Authors note: I'm sorry... I caved.
'Dude isn't this cute?' I looked at the red bikini Meg was holding up and nodded.
'Try it on. I'm liking this one.' I picked a purple one up with the top that has those dangly things hanging down it. I didn't know what they were called but I liked it.
'Ooo that's cute. Alright I think five bathing suits is enough for one trip to the dressing room. Onward!' I followed her to the dressing room, regretting my choice to leave my crutches since my knee was getting sore so I was counting the steps to the dressing room where there were chairs. 'So is Nadir telling the truth?' I sat down after putting my picks on a hook and sighed as I rubbed my knee.
'Depends on what he's saying. No unicorns aren't real so there's that.'
'You've been over at their house late at night and never spend the night.'
'How the hell does he know that? Is he listening? Clocking me out once I leave? Jesus Christ tell him to mind his own damn business.'
'So you two are having sex then. Are you guys dating or is it temporarily casual?'
'I told him he has to tell me what we're doing by the end of the week. It's only happened 7 times. Nadir is making it sound like we go non-stop.'
'7 times? How long has this been going on?'
'Like two weeks? Once in my room, once in my car and then the rest have been in his room... This past week.'
'Oh yeah! You two totally don't go at it non-stop. That's 5 nights out of 7 Chris! I'm not scolding you but that's a lot.'
'Oh great someone who doesn't think it's a bad idea. Do you think I'm making a mistake?'
'I wouldn't call it a mistake, but I also wouldn't call it a good idea.' I nodded and stood up to start trying the swimsuits on. I pulled my tanktop and bra off as Meg's phone started ringing but she ignored it.
'On a scale from taking nude pics and never showing them to anyone, and Kim K sex tape where would you rate this on the bite me in the ass meter?'
'I'm going to say a solid Miley Cyrus nipple through her shirt photos.' I could accept that.
'I accept the risk 100%.' I dropped my skirt then stepped out of it as I grabbed my first suit which was a one piece and had the sides cut out and the back up to my butt gone as well.
'I wouldn't.'
'Well you also have a boyfriend who is practically a little bitch. I love Nadir but damn he would do anything for you, including get back with you of you asked. The guy I love is convinced being fuck buddies is what's best for me and is set in that thought process.'
'That sucks. Well I can like convince Erik to date you again if you'd like.'
'No I just want him to date me on his own free will. Sam already tried kidnapping us so that won't work.'
'Boo that whore.' I giggled as I adjusted the suit, they always looked weird with underwear on.
'Ready?'
'Yeah. 3, 2, 1 and go.' I opened the door and limped out, Meg going for the red one with the bow on the top piece that was between the boob cups. 'Ooo get that one. Goes amazing with your skin. What about mine?' It was baby pink with black lace over it, and then where the teardrop hole between my boob cups were had a tiny pink bow to match. What the trend with bows was I dunno, but it was cute.
'If you don't get that one I will.' I put my arms over myself protecting it and limped back into the dressing room.
'Should we try the other ones on?'
'I'm not, but if you want to then I'll gladly critique.' I looked at myself in the mirror and nodded in approval since I didn't look terrible besides my awkwardly bent leg.
'Nah I like this one.' I started taking it off and getting changed when I got a text so I quickly put my clothes on then found my phone at the bottom of my purse. I saw that it was a text from Erik so I unlocked my phone to read it.
'Can you meet me at my house in 30 minutes?'
'Believe it or not I have a life outside of having sex with you, and no I can't. I'm hanging out with Meg.'
'But it's important, please.' I sighed and grabbed everything before leaving the dressing room.
'Who's that?'
'Erik. He wants me to come over.'
'Well I mean lunch can wait.' She winked making me swat her arm as we hung up the swim suits we didn't want then left the dressing room.
'I'm not going to drive home just to have sex with him. If he's desperate he can figure something else out.'
'You are ruthless and I love it.' I smiled as she hugged my neck.
'Yeah I know I'm terrible. Okay can we go to lunch? My knee hurts and I need to sit down.'
'Of course! Where do you want to go?' She gave me her arm which helped a lot after I laced mine around hers and put some of the pressure on her.
'Uh how does The Cheesecake Factory sound?'
'Fucking hell I love you.' She kissed my cheek as I giggled.
'I know you do.'
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'You know that their chicken tacos are better than their shrimp, right?' Meg shrugged her shoulders as the waiter walked away from the table after taking our orders.
'Well as they say in 2013, yoloooooo!' Meg and I laughed, but she stopped when she glanced over my shoulder.
'What?' I turned around and glared at Erik as he smiled and walked up to us. 'How the fuck did you find out where we are?'
'Thank you, Meg.'
'Oh my god you used Nadir!' I moved my glare to her as he sat down next to me.
'Yes I did, but he was completely compliant in the entire operation.' He looked over at me and noticed my annoyance. 'What? I told you it was important.'
'I won't have sex with you in the bathroom. If you have blue balls deal with it yourself.'
'I didn't know the sex in the bathroom was an option, but good to know. It has nothing to do with my genitals.'
'Then what do you want? Meg and I are having lunch.'
'Y'know for possibly being her future boyfriend you'd think she'd be nicer to me.' Meg shrugged her shoulders as Erik sighed. 'Oh well, I was going to give you these to see if you wanted to go but since you have this new found resentment towards me I'll just take Nadir.' He handed me the envelope that he had set on the table and I opened it, somewhat curious as to what it was. I pulled out two tickets to the early screening of The Fault In Our Stars and glanced up at him.
'You want me to go with you to see this?'
'Only if you want to.' I looked back down at the tickets in contemplation then nodded as I put the tickets back in the envelope.
'I'll go.'
'Don't sound so excited over getting what you wanted. Sheesh.'
'I wanted you to date me because you wanted to, not because you wanted to continue getting sex from me.'
'I'm doing this because I want to, not because I want sex from you. I have zero plans to initiate sex on our date, and if it is it's by you which I have no control over.'
'Alright fine, I believe you... I'll see you on the 5th.'
'Awesome, I'll pick you up at 1 and we'll grab some food before and then get good seats. I'll see you either on the 5th or tonight.'
'Don't be so full of yourself. You'll see me on the 5th.'
He sighed as he itched his chin. 'You said no more sex in the car yet you were at my house the next night? I'm not too worried about you not keeping the 5th promise.' I sighed because he was right making him smirk before kissing me and getting up from the table. 'Ladies, thank you for allowing me to momentarily crash you lunch, and thank you Meg for helping me with making the crash possible.'
'Yeah yeah yeah.' Once he left I started smiling as I danced in my seat.
'He asked me out!'
