on deck; a. judge

10.

[a]

Waking up the next morning, I opened my eyes slowly to see I wasn't in my own bed, but rather, I was cuddled up on Ellie. I must've fallen asleep after our rather deep conversation.

I hadn't opened up to someone like that in a while, let alone someone I hadn't known long. She left her boy toy to come home and be with me, and I admired that about her. I opened up about my past relationship and I honestly felt really good getting it off of my chest.

I looked at the time, seeing that I needed to be at the stadium soon for a morning workout. However, this bed was super comfy and I'm sure the team would be fine if I skipped one morning workout.

"Good morning.." I say quietly, chuckling as she turned and buried her face in my chest to avoid the sunlight.

"Morning.." She mumbles. "Don't you have to go to the stadium?" She asks me, looking over at her phone to check the time.

I shrug. "Eh, I think it'll be fine if I miss one workout. I have a game tonight anyways.."

"Oh, so you can lay in bed longer.."

I nodded, smiling small at her. "If you don't have anything to do, I think laying here the two of us would be fine with me until we had to leave. Unless you had plans with your boy toy..."

Ell shakes her head. "No, I haven't talked to him since he dropped me off last night. I am perfectly fine with laying in bed.."

An ideal day to me.

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"You coming to my game tonight?" I ask Ellie as she's making herself something to eat in the kitchen.

She shrugs, smiling. "Hmmm, maybe. I might have to see why your name is so popular right now." She said, laughing before checking her phone and she just frowned.

"What?"

"Just Garrett." She replies, "Wondering if everything was alright."

"And what are you gonna tell him?" I ask her.

"That everything's fine?" She laughs. "I really can't say that I didn't reply to his texts because I was too busy cuddling my roommate. We're kind of a thing." She replies and I just nod.

"I'd really appreciate if you'd come to my game tonight. Especially since you get to have access to sit in the camera well.." I tell her, putting my hands on her hips.

"Maaaybee." She smiles, looking me in the eyes and I watched as her eyes trailed to my lips.

"Well, are you just gonna keep staring at my lips or are you gonna do something about it?" I ask her before I'm cut off by her kissing me. I pull back momentarily, looking at her before she shakes her head, kissing me again and I kiss back, deeper. Her arms snake around my neck as we make out.

"Ell," I breathe out. As much as I wanted this to continue, I knew she was trying to kindle something with this Garrett guy. And he seemed like a good guy...

"Aaron, just shut up and kiss me."

I shrug, grabbing her by her thighs, lifting her up as I kissed her passionately. We blindly make our way to my room, never breaking the kiss.

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"Dude, you need to date her already before you lose her!" Oswaldo tells me as I sat in my chair putting my shoes on.

"I don't know if she wants me that way, she's got another dude. They're probably working on something."

"Obviously they aren't working hard enough if she's constantly wanting to make out with you!" He laughs. "Now's your chance, Judge!"