Chapter 10
Lying in the dark tossing and turning Alex struggled to fall asleep. She missed the warmth of Ryan's body next to hers. The fact that they always cuddled and talked every night before they fell asleep. She missed his arms around her waist and burying her face in his chest and smelling his scent. She heated herself for sounding so desperate right now. He's just a stupid boy she kept telling herself in her head, don't mope over a guy you're stronger than this. But she couldn't help it, she loved this stupid boy. After a few hours of senseless tossing and scrolling through the social media newsfeed on her phone she finally fell asleep.
Downstairs, Ryan was in pretty much the same predicament. He closed himself with the throw blanket that was draped over the couch and a few scatter cushions he sacked to support his head, but he couldn't fall asleep. Finding a comfortable position on the couch wasn't even an option, he was surely going to be stiff in the morning. After senseless moments of tossing and turning he switched on the TV looking for something interesting to watch. Flipping through the channels nothing seemed to interest him so he turned it off again.
He hated fighting with Alex and going to bed with unsolved issues only made it worse. He realize that he was petty for getting upset over something so small. He will just have to man up in the morning and apologize. His bruised ego is nothing compared to how much he longed to just hold her in his arms right now and smell her shampoo when he buries his face in her hair.
Alex woke up to the sound of pots and pans cluttering down in the kitchen. She didn't know what to expect when she got downstairs so she lingered in bed a little while longer. In fact, today she felt like she could spent all day in bed since it was raining outside and it didn't look like it would end anytime soon. Deciding that she has to face the music sooner or later she got up, took a trip to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and headed downstairs. She paused in the stairs mid-way and saw Ryan behind the stove pouring some batter into the pan, which she assumed was flapjacks, since that was the only dish he didn't burn.
"Hey" he greeted making eye contact for a minute before he busied himself with the flapjacks again. "Morning" Alex replied as she yawned and stretched herself before checking the fridge (for nothing in particular.) "There's some fresh coffee, I can get you some" Ryan replied as he stacked the second plate with flapjacks and turned off the stove. Alex proceeded to the kitchen island as he poured her the coffee and brought them to her while sliding the plate of flapjacks across to her. In some Nutella he wrote the words "I'm sorry" on the first one. She didn't even have time to thank him he jumped right into it with an apology.
"I'm sorry for acting like an ass yesterday. You're right, I was being petty and childish for making such a big deal out of nothing." He ranted looking like a boy fighting on the playground and was called into the principal's office. "And I don't like it when we go to bed angry with unresolved issues between us, I barely slept last night. I missed holding you, smelling the scent of your shampoo, having you sprawled across half of the bed, babe please say something.'' He concluded when she didn't respond to anything he said.
"Just promise me you'll never make such a big deal out of nothing again. I love you so much Ryan and believe me I hate it just as much when we argue. Can you please just not act like this again because that really pissed me off." She said as she got up and walked towards him. "I promise" he said when she came to stand in front of him and kissed him. "Thank you for breakfast" she said finally giving him one last kiss.
"So I was thinking since it's Sunday morning can we make up for the last day we lost and re-invent date night today? Just do something casual, chill inside watching Netflix order some pizza while spending the day in bed?" he asked hopeful that she'll allow him to make up for being an ass. "Sure, as long as I get to choose the movie." Alex said with a sly smile.
About an hour later they were in bed with 2 large pepperoni pizzas, a bottle of wine and a few beers while watching Central Intelligence. After the movie Alex decided to push Ryan to his limit by catching up on a few episodes of Grey's Anatomy, knowing that he can't handle blood, and telling him he wasn't allowed to close his eyes or leave the bed until the 5 episodes were over.
"That was torture and it looks like you enjoyed every minute of it." He said when the credits rolled of the last episode and they discarded the empty pizza boxes and the bottles. "Are you kidding me? That was amazing." Alex said smiling. "Whatever, if I have nightmares tonight it's your fault." He said as he curled himself around her tiny frame.
"Alex seriously, I'm gonna have legit nightmares about brain surgery and hematomas and fistulas." He said more to himself as he heard her breathing even out which indicted that she was fast asleep.
I read though the previous chapter and noticed all the spelling errors, I'm so sorry. That's what happen when you don't proofread. From now on I'll check before I publish. Sorry for the long wait to update but here it is. Read and review and let me know what you think. Thank you for all the follows and favorites. Lovies-S
