Saturday, July 2nd

"Sara? Sara! Wake up! You're going to be late!" Sofia shook her girlfriends shoulder. It was five in the morning and when Sara wanted to be on time in Angeles National Forest she had to hurry, her shift started at six.

"Mhm…good morning Love." Sara pulled the blonde into her arms and kissed her.

"Morning, you need to get up."

"No, I don't."

"Of course. You've one more hour before it's time to start your shift."

"Forty-eight."

"What?"

"Forty-eight hours. Did I forget to mention I've the weekend off?"

"Yes."

"Oh. Surprise."

"How can you forget…?"

"Well…the plan was going to bed early with you, which worked out yesterday evening. Then having sweet sex with you, which also worked out and after that telling you we can sleep in and have two lovely days together. Somehow this point got lost during other activities last night."

"We can sleep in?"

"Yes." Sara kissed Sofia's throat. "It's six in the morning, we can stay in bed for another three or four hours."

"You didn't tell me this because you wanted me to go to bed earlier last night?"

"We had the possibility to watch another movie with Don, Kyle and Lynn or we go to bed and make our own love story. As much as I like our friends, I preferred some quality time with you because I could barely remember how it was to hold you naked in my arms, kissing you wherever I want and feel your lips all over my body. Maybe that's why I forgot to mention my day off."

"Not that we couldn't have done all those things after the last movie."

"We could but it had been a delay of two hours plus. Nothing I was willing to accept. Sorry to ruin the movie night, I offered you that you can stay downstairs with them."

"Knowing I'd never take this offer."

"Yes."

"You played me."

"Yes."

"You enjoyed that."

"Absolutely."

"I'm glad you did it." Sofia smiled and kissed her lover. Their quality time together was better than any movie. "The next time just mention after the sex that we can sleep in and I won't wake you up, horrified you'll be late for work."

"Okay. Now do you want to get up or stay in bed?"

"We're late for the sunrise, too early for breakfast, why don't we stay here? There wasn't a chance for a sleep in since I'm back home. Two weeks. Gosh, no wonder I couldn't resist your lips last night, two weeks at home without sex, over a week before that in hospital, I was dying for your lips and hands all over me."

"Are you telling me there was no reason to lure you up here last night, if I had told you straight away what I had on my mind the movie would have been not an issue?"

"No movie will ever be a better choice than being with you."

"I've to keep this in mind." Sofia sighed happily. Sara would stay with her the whole weekend, No more twelve hour shifts, no more overtime, no more goodbye in the early morning and hello after dinner. Two days for them. Two days for themselves. A whole weekend to take the dogs out, have a barbecue and maybe a little trip down to the beach. Although Sofia wasn't sure if the last point was something she really wanted. Maybe it was better to go to the beach during the week, when less people were around. For the first time she returned to the ocean she wanted less people around her. Especially if she could get herself to wear some shorts.

Her nose close to the throat of the brunette Sofia woke up in Sara's arms, feeling her skin on her own and smelling the sweet scent of her lover. This was good, this was the way their lives were supposed to be. Waking up arm in arm, with a smile and no need to hurry for anything. A nice day for two people in love.

"Cinderella wakes up."

"You mean Sleepy Beauty." Sofia corrected.

"Sorry, of course."

"Sleepy Beauty wakes up in the arms of her princess. We didn't sleep one hundred years but I feel good anyway."

"We're in bed for over twelve hours."

"Are we? What time is it?"

"Eleven."

"Wow. Lucky us I took my medicine at six when I woke you up. Otherwise you had a whiny wimp next to you." Sofia had forgotten once her pain killers in the morning and in the late morning she suffered from so much pain, she regretted her thoughtlessness. There was a very good reason why you were supposed to take your medicine every day at the same time. She had learnt that.

"Lucky for us it's not a home care day."

"No, they will come back on Monday. If there aren't any complications."

"There had never been any. Plus if you feel like something is wrong you have the number of doctor Bendler."

"My personal surgeon should have some time off too. She did enough for me."

"Actually she did her job, only with more passion and pressure because you're a friend of her daughter."

"Her daughter who doesn't want to work with me so I've to see this old and boring guy."

"He isn't Mister America but you said he always hit the spot."

"Yeah." Sofia grumbled. Her psychotherapist also hit the spots she didn't want to talk about and made her talk. With his help she could remember a lot of more of the explosion than before. Plus he made her aware of some behavior of herself that had changed. She was a little bit jumpy sometimes, she was moody and unfair. When she felt like staying the whole day in bed because her life seemed to offer no reasons to get up she knew it was part of the light PTSD and depression. Normal and nothing to worry about when she continued to work on it. So like Sara she'd go to therapy on Monday, first physiotherapy and after it psychotherapy. No wonder people all around the world believed Americans weren't able to handle any problems without therapists anymore. She was the best example.

"Shall we take a shower together?"

"You mean shall you take a shower and while I try to get up and wrap my cast and bandages so I can have a kind of shower."

"I mean I help you wrapping up and we have a shower together."

"A really nice idea…I'm afraid I will wrap up my bandages and casts and wash myself while you have a shower."

"Didn't I buy you a shower chair? We wrap you up, get you onto the chair and wash you."

"You only want to see me naked."

"Honey, you're naked right now."

"Do you enjoy it?"

"Oh yes." Sara slipped onto Sofia carefully. "I enjoy every second I spend with you."

"I love you. Come on, time to clean us up. Wrap me up."

"Mhm, later." Sara bit playfully into the blonde's throat.

"Honey, if we don't start getting prepared we'll be late for all our appointments – and the dogs will…won't complain when we're a little bit late." Sofia pulled Sara's head down. How was she supposed to keep her head straight when her lover did everything for her to lose it.