Chapter 5

                                    

                                          
Why not date you?
Maddie's POV

                          
I wake up when I hear someone loudly open the door to my room. I look up to see that it's my uncle. He walks to the foot of my bed and says "What is this?" Still very tired I try to get up out of bed but can't because there is something around my waist, looking down I see that it's James who is holding me extremely tightly in his sleep with his face pressed into my side. "It's nothing, we just watched a movie yesterday and fell asleep". He nods his head to James. "Well doesn't seem like nothing to him since he is holding you as if he will die if he lets go" I laugh softly trying not to wake him up "What time is it, we went to sleep at 3:30 or something". My uncle looks at his watch "It's 1:30 which is one of the reasons I randomly walked into your bedroom, if you're wondering what the other reason was it's holding on to you for dear life. I'm going to head out for a bit". "Yeah sure, I'm going to get up, have some breakfast and stuff I'll see you later". I hear my uncle walk towards the front door and he yells "Have fun trying to get away from the death grip!" And I hear the door slam shut.
                          
I try to softly push James off but he only holds on tighter so I push a bit harder waking him up, he looks up at me in a very confused way "Could you please let go I'd like to go make some breakfast and you're kind of strangling me". He immediately lets go when he realises and his face turns bright red "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to". "It's okay, I'm going to change in the bathroom and then make us breakfast, you can still get some sleep if you want but it's already been 1:30". 
"Oh, I'll also get up then". He gets out of bed and walks towards the living room while I grab my stuff and go to the bathroom.
                          
When I finish in half an hour I walk to the living room and see that my uncle is back, and him and James are silently watching tv. James then looks up at me and says "The fridge is empty so we should go get some new things". I turn to my uncle and ask. "Why didn't you go?" He gives me a fake shocked look and gasps and whiningly says "You want me to go to the store? But my leg hurts". James stands up "I'll take you there with my car" I point at my uncle saying "You're still coming with us because you didn't go when you literally walked past it" my uncle sighs and says "fine". James walks towards the bathroom to change.
                          
The three of us get out of the car and walk into the store, James get's a shopping cart and me and my uncle walk on both sides of him and all three of us grab random stuff that we like to cook. 
After half an hour we're at the cash register, James and I stand next to eachother and my uncle stands behind us. I see something that I also want to buy on James' left so try to reach it and also put it in the shopping cart. Being the idiot that I am I trip and fall over, but I don't hit the ground because someone catches me. I look up and see that it's James. He pulls me back up and we smile and laugh at it while he still absentmindedly holds my waist. Suddenly the old lady in front of us that's packing her groceries turns around and says "Oh how nice, it's always fun to see a young couple but you two look great together" James turns slightly red but I lightly laugh at the older woman's statement and my uncle says "I know right the only thing is that one of them isn't that young though". The woman gives a weird look and walks away so it's our turn, after we pack the groceries we walk back to the car and drive home all while my uncle keeps giving us an irritated look.
                          
When we arrive at the house we unpack all the groceries together in the kitchen while doing so James and I talk to eachother the whole time but my uncle still keeps giving us the irritated look. After unpacking the groceries it's 5:00 so James went to the bathroom to change for when we go to the theater later. I sit down on the couch with my uncle, he turns on the tv and when he sees that James walks into the bathroom he turns to me and says. "Maddie, he's going to ask you out". "What? How do you know if he is?" "Well I don't know, maybe because he's my best friend?" "Is that why you've been giving him that dead glare since we where at the store?" He gives me a look that says "duh" and answers. "Of course it is" "but why? He didn't even do anything except for not making me fall on to the floor". He facepalms and says "It's not that I mind whether or not you two are dating if you really want to, but believe me your parents will since he's not exactly just a year or two older than you, I'm just trying to protect you from the evil stepmother" I laugh at that because I think it's funny how the both of us dislike her and say. "Well I really appreciate that but I will be fine I don't care what she thinks, dad doesn't care that much about who I date usually so I think I'll be okay, besides we're not even sure if James really likes me that way". He looks at me like I'm an idiot and says "You're an idiot, believe me he does like you, he's even scared to ask you out, Wilson is almost never scared to ask someone out". "Well maybe because he doesn't want to". "He does, and we both know that you do too and then it's going to be happily ever after until the witch appears. But don't be afraid we won't let her get in your way". I laugh and hug him but quickly let go "Thanks, I know you don't like hugs but I just really want to thank you". "No problem, I've never liked her anyway". We still watch some tv and after a while James is ready and walks out of the bathroom and into the living room with his suit on. I get up and go to my bedroom and search for my favorite dress, once I've found it I go to the bathroom, take a shower and put it on. I do my hair, put on some make-up and walk out to the living room. 
                          
