Slowly waking up because I felt eyes staring at me and watching me while I slept, I looked over my shoulder with my eyes just open to see Charlotte wide awake and watching me.
"Morning Sunshine, how are you feeling this morning?"
"If your meaning am I seeing three of you and if there's a drum banging than I'm feel great because none of that is happening."
"Well that's great," she leant forward to kiss my forehead. Groaning, I lay my head back down on the pillow and feel Charlotte place her arm over my back and head just near my ear.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, it's just really early."
"It's 10:30am."
"It's still a Sunday and 10:30am which is way too early to be awake."
"Gez and here's me thinking you were a morning person, little did I know how wrong I was."
"I am normally a morning person expect for Sundays, Sundays I am not a morning person. I like sleeping in on Sundays, like only waking up at noon or later."
"Well I thought today we could watch movies in bed all day long and just spend some time together."
"That sounds great, just give me a few minutes to wake up.
"Okay, I'll go find us something to eat."
"No."
"No?" Charlotte questioned me.
"I don't want you to leave yet, you're really warm and without you I'll become freezing."
"Okay, I'll stay while you wake up and then we can both go down to find something to eat."
"Alright," Charlotte giggles while showering the parts of my face she can reach with her lips with kiss. Rolling onto my side to face Charlotte asked "Did you have a good birthday yesterday?"
"Yeah, it was a great day and I love the presents everyone gave me especially yours."
"That's great Charlotte," I leant forward and pecked the top of her nose.
"How's your cheek?"
"It's a little itchy but I'll saviour," I place my hand over the bandage.
"Do you want me to take a look at it?"
I replied with "If you don't mind."
"Of course I don't mind," Charlotte gave me a sincere look. Removing my hand from the bandage, Charlotte places her hand at one of the end and starts to pull the bandage away which hurts like a lot.
After removing the bandages Charlotte starts to gently poke at the cut before saying "It's no longer bleeding so it should heal up in a couple of days, just let it breath and if it start to hurt then tell me and I'll kiss it better."
"Ow it hurts," I smiled and Charlotte smiled back.
Charlotte pushes me to lay onto my back before rolling on top of me and asking "Where does it hurt?"
I replied with "All over doctor."
"Well we can't have that now," Charlotte then starts to kiss my cheek and eventually her lips wonder lower than the knife cut on my cheek. Charlotte starts kissing down my neck, when she reaches the end of my neck she starts going back up my neck and back to my cheek.
Charlotte pauses at my ear and whispers "How does it feel now?"
"It still hurts doctor," I feel Charlotte kiss sideways to where the cut is on my cheek and starts doing what she had been doing. Only this time the when she reaches my pulse point, I feel her teeth bite down on it before sucking/licking at it. Being bitten coursed me to moan and thrusted upwards, arching my back before lowering back down on the bed, I was hoping that I hadn't been so loud that Charlotte's Mum or worse Kim hears and they come in running thinking something was wrong.
Charlotte whispers in my ear again "How about now?"
"It's getting slightly better doctor."
Charlotte goes back to kissing my cheek until we hear a knock on the door; a voice comes through saying "Cloe, Charlotte are you awake?" I feel Charlotte drop her head down into my neck and groan really quietly.
The voice belonged to Kim; she knocks again asked again "Cleo, Charlotte are you awake?"
I whisper "We could pretend to be asleep."
Charlotte whispers back "I'm too awake to pretend, your sister is a really cold shower."
I replied with "You have no idea," Charlotte gives me a look and shake my head telling her she doesn't want to know. Charlotte rolls off of me and I stand up from her bed and walk over to her door, I open it to reveal a relieved Kim.
I asked "What's up Kim?"
Kim replied with "Anne wanted me to see if you were awake and were hungry for breakfast."
I say "Tell Anne, we'll be down in a minute."
Kim replied with "Okay," I watch as Kim turns and walks away.
Closing the door Charlotte said "We'll be down in a minute."
I replied with "Well we were going to go down there once I had woken up more and after that then the cold shower, I think I'm awake."
"But I was enjoying what we were doing."
"Me to, believe me I was too but if we don't go down then your Mum might come up and she won't knock; which will mean we'll get caught in an awkward situation and no more sleepovers. Which Rikki, Zane, Lewis, Emma and Ash will ask us and we won't tell them but Kim will and the endless teasing and mocking will come."
"Okay, okay I'll go downstairs no need to scare me."
"Thought you'd see it my way, now you leave so I can change out of my dress from your birthday party."
"Your kicking me out of my own room," Charlotte stood up from her bed with a shocked look.
"Well yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious."
"You are definitely an original Cleo," Charlotte said before kissing me on the top of my forehead before leaving the room.
After changing into sweat pants and one of Charlotte t-shirt, I made my way downstairs and into the kitchen to find everyone sitting at the dining room table already eating, what looks like to be bacon and eggs.
