Fire meet gasoline (Skeet Ulrich)

3.

Here you go, hope you'll like it, sunshines. :) 

I fell in love.

With the city, of course. 

I went for a morning jog, but I had to stop and admire the morning beauty of Vancouver. It was still a little bit dark, lights were on, but at the same time, the whole city was covered in sunset, in warm colours. I took some photos with my phone and sent them to my friends and parents. As I was jogging, people around me were in rush, but some of them looked at me with smile. Everybody minded their own business , which was something new for me. Back at home, I lived in a town too small, where everybody knew everybody. So when I went for a jog in our town, everybody stopped and looked at me in a way as if they doubt that I was mentally okay. All the time someone stopped me to ask how my grandparents or parents are, how was I doing at school and etc. And when John cheated on me, the whole town immediately knew. So, instead of jogging it was gossiping or whatever. But here... this is so different.

"Nobody knows you here," my inner voice said, "you can be whoever you want to be."

I smiled. That was what I always wanted. 

After my morning run I went to shop. I had to buy some food for me, as I did not want to eat Corin's food. She reassured me she had no problem with it ... but she was vegan and my heart called for bacon, eggs and normal milk. I was happy the shop was near our duplex as I had evening craving quite often. I left shop with food and slowly walk home, inhaling cold morning air. 

I came in to our apartment to see Skeet in dark blue T-shirt and sweatpants. 

"Good morning," I smiled at him as I put my food on the kitchen counter. 

"Good morning! You're up early," he sound surprised, but he was smiling widely. 

"I went to sleep really early yesterday. I am so sorry about it, I didn't mean to be rude, but I just fell asleep. I don't even know how," I apologized for my yesterday's behaviour. 

"Don't be sorry, it's okay. I understand."

I put eggs on a pan and turned to him. 

"Do you want breakfast? Are you hungry?" I asked. 

"I was..."

"Oh, are you vegan as well? I'm sorry then," I paused in surprise. 

"Do you realize you have apologized to me twice for nothing? No, I'm not a vegan and yes, I'd love to. If you don't mind," he kindly smiled and wrinkles around his eyes appeared. 

"I don't," I smiled in response and took out two plates. 

"Corin still likes to get a long sleep in the morning, huh?" I turned to face him while eggs and bacon were sizzling. 

"Yes, she does. How do you know?"

"Well, we're cousins," I shrugged, "our dads are brothers and we spent almost the whole childhood together as kids. I had to be up early cause my dad has bakeries, so in the early morning, every Saturday and Sunday we went to look how is it going on in there. I got kind of used to it and I got stuck with it. But she was always the one who slept till 10 or 11 and I was nervous as a kid because I didn't want to play by myself. Well, that was a long monologue for the early morning, forgive me," I put plate with breakfast in front of him. 

"Thank you. And I really don't mind that, I'd love to know something more about Corin from her childhood. She never talks about it."

"Really? Hmm, that's weird. I think we had nice time back then," I crumbled on the chair.