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chapter ten

Joshua.
When I rolled over the next morning, my hand struck a hard,unfriendly floor. Shocked awake,I sprang to a sitting position, rubbed my eyes then blinked few times.
Starring at the wall clock I decided to just wake up,it was time to go anyway.

Sleeping on the floor had turn my muscles so weary and aching all over. I gazed at the bed Pepper left. Unmade as usual,it was calling out to me and I longed to climb beneath the cool,inviting sheets.

I had worked as a helping cook back in highschool and I had been a chef during college, but I had never cooked for such a crowd of workers. It would take me at least ten days to cope up with the speed and the amount of work. Meanwhile I sacrificed my sleep in order to listen to the tapes and label them,and the few hours I got on my bed of nails weren't much better than sleep at all

With a groan, I got up,crawled to the bathroom and turned on the shower. Ten minutes later,with water streaming on my body, I felt human again.

I rubbed my towel through my hair and body to dry. I then returned to the bathroom to dress. As I shoved dirty clothes into laundry basket, I surveyed the mess Pepper had left behind. Pajamas dangled from the bathroom doorknob while a t shirt hung from the half opened drawer. There was a bra on the pillow. The location of her cloths was everywhere, endless and unimaginative. Everywhere except the pile i made in the closet.

Unwillingly, I began gathering her scatted cloths. And each cloth emanated a fragrance he'd come to associate with.

I usually dumped her cloths outside the closet door but this time for some reason I didn't understand I sorted them and this gesture stirred anger from the inside.

I was becoming her housemaid now. Well and a regular nag too. I knew I annoyed her but for some reason I wanted to stop but I didn't know how to.

When I finished that thankless task, I locked up and headed for work. What was it with pepper? I asked myself as I walked. Somehow I always ended up fleeting about her. Like the night before,when she had stayed in Davids bathroom for long. Of course I had originally gone there because I had feared she'd come across the recorder i had planted, but when I saw her I had seen her weariness and had realized she had been visibly tense all night.

Somehow I felt like I was part of her tension. I often felt like I was exploring her,and the feeling didn't sit well on me. She wasn't such a bad partner,not at all,and lately I found that I almost liked having her around.
Okay I better admit. I liked having her around. Despite her flippant mouth and resistance plus the temper, Pepper was okay.

When I drew closer to the house,I grew uncomfortably aware that I enjoyed her complaining. And when we argued I felt like we were an old married couple.

Grip it man. Its only a make-believe marriage.

Yeah, i grumbled to himself,if it was real I would be sleeping next to her and not on the hard floor.

With that thought I was determined to keep Pepper out of my mind for the rest of the day.

A/n  I know the chapter is short but there's a (ii) of ten.
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