It's a Hard life | Hardzello♡

31. Good morning

"Good morning, sleeping beauty." Joe hears upon opening his eyes. He smiles when he sees his boyfriend sitting on the bed next to him.
With a soft smile on his face, Ben watches the boy wake up.
Joe slowly sits up, and rubs his eyes. "Morning." He mumbles in a rough and husky voice from just waking up.
Ben crawls further onto the bed, and puts his arm around Joe. "How do you feel?" He asks softly after giving the boy a kiss on the cheek.
Joe smiles and puts his head on Ben's chest. "So much better. I no longer feel tired at all. Apparently one night of good sleep does wonders." He says with a soft giggle.
Ben burst out in laughter, which earns a questioning look from his boyfriend. "Sweetheart, you've been asleep for one and a half day. It isn't even morning anymore, it's almost noon. I think it's a freaking miracle that you haven't starved yet."
Joe's eyes widen at that. "Really? Whoa, it really felt like one night." He says surprised. 
Ben chuckles softly. "Well, it felt like years for me. I've missed your kisses." He says as he pouts a little.
Joe giggles, and with a big smile on his face, he crawls onto Ben's lap. He lets his arms rest on the boy's shoulders, and makes their noses touch. "Oh have you? Then we should do something about that, don't you think?" He almost whispers.
Ben bites his lip and nods eagerly. "Yes please." He leans in for a kiss, but just before their lips touch, Joe moves his head.
"Nah, I changed my mind." The ginger says with a smirk. He moves his head away from Ben's, creating a gap between their faces.
Ben opens his mouth in insult. "You changed your mind?" He says with his arms crossed.
The smirk on the ginger's face grows even bigger, and he shrugs with a mischievous smile.
"You little bitch. I want my kiss!" Ben tries to look offended, but soon a grin creeps on his face. He gives his boyfriend a nudge, hard enough to make Joe fall backwards on the bed.
A bunch of giggles is heard from both boys. With still the same big smirk on his face, Ben moves forwards so that he's now hanging above Joe's face.
"So, what are you gonna do about it?" The ginger asks with a defiant look.
Ben doesn't say anything more, and reunites his lips with Joe's.
The latter goes along with the kiss without hesitation. The ginger immediately starts fighting for access to Ben's mouth.
But the blond keeps his lips together to tease the boy a little.
That only motivates Joe to fight harder, until Ben parts his lips slightly.
Their tongues soon meet, and start dancing.

When they break the kiss, both boys have a big smile on their face.
Ben lies down next to Joe, and intertwines their fingers.
Both stare at the ceiling in silence for a while.
Then Ben remembers the phone call he got from Joe's father about Mary. "So uhm I hate to kill the mood, but your father called when you were asleep."
Both boys turn their head, looking each other in the eye now.
Joe lets out a questioning noise as a way of asking why his father called.
Ben takes a deep breath. "He wondered if you've heard anything from your sister the past two days." He explains, answering the questioning look on Joe's face. 
Without saying anything yet, Joe sits up and reaches to his nightstand to grab his phone. He quickly opens de chat with his sister to see whether he might have some unread messages or not.
Nothing.
He looks at Ben and shakes his head. "No, not anymore since four days ago. But why?" He asks. He puts his phone down on the nightstand again and looks at his boyfriend, waiting for an answer.
Ben sighs, and pulls the boy close against him as soon as Joe has sat down next to him again. "Your father told me that Mary has been acting different lately. Different as in unhappy and distant. Yesterday she didn't come home when she said she would. Your father thinks she ran away." He explains.
Joe's eyes widen.
When Ben notices how worried the boy is, he places a kiss on Joe's cheek. "Maybe you should call your dad? He was quite concerned about both Mary and you." He says as he intertwines their fingers again.
"Why was he worried about me?" Joe asks surprised.
A smile appears on Ben's face. "Because every time he called, I had to tell him that you were still asleep. He was scared you'd gotten into a coma." He says with a giggle.
Joe rolls his eyes with a smile. "Well, I guess you're right. I should give him a call." He says. He frees his hand out of Ben's to grab his phone.
Ben smiles and gets up from the bed. "I'll give you guys a moment then." He presses his lips against Joe's.
Joe smiles. "Thank you love."  
Ben leaves the room and walks towards the kitchen. He opens the fridge to see what he can make his boyfriend for lunch. The boy must be pretty hungry after sleeping for one and a half day.
But to his disappointment he sees that the fridge is almost empty. Right, he forgot to go to the supermarket.
After thinking for a moment, Ben decides to just order pizza. He's pretty sure Joe wouldn't mind at all. 

After about five minutes, Ben can hear that Joe is still on the phone with his father.
He is about to walk to the bedroom to check on Joe, when the doorbell rings.
Quite surprised, Ben walks to the front door to open it. It's too soon for the pizza to arrive, so he's curious who's at the door. 
"Benny could you get that?" Joe's voice sounds from the bedrom.
Ben giggles softly. "Already on it Joey." He calls back before opening the front door.
When he sees who is at the door, his eyes widen and his jaw drops.

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Cliffhanger, hehe😏 who do you think is at the door?

Starting tomorrow, me and my boyfriend will be home alone for three weeks, which gives me some more time to edit and upload chapters

Anyways, much love from me♡