I had a nightmare
1300 Words
Nathalia’s POV
“Hey, Thalia-baby. Why the sad face? What’s wrong?” Jerry popped in to my view without warning, making me jump out of my seat. I was eating cereals and almost choked on the little stars.
“Could you announce next time that you’re in the house? No need on sneaking up on me.” I grumpily said to Jerry. I went back to sitting and eating my cereals.
“Grumpy so early in the morning, baby.” He kissed my cheek then got up to get his own bowl of cereals, too. “I saw your parents go out. They said I can go crash in.”
One benefit and disadvantage of having your boyfriend as your neighbor is that you can easily see each other, most of the time anyway. Jerry is my best friend too, so he feels so comfortable around the house.
It has been three months that Jerry have been officially together. My parents and his grandma were happy for the two of us. I don’t know whether me or Jerry is happier between the two of us. I was crushing on him since junior year, but I thought he thinks only of me as his best friend. All along, he has a crush on me, too. He was just afraid that I will become aloof if he confesses that he likes me, so he didn’t do anything at all. Until I had asked him to take my v-card on my eighteenth birthday. He told me everything. That he was just playing with other girls, thinking that he could get me out of his heart. But, of course, nothing helped. Because he can only see me. Literally. I’m his best friend and neighbor anyway.
“What are you so grumpy about?”
“I had a nightmare.”
“But you know that they don’t happen.”
“It was a really bad dream. I don’t know what I will do if that happens.”
Jerry started to pour milk in his bowl.
“What happened anyway?”
“You went away and never came back.”
“Psshh… Thalia, why would you be sad about it? It’s just a bad dream. I’m here. You couldn’t get rid of me so easily.”
I sighed loudly and just stared out of the window.
“Your cereals are now soggy. Here. I’ll take your bowl.”
He exchanged our bowls, so he gets to eat the soggy cereals.
Jerry is such a sweet boyfriend. Even when he’s busy with swim meets and training, he still makes time for me. I also do my part in supporting him. Since his parents live away from him, I make sure that he gets all the support that he needs from me. I check on his diet, reminds him of his schedule, at times drive him to training and meets, and be his number one cheerer during his competitions. I actually do that even before I started to be his girlfriend. But now, when he needs a loving kiss and hug… and more… he only gets them from me. His motivation now is when he wins a competition, he gets to have s*x with me. So far, he had not lost any.
“Thalia-baby, I need to work-out today.” Jerry said as finishes the last of his cereals.
“Oh-kay… Why are you telling me? You want me to drive you to the gym?” Every morning he gets up early to go to his training. On a typical Saturday, after he eats breakfast, he does his errands. He then takes a nap. In the afternoon he goes back to training, after which he goes to the gym.
“Grandma is spending the weekend with Mom.” He said as he wiggles his eyebrows at me. “This is a different kind of work-out. You know, where you are also involved. You and me. Naked.” He then winked at me.
“Jerry!” I blushed profusely. Even if Jerry and I have been having s*x, I am still not into talking about it openly. I still get embarrassed when he talks dirty. “I just had my period yesterday.”
“Aww… that sucks. Okay. But can you still come over? Movies? You know how scared I am being alone at night.” Of course, he was just kidding about being scared. “Maybe that is why you are grumpy today. You want me to bring you ice cream?” Jerry reached to get a banana and finished eating it in seconds.
“I’m good with movies. And yes, can you get me almond ice cream please? Or any ice cream that has nuts in it.” I’m glad that he understands. On the first time I had my period when we were together, I thought he would go find another girl to f**k, but no. He took care of me, as always. But had been extra sweet by giving me unlimited kisses and massages.
Speaking of massage, he then stood behind me then started to massage my shoulders down to my shoulder blades.
“Your muscles are tight, baby. Next time we do a spa date. Would you like that?”
“I’d like that, babe. Thank you.”
“Before I forget, can we study together tomorrow? I have to catch up with physics. I missed the last class, remember? Then we have that quiz coming up.”
“Yeah, sure. I’ll help you with it, just as long you help me with calculus.”
“No problem, baby. So easy.”
“Great!”
Jerry helped me in cleaning up the kitchen before he goes out to do his errands. His first stop is to the barbershop to get a haircut, then to the supermarket to buy their weekly staples. While me, I have to clean around the house. Vacuum, mopping, and wiping. The best thing about it is our house is not that big, so I can finish just before Jerry comes back home.
My parents are visiting some friends two towns over and will be back later tonight. That means I can take a nap and have lunch with Jerry in peace. Then when he goes back to training, I can have our clothes washed.
Some hours later, Jerry had come back.
“I have your ice cream with me.” He handed me the two pints of ice cream.
“Hey, I thought we will be eating these for movie night?”
“Oh. Those are yours. You can eat it now. I’ll just buy another for tonight.”
“Thanks, babe. I’ll have these for dessert after lunch.”
“Can I take my nap in you room?” As if he needed to ask.
“Sure. Let’s go.”
We are now up in my room, with us lying down on the bed. I’m not sleepy as I just had my shower, but I lied down with him just so I can have him in my arms. Jerry’s eyes were getting heavy, while I’m still wide awake. Looking at his face, I remember the bad dream that I had last night. I got afraid that some day we will lose each other.
“Jerry? Can you promise me that you will not go away?”
“I promise, baby.” I’m not sure if he really meant that, because he was already fast asleep after.
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