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A couple hours after midnight I awake to find the throw blanket from the couch covering both Adam and I and I'm guessing that Adam did this, but I can't ask him because he's asleep and his head's lying on my chest.
The rain's still pouring down outside, but it sounds as if the lightning and thunder's subsided slightly.
I pull myself up into a slightly sitting position and Adam groans slightly. "Don't leave." he mumbles and I kiss the top of his head. "Adam, I need to pee and anyways, the fire went out." "No.." he mumbles, sounding slightly more awake. "Yes." I say and a smile appears on his lips. "No." he says again. "Yes." I say again and I pull myself into a complete sitting up position and without the blanket I just about freeze.
I grab a flashlight and quickly go upstairs, searching for anything in my room that'll keep me warm. I find a pair of black fuzzy lounge pants and pull on them on. Finding a light pink colored long sleeved happy bunny shirt in my closet, I pull this on as well. I go into the bathroom and go pee before heading back downstairs again.
Once I'm sitting on the couch, I pull on a pair of wool socks from my room. I look back at the fireplace to find Adam's eyes open and he's half glaring at me. "What?" I ask curling my body onto the couch. "I'm cold now." Adam says and reaches for his lounge pants that are towards the top of the pile of clothes. I find his tee shirt towards the bottom of our pile and hand it to him. He pulls it over his head and takes the flashlight from my out-stretched hand.
He piles some wood up in the fireplace again and lights the wood with a match. Once the fire is happily burning away, Adam comes over to the couch and sits down beside me.
"Adam?" I say and Adam looks at me. "What?" "I'm glad you were the one, because last night was amazing." I reply and Adam smiles faintly. "I'm glad I could make it amazing. Your weren't so bad yourself Jane." "Really?" I ask, watching the firelight dance across his cheekbone. "Yeah, really." Adam replies, his smile growing.
He leans over and kisses me gently on the mouth. I kiss him back then pull away. "I'm too wound up to go to sleep again and we can't watch that movie now, what do you want to do?" I ask. "We could play a bored game or something I guess." Adam replies. "Yeah and the stereo is battery run so we can listen to some CDs or the radio." I add agreeing with him.
"Do you have anything new since we played with Luke and Grace a couple of weeks ago?" Adam asks. "No. I feel like a game where I have to think. Seeing my brain's in such a sex haze right now, it'll be good for me to think." I say and Adam chuckles. "Yeah, me too." he says. "I'm going to grab some CDs and you go find a game. I'm pretty sure there's a lamp around here somewhere." I say and Adam nods. "'Kay." he says as we stand up in unison.
I head towards the base of the stairway and Adam heads towards the hallway closet. With the aid of a flashlight, I find the CD player/radio on my desk and my rack of CDs. I grab 4 or 5 mixed ones and come back downstairs.
When I come back downstairs, I find the board game 'Clue' on the couch. I can hear Adam in the back of the house, so I head that way with my flashlight in toll.
"Looking for something?" I ask, pointing the beam of my flashlight towards him as I walk into the laundry room. "Yeah." Adam replies, taking the lamp out from the bottom of the small closet in the corner of the room.
"Shows how well I know this part of the house." I say as we walk back towards the living room. "Unchallenged." Adam says. I flip my cell phone open to find out what time it is. It's lit up screen reads '3:48 am'. "It's later then I thought." I say flipping it close again.
"Why 'Clue'?" I ask as we sit down on the area rug. "It involves major thinking yo, like trying to figure out who did it in the ballroom with the knife." Adam replies. "Cool." I say opening the CD lid on the stereo, putting in a mixed CD and pressing 'play'.
Adam hands me the 'evidence' pouch and I put three pieces of 'evidence' into the pouch and I place it in the center of the board. "Who you playin'? Adam asks putting the game pieces onto the board. "Miss Scarlet. She's awesome so don't bad mouth about her behind her back." Adam laughs at my response as he hands me her piece. "What about you?" I ask placing Miss Scarlet on her spot. "Professor Plum, who's awesome as well." Adam replies and I laugh.
We both roll once to find out who rolls first and Adam gets the highest score, so he goes first. He rolls an 5 and he moves 5 spaces out from his starting point and hands the dice to me. I roll an 8 and move 8 spaces as Chantel Kreviazuk's song "Before You" comes out of the speakers.
"Cool CD Jane. When did you burn it?" Adam asks as he takes his turn. "A couple days ago." I reply taking my own turn.
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One and a quarter CDs later, we finish the game and turns out it was Coronal Mustard, who used the rope in the ballroom.
Travis' song "Love Will Come Through" is now playing. "You wanna dance?" I ask as Adam's putting the game away. He folds the board up, puts it in the box and stands up. "Yeah, I'd like that yo." Adam replies.
I put my hand on his shoulder and Adam wraps an arm around my waist. With inter-twined hands, we start to sway to the music.
If I told you a secret
You won't tell a soul
Will you hold it and keep it alive
'Cause it's burning a hole and I can't get to sleep
And I can't live alone in this life
So look up
Take it away
Don't look down the mountain
If the world isn't turning
Your heart won't return
Anyone, Anything, Anyhow
So take me
Don't leave me
Take me
Don't leave me
Baby, love will come through
It's just waiting for you
Stand at the crossroads of high roads and low roads
I've got a feeling it's right
If it's real what I'm feeling
There's no make believing the sounds of the winds of the flight
Of a dove
Take it away
Don't look down the mountain
If the world isn't turning
Your heart won't return
Anyone, Anything, Anyhow
So take me
Don't leave me
Take me
Don't leave me
Baby, love will come through
It's just waiting for you
Oh look up
Take it away
Don't look down the mountain
If the world isn't turning
Your heart won't return
Anyone, Anything, Anyhow
So take me
Don't leave me
Take me
Don't leave me
Baby, love will come through
It's just waiting for you
Love will come through
Love will come through
Love will come through
The song ends and we just keep holding onto each other, neither one of us sees to want to let go. We finally separate from each other and sit back down on the rug. Adam goes back to putting away the game, which he gets back in the box. He stands again, grabs a flashlight and walks to the hallway closet to put the game away.
After jamming the box back into our over filled closet, Adam comes back to the fireplace and sits down.
I look at him and catch his gaze. "I love you." I say, wishing I'd already said it several times today. "I love you too." Adam says and I know that he means it. He means it every time and so do I. It may seem automatic, but it's true every time. I never thought I'd find someone that I'd love this much at my age. Hell, I didn't even think I'd fall in love at my age, I mean like in love 'love'. Hey, but I guess I did.
"What are you thinking of Jane?" Adam asks bringing me out of my thoughts. "You and how much I love you." I reply and Adam kisses me sweetly. Kissing him back, I love him even more.