Andrews POV

It's pouring down rain and I'm now running home with a drenched Astrid in my arms. My little sister is running beside me and let me tell you she is going to be a very sporty kid when she is older because she can run half my speed at the age of six. Anyway, when I get my hands on Astrid's father I'm going to kill him, I mean it, even if I go to jail with him. She is worth it.

By the time I get home, I threw the front door open "Melissa! get me a towel, now!" I yelled.

Aunt Mel ran into the living room where I was standing with a towel draped over her shoulder. She gasps when she sees a fragile and beaten Astrid in my arms looking broken. Out of nowhere, Astrid screams, but the scream wasn't of fear or happiness it was of pain and my heart squeezed at the sound of it.

"Shh, Astrid baby it's going to be okay. Just stay with us kitten please" I pleaded and pulled a piece of wet blonde hair out of her eyes.

"It's her isn't it" Aunt Mel interrupts

"What?"

"She is the one that makes my drew smile and the one that has made my Drew fall in love" she more says to herself than me. But love? no, i can't love her yet I've only known her a week. Is it even possible to love someone in a week? I can't love her yet it will take time, right?

"Yes, it is possible Drew" Aunt Mel said out of know where.

"What?" I ask confused.

"Yes, it is possible for you to full in love in a week. And Drew this girl must be special if you have already have fallen in love with her" Aunt Mel said with a bright smile on her face.

Did I actually say that out loud I'm so stupid?

"Yes Drew you did say that out loud and you are not stupid you maybe silly but not stupid" my Aunt shakes her head still with that bright smile on her face.

"Isn't that the same thing?" she shrugs.

Astrids eyes flicker open slowly and she looks up at me with pain and fear in her eyes "Andrew, I hurt so so much" she screeches out and a few tears escape her delicate green eyes and I unexpectedly bend down and kiss them away, again. I'm being such a girl and is it bad to say I actually like it?

"I know baby. I'm going to take you up to my room and get you in some dry clothes, okay?"

"Hmm" she mumbled with a nod.

"Mel can you maybe call a doctor that can come over in the morning to check up on her," I ask

"OK sweetly, you just take her up to your room okay"

Aunt Mel left the room and went to go call a doctor and I took her up to my room and laid her on my queen-sized bed and went over to my dresser and grabbed a t-shirt that perfectly fits me and it would look like a dress on my Astrid. Aha, why do I keep calling her my Astrid? because you love her idiot, a voice in the back of my head cried.

Astrid yelped when I set her up. But she couldn't sit up alone because she is a bit out of it so I slipped one hand under her drenched white t-shirt to steady her. And the feeling of her skin torching mine sent electric sparks up my arm and it felt really nice.

I lift up her white tank top and lift it over her head and throw the damp shirt on the ground not caring if it put water all over the floor. She had a black sports bra on and she is that skinny you could just see the outline of her big cage and she has a scar straight down the middle of her stomach, it looks like its being there for a while, but I can't be to shore.

I was about to put my shirt up over her head but her voice stopped me "Andrew, take my pants off please" what she said that it made me tense up a little but I recovered quickly and put my shirt back down on the bed. I undo the button on her dark blue ripped at the knees skinny jeans and slid them down and slowly slid it over her swollen ankle. I can feel my buddy harden and I feel really guilty because of it but I'm a teenage boy with lots of hormones, so you can't blame me I'm a growing teenage boy.

"Okay, Astrid I'm going to put the shirt on now okay?" she shakes her head.

"N-No s-shirt" she stuttered.

I was about to tell her she has to put on a shirt, but at the same time, my Aunt walked in with two cups of hot tea.

"Aunt Mel, Astrid won't put on a shirt what do I do?" I asked worriedly

"Just leave her be. If she feels comfortable in her bra and underwear then let her be comfortable" she hands me a cup of hot tea and puts the one for Astrid on my bedside table

"Astrid sweaty do you want some tea?" she nods and try's to sit up but I put my hands around her waist and pull her up careful not to hurt her.

"Oh god, Andrew i think I'm going to be sick" she instantly pales and puts a hand over her busted lips.

"Shit" I quickly pick her up bridal style and run into my bathroom and sit her carefully by the toilet. She vomits as soon as she is next to the toilet and I pull her hair out of her eyes and up into a bun. As soon as she if finished my Aunt turns the shower on and i walk her over to the shower and sit her small body into it. Her body is so small and beautiful and I can't believe her own father could do such a thing to there own daughter and there has to be a reason for it but I just don't know what would cause her own flesh and blood to do something so disgusting, selfish and horrible. Especially to someone so beautiful and god I don't have the words to describe how beautiful she really is and I have to admit to my self I think I love my Astrid!

I step into the shower, not caring if I get wet and grabbed the washer that was sitting on the tap and wipe the vomit off the side of her mouth and in her hair and yes she did get it everywhere because she is a bit out of it because the pain is just too much for her to take. I run the washer over her belly to clear out the cuts she has.

"Thank you" Astrid said in a low voice.

I didn't realize Aunt Melissa was still standing there until she puts a hand on my shoulder making me jump "sweaty let's get her out and back to bed okay?" I nod and pick her up bridal style and let me tell you she is probably even lighter than my little sister Rose-Marie or just as light as Rose-Marie.

I sit here on the basin in the bathroom and I was about unclasped her bra strap, but a hand laid quickly on mine, I lift my head to see my aunt Mel with a sad smile on her face and she shook her head and I just raised a brow in confusion.

"I think I will take it from here buddy" My eyes go wide in understanding. I'm so out of it at the moment.

"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking" I shake my head and walk out of the bathroom but not before taking one more glance at Astrid to find that she is looking right at me with tiredness and pain in her eyes.

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Half an hour later, I'm lying on my bed with a small Astrid in my arms and I got to admit she fits perfectly in my arms.

"Andrew can you tell me a poem, please," Astrid asked in a calming voice.

"Um.... yeah uh, this poem is called 'The beauty in you' so here it is and don't laugh at me" I warned her.

"I won't, I promise," she said.

I nodded taking a big breath.

"No man will not notice the beauty in you it's like you are an angle out of the blue your face may not launch a thousand ships but it's you heart and soul that are for keeps.

You memorize me with your Innocent smile but it's your eye that had me there for a while how I wish everyone would appreciate the beauty in you which is to never to hate."

She looks up at me when I finish the poem I wrote inside my head just then and to be totally honest it wasn't that hard all I had to do was think of this beautiful girl right next to me curled up in my arms. My eyes look down at her slightly pink lips then back at her eyes, I wrap my arms around her skinny waist and then I start to lean down until our lips were brushing, instant electric sparks zapped my lips, I heard Astrid gasp so I know she felt the same thing and I made me really happy knowing that she could even feel the same way and I closed my eyes and so did she I didn't realize my heart was beating one hundred times an hour. And as soon as our lips were pressed together my little sister Rose-Marie barged into the room with a plate of freshly made biscuits and brownies "Astrid, Drew look at mummy and me made you two" she said with a bright smile on her face and she ran up to the bed and jumped on the bed and out of the corner of my eyes I saw Astrid flinch at the impact and she give a quiet cry of pain.

"Rose you need to be careful of Astrid because she is hurt really really bad"

"I'm sorry Astrid I didn't mean to hurt you" my little sister crawled over to Astrid and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek and Astrid smiled at her.

When my little sister was out of the room I wrapped my arms around Astrid's waist and pulled her close and she layed her head on my chest and she fell asleep and I gave her a kiss on the top of the head and drifted off to sleep myself.