UNSPOKEN

7

I woke up at 4 am ready to start a new day in the bakery. I sat on the bed and put my head in my hands as soon as I saw Jackson sleeping in the sofa bed in my bedroom, well, my top floor because just as I had done with the bottom floor, I'd thrown down walls and now my bedroom resembled a loft.

Jackson had slept over because right after I accepted to be his friend, this time knowing that I had agreed that we were friends and also knowing that it was all bullshit because I could feel us both shiver every time we touched, he asked me if he could sleep over. I don't want to be alone he'd said. I warned him he wouldn't be sleeping in my bed because there was no way in hell that we would keep our hands to ourselves so I set up the sofa bed.

Now that it was a new day I just hoped that this didn't turn into something common for us. I sighed and jumped into the shower. I peeked my head to check if it was safe to run out on my towel, like he hadn't seen everything before, but he was still asleep. I put on my black pants, white shirt and grabbed a sweater. I put one or a thousand hair products on and grabbed my bag. Jackson was sound asleep and I didn't have the heart to wake him up. I wrote down in a post-it that I would be in the bakery and that I would see him around, I pasted it in the sofa bed where he could see it and left.

It was close to opening time when I heard the front door open and then "Good Morning". It was Jackson. I turned around and saw him giving Alexa a side hug "Good Morning, ass" she said calling him her nickname for him. I quickly turned around to appear busy with whatever I had in my hands.

"Mar" he said going into the kitchen and I just nodded while decorating an apple pie that I was going to put out that day. "Good Morning, Jackson" I said trying to sound cool and probably failing.

"I woke up and you weren't there" he said and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I know I blushed, because I blushed at anything slightly uncomfortable, and nodded "I had to come to work" I smiled at him. "Go, grab something to eat" I said nudging him in the stomach and he smiled and went to the front to pick something for his breakfast. When I turned around Alexa was looking at me with a murderous stare.

"What?" I said as I went back to the apple pie.

"It 's happening again" she said coming closer and I shook my head "C'mon, Marion" she said giving me a half smile.

"Nothing happened. He came by last night we talked, we ALMOST kissed or something else but we didn't. I put a stop to it" I said with my hand in my hip with a sense of pride. I nodded and went on "he didn't want to be alone so he slept over on the sofa bed. Same as Mika when he sleeps over" Mika was Alexa's son.

"Why didn't you let something more happen?" she asked with a cryptic smile.

"He's engaged" I said putting the pie in the oven.

"He's here" she said still smiling.

"I don't want to give him my heart again and I know the moment I let something happen he will have my heart and I will die whenever he leaves again" I shrugged and went to change my baking apron for the black one and to change the net on my hair for a bun.

"What if he never leaves?" she asked me following me around the kitchen.

"HE will, he always does" I said and went out to the front.

"What will you be having this morning?" I asked Jackson and he chose a cinnamon bun and a coffee.

"Will you be around today?" he asked while preparing his coffee.

"I have that bridal shower. I might go out tonight with Alexa, she's got a babysitter today" I crossed my fingers.

"cool, I'll see you around then" he said and I nodded as I saw him leave. Seeing him leave was always the hard part of our friendship. He always promised between kisses that he'd be back soon. He always did, until he didn't.