'Oh I know I'm so happy! I'm so glad that you two are going to work it out... Even though there shouldn't have been any real working it out...' Meg frowned, but started smiling again. 'Whatever either way!' We highfived as I recognized the over confidence he was showing today as the same he showed when I first met him meaning I had my work cut out for me, or he was just asking that way since Meg was here.
'He thinks I'm gonna sleep with him. That's hilarious.' I took a drink of my water as she inspected me.
'God I hope you have condoms.' I couldn't help but smile at her lack in faith for me. 'You do have condoms, right?'
'Of course we do! The only time we've ever not used a condom was almost three weeks ago when he was drunk and I was not in my right state of mind.'
'Oh my God Christine you did not!'
'I did and I don't regret it.' I took another sip of my water as she looked at me in disbelief.
'Christine you could be p-r-e-g-n-a-n-t and all that!'
'He pulled out, we're not that stupid even when under the influences.'
'So! Some still could have gotten in you, and you could be pregnant right now and not know it.'
'Okay Meg would you shut up? You're stressing me out over something I don't need to stress over.' I tried to stay calm, but now that she implanted the thought into my brain, my paranoia fought to kick in.
'Sorry, but I think you should take a test.'
'Meg it was three weeks ago, even if I wanted to take one I couldn't because it's too early.'
'No it's not! There's a test that can tell you like a week before your period, or when it's supposed to come at least. If you find out you can nip it in the bud and pretend it never happened.'
'Meg, as unstable Erik and I are right now I wouldn't not tell him, especially if I was going to get rid of it. It's fucked up and not fair to him, but it isn't of concern because I'm not pregnant. I refuse to be so that's the end of it.'
'Yeah the baby in your uterus say otherwise.' I threw my napkin at her making her smile.
'You're jinxing me! You and Ellie have it out for me, and I'm going to punch her when she gets here this week along with you!'
'Having it out for you would be poking holes in your condoms, but since the time in question did not involve a condom, even if we had poked holes in them it wouldn't matter.'
'Why do you think I'm pregnant? I'm not showing any signs, and honestly I felt cramps yesterday so I probably started ovulating yesterday.'
'I don't know, I guess I'm just overreacting.' I nodded and looked at her as if her statement surprised me.
'Really? I never would have guessed.'
'I hate it when you're ruthless towards me.' I smiled sweetly and batted my eyes at her as she grabbed another piece of bread.
'But you love me so it works, right?'
'Yeah I guess so. I'm a bit jealous of your swimsuit so the odds are stacked against you today.'
'Well that sucks.' I frowned as I started tapping the table with my fingernails as I thought about Meg's overreaction and how possible it was. I mean it isn't it? I mean any unprotected sex could lead to an… infant but still. How many people get pregnant in one accidental attempt? Not many so I just hope I'm one of the lucky few who have to take fertility treatments and all that shit.
'Chris? Do you want more water?' I looked up, not sure how long I was zoned out and nodded when I saw the waiter with a pitcher of water.
'Please. Sorry I was thinking.'
'No worries. About what?' I sat back and my leg started shaking.
'What you, me and Ellie are going to do when she gets here.'
'Eat junk food and watch horror movies obviously, no boys allowed either.'
'Erik and I's relationship may rely on spending a lot of time together, please just give me this okay. She wants to meet Erik anyway.'
She raised her eyebrows and smiled wide enough I could see her teeth. 'Can Nadir come?'
'Are you and Nadir on a thin line between dating and never speaking again?' She crossed her arms over her chest and sat back against her seat.
'Fine, but you two don't get to be all lovey dovey, it's girls weeks and he's tagging along if he wants to.' I nodded and grabbed my phone when my phone buzzed to see if it was Anna who text me about our new lunch plans since she had to cancel the ones earlier this month. I set my phone back down when it was just Norman asking me to babysit so he and Sam could go on a date. 'Is it Erik?'
'No it's Norm. He wants to see if I'll babysit so he and Sam can go on a date, but I don't want to.'
'So you can go over to Erik's?' I blushed and shook my head.
'No, I just want to relax and get some sleep tonight. Stop making it sound like I'm a booty call. It makes me feel like a gullible whore.'
'I'm not making you sound like a booty call! I for one am happy you two are doing something that isn't fighting. I am all for, besides the bad chance of this coming back to bite you in the ass, this set up, but am happy that he's taking you out on a date.'
'I still feel like a whore, maybe that's the problem. Other people aren't making me sound like a whore, I just feel like one so everything someone says about this situation just reconfirms my suspicion that I am indeed a whore.'
'You're not a whore and that's the end of the discussion.' Our waiter walked up to the table with our food and set my salad in front of me, and Meg's tacos in front of her and we thanked him.
'Can I get you ladies anything else?' I shook my head and Meg did as well.
'No, thank you though.' He nodded and left the table leaving us to eat.
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'You don't have to stay with me, I'm not going over to Erik's.' Meg and I walked into my house and we both froze when we heard the most obnoxious sound to ever be produced in this world to come out of the kitchen.
'Gustaaaav you told me we'd have steak for dinner.'
'What the fuck is that noise?' Meg and I walked into the kitchen and let me tell you, her face matched her voice. She sounded like Fran Drescher mixed with nails being dragged down a chalk board. 'Holy hell!' Meg hid behind me as Gustav and Satan looked over at us.
'Dad who's the girl and when is she leaving so my ears aren't damaged by the end of the night?'
'Christine this is Carly, Carly this is my daughter, Christine. Carly and I are dating.' I snorted and put my hand over my mouth immediately.
'Sorry didn't mean to laugh, but why? Why would you optionally surround yourself with that voice?'
'Christine be nice, you don't even know her.' I raised my eyebrow as I remembered the hatred that filled my body the moment I saw her.
'I really don't care. I don't have to have dinner and learn a rapists every hobby, like and dislike to hate a rapist.'
'She's not a rapist so there's one of the flaws in your explanation.' I sighed and put my head back before setting my bags down.
'I'm a 17 year old teenage girl going through an emotionally stressful time making me moody, and I'm secretly angry that your attention will no longer be completely on me, I'm going over to Erik's.' I started walking towards the front door but Meg ran to me and pulled me back over to the stairs.
'No Erik's at all. Not until the 5th.'
'But Meeeg I want to go to Erik's.' I yanked my hand free. 'Deuces!' I left the house and started walking towards Erik's house, but groaned when Meg ran up to my side.
'Fine I'll just cockblock you and Erik by coming over and hanging out with Nadir.'
'We're fearless and will do it anyway.'
'Ugh fine! Whatever I won't stop you. I'm going home then.'
'What you don't want to hang out with Nadir knowing I'm in the other room hating myself? Where's your sense of adventure?' I smiled as she stopped walking and rolled her eyes.
'You're acting like you're a prostitute Chris, tone down on the dramatics.'
'What? I'm not allowed to hate myself for being so… easy?'
