How did we end up here

Chapter 11

Welcome to chapter 11! Thank you so much for 80 reads! Hope you'll enjoy this chapter!

The darkness was overwhelming and I knew this was the end.

I almost jumped up from the bed. My heart was pounding and I was breathing like I just ran a marathon. It was completely dark and I felt disoriented.

"Ayla, what's wrong?", I heard Zane ask. This was the so one time he had caught me having a nightmare. "Nothing, just a bad dream", I answered feeling bad about waking him up in the middle of the night. " Do you have nightmares often!", he suddenly asked me and also sat up. Without thinking I just nodded. " What are they about?", he came closer and put his hand on my back, like he was trying to calm me down.

I did think about telling him what they were about, but I just didn't want to get into that kind of stuff right now. I just wanted to go back to sleep and not think about it. "I'll tell you in the morning. I'm tired right now." He nodded in understanding and we both laid back down.

I soon heard his shallow breath, telling me he was already sleeping again. As I was looking at him, I remembered how nice it was sleeping in his arms. With that thought in mind, without thinking I just curled up in his arms. I was hoping he wouldn't notice it and wake up.

He felt so warm and I immediately felt more relaxed. I suddenly felt him pulling me closer. It felt so good and I was sleeping in a mater of minutes.

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In the morning I woke up to Zane's alarm. As I opened my eyes I saw him still sleeping beside me. He looked so peaceful, his dark hair was laying on his forehead.

His arms were still around my waist and I was so close to him I could feel his heartbeat. I didn't want to wake up and leave his warmth.

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at me. „Good morning sunshine. Happy birthday!", he grumbled. His morning voice sounded to hot. „Morning Zane.", it was really annoying me that I didn't have an annoying nickname for Zane. I really needed to figure something out.

We both finally got up and I went to wake Alice and Tommy up. Zane allowed me to borrow one of his sweatpants and his sweatshirt so I didn't have to go out in the cold with my dress.

After the kids woke up too, we went downstairs to eat some breakfast. I found it weird that I haven't seen Zane's parents at all.

„When do your parents come home? I've never seen them before.", I asked him. „Well they run a big business. They're aren't home a lot. Their office is a few hours from here so they have a smaller house closer to their office. Last week they haven't been home at all, but my dad promised they would come home this week. But who knows.

We still had a lot of time before we hat to leave, to go to my house. I began making pancakes for everyone and Zane started to fry some bacon. It has been a really long time since Alice and I had bacon and pancakes.

We served the food a few minutes later. I saw Alice's eyes light up and she started eating immediately. I was really happy, I could finally see true happiness in her eyes.

After the kids ate Zane and I stayed in the kitchen to clean up. „So now you have to finally tell me, what are your nightmares about?", Zane finally asked me. I was silent for a while. I didn't know if if I should tell him. I mean the last few times he's been really nice and I started to really like him. I decided, why not?
„ okay... but you have to promise me,you won't tell anyone.", I looked him in the eyes. He looked at me with a genuine look. „I promise you, I won't tell anyone."