The Unlikely Friendship

The Wanderer and Sleeping Beauty

I was in a deep and peaceful sleep when I feel soft warm blowing starts on the skin behind my ears.

"Andrea!" My name is whispered into the air around me. Did I leave the window open?

I snuggle deeper into my blankets and push the annoying voice out of my head. The soft blowing continues on, tickling the skin behind my ears and starts traveling down my neck to my shoulder. I let out a soft sigh and mumble incoherently.

"Wake up sleeping beauty,"

I didn't move. I heard a sigh and another gust of wind follows. "Andrea wakey wakey!"

Then I feel a wet tongue lick a stripe from behind my ear down my neck. My eyes slam open wide and I try to wiggle away from the said tongue, meeting the cold hardwood floor.

"Ow, what the hell?" I look up to see Ben laying in my bed with a smug smile on his face.

"Well good morning to you too! Did you sleep well?"

"I repeat what the hell?" I grab my phone off the nightstand to look at the time. "Ben it is four o'clock in the morning!"

"Is it? Oh, would you look at that! Get up! We got things to do and places to be!"

"Huh?"

"Up up up! We are losing daylight!"

"Daylight! The sun hasn't even risen yet!"

"Shhhh! You don't want to wake up your parents! That would be rude! It's the weekend, let them sleep."

"Let them sleep! That's what I want to be doing! What do you mean coming in here and " Ben slams his hand over my mouth, effectively shutting me up.

I glare at the hand and then glare at the pair of smiling eyes and cocky grin. Who does he think he is coming into my room and waking me up! Ben cocks his eyebrow at me in a challenging manner. So, I just continue to glare at him and then lightly bite his hand.

"Ow! Now that's just rude!" Ben practically is yelling at me now so I slam my hand over his mouth.

"Tsk, tsk. You don't want to wake my parents up now do you? I thought you wanted to let them sleep!"

Ben glares at me in return and licks my hand. "Ew! That is gross! What is with you and licking people?"

Ben simply shrugs at me and sits down on my bed making himself comfortable. Rolling my eyes at him and shove him over on my bed making room for myself.

"Ah ah ah! Come on get dressed! We are wasting precious time! Chop chop! It's nearly four thirty now!"

"Ugh! Where are we going? Especially at this time of night, morning, whatever you want to call it."

"Leave that to me! Just get dressed, comfortably." Ben shoves me off my bed in the direction of my closet. I trip over a book that was on my floor, almost face planting into the door. Looking over my shoulder I glare at him as I continue making my way to the closet.

I open the closet door and pull out a pair of leggings, a white tank top, and plaid button down. I look at Ben who averts his eyes to stare at the ceiling while whistling the tune of the donkey serenade. He is so lucky I didn't sleep naked! I quickly take off my sleep shorts and giant t-shirt and change into the outfit I picked out. Pulling on a pair of socks I slip on my sneakers and turn to face Ben, my hands on my hips.

"Is this appropriate for whatever scheme you have no doubt am dragging me into?"

He runs his eye over my outfit and nods getting up from my bed heading out my bedroom door. I scramble after him, trying to be quiet and avoid tripping over random objects in the dark hallways or my own two feet. Ben is waiting for me at the front door holding it open for me. I can tell he is trying to suppress his laughter.