Scattered Souls

Chapter 34 - Sleeping Beauty

Even my dreams were haunted by all my wandering thoughts of Xypher and Julia. In fact, there was also a little nightmare, in which I was trying to escape the evil version of myself: Julia. Needless to say, I had a very disturbed sleep.

"Honey." mom called out, while knocking on my room door.

Was it time for breakfast already? How long had I been out for. 

I groaned and tried to open my eyes,  I managed to squint open an eye to look at the alarm clock next to me.  It was 5am.

"Mom." I managed to get out a disgruntled groan.  "It's only 5am." I pointed out, covering my head with a pillow.

"You have a visitor, sweety." mom announced in a chirpy voice. How was she so chirpy at this part of the time? It's such a pity I didn't get her graceful side.

"Tell them to go away.  I'm sleeping." I'm surprised I even managed to get so many words out, my mind was so groggy.

However, even as I was dosing off, there was a persistent knocking sound on my door, that just wasn't going away.

I tried to go back to sleep, despite the knocking sound, however after a few minutes I gave up on my brilliant plan. I peeled off my warm and cozy comforters, opened my eyes, marched to the door and yanked it open.

It was Xypher. I should've known only a pest like him would test my patience this early in the morning. 

"Rise and shine sleeping beauty." he beamed.  Gosh, what was with everyone being so chirpy in the morning?

"As if you're letting me get any beauty sleep." I groaned loudly.

He just stood there smirking at me,  looking rather amused. Did he honestly wake me up this early just to stare at me dumbfoundedly?

"Cute attire by the way." he winked at me. His eyes scanning me thoroughly.

"It's PJs." I pointed out with an eyeroll, looking down at my favorite unicorn set.

Who the hell called PJs attire?

"Xypher, it's 5 in the goddamn morning!" I exclaimed, remembering the real reason he was standing in front of me.

"I'm sure whatever it is can wait until later on. When I'm completely awake. " I pointed out. I mean why would he need to get here so early, on a Sunday morning at that? Sunday's are for sleeping in, in my opinion. Not for being ambushed during the wee hours of the morning.

"Ah, but I come bearing gifts." he grinned.

I eyed him up and down and I looked around him. I didn't see anything gift like.

"Like what? I don't see anything." I pointed out.

"If I had known you'd be this grumpy in the morning, I wouldn't have come at all." he teased, a hint of amusement dancing in his eyes.

"Well now you know." I deadpanned. "For future reference."

"Give me a second." he said holding up a finger as he disappeared downstairs.

Five minutes had already gone by. Did he go to manufacture these gifts he mentioned? I had half a mind to just close my bedroom door and dive back into bed.  However,  knowing Xypher, he'd start persistently knocking on my door once again.

The smell of the most divine coffee greeted my senses before I could see him approach. He was holding up a little brown paper bag. Upon further inspection, I read the name on it. It was from Treat Yourself bakery, my absolute favorite. It was the best bakery in town, in my opinion. My face immediately lit up.

"Is this what you woke me up for?" I gushed, the initial annoyance I had immediately disappearing.

"I thought you could use a treat after yesterday." he said with a wide smile on his face.  He looked even happier than I was.

"Thank you so much." I beamed. I literally pulled the coffee cup and little brown paper bag from him.

It had my favorite blueberry cheesecake inside. I moaned in delight as the smell of it wafted out as soon as I opened the bag. I was in heaven as soon as I had a little piece of it.

"How did you know?" I enquired, realizing I didn't remember mentioning any of these things to him.

He was still watching me indulge in my blueberry cheesecake with a proud smile on his face.  My cheeks heated up as I realized how intensely he was looking at me.

"You should already know I have my connections." he teased. 

"I admit you do. But you're no mind reader." I pointed out.

"True." was all he offered. He really enjoyed keeping me in suspense.

"Come on.  Tell me." I urged him.

"Well I asked a little birdie." he said with a little wink.

"It was Alexa!" I exclaimed, realizing she would probably willingly divulge any information to make my love life more exciting and especially since he was still in Jordan's body.

"She was eager to share the required information." he said with a grin.

"I thought as much." I agreed.

"You know, even though Treat Yourself is a 24 hour bakery,  you didn't have to surprise me this early. Later on would've been just fine. " I pointed out.

"Not that I'm being ungrateful though." I added. I was still happily stuffing my face with the delectable blueberry cheesecake. This was worth waking up early for.

"Well you see, this is not just a simple surprise, love." he said with a sly grin on his face.

"It isn't?" I wondered out loud, my eyes widened in surprise at the words that just came out of his mouth.

My curiosity was piqued once again.

"Of course not. There has to be something in it for me." he said simply.

"This is bribery, love." he added with a wicked grin. I was left dumbfound in the process.