wander

26|our first day

I wake up to the sound of Birds chirping and I smile as I remember where I am. I turn to face Romeo and he's still fast asleep. I bring my fingers to his face and brush over his face. He looks so sweet and I find myself smiling as he begins to smile in his sleep. I pull my hand away and stretch. I get up and make a coffee. I don't drink coffee much but today I want to make breakfast for him. Well get room service breakfast, if that counts. I order pretty much everything and they say it will be here in 40 minutes or so.

I go back to the bedroom and walk through into the bathroom. I start the shower and get in. The hot water runs down my face and wakes me up. I wash my body with vanilla body wash and wash my hair, also vanilla scented. It's always been my favourite scent. I wrap myself in a towel and dry myself off. I walk back to the bedroom to pick out an outfit. I go for denim shorts and a bandeau top. I take my clothes back to the bathroom to change and spray myself with perfume. I take my hairbrush and blowdry my hair.

I walk to the bedroom and Romeo is sat against the headboard. He's texting someone I think. He looks up and says good morning. I tell him the same and jump back to my side of the bed. I grin at him and he holds out his arms to give a hug. I hug him too and he whispers in my ear. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yeah great actually, you?"
"Amazing"

I pull away and look at myself in the mirror. He watches me as I rake my fingers through my hair, I can see him watching me through the mirror. "You better get ready," I turn around. "I ordered food and then I want to show you somewhere." He gets up right away and stands beside me looking in the mirror. "You look great" I turn to smile and compliment him back but the shower water is running already.

I go back to the kitchen area and make another coffee, one for me and one for Romeo. I get my phone out of my pocket and it says "romeob added you on snapchat" I go to snapchat there's also a bunch of other guys that added me. Do I really not pay attention to other guys who aren't Romeo. I did have my snapchat in my instagram bio but I didn't think people we're even looking at my profile. I accept Romeo but leave all the other guys. When I add him a video comes through of him whilst I was in the shower singing and he was singing along too. I was singing Bruises by Lewis Capaldi. Another video comes through of me in the mirror fixing my hair and the camera flips to Romeo of mocking me. I screen record it because it's so cute and made me laugh.

The shower water stops and the door opens. I look at my phone so he won't catch me looking again. I look up to him once and he mocks me over yesterday.
"Privacy, please!" he says in a girl voice.
"I'll close my eyes." and I close my eyes and put my hands over my face.

I don't peek until I feel the bed dip and he takes my hands away from my face. He smiles and it's so contagious that I'm now smiling.
"I got your snapchat videos" I giggle. "How did you find it?" I already know the answer.
"Your instagram bio. You're gonna have to get rid of that if you don't want all 2000 of your followers to have your snapchat"
"Yeah I'll do tha- wait did you say 2000" I brushed it off until I realised what he said.
"Yep, look" He shows me my account. My jaw is on the floor. All I did was post twice after a few years.

I didn't think about Rose and Romeo posting me. I realise that they have loads of followers. That's what you get when you literally work for my Dad I guess. And I guess they're popular people anyway. I won't ask they to take the posts down. If it makes them happy, I'll just leave it. A knock on the door makes Romeo get off of me and I answer the door. The food is here. I take it from the woman and thank her. I lay all the food down and Romeo is shocked.

"I didn't know what you liked... so I got all of it pretty much."
"It's great. Thank you Chiara, it's so sweet." He hugs me and takes a piece of toast. We sit down and eat as much we can. We don't even eat it all. But we did eat loads. I won't eat until the evening, I'm so full. I groan and Romeo laughs at me.

"Get ready. I still want to show you this place." I put everything on a tray and leave it outside the door. I pull my shoes on and grab a bag and put my money and phone in it. Romeo walks out and he looks great. He's wearing a white t-shirt and shorts. He compliments me and I blush. We walk out of the hotel, hand in hand.

"No one knows about this place. You are the first person to be there but me. It's my place, it always was. I would go there from 10am until 10pm. It was the only place I wouldn't be shouted at."
"You don't have to take me there. It sounds too special."
"Well you are special. I want to show you it. I've always wanted it to be for me and no one else. But I think you'll understand when you see it."
"Okay, thank you. You're so kind. How long is the walk?"
"Not long from here.

It was another 10 minutes from here and all my childhood memories are flashing through my mind. The first time I came here was when I was 11. On my bike after a fight with my Mom and I was so mad. I remembered seeing a small entrance in the bushes and I was so intrigued. I put my bike in the bushes because I didn't want it to be stolen. Not that anyone would have wanted a chipped pink princess bike. I got it stuck in the mud and it's been there ever since. Then at age 14 I bought a lock and gated up my place. I didn't want anyone there but me. It was made for me.

I just can't wait to show Romeo my place.