The next morning, everyone slept in. All the adventures from the day before had them all absolutely exhausted.
By the time Jon and Callie woke up, and looked over at the clock, it said 11:30a.m. "That was a nice night of sleep," Callie murmurs to Jon, "I don't think I've slept in like that in a long time, and waking up next to you, well that just made it even better." Jon leans closer to her and kisses her, first on the forehead, then the tip of her nose and finally on her lips. He says to her "Good morning to you too baby girl. That really was an amazing night of sleep, after another incredible weekend with you, with hopefully many more to come."
Callie smiles at him and tells him that she agrees, and she doesn't want to see any of this come to an end. She rolls onto her side and lays her head on his chest, listening to the sound of his heartbeat, feeling the rise and fall of his chest with his breathing. She whispers "How did I ever get so lucky to meet someone like you? I don't want to push anything or make things weird, but I've fallen so hard and fast, I love you Jon." He kisses the top of her head before speaking, "Callie, you're not pushing me or rushing anything, like I already told you, I love you too, and I'm the lucky one. I will do whatever I can to keep this going for as long as I can." Callie looked up at him, reaching one hand to the side of his face, tilting it down towards her, and she stretched up to kiss him. "I'll do whatever I can as well," She says back to him, "I wonder if everyone else is still asleep, I'm hungry" she continues with a slight giggle.
Callie kisses Jon once more, and slides out of bed to find an oversized t-shirt that she slides on, Jon follows and slips into a pair of shorts and they leave the bedroom to go into the kitchen. She looks at Jon and asks how French toast sounds, he tells her delicious. Callie walks over to the fridge, pulls out a couple eggs, milk, and grabs a loaf of bread, some butter, a whisk, a bowl and a frying pan. She cracks open the eggs, pouring the yolk, egg whites, and a little bit of milk into the bowl, and mixes them all together. Next she takes the bread and lightly dips each slice into the egg mix and drops them in the frying pan and starts cooking them.
While Callie cooked French toast for the two of them, Jon grabbed a couple glasses and poured them some milk to go along with their food. "Thanks babe" Callie says, looking over at what Jon was doing, while she flipped the bread in the pan. "That smells so good," he says to her. A few minutes later the food was done, she put a couple pieces of French toast on her plate, a couple on to Jon's and carried the plates over to the kitchen island. Jon got up to get some syrup from the refrigerator, opened the top as he sat back down, and poured some over his food. He asked Callie if she wanted some too, she said sure, so he poured some on hers as well.
They ate mostly in silence, until Jon spoke up, "Are you sure you want to come to the shows this week? I don't want you to feel obligated just because I suggested it with how close they are going to be." She looked up at him with a smile, "Babe, of course I'll be there! I wouldn't miss it for the world to see you out there doing your thing." "Okay, as long as you are sure, and work won't hold it against you to miss a couple of days" he says. "Nope, they won't have an issue, I have a couple weeks' worth of vacation time that I haven't used, so no issues there! I'm definitely sure, I will be there. And I know that Cassee and Alaina want to be there to support Colbs and Joe too. It will be fun for all of us, I'm sure of it." Callie told him.
When they were done eating, Jon stood up to grab their plates to bring them to the sink, before walking away he leaned down to kiss the top of her head. When he set them into the sink, he turned the water on and rinsed the syrup off of the plates and forks. After looking over at the stove, he reached over and grabbed the frying pan, spatula and the counter for the bowl that Callie mixed the egg in. She speaks up "I would have washed those you know." He responds to her, "You cooked, so I'll wash the dishes quickly, it's only fair." "Babe, you are way too good to and for me, honestly I really can't even begin to figure out what I did to deserve all of this," she says.
Jon finishes up washing the few dishes they used for breakfast, sticking them in the dish strainer to dry, and looks at Callie and asks her what she wanted to do today. She tells him she's okay with just a relaxing day after the day before, but since they're going to be going to the shows this week, she needs to make sure to go and get some laundry done.
Jon tells her, "That sounds like a plan, I need to do some laundry too, actually. We can get whatever laundry here together, go and grab yours and go to one of the laundromats to do it all at once, or just go get yours, come back here and do a couple loads of laundry... what do you think?", Callie sighs and says "If you don't mind, the laundromat sounds great, there's a bookstore just a few buildings over, and there's a couple books I'd like to grab, maybe grab lunch at the diner right there, too?" "Whatever you want babe, it sounds great," Jon responds, coming over and kissing her on the top of her head, "I'm going to go get mine together, so we can head out after to get the rest of yours from your place and hit the laundromat." He then walked out of the room towards the bedroom.
Callie was standing there, and went over to the fridge to grab a bottle of water, as she turned back around, Alaina walked in the kitchen and asked her what she was up to. "Oh, Jon and I are going to take some laundry to the laundromat, stop by the bookstore and grab some lunch, then come back here and relax for the day, you ready for this week?" Callie asked her. "Yeah, I think so, I'm kind of excited, I mean, I've begun watching when they're on tv, but being so close, it's going to be wild" Alaina replied. "Yeah, I know what you mean. It will be great though, I think we're all going to have a blast," Callie says. Alaina goes and grabs a bottle of water herself, while she put some coffee on then lets out a giggle. Callie asks her what is so funny, to which she replies "We haven't known these guys all that long, we're all so deep into everything, and it feels like home here, as comfortable as we all are." Callie nods her head and tells her she agrees. She gives Alaina a little hug telling her shes got to go and get dressed so that when Jon is ready they can go, and walks out of the kitchen towards the bedroom.
Jon was in there throwing the last of their dirty laundry into the plastic hamper and he had a laundry bag that had all of his wrestling clothes. He looks up with a smile and asks "I hope you don't mind I just mixed all of our laundry together?" Callie laughed and sarcastically responds by saying "Oh yes Jon, it's the end of the world." She walks over and brushes his shaggy hair away from his eyes and stands up on her tiptoes to give him a kiss. As she goes to pull away, he stops her, pulling her back to an even deeper kiss. He looks down into her eyes and smiles, "One thing is for sure at this very moment, I am so glad I went to the club that night, and I'm so glad you're here and about to come along for the week, I love you Callie Ann" Smiling ear to ear, Callie looking at him replies "Words can't even describe how much I feel the same, I love you too."
Jon holds his arms around her for a minute and then says he's gonna bring the laundry down to the car, but that he would be right back. She tells him okay, that she's got to put some actual clothes on anyway. He picks up the laundry bag and sticks it on top of the hamper, only to pick that up and carry that out of the room. Callie goes over to the dresser, and opens the drawer that Jon had cleared out for her. She pulls out a t-shirt, jeans and a bra and panties set, and walks over to the bed to get dressed. After she was dressed she grabbed her phone off the charger, tossed it into her purse as she picked it up and walked out of the room to head towards the living room.
As Callie was about to turn into the living room from the hallway, she heard the door shut, Jon got back inside and instead of walking towards her, he quickly went straight into the kitchen while saying "Callie can you come here for a minute?" So Callie turned back and walked to the kitchen...
