A Way To Start A Morning

Kisses while brushing teeth. Whistling while cooking. Cold showers together in the summer, warm ones in the winter. Morning's were my favorite part of the day, but they never lasted long enough before work called. He off to his father's company and I to my cushy salesman job at a high-end boutique. I get paid by commission and I never failed to walk away with an extra large paycheck.

After I started dating Alec my paycheck decreased, my heart wasn't into the flirting like it use to. Alec was always on my mind and I teased him all the time that he was the reason I would starve or wind up homeless. He would return with, "I would never let that happen. I'll take care of you." And he did. Smiling happily at me, loving me, cooking when I couldn't- and still can't. He was the greatest mistake I made.


"Magnus." He groaned wiggling in my arms. "It's time to get up."

It was but I was too comfortable, and Alec was so warm and inviting. I couldn't bare to move and ruin my paradise.

"Do you want me to go to work and hit on old ladies?" I grumbled into his shoulder, giving it a gentle kiss at the end of my words.

"No." He replied flatly. He had stopped moving and trying to get free though he hadn't been putting up a real fight.

"What's wrong?" I asked lifting my head so I was looking down at him. He was staring out the door while gnawing at his bottom lip. What had I said that upset him Did I take my joke too far?

"Do you like working there?" Alec asked still avoiding my gaze.

"It pays the bills and I'm good at it." I answered truthfully.

Alec muttered, "Of course you're good at it."

I pulled back from him in shock. Was this dark attitude really coming from Alec? My Alec? The boy who beamed about our first date? The boy who got flustered when we first had sex? Was this really coming from him?

"What's that suppose to mean?" I asked as I felt my brows furrow.

Alec's face turned red and he rolled onto his stomach burying his face into his pillow. Now that was the Alec I had come to know over the last three months, my longest relationship.

"Alexander." I pressed sitting up causing the blankets to pool around my waist.

He punched his pillow and I held back the urge to laugh at his cute temper. He was always cute.

"I'm jalemsf." He murmured out the side of his mouth.

"Huh?" I raised a brow.

"I'm jealous." He groaned lifting his head.

"Of what?" I inquired as he finally looked at me with those big blue eyes.

"Magnus." He whined. He pulled the blankets over his head. Sometimes it was hard to believe he was twenty-one. "You flirt with people all day, and you use to go out clubbing and do the same thing. I just don't see how I fit in." He explained flopping onto his back. His arm tossed over his eyes, but I could still see the blush on his cheeks.

I huffed burying my face into my hands. This guy was so frustrating sometimes, but it always made life interesting. He was indeed not the type I usually dated but that was probably why I liked him so much more than the others.

"Wha-?" Alec gasped as I pressed myself on top of him. "Magnus-"

"Right here." I said wrapping my arms around him. "You fit right here. Don't worry about those other morons, they're not you. Okay?"

He was quiet as I hugged him close. Then he was nuzzling my neck and his hands were wandering up the bare skin of my back. I trembled before stealing a hot kiss from him.

"Unfortunately not this morning darling." I said as he tried to catch his breath. "Someone lazed around too long and now we're running late." I glanced at the alarm clock on the nightstand and sure enough we only had an hour to get ready, and my level of perfection took at least two.

"That would be you." He accused hitting me with my own pillow.

"No I think it was my jealous boyfriend." I winked. Swiftly I got off of him and the bed and made my way to the bathroom across the hall.

"Magnus!" Alec whined tossing the pillow. It hit my back and all I could do was laugh.

"If you don't want to be late, then come shower with me!" I called over my should. A moment later I heard the rustle of sheets and the hurried footsteps behind me.

He was so predictable.


I forced myself out of bed with a muted groan and trudged through the pile of dirty clothes on my way to the bathroom. The apartment was silent except for the gargled purr of my cat, Chairman Meow. The last time my apartment was this quiet was almost two years ago before Alec first moved in. He would hum or whistle to brighten the eerie silence.

There was none of that now. There hadn't been any laughing or off-key tunes in a week.

I made my way into the cluttered bathroom, avoiding the mirror that would only show how much I needed help. The bruises under my eyes would be darker, eyes redder from a restless sleep, the hair along my jaw beyond stubble and in need of a shove. I would look like shit.

I never thought a relationship would effect me like this, but here I was sulking and disheveled like some bum.

I took a much need shower and tried to push Alec from my thoughts. I couldn't though. The last words before her left were on constant repeat in my head. A sob shook me as my tears mixed with the warm cascading water.

'Just go to work Magnus. I'll be here when you get back.' He smiled at me at the time.

"But you weren't." I cried out as I hugged myself now.


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