Eunoia 2 [{V.H}]

26

Vinnie

"Vinnie honey, Alex is on the phone for you."

I roll over in bed, groggy as hell to throw a scowl at Kitty but she holds my phone out to me, looking just as out of it. Her eyes are bloodshot from the sleep dripping from them, and I curse under my breath when I realize that she was actually fucking sleeping but this fucking moron decided to call.

I take the phone from her hand, a little more aggressively than I'd like and push it up to my ear, "Someone better be dead."

Kitty lays back down on her side of the bed, ignoring my statement to my friend. Her head hits her pillow with a bounce as Alex slowly responds.

"Aw was sleeping beauty and prince Phillip still asleep?"

I snap at him, turning over away from Kitty, "Of course we were still fucking asleep, it's Friday."

Alex huffs in my ear in response, "It's 12!" He exclaims, "Besides not everyone has three day weekends."

You pick up odd jobs. Every day is the weekend for you you fucking shit monkey.

I go to pull the phone from my ear, and hang up, but he knows me too well, because he shouts at me to give him a chance to speak. He knows that this was our first week back, and I've told him how much we've struggled. Kitty has slowly and slightly slipped back into her shell where she doesn't really eat or go out of her way to engage. I can tell she's trying so hard not to fully lose it, and I don't blame her one bit, but I'm starting lose that grasp I had on her that I was comfortable with.

"Bro." I put my hand over my face tiredly, "Kitty is trying to sleep. I'm trying to sleep." I look over my shoulder toward her, "You know we don't very often."

"Okay okay. I was just wondering if you guys wanted to go snowboarding today. We haven't done something like that in years."

All that to ask us to go snowboarding?

I close my eyes and sigh heavily.

I do not have the energy to go off on him right now.

"I'll talk to Kitty about it but is there even a resort open around here?" I feel Kitty stir behind me, so I turn my torso over to see her.

Thankfully, she's not getting up, just trying to pull the blanket further up past her shoulder, but because of Finches big ass at the end of the bed, she can't move it.

"It snowed last night needed, just the gear and I had it flown in last week when I heard it was gonna snow." Alex replies but at this point, I don't give two shits.

"Okay," I reach out my free hand and tug on the blanket, helping Kitty pull it up over her small frame. "I'll fucking talk to Kitty."

"When do you think you guys will be up-" Alex rushes out as I pull the phone from my ear, and I hang up on him.

I throw my phone to the nightstand and roll over to Kitty's side fully. I put my arm under the blanket, slinging it around her waist and the little warmth that she puts off seeps into my bones.

Just when I think she may be back asleep, she turns her head just slightly.

Fuck.

"Whatd he want?" She asks quietly.

I shake my head and scoot my face into her soft hair, my thumb rubbing to feel her skin against my own. "Some bullshit, go back to sleep."

She turns over in my grip, scooting closer to me until I can make out every single light freckle on her face. Her hazel eyes are clearer now, and just from that I can tell that she's awake for the day now. It's not a problem for me as much as a problem for her.