Chapter 3: Good Morning Sunshine

Letting a laugh escape her mouth Viola spoke between breaths "How are we gonna get through the summer?"

Squeezing his girlfriend tighter Duke re-assured her "We will."

After a moment or two of silence Duke added "Think we should head back now?"

Viola nodded "This bench isn't getting any softer"

The two headed towards their dorms for a long awaited sleep.

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"Any luck?" a voice on the other end of the receiver sighed

"Nope. How bout you?"

"You mean you cant hear him snoring?"

They both laughed. It was Saturday afternoon and Olivia Lennox was on the phone with her boyfriend Sebastien Hastings.

Sebastien was Duke's roommate... and Viola's twin brother. At first he had found the whole roommate dating sister act a bit to uncomfortable to take, but now, things had changed. He had changed his mind, for the time being that is; because right now there was a distraction keeping him away from the Viola/Duke topic. Her name was Olivia Lennox.

She was perfect. The girl of his dreams, something he had said since their first encounter and continued to say till this day. She knew all the lyrics to all his songs, past, present and nearly completed future. Her face was a delecate kind, along with her soul, but that didn't mean she couldn't kick butt. Too Sebastien she was it, the one, the only, and all his.

But as of right now both were discussing the fact that each of their room mates had yet awoken. Suffering from post practise syndrome.

As everyone had now named it: Recovering from a hard, grueling practise.

"Any suggestions?" Olivia glanced over at Viola still completely dead to the world

"Well we could just leave" Sebastien pointed out

"But we promised to wake them up ourselves" Olivia reminded.

Olivia was in love and she almost knew it. Sebastien was amazing, thought at first Sebastien was Viola. A man... or girl that Olivia had only met in her dreams. Of coarse he... she was too good to be true. Only a real women could know exactly what another women wanted. Over time those feelings for the old Sebastien had faded and feelings for this new one had grown; and could he ever kiss. Olivia wasent ever one to get too carried away by a man's touch but this case was rare, and she liked that. But still, something kept nagging her in the back of her mind. Was it being unsure of Sebastien? Not completely cleansing her body of Viola? Or a something new that she always thought would never be?

"Ok, so we wake them up and leave by ourselves"

"How?" Olivia raised an eyebrow dismissing all thoughts for now

"Well you quietly head to the lobby but leave a 'help' note on the door before you go. Before I leave I'll slam the door and run. Then Viola will be Dukes problem"

"That's a horrible plan" Olivia stated expecting more

"Well it's the best I got, so you in or out blondey?"

"... Meet you in the lobby?"

"10 minutes?" Sebastien added

"Be there" the two hung up.

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Before leaving Olivia took a piece of paper and in big letters wrote the word 'HELP' across the white sheet, adding a smiley face at the end. Taking a minute to admire her work Olivia suddenly remembered where she was supposed to be and quietly left.

While on the other side of campus Sebastien quickly gathered his things and made it out into the hallway. Preparing to book his butt towards the exit, he took one last deep breath and slammed the door.

The bang put Duke into a panic causing him to fall right out of bed and hit the floor.

"Damn freshman" he whispered anger in his voice while pushing himself up and flew into the hallway. Only to find it empty, the exit door just shutting.

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Olivia leaned against the wall in the lobby admiring the colour on her nails. Vi really knows how to pick a colour. She thought to herself.

Suddenly Olivia felt her thoughts along with the rest of her body being quickly dragged towards the front school door.

Laughing Olivia and Sebastien ran their way off campus to the safety of Cesario's.

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Duke continued to stand outside of his dorm -just in case- but soon headed in, closing his door. Finally realizing how bad his body ached from last nights practise, he slowly glanced towards the clock. Dukes eyes widened, it was already 3. Sebastien was supposed to wake him. That or Viola, speaking of Voila. He lifted the phone out of the receiver and dialled her cell thinking she'd already be up.

Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. 'Hey its Viola! Sorry I'm just too important to pick up but leave the love and I might call back.'

That's weird. He thought to himself, but after leaving a message, figured a shower would be in order and then he'd go look for his girlfriend…

By the time Duke was finished it was 3:20 and still not message from Viola. So he headed out towards the girls dorm. Finally reaching room 210 Duke noticed a sign on the door reading 'HELP'. But due to the smiley face guessedd that it must not have been too serious and took it upon himself to walk in.

The room was quiet, dark and all the curtains were pulled shut. A light glow came from the laptop on the desk and an odd smell of perfume or girl's soccer gear had filled the room. Somewhat of a distraction, but there she was. His world at the time. His girl. Asleep. At 3:30 in the afternoon.

"Viola" Duke shook his head "Vi, Viola" he was now shaking her arm but hadn't even gotten a moan out of her.

Slowly making his way around the bed thinking of ways to wake her up Duke pulled off the blanket that was nearly swallowing her. She cringed at the slight change of temperature, but quickly adjusted. Nothing. He was left with one last option.

Bending down and lifting the bed up. Then in one swift move Duke had managed to pull the heavy mattress off the set and onto the floor.

As soon as it hit Viola instantly shot up making sure no one was dead. Eyes nearly out of her head, she slowly turned her upper body towards a red Duke. He was nearly dying just holding in the laugh that occurred from Viola's expression.

Slowly realizing that the world wasn't crashing towards the ground, Viola took a deep relieved breath as her hands wandered through her hair. "You can stop laughing anytime now"

"I…I'm so…soiree" he spoke through laughs

"It wasn't that funny"

"Aww. Yes it was." Duke nodded nearly crashing atop of her

"Ow! Get off, and help me pull this back up. Loser."

He stood, soon helping her up and the two exchanged a glance. Smiles spreading across their faces, and they continued to make the bed together in complete comfortable silence. Every now and then catching eachother's eye.

Viola couldn't help but laugh lightly. This is nice.