'You're having sex with the guy you love, just shut up about hating yourself. I mean you two are practically dating so just shush.'
'Meg we aren't dating.'
She started walking back towards my house. 'Yeah yeah yeah! Have fun being over dramatic and hating yourself!'
'I will!' I turned around so I was walking normally… ish and once I got up to Erik's I pulled my keys out of my purse in case the door was locked. I turned the handle when it was unlocked then walked in and quietly shut the door since I heard Anne's voice. I quietly went over to the stairs hoping they wouldn't notice me but the house was so fucking open it was nearly impossible. Thankfully Anne and Ken were too into talking to notice me as I crept up the stairs. Once I got to Erik's door I opened the door and closed it behind me. 'My dad is dating something.'
'What's that?' Erik spun in his chair while tossing a ball in the air.
'This 18 year old thing that has Fran Drescher's voice except it's like 200 times worse. Mix her voice with hearing nails on a chalkboard.' He stopped spinning so he could look at me while rolling the ball in his hand.
'Interesting. Is she blonde?'
'Yeah? What does that have anything to do with it?' I set my purse down next to where I kicked my shoes off.
'Your dad is going through a midlife crisis. He's what, 48?'
'50 in October...'
'Yep he's totally going through a midlife crisis. Tell him I said congratulations. So here you are, just as I said you would be.' He smiled as he seemed rather proud of the fact.
'I would have stayed home but she's just so fucking annoying that I came here. I'm desperate to get away from that voice. She said like 6 words and I hate her.'
'Its not easy to get you to hate someone.'
'You're only saying that so you feel accomplished.' I sat down on the floor and sighed.
'So you hate me now? Christine, I'm wounded.' He put his free hand over his heart.
'What is up with your stupid act? That's what making me hate you.'
'What act? Me having self confidence?'
'No there's a difference between having self confidence and being a pretentious prick.' I looked at the ball he started throwing at his wall again in annoyance.
'Aaand based on your hating me, I'm going to safely say I'm being a pretentious prick?' I nodded.
'Yeah pretty much. Work on that and I won't be so meh towards you... What are we anyways? I wouldn't call us friends but I also am not going to say we're dating... Plus fuck buddies just isn't very publicly accepted.'
'Friends works. Why aren't we friends? We hang out.'
'No we don't. We have sex and then I leave.'
'We're hanging out right now.' He slid off his chair and sat in front of me.
'Yeah and you're about to push it into having sex and then me leaving.'
'Well don't leave then.' He put his hand on my neck as he leaned forward to kiss me.
'But then it will get confusing...er.' I forced my eyes open to look at his which were painfully close to mine.
'Let it.' He went to kiss me again but I scrunched my face up and sat back.
'Erik you don't care about me do you? Because if you did you wouldn't want to make things more confusing for my sake.'
'Of course I care about you, I'm sorry I'm just trying to give you what you want, and I can't try and date you because it'll just make everything confusing, and you don't want anything to be confusing so I can't try and start dating you again.' Erik took a deep breath as I watched his chest rising and falling to catch up with his air supply.
'You see, I don't want you to date me to make me happy. I want you to date me because you want to.' He took my hands from my lap making my heart quicken.
'I want to more than anything, I'm just afraid of myself. I never want to hurt you again, and I wish I wasn't so fucked up because then we could have a normal relationship.'
'Well I doubt it would be normal but I bet a couple things would be different. One, you wouldn't have your awesome bed. Two, you would be able to go a lot faster when we have sex. Three, we wouldn't have dated.'
'Why wouldn't we?' I smiled weakly and shrugged my shoulders.
'Who knows you'd be right now if you were normal. Definitely not walking behind the school to find me and save me, and if Raoul was successful I probably would have given up a month or so afterwards.'
'Hey don't say that. I didn't save you, I just got you out of the situation sooner than you would have. You're a fighter.'
'Erik you have way too much confidence in me. It's flattering but really.' I blinked away a few tears. 'Can we just get this over with so I can get home and go to bed?' I took my hands from his hold so I could move my hair from around my neck then wrapped my arms around his neck.
'Christine you don't have to be here if you don't want to. Go home and get some rest.' He unhook my arms while kissing my forehead before sitting back against his desk.
'I know I can go it's just- she's so annoying and I just am so tired and confused.' I pulled his face back over to mine and started kissing him for some reason since I was just about to have a mental breakdown. 'I love you so much, Erik. I want to move to California like we daydreamed doing a couple times, I want to get married and maybe have a kid or two when we're both ready and I want to grow old with you. I want to be there when you have to start taking Viagra and I'm old and tired so I don't like the Viagra because you're constantly wanting to poke me with the stupid thing.'
'So basically we'll just be older, you'll be tired and uninterested and I'll be taking Viagra. Literally nothing else has changed.'
'Yeah pretty much.' He smirked and I found myself running my hands over his chest. 'I want us to cuddle on rainy days naked so we have to get super close to keep each other warm. I want to be woken up by you kissing me, I want the last thing I hear before going to sleep is how much you love me and I want to wake up with your skin against mine. Like I said on my birthday, I'm addicted to you and I can't get enough of you, this arrangement proving that to be true. It's physically painful how much I miss dating you, Erik.' I sat there regretting every word since not getting a response was much more painful than keeping everything in. Instead of getting a response he kissed me, which I took as something rather than nothing just for my own well being, but the nagging won over. 'Wait- I need to stop.' I put my hand over my mouth as he looked at me with concern.
'Are you okay?' I shook my head.
'No I'm not. I need an answer Erik. No kissing in hope that I'll forget and just have sex with you, I need an actual answer. Scared? Too fucking bad, because I am terrified of losing you and if you keep acting the way you're acting then I'm going to be the one suffering. I get to be selfish and ask you to think of my fears before yours.'
'Christine I can-'
'God dammit Erik yes you can! You're just trying to push me away or something!'
'I'm not trying to push you away, I just don't think you need to be dating someone as destructive as I am.' I stood up and started pacing his room.
'If you don't stop fucking acting like you're some giant piece of shit I am going to scream and rip my hair out holy shit.'
'Well I am.'
'No! You wanna know who's a destructive piece of shit?! The entire US government. They're destructive pieces of shits. People who cheat on their significant others are pieces of shit, people who intentionally and repeatedly hurt their partners are pieces of shit! You are not any of those things!' I got back down and sat in his lap. 'You're an amazing man, you are the love of my life and if me loving you doesn't make you like yourself at least enough to realize that you are capable of something good then I've obviously failed as a girlfriend.' I stood up and grabbed my purse and slipped my shoes on as he stared at the wall that was behind me. 'Goodbye, Erik. Have a good life.' I went to leave his room but when he spoke I turned around.
'Please don't... I'll work on it just please don't say goodbye.'
