Sweet Devil [BL]

Chapter 9. Sleeping Face

The morning light shone through the thin curtains, gently falling upon Gabriel's sleeping face. It dyed his copper hair with a layer of gold, making a few strands sparkle slightly. Even his long eyelashes appeared a little brighter under the soft light. When asleep, Gabriel looked like an angel, an incredibly beautiful angel.

When Misha opened his eyes, he was greeted by this sight and almost jumped out of bed in fright. It took a few seconds to recover from the shock, and after regulating his heartbeat, question marks seemed to pop up all around his head.

'What the...?'

With slow movements, Misha straightened his back and carefully sat on the mattress so as not to wake up the sleeping beauty. Even though he was all too aware that it'd take a lot more than that to snatch the teenager from dreamland, he still couldn't help but be careful.

Misha's small body was entangled in the white blankets, and only his head popped out, a few strands of disheveled blonde hair hanging down on his forehead. After sleeping for twelve hours in a row, the corners of his eyes had turned red and puffy. He looked confused as if he hadn't completely woken up. But soon enough, his face cleared up, and hatred filled his eyes. His upper lips started to tremble in anger as he gripped the blanket and told himself to stay calm.

Misha took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Gabriel was currently defenseless, true, but it wasn't the right time to beat him up, however tempting it was.

After a long and tiring day, they had also come to this hotel in his past life. Back then, Misha wasn't as well behaved. He remembered throwing tantrums after tantrums simply because he was dissatisfied with Gabriel, who he saw as a thief coming to take his sister away. And because of his constant outbursts, the day had been exhausting for everyone, both physically and mentally.

Once they entered the hotel room, everyone just wanted to sleep. But first, they had to decide who slept where. And so, Gulnas awkwardly asked her son if he could share the bed with Gabriel for the night, and the child immediately refused, screaming and stamping his foot. Now that Misha thought back on the scene he had made, he felt a little ashamed.

Even though his mother tried hard to explain why she wanted them to share a bed, Misha refused to listen. Gabriel could sleep on the floor like a dog for all he cared! In the worst-case scenario, he could also share a bed with Camille. As long as it wasn't with him, his sister, or his mother, Misha didn't mind with whom the teenager slept. The enemy just had to stay far away from his family, but sadly, his mother didn't share his opinion.

"A teenage boy and a teenage girl shouldn't share a bed. As long as they haven't entered adulthood, they shouldn't sleep together," his mother had said, crouching in front of him.

Both of his parents were a bit old-fashioned and overprotective of their daughter. His mother didn't want her baby girl to grow up too fast. Moreover, Gabriel and Masha had only started to date two weeks ago, and it wasn't 'appropriate' for them to sleep together. But most of all, when nightfall came, every teenage boy turned into a wolf in sheep's clothing in his parents' eyes, so it didn't matter if it was Camille or Masha; neither of them was allowed to share a bed with a boy at their age.

Still, Misha didn't give in no matter what. So ultimately, he and the girls ended up squeezing into the queen bed while Gabriel slept alone in the double bed.

Misha's family was neither poor nor rich, yet his mother insisted on paying the teenagers' parts for the hotel fees and train tickets. In return, they had to pay for their food and the activities, which included the Jardin Botanique, the cinema, and La Ronde, an amusement park. All in all, the weekend was already quite expensive. Thus, she only booked a room with two beds, a queen and a double size, thinking that his son wouldn't mind sharing a bed with another boy, and the girls were skinny enough to fit in the queen bed without suffocating. Too bad Misha didn't want to listen to reason.