Perfect

Chapter Fifty

-AVA-

  My alarm beeped. Repetitively. And annoyingly.

  And Alex groaning, sounding his annoyance at the awful sound just added to the noise.

  "Please take it off," He whines, shoving his face deep into his pillow, almost as if he tried to muffle out the sound. "It's too early in the morning to deal with any of this."

  "I have to get up, Alex," I much agreed with his statement, but the law states I have to send my child to school, so I definitely have to get up. "But you can stay here if you want and sleep for a bit?" I sat up, stretching my arms out and using one hand to cover my mouth as I yawned as elegantly as I could, which wasn't that elegant in all honesty. "And I need a shower." I look down at the clothes I spent the entirety of yesterday in, and the same ones I ended up falling asleep in at 6 in the morning after our frankly amazing make out session.

  "Hmm, I think I can wake up if you let me join you?" He teases with a very tired smile across his face as he looks at me with one eye open from his pillow.

  "In your dreams, Darkbloom," I tell him.

  "Damn it, you look so beautiful in the mornings."

  "I hardly doubt it, you have to say that because I'm your girlfriend," I look down at him. "You're stuck with this now."

  "I mean it," He doesn't even bother joking. He kept on being serious - all with that same Alex Darkbloom dazzling smile. "You're the most beautiful woman in the world, even in the mornings."

  "Well, I kinda have to take your word for it," It is the perfect opportunity. "I mean, you've seen a lot of women in the mornings."

  "Heeeyy!" He calls after me after I reach down and plant a kiss on his cheek before swinging my legs down onto the floor beneath, and swanning off into the bathroom. "That was below the belt!"

  "You only brought it on yourself!" I call back, a giggle in accompany with my comment.

  "Meanie!" I laugh once more, before I lean down onto my sink and look at myself in the mirror which was stationed above it. I finally got to see how truly awful I looked this glorious morning. It was the first time Alex had stayed over, the first time he saw me in my morning state, and he said I looked beautiful whilst I looked like this?! Hair like a birds nest and make up smeared in every direction?

  The boy's a keeper, for sure.

  Which terrified me even more. The night before with the promise, and me falling even harder for him with every single thing he ends up doing? I still had no clue about it all. 

***

-ALEX-

  I dropped back down onto my back, staring up to the ceiling above me. The first thing I thought was that the bed was super comfy, even still in my day clothes.

  And then I realised that it wasn't actually the bed that made me indulge in one of the best night's sleep ever. It was that I held Ava the entire night (well... More like 1 hour and a half since we fell asleep at 6AM, but whatever).

  I want every night to be like this. That was it. This was everything I ever dreamed of having, the 'normal' things I want all resided in Ava (cue the sick buckets, I know).

  I was so deep into my own daydream that I didn't realise the presence of a certain little lady by the side of the bed, clutching onto her teddy lion. It was only when she called my name, then I snapped back into reality and turned my face to look at her.