Escaping Darkness

A Little Lively

I opened my eyes the next morning, the sun shining through the window and filling the room with a warm light.

I immediately panicked and almost bolted upright, but I felt arms around me. I looked behind me to see a sleeping Clarity, and last night came flooding back to me. My cheeks went red. Holy shit, I kissed her last night! Wait, she asked me out last night!

I turned around the best I could, her face right in front of mine. Her breath was on my face. I was eye level with her, it was weird. I reached my feet down, they reached her shins. Why am I so short? I kept trying to reach her feet, pushing mine down as far as I could until I heard a laugh. I looked up to see Clarity awake, with a shit-eating grin on her face. This bitch.

"What are you doing there hot stuff?" Hot stuff?! We haven't even been dating for 12 hours. Wait, are we even dating? Before I could ask, she kissed my forehead and sat up, her hair was everywhere, and I mean, everywhere. It was like Anna from Frozen, but way cuter.

"Aww, you used to my kisses already?" She teased as she looked at me. I laughed. I wasn't entirely expecting it, but hey, I guess as my girlfriend she gets that right. Wait, are we dating? I should ask.

I shook my head in response finally, looking up at her curiously.

"No, but, what does this make us?" Nailed it.

"Uh, a couple? Isn't that what 'I love you' means?" Shit, she got me there.

"I don't know..." I looked at her, she obviously wasn't taking my bullshit right now. I laughed and ran into her closet, stepping on Dab on my way over. He coughed and turned onto his side, groaning in pain. Clarity and I both stopped in our tracks and went over to him, checking to see if he was okay.

"I'm okay, but you two are assholes." I laughed and landed on Dab again, causing him to groan and shove me off at the speed of gay.

"You may be underweight Hope, but not when you just decide to fall on me!" I rolled slightly towards Clarity's feet, she looked down at me slightly confused.

"You okay Hope?" I grinned and grabbed my clothes from yesterday from under the cavern of Clarity's bed with a nod.

"Never better!" I stood up and Dab rolled his eyes.

"If you two could hold your gay back for five seconds, please? I need to get dressed." He grabbed his clothes from under the pillow he used and walked towards the bathroom. Clarity rolled her eyes and went around her room looking for clothes to wear. I hid in a corner and took my shirt off. Yup, this is where I saw myself in life, shirtless and braless in my girlfriend of... I paused and looked at her alarm clock. 4 hours.

I put my bra on and got my shirt halfway on before I heard a catcall whistle. I pulled it down and stuck my tongue out at her. I'm a bit too scared to go pantless. Regardless of my fear, I pulled my pants down and was completely bottomless in the corner of her room. Thankfully, Clarity was facing her closet looking for a shirt to go with her oddly glittery jeans. I pulled my underwear and jeans on as fast as I could.

"Hey, Hope?" She spoke suddenly, my breath getting caught in my throat slightly.

"Y-yeah?" I managed to sputter out. She looked at me concerned, then had a semi sad look on her face.