Can't Sleep... Love? (Mavi)

Morning Twenty-Four

"Mitch? Mitchy?"

I am still half-asleep and in dreamland when Avi's soft voice wakes me up and I automatically cuddle up closer to him. "Five more minutes" I mumble.

He chuckles softly and I feel his whole body vibrate a little bit. That wakes me up fully, I open my eyes and look at him with a smile on my face.

"What about your five minutes?" Avi grins at me, widely and I can't help but be entirely happy in that very moment.

"Not when you're there, Avi, not today" I whisper and drape my body over his, snuggle up to his chest. "Hold me, Avi, never let me go!"

He directly puts his arms around me and softly squeezes against himself. "I have to, eventually, after all we're going home later on. But until we really need to get up you're my guest, love."

I whimper softly. "And what if we're back home?"

Avi takes a deep breath, I can feel his chest rise and fall. "We're going to try this out, try us out, if you still want to. I really want to spend as much time as possible with you during our time off."

I look up at him again, directly into his eyes. They show honesty, he really means it, wants it. "I want it, too, Avi. We really should take a lot of time for us" I agree. I really need to know if this could be something and to be honest, I want it to be something. Of course I do.

"That's good. We'll see about the rest when we're back home, I'd say. Just take some time to get settled in and then we can go out on dates, stay at each other's houses and do everything that couples would usually do, okay? And if we're sure, we are going to get official" he says slowly, overthinking each and every word.

"God that sounds so easy" I exclaim.

"It is" he remarks. "It's going to be just fine, don't worry." He leans down to kiss me but I'm second guessing this and turn my head away so his lips land on my cheek.

"Sorry, Avi, I can't. Not until I'm sure" I say, not looking at him.

He sighs. "I guess I deserved that."

I search his gaze and look into his eyes for a moment and see that he's sad. Instantly I feel guilty. "I didn't want to hurt you, Avi" I apologise once again.

But Avi only shakes his head. "It's not that, Mitch" he returns. "'I must have broken your trust so bad, so I am the one to be sorry. But instead of apologising on and on I am going to promise to you that I will do my best to gain your trust back, okay?"

I simply nod, because I am sure that he'll fulfil this promise. Then I cuddle up against him, everything is said and I just want to enjoy his proximity for a while until we really have to get up.

With one last hug we part and I hurry over to mine and Scott's room.

Scott is already awake and almost finished with packing up his things, currently stuffing the last pair of jeans into his suitcase.

"Morning, Loverboy" he greets me with a knowing smile.

I sit down on my bed abruptly with a loud sigh.

Only seconds later he's sitting next to me eyeing me up and down. "Was me talking to him wrong? I didn't plan to do it but he approached me..."

I shake my head. "No, it was good, thank you for that" I return. "We talked last night and slept next to each other. Then we talked some more, earlier this morning and we're trying it!"

Scott smiles brightly. "But that's good news!"

"Yeah, that is, however, the part where I'm not trusting him enough for a simple kiss isn't, right?" I look at Scott again, but he just shakes his head.

"It's natural, Mitch. Not the ideal situation for the two of you but you can work on it" he encourages me before stopping. "Wait, you are going to work on it, right?"

I nod. "Of course. We're going to take our time off and try this out. We'll go on dates, stay overnight at each other's houses, just everything to see if we're a match. And if we are, we're making things official!"

Scott puts his arms around me. "That's good news! And somehow I know, that you're on the right track. Maybe stepping down was the right thing to do to think things through?"

I chuckle softly. "You and your 'listen to your brain and not to what the heart says' - stuff."

He grins. "Sometimes that's the best thing to do, although it's hard, you know?"

I nod. "Yeah... anyway, let go of me, I'm on a tight schedule, I need to prepare for way too many hours on the road and in the air. God, Jetlag is going to kill me for real this time!"

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A/N: So... more issues to work on for our boys;)

Updates will be coming a little bit slower, because a: university is starting again on Monday and b: there's still my Gutch story Five Days. Chapter one is already up, chapter two will come tomorrow ;)