The Only One For Me

7 | The Morning After

“Good morning! Let’s hear the weather forecast today shall we? It’ll be sunny with little chance for rain, it’s going to be a beautiful day, perfect for outdoor activities.”

I hear the TV, the morning news was on, I open my eyes and look at the time on my phone that’s on the bed side table and see that it’s only 6:30AM, wondering what is going on, I see Odin standing in front of the TV, brushing his teeth. He looks over to me and says something inaudible so I sit up and stretch. He went to the bathroom to rinse his mouth, when he came out he said, “There was a spare toothbrush, so I used it, I hope you don’t mind.”. I nodded to him and got up to brush my teeth as well. I went into the bathroom, used the toilet to pee, brushed my teeth, washed my face then skin care routine, cleanse, tone, moisturize, sunscreen. When I was done, I went out and saw Odin sitting on the love seat watching TV. Sitting next to him with my legs on the couch and under me, I brushed my hair and asked, “What time are you driving back home?”, he looked at me and said, “Why? Do you want me to leave already?”, shocked at the question, I furrowed my eyebrows, raising one eyebrow, “What? Well, it’s hard to party with adult supervision.”, I retorted. He chuckles and says, “I was going to leave at 6, but I wanted to wait for you to wake up as it would’ve been rude to leave without saying goodbye.”, “Um, hello, you could’ve just texted me.”, I rolled my eyes while smiling, he chuckles and says, “I don’t really do this texting thing.”, “What’s the matter, technology too much for you, old man?”, I retort, laughing. He was smiling when he looked at me and said, “I’m not that old, I’m only 26.”, “You’ll be 27, in 3 months!”, “You know when my birthday is?”, he asks, “Duh, you celebrate every year with my uncle.”, I tell him. He smiles and looks at me, “So are we going to starve or are they feeding us at this joint?”. I laughed and said, “I’ll have to check the schedule.”, I got up and walked to the bedside table to get my phone and see the schedule Carly sent me. “Breakfast is at 7:30AM, we have less than an hour to kill before breakfast.”, I say to him. He turned off the TV with the remote, got up and said, “Let’s go explore.”, I looked at him and said, “Let me change first.”, “Why? Your jammies are cute. Look at those cute unicorns with rainbow hair.”, I now only realized how juvenile my pajamas were, I thought it was cute. I blush sheepishly, “Shut up!”, I throw a pillow at his laughing face. I grabbed a pair of skinny jeans and a V-neck black shirt and a bra, I realized I was still braless and you can see the outline of my plump breasts through my pajamas, I bet he loved that, he just wouldn’t admit it. I smiled to myself in the bathroom ad I stripped and put on my clothes. I put my pajamas in the “used” clothes bag I brought and grabbed a pair of socks and my sneakers. I can feel his eyes on my body but I pretend not to notice. Good, check me out, I’m not such a little girl anymore. Once my shoes were on, I looked up at Odin to see him looking at my cleavage, I smile to myself and pretend not to notice. He looked away as soon as I stood up. I put my hair up into a messy bun and said, “I’m ready, let’s go.”, he walks toward the door, I grab my phone and follow him out. I closed the door behind me and as we were walking, we could hear muffled moaning sound. We looked at each other, he looked at me with a mischievous grin and said, “Looks like someone is having breakfast in bed this morning.”, he wiggled his eyebrows up and down at me and I smacked him on the shoulder and said, “That’s so gross!”. We hurried walking, the sounds were getting fainter. With a house this big you’d think they can afford sound proof rooms, geez.

We walked outside to the back where the lake was and just strolled towards the forest. “Come, let’s see how far their fence is.”, he said, “Okay, but I don’t want to miss breakfast.”, I say back, “It can’t be that far, can’t it?”, he says, I shrug my shoulders and we kept walking. “So no boyfriend to make you moan like that?”, he said, startled at the question, “That’s a personal question and as my uncle’s spy, I can’t answer that.”, he chuckles and says, “I won’t tell, I’m just really curious.”, he says. Oh my God, he likes me. “Well, I was dating someone but we’ve never been intimate like that and I don’t think we ever will be because we broke up last night.”, he slowed down and said, “What? On your birthday? Are you okay?”, he asked, concern in his voice. “Oh no, no, it’s not like that, it was a mutual decision, there just wasn’t any spark, you know?”, I said. “Huh, I didn’t think you’re that mature.”, he said mid chuckle, “Shut up, people always assume I’m shallow because I’m pretty.”, I said, smiling mischievously and looking at him, he looks at me pretending to be shocked, “Well, I never thought you’re that confident to say you’re pretty, I mean you are, but still.”, he said chuckling. Oh My God, he thinks I’m pretty!

“We’ve been walking for 30 minutes now, do you see the fence?”, I asked him. He looked at his watch and said, “No, I think we should head back, you did say you didn’t want to miss breakfast.”. We headed back, he started jogging so I started running, being kind of competitive, I slowed down to a jog when I reached him and matched his pace. My arm brushed against his and he looked at me, I could’ve sworn that was a spark, he smiled and kept jogging, we can see the back of the house and the lake, he gently nudged me and said, “Race yah”, and took off running. Did I tell you I was competitive? I took off running after him. I won, I reached the path to the house first and I jumped up and down and bowed and pretended to gush at an imaginary audience like I won a marathon. “Better luck next time, old man.”, I said to him and he laughs and says to me, “I obviously let you win.”, I look at him, roll my eyes and say, “Whatever!”.