It's Always Been Us

Chapter 7 Smooth Criminal

I woke up the next morning with the scent of blue berries filling my nose, I see that my face is resting in Samson's shirt. I tilt my head up a little bit in look at his face, he's still asleep. I scan over his face, it was relaxed and almost child-like.

I lean up and kiss his nose before getting out of my bed and stretching. I was wearing nothing but a long black shirt so I pull on some pants and a short white t-shirt. I walk over to my window and open it, letting the fresh air settle in the room. Samson stirs in his sleep and turns over on his side facing me, he squints his eyes," Malic what are you doing? It's too early..."

I shake my head with a chuckle," No it's not! Now get up." I walk over to him and jump on his, straddling his waist over the blanket. I hear him let out an 'umph' as I do so, "Malic, whats wrong with you?" I shrug my shoulders, "I don't know. Do you?"

He smirks, "No, I guess I don't. But that doesn't matter..." I nod my head, we haven't messed around and hung out like this for a long time. I tug at the bottom of my shirt nervously and get off of him, I sit crossed legged on the bed next to him.

"You okay? Why you getting all frowny now?" he sits up letting the sheets fall off him. I rest my hands in my lap and twiddle my fingers. I look up from my hands to him, "What are you going to do about Nifa?... I mean what are you going to say to her?"

Samson's frown turns into a smirk and he crawls over to me, placing his face close to mine, "I don't think I have to do anything. But, you can if you want to, I mean your really hot when your angry..." I hit his shoulder, "Stop that, I'm being serious!"

Samson leans in and kisses me on the forehead before getting out of bed and stretching. I stand up off the bed and walk past him, I put on my boots and bring my hair into a ponytail. "You should put your hair up more often..." I turn to Samson with an eyebrow raised, "And why is that?"

He comes closer to me and runs his hand through my ponytail, "Because I get to see all of your face." I laugh, "your silly..." A flash of memory goes through my mind and I shrug away from Samson and laugh nervously, "Well then..."

He cocks and eyebrow up at me, "Uh... okay. Well lets go eat breakfast." I nod my head and follow behind him as we leave my room. The memory of out childhood wedding kept replaying in my mind all the way to the mess hall. We get our food and take a seat.

"Want to go and visit your dad later?" I ask. Samson looks down at his food, "Not really, I can't bare to see him in that state." I shake my head, "You heard what your mom said, the more we talk to him then the more likely he is to wake up."

Samson sighs and nods finally, we continue to eat and Jean comes over to join us. "Hey horse face!" Samson greets. Jean glares at him and I laugh, "Hey beautiful hows it going?" I shrug my shoulders and say, " Its going alright..." I finish my last bite and look back up at Jean, "When is Marco coming home?" Marco is Jean's boyfriend, he's like an older brother to me. I remember one time I was climbing the cherry blossom tree and Marco decided to tag along.

"Be careful up there!" Marco worried. I rolled my eyes at him, I grabbed onto a branch that looked pretty dead but of course paid no attention to that fact, it broke and I fell on Marco. That day I sprained my wrist and tore up my knee. Marco helped me up and carried me to Hanji's office where she took care of me. "I told you to be careful. You never listen to me, what type of a brother would I be if I let you get hurt all the time?" I laughed, " A smart one."

For the past nine months, Marco has been away on business with some other under cover soldiers trying to find about a forming Mafia in the interior walls. I really missed him, he was one of the very few people I could talk to around here.