Dance

Title: Dance

Chapter 3: Stay the Hell Awake

I awoke to the boy beside me throwing an arm around me, I tensed and tilted my head to look over at him, he seemed to be sleeping pretty intensely. His face looked a little worried and his eye twitched. I watched him letting the arm hang over me, telling myself I was to consirned with seeing if he was faking it to care but knowing I liked his arm around me. He made a soft noise like a groan and I blinked. Maybe, just maybe he wasn't so bad. I took this as the moment I would try a little harder to me 'nice' to the boy and maybe just maybe trust him a tad, a tiny little tad more. Could he really like me, just for me? Maybe he wasn't playing a game.

His eyes fluttered open and he blinked as I stared at him. He slowly removed his arm and then sat up, looked at the clock and stood. I watched him leave the room and turn down the hall towards the bathroom, I looked at the clock myself and was relieved it only read 10:00 AM. I could still spend some time with the older boy. I stretched and yawned then stood and walked to the window. The rain had stopped and the sun was out shining.

I took a seat on the bed and waited, and waited, and waited some more. What the hell?! Did the boy fall in? I stood and walked towards the bathroom, noticing the door was wide open. Had he left? I turned and was going to walk down the hall when his voice reached me.

“In here.” He called, he was in the kitchen. I blinked and walked in. Gaara was looking through my fridge and then the cabinets. “Do you eat nothing but ramen?” He questioned as he picked up a chicken flavored pack and then replaced it.

“Its my fave.” I blushed as he turned to look at me, and the cheapest. My uncle did send me money... Sometimes he just forgot how long it had been since he did. Gaara turned and gave me a blank look. I stared back.

“Come on then.” He sighed and walked for the door putting his shoes on then turning to wait for me.

“Where we going?” I asked as I followed slipping on my own shoes and closing the door behind me locking it.

“The store.” He stated and opened the door to his car for me, I blushed getting in the car and buckling my seat belt, if he drove this like the bike I was better off safe then dead. He started the car and we were off to the local market. He drove semi safe seeing the look on my face when we almost hit a few people that were crossing the street. I talked and he listened. I talked about the weather, about how he should drive safe, the fact that I didn't need anything to eat but ramen and to that he gave me a look that clearly said he disagreed. So I started on him.

“Maybe you should eat some more ramen, your so skinny. I bet it'd make you gain some weight.” I looked at him in time to see him shrug then looked out the window. We were parking and soon I got out closing the door hard behind me, I could see his look of annoyance and laughed out loud at him.

We walked around looking through vegetables and fruit first. Gaara picked up some peppers and onions along with some peaches and strawberries. Then we walked up and down aisles as he picked out noodles, caned pineapples and chicken breast. He garbed a can of sweet and sour sauce and a bottle of wine. I blinked, he wasn't old enough to buy that was he? When we checked out he flashed the man his I.D. And I blushed. Gaara was that much older than me?

He seemed to read my mind as he smirked and once outside the place he spoke. “It's fake, Kankuro made it for me.”

“Who's that?” I asked as we got in the car, he opened the door for me once more. The name seemed vaguely familiar. Kankuro...

“My older brother.” Gaara replied and we were on the road again.

“I didn't know you had a brother. Is he your only sibling?” I blinked, if he had siblings then why did he live alone?

“No, Temari is my sister. She's the oldest.” He added then remained quiet.

“Why do you live alone than?” I asked after a moment. When I got no reply I asked another question. “Do they live far away or something?”

“No.” He replied. “They live a mile or so away. With our father.”

“So why don't you live with them?” I tried a second time.

“They don't want me.” He shrugged and I blinked, I opened my mouth and had shoved my foot in.

“Sorry...” I muttered weakly.

“Why should you be sorry?” He stared at me, all I wanted to do was tell him to watch the road, but he seemed to be looking for something from me.

“I just... Didn't mean to bring up such a subject.” I stuttered and looked at my hands.

“You did, other wise you wouldn't have asked twice.” He looked back at the road. The jerk. The rest of the ride was pretty silent.

