The Honeymoon-More Romancing and Relaxing
Ana wakes up in the night and sighs happily when she sees Fen lying beside her, and still feels Fen's arms around her. She caresses his face and he awakens for a moment and looks at her and smiles. He kisses her and she continues to snuggle up to him. They both close their eyes and end up going back to sleep. A few hours later she awakes again to see that Fen is gone. Ana looks sits up in bed, clutching the sheets around her and wonder where he's gone. A few moments later he arrives dressed with his hand behind his back.
"What are up to?" She asks looking at him smiling. "And why are you not still in bed?"
"Have you turned into an early bird on me…?" Ana teases him. She looks at him again. "And what's behind your back?" She then looks around. "What time is it?"
"So many questions wifey..." Fen remarks laughing.
Ana reaches over on the nightstand and looks at her cell phone to see what time it was. Her eyes widen when she sees the time. "11:25!" She exclaims. "I've slept almost half the day." She turns around and looks at Fen. "Why would you let me sleep that late?"
Fen shakes his head and then laughs again.
"Fen, you let me hibernate." Ana accuses him playfully.
He shakes his head. "You were knocked out." He then gives her a cheeky grin. "Which I take a lot for credit for after yesterday..."
Ana turns her head to the side as she is sitting up in the bed, still holding the sheets to her body.
"Fen…." She says. She then bursts out laughing.
He laughs as well.
"But on a more a serious note after what happened to Lily at the wedding and these past few days… I knew you needed your rest." He tells her.
"It's like you always tell me Fen, I need my beauty sleep." He says imitating her voice. "So, I let you have it."
Ana makes a face. "I don't sound like that…" She protests.
"Yeah, you do." Fen replies. "And I wanted you to rest and just relax and feel like everything is going to be okay. And it is."
After he says that a somber and appreciative look comes across Ana's face. She smiles at him. "Yeah, you're right…" She agrees.
He then takes his hand from behind his back and gives her a rose.
"For you."
"Fen…" Ana says, looking at him and smiling again. She takes the rose. "Thank you." Fen then pulls a chair close to the bed to sit down. After she smells her flower, he leans over and kisses her. They kiss for a moment and Ana rests her hand on his face. They then pull away a little and Fen takes a some moments to admire her. She was so beautiful. He runs his hand along her neck and neckline. He then caresses her lips with his fingers as they look into each other eyes. He kisses her lips again for a moment and continues to admire her. So beautiful and sexy. He thinks to himself.
He was so tempted to climb back into bed with her and make love to her again, but after hearing her not seem that pleased about sleeping very late, he figured she would want to get up and do something else. He knew she had wanted to get out and sight see and do some fun activities in Greece. As much as he would enjoy making love to her again, that would set back her plans of doing other stuff. And he was not going to do that quickly with her. He thought that she probably wanted to get out of bed. And they would have time for more of that type of romance later on, during this honeymoon and beyond. But if she said the word, they could continue what they had going on last night. Fen finds himself smiling at the thought of that and Ana notices his expression and wonders what he's thinking.
"What are you thinking?" She asks looking at him. She touches his face. "You've got this sly smile on your face and..." A thought hits her. "Oh, I know what you're thinking." She rubs her hand on his shoulder. She laughs. "You amused by how long I've stayed in this bed and slept in this morning. You want me to get out of this bed." She guesses.
"Uh..." Fen begins. "Well...not..."
Ana nods interjecting. "Yeah, you do." She says thinking her guess was right. "That's why you jumped out of bed this morning and are fully dressed." She surmises. "I'm holding up on this day aren't I?" She asks. She sighs. "And it really is late." She then smiles. "You're right, I need to get out of this bed. It's the best thing to do right now. And let's get this day going, there is a lot of stuff that I want to do today like some sightseeing." She shakes her head. "I do apologize for being Rip Van Winkle." She laughs.
Fen looks at her a bit disappointed that was the conclusion she had come to.
"No, Ana don't apologize, you needed your rest and I..."
"But it's time to get up now." Ana interjects. "You don't have to say it. I get it. I've been holding you up long enough." She expresses. "Have you just been waiting on me to wake up?" She asks him.
Fen shakes his head. He then decides to tell her some about what he had been up to while she had been sleeping.
"After I decided to get up and let you sleep, I decided to arrange for a couple of deliveries." He tells her.
"Deliveries?" Ana asks looking down at the flower and holding it to her nose.
"Yeah." Fen confirms.
Ana's eyes brighten up even more when he mentions this. "Deliveries? Like the surprise I overhead you and Xavier talking about at the wedding?" She questions him.
A thoughtful look comes across Fen's face. "You heard…?"
"I heard you telling Xavier about some big surprise you had for me." Ana admits to him. "I didn't hear what it was, but I wonder are you going to give it to me today."
An amused smile comes across Fen's face. "So, you were eavesdropping?" He asks a bit amused.
