ABOVE & BEYOND : IF WE ARE MEANT TO BE

CHAPTER 40

DUAA

It was cold and warm at the same time. I love this feeling. The winter mornings under the blanket are heavenly and currently I was in heaven.

It was early in the morning. I could sense it. And the thing that woke me up was the sound of running water from the bathroom.

My eyes were still closed as I heard the bathroom door opening and closing. I could hear his footsteps.

I slightly opened my eyes, trying to be sneaky and oh my lord.

This is not what I expected to see at the beginning of the day.

He was shirtless. Also pantless. But not naked though. A white towel was wrapped around his waist. With another towel he was trying to dry his hair.

Water droplets were all around his back and biceps.

Before my mind could get filled with the nasty thoughts of this very naked back I closed my eyes shut. It's crazy how I am getting attracted to this dude.

After another couple of minutes or probably a lot of minutes, I finally woke up, adjusting the hood of the hoodie that belongs to him.

Waking up in his smell. Waking up and the first thing I saw was him, him in an inappropriate situation. Situations I have never imagined.

"Spend the day with me tomorrow." his voice echoed in my mind.

Am I really going to spend today with him? Is that some kinda date?

No no no. It's not. Both of us went through hell yesterday so it's a good way to lighten up the day I... think.

Suddenly the door opened and he came with...what the!!!

With a lot of shopping bags. He placed the bags on the couch and smiled so big that I could see his dimple. "Get dressed, brownie. You owe me the day."

I got down from the bed. "What are all these?"

"These? Condoms." I raised my eyebrow at him.

"These are clothes of course!" "I know but what are they doing here?"

"Well, since you have dementia, let me remind you that yesterday your smartass thought it was better to stay in the motel which, spoiler 'the dumbest idea ever' and then there was a fire which ..."

"Okay shut up now. I know what happened yesterday." "okay cool. Get dressed then because as I said before you owe me the day."

"First of all, I don't owe you anything. And I didn't even say yes!" he came closer.

Heartbeat is getting faster.

Thud thud thud...

"Well, you didn't say no either so of course I took it as a yes and your time to refuse ended at..." he checked his watch. "At 7:09 am."

He looked at me and smiled again and I was dumbfounded.

"What's up with the weird specific time?" "oh you don't wanna know." I crossed my arms in front of my chest. "Of course I want to know."

"It's the time you woke up." "bullshit, I woke up minutes ago and I refuse your proposal." he laughed slightly.

"Oh come on now. We both know this isn't the first time you woke up."

Excuse me, what?

"Do you think I didn't notice that you were observing my body early in the morning?"

What the actual...

I don't know what my expression was but my eyes were widened! How on earth does he know it?