Citrus [completed]

Chapter 22

*warning. Slightly suggestive scenes are below. Please be 18+ or have parent's permission. Idk how this works, I'll be honest*


The ring jerked me from my sleep, seeing as I had never heard this one. It was ungodly loud and insistent. For a few seconds it went off and I was tempted to roll back into Vanessa's warmth that was cuddled into my side. My eyes had just drifted back closed when it started up again, jerking me for the second time. I peeled my eyes open and squinted around the room for the sound. Propping myself up on my elbow, I look towards my nightstand where my phone sat charging, yet it was silently sitting there.

With a grunt, I lean over Vanessa's comatose body and reach for her phone which is spinning while vibrating and yelling. I grumble as I manage to finally grab it after flailing and trying not to fall on Vanessa or off the bed. It took maneuvering but I managed to sit upright with her phone in my head as it yelled at it.

It went silent again and I was tempted to put it back but it started up again, screaming in my hand. Vanessa had yet to stir yet, which was a talent on its own. I reach over and lightly grab her shoulder, swaying her instead of shaking her. I had come to discover over the weeks that Vanessa did not like being woken up aggressively.

Eden had popped in one morning and jumped into our bed, forcing Vanessa up. She then managed to nail him in the face with a pillow hard enough to cause him to fall to the floor and went back to sleep. Vanessa claims to not remember any of this but I have the sneaking suspicion she does. To avoid a pillow to the face, I decided to wake her up slowly. It took a while but Vanessa's eyes slowly parted as she made a confused noise in her throat.

I motion her phone towards her, ready to transfer the responsibility off to her, and nag her about the volume about it later today. Vanessa slowly sits up and I drop her phone into her hand before flopping back down onto my stomach. I grab the pillow that Vanessa tossed last night and shove it under my stomach as I rest on it.

Vanessa checks the name display before blowing a raspberry. If Vanessa is normally sweet in the morning, she's not happy with whoever is calling her. She groggily answers the phone. "What?"

She's quiet for a few seconds before dryly replying, "No." She shifts the covers, sliding slightly out of them, before reclaiming her spot next to me as she continues to listen. I watch her on the phone through half-open eyes, her face made of stone as whoever she's speaking to continues to talk.

Morning Vanessa slowly drifts away, becoming more aware and less soft when she snorts into the phone, "Well Leo, I'm not your personal cook you realize," My body slightly shakes in a laugh. Not a full one, because I am still half asleep but Vanessa feels my body move. Her eyes cut to my sleepy ones and I watch soft Vanessa reappear, her eyes going warm. She brings my knuckles to her lips in a kiss before resting my hand in her lap. Her attention stays on me as Leo talks, or most likely rants, in her ear.

I try watching her, but my body is still tired and I slowly begin to drift off. I vaguely hear her talking to him. I do feel when she plants a silent kiss onto my naked shoulder. I make a sleepy content sound and I can feel her small smile on my skin, her empty hand following her mouth path, caressing me softly. Her fingers trace out a pattern on my skin, that my mind doesn't process. It feels nice though and I sigh, moving closer to the heat her body is giving off.

A few silent seconds pass and I feel the cover being shifted off me, revealing more than my shoulder and the cover goes down, down, down until it rests on my lower back. My naked back is exposed to the chilled air. I'm still half asleep, so I don't protest much.

Vanessa hums something in reply to her phone call before leaning to kiss me again. This time the kiss was placed on my upper spine she just bore. The kiss was soft again but it was followed by a gentle nip on my spine. My toes curl as she licks away the sting that the bite caused. This caused sleep to slowly evade my body as I focused on Vanessa as she was bent over my body.