Ryder wasn’t even sure what it was exactly she had said to him in the last couple of minutes. Not that it didn’t matter to him, nor had she noticed since she had her back to him. She was going on about the day before, something that had happened at a NYADA audtion she’d attended, as she continued to stir and stir the pot of whatever soup she had decided on making that morning. Harmony was an overthinker and, not knowing if she was to be home by the time Ryder would be, she always managed to fix some sort of quick meal for him to eat in case she wouldn’t be available to him later. Spite the extra task in the morning, she never seemed to skip a beat. He watched her, a small glimmering twinkle in his eye, as her hand movements flourished as her story’s climax got closer. He could only see one side of her as she stood at the stove, but he could tell by the scrunch of her nose that she was reliving the dramatic emotions of whatever had troubled her enough to tell him such a story. Her long, black hair struggled to reach the small of her back when she wore it down, as she was then, and the shirt she wore was one of his that she’d acquired at some point the night before. He could watch her for hours, his interest in her body movements being one that would never slumber. He hadn’t realized he’d stood up from his place at their small dining room table, leaving his warm cup of coffee behind as he peered up behind her, slinking his arms lazily around her waist to block her from her stance at the stove.
The sides of his mouth crinkled up as he dared not to grin, knowing the wrath of Harmony when he interrupted her stories. He was never able to help himself. Mornings like this were ones he wouldn’t trade for anything in all the world. Mornings like this, with her, were ones that life were all about.