctor - Liam had to allow a soft smile to grace his face as he heard this. It made sense now, why he was stitched up so well and how she had known exactly what to do. It might not have been as neat as if a nurse in a hospital, with better supplies, had done it but it was a lot more impressive than Liam could have managed just going home and taking care of it himself. He had knocked on the right door. It was one of the few good decisions he had been making in the past few months..Realizing it would be pointless to argue with her, since he had a feeling this woman didn’t take no for an answer, Liam nodded and let himself relax into a sitting position on her bed. “It’s okay, you can talk. Your voice sounds pretty nice right about now.” Liam smiled a little at her and then took the painkillers she offered him, swallowing them and taking a few more greedy gulps of water.

“No one would come.” Liam didn’t mean to make it sound as lonely as it did, and he certainly didn’t want her pity. He cleared his throat. “I’m okay staying here, thank you. I’ll be out of here first thing in the morning..” Name. He didn’t know her name. She didn’t know his name. They were just two strangers, colliding in the night, and being thrust into an intense situation. “I’m Liam,” he offered. All she was going to get was his name, but she at least deserved that for saving his life. He stood up a little and winced, heading into her bathroom and shutting the door. His injuries were even more present in her fluorescent lighting and Liam avoided looking at himself, wiping his face with a towel and dragging his fingers back through his hair.

After a long and stressful day the only thing the blonde wanted to do was sleep. Probably curl in her bed and do nothing more than get lost in Netflix for a few hours but she knew very well that it wouldn’t be the case. Her midterms were coming up, and sadly for Adrianne that meant she had a date with her  Fundamentals of Immunology text book. There was nothing in the world that she wanted more than to become a physician. Thankfully her dream wasn’t that far along the road. She had managed to earn her way in Columbia, with a scholarship that she worked really hard to maintain. After taking a well deserved bath Adrianne proceeded to start her very entertaining part of the night. She was on her desk, with a mug in her hand and her notes all over the place when an abrupt sound ruined her focus. 

She heard a loud banging in the door – and a part of her wanted to call 911, New York wasn’t exactly the safest place in the country, but her curiosity seemed to have won her inner debate when she put down the phone and opened the door, without even looking through the peephole first. A gasp came out of her lips when a young man passed out right in front of her. He was badly bruised with scratches and blood all over his body and that’s when her instintics took over. She did her hardest to get him inside. “Please, pleasee, don’t die on me.” Those were the last words Adrianne could mumble out before taking him to her bedroom. 

She had spent the last hour taking care of his wounds, thankfully she kept not only a first aid kit in her apartment but also the tools she needed every day in school. While he slept she had managed to apply local anesthesia on the left side of his ribs so she could continue with the stitching process. 5 stitches on his ribs and 3 right above his right eyebrow had been necessary to stop the bleeding. She was about to put a bandage on his left wrist when a voice suddenly startled her. “I feel like I should be the one asking you that question?” Adrianne half smiled and looked at him with a tilting of her head. “Don’t worry, you’re okay.” 

Liam dimly registered how pretty the woman was standing over him was, but he was more focused on how much pain he was in. He let out another faint groan. He didn’t want to appear weak in front of her but his defenses were already down, and it felt like a truck had run over his entire body and then did a few back ups on him. Sitting up slightly, Liam glanced down to see all of the stitches and swallowed. This woman had saved his life and he didn’t even know her name, or how he had gotten to her place. Everything from a few hours before was hazy, except for a few details about how it had happened. “Thank you,” he mumbled and winced as she wrapped a bandage around him. He knew the liquid had to be poured on the cut to make it sterile but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt like a bitch. 

Ignoring her question as to how this had happened, Liam raised a hand to scratch at the back of his neck and caught sight of himself in her bedroom mirror. He looked wrecked. Dry blood was on his face, his eye was swelling to a dark shade of purple and there was an already closed cut in his bottom lip. He was surprised he even recognized himself. Putting one foot down on the ground, Liam grunted and gripped onto her bedpost for support. He had to get out of there. She had done enough for him already, more than enough, and now it was time to get out of her hair and hopefully she’d forget she ever met him.

Gravity, however, had other plans for him.

was this the greatest interview ever?

I: You look like your dog [Dora].

L: Yeah, my brother said the same thing the other day. He was like: “She’s big, and slow-moving, and slightly afraid of the world”.

“What!?” Lizzie exclaimed, turning to face him squealing like a little kid. “We have to go, we have to go! What have you been doing here in America with your free time? You have to go to Disney at least once in your life!” Lizzie loved Disney since she was younger, but everything seemed to be so hectic when she was younger and it wasn’t until last year where she had the chance and someone offered to take her on her first time. She planned on eventually taking a trip to each park since each one was different and she wanted to be that person that could say she went to each one and there was one that was her favorite for a reason. “Well I guess i’ll just have to trust you searching my house if you were able to keep me safe tonight. I just hope nothing from under my bed comes grabbing at your ankles and eating you whole. I haven’t cleaned under there in a while.” She teased back. Lizzie watched Liam’s body language as he told her about his quick trip to New York. Frankly, she expected him to call her this morning saying that he was too tired to get back on a plane here and he had to reschedule, which she would have been a little disappointed about but would understand that it was a lot of traveling back and forth, but he didn’t. The man didn’t seem too thrilled about the whole trip like she expected, but it wasn’t her place to snoop into his life. She was never that type of person unless the other brought it up to her. “Yeah, i’m sure you were very excited to see me.” Lizzie rolled her eyes, a small smile on her lips. “Ready.” She popped the last piece of popcorn into her mouth, throwing her trash into the trash can near the two. 

Just a smile from Liam made Lizzie smile herself as big as his. It was something about smiles and laughter that seemed so contagious to her that she couldn’t help but do it herself and actually feel happiness. “Oh yeah? We’re both Universal virgins!” She chuckled. “Have you been to Disney? I just went to Disneyland about a year ago     believe it or not seeing as i’m like the biggest Disney geek there is around.” The blonde nodded as he spoke about checking her closet once he dropped her back off at the apartment. “That’s not a bad offer, but is checking under the bed free also? If not you might need to do a little digging under my couch cushions. Under the bed is a necessity also.” Lizzie spoke like she was actually serious, but after tonight she knew she would be okay…hopefully. She was a scardy cat, no doubt, and was one to overthink just about everything, but she didn’t want to worry Liam any more than she probably had going through the mazes and practically ripping his arm off. She’d just cuddle up in her roommate’s bed once he was gone.  “I never got to ask you- how was New York yesterday?” Lizzie had grown up in Los Angeles because of her sister’s career at the time, but also because of them she spent a lot of time in New York City where her family eventually moved to while she stayed in Los Angeles. She much preferred the city and that only caused her to think about buying a place in New York and living there for a while soon. Lizzie would get to see snow and be near family during the holidays. The thought sounded great and nothing was holding her back until she had to start doing press for her new movies. 

“I’m a good actress, you know. This could all be an act and you wouldn’t know.” She crossed her arms over her chest with a raised brow. Lizzie was going to protect that he pay for herself, but stopped herself knowing that there was no point. Liam was the type of guy that was going to do what he wanted to do even if someone told him not to and he was a gentleman so nothing, not even her, was going to stop him from paying. “That is very true. I think you got your hands on the best clinger there is since this is her first time going to one of these horror nights. And I guess I don’t have the worst looking guy to cling to tonight.” She shrugged like it was nothing, taking her popcorn and water and thanked him as they walked away. “We can do anything you want as long as it’s not The Exorcist maze again because that one is by far the worst.”