'Erik you're not going to work on it. We both know that's true.' I pulled my hair up into a ponytail after getting a ponytail holder from my purse.
'I- dammit please I'll do anything.' He crawled over to me, and started kissing my hand.
'This is pathetic Erik, even for you. You're begging me to stay in a dead end situation. I need to get over you and find someone who's going to be there for me. Or maybe I'll turn into a cat lady and start adding onto my collection. Who knows maybe I'll like being single with 19 cats under my belt.' I started considering that possibility as he started kissing my shirt and hugging my waist. 'So now you're the one begging?' He nodded.
'I am so please don't go. I'll do anything just give me time. I'm trying, aren't I? I'm taking you out on a date and there will be more after that, I just need to start trusting myself again.'
'I'll be dead before you start trusting yourself again.' He sighed and nodded, still not letting go of me.
'I know.' I started running my fingers through his hair since I had nothing better to do, and it felt amazing. His hair was so soft and smelled like his Old Spice shampoo that made my skin crawl whenever I smelled it.
'I love you, Erik… Want to go swimming? It's nice enough outside.'
'I don't have a pool.'
'True-' I moved his head back so he was looking at me. 'But I do. Come on get your swimsuit and we'll go over to my house and swim for a while. Swimming is the only thing good to come out of summer anyway. Fucking 100 degree weather. Fuck summer.' He stood up and I felt his wounded pride from the begging incident, but I really didn't care. If I had to beg then so does he- can we- I don't understand him, we've both begged each other for one another not to go away, yet he refuses to date me. Screaming internally is an understatement.
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'Plug your ears.' I opened the door and blanched when she was talking.
'Oh my God your comparison isn't warning enough.' Erik looked like he was in major discomfort which I again, didn't care. I grabbed my bag with my bathing suit in it then we started towards the slider to go outback.
'What are you doing Chris?' I turned to walk backwards so I could talk to my dad.
'Erik and I are going swimming. Don't hesitate to leave us alone.' I slid the door open and stepped outside, Erik following me as quickly as he could.
'My ears are ringing.' He rubbed his ears ars while I turned the pool light on as well as the water to the amazing waterslide my dad had built with the pool. 'I forgot how amazing your pool was.' He set his towel down then pulled his shirt off making my breathing stop momentarily as I started at his chest. 'Where's your swimsuit?' I snapped out of it and motioned towards the bag.
'Right here. I'm gonna change.' I walked around the corner and pulled my clothes off piece by piece while standing on top of my flats so I didn't have to stand on the rock. I found my bathing suit under my new bras and pulled the tag off and the liner on the crotch off before stepping into it and pulling it up. I fixed my boobs in the holders so they were comfortable, made sure the butt wasn't giving me a wedgie then put my flats back on.
'So the obviousness of your dads midlife crisis is almost painful.'
'Well he is turning 50 and possibly having his only daughter and last child move out in 10 months so it's understandable.' I walked back around to the patio and set the bag, my clothes and ponytail holder on the table, not unaware of Erik's staring as I kicked my shoes off again. Just to play it off like I didn't know I went over to the pool and looked over my shoulder at him. 'Ready? Or am I going to be swimming alone?' I was having my fun with this.
'No I'm coming.' He kicked his tugged his off and followed me into the pool. I immediately went underwater to get my hair wet then came back up once I was pleased with my hairs status.
'Thank God it doesn't feel like warm sweat.' I started floating on my back so I could look up at the stars.
'God you're beautiful.' I looked over at Erik as he continued looking at me in the eyes, the intense staring making me blush.
'Thank you.'
'You're welcome.' He smiled making me stop floating on my back so I could go back underwater to get away from him. I swam over to the deep end and only came up when I needed air. I swam the few feet to the ledge, climbed out of the pool and worked up the stairs that went behind the stone textured waterslide. (except it was smooth of course.) I sat down at the start of the slide and pulled my knees up to my chin so I could sit up there… away from him. 'Are you okay?'
'Yeah I'm just fine. Just bending my knee. It doesn't like being bent out straight.' I hoped he accepted the lie as I scooted forward until I slid down and landed in the water, a splash following me hitting the water. Once I hit the surface Erik was in front of me making me yelp then splash water at him. 'Not cool dude!'
'Sorry I just thought that like it'd be super romantic if I caught you after you hit the water and then we would like stare at each other for a second before I told you that I love you and then we would kiss, but I sort of failed at the catching part so here we are.' I noticed his uncovered cheek was red as I stared at him, then grasped at the part of him saying he loved me and stumbled over my own words.
'I- I'll go again. No harm in a second try.' I swam over to the edge once again and pulled myself out again then quickly climbed up the stairs, not sure if he was kidding or not but I didn't care. I sat down and scooted forward until I slid down and once I hit the water he partially caught me. 'Dude, good enough lets continue.' He smirked and fixed his hold on my waist so his hands were clasped together. I tried not to smile as we stared at each other, this entire situation summing our relationship up perfectly in my opinion. I ran my hands over his chest then around his neck in attempt to get his attention away from how quickly my heart was pounding. My face twisted up in confusion as he cupped my cheeks and kissed me instead of saying what I was hoping to hear. I responded as my eyes watered and my throat felt constricted. He stopped kissing me, but his lips were still touching mine, but he slowly pulled away and our lips stuck together for a moment and any other time I would have laughed but now I just looked anywhere but at him. 'Can you let go of me please? I want to swim around...' I cleared my throat and unhooked my hands from around his neck so I could swim away once he let go.
'Why would I let go of you in the middle of our second attempt at my terrible plan?'
'Because you kissed me and skipped right over the I love you, because you seem to be into breaking my heart repeatedly.'
'I was just switching it up since you knew my plan, I needed some element of surprise.' I looked back up at him with the last sliver of hope I had, ready for it to disappear. 'I love you Christine, you're right, I never trusted myself in the first place so I need to get over it and not keep myself from happiness with you. Plus I've been responsible for more of your tears than I ever wanted to be.'
'What changed your mind?'
'I've been thinking about it since my room, and for some reason I saw you in the way I saw you before we broke up all of the sudden, and I knew that I had to stop being an ass and just tell you so we both could be happy.' I started smiling as I put my arms back around his neck so I was closer to him.
'You've been a huge ass the past few weeks.'
'I know and I'm sorry.' I bit my lip before caving and kissing him again and pulled him as close to me as I could. He dug his fingers into my back as he walked us over to the ledge so he could pin me against the wall. We smiled against each others mouths and I tried not to be scared of the possibility of him taking this all back.
'Gustaaaaaaav!' Erik and I pulled apart and covered our ears in hope that we wouldn't be deafened by Carly's voice if she chose to scream again. I glared at her, beyond irritated with her interrupting Erik and I's kissing.
'What is it Carly?'
