Lexi awoke at 6:00AM. She was used to getting up early and had a kind of eternal alarm clock. She was still pressed against Mark. She pressed a light Kiss to his cheek and got out of bed. She quietly slipped into the bathroom for a shower. A few minutes later and slipped on some jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs to start breakfast.

Lexi started some biscuits and some bacon to cook. While she waited for the coffee to brew she got a pencil and piece of paper and wrote a list of the things she had to do today. She decided to go ahead and start on some cleaning and by the time the biscuits were ready she had all the dusting done and the down stairs bathroom cleaned. She decided she would get all the cleaning done before she started on the shopping today.

She pulled the biscuits out and stirred the gravy she had started. She hoped Mark liked big breakfasts.

Lexi walked up to the bed where Mark was still sleeping. She set the cup of coffee down and sat down beside him. It was almost 8:00Am and she knew he wanted to be at work by nine.

"Mark wake up." Lexi said.

He didn't move so Lexi shook his shoulder a little and called him again.

Mark was used to waking up to the alarm clock and then throwing it across the room. He wasn't a morning person and he was ill as hell when he first woke up. He opened his eyes and realized throwing Lexi wasn't an option.

"Lexi leave me alone." Mark growled and closed his eyes again.

Oh so he wasn't a morning person thought Lexi. Well he had to get up.

Lexi ran her fingers over his stomach tickling him. Mark grabbed her hand.

"Lexi your about to be in deep trouble, now let me go back to sleep." Mark threatened.

"Mark your breakfast is ready, get up." Lexi said smiling at him.

"Lexi leave me the hell alone!" Mark roared.

Mark expected her to jump up and run from the room, his morning temper was legendary. Lexi shocked and surprised him by leaning over him and kissing him lightly on the lips. She pulled back and smiled at him.

"Okay grumpy, there's coffee on the nightstand, come down when you're ready to eat." Lexi said.

Mark laid there and watched her walk out the door. She wasn't the least put off by his temper. She sure was a chipper little thing. If that had been one of his ex-wives they would have cussed him out and dumped the coffee on his head. He sat up slowly and grabbed the coffee and took a sip. Hell she even made great coffee. He finished it and got up to go take a shower. He found his clothes and a towel neatly folded on the toilet. Mark shook his head, did she anticipate everything? He got in the shower and tried to get woke up.

Lexi had his plate waiting for him when he walked in the kitchen. He sat down and tore into it. He hadn't had food like this since he had lived at home. His mom had been a wonderful cook. He looked up to find Lexi wiping off the stove.

"Sit your ass down and eat something." Mark ordered.

"Mark I'm not real hungry." Lexi said.

"Girl ya don't eat, you're going to get sick." Mark said.

Mark snagged her arm and pulled her down to set on his knee.

"Ya can eat a couple of bites." Mark said holding up a forkful of eggs to Lexi.

Lexi looked at him.

"Come on now, open up. You're going to start eating something or I'll take a switch after ya." Mark threatened.

To Mark's surprise Lexi started laughing, but she did open her mouth and take a bite of the eggs.

"Good girl." Mark said causing Lexi to start giggling again.

Mark just shook his head and every few minutes he would make her take a couple of bites of his food. Lexi got up and refilled his coffee. Then she got started on cleaning up the kitchen. Mark sat and watched her as he finished his coffee. She was humming while she fluttered around cleaning up. Mark looked at his watch. He had to get going. Mark stood up. He wrote down the code to the security gate and gave it to her.

"Be sure to lock it when you come back." Mark said.

"And don't forget I want ya to buy ya some clothes today." Mark said.

"Okay." Lexi said.

Mark turned to leave.

"Mark wait." Lexi said.

Mark turned around to see what she wanted. She came up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. Mark didn't quite know what to do. He enjoyed the feel of her against him but steeled his self not to return the hug; it wouldn't do for her to get too attached to him or the other way around. Lexi moved back and smiled up at him.

"I'll see you." Lexi said.

"Yea." Mark growled and turned and left.

Lexi smiled as she watched him leave. He tried to be so gruff, but she didn't care. She would treat him like the wonderful man she knew he was. She turned and headed upstairs, she wanted to get all the linens washed today since it was nice outside. She had seen a clothes line out back yesterday and wanted to sundry them. Lexi smiled as she stripped the sheets off their bed. She looked forward to sharing the bed with him again tonight.