chapter 38:
it's 8:27 when adam wakes up to his phone ringing.
he gently detaches his arm from underneath rose's body.
thankful that the noise hadn't woken rose up, he covers her body with the blanket.
he brushes his hair backwards and rubs his eyes to check the caller ID. may.
he slides the balcony-door to the right and steps into the cool breeze of new york city.
"hello." he rests his arms on the fence, that is cold.
"hello, I'm sorry for calling at this early hour and waking you up. I just- couldn't sleep."
"no, don't worry at all." he tries to make her feel better. his heart shattering for this woman and her son.
"is it okay if we come, now?" he can hear the shame in her voice.
"of course, you can. I'll wake rose up and we can all have breakfast together. sound good?"
after she tells him that she'll wake ethan too and come, he hangs up.
he steps back into their room and notices that rose has hid her face with the blanket.
"gorgeous girl, guess who called?" he sits near her body and gets no answer.
"hey, wake up." he nudges her body a bit, and rose changes positions to give him her back.
"that's rude. I'll pretend that you didn't just do that." he rests his head on her hip.
she sighs, and adam asks, "guess who called?"
"I don't care" she says under her breath.
adam chuckles at her bad mood in the morning. "get off me, adam."
"I always wake up with you on me, and I've never told you off, rose." he fakes a hurting tone.
"I'm hurt." he gets up and pretends that he had left.
he goes to the bathroom to give her enough time to realize that he isn't in the room.
rose gets the blanket off her face and looks around the room.
"adam?" she calls out to him.
"baby, are you inside?" she knocks on the bathroom door.
he gets out and doesn't say anything. he wants to see how long it'll take for her to apologize.
"hey, I'm sorry for being mean to you." she looks at him and waits carefully for his reaction.
still nothing.
adam is staring at himself in the mirror and pretending that he's fixing his hair.
he doesn't think he looks dumb doing that until he imagines what finn's reaction would be if he found him doing that.
he's brought back to the world when his wife comes behind him and hugs him, before placing kisses on his naked back.
"I'm sorry." a kiss on his upper back. "I'm so sorry." another kiss on his shoulder.
she rests her cheek on his back and folds her hands together above his bellybutton from behind.
"do you forgive me?" she rests her lips on his back.
she finds his eyes in the mirror's reflection and smiles. "we're okay?"
"we're okay." he matches her smile.
"your hair looks nice" she compliments him. "and you look nice."
"I said I forgive you. you don't have to compliment me no more" he teases her.