Anne looks up and said "Good morning Cleo."
I replied with "Good morning Anne," before taking a seat next to Charlotte who is smiling at me.
Kim then asked "Is that one of Charlotte's shirts?"
Smiling I replied with "I believe it is," I feel Charlotte place her hand on top of my thigh which makes me smile even more.
Anne said "It looks good on you," I smile at her before starting to cut into my egg and eat.
Anne asked a few minutes later "How is your cheek Cleo?"
I answered with "It's alright, how's your neck Kim?" I look up at Kim and see that she still has her bandages on it.
Kim replied with "It's fine Cleo," I nodded my head and took a sip of my orange juice which Charlotte had kindly poured for me.
Anne said "Kim has filled me in on the details that it was your Mother that cut you both."
I replied with "She's not my Mother nor is she Kim's."
Charlotte whispers "Cleo," I see the pleading look of not to be mean and it's not that I want to but I have to protect Kim.
Anne said "Understandable, do you know why she would do this?"
I replied with "No and for Kim's sake, I'm going to find out." Feeling a hand on top of my thigh I looked down to see it was Charlotte's hand and she was trying to calm me down.
Anne asked "So what is the plan for today?"
Charlotte answered with "Cleo and I are going to spend the day watching movies up in my room."
Anne smiled at us and said "That sounds great and you Kim, any plans?"
Kim responded with "Two of my friends from school asked if I wanted to go to the mall with them today," my head snapped up immediately as the same time Charlotte squeezed my leg.
Kim asked "It's alright if I go isn't Cleo?"
I replied with "Of course it is Kim."
Kim smiled and said "Thanks Cleo, I'll go ring my friend now," Kim stood up from the table and run out of the room.
Anne said "That was very sweet of you Cleo," I just shrugged my shoulder and took a bite of my last piece of bacon.
Picking up my empty plate along with Charlotte's I started to carry the plates into the kitchen, carefully placing them into the sink and carefully turning the tap on. I watched as the water splashed over the plates, it was very alluring to watch and always caught my attention. When it got turned off I looked up to see Charlotte standing there smiling at me.
Charlotte asked "You alright?"
I replied with "Yeah, water just has a very luring affect over me."
Charlotte said "I see that," she had this big cheesy grin on her face. Charlotte moved around the counter and pushed me backwards, to then sit on the bench next to the stove.
I asked "What are you doing?" I wrapped my legs around Charlotte's back and held her close to me.
"I'm doing the dishes, I just have to make sure you don't get water splashed onto you."
"I can't let you do them by yourself."
"Yeah but unless you wanted to relevel that tail of yours to your sister and my Mum, you better stay up here."
I replied with "Fine but only because them finding out about it, isn't really appealing." Charlotte smiled up at me before leaning forward and pecking me on the lips; she then unwraps my legs from around her back and moved over to the sink. After charlotte filled the sink with water and a little bit of soap, I watched as she starts to wash each dish in the sink with an equal amount of time for each.
Soon Kim walks into the kitchen with a big smile on her face; she said "Sara's Mum is on her way to pick me up."
I replied with "Okay, do you have any money?"
Kim nodded her head, I say "Come here," I hop down from the counter and grab my wallet from the bench top that Charlotte had put it on last night.
Opening it up, I say "Here, just in case," I hand her a twenty dollar note.
Kim replied with "Thank-you."
"No problem, just be careful and if you need me to come get you just call or if it's not a big sister need to know call Lewis or Emma or Rikki."
Kim nodded and said "I know and thank-you."
"Anytime, it's what big sister are for," I pull Kim into a tight hug before messing her up a little.
I say "Make sure you thank Anne before you leave," Kim nodded her head and left the kitchen still trying to straighten her hair.
Looking away from the door and at Charlotte who had big smile on her face, I asked "What?"
"Nothing, it's really nice to see your big sister side come out."
"Well with Dad away and our Mother showing up out of nowhere I have to protect her."
"Speaking of your Mother, do you have any idea what you're going to do about her?"
"Keep her away from Kim as much as I possibly can. When we came home from school that day to find out she was no longer coming home, it destroyed Kim and I'm not going to let it happen again."
Charlotte asked "And what about you?"
"There's no time to think about me in this situation, I have to protect Kim and Dad from getting heartbroken again."
"Cleo you get to feel too in this situation."
"I can't, they get in the way of whatever she has planned."
Charlotte wiped her hand on a tea towel and said "Okay, iron women just know if you need to talk or to vent I'm here."
"Thank-you, I just don't want to see my family get hurt," Charlotte wrapped her arms around me for a hug. Charlotte then suggested we go upstairs and watch movies like we had planned to do for the whole day, I followed her upstairs and allowed her to choose the first movie while I got comfy in her bed.
