The After Effect (NaNoWriMo)

Part 8

Day 4

The room got lighter as night disappeared and a new day was brought forth.  Charlotte was cuddled into Nicholas as both of them lay sleeping together in their new-found happiness with one another.  Not knowing how many days they had left, they were going to try and make the best out of what time they had remaining.

Waking up early, Nicholas tried not to move so he wouldn’t disturb the beautiful, sleeping woman in his arms.  He brushed the strands of hair from her face and moved them to behind her ear. 

To him, Charlotte was everything he could have dreamed of and more.  Not once in a million years did he think he could get the girl of his dreams but here he was with that girl peacefully sleeping in his arms.

‘Trust an experience where we both might die to give me everything I want,’ Nicholas thought as he wondered if it was ironic or not.  ‘Not that I care about that though, I’m just glad to have her.  It could have been under better circumstances though, I really would love for her to meet my parents and my sister, I’m sure, would absolutely love Charlotte.  I think she’s sick of being the only girl out of six children,’ he added, musing over nothing in particular.

Placing a soft, chaste kiss on Charlotte’s forehead, he lovingly looked at the woman he had fallen head over heels for.  He knew that it had only been a few days since they first started to date but he could already tell that she was the woman that he wanted to be with for the rest of his life.  ‘Until death do us part,’ he thought, thinking that it could be a very big possibility given their current circumstances.

Nicholas felt movement next to him as the green-eyed brunette started to stir.  He brushed his fingers over her cheek and watched as she smiled a small smile while trying to fully return to the land of consciousness.

“Good morning, beautiful,” he said, placing a lingering kiss on her pink lips and feeling her respond to it.

“Good morning, handsome,” Charlotte sleepily replied, wrapping her arms around his neck and bringing him down for a few small and quick kisses.

“Do you want to do anything today?” Nicholas asked her, placing a kiss on her neck.

“I’m thinking a shower might be in order later on.  If I remember correctly, floor thirty-nine has showers as it used to be a football office,” she said, hoping she was right.

“I hope you are right, I’m beginning to smell myself,” Nicholas said, lifting up his arm and making a disgusted face.

“You don’t smell that bad,” Charlotte responded, giggling at the face Nicholas pulled.

“Want to take a whiff of this to make sure?” he asked, leaning over the brunette.

“I’m sure I don’t,” Charlotte replied, pushing him off her and rolling on top of him.

“Well, hello there,” Nicholas playfully said as Charlotte straddled him.

Leaning down and kissing the man passionately, Charlotte waited until she could feel his arousal and then broke their kiss and got up.  “Come on, let’s go get some breakfast,” she smirked, looking at her boyfriend.

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Placing the rest of the oatmeal cookie in her mouth and eating it, Jade wiped her mouth and paced around the room a little before walking over to the window and noticing that the water from outside had managed to drop by a considerable amount since they checked last.

The rain wasn’t pouring down any more and the thunder and lightning had stopped.  The clouds were still a dark grey colour and looked as if they were going to open out and flood the city once more.  Jade tried to keep a positive train of thought as she looked out at the city and tried to see if she could see any more buildings being unearthed from the water.