Pieces of Love

Chapter 2- Sleep

"Ugh, I'm so full." Maddy dramatically flops onto her back, laying across Lia, Brandon, and Oliver's lap as they all sit squished on the three-seater couch.

Cameron sits on the floor, his back against Brandon's legs as he stares up at the tv, his empty plate cast aside on the small wooden coffee table. The food was good, it always is when Lia cooks. It was just what he needed really, good homemade food.

Work had been hell. The customers were that little bit more aggravated, and the staff Cam was put on shift with were whining about restocking the shelves. He didn't really like working in retail, he didn't think anyone really did, but it paid the bills and that was all Cameron really needed.

Brandon's foot nudges his butt, startling him. "Is that my jumper?"

Cameron swivels to look at him with a cheeky grin. "Maybe~"

The taller man only rolls his eyes, a hand on Maddy's head as she lies groaning about her too full stomach, sauce stained around her mouth. he nudges Cameron with his foot again, an eyebrow raised in mock concern.

"You better not have gotten sauce on it."

Cam looks down at the material, smoothing it down to check for any splatters of sauce before turning back to grin at Brandy in success. No stains.

"Thanks for dinner Lia," Ollie says as he swings an arm behind her and leans down to plant a kiss on the side of her head.

"You're very welcome. Brandy helped."

Brandon grunts in disagreement, he'd only dumped a bottle of tomato cooking sauce in a saucepan before Lia and Mads came home. He was too tired to have cooked a full meal without burning it, so it was a good thing the girls came home when they did.

Madison, lying across the three still, looks up at Brandon's face, noticing how his eyes are falling half shut. The bags under his eyes have been gradually growing darker in the past couple of days, and both of the girls were beginning to notice.

"Brandy babe, why don't you head to bed?"

He only grunts in response, the hand that was running through her hair stilling as his eyes struggle not to flutter completely shut.

"Come on," Maddy sits up, rolling off of the couch and moving to her feet with her hands outstretched to the tall man half dozing on the couch.

She pulls him up when he grabs her hands, mumbling something about doing the dishes before she shushes him and guides him to his bedroom.

"Can we stay here tonight?" Cameron asks, pouting up at Lia now that his back rest has moved away to get some sleep.

She sighs, rolling her eyes with a smile as she pats Ollie on the leg and gets up herself. "Sure. Mads and I will take my room and you two can share hers."

Cameron hisses a happy 'yes' as he jumps to his feet and moves to the bedroom, stretching his arms above his head as he does so.

Maddy had to have had one of the best rooms in the apartment. It had a small window that let in the morning light, a large queen bed dressed in hundreds of pillows and blankets, and it always smelt sweet like fruit. It was much nicer than Oliver and Cameron's place which always had a lingering scent of feet.

Immediately he begins to throw a majority of the decorative pink and patterned pillows to the floor, eager to climb in the soft bed. Usually when he stayed over he either slept with Brandon in his room or fell asleep on the couch after a particularly taxing movie.

Just as he's about to climb in, Oliver stands at the door and clears his throat, a small stack of clothes in his hands.

"You better not be getting in that bed without changing first."