Ana shrugs. "Yeah, and I want my surprise!" She exclaims excitedly.
Fen laughs. "Well, you're not going to get that today." He reveals to her. "I can't give that to you right now."
A disappointed look comes across Ana's face. "Why not?" She asks.
He shakes his head. "I'm don't have it with me. It's back in Genoa City." He states in a matter of fact manner.
Ana makes a face. "Really?" She asks a bit skeptical.
Ana searches his face for clues to see if he was bluffing. "Okay." She replies.
"You don't believe me?" Fen asks.
Ana makes a face and then smiles. "I wonder if you're bluffing and you'll give me that surprise while we're on this honeymoon." She predicts optimistically.
Fen shakes his head. "Nah, babe, it really is back in Genoa City." He tells her truthfully.
"Oh." Ana responds disappointingly after realizing he was really telling the truth and not teasing her.
"Okay, well, what deliveries are you getting today?" She questions. Just then someone knocks at the door.
Fen gives her a smile. "I'll be back." He tells her.
A curious look comes across Ana's face. She waits for a minute or so and then looks at the time again.
It really was getting late. She decides to get out of bed. She looks around and finds one of Fen's dress shirts and decides to put it on.
She walks around the bedroom and waits a few more minutes and then decides to slightly crack open the door.
"Hey Fen?" She calls out. "Is anybody out there besides you?"
"No…" Fen calls back. "It's just me… I was just…"
"Good." Ana says laughing."Because I'm not dressed very decently." She says laughing stepping out in his shirt. "But I decided to finally get out of bed, before I sleep this honeymoon away." Fen turns around and looks at her grinning when he sees her wearing his shirt.
"Oh, this is a great spread…" Ana comments smiling at the layout of food that Fen was setting up in the kitchen area. It was a variety of delicious Mediterranean foods.
"I figured you would be hungry, since you slept forever." Fen teases her. "So, I decided to order up some food for you to have when you woke up."
"I'm glad you did." Ana tells him gratefully. "Because I am very hungry. I actually haven't eaten much in the past few days, being so worried about Lily and all."
Fen nods. "Yeah, I know, but you can feast now."
"Yeah." Ana smiles at him and they sit down together and begin to eat.
"Try this, Ana." Fen instructs pushing a plate towards her.
Ana makes a face, when sees what it is. "Oh, no Fen, I don't want that." She tells him looking down at the octopus and frowning.
"It's delicious and different." Fen tells her. "I tried it one time with my parents on vacation and I've liked it since." He confesses to her.
"Uh no thanks." Ana says again. "That's not my thing."
"How do you know if you don't try it?" Fen teases.
"I do know." Ana says. They look at each other and laugh.
"You don't know what you are missing…." Fen responds. They continue to eat, enjoying the food and each other's company.
Afterwards they clear their dishes and throw away their trash, and Ana notices something else in the room.
"Is that another one of your deliveries?" Ana ask looking down at the guitar in the room.
"Yeah, I got that delivered here." Fen confirms. "I felt like playing some music, I'm feeling very inspired right now." He looks at her and his smile widens.
"I may not play anything right now, because I know you have a lot of things you want to do and see why we're here, but maybe later on during some of the nights here, I'll do some playing and singing."
"If it doesn't bother you." He jokes. "I know my voice isn't as good as yours."
Ana looks at him and shakes her head amused. "Don't be silly Fen. Of course not." She looks at the guitar again. "It's pretty." She admires and then touches the blue guitar. "I love this color." She raves. She looks at Fen and then crosses her arms. "Fen, you always somehow manage to get a hold of the prettiest things."
After she makes that statement Fen looks her up and down admiringly as she's standing there.
"Yes, I do." He boasts. "One of the few things I'm good at." He then picks up the guitar and puts the strap around him. He then heads over to a couch in the area and Ana follows him. He sits on the couch and she sits down next to him. He starts strumming the guitar, humming and thinking.
"Like I said." He says looking at her. "I feel inspired right now and I still felt like singing some music, even here in Greece." He then becomes thoughtful. "Especially here in Greece." He states firmly. "A beautiful place, with the woman that I love and…."
A thought then hits Ana and she leans forward and grabs his arm. "Oh, that's your surprise for me." She says thinking she's figured it out.
"What's that babe?" Fen asks.
"Another song." Ana guesses. "You've written another song for me. Awww, Fen." She gushes. "That is pretty romantic. A new love song to celebrate our marriage."
A look comes across Fen's face. "Uhh…. Well not exactly." He confesses honestly. "I mean I am inspired by you, and no doubt something like that is definitely coming." He promises her. "You're definitely my inspiration for my love songs." He tells her candidly. "But I haven't written a new love song for you yet." He then shakes his head. "And that's actually not my surprise Ana."
"Really?" Ana asks a bit disappointed. "Oh… okay, well okay."
