Free (Sequel to Through The Dark) Complete

Chapter 51

The kitten is cute, but it is a meme if you click on him...😘

Harry woke up in the morning and reached over for Julie. He opened his eyes when his arms came up empty. He groaned and looked at the clock. It was still early. What was that woman doing out of bed, after the night they'd had, at 7 am? He pushed himself out of bed and into the bathroom. He turned on the shower and stepped in to wake himself up before he went and found out what she was doing. He threw on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and wandered downstairs. He smiled as he walked into the kitchen and saw her sitting on the counter swinging her legs eating out of the jar of peanut butter. "Good Morning." He said as he walked to the fridge and grabbed a water and a yogurt. "You're up awful early."

"Yeah, couldn't sleep. And I was hungry." She said holding up the spoon and then licking the peanut butter off of it.

"Well, we do have more than a jar of peanut butter for you to eat." He went and took the jar and looked at it. "Plus, you have the wrong kind, what's with the smooth? Chunky is best."

"How are we even together?" She asked stealing the jar back and wrinkling her eyebrows. She shook her head and took another spoonful. "That's total blasphemy. There should not be bits and pieces in my peanut butter. You are wrong, again."

Harry chuckled. "Well, I've been known to be wrong a lot, especially when it's you saying it, but I'm not wrong." He walked up backwards between her legs and leaned back against her. "And we're together because at least I know you will never steal my peanut butter."

"True." She rested her chin on his shoulder. "I guess that's a very good reason. I can keep my hands off your nuts." She grinned as she said it.

Harry laughed and turned his head to look at her. "Such a tease. You've been so naughty lately."

"What? The peanuts in your peanut butter. For fuck's sake." She said setting the jar of peanut butter and her spoon down. She wrapped her arm around the opposite shoulder from her chin and then her legs around his waist. "How come you have a shirt on, by the way? It's just us here. I like watching your tattoos move with your muscles."

"Yeah? Well, if that's the case, you could walk around shirtless, too. 'Cause I like to watch you move, too." He laughed as she pinched his side. He turned around so he was facing her but still wrapped in her arms and legs. He set his yogurt down. "You know, I was supposed to wake up and have you relieve the tension from my dreams. But since you weren't there, maybe I can just work it out right here on the counter." He pulled her hips so that their middles were touching. "It is the perfect height."

"You are absolutely impossible." She said shaking her head. "I'm going to have to cut you off." She said pushing him slightly away, swinging her legs around and jumping off the counter on the other side.

"You will not cut me off." He said laughing as he jumped over the counter and grabbed her pulling her to him. He leaned down and kissed her nose. "What do you want to do today? Besides me?" He laughed again as she groaned. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding, for now anyway."

"Not much. I didn't sleep well this past week. I think I just want to be lazy and stare at my handsome boyfriend. If he ever comes over." She teased.

"I'm not even going to acknowledge that, smart ass." He said as he interlocked his fingers behind her back. "We haven't really talked about it, but I've noticed you've been having dreams again. How long has that been going on?"

She sighed. "Do we really have to talk about this now?" She looked up at him. "Has it really been that bad? I mean, I know I wake up, but I didn't think it was quite as bad as it used to be."