'Dad she's trying to make Erik and I deaf!'
'They were kissing in the pool!' I rolled my eyes as I put my hands back down onto Erik's chest.
'Oh no what are you going to tell on me next for? Hugging him?' I gasped. 'Cuddling with him? She's acting like we're having sex, tell her to calm her fake tits down and to go back inside. She is ruining the moment!' I splashed water towards them.
'You seriously called me out here because my daughter is kissing her boyfriend?'
'Kissing leads to other things!' My dad shook his head before taking her hand and dragging her inside.
'She's an idiot.' Erik nodded as we both continued looking towards where they just were.
'Yeah pretty much… alright back to that kissing thing.' I smiled and turned my head to face him as he leaned back down to press his lips against mine.
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'So how was Oregon?' I tangled my legs in his as he sighed.
'Well y'know. My dad sent me to my grandma's actually. He just said you're going to Oregon to get yourself some help, and I ended up there.'
'What'd you do at your grandma's? Why didn't you have your cell phone?'
'Helped her around the house, and because she didn't have reception where she lives. I had to use her house phone to talk to my dad, and even then I only had an hour phone time each day.' I smiled at his annoyance and put my cheek on his chest.
'So you were doing house work the last three months?'
'Yeah. More like painting, renovating and all that annoying shit. My grandma how ever did pay me because I saved her money on hiring people… Don't tell me dad though, he told her not to.'
'Your secret is safe with me.' I sat up when a wave of nausea hit me and I got out of bed to go to the bathroom.
'Are you okay?' I nodded and picked his shirt up from the floor as I hurried to the door and slipped it on after opening the door. Once I was in the bathroom I knelt down in front of the toilet just waiting for the vomit. I took deep breaths as I put my forehead on the seat, and assumingly Erik knocked on the door.
'Come in!' The door opened and Erik snuck in before closing the door and kneeling down beside me.
'Are you alright?' He started rubbing my back as I nodded.
'Yeah just a little nauseous. Probably from the chicken I ate earlier; it was a bit rubbery. Can you hand me the ponytail holder on the counter please?' A few seconds later he touched my arm with it so I opened my eyes and took it from him. 'Thank you.' I quickly put my hair up so I could lay my head back on the seat since it helped with the nausea.
'Can I help you at all?'
'No I just need to puke so the nausea goes awa-' I was rudely interrupted by the dry heaves followed by my lunch and dinner coming back up. I waved towards the door hoping Erik would get the message and leave but he just continued rubbing my back.
'Chicken from lunch?' Once I was done I nodded and flushed the toilet so Erik didn't have to see my vomit for longer than necessary.
'I had a salad with chicken on it.' I pulled myself up with the help of Erik then went over to the sink to rinse my mouth out before brushing my teeth.
'Want some water?'
'Please.' He kissed my cheek before leaving the bathroom while I put toothpaste on my toothbrush then started scrubbing my mouth clean. Erik was amazed when I was still brushing my teeth when he came in with my water, but he chose not to question it.
'Feeling better?' I nodded before spitting out the toothpaste froth and rinsing my toothbrush off, and my mouth out.
'Yeah. I knew I'd feel better once I puked. I just hope it doesn't happen again. This is finals week and I can't not go because I ate some bad chicken.' I flipped the bathroom light off after grabbing my glass of water and lead Erik back into my room. 'So do you want to watch a movie?'
'You need to get some sleep, so I want to sleep.' I frowned as I sat on the edge of my bed and glanced up at him as he copied my frown and slumped shoulders.
'You think you're funny don't you?' I had to smile so he knew I was playing, but somewhat knew he would nod either way.
'I do, and you're here to reconfirm my thoughts right?' I nudged him with my shoulder before climbing into bed.
'Your idea to go to bed, you get to get up to turn the lights out.'
'I will take that deal.' He stood up and excruciatingly slowly walked over to the light switch and finally after what felt like hours, he turned the light off.
'You must be getting old.'
'Why?' Humor was in his voice as he laid down next to me.
'Because you're walking at .3 miles per hour.' I smiled when he put his arm around my waist and pulled me up against him so he could put his chin on the top of my head.
'Oh yeah probably, but if I'm getting old that means you are too.'
'I take it back.' He chuckled and kissed the top of my head.
'As long as you're sure. Alright, sleep time.'
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I woke up the next morning to Erik kissing me, which was one of the best ways to wake up in my opinion. I smiled making him pull away and rub my cheeks with his thumbs. 'Good morning.'
'Good morning.' I sat up and put my arms in the air to stretch my back and arms out then sighed once I was content with my stretching.
'How are you feeling?' I nodded when I wasn't nauseous and my stomach wasn't hurting or anything, all that was annoying was my ribs and back being sore from puking.
'Just a little sore from puking but besides that I'm perfect.' He smiled and pecked me on the lips again.
'You really are. Your hair has gotten so long.' He ran his fingers through my hair and I found it relaxing so I sighed and focused on the feeling.
'I've been putting this growing stuff on my hair and it's working really well, plus my hair always grows a bunch in the Spring and Summer.' I covered my mouth when I yawned which reminded me of not knowing what time it was. 'What time is it?'
'10:30 last time I checked my phone.' I nodded and laid back down.
'More sleep.' I closed my eyes and hugged a pillow against my body.
'Leila is mad at you for not feeding her this morning.'
'She'll get over it. Thank you for feeding her.'
'You're welcome. Come on get up.' He pinched my butt making me squeal and start wiggling as his gnat bites persisted. I started laughing making my back and ribs hurt more so I stopped moving.
'Alright enough, my body is sore. Once I have some pain meds in me I'll let you continue your gnat biting.'
'Sorry I forgot.' He kissed me again before standing up and stretching, his back muscles doing that thing they do when guys stretch. I didn't know how to explain it I just knew it was beyond beautiful to see.
'You will have to drag me out of this bed before getting me out of it.'
'Well I won't drag you.' I smiled and put my face in the pillow I was hugging then yelped when he did in fact drag me to the edge of the bed then picked me up. I hooked my arm around his neck then let my other arm rest against my stomach as he carried me out of the room.
'I'm against this.'
'Yeah?' I nodded while lying my head against his chest. 'Thanks for stealing my boxers by the way, turned out to be rather helpful.'
'You're welcome. I expect them back, you can have your shirt back though. I just want you to know I wore it for like 2 weeks straight once.'
'Oh I'm fine. You could wear it for a month straight and I'll still wear it. I love that shirt.'
'It's a plain black shirt, what's got you hooked to it?' I put my head back to look up at him.
'It was the shirt my dad let me wear when he came and got me. I didn't have any clothes so it was all I got to wear until he got to the store that night and bought be some clothes and washed them.' Now I felt like I had broken some dad/son thing and felt terrible for it.
