Inside a run-down apartment, there is a sound of groans. Andrew was lying flat on the floor, he starts feeling a ticklish sensation like someone was romantically touching him. Smiling he says, "Babe stop it. Don't go over there. Please not there, you should know I haven't ever been touched in that manner before". He seems to be enjoying it all, but the moment does not last long as he suddenly shouts in pain, "Aargh".

Feeling a sharp pain, he gets up in a flash. He takes a good look around to see what has caused the pain he was feeling and saw that he has been bitten by an ant. He realizes that what has been giving him the tickling sensation was the movement of the ant on his body, and without any hesitation, he kills it with his hands with great force. But such movements put him in more pain.

Apart from the pain from the ant's bite, he also feels sore all over his body. Grimacing he tries to recall what has happened the other day. After roaring and advancing towards the men, he was able to land a hit on three of the men with one being the leader of the thugs and another Bass, one of the thugs.

The leader of the thugs got some of his teeth broken off after landing a hit on his mouth. Although Andrew was skinny, the lots of hard labour he has done since childhood did indeed give him the experience of how to use his muscles properly to a certain extent. Bass got hit on his balls and had a blow to one of his eyes and the last of them was hit with the club he intended to use to hit Andrew and got one of his hands broken.

Well to nobody's surprise Andrew got beaten at the end since he was surrounded by men with all kinds of equipment, seems he won't be able to perform any kind of labour for a good while.

"Movies are all lies", sobs Andrew "I thought the man in love would suddenly pop up with strength from nowhere and beat up all the guys". He laughs at himself depreciatingly cause he believed in those movies but seems he has finally realized the difference between fantasy and real life.

'Audrey, what happened to her at the end?' Andrew thinks worriedly.

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While being beaten before blacking out he knew Audrey didn't run away but was crying and screaming at the thugs so that they did let him go but her pleas seem to fall on deaf ears, as they didn't stop hitting him and he did burst out with unknown strength though. But he could only hit Bass again on his balls before taking a hit to his head which causes the blackout. With the way he attacked Bass, one would think that they were sworn enemies in their previous lives.

He wondered if it was just Audrey that dragged him to his apartment or if she had help from other people, but soon stops thinking about that since such a question couldn't be answered by just thinking.

He tries to get up to check on Audrey but he feels pains all over his body. It feels like the pain was stabbing his soul as he sweats a lot just to get up halfway. The door to his apartment opens all of a sudden and Audrey steps in, and on noticing him awake, she cries and leaps into Andrew's arms.

While sobbing with a choked voice, she says, "I was so worried about you Andy. You scared me a lot, please don't do that to me again. Don't ever perform such a stunt again".

Withholding the pains he was feeling, he smiled while patting her head gently saying, "Guess it was too much on me. But you saw the way I fought at first right? I did seem strong right?", he tried to joke about the issue but just a glare from Audrey shuts him up.

'Jay you did pay for this', says Andrew inwardly. With how poor Andrew was, one could not help but wonder how he plans on making Jay pay for his deeds.

"Sorry I made you worried Audrey", says Andrew to comfort her. Audrey snuggles up to him more but didn't reply but the pain is getting to Andrew as he sweats a lot, he didn't say anything as he was trying to be brave, but the pain got too unbearable that he passes out again after a few seconds. "Andy what's wrong?", screams Audrey noticing that Andrew has fainted and sweating seriously. 'What a clumsy but cute girl I have over here', was what went through Andrew's mind before passing out.

On waking up, he finds Audrey close to him, attending to him and massaging his body with an old but clean and warm towel. He stares at Audrey while she continues to take care of him. But seems like she had noticed the fact that he has woken up as she calls out to him softly, "Hey Andy". "Yeah babe", replies Andrew while smiling and taking comfort in her care.

"Don't you think that we should break up?", asks Audrey. This question sends a jolt in Andrew's head, mind and heart. Seems like he was receiving more severe pain than what was delivered to him during the fight.