Roommates & Soulmates

Ch122: Jordan's Pressure

Jordan woke up unassisted by his alarm clock. This was one of the many things he loved about the summer break, no classes to attend. There was a strip of sunlight shining in through the curtains. The snow was all melted and it was getting warmer by the day. May was almost over now and June was fast approaching.

Jordan heard a soft sigh to his left, and looked over to see his girlfriend still asleep. He was so used to her early classes, that waking up beside her like this still felt rare to him, even if it hadn't been for a while now. Paige looked so beautiful when she slept, her dirty blonde hair pressed against the pillow, and her face soft and free of the days troubles. Then again he'd never seen Paige really angry before, and was starting to wonder if she was capable of even being mad. Jordan knew this to be irrational. Surely, Paige had been mad before in her life. It was just that so little phrased her. Paige was the ever calm eye of the storm that helped everyone else in a crisis.

No classes and only his shifts at Timmies to occupy him, Jordan's life had come to revolve around his girlfriend lately. Simon spent most of his time when he wasn't working with Isabelle, and Clary and Jace were cat sitting for Malec. Oh no, now he was using the stupid ship name. Maybe it was okay, so long as he didn't say it aloud?

With all their roommates 'missing in action' it was almost like he and Paige lived here alone. The top drawer of his dresser had somehow become her drawer. It wasn't like they'd made a decision together to create the space for her. No, it was more like one day she'd left her pjs here, then a week or so later her toothbrush. At some point he'd started putting it all in one place so she could find it easier, and suddenly she had a draw of her things at his place. She spent so much time here it made perfect sense, and Jordan found he kinda liked it. It was so nice to be with someone who wasn't afraid to take steps forward. Jordan wasn't quite sure how it would work, since technically one too many people lived here already, but he was thinking of asking Paige if she wanted to live here next year. He'd been to her place a few times and knew how much she didn't get along with her roommates.

As Jordan gazed at his girlfriend's face, he saw her eyelids flutter in that way they do when your trying to see without revealing that you're awake. He couldn't keep a grin off his face.

"Oh what ever shall I do today if my beautiful girlfriend doesn't awake from her slumber," Jordan began grinning, but trying to speak seriously. "Maybe I will lay out all her papers in the wrong order and put a red sock in with her whites."

"You wouldn't dare!" Paige said suddenly her eyes snapping open to glare at him.

"Oh you're awake," Jordan chuckled. "Fancy that." She hit him playfully on the shoulder before kissing him good morning.

Jordan smiled as he watched her get out of bed. He almost couldn't believe he'd been with Paige for seven months now. Then again, he was feeling the pressure of the combination of those seven months, and the drawer of her things in the dresser behind him. There were certain words they had not said to each other yet, and part of him was waiting for her to drop the L bomb on him. It wasn't unreasonable to know how you felt about someone you met in October when it was going on June, but Jordan still didn't have his feelings for Paige figured out. He definitely cared about her, but something was holding him back.

"Do you have plans today?" Paige asked him.

He shrugged. "Hanging with Simon, probably," Jordan replied. "Don't work today."

"I will probably have to go home and clean up the small amount of mess my roommates seem to think I had more to do with than I actually did," Paige sighed. "I'm almost never home, and yet they find ways to blame me for the dishes in the sink." She sounded mildly annoyed about this which made Jordan chuckle.