'I'm sorry. Had I known it was something like that that made it your favorite I wouldn't have kept it.' He set me down on a barstool and then kissed my head.
'If anyones going to steal it, I'd want it to be you.'
'Well I took good care of it so once we go back up to my room you can snag it from my closet.' He nodded and sighed.
'So what would you like for breakfast? Eggs, and breakfasty stuff like that or something non breakfasty?' I pursed my lips and started tapping my fingers on the counter, but stopped when I realized how amazing pizza sounded.
'I want pizza. Can we have pizza? I'll even get dressed for it if I have to.' I leaned forward and stretched my arms flat against the counter, my hands landing on top of Erik's.
'Pizza date it is then. I have to go home and get pants though.' I frowned and sat back.
'I don't want you to wear pants though.'
'Then we'll order it and watch movies which is a better idea since you might get nauseous again.'
'I hate your good points. Come over here.' He walked around the counter to me and I pointed down. 'Bend down you tall person.' He bent over and just as I was about to kiss him our ears were blessed with Carly talking completely ruining the moment. Since she was like 20 and Erik was shirtless I put my hand over his stomach defensively as she walked into the kitchen and continued looking at him. 'Lets go to my room.' I got up and took Erik's hand and walked behind him so she couldn't look at his butt. I trusted her as much as I trusted Raoul. 'Ruining my kiss who the hell does she think she is? And walking around in her boyfriends shirt? Classless bitch I hate her so much.' Erik chuckled as we reached my room and I slammed my door then locked it.
'I understand your annoyance with her voice, but you are fuming after being in the room with her after 20 seconds. What's going on?'
'I don't know! She just reminds me of Raoul. She's going to fuck something up and I can't figure out what it'll be but it's going to happen and when it does I'm going to kick her in the vagina.'
'And I'll stop you because being charged with assault usually leads to imprisonment.' I whimpered as I crawled into bed, my knee hurting when I put pressure on it but I didn't care.
'Hurry and order the pizza I need to calm down.' I sat back up and pulled his shirt off so I could toss it at him then lay back down.
'What do you mean?'
'Nap. That's what I mean. I need a nap.' He slowly nodded as he picked his shirt up and set it on my desk. 'Where's Leila?' I moved to the edge so I could look under my bed and was concerned when she wasn't under there. I got up and walked over to my closet since she hit under the clothes on the bottom rack sometime and grew even more concerned when she wasn't there either. I went over to my desk and put his shirt back on. 'Did you let her out?'
'No she was under the bed last time I saw her.' I hurried out of my room and banged on my dad's door.
'Dad is Leila in there?!' The door opened a few seconds later and she ran out of the room and into mine. 'How the fuck did she get in here?! Leila is off limits and you know that!'
'Where'd the kitty go?' My vision turned red when Carly walked into frame and looked disappointed.
'You took my cat?! You don't touch my cat! Or my boyfriend or my room or bathroom! Everything is off limits to you and if you touch my cat one more time I will punch you in the face!'
'Christine she didn't know.'
'But you did! Oh my God she's been here 12 hours and I'm already about to pop a blood vessel!'
'Chris come on no harm done.' I looked over at Erik who was standing near my door.
'She went into my room and stole my cat, how is that no harm done? Leila is scared of everything except me and it's my job to make sure she doesn't get scared shitless.'
'Why doesn't she have both eyes?'
'Its none of your business!' I stormed away from my dad's door and dragged Erik into my room and before slamming the door I yelled: 'stop checking Erik out!' Then slammed the door. I started pacing the room just needing to punch something but couldn't.
'Are you okay Christine?' I stopped pacing and looked over at Erik who looked concerned and somewhat scared.
'Yeah I'm great. Why?' I picked Leila up when she started meowing at my feet. 'I'm sorry the mean lady kidnapped you.' I started scratching her head and kissed her cheek. 'Now we both need naps, huh?' I sat down on the bed with her and laid down so she could curl up against my stomach.
'What kind of pizza do you want?'
'Hmm... That teriyaki pizza they have sounds good.'
'Alrighty. Want any wings?'
'Honey barbecue, extra crispy.' I started petting her back softly as we both started to calm down. 'Who steals someone's cat? That's so rude. Especially when the cat you're stealing has separation issues.'
'Does she really?' I nodded and smiled as she finally fell asleep.
'Yeah, but I couldn't imagine a better cat. Oh, there's a pill bottle on my desk and my water from last night, could you hand me them please?' I discovered that I had actually taken my dad's Xanax the day Erik broke into my room, and not my anti depressants so that explained my funk I was in. Thankfully his pills were very low dosage so I didn't have an issues really. I wasn't going to tell my dad that though.
'Of course. Here you go.' He put his phone up to his ear then grabbed the two requested items so he could bring them over to me. 'What are they?'
'Its Lexapro.' I took the top off the bottle and shook a pill into my hand skillfully then set it down away from Leila and closed the bottle so I could put the pill in my mouth then take a drink of water.
'Lexapro? Why does that sound familiar?'
'Because it's a popular antidepressant. Thank you.' He set the glass and bottle on my desk.
'Oh that's why, and you're welcome. 602-472-1029, and yes.' I closed my eyes and sighed while Erik ordered the pizza, him of course opting out on the teriyaki pizza and getting half white pizza. (it's like Greek inspired with Feta, herbs and tomato then no pizza sauce. It's really good.)
'So how long have you been on Lexapro?'
'I started taking it in like March? I can't remember.'
'And you still get to orgasm? I'm a bit jealous I'm not going to lie. I took it when I was 14 and couldn't while I was on it.' I heard him set his phone down before crawling into bed and laying down behind me.
'Yeah I do. It's pretty awesome because I've heard that's a main side effect of antidepressants, but my question is: how can one not be depressed when they can't relieve themselves of sexual frustration?'
'I asked the doctor something similar.'
'What'd they say?' I opened my eyes and looked back at him.
'You're 14 get over it.' I giggled and rolled onto my back without bugging Leila enough to wake her up.
'Well that's mean, 14 year olds need to do their thing too. It helps minimize child pregnancy.' His face scrunched up.
'Child pregnancy?'
'Yeah in my middle school there were like 10 pregnant 6th graders. One even went into labor in the cafeteria...' I sighed longingly. 'Oh public school… the memories you've given me.'
'I think the most memorable memory from public school was- remember when pantsing was popular?'
'Yes! God I was a bitch with that. It was fun though.'
'Well, I went to pants Nadir, and uh apparently he was out of boxers so his arguing against me pantsing him was not because he didn't want people to see his boxers, but because he had none on.' My mouth dropped and I put my hand over my mouth as my body shook in my attempt to not laugh.
'Oh my God that's terrible!' He nodded but grinned.
'But it was hilarious. I was liked for the rest of the day but then went back to being shunned the next day.'
