A Slave to Love

Chapter 14: Drama

"Damn you," I groaned as Landon slapped his alarm before settling back down with me in his bed.

"Sorry," he yawned, squeezing me tight. "But I've got practice."

I gripped his shirt as tightly as I could with my fingers, which considering I was still half-asleep, wasn't very tight at all. "No, I'm comfortable."

"Go cuddle with Mick then. Noah and I've got practice and we have to go," Landon said, pulling away from my feeble grasp.

I grunted, curling under his warm covers as I heard Noah and Landon bustling around the room getting clothes and stuff, which was kind of obnoxious because all I wanted was silence so I could go back to sleep already.

"See you later Kiana," Noah whispered after they finished getting ready.

"Mmmhmm," I hummed, cuddling into Landon's pillow.

Landon chuckled before I felt him kiss my forehead. "Later, Kiana," he said softly before I heard the door click shut and it was finally peaceful.

Mick continued to snore steadily and unfortunately, now that I had been woken up, I couldn't get back to sleep. I hated it. I was totally exhausted and Landon's bed was so warm and comfortable and it was still so early...but now I was wide awake.

I sighed and sat up, rubbing my eyes as I padded barefoot into their bathroom. I washed my face first and saw my messy haystack like hair. I tried to tame it with my fingers, but when I found I couldn't I yanked my hair into a bun and called it a day. It would simply have to wait until I got back to my room and found a hairbrush. Or the motivation to care.

There was not much for me to do, sitting around their room while Mick continued to taunt me by sleeping on while I was awake, and I wasn't rude enough to wake him up to entertain me. So I slipped out of the room as quietly as I could, creeping through the near empty halls, stress over possibly running into boy toy on my way out propelling me quickly through the dorm. There were only a few very groggy looking guys in shorts and t-shirts though, no doubt also on their way to practice.

I ran outside in the fresh, beautiful morning and went straight for my dorm, hoping no one would catch me sneaking back in, but the girls dorm was almost utterly empty and quiet. I crept into my room, peering in to see Katie and Jill's still and sleeping forms. Nothing amiss here at least.

I exhaled quietly in relief before I snuck inside to grab some fresh clothes for the day and get myself presentable before heading outside once more before I woke up Katie and Jill. 

As I walked out of the dorm at a quarter to seven, I checked my voicemail and texts. Mostly from Katie and Nate last night, saying much the same thing; where are you? Are you okay? Did you hear about Brian? Call me back soon. We're really worried are you okay? And there was even one saying 'Landon told us you're with him and that you're okay so we'll see you tomorrow at breakfast.'

I didn't bother to answer anything since like Katie had said, I'd see them at breakfast, and she was fast asleep anyway. For now though, I was left with quite a pickle. I had nothing to do for the next two hours since school officially started at 9 o'clock and it wasn't even seven yet and everyone else was asleep but me.

I decided I'd go watch Landon practice and strolled to the gym area of campus, enjoying the quiet of the beautiful campus while everyone else slept on. Something about the morning with the birds chirping and the sun shining made it pretty instead of creepy. It was so relaxing, it was almost tempting to make getting up early a regular thing, but I knew I'd never actually willingly get up this early again.

Since it was nice out they were practicing on the soccer fields outside instead of the indoor gymnasium and I headed up to the bleachers to sit and watch. There were a few other kids here, either texting, chatting on the phone, chatting with their friends or actually watching the practice, but there wasn't many of them. I couldn't imagine anyone would want to get up early just to watch some dudes running after a soccer ball. I took a spot on the bleachers right in the center of it so I could see the entire field clearly without having to keep craning my neck.