Oxygen

Chapter 20: Stay.

...We stayed like that for a while, watching the stars and thinking about life until we heard a voice.

-What the fuck are you kids doing here?!

It was the forests man. We quickly grabbed the rest of our clothes and ran to Oliver's car. 

 Once we were in it, the both of us started laughing our asses off. The level of hysteria in the air was immense.

***

 Leo turned on the engine and started driving to the city.

-I don't wanna go home. Can you please drop me at some motel?

-You can stay at my place.

-Really? That would be great.

 He smiled and drove us to his house.

***

 It was a small apartment on the other part of the city. The design was modern and minimalistic, but I liked it. It had nothing in excess. Everything was in a perfect harmony.

 He put his keys on the glass counter on the left part of the corridor. There was a small oval mirror above it.

 On their left was the wooden door. I walked in the living room, which made me do five steps forward. It was cute and simple room. The walls were white and the floor was covered with brown wood. In the middle of the room there were two coffee-colored couches, placed parallel to each other. Between them was a low glass coffee table. Under it was placed a fluffy white carpet. As I walked in, on the right wall were three pictures of New York, and on the left wall was a plasma TV.

 In my front were some stairs which went to the second floor. I turned left twice and entered a coffee kitchen. There were some counters on the wall on my front, nothing special. I turned around at 190 degrees and there was a door that went to the toilet room, in which were present only a toilet, a sink, a mirror and a counter with some self-care products and the first aid kit.

-Are you hungry?

-A bit.

-I'll order some food.

-I want to cook by myself.

-Too bad. I only have a few eggs and spoiled milk in the fridge.

-I can't walk to the grocery store, I'm sore. I barely walked.

-Then give me a list of what to buy and I'll go by myself.

-Okay.

 I wrote a list of groceries:

1 pack of noodles

2 eggs

1 green onion

Nori (dry seaweed)

Chinese 4 spices sesame seeds

Soy sause

Ginger

100 g spinach

 I gave him the paper and walked upstairs. There was a small corridor with some fence around one of it's parts, so you won't fall in the living room. I turned left. On my right was a dark black glass door.

 I heard the front door close, which meant that Oliver left. I turned the doorknob and entered Leo's room.

 It was a dark room. The walls were gray, and there was a white carpet glued on the floor's area. The classic red curtains were closed. I went ahead and opened them. The light of the night Boston's streets lit the room. I turned around and saw the opened door parallel to me. On the wall from my right, in the middle of it, was a black bed. It had two bed stands on its parts. They were white, and had some vintage red lamps on them. I turned left and in front of me was a wardrobe. I went ahead and opened it to choose some of Oliver's clothes to put on. When I chose a oversized white t-shirt and some gray Kelvin Klein boxers, I went right to an arch, which went to the bathroom.

 I took off my dirty from soil clothes and entered the shower to feel the hot water run through my body.

***

 I put a towel around my head and headed to the kitchen to put the water in the pot to boil. After 10 minutes, I heard the front door close. Oliver was home. I went to the corridor and took the paper bags from his hands.

-No meat huh?

-I'm vegetarian. I don't eat meat.

-Woah, wait a minute. Why don't I know about it?

-You never asked.

 I went to the kitchen to cook some Ramen (Japanese soup).

-Why then you told me to buy eggs?

-Because I'm vegetarian, not vegan. Vegan's don't eat anything that comes from the animal. For example milk, eggs, honey. Some don't use products tested on animals. On the other hand, there are many vegetarian diets. For example: Some don't eat meat at all, some can eat white meat (poultry and fish), some eat dairy some don't, some eat eggs and some don't. I don't eat any type of meat, but I eat dairy and eggs.

-It's so confusing.

-It's not. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't eat meat as well. If you'll want to, you will. But if I'm going to demand you to stop eating meat, you won't have motivation, and in one day, you'll just go and eat a hamburger.

-That makes sense.

 I smiled and pecked his lips. Leo went to the living room to watch some football while I was still cooking.

***

 Here I am. Laying on my boyfriend's bed. In the middle of the night. My mom, not knowing where I am. A couple of hours ago. I lost my virginity. And I feel great. 

 I glanced one more time at Oliver's wonderful face features, and cuddled up with the asleep body. In a few minutes I could feel my body slowly relaxing, while my mind was far away from where we were...