𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 & 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 29: ʙᴇʟʟᴇ'ꜱ ꜰᴀᴛᴇ...?

(THE THING I SAY AT THE BOTTOM IS A JOKE. It's my fault though, because I said the ending was only gonna be 2 chapters....I extended it to three. So you guys get one more chapter after this one, and maybe an epilogue. 😁😁😁)

   Even with the absence of my alarm, I still found myself waking up bright, and early the next morning. I still had my phone in my hand, as I'd fallen asleep the previous night with it still on. Without even completing my morning stretch, I quickly opened it and read the remainder of König's texts. With a smile that extended from ear to ear, I typed a simple good morning, and told him that I loved him too. Sighing, I peeled myself off of my bed, and trudged over to my bathroom to freshen up. Even though I had the week off, it was still good to keep myself in some sort of schedule.

   As I brushed my teeth, I thought about what else there was for me to do, and after going down the very short list of things in my head, I settled on one thing in particular. I spat out the dissolved toothpaste, and bent over the sink to rinse my mouth out. Grabbing a towel, I stood up, and dried the lower half of my face. After I finished, I threw the towel off to side somewhere as I knew it was time for a replacement. Huffing a breath, I took the time to just stare at my reflection in the mirror. I genuinely looked awful. I tore my gaze away from my atrocious reflection, and walked over to the tub. Turning on the faucet, I striped, and made to sure to cover my hair with a shower cap.

When steam started to blur the mirror, I knew the water was hot enough, and I jumped in. Instead of just washing off and calling it quits, I decided to just stand there under the shower head, and let the boiling hot water burn my skin. I thought about the night me, and Nick had shared before everything came to. The way he was so gentle in washing my body. The way he looked at it like it was made of gold. I felt fresh tears threatening to fall, and I forced myself to stop thinking about it all.

I took in a deep breath, and held it for a bit. I knew he wasn't here, and I also knew that it was pointless to dwell on things of the past. And so, after standing under the shower-head so long that the water had run cold, I finally began to scrub my body.

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After getting out of the shower, I oiled, and did my hair, before leaving the bathroom completely to find an outfit to wear. As I stood in front of my dresser, thinking, I heard my phone's ringtone start playing from behind me. I sighed in frustration, and abandoned the guessing game I was playing with myself. I walked over to my dresser to see who was calling this early, and why. Like a fool, I blindly answered the video call, and pressed my phone up against my ear out of pure habit. "Morning sweetness." I heard a low, very heavily accented voice ring out from my speaker.

With me still being half asleep, I needed to check and see exactly who this was. So, I paused for a second, and peeled the phone away from my ear to look at the screen. My eyes went wide when I saw that it was Nick, and that he'd probably gotten a face full of my boobs due to the angle I was holding my phone. I said good morning back, before briefly apologizing, and fixing my camera angle. "What's got you up so early?" I asked, placing my phone down on my bed so that it was facing the ceiling. "I didn't go to sleep." I heard him mumble. His morning voice making him sound like a completely different person. "And why's that?" I shouted from inside my closet. "You already know why, my love. What are you up to?" He asked, quickly changing the subject. "Nothing much, just pulling on some clothes to go walking." I said, finally putting on some undergarments.

   "Oh, sounds fun." He yawned. "You should...probably get some rest. You sound really tired." I shouted, while struggling to pull on some tight sweats. "I'm fine. I've gone longer without sleep. And why do you sound so far away?" I heard him ask. I quickly rushed over to phone, and picked it up, effectively putting my face back into view of the camera. "My bad. I was putting on clothes." I chuckled. "Oh- I knew that. Take me with you on your walk?" He asked, yawning again. "Of course." I said, pulling on a shirt.