Aurora's Alpha

CHAPTER 6

Rory's POV

Yawning I roll onto my left side and cuddle closer to the pillow placed underneath my head. So comfy... deciding I deserve more rest I pull the blanket over my shoulders and relax my arms underneath. It was silent in the room and I could sense the sunlight evading through the white drapes, nature's way of letting me know I should probably get up for the day but what's Mother Nature ever done for me?

"Don't wake her" I hear what I would deem a loud whisper

"I'm not gonna" a voice I've never hear before says back almost instantly, this voice is a lot closer to me immediately making me aware I'm being watched.

"Yeah don't wake me" I grumble out scrunching my nose.

"Oops Sorry" the second voice whispers quieter this time. Slowly I open my eyes letting them adjust to the light and then wiping at them incase I had those disgusting crusty bits at my tear ducts. Blinking so my eyes focused I look at the love seat opposite of the couch I slept on to see Monica sat holding the hand of who I presume is her girlfriend, Rico, if I remember correctly.

"Good morning sleeping beauty" Monica smirks. In my 20 years of living I've never seen her not be amused by that joke.

"Morning geller" I shoot right back knowing she doesn't like 'friends' for the sole reason of always being compared to her 2nd least favourite character (Ross being the most hated of course). I heard her mumble a 'shut up' under her breath while staring out the window. Looking back to Rico I sit up properly pulling the blanket off my body and feeling like it's the polite thing to do I stretch my hand out for her to shake "hi you must be Rico"

"Yeah that's me" she takes my hand in hers and lightly shakes "you must be Aurora" and as I open my mouth to tell her my nickname she beats me to it "sorry Rory right? I remember Mon telling me a something about why you get called Rory but I can't quite remember" she looks to Monica trying to decipher the story behind the nickname

"Oh it's because when I was born out mother allowed Monica to name me since she was the only girl at the time so Monica named me after her favourite Disney princess" I smiled about to continue the story but Monica beat me to it.

"The only issue was that 6 year old me couldn't pronounce 'Aurora' and instead it came out as 'arory'" looking at each other we both chuckle growing up I just became familiar with the three variations of my name.

"That's the cutest thing ever" Rico was staring back at Monica with one of those 'you are so cute' pouts and then draped her arm around Monica's shoulders.

Reaching over for my phone on the coffee table I check the time, 9am on a Saturday, I should probably start heading off I could use today to study before work later in the day.

"Thank you so much for letting me stay last night but I should probably get going" I say stretching out my limbs and standing up.

"Oh... okay yeah it was no problem, stay anytime" Monica fakes a smile, I watch as Rico also notices and squeezes her hand.

"But avoid the landlord right" I smirk trying to brighten her spirits. Rico's head snaps from me to monica and my sister looks to her lap instead of her girlfriends eyes

"The l-landlord doesn't know she's here?" She hesitantly asks, Monica shakes her head slowly causing a quiet "great" to fall out of Rico's mouth