Before They Give Up

I Hope

I woke up to the scenr of food. I got out of bed and started walking out of the room. When did I get in the bed? I continued to walk to the kitchen to find Derek at the stove cooking.
"You cook?"
"OH! You're awake! Cool, can you do me a favor and get the butter out of the fridge?"
I start for the fridge to grab the butter when he continues to speak.
"Yes I can cook, it impressed you back then too hahaha. Oh I hope you don't mind but last night you fell asleep on the couch so I put you in your bed."
So that's how I got into the bed.
"I don't mind, that was very kind you considering that you didn't have to." I answered him back.
"Oh it was no problem, you're not very heavy."
"I'm not?"
"No, you maybe tall but you're not heavy."
"how tall are we?"
"I myself am 5'11", you my lady are 5'6" tall and you weigh 145 pounds."
"wow, I am light."
"hahaha not when it's dead weight. You feel more like 200 pounds"
"oh hahaha well then never mind."
"it's okay I don't mind, it's not like that was the first time."
"how many times was that?"
"I lost count after 10 haha"
"oh.." I looked down at my feet. "I'm sorry..."
"Lily it's okay, I don't mind."
"Yeah but I do.." I kind of whispered.
I sat down at the table and watched as Derek flipped a pancake and checked something else on the stove. Do I really eat this much food? It looks like he's cooking for an army. I sit there just watching him until he speaks up.
"The food is almost done can you get some plates and silver wear out of the dishwasher please?"
I get up and head into the kitchen.
"I'm sorry I eat so much." I stated.
"Lily you don't have to be sorry, I eat almost the same amount you do. That's why I make so much. Not to mention you like to eat leftovers for lunch and sometimes in the middle of the night so I make more than needed on purpose."
I mouthed 'oh' because I had no idea.
"I'm sorry I don't remember much. I just...I feel horrible fo-"
"for not remembering everything right away? Yeah I know, you kept saying it last night in your sleep." he finished my sentence.
"I just, I don't know. I feel like I should remember more than this. But I don't. It makes me sad because all of you guys remember all these fantastic things and memories and I have no clue that this stuff happened. These are the memories that we had and I don't remember anything and you guys keep telling me all this stuff and Derek this smells amazing." He set a plate full of food in front of me. "I just feel like I'm not trying even though I am. I really am and I know it's only been a couple of days but I feel like my family is losing hope and that they're giving up." I looked down at my food and I smiled. "did you seriously do this to my plate?" I giggled.
"well you seemed down so I decided that I could do that and make you laugh because it's inevitable for you to smile when you laugh." he informed me.
"so you put berries in my pancake to make a face, bacon for a smile scrambled eggs for a nose and you made ears with potatoes? Haha" I asked.
"yes. Yes I did." he nodded proudly while smiling.
I smiled down at my plate, "thank you"
"for?"
"making a face with my food to make me laugh and smile and brighten my mood"
"oh, no problem. I enjoyed doing it."
I put a piece of pancake in my mouth after drizzling strawberry syrup all over my plate.
"Derek? What time is it?"
"10:30 am"
"oh...okay." I smiled.

*after breakfast about 45 minutes later*

We were sitting on the couch, I was resting my head on his shoulder and he rested his head on my head.

"Hey Derek?"
"Yes Lily?"
"I love you"
"I love you too" I heard the smile on his face through his voice. We sat there for a good amount of time until I stood up and went into the room I walked out of this morning. I looked in the closet to find shirts hanging. I looked for my clothes and I found my shirts on the other side of the closet. I searched through my side of the closet and found a black long sleeve pull over shirt. I took off my tank top from the previous day to put on my shirt, I still had my bra on. I then searched for my pants to find them in the bottom right drawer in the dresser. I pulled out a pair of black pants. I switched my jeans and threw my hair up in a ponytail. I walked back into the living room to find Derek gone. I got scared so I went back into the room, went into the closet, closed the closet doors, and sat in the dark on the floor.
"LILY!? LILLY!?" I heard Derek call my name but I was scared to make a noise so I sat there and didn't move. The closet doors suddenly opened and Derek was standing there wearing a relieved facial expression.
"You had me worried. I went to check the mail and then I walk in here and you were gone and I checked all the rooms and you weren't in there and then I started to panic because I couldn't find you"
As he was talking I stood up and I wrapped my arms around his stomach. He hugged me back.
"The point is you scared me because I couldn't find you."
I grabbed his face and smushed it with my hands.
"it's okay, I'm still here. I didn't know where you went and I got scared so I hid, but it's okay but here you are and here I am." I then kissed his forehead and hugged him again. He then hugged me back and squeezed a little bit while breathing on my neck. We stood there for what felt like forever only to out it was only 3 minutes.
"I could hug you forever." I whispered before we let go.
"and I could hug yoou forever." he said back.
I kissed his cheek and walked away into the living room. He followed behind me. He sat down on the couch and I sat down next to him but I was leaning on a pillow staring at my phone with my legs across his legs.
"I want a burrito." I blurted.
"well that was random." he laughed.
"I know but I REALLY want a burrito."
"well we can go get burritos for dinner if you want" he offered.
"that sounds AMAZING!!" I Said.
"alright I guess we're having burritos for dinner." he said with a teeth filled smile.
I hope this lasts, itd be devastating if it didn't....