A Life with Him [VegasXPete]

CHAPTER 03

VEGAS

“Good morning...” Vegas greeted Pete while walking towards him in the kitchen, giving him a kiss on the cheek. “I didn’t see when you woke up today...”

Vegas wake up that morning to an empty bed. That wasn’t common since he started to share it with Pete, so he was a little worried at first; he walked to the bathroom to see if he was there, but no signs of Pete there either. With that, Vegas quickly put his robe on and opened the door of their room, being immediately hit with the smell of food coming from downstairs.

Since Pete moved in with him, Vegas quickly realized that in the middle of the night, Pete liked snacking or drinking water and since he still didn’t know the house that well, he would constantly get lost or bump into things in the dark. To prevent that from happen all the time, Vegas asked to his men to help him change rooms so they could be close to the kitchen. Since then, every time they opened their bedroom door, the strong smell of food would hit them, which was something that Pete quite enjoyed, so Vegas was happy with that.

He quickly got downstairs and took a glance of Pete by the stove, frying something on a pan while another one was already set in the fire as he waited for the butter there melt down. Vegas smiled with that scene. At first, the kitchen staff would be crazy with Pete constantly trying to enter the kitchen and insisting in cooking something, but after a lot of tries – Pete was quite an insistent person – they just gave up and let him do whatever he wanted there, like everybody else always did, including Vegas.

As he approached Pete, he could see that he was making scrambled eggs and there was pancake mix inside a bowl, waiting to be put in the buttery pan. Pete never liked western food like Vegas and Macau did, he would always look at it with a contorted nose that in the beginning would leave Vegas a little annoyed, but after some time, he would simply find that face very cute. He is the kind of person that really loves spices, herbs and strong scents filling the kitchen, which was something that Vegas didn’t appreciate even for a bit, but he could bear it since it truly makes Pete smile. And with his efforts, Pete started to learn about how to make western food and even would challenge himself to eat a whole meal made of it.

“I got up early today”.  Pete said while grabbing the bowl of pancake mix.  “Actually, I didn’t sleep that much”.

Vegas frowned as he could clearly see that Pete had dark circles underneath his eyes, along with a little bit of flour on the tip of his nose, which Vegas carefully brushed off while smiling.

  “Another nightmare?” Vegas asked.  “You could have wakened me up to stay with you”.

“Actually, I think I’m just nervous about today’s meeting”.  Vegas took the bowl from his hands and poured a little bit of the mixture in the pan.  “You were sleeping so well that I didn’t want to wake you up just because I was feeling anxious”.

Vegas looked at Pete with a face that told him “You know that I wouldn’t mind”. But, after all, he could understand Pete’s feelings. Since their conversation about the important meeting two weeks ago, Vegas could notice that Pete was tense. He was clumsier around the house, he would constantly laugh nervously and it seemed like he was always waiting for something to appear and take Vegas away from him, leading Pete to be a little over protective towards him. Vegas wasn’t complaining about that, but he didn’t like that much since it clearly left Pete stressed.

Like Pete, Vegas was also very nervous about the meeting that would take place in a couple of hours. He spent the entire day before a little distracted from work and when the night came, he couldn’t bring his mind to shut up so he could get some sleep. Vegas ended up having to get some help from the sleeping pills that he used to take it before. It’s been a long time since he didn’t touch those and he knew that the main reason for that was Pete. He wasn’t that stressed anymore, that helpless and anxious anymore, so when the night would come, he didn’t find it hard to sleep peacefully anymore because he had Pete by his side now. But last night was a little different.