This = Love

Chapter 21

I woke up still in Danny's embrace, he was still sleeping but his arms fell around my body and I had no desire to move from this haven I had found.
I lay peacefully in his arms, the only place I felt I belonged.

It was really late when we got back last night and we didn't talk about anything that happened after the gig, not because we were avoiding it, I just wanted to enjoy being with Danny.

I fly home today for Christmas and I won't see Danny for a week. A week is nothing when you consider how long we spent apart at the start of our relationship but it seems like an eternity to be apart now, God only knows how I'll cope with him being on tour?

As I lay thinking about the day ahead, I knew we had nothing that we needed to do because we always keep my last day clear as much as possible but I thought we should probably go and see Rina and Mark today, they were great last night but they left before I had a chance to thank them. We should probably drop off their Christmas presents anyway because Danny is flying to Dublin in the morning so he probably won't get a chance after I leave.

I felt Danny beginning to stir, as he moved slightly in the bed I felt his arm pulling me closer to him as his grip tightened. I buried my head and lightly kissed his chest as his thumb gently stroked my back.

After a few minutes, Danny spoke in his husky morning voice "Morning beautiful". Knowing that he was now awake I lifted my head to look at him. "Morning handsome" I replied as I gazed into his beautiful eyes. A smile spread across my face and to be honest, I have no idea why.

"What are you thinking?" Danny asked me cautiously. At that precise moment I didn't have clear thoughts, I was staring in awe at my man wondering how I got to be so lucky.

"I love you" I replied simply.

"Good" Danny said as he kissed me before finishing his sentence "because I really love you".

We lay together for a while with very little conversation, but that suited me, today I just wanted to cuddle and I can only assume Danny felt the same way as he was making no attempt to leave the bed.

"Are we doing anything today or should we just stay like this forever?" Danny asked.

"I'd love to stay like this forever" I said as I snuggled closer to Danny.

"Me too" he said as he kissed my head and stroked stray hairs from my face. "I sense a but?" he questioned.

"There's always a but Danny." I said, he laughed.

"You've got to go home today" he said rolling his eyes.

"And you're going home tomorrow." I answered quickly in an attempt to prove that I'm not the only one stopping this embrace lasting forever.

"Ok, it can't be forever, but let's stay in bed a while?" he reasoned.

"Definitely" I said as I kissed him.

"Stay right there then, I'm going to make you breakfast in bed" he said as he went to get up.

"No don't leave me" I whined in a childlike manner while holding his wrist and trying to pull him back into bed.

Danny giggled at me as he knelt on the edge of the bed and leaned down to kiss me. "I'll be quick" he said before wriggling from my weak grip and bolting out of the door.

I don't think I moved the whole time he was gone, he eventually returned to the bedroom carrying a tray with our breakfasts on.

He climbed back into bed before we started to eat. Conversation flowed freely between us but Danny obviously didn't feel comfortable as he eventually asked "When are you going to ask about last night?" it must have been playing on his mind.

"What do you mean?" I asked him.

"Kay, believe me, I really don't want to kill the mood this morning but you haven't asked me anything about last night and I don't know why but that makes me feel uncomfortable."

"Danny you told me everything I needed to know last night" I told him honestly.

"But we didn't talk about it last night?" Danny seemed confused.

"Danny you came to me straight after you spoke to Anne and I believe the words you used were 'I fucking really fucking love you'" Danny smiled, probably remembering what that line lead to. "I don't need to know everything that she said or you said, but if you want to talk about it then I'll listen."

We lay back down in bed, this time we each stayed on our own side as we faced each other looking deep into each other's eyes and Danny started to talk.