Lazy Mornings ~ Lee Chaerin
Your eyes immediately lit up as you woke up to find Chaerin awake beside you, scrolling through her phone with the duvet tucked up around her body. As your head tilted to look across at her, her eyes flickered across to look at you too, chuckling softly as you moved a little closer towards her.
“How did you sleep?” She questioned as she placed her phone down on the bedside table, turning onto her side so that she could face you. “I’ve not slept that well in forever, it was so good.”
“I agree,” you chuckled, lifting your hand up to brush the blonde strands of hair that had fallen in front of her face out of the way, behind her ear. “I have to say it’s quite nice being able to wake up and still see you in the bed beside me too, it’s been a while.”
“I forgot what it felt like to still be asleep after nine in the morning,” Chaerin smiled, moving her hand across to cup against the side of your face, “and to get a whole eight hours too.”
Your smile grew as she softly spoke, relaxing further into her cushion as her eyes remained fixated on you. “I was thinking of heading down and getting a cup of coffee, do you want me to get you one too whilst you’re up?”
“A morning coffee in my own home, nothing sounds better than that.”
You leaned across and pressed a kiss against the tip of her nose before pushing the duvet off of your body, standing up from the bed. Chaerin watched you closely as you grabbed your shirt and placed it over your head, feeling the chill as soon as you left the bed.
“Splash of milk and two sugars,” she called out as you made your way out of the room, winking as she caught your eye as you left the room.
In just a matter of moments, you returned to the bedroom with two steaming mugs of coffee in your hands, handing one across to Chaerin as she sat up in the bed, placing the other one on your bedside table as you slid back in underneath the duvet beside her too.
“It feels nice to just spend the day in bed,” you spoke as you laid back against the frame of the bed, “we could literally do nothing all day.”
Her head nodded in agreement with you as she tucked herself into your side, with your arm moving to wrap around her shoulders. A sigh of content came from Chaerin as she got comfortable, relaxing against your shoulder as her eyes slowly closed again.
“I’ve missed just being here with you,” she whispered, snuggling further into your side, “I never realise how much I miss mornings like these until I have one, I just wish that they came about a little more often than they have done recently, this comeback has taken it out of me.”
Your hand moved through her hair once again, “you’ve worked so hard, and the success of it all just proves that. The early mornings have definitely been worth it, although I’m not complaining about having you home.”
You could only admire the effort that Chaerin went to when it came to her recent comeback, even if you were by yourself for most of the time. You were constantly waking up alone, or coming home to an empty house, with her appearing right at the end of your evening.
She hated being away from you too and feeling as if she wasn’t a good enough partner when you needed her to be around. The most important thing for her was your support though, even if she wasn’t able to always see you in person.
“I just want to lay here forever, I’ve made up my mind,” she informed you with a chuckle.
Your head shook back down at Chaerin as she spoke, pressing a kiss against the top of her head. Although eventually something would interrupt you both, just like it always did, you were glad to enjoy the moment, even if it was just for the day.
“Is there anything else that you want to do today?” You asked her softly.
“Spend time with you,” Chaerin instantly responded, “there’s nothing else that I want to do other finally be able to just spend a day with you with nothing else to do too.”
“That sounds good to me,” you encouraged, “it’s been a while since we had time like this together.”
Chaerin’s head slowly tilted back so that her eyes could look up at you, slowly opening them up. “I bet it must feel nice for you to wake up with some company too, I can’t begin to imagine how lonely mornings must have been for you recently.”
Although you didn’t mind being by yourself in the mornings when Chaerin was so busy, you couldn’t deny that you adored having her with you. It was the little things you missed, the conversation, the warmth, and above all else, the smile that woke you up.
“I’ve got the whole week off, and I don’t plan on getting out of bed before midday on all seven of those days,” Chaerin added.
“I’ve got no complaints about that suggestion,” you smiled back at her, reaching across to pick up your mug, taking a small sip from it to check how warm it was.
When you nodded, Chaerin reached across to pick her mug up too, resting back into your side once again whilst also making sure that she was upright enough to be able to drink her coffee. Her hands were tight around the mug, embracing the chance to even be able to drink her coffee in the comfort of her own home, rather than in the back of a car on the way to the studio.
“Everything about this just feels so right,” Chaerin whispered after taking a few sips of her coffee, “there really is no place quite like home, is there?”
Despite all of the places that she travelled to, the wonders of the world that she got to see, no place compared to home with you. Although she’d been to some incredible spots, her favourite was only ever being tucked up in bed with you.
“I don’t think there is any place better than being here, with the rest of the world just shut out,” you mused in reply, “we’re the only people that matter here.”
“I love it that way,” Chaerin agreed, “I’d like to keep it that way.”
You smiled down at her as she settled back into your side with her coffee finished, “if only we could really keep things that way, just the two of us.”
“Don’t tempt me,” she sniggered as your hand moved back through her hair, “some mornings I wanted to just ring up management and tell them to cancel my schedule because I just wanted to stay in bed, tucked up with you.”
“And now you get the chance to do that,” you reminded her.
The smile on her face instantly grew, “remind me of one thing Y/N, never let me take for granted my mornings with you ever again.”
Your head nodded in reply, “it’s not even just the morning that we get to spend together today, we’ve got the whole day just to do absolutely nothing.”
“I’ve waited for the chance to do this for so long,” she whispered, moving her arm around your waist, “I’m determined to make the most of it.”
You leaned down and pressed a kiss to the top of her head, “we’ll have the best day doing absolutely nothing, how does that sound?”
“Perfect, it sounds absolutely perfect.”
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