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Chapter 11

Gentle morning light cascaded through the cracks in the blind, so as Maddie rolled over in her sleep her face was illuminated in a warm hue. As Maddie woke up she noticed that the apartment was silent, she sat up in bed stretching and yawning before groggily pulling herself out of bed. She quickly checked her phone, it was 9am meaning she'd been asleep for about 11 hours, it also meant that Izzy would be here to pick her up in a couple of hours too. She wondered out of her room, her bare feet padding along the smooth floors, she made her way to the kitchen rummaging through the cupboards to find nothing notable apart from a worryingly large amount of frying pans.

She grabbed a glass and switched on the water faucet waiting for it to get cool before she ran the glass under it filling it close to the brim before shutting it off again and brining the glass to her lips. She made her way to the living room just wondering around. She'd been knocked out pretty much as soon as she'd gone to bed last night, but those men who Mark had been away with were still there when she'd gone to bed, she had no idea when they'd left but in their stead they'd left a small hurricane of mess. Empty discarded bottles and snack packets were left tossed haphazardly around the room and she wondered how tiered she must have been to have missed all this commotion.

Taking occasional sips from the glass she made her way across the room the the huge window on the other side. She paused in front of the glass and looked around at the view of the city, the shining sea of glass sparkling in the mid morning sun, it was so similar yet so different from the view out of her London apartment. And it hit a little close to home, that all these thousands of miles away she was still staring out of a window but just onto a completely different city. Maddie didn't know how she should feel about this new city, whether she could feel blessed to have this opportunity, or bitter that she'd been forced out of her comfortable slump.

Maddie absentmindedly took a seat on the plush couch, basking in the warm morning sun, the rays streaming through the glass and brushing her skin allowing the warmth to slowly move through her. As the sun continued to rise Maddie soon found herself once again sitting in the shade, the sun no longer streaming directly into the room. Maddie headed out of the living room, picking up some of the empty bottles as she did so heading back into the kitchen, she placed her glass in the sink and tossed the wrappers in the bin creating a pile of empty bottles on the counter. With a yawn Maddie stretched her arms up a over her head and rolled her neck to release the tension.

"Morning" a sleepy voice sounded from behind her.

Maddie spun around to see Johnny standing at the door with a tiered smile. "Morning" Maddie replied.

"Can I get you something?" Johnny offered "tea? Izzy always needed tea" he quickly explained.

Maddie just shook her head in reply "can I have a coffee instead please?" She asked.

"I think we're going to get on just fine" Johnny smiled heading over to an expensive looking coffee machine "I always though that was a British thing" he mused.

"What? Tea?" Maddie laughed lightly.

"Yeah, the constant need for it" he replied with a chuckle.

"It is" Maddie nodded "but Izzy was a bit of an extreme case" she joked.

"That's reassuring, because I once watched her got through 7 cups of teas in one night" he muttered.

"Oh please, that's nothing" Maddie laughed "you should see her when she has a deadline due"

"I dread to think" he shuddered.

"Is Mark still in bed?" Maddie asked.

"Yeah, travelling always takes it out of him a bit and he's been working hard lately" a Johnny explained "thanks for doing all this by the way, you didn't have to" he added gesturing to the small collection of beer bottles on the side.