'Now that's terrible. I wish that we met in kindergarten so I could have been your friend all through the years, and I would punch anyone who was mean to you.'
'You would have done a lot of moving.' I put my hands on his cheeks and smiled weakly.
'I would move any where and whenever as long as I got to be with you.'
'I'm glad to hear that, but for now, you take a nap and I'll wake you up when the food is here.'
'I'm so tired of being tired. I just want my energy back.'
'The last month of school can be pretty tiring.'
'Especially when I'm up at 2 AM having sex with you a couple nights a week.' He grinned before kissing me and lying down next to me.
'True, once you graduate we'll take a week of sleep recuperation. Sound good?' I nodded then all of the sudden remembered the Germany thing making my smile vaporize.
'You leave for Germany 12 days after graduation...' He sighed and nodded as his right hand took hold of my left.
'I know, I wish I could stay, believe me.'
'Maybe you could! Maybe my dad would let you move in and you can move out once you're 18 and everything is fine. I just got you back and I can't lose you again.'
'You won't be losing me, I can guarantee that one, but if you want to ask your dad then you can.'
'Then I will. So how long before the pizza gets here? I'm starving.' My stomach growled making me put my free hand over my stomach. 'Quiet down you needey butthole.'
'Be nice to your stomach. It's just doing it's thing.'
'True.' I giggled when he bit my shoulder then wiped his drool off after he detached his teeth from my shoulder. 'Thank you for the drool and bite marks. I love them.'
'Well you better. That bite was fueled by love and hunger... Mostly love though because I'm not a cannibal.'
'Well obviously not since your name isn't Hannibal.'
'Well I mean that you know of. The name on my birth certificate could be Hannibal. I'd be mildly concerned if it was to be honest. Nothing good ever comes from being named Hannibal... Or Isabella.' I couldn't help but smile at him and his... Whatever it was.
'You're such an idiot, I love it.' I pulled him down to kiss him before he could say anything.
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'Pizza pizza pizza!' Erik walked into my room with the pizza box and wings, along with two plates and waters.
'Yes, now calm down my minion, and only when you complete the finished task with you get the pizza.' I frowned as he set the pizza down on my bed.
'Fine get over here.'
'What? I was just kidding I don't have a task for you. Thank you for the offer though.'
'You're welcome!' I moved the waters, plates and wings off the top of the box and opened the wing container then pizza box. 'Yum.' My mouth watered as I grabbed a piece of the teriyaki pizza then put three wings on my plate before swiping a ranch from the bag that the wing container had been in. 'I am in heaven.' I took a bite of pizza and frowned.
'What?'
'It tastes gross. Why did I order this again?'
'I don't know, probably because it sounded good at the time?
'Oh well.' I took another bite since it was tolerable, their teriyaki sauce just sucked.
'There's the white pizza too. You don't have to eat that.'
'No I'm good! It's really good but the teriyaki sauce tastes like a pizza place made it.'
'Well my pizza is your pizza.' I giggled and kissed his cheek.
'Thank you for the offer.' I took his mask off and placed it on my face since I was curious what it was like wearing it. 'Feels weird. Does it feel weird to you?'
'It did at first, but it probably feels weird since your face is different than mine.' I fixed it since it kept moving when I spoke.
'Well if I had my say in it you'd never wear this thing again. It's so annoying.' I took another bite of pizza which took a little more work.
'Well thank you for the thought but I don't think many people would enjoy your say.'
'How do you itch your eye? How do you blink I mean it like stops your eyelashes. How the hell do you not get acne? This thing would have my face broken out beyond repair in about a week.'
'Well I do wash my face, but I also don't think I'm capable of getting acne on my right side. The pores I can imagine are non existent.'
'Hm true. It has to get hot... These fucking edges!' I slid the mask off and ran my finger along the edge which was practically razor sharp. 'I'm going to fix these edges. They're sharp enough to cut a bitch. No wonder you were nearly bleeding that night in Toronto.' I set the mask now in distaste so I could go back to eating.
'You really hate that mask don't you?' I nodded and angrily pulled a wing apart. 'It does deserve some love since I just got made fun of for wearing a mask and not looking like I fell face first into a fire.'
'True. Okay I hate the mask but I appreciate what it's done. Maybe we should make you a new mask too.'
'What do you mean? You work with whatever this is? I have no clue what it's made out of.' He grabbed the mask to try and figure out what it was made of.
'No, I mean like, let's make you a mask out of cloth or something for when you can't take your mask off but you want to be comfortable.'
'Cloth is flappy, it wouldn't stay up.' I sighed and started eating my dismantled chicken wing while considering what he said and how one could fix the issue.
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'How about rubber duckies?' I giggled as he shook his head and moved me away from the fleece.
'Lets stick to something that isn't going to make me look like an idiot. So how'd you do on your Lit final today?'
'I dunno, I feel confident that I at least got a B so there's that.' I stopped at the leathers and felt the stability in it. 'What about this?' I grabbed the thing of leather and held it put to him to feel it.
'Its still floppy.'
'Yeah, but I can also name something else that's floppy until I start working with it.' I set the yards of leather back on the shelf as Erik laughed at my joke that was more towards a shut up you negative human joke but didn't work. 'Black, white or skin tone?' He took a moment to collect himself before looking at the three leathers in question.
''Uh I'm gonna say skin tone.' I nodded and picked the leather up before going over to the cutting station and grabbing a number. 'How are you going to make it stay?'
'String that's how. There's going to be one at the top and one on the side and they'll tie on the back your head since this isn't able to stay like your white one which is like molded to your face. How it never falls off I don't understand.'
'Its a super duper secret.' He picked me up which I appreciated since my back was still sore from puking two nights ago.
'Well if you want to tell me then you can.' I sighed and put my head back against his chest. After waiting 10 minutes in line my number was finally called, earning a sigh of relief from Erik.
'This better be a precise art that you go to college to do if it takes that long to help two people.' I smiled and shook my head as we walked up to the counter.
'I need a yard in this please.' I set the leather on the counter and she nodded while unfolding it across the table to measure it. 'Want to go get some ice cream after this? Maybe go visit Sam?'
'Yes and yes. Where do you want to get ice cream?'
'Does Dairy Queen sound good? There's one near Sam's house.'
'Oh man I haven't had Dairy Queen in years. I'm so down.' I smiled and took the fabric from the rather rude woman.
'Thank you.' A little courtesy from my side never killed me even if the person was being rude. I took Erik's hand as we walked away from the counter and Erik looked dumbfounded.
'That took 45 seconds at most, and yet we just stood there for 10 minutes? What the hell?'
'Welcome to fabric stores. Now wait until we get in line to buy this. It'll be like Disneyland!' He forced a smile making me giggle.
