Chapter 10

Sydney eventually woke up from her peaceful sleep. She was still lying next to Vaughn, his arms wrapped comfortingly around her. Noticing how angelic he looked as he slept Syd gently touched his cheek causing him to smile slightly in his sleep. Smiling to herself, she carefully slid out of his embrace, and headed to the kitchen for a glass of water. Her head was banging, the results of the fun she had the night before. She had a sip of water and then went upstairs to freshen up.

Vaughn slowly opened his eyes, aware that Syd was no longer next to him, a feeling, which he didn't like. He sat up on the couch stretching his arms above his head, looking around to see where she was. Realising that she wasn't in the room, Vaughn stood up, feeling slightly dizzy, his head hurting slightly. He knew that Syd had to be feeling worse than this as she had drunken more that he did last night. He walked into the kitchen to make breakfast for the two of them, figuring that it was the least that he could do since she let him spend the night.

Sydney quickly showered and decided to wear a denim skirt accompanied with a pink halterneck top. Her hair was down, gently framing her face, and her make up was minimal. She went back downstairs to find that Vaughn was no longer on the couch. Wondering where he was she walked into the kitchen to find that he had made breakfast. Looking down at the kitchen table she saw that he had made bagels for them both and there was a bowl of freshly made fruit salad. She also noticed that there was a single white rose next to one of the plates.

"Good morning." Vaughn said leaning on the kitchen counter. Syd smiled at how adorable he looked, his hair was all messed up and his eyes were as green as ever. He was still wearing his clothes from the night before, his black shirt was opened slightly at the top giving Sydney a small peak of his tanned body.

"Good morning." She replied. "You made breakfast!" She exclaimed, nodding towards the food on the table.

"You sound surprised..." Vaughn raised his eyebrow questioningly. He silently admired how beautiful she looked standing in the doorway, her choice of outfit showing off her wonderful figure.

"I am. I just wasn't expecting you to do all this." She admitted as she took a seat. Vaughn sat in the seat next to her massaging the sides of his head.

"Hung over?" She asked sympathetically knowing exactly how he was feeling. She took a bite of her bagel as she waited for his answer.

"You could say that! But it's worth it, I had a great time last night."

"Yeah me too! Look Vaughn about last night..." Sydney started as she played with the stem on the rose.

"Yeah, I think we should probably talk about that." He agreed with her, knowing that they would eventually have to talk about what happened the night before.

"You know that me and Danny are going through a rough patch, one that we're probably not gonna get through. But I don't want you thinking that I'm hanging out with you to make him jealous. Because I'm not."

"Sydney, I know you're not!" Vaughn tried to reassure her. It hadn't crossed his mind that she was only friends with him to make her boyfriend jealous. Even though he had only known her for a week, he knew that she wasn't that type of person.

"So you don't think that I tried to kiss you just to make him jealous?" Sydney asked, hoping that he would say no.

"Well I hope that you didn't..." Vaughn looked down at the table, a feeling of sadness washing over him. Sydney suddenly felt guilty for making him look upset. She took his hand in hers, holding it gently.

"No, Vaughn look at me." She lifted his chin up forcing him to make eye contact with her. "I went to kiss you because I like you a lot. Danny had nothing to do with it." Vaughn's face began to look happy again, as a smile creased the sides of his mouth. "Having said that though, I'm not breaking up with Danny because of you, I'm doing it mainly for myself because things aren't working out between us." She released his hand and continued to play with the rose.

"I totally understand." Vaughn smiled warmingly at her.

"I'm not saying that I don't want something to happen between us, it's just that I don't know if I'm ready and I don't want to pressure you into a relationship, that might not even be what you want..." Vaughn placed his finger on her lips preventing her from continuing.

"Syd, whenever you're ready, I'll be right here. Ok?" Their eyes locked as she nodded in agreement with him. Glancing at the clock on the wall, Vaughn realised that he had better go home before his mom started worrying. "I best get going."

"Ok." They both stood up, Sydney clutching the rose, lifting it to her nose so that she could smell it. She loved the smell of roses, somehow he must have guessed that they were her favourite flower. "Michael, thanks for being so understanding and for keeping me company last night!" She smiled gratefully at him as they walked towards the front door. She had a lot of things on her mind, most of them being about how she was gonna tell Danny that she wanted to break up with him. But spending all that time with Vaughn had made her feel much happier; he had put her in a really good mood.

"No problem, and listen if you ever need someone to talk to, you know where I am!" Vaughn comfortingly rubbed her arm.

"Thanks. So what do you have planned for today?" She asked as they made it to the front door.

"I said I'd go over to Eric's, and we're gonna go an play some hockey! But I've never seen Weiss play before, so you never know we could end up with a few injuries!" They both laughed as Syd opened the door.

"I'm sure you'll both be fine...Danny!" She turned to see her soon to be ex boyfriend standing on the front step his hand raised ready to knock on the door.