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thirty four

john

john woke up the next morning to the sound of penelopes alarm clock ringing from the kitchen. something she told him she did to force her out of bed in the mornings to turn off. she had set it for nine in order to leave enough time to get ready and get john home to change before picking carly up at eleven thirty.

he woke up to find penelopes head resting on his chest and her arm draped over his waist, his arms were wrapped tightly around her back. just as john began to wake up properly penelope began to stir also.

"goodmorning," john whispered down to her,

"morning," she said groggily hiding her head in johns chest in annoyance of waking up.

"not a morning person then?" he said his voice raspy from having just woke up.

penelope shook her head furiously before sitting up slowly and wiping her eyes, "how'd you sleep?" she asked sounding just as raspy as john.

"better than usual," he grinned, "how about you?"

"really good," she grinned back.

she pushed the duvet off of her legs and had seen her nightdress had rid all up her leg exposing pretty much all of her thigh, she quickly pulled it down and embarrassedly avoided johns eyes. she climbed over his legs and got off of her bed putting on her white cardigan again and walking to her bedroom door.

john stretched out on her bed exaggerating his movements making penelope chuckle at him, he climbed out of her bed himself and followed her to the bedroom door where she lead the way to the kitchen.

hastily penelope turned the alarm clock off wanting to get rid of the awful sound ringing out.

"i would offer you breakfast but i have nothing in, ive got to go shopping after the carnival," penelope said opening her fridge and realising she had nothing to eat.

"i don't eat breakfast anyway," he replied amused at how unorganised she was.

"you can go back to sleep for a while if you like? i need a shower and things so i'll be a while."

he didn't respond to her just nodded acknowledging what she said. she walked away from him and headed towards the bathroom. john decided to just go and lay on her bed, he picked up one of her music magazines that lay on the floor and climbed onto her bed to begin reading it.

penelope showered quickly, washing her hair and shaving her legs took her around half an hour. afterwards she got out and wrapped a towel around her body. she quickly realised she'd forgotten to bring her clothes into the bathroom with her, so sheepishly she walked out and held the towel tighter than she'd ever held anything before. she walked into the bedroom quietly hoping that john had gone to sleep like she'd suggested. instead she walked in to find him sprawled across her bed reading one of her magazines. his eyes flicked up at the sound of the bedroom door creaking open, she poked her head round and said "uh i forgot my clothes could you pass them me please?"

penelope felt nervous as she pointed to the outfit she'd hung up on the outside of her wardrobe with her underwear wrapped around the neck of the hanger. john smirked at her amused as he stood up at went to get it for her. he couldn't help but think about how cute she looked in her natural element, her hair wet and pushed behind her hear and her face completely bare of any makeup or creams. making his way back over to her she embarrassedly took it off him but john didn't let go, she looked up at him furrowing her eyebrows as he peered down onto her.