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'Sam! We bring i-c-e c-r-e-a-m!' She got up from the couch and hurried over to us.
'Oh my God I love you both so much.' She popped the lid off the oreo blizzard that I handed to her and took the spoon from Erik while I worked on my own blizzard. 'I was craving this and you guys read my mind.'
'I assumed since you drove past it every day that you either are craving it or want to puke from the thought of it.'
'Your assumptions paid off.' Korben squealed as he ran down the hallway to run past me and go for Erik.
'Glad to see where I am to Korben.' Sam giggled and dragged me into the kitchen while Erik knelt down to talk to Korben.
'Okay so what's the status of you two as of now?' I glanced back at Erik and hoped I wasn't telling Sam wrong.
'He told me he loved me last night, and he spent the night. Plus he's taking me out on a date on the 5th, so I think I'm going to say we're dating again.' She squealed as she put the spoon in her mouth so she could hug me. After her short jumping squealing thing she let go and smiled.
'I am so happy! Oh my God you have no idea.' I looked down at my cup and frowned when her stomach squished it.
'My blizzard… is squished.'
'Sorry I forget how big I am sometimes. I'm not used to carrying a girl so I squish things a lot.' She sighed and took another bite of her blizzard. 'So how are the finals going?' I nodded.
'Pretty good. I did my Lit final today and tomorrow is my History final which is also my test of my Junior year.' We highfived before she went over to the fridge and pulled out the chocolate and caramel syrup to put on her blizzard and proceed to ruin it. I wasn't a fan of caramel. It tasted disgusting and just gross. Just when I thought she couldn't ruin it anymore she grabbed a jar of peanuts from the pantry and piled a good amount on top. 'I'm sorry but that's disgusting.'
'It sounds good. You have this to look forward to in 10 or so years.'
'You're adorable.' I patted her head making her glare at me in which I responded to with a smile. 'Do you have any Advil? My back is sore from puking a couple nights ago and it's getting annoying.'
'Yep right over there in that cabinet.' She pointed at the cabinet next to the fridge so I walked over to it so I could find the bottle and put two in my hand.
'Dude you look like a hobo.' I looked over at Erik and my eyes widened when Sam had a fucking picture from the Sunday he and I broke up framed.
'Why did you photograph that night let alone frame a picture from it?!' I hurried over and took the picture from him. 'I am taking this and burning it.'
'Why do you look like a hobo?'
'Because I was drunk and it was the day you and I broke up.' I put it in my purse before grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge and opened it.
'Ah well that makes sense.' I put the pills in my mouth then took a drink of water.
'Yeah. She was so miserable that day it was pretty heart breaking. She did straight shots and didn't cringe, and then in the morning after sleeping in your car pretended not to have a hangover but I saw the death in her eyes.'
'Sam would you stop talking about it? You're making me sound pathetic.'
'Well you kind of were.' I flipped her off making her smile and blow a kiss at me.
'God dammit.' I set my blizzard down when the sudden need to puke hit me making me hurry to the bathroom since I knew I was going to throw up, it was just a matter of when. Just as I knelt down in front of the toilet Erik knocked on the door before coming in.
'Again?' I nodded and groaned to voice my annoyance with this vomiting thing.
'I thought I was done puking Sunday.'
'Are you alright? This isn't food poisoning, Chris. You'd be in bed dying right now.'
'I don't know but it's annoying and I want it to stop. My stomach is just being finicky right now that's all.' I swatted Meg's nagging voice away just as the dry heaves started. I wanted Erik to leave but I was grateful for him holding my hair back for when I finally started puking. Pizza and wings was not fun throwing up, that is a fact I found out that day.
'Is she ok- oh God it smells.'
'Yeah she's fine. Her stomach is just bugging her.'
'It is the color of death that is not natural!'
'I've eaten pizza, wings and oreos today, I'd be worried if it didn't lo-' I was already annoyed with being interrupted by my bodily functions, and this was only the second time that it had happened.
'Can you grab her some water? Or hold her hair which ever you'd prefer.'
'I'll get the water.' After a few more dry heaves I felt like I wasn't going to throw up anymore so I flushed and wiped my cheeks of to get rid of the tears before Erik helped me stand up.
'It's in my nose.' Erik's face scrunched up as I splashed water up my nose.
'That is never fun.' I started rinsing my mouth out once I decided my nose was as clean as it was going to get, and Sam walked in with my water bottle.
'Thank you.' I took it from her after putting more water in my mouth, rinsing and spitting it out.
'You're welcome. Need more Advil or do you think it stayed down?' I shook my head, unable to say where it went so I didn't want to take more.
'No I'll wait until it's safe to take more just in case.' I wiped my face off on my shirt as we left the bathroom and I immediately went to the couch and laid down.
'So what are your symptoms? Besides puking.' I shrugged my shoulders and smiled when Erik sat down at my feet and took my sandals off so he could start rubbing my feet and calves.
'Puking? That's it. I have an appetite, I'm not sick to my stomach except right before I'm going to puke, and I feel fine up until that point as well.'
'Hm weird. Maybe your PMS is being a douche?' She set some crackers on the table then sat down on the couch next to us.
'Probably. I usually don't puke until my period starts and the cramps are unbearable.'
'Like I said, your PMS is being a dick.'
'I'm not going to rip my uterus out if that's true. It's useless anyway.' She sighed and shook her head.
'Unfortunately, the uterus is actually useful. It has to do with your hormone balance. I can't explain it in detail, but it's usefull. Korben get in here!' I glanced over at the hallway as I heard his feet hitting the floor as he ran.
'Mommy?' He walked up to her and put his chin on her knee.
'Wanna take a nap with Mommy?' He smiled then squealed as he climbed onto the couch; he waited for Sam to put her back against the armrest, lying down as much as she could without being flat on her back. 'Nap time. I highly recommend you two nap as well.'
'Why?' She smiled and shook her head, which is what she did when she knew something I didn't.
'Because you have that test tomorrow and you need sleep. Shut up and nap.' I looked down at Erik and he shrugged his shoulders before lying down behind me and putting his arm around me.
'Napping is good, why did I question it?' I felt Erik chuckle and Sammi answered before Erik could.
'Because you're an idiot, that's why, but I won't judge you.'
'Oh thank you that means so much to me. I'm going to be able to nap peacefully now.' She giggled but stopped when Korben shushed her.
'Napping means quite!' Erik's body started shaking because in reality that was really funny and I wanted to laugh but if I made one more noise Korben would have come over to Erik and I's couch and sleep on my chest, and he was a sweaty child so I was against that idea.
Erik whispered: 'I love you.' into my ear making me smile as my heart quickened, a natural reaction to him saying that of course. I whispered it back getting a very demanding shush from Korben so I decided to try and fall asleep. He really was Sam's kid.