The Adventures of Macy and Travis

He didn't just.

"Do you wanna be late on your first day?" Travis asked as he took my cover off of me.

                "Trav, give it back." I whined.

        "No, you need to get up. I ran you bath water cause you aren't even gonna have time if you don't- Get up!" He shouted the last part.

                I shook my head burying it deep into the covers.

        "If you don't get up, I am going to pick you up and place you into the bath tub." I didn't move. Five seconds later I was being picked up over Travis's shoulder and walked into the bathroom.

                "Okay, Trav. You can put me down." I yawned. He sat me down and ruffled my hair.

        "We're leaving in thirty minutes." He said as he kissed my cheek and left me alone.

                Not a morning person, I huffed and puffed as I stripped from my clothes. Then huffed and puffed some more as I stuck my naked body into the scolding hot water. "Are you kidding me?" I mumbled to myself. I took a quick bath and brushed my teeth, adding some mousse to my mop of curls. I walked out in my towel because apparently on Travis's little get me to the bathroom trip he didn't grab me any clothes.

                I knocked on my own bedroom door. "Heads up, I'm in my towel and you are going to have to do something so you don't see me naked. I think we both remember how they turned out last time when you only seen a bit of me." I opened the door and Travis was looking up from his magazine, with red cheeks.

            I motioned for him to do something while I changed. I slipped on my underwear and my khakis. "What kinda t-shirt should I wear?" I asked Travis, I looked at him through the mirror. He never looked up from his magazine.

                "Just a regular one I guess." He said.

        "Thanks." I sarcastically replied.

                I put on one of my 'regular' t-shirts and slipped on my converse.

        "I'm ready." I said.

                "Okay, let's go." He got up off the bed and grabbed my hand. He looked down at me and something inside me snapped.

        "Trav?" I asked quietly.

                "Yes, dear?" He brushed my hair off of my face and held my cheek.

        I should just kiss him, I thought, but I didn't. I recovered and simply said, "We need to go." His face dropped slightly as did mine.

                The 20 minute ride was a silent one. He would grab my hand at random times as a sign he was still here. He didn't know what he was doing to me. I am torn between a) kissing the life out of him, until he is dead.

                                                     b) killing him with a spoon for making me this confused.

                       Both seemed out of the question cause then he would end up dead, and I still wouldn't know what was going on. He turned the radio on and the first line it decided to play is "Are you gonna kiss me or not?". I physically jumped and changed the channel as fast as I could. Could this get any more awkward?

                "Mace, are you okay?" I shook my head.

        "Probably not in the long run, but right this second I'm fine." I said giving him my best smile.

                He chuckled and interlaced our fingers again.

                        "It's way too early for this." I complained as Travis and I walked hand in hand.

        "It isn't that early, you just aren't a morning person." He said as he leaned down and kissed my nose. Almost.

                "Here's your shirts, go change in the bathroom. You can put the ones you are wearing back here. You two are lucky because two of the people who usually work in the toy aisle left, which means you two will get to work together. Right now, you're job is simple. If someone needs help finding something, help them find it, and keep the toys out of the floor." Terry threw us our shirts and then a smile. "Good luck. Your work schedules will be printed out tomorrow, they are printed out on Wednesdays. Today you will be working 7 until 7. You guys said on your application you want to work as long as you can. Twelve hour shifts are extremely rare for new employees, but none of the older ones want them, so you guys are lucky. Lunch is at 12, you get until 1. You have breaks at 10, until 10:15. 2, until 2:15. Then another one at 5 to 5:15. Get to work." He went back inside the  back room.

                Travis and I went in the bathroom and I got done changing before him. I made it back to the toy aisle and everything was in place. I walked through the aisles and then down around the ball cage.

            I bumped into someone and immediately started apologizing. "I'm sorry it's my fault." I said and I looked up into those familiar eyes. He latched onto my arms, and he looked down at my face intently. My breath caught in my throat as his eyes flickered down to my lips and then up to my eyes. I nodded barely as if to let him know it was okay. He began to lean down, his calloused hand still on the small of my back. His lips were less than a millimeter away, I could feel their presence but they weren't on mine yet, just when I was going to push mine hard onto his. He pulled back and ran away laughing.

                I stood there for a second and then what happened actually caught up to me. He didn't just. His lips were so close, he just teased me on purpose. So he does know what effect he has on me.