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Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ #23: Let's Not, and Say We Did

~ Chapter #23 : Let's Not, and Say We Did ~

It felt as if he were only dead to the world for an hour, when consciousness had loomed another time over Aleks' once heavy and limp body. He'd stirred a tad while he was still entranced with his pleasant snoozing, when he distantly felt something tangled around his torso, and a dull excess warmth encircling around him without the assistance of the covers that had already draped his scrawny body. His blunted mind's mundane state was soon abruptly altered, as a result of his body beginning to wake up. It wasn't long before the brunette's ashy-amber orbs blinked themselves open unhurriedly, and the newly alerted state of mind slowly faded as he became more aware of the surrounding world around him, with its realities.

With his eyes open - more or less - and his body stirring a tad in an attempt to stretch, Aleks felt his clothed back graze something behind him. Curious as to what his shoulder blades just brushed over, he stopped in his movements and cautiously proceeded to turn, while still embraced in - what he soon realized was by taking a glance downwards - protective upper body limbs. He shifted in his position again, careful as to not make too much noise nor movements, and was soon enabled the ability to gaze at what was holding him and what he touched on accident.

As soon as he turned, he was met with an unanticipated yet satisfying surprise. Eddie, with the most serene facial expression Aleks had witnessed in quite a while, was laying right beside him now, whilst the Latino slept. A diminutive smile graced the other's lips, and his glasses-less eyes were sheathed; his abundance of dark eye lashes appearing perfectly arranged and organised as they rested so leisurely. His usually perfectly combed obsidian-coloured hair was now a little scruffy and unmanaged, but, damn, Aleks surely didn't mind.

He looked so heavenly. So lovely, with no effort having to be put into his appearance whatsoever. Aleks envied that.

The brunette caught himself staring for a good couple of minutes before he finally had a handle on his own actions. He blinked, allowing himself to see how much time he'd wasted - positively, he would plea. Aleks let himself become pretty lenient in that moment, as he allowed his eyes to further observe the teen in front of him; whose arms were sustaining their embrace on him even in sleep. The porcelain-skinned teen dragged his gaze along Eddie's facial features awefully; his ashy-amber orbs glimmering as they did so. The Russian soon realized many things in that second when he had a glimpse at the Latino's peaceful smile; he didn't want to leave. He didn't want to wake Eddie up, to intrude on his slumber. He didn't want to stop staring at the other's face. He didn't want to move, to ever exit the warm and comforting hug that's surrounding him now. He couldn't do any of those things.

But he has to.School's today.

Grudgingly, the awake teen felt a positive parabola impend on his once gleefully smiling lips as his left hand lifted itself beneath the covers coating his body, and moved to emerge from the somewhat thick comforter. He watched as his pale limb rose from the dark chasm beneath the blanket and as it allowed his hand to trail his fingers across Eddie's bare right forearm. Aleks continually brushed his slender finger tips against the arm he chose to torture, before proceeding to grasp the thin limb with his feeble grip. He hesitated before chewing on his bottom lip. Lamentably, his brain commanded his future reluctant actions faster than his mind could veto the sent instructions, and so his hand proceeded to shake the forearm within his hold, in a frail attempt to wake the Latino in front of him up. Aleks bit his inner right cheek when his plan worked to no avail.