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Pieces of Joy

Chapter 5- Pieces of Joy

I was sitting on the couch. It was, I looked at the clock, 4:30. Luke will be up in half an hour or so.  I had spent the last night tossing and turning until I finally got up, grabbed my IPod and escaped into the land of music. I danced silently, in another world, my happy place, my heaven.  Finally covered in sweat and just too tired, I collapsed on the couch.  I danced in my mind but my body had no more energy to continue the movements.

There was movement in Luke’s room.  Light on. 4:47? Why he awake was already, was beyond me, his alarm goes off at 5am. Why 15 minutes earlier? Seconds later Luke came out, dressing gown on, slippers on feet, yawn on face, and sadness in his eyes. I knew he had stayed up thinking about last night, what I said, the kiss, and the tears. Tears are Luke’s thing. He always seems to know what you mean by them, if you’re hurt emotionally, physically, he seems to know immediately.

So out he came and when he saw me he smiled.

“Hello Beautiful.” He said sweetly

“Hey.”

“Did Beautiful get any sleep?”

“No, she didn’t” I said with a yawn and deciding to relax I said “Did handsome?”

“A little,” He said coming over and holding my hand “Are you ready?”

I laughed, “No way! Still scared but I… actually want to go.”

“Good.” He said moving in closer to me. We kissed, again.  It was sweet, perfect. We broke apart. He swiftly kissed me on the cheek and swooped me into his arms.

“Well, the pool is private, do we really need swimming togs?”

“YES!” I yelled

“shhh!!!”

“Sorry,” I whispered “let me down, I shall put on togs, and YOU shall as well! Thank you!” I said the rest firm and loud whispered.

He laughed slid me to my feet and let me run to my room. As soon as I was alone I fell on the bed and sighed. He kissed me. Twice! I threw on my swimming costume and ran outside. He was waiting at the door for me, slowly (forced by me, even though I was desperate to get down there, hoping for another kiss.) we made our way down to the pool.  We jumped in and under water we kissed.

“urgh! Ple ! Blu! Yuck! I got water in my mouth!” I spluttered. He laughed at me and we had a beautiful swim. We were kissing and swimming, having races, kissing, holding our breath contests, kissing. It was Wonderful! We rose out of the water after the sun rose because we knew the girls would be awake soon.

We were right, as we walked up stairs the girls ran down giggling.

“GUESS WHAT?” Annie Shouted

“SHHH!” Cells, Luke and I all said back

“We, we saw you KISS!” She said and giggled

“Grow up Annie!” Cells said being more of an adult “Adults kiss ALL The time!”

Luke and I laughed

“Well we don’t usually but something magical happened, kind of like what happened to Cinderella.” Luke said all mystical.

I put my arm around his waist and kissed him again lifting one leg in the air

“yes truly magical” I whispered after we broke apart

“EWWW!” Annie said, even Cells was giggling.

“Come on let’s get some breakfast,” Luke said “Who is with me?”

We all shouted in reply, so off we went to breakfast downstairs.