James looks at me as I walk up to them and immediately stands up. "Wow Maddie, you look amazing" I smile at him and say. "Thanks Jimmy, you don't look too bad yourself". He turns to my uncle and points at him. "Did you put her up to this?" "To what, the Jimmy thing or that she would go to the play with you?" "Now that I think about it, answer both please". "Well I told her to call you Jimmy because it usually annoys you, I wonder why it doesn't now. I also told her not to go to the play with you because her evil stepmother will kill us all but she said she doesn't care so, go have fun and leave me alone". I lightly laugh and softly pull James towards the door to grab our coats and leave.
                          
James drives us to the theater. When we arrive he opens the car door on my side and offers his hand which I take, he grabs the tickets and hands them to the person behind the counter. We sit down and he turns to me. "Again, thank you so much for coming with me it really means alot". I smile and give him a quick hug. "No problem, like I said before I really love going to the theater especially this play and even if I didn't, I would've come anyway". He smiles and gives me a very confused look. "How are you related to House?" I laugh at his question and answer. "I honestly don't know, but I do know that my life has been a hundred times better than it used to be these past few days". We talk for another few minutes until the play starts, about halfway through it I accidentally move my hand against James'. I want to lay my hand back on my lap but he takes it and holds it for the rest of the play. 
After the play we stand up and walk back into the hall, James has to go to the toilet so I wait in the hall by myself. Suddenly some shady looking guy walks up to me and asks. "Hey how about I'll take you home?" I don't look at him but say "No thanks I'm waiting for someone". He doesn't take no for an answer and roughly grabs my arm trying to pull me outside when out of nowhere he gets pushed away and stumbles but luckily lets go of my arm. I look up to see that it's James and feel extremely relieved, the guy gets back up and punches James in the face. I kick the guy between the legs and quickly grab James' hand, we get into the car and he drives off. I look at him and ask "Are you okay? He hit you pretty hard." "Am I okay? Maddie I'm the one who should be asking you that, but yeah it hurts but I'll be fine". "Good, you should put some ice on it when we get home and, I'm okay too so don't worry".
                          
We arrive at home and after taking off my coat I immediately go to the kitchen to grab some ice. My uncle is sitting on the couch and James sits down next to him. "I thought you guys where going to the theater, not a bar fight or boxing match" I walk up to James and hand him the ice while sitting down next to them. "We did go to the theater but there was this gross guy that grabbed my arm so James pushed him away and the guy punched him". "So how did you guys get away" James and I lightly laugh and he says "Maddie kicked him in the balls". I stand up saying "I'm going to change, we should probably have dinner after" I walk to my room and put on my pyjama shorts and a shirt, I then go to the bathroom to wash my make-up off and walk to the kitchen to see that my uncle and James already made dinner and are eating some of it while leaning against the kitchen counter. My uncle hands me a plate and I also start to eat it. During and after dinner we talk for a bit and I walk to my bedroom, grab my favorite book and start reading. 
                          
After about half an hour someone knocks at my bedroom door and I say "Come in". The door opens and I see it's James who also changed now and is wearing sweatpants and a McGill sweater. He says "Hey" and closes the door behind him and stands in the middle of my room. "You can sit down if you want to". He sits down beside me on my bed and turns to me saying "So, I wanted to ask you something earlier at the theater but then all that stuff happened and I didn't think it was the right time so I want to ask it now". I look at him and smile. "Sure, what is it?" He looks slightly nervous but then starts. "So I was kind of wondering if you'd maybe like to have dinner with me tomorrow. Not just dinner but like- more like a date". I immediately smile and hug him and say "Of course I would, I love hanging out with you and you're a great person so why not". James also smiles and hugs me back "Thanks, I like hanging out with you too and you're a great person too". 
We pull away from the hug and I say "That sweater looks really good on you by the way, you should wear it more often also if you want to we can maybe watch a movie here again and you can stay so you don't have to sleep on the couch". 
He smiles and says "Thanks, and I would love to watch a movie with you but I don't know about staying, I think House will probably get angry he might already want to decapitate me for asking you out". "I talked about it with him earlier, he says he doesn't care as long as we're both happy and we try to hide it from my stepmother for as long as we can so she won't bother any of us about it." James gives a sigh of relief "Then I would love to stay, and of course we're not going to tell your stepmother and I'm sure House won't either." I go to the kitchen and grab us something to drink while James looks for another movie that we watch, after the movie we go to sleep since we have work tomorrow. I guess my uncle was right when he said that James wanted to ask me out.