I Feel Nothing

Chapter 10

Apples and Nutella

Sunday Morning.

Waking up to complete and utter silence is often blissful. It's like a perfect moment between you and you. Nobody else is involved in those first few minutes when you open your eyes and all you can hear is that little voice in your head sighing at the perfection of the moment. It's a moment when you can smile for no reason and completely forget the worries, arguments, and awkward moments of this life. All it takes for you to break this amazing moment is you sitting up as you try and prolong this perfect moment in time, but even you know that the moment you sit up. It's gone. That's just how it works.

As I sit up and feel my moment slip away the sounds of the world crawl their way into my ears. The tweeting of birds, the sound of a car horn, and our next door neighbour's loud music. Oh the bliss of Sunday mornings. You don't have to be anywhere really, and that makes Sunday special.

I got off the bed and made my way to the kitchen to find something to eat. I walked to the ever stocked fridge and grabbed a pink apple. I decided to cut it instead of biting into it., cause sometimes eating could be such a task. As I cut the apple I noticed the jar of Nutella sitting right in front of me. A sudden rush of nostalgia flowed through me.

I remember, when I was younger I really hated apples. So one day Peachy was trying to get me to eat an apple and I told her I wanted Nutella instead. After a couple of minutes of arguing her eyes brightened and she grabbed a knife and chopped the apple into 8 thin slices, then she grabbed the jar of Nutella and dipped a slice in it. As I watched her put it in her mouth I was kind of disgusted but also kind of intrigued because it was a mix of my favourite thing in the world at the time, Nutella, and my least favourite thing, Apples. At first I thought she was crazy, don't get me wrong I still think she is, then I tried it and after a while it became addictive and every time I saw Nutella I couldn't help but pair it with an apple.

I screwed the cap off the glass container that held the chocolaty goodness and dipped a slice of apple into it. Maybe a little too deep, I thought as I tried to pull it out, but each time I tried to pull it out, my fingers slipped and the slice slid back in settling into the smooth, brown, buttery spread.

I reached back into the jar and tried to pull the slice out again, and again, and again, but each time my fingers just came out covered in more chocolate than the last time. After a couple of minutes of struggling with the slice I sighed in defeat and then someone standing somewhere behind me cleared their throat. I turned around to see Xavier standing with his arms folded across his chest standing in the doorway looking at me bemusedly.

Uh-oh! If he were to find out what I'm doing he'd...actually I'm not sure what he would do.

"Damien."

"Xavier."

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"Uuuuh...at the moment, I'm talking to you?" I answered.

"Oh? Okay then."

Assuming this is the end of the conversation I turn back to the Nutella and screw the cap on, covering my sins.

"Can I have that?" Xavier says pointing at the Nutella.

"Uuh, this? No." I say too quickly.

"And why not?" He pouts slightly and crosses his arms over his chest.

"Why? Uuuuh...obv-iously because it's bad for your health. Duh." I say matter-of-factly as I quickly make my way to the fridge and shove it in.

"Aren't you the one that said everyone should pick their poison and leave each other alone?" He says smirking as he quotes me from our breakfast conversation yesterday.

I walk back to the counter and put a slice of apple in my mouth just in case he has another question for me. As I do this though, the sneaky bastard makes his way to the fridge and I turn around just in time to see him unscrewing the cap off the Nutella.

"What the hell?" Xavier says as he looks into the jar he's just unscrewed.

I look down at my toes as I pretend not to be in the room and then he starts laughing?

Huh? How is this even funny? Well...from his point of view it must be, since anything that remotely involves my suffering must be amusing to him.

"What's going on?" Xena asks joining the "party"

"Uh...nothing? Right Xavier?" I say quickly shooting daggers at the boy that was still laughing at me from across the room.

"Xena...would you like...some Nutella?" Xavier asks through breaths as he stifles his laughter to snickers and passes the jar to her.

"Uh. Sure. Is that what's so funny?" She asks as she looks into the jar."Oh." She says after she spots the apple a smile breaking out onto her face. Then she looks up at me and reaches into the jar successfully pulling the apple out and-

"Isn't she just so adorable?"Xavier asks stepping towards me blocking my view of Xena as he reaches for my cheeks with his hands which I slap away hard and fast. "And feisty" he adds scowling at me playfully as he rubs his hands.

"You should've hit him harder Damien." Xena says grinning at her brother with brown teeth. "And I think I quite like the taste of apples and Nutella."

"I need a new sister, you've corrupted this one." Xavier says playfully glaring at me while Xena sticks her tongue out at him behind his back.

Knowing he didn't see her Xena and I chuckle at this and I can't help but feel something flutter in my heart. I'm really starting to like these two.

"So Xavier what's for breakfast?" I ask honestly. Peachy went for some event last night with Avery and just stayed over at his place. I honestly don't get how those two aren't married yet.

"Well I'm too lazy to cook and I'm pretty sure neither of you will do it, and apples and Nutella is not a meal-"

"Is to." I mumble.

"-so let's go out and have ice-cream for breakfast."

"Why not?" Xena asks smiling.

"Ice-cream? Sounds like a plan" I say a little too eagerly earning me chuckles from the twins.

"What? I LOVE ICE-CREAM!" I exclaim a bit loudly.

"We know." They say in unison.

"Stop that twin thing." I say.

"What twin thing?" They do it again.

"Oh forget it." I say walking away from them.

"Still got it." Xavier says.

"You know it." Xena responds and they high five.