Filling The Gap...

Katie

When I wake up my bed is empty and William is nowhere to be seen. I should have expected this but part of me was hoping that he would still be here like he was before the first time I woke up in his arms. The duvet covers my partly naked body now noticing that my pajama shorts were fully pulled back up.

Throwing the duvet off I walk over to my desk and check my phone. Only having slept for a couple of hours more, my thighs and most intimate parts aching with every step I take. Even when I had asked him to go slow still feeling the soreness from the night before, everything about him was rushed like that was the only way he knew how to be. Flicking through my messages I scroll down the ones sent from Mike last night.

'Mike: I heard what had happened your mum messaged me on facebook. Just wanted you to know I'm coming down tomorrow I'll be there around lunch time and I know you'll say I don't need to your fine, but this is not fine. I wish you never left in the face place."

Shit. Mike was coming here. I quickly rush to the bathroom, stripping the remainder of my clothes off I hop into the shower and let the hot water run down my naked body. Applying soap I wash myself being careful with the tender parts of my skin. Last night and this morning, I know it was not a mistake. In a million years I didn't think this would have happened, I couldn't get him out of my mind. He was beginning to be my fixation. Was it wrong to be sleeping with a ghost? Probably, but there were no rules or guidelines on this sort of stuff. I tried so hard to ignore him and not feel this way about him but every time I see him now I cant help when my knees go weak, my stomach dips and butterflies surface. Sure he wasn't perfect, he was far from it. But there was something deeper between us.

As soon as I get out of the shower I hear the front door close and mum's laughter from all the way downstairs. Double shit. Please don't let Mike be here. I quickly get dressed into a simple white shirt and gray sweatpants, spraying myself with deodorant and brushing my hair back then tying it with a hairband. Grabbing the white hoodie that hangs over the back of my desk chair I make my way down the stairs where I hear mum's voice from in the kitchen.

"Aw I'm so glad you came Mike. I know she will be over the moon that you manage to come and see her, she's had a few- rough days lately."

Stopping at the bottom of the stairs I slide the hoodie over my head and let it fall down my body, where I can now see through into the kitchen. Trying not to make any noise when a set of dark brown eyes look up and stare at me. William sits on one of the stool chairs around the island in the kitchen. His eyebrows rising when he slowly takes a sip of his drink, his eyes moving down my body. Yeah drink up asshole.

"Katie!"

Before I can register what is happening I am being lifted into mid-air. Warm long arms wrap around my body pulling me closer to a very excited Mike.

"Jesus you weigh nothing. We must put some weight back on to you girl."

His soft warm lips press against my forehead before dropping me back down on to the floor and pulling me towards the kitchen.

"So that's William. Your mum introduced us he seems pretty-"

Mike's voice low only just being able to hear him.