Forever Yours [Series Two of Bittersweet Disasters]

[22] "Who Is He?"

♜♖♜ KAIDEN PARKER ♖♜♖

{9:45 am} THE NEXT MORNING I'M WOKEN up to the sound of my smartphone vibrating on the nightstand. Sitting up while being careful not to wake my soon-to-be bride up, I reach out and grab it from its charger. I unlock it and realize it's a text from Morgen.

Morgen: 'Tatiana has a photoshoot at noon (so she's leaving at like 11:30) and she'll be gone until like 5 or so. Y'all wanna hang out today?'

Kaiden: 'Dezerae's still sleeping. But when she wakes up I'll ask her; I'll let you know what she says.'

Morgen: 'Ok'

I put my phone back down on my nightstand and climb out of bed. I go take a piss and then I walk over to where my suitcase is. I grab my plain black T-shirt from the top of the pile and slip it on. Grabbing our room key, I walk out to the elevator and go downstairs.

Luckily, the breakfast buffet is set up in the festival hall, so all I had was cut across the hallway from the elevator into the festival hall.

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{10:03 am} Entering the living room area back in the room, I cut across the room to slide the balcony door open. I step outside and go sit at the small table that's provided out here to eat my breakfast. I watch mutely as the people down below pass by on the sidewalk and also cars pass by on the road. It was actually kind of peaceful watching, but kind of disturbing watching since it was loud from the cars engines and a teenage boy who was shouting some vulgar sentences that included profanity words at his girlfriend. 'Teenagers drive me crazy sometimes; I'm glad I was never that harsh to Dezerae when we were teens. Damn, I don't even want to begin to think of what the years will be like when Devin and KJ become teenagers!' I thought as I focus on eating my bagel and sipping my Apple Juice.

{10:10 am} After I finish my bagel, I go back inside – sliding the door shut behind me – and cut across the sitting room to throw the paper plate away in the mini trash bin by the TV. I glimpse over at the bed and realize that Dezerae is still sound asleep – her long, caramel brown hair with the neon pink highlights almost a wild mess and a little drool on her pillow, some trailing out the corner of her mouth. I go over to the bed and lay down on my side, my back now facing Dezerae as I go to unlock my phone. As I do, I realize that it's 10:16. As I'm checking Facebook, I hear a sweet, angelic, soft voice whisper behind me. "Mm, baby, what time is it? How long have you been awake?"

'Mm, that sweet, angelic, soft voice can only belong to the one other person that's in this room aka the love of my life' I thought as I mentally chuckle. Flipping over onto my other side, I realize that Dezerae is staring at me with half-closed eyes. "It's almost 10:20 and I've only been up for, like, thirty minutes," I answer as I tug her a little closer to me. (Not that she was that far away from me to begin with.)

Nodding, she rubs her eyes as she sighs softly. "So, do we have any special plans today?" she asks after a few seconds.

I brush her hair back and tuck some behind her ear before I start rubbing the top of her head. "Morgen texted me like thirty minutes ago and asked if we wanted to hang out with him today. Do you want to? He said that Tatiana's gonna be gone all day and he doesn't want to be stuck in his hotel room, with nothing to do."

"Yeah, that sounds fun. He can be our tour guide and show us all the good places to shop," she answers before smiling. I watch as she runs his fingers through her hair and sighs loudly. "I feel a bit filthy though, so I need to shower before we go."

I nod. "Okay."

She climbs out of bed, her naked body becoming completely exposed and a little drool collecting at the corner of my mouth. She crawls back onto the bed for a second and softly brushes her lips against my gapped mouth. "Might want to wipe that stuff away before it gets everywhere," she acknowledges before smirking at me and practically skipping into the bathroom.