Honey The Kids Miss You. Gekko X OC

Chapter 15: Scared to fall in love

When Mateo wakes up he looks he's faced with a peacefully sleeping Evie cuddling into his side. The sunlight shining through a crack in her blinds left a streak of light on her sun kissed golden bronze skin. Looking at her Mateo realized that waking up to this everyday is his dream. He reaches out gently, brushing a loose strand of hair from her face, careful not to wake her. Her serene expression fills him with a warmth he can hardly describe, a sense of belonging he's never felt before. God help him, he was totally in love with his best friend.

He takes a deep breath, savoring the moment, and lets his thoughts wander. How did he get so lucky? Now, here he is, in her bed, feeling more at home than he ever thought possible. He imagines their future together – lazy Sunday mornings, cooking breakfast side by side, quiet nights watching movies, and countless more mornings like this.

Evie starts to wake up, nestling closer to the boy. Mateo's heart swells. He thinks about what it would be like to be with her on a romantic level. He imagines good-morning and goodnight kisses, hand holding, taking her on dates, giving anything and everything he could.

He never really thought about her this much but something about her being this close to felt ethereal. She was ethereal. The boy wondered if she felt the same way about him. She flirted a lot and they definitely acted like more than friends sometimes, especially right now seeing as they are cuddling.

He continues admiring the girl, thoughts of kissing her forehead very present in his mind. Eventually he becomes unable to resist and leans down and plants a soft kiss on her forehead. Evie's eyes flutter open, and she smiles sleepily up at him.

"Morning pretty boy," Evie murmurs, her voice husky from sleep.

"Good morning hermosa(beautiful). Sleep okay?"

"Yeah and you?"

"I slept very well," Mateo replies, smiling really bright.

"You're so adorable Teo," Evie replies smiling back at the boy earning a bright blush from the boy.

"Whatever you say mi mundo,(my world)"

"How long have you been awake?"

"Not long" he lies, not wanting her to know he'd been watching her for a while, absorbing every peaceful detail. "I was just thinking about how perfect this is."

Evie smiles. "Flattery will get you anywhere, you know."

Mateo chuckles, feeling a lightness in his chest. "Good to know." So help him god,he was so in love with this girl. "How about breakfast? I'll cook."

Evie raises an eyebrow. "You? Cook? This I have to see."

"Hey, I'm not that bad," he protests. "Let me do something for you today."

"Teo you don't owe me anything."

"I know, let me do this for you," Mateo pleas.

"Ugh your so fucking cute. I might actually have to kiss you," Evie says smashing a pillow into her face, blush very evident on both their cheeks.

"Do it then."

Evie moves the pillow slightly from her face making eye contact with a red faced Mateo. Slowly she moves the pillow from her face, sitting up, not once breaking eye contact. Mateo also sat up also not breaking eye contact.

They started leaning towards each other, hearts pounding. Mateo raising his hand to put in her hair. No more than an inch away when a sudden pounding comes from Evie's door, both of them separating quickly.

"Rainy get up, Gekko's not in his room," Reyna shouts from the other side of the door. Quickly the both of them jumped back, red faces, super embarrassed. Him being in her room was very suggestive, especially with both of their faces tomato red from being interrupted about to kiss.