Gaara made us lunch as I watched him from the stool at the table. It took him longer to cut the fruit and peppers along with the onions then it did to cook it all together while the noodles boiled. The smell made my mouth water and when it was done I had drool running out of my mouth just from looking at it. “This looks great!” I yelled digging in and getting sauce on my face. Gaara ate as well, taking his time while I wolfed mine down. It was so good. Who knew Gaara was such a great chief?

His cell phone rang and he looked at it annoyed. I waited for him to answer it but instead he turned it completely off and continued to eat. Once we were done eating he placed the left overs in the fridge and I started on the dishes. He watched as I cleaned them in the sink.

“Do you have siblings?” He questioned watching me.

“No.” I replied turning to watch him. “I don't have any family really. My uncle is all I have ans he's always away. I use to get really lonely, but then I started thinking... It's such a waste of time to be lonely. To think about all you don't have and wish you had more. Do you know what I mean?”

“Yes.” He replied coming towards me, I yelped as he wrapped his arms around me in something like a hug. He backed off when I did not return the gesture, I was in to much shock to do anything. Well, except blush – duh.

I gave a smile, as best I could, and sighed. “Now what? We took a nap and ate, whats left?” I questioned. He gave me a look and shrugged. I had no idea what we could do, I know I didn't want him to go so soon. So I thought really hard a minute. “We could play on my Xbox360.” I suggested and gave him a glance.

“Ok.” He stated following me into my room once more. We spent a few hours taking turns playing Guitar Hero 3 and I was surprised to find he kicked my ass at the game... I never pictured him as the gaming type. Once both of us had lost the use of our hands for awhile we laid back down on the bed.

I had came to an conclusion.

I liked Gaara.

Sure he was silent and sometimes rude, but he was honest and was seeming to try and get to know me. Plus we did have a few thing in common, on both levels of deep and seemingly meaningless. I turned to look at him and blushed. I had a question.

“Gaara?” I asked in a shy voice. He turned at this to give me his full attention.

“So are we like... dating?” The word dating was awkward to me. I had never dated anyone – male or female.

“If you say yes.” He replied and I blushed more so.

“What about you, what do you say?” I asked clearing my throat.

“Yes.” He blinked looking at me funny.

“Then, I say yes too.” I looked away and felt the bed move as he did, he warped his arm around my waist and I turned to see his eyes closed. “Do you always sleep so much?”

“No. I never sleep. You make me feel... Safe.” He opened his eyes.

I blinked. “So you can sleep because you feel safe around me?” I got a nod as a reply. “So you can't sleep when you don't feel safe?' He nodded yes once more. I could live with that. I like to sleep too. We closed our eyes and drifted off once more.

The next time I woke up Gaara was curled up around he, his head on my chest and I tried not to move so he wouldn't have to wake up. I got the feeling he needed this, he needed to feel safe with me, I agreed with the part of me that had sensed Gaara wasn't just going to play a joke on me. We had a connection that I had felt before he had felt it. He just choice to act on it when he felt it. My fingers twitched to run through his red locks, but I stopped them and closed my eyes once more. It was raining again, heavy this time the sound of thunder was followed by the bright light. I wasn't sleepy at all now, and wondered how I would fall asleep tonight. Wait. Since I didn't go to school I had no bike to get to school tomorrow. Shit. All well, I just hope it isn't raining tomorrow.

Gaara awoke about half an hour after me, moving off me once he noticed he was laying on top of me. I smiled and he stretched, showing off his stomach and abs along with his hips. I watched the skin show and then blushed as I had been caught. Nothing Gaara had done really made me think he thought of me in a sexual way. Sure he had tried to kiss me, but when he had just got my ear it didn't faze him at all. The hug was nothing really, it was as if he wanted to comfort me and wasn't sure how... but he needed to be comforted too. No one can help how they sleep so it didn't bother me when he laid on top of me with his hands near my waist. My point was that I felt kind of guilty about feeling this way towards him. He trusted me and I felt I was breaking that trust by the images in my head. Though in my defense, who trust someone they really just started to get to know?

Damn it.