Fen looks at her and can't help but laugh. He was amused that she was still trying to guess his surprise for her.
"You're just going to keep guessing until we get back to town, aren't you?" He questions.
Ana shrugs. "Maybe." She then rubs her hand on his arm. "You do give good surprises." She admits. "It's one of the reasons why I married you." She jokes.
"Un-huh." Fen nods and laughs again. "Yeah…okay, but you're going to have wait a bit longer for this one, Ana."
"Really?" Ana looks at him and gives him a pouting face.
"Yes, really." Fen reaffirms. "And don't look at me like that, you don't show me any mercy when you give me that look."
"This look?" Ana asks continuing to give him that look.
Fen rolls his eyes. "Yes, that look, don't look at me like that." He cautions. "I have a hard time saying no to that look. And I really want you to be completely surprised about my surprise." He then reaches over and rubs the upper part of her leg, giving it a squeeze. "You're going to have to wait."
Ana sighs after her attempt to get the secret out of him didn't work. "Okay." She says. "Okay." She repeats lightheartedly. She decided to try and not push him to tell her about the surprise anymore. She could tell he really wanted her to be surprised and that meant a lot to him. So, she would respect that.
Their conversation then turned back to music. "So, you do want to get some writing done here?" Ana asks. "I mean I definitely get that. You can find inspiration at various places." She states knowingly. "Maybe something you end up singing about and writing will end up on your next album." She suggests.
"Maybe so." Fen says and starts strumming the guitar.
"Make a request." He then asks.
"A request?" She asks a bit curious about what he meant.
"Yes, a request for a romantic song." He clarifies. "I feel like singing something to you." He smiles.
"Oh…." Ana remarks pleased. "Hmmm how about something we can sing together…" She thinks. "You've talked about how much you've loved Lionel Richie." She thinks. "You want to sing some "Endless Love." She then looks at him and bursts out laughing at the face he makes when she mentions Lionel Richie. Fen really did like him. "That is old school. Or would you prefer to sing something more modern?" She asks.
"I do like a lot of the old school stuff." Fen responds.
"Yeah, I know. Me too." Ana agrees. "We could sing that..." A thought then hits her. "Or, hey do you like Aaron Neville?" She asks.
Fen nods. "He has a very distinctive voice…. And I do like some of his songs. My mom likes the duet that he did with Linda Ronstadt".He reveals to Ana. "Don't' know much…" She has played and sung that song around the house multiple times; I know the lyrics by heart." Fen confesses.
"My mom loves that song too!" Ana exclaims. "And yes, I know the lyrics as well. That's funny." She remarks amused.
"It looks like we have even more in common than we realized." Fen declares happily. He then thinks for a moment and starts strumming the guitar and playing the beginning of the song. He starts to sing.
"Look at this face, I know the years are showing Look at this life I still don't know where it's going"
Ana smiles and then closes her eyes for a moment as she listens to Fen singing and playing the guitar. He had improved a lot as a guitar player since when she first met him and he decided to become a musician. He had been around and decided to learn from some very talented guitar players and they had really taught him a lot about playing the instrument and about how to play and create different arrangements. He was doing a good job on the guitar with this song. She then opens up her eyes and smiles and begins singing Linda's part of the song:
"Look at these eyes, They never seen what mattered, Look at these dreams, So beaten and so battered..."
Fen starts to get chills as he listens to Ana singing. He plays and then they come to the part of the song where they start singing together.
"I don't know much, but I know I loovve you, and that's ALL I neeed to knooww." Their voices ring out as they sing together. They continue to sing.
"Look at this man so blessed with inspiration..." Fen sings. They continue to sing and finally end the song. "And that may be all there is to know..." After they end the song Ana takes a breath and smiles.
"So, I totally dug, that." She says laughing.
"Me too." Fen remarks.
"You know we don't sing together like that very often. Especially since you've really branched out as your own as an artist, but that was fun." Ana tells him. "We should sing together more often." She suggests.
"Yeah we should." Fen reaches out and caresses her cheek. "We definitely should." A look then crosses his face.
"Though, I just realized there were some kind of sad elements in that song." Fen remarks thinking about the lyrics. "They were talking about stuff like broken and battered dreams." He shrugs. "Oh, well, it was still romantic though."
"Very romantic." Ana agrees. They look at each other and lean forward and kiss again.
Ana then rests her hand on Fen's arm for a minute. "Okay, we probably need to go get ready and gets some sort of adventure and sightseeing mileage out of today. Next thing, you know it will be dinner time…. If it's not already." She lets his arm go. "You're already ready, so I'll get ready and then we can venture out and do some other fun stuff, hubby."
"Sounds like a plan." Fen agrees smiling as he watches her walk away to get ready for the rest of their day together. He lightly strums the guitar thinking once again how happy he was that she was his wife.