„Is everything okay, sweetheart? You look like you want to talk about something.”
She looks unsure for a moment before apparently deciding to go for it.
„There was something I wanted to talk to you about. The girls and I were talking, and I realized that I don`t know what we” she gestures between herself and me „are. Like, are we a couple, are we casual?”
Ah, I see.
„Well, I don`t know how you see it, but to me, we`re now a couple. You`re my girlfriend. Do you see things differently?”
„No, I see it the same way. I guess I just needed to hear it from you as well. It's just because of the world we live in; relationships are more complicated nowadays.”
„Yeah, I guess. I personally blame Tinder.”
She laughs at that.
„Oh my God, I was just thinking the same thing earlier.”
„There you go, we are totally soulmates.”
„Totally,” she says, grinning.
I look at her, and it hits me again just how beautiful she is to me. I could look at that smiling face of hers for hours and not get tired of it.
How did we get here, how did I come to see her as everything I never knew I needed in my life?
„Why are you looking at me like that?” she asks.
I shrug because I don`t know how to put it into words, I`m not exactly a touchy-feely guy.
„I was just thinking you look beautiful.”
There, I said it. It`s as close to the truth as I`m comfortable getting.
She smiles huge, and if I`m not mistaking, she`s blushing a little bit. The things that make this woman blush are always surprising to me.
„Sweetheart, are you by any chance blushing?”
She blushes even harder, but she still shakes her head.
„Me, blush? No, of course not.”
„Are you sure, because you look a little red in the cheeks.”
She puts both her palms on her cheeks, her eyes as big as saucers.
„I am not blushing. I must be coming down with a fever or something.”
I put my palm on her forehead and slowly shake my head.
„You don`t seem unusually warm.”
„How do you know, you`re not a doctor.”
„I`ll take your temperature if you want.”
She smirks at me and puts her hands on her hips.
„You want to take my temperature, is that what the kids are calling it these days?”
I`m ashamed to admit this, but I didn`t immediately understand her meaning, but after a minute, a little light bulb went on, and I burst into laughter.
She`s obviously very proud of the reaction she gets from me because she sits there with a smug smile on her face.
„Where do you come up with these things? Do you have like a little book of jokes that you have memorized, and you fish one out whenever you need it?”
„Of course not, although I must say that I`m very flattered that you even considered the possibility that I was that organized. I love making people laugh. You especially.”
She says it with such fondness that it causes me to have one of those funny chest tightening moments that happen more and more around her.
„Job well done then. Now, I have a job to do, as well.”
I pick her up and throw her over my shoulder. She lets out a startled laugh and pats my ass.
„What are you doing?”
„I`m taking you upstairs,” I say like it`s obvious.
„Why?” she asks in a fake innocent voice.
„I wanna take your temperature.”
Sophie
I wake up Monday morning with a huge smile on my face.
Who says Mondays suck? People who don`t wake up draped all over a gorgeous man, that`s who.
We spent all of Sunday in bed. The only time we got out was when he went to pay the delivery guy.
Yes, I caved and agreed to order Chinese food. What can I say, Max can be very persuasive when he wants to.
We talked, we ate, we slept and, of course, we had a lot of sex. We are very compatible in more ways than one.
I look at him sleeping, and I get this overwhelming sense of tenderness. I love this man, and even though he hasn`t said anything in regards to his feelings, I know that he at least cares deeply for me. It`s in the way he looks at me, the way he touches me, the way he listens to what I have to say. I`m important to him.
He must feel me looking at him because he starts to stir, and he slowly opens his eyes. He smiles sleepily at me and kisses my shoulder.
„Good morning, beautiful.”
„Good morning, sunshine.”
„How long have you been waiting to say that?”
„Since I gave you the nickname.”
„Yeah, I figured as much.”
I couldn`t say it before because he`s always so grumpy when he wakes up in the morning that I didn`t want to poke the bear. He`s not grumpy this morning, though. It just goes to show you what wonders a steady dose of orgasms can do for a man.
He starts to get up, but he doesn't get out of bed like I thought he would. Instead, he flips me over, and next thing I know, he`s positioned himself between my legs, and I discover he has a lovely case of morning wood. God bless mother nature.
„I don`t have practice this morning.”
„No, you don`t.”
„However, I think it`s important for my overall health that I stay active. I feel that some morning cardio is a good way to achieve that, don`t you think?”
I raise my eyebrows in mock innocence.
„We could do some yoga if you want.”
„Sure. Maybe we could do that downward dog thingy.”
I burst out laughing because a) he knows about the downward dog and b) because he used the word thingy.
„Okay, we can do the downward dog.”
„That`s great. You`ll have to show me though, I`ve never done this before.”
I bite my lower lip in my best Fifty Shades imitation
„Oh my, a virgin. I`ll try to be as gentle as I can, sunshine.”
He gives me one of those sexy smiles of his before kissing me
