Solace (completed)

Chapter Twenty-Two

Part 2 of a triple update
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Elias Salazar

   Today's the day.

   It's her birthday.

   But it's also the day, the most important day, the day I've been freaking the fuck out about for the past week.

   I have the whole day planned out to a T. And the first thing is waking Sleeping Beauty up.

   This could either go one of three ways. One, she slaps me for waking her up late and having us miss school. Two, she wakes up for three seconds and goes back to sleep. Or three, she's happy.

   Really shooting for three, here.

   When I say I have everything planned I mean- everything. I know how her little overthinking brain works. First things first, my parents took Mateo to school today. I told them how it's her birthday and they wanna do whatever they can to make today easy on her.

   So I got that covered.

   And then we have her missing assignments, she'd probably kill me but I managed to get them all in advance and did them for her. It wasn't really much, I worked on them while she was asleep, but still. I know how she likes to be independent so I'll keep this one to myself.

   I clear my throat and push back some of the hair that's fallen onto her sleepy face.

   Right now I'm leaned up juuuuuust a little bit on the headboard with Alex curled into my left side. Her left hand comes over my chest slightly and rests on my left pec. Her head lays on part of my shoulder and chest.

   My large, fuzzy blanket is covering both of us but her hand that's on top of my chest curls a fist into the blanket which I find cute for some reason. She's so cute and cuddly right now, and even though she's asleep, I still find it fucking adorable.

   The cutest snores leave her mouth and a 100- watt smile graces my lips. She's so fucking cute. They aren't loud and obnoxious snores, they're small puffs of air that ever-so-often make a noise and I find them adorable.

   For the past hour I've been reading this book to her, The Love Hypotheses I'm pretty sure. At first I started reading it in hopes that she would wake up to the sound of my voice but the deeper I got into it, the more I started reading for myself.

   It's kinda confusing seeing as how I don't know who's perspective I'm reading it from, but with the help of Google I've realized that it's third person.

   I failed English, can you tell?

   There's also a lot of scientist shit in here, which makes it a bit boring but if Alex picked it out, maybe it gets good later on. I'm far enough into the book to know that I don't like Anh that much, though.

   "What did you say to her? The girl who ran out in tears?" I said directly from the book. "I just gave her some feedback on what she wrote- okay, but did you have to be a dick? You hear that, sweet cheeks?" I whispered to her sleeping figure. "Like I get it, you're a 30-year-old virgin but that doesn't mean you can ruin everyone else's life." I scoffed.

   But back to the story.

   I honestly understand why she reads, it's kinda fun to read about someone else's life rather than live your own. It brings you into a world outside of all the bullshit that comes with reality.

   Reading this just makes me more excited for what I have planned later.

   Should I spoil it? I wanna spoil it.