Cloud nine (Romance)

Chapter 6: Morning After

(Pov Max)

The darkness around me slowly fades away, as the morning lights shine brightly upon my eyes. I open my eyes slowly, the light pushing them shut. The morning fatigue caused me to falter at the oncoming illumination. I don't remember a single thing that happened, where I am, or what time it is. I don't bother to know. My head is pounding the hardest I have ever had in my life. I start to look around for my glasses to help my vision. I touch around my chest to feel a warm but slightly bony skin like structure. I get confused and slightly move my upper body upward. As I feel something on me proceeding to fall off my body. "Wh-wha" I say with the infamous morning rasp. I slowly open my eyes and see thin, black hair in front of my face. I started to become more confused, yet not startled since I was still very sleepy. I look to the side and see Minhs face smiling softly, facing to the ground. I gasp lightly. I see how my top is off which puts me into a slight daze realizing what had happened. I proceed to talk in my head to try and understand what is happening.

I realize that I still have my shorts on And she had her bra so it's not like we did anything serious. I start to breathe quite heavily as I realize that it went this far. My breath led into a yawn, the yawn made Minhs head move high up which made her start softly groaning. "Oh no please dont wake up!" I think in my head. She starts to open up her eyes slowly, then after a short pause she goes back laying on my chest and grabs my hand as our fingers interlock. Then she looks back at me and lays her head back on my chest. I.Am.Speechless. She then proceeds to put her head on my neck. She is holding my right hand with her left hand and she puts her right hand around me. As I open my mouth about her a billion questions I look at the calmness on Minhs face and just go with the flow.

(30 minute time skip)

I wake up to feel her poking me. I move from the bed yet again slowly. We both look at eachother with a numb look as she shortly starts hugging me skin on skin. I slightly gasped and then folded my arms into her. "Are you okay Minh.." "yes" she says in a very soft voice. "I don't want to make this awkward but what happened last night.." I said slightly awkwardly. "Oh don't worry, you won't do anything weird." She says. I start to lightly blush and look away. "I don't remember most of what happened last night but you did tell me that you did like reassurance" she says in a slightly flirtatious tone. "What, i~i don't really.. care that much a..bout it." "Haha, how convincing Max" "hey...shush, you can't make fun of me when i'm vulnerable" "Yes I can be good sir." This moment with her feels so nice. "No, but what actually happened..." "The last thing I remember was that we were in your bed and then it blanked out." "Well Max, you remember leaps and bounds more than me, I have no clue when that happened haha." Minhs so funny.

I put my shirt on as I got out of bed, feeling around for my glasses again. As I find them I put them on, and I see I'm in Minhs room. Her walls were clad with Cloud 9 artworks and old band posters. I walk out of the room, heading towards the kitchen. Where I see Minh, cooking breakfast and pouring out two cups of coffee. "I'm sorry if this is awkward." "I just wanted to make you some breakfast since you're over," Minh says while handing me a plate of eggs, toast, and coffee. She slides over a fork, as she sits down across from me. Her eyes stared off into the distance. We have breakfast in complete silence, none of us knowing what to say. Minh stares down at her plate, not eating or making eye contact with me. "So uh, can we talk about what happened?" I held back my words slowly before saying what I wanted. "Yes, I would want that," she says.

I try to start off with small talk as a poor attempt to procrastinate the inevitable. "So I remember that after we played that game you asked if I could walk you to your house." "And I remember that there was this sitcom I liked and we were watching it." She just is saying "I think both of us were kinda absent here in the mental part." She says. I don't laugh at her remark though. "But Minh, I don't really remember but I think that I started cuddling you." "And I think that...nevermind." "I really don't remember." That was a lie, I remember everything clear as all hell. "I just know we didn't go that far because we have all of our clothes off, just our shirts."

We both look at each other sort of look at each other until our eyes focus on each other's work in unison but accidentally at the same time. I quickly look away out of shock. "Um- Im really sorry about what had happened last night and I think it would be better if we.." I pause. "Just forget about this whole ordeal." That's not what I want to say. I don't even know what I want to say, it definitely wasn't that. Minh slowly looks away with her face looking at the ground. "Oh..okay." She says very blakely without a trace of emotion. I try to lighten up the mood. "Y'know Minh, when we were playing that game I really hoped you caught my signal, I'm so glad you caught it." "Yup haha, you made it so obvious to me."

"It's been really fun hanging out with you." " I've had a lot of fun too," Minh replies. I look slightly at her dotted face. I turn away very little. She then says "What's up?" She said it in a very confused voice. I look back at her again, and she looks at me too. our eyes slowly go up until our eyes connect. I left my back up slightly and turned my head to the left a little bit as I moved closer. She follows slowly without a care. Her face is slowly getting closer. Right as it feels almost as if we were about to press the lips, I slowly move back. I slightly gasp. I realized what I had just done.

I'm such a fool. She looks at me with a blank stare, and then her eyes get smaller, as if it were the eye of a reptile. She then looks at me with her eyes almost closed, clearly being distraught or upset. At that moment, I truly couldn't tell, I was too shocked. I grabbed a bag and left without saying a word to her. I didn't even say goodbye. What am I doing?