"Of course you leave." I mutter under my breath as the hand that was cautiously feeling your supposed to be side of the bed now covering half of my face from the rest of the world. Huh, apparently knowing that you won't be here each and every single morning doesn't dissipate the squandering feeling of disappointment on the pit of my stomach. God, I hate it. God, I hate you, and I know better than this, and yet still I come everytime my phone rings. It's just -It has been four months for fuck's sake! You could at the very least humor me by staying. "God, get a fucking grip. You agreed to this. You know he won't stay. Stop mourning like a lost kid." I keep muttering to my-- CLANK! "What on earth?" I get up quietly from the bed, for god's sake it's 6 in the morning, people don't rob houses at freaking six, aren't they?! My feet moves hesitantly across the room until the view stops me from moving any further. He stands there in the middle of my kitchen, making god awful noises and god knows what else with all the pans and the bowls --probably coffee, I smell coffee, and eggs? But he's there, towering in the middle of a dimly lit kitchen --how he can see anything he's making, I do not know-- standing simply in shorts and t-shirt, clumsily locating where things should be. He's there in my kitchen. Circe, he's here! I walk to the nearest switch and turn all the lamps on. His sharp intake of breath echoes in the room. "You'll know what you're making with the lights on." I say cautiously. Is this actually happening? Is he actually here? "What are you doing here?" he says exasperatedly. "It's six in the morning, go back to bed..." I bite my tongue before I can utter a single word I'll regret. "Why? So I will once again wake up with the thought of you not being here?" I say quietly, not sure whether to actually spill the things I have long piled up inside my head. God, that sounds so selfish, doesn't it? I can't face him, not like this, not when my emotions are not in the right place, not when he clearly doesn't want me to see him in my kitchen. "I'm sorry. I'll leave you to it." I mutter under my breath before turning back to the way I came, yet strong, firm hands wraps themselves around my body --this is the hands I have found myself so familiar with, the hands that have shielded my body again and again, caress it like a lover, hold it like a protector, I have lost my mind time and time again under the heated touch and lust induced trace, this is the hands that wrap themselves around me everynight yet leave my body to shudder in cold every morning. "Don't leave. I just want to make you breakfast, and it's still too early, you need more rest." he says slowly, probably trying to make my child brain understand his intentions. "You stayed." I state quietly, afraid that he'll be afraid and run to the hill. "I stayed." "Why?" "Because I have been wanting to stay for the last two months and yet I didn't know whether you would be okay with it or not. I'm sorry for taking so much time only to gather my courage." I turn my body in his embrace, putting a distance between us so that I could see his face. "You could ask me..." I say softly, only for him to hear the vulnerability in my voice. "I'm afraid you'd run and leave me behind. It's not what we agree on the first time, you know." "We don't agree on anything. We fuck then we'll see what will happen." he smiles at me. "I just realize seeing you in only one of my shirt makes me want to ask you another thing." he grins mischievously, his eyes twinkling. He leans close to my ear, nipping the lobe teasingly, making my spine shudder under his mercy. "Do you want chocolate chips in your pancakes?" he says in a low voice, humming in satisfaction when another shudder rips through my body, looking back at me with a grin in his face. "You utter git!" I say with a laugh as I slap his shoulder playfully. "Yes, I want chocolate chips in my pancakes." he chuckles slightly as he releases me from his embrace. "Go back to bed, your breakfast will be ready in 10, My Liege." I shake my head as a smile adores my lips when he goes back to making breakfast. God, this morning is real, isn't it? Yet as I almost leave the room his voice stops me once again --no, the raw vulnerability in his voice stops me. "What if I say I want more than this? I want morning afters, I want breakfast in bed, I want friday night movie theater, I want to have dinner with you without any special occassion. What if I say I want to stay for so much more than just morning afters?" I can't hide my smile as I turn around to face him. For once, he looks so young, so lost, that my heart flutters madly in my chest. This is him, wearing his heart on his sleeve, offering everything that is him into this. "Then I wouldn't want it any differently. I'm here. I won't run." This is me with my heart on my sleeve, asking you to catch it as I catch yours. #WrittenAugust #WrittenAugustDay5














