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Around midnight, Shay woke up slowly, which was strange for her since she was absolutely exhausted. She rolled over to snuggle into Troian, but was met with cold sheets instead.
"Well that explains why I woke up." She said quietly as she got up to find her girlfriend.
She walked out into the living room and smiled as she watched Troian deep in thought, looking at one of the walls.
"What are you doing, babe?" The dark skinned beauty asked, smirking slightly when Troian jumped a little at being startled.
"Shay. Why are you up? You should be sleeping." The brunette said as she turned around and placed a tape measurer down on the desk next to her.
"Well I turned around to curl up into you and you weren't there. I just figured I would see what you were up to."
"I'm sorry, I just couldn't sleep. I can go back now though and lay with you." She offered sweetly.
"No, that's fine. I'll just chill out here with you for a little while and then head back to bed, if that's okay with you?"
"Of course it is. I love having you around."
"You're sweet. What are you working on anyway?" She smiled as happily as she could while she was still partially asleep.
"A picture wall. I thought about it a lot while you were gone and I found all of the pictures. Now I'm just trying to figure out where they should all go." She said, turning back around to look at the wall.
"That sounds like a great idea actually. Mind if I look at your pictures?" She asked, ready to go for the stack of pictures on the coffee table.
"No! Don't look at them yet. I want it to be a surprise." The skinny brunette yelled as she jumped over to Shay and hopped in her lap, successfully stopping her from looking at the pictures.
"Alright then; surprise it is." She said smirking before she leaned forward to connect their lips.
They got distracted for a few minutes as they sat there exchanging kisses with each until they both needed to take a breath.
"Alright, I should get back to this." Troian said slowly, giving one more kiss before she hopped off of Shay's lap.
"I'll just continue to sit here and observe. I won't peek at the pictures, I promise." She assured her girlfriend.
About 10 minutes later, Troian asked her girlfriend a question and turned around to look at her when she didn't hear a response.
Surely enough, Shay was fast asleep on the couch, causing Troian to smile happily. Two hours later, she woke up Shay lightly and helped the taller girl stumble to their bed, sure that she wouldn't remember moving there when she woke up later.
The next morning, Troian was still sound asleep when Shay woke up, something that never happened. The raven-haired girl decided to continue lying with her in bed until she heard her phone vibrating on the bedside table.
She carefully pried herself away from her girlfriend and left the room before she answered her phone.
"Yes, Ashley?" She whispered as she closed the bedroom door quietly.
"Uh oh, sounds like I interrupted some sleepover time. Did you get some last night, Mitchell?" She asked in her typical inappropriate manner.
"No comment. What can I help you with though?"
"Well I just wanted to see if you wanted to hang out today since we haven't seen each other since you went to Brazil. But it sounds like you have way better plans with a certain someone." She smirked heavily on the other side of the phone.
"How about tomorrow instead? Do you have to work?"
"Not until about 7pm, so I'm free all day." The blonde replied.
"Perfect! Can we do something then? Troian will be at work all day and the producers gave me and Luce and extra day off since we just came back from Brazil." She explained.
"Sounds good, Mitch. Get together around 10?"
"Sweet, I'll see you then." She answered before she hung up the phone and quietly snuck back into Troian's bedroom.
An hour later, Shay woke up when she felt Troian moving around a little bit more, signaling that she was waking up.
She leaned in and started placing light kisses up and down Troian's neck, smiling when she heard her girlfriend moan.
"Mmmh, what time is it?" The brunette groaned as she scooted closer to Shay, glad that she had invested in heavy-duty curtains and couldn't see any light coming in.
"It's about 9:30am, I wanted to keep letting you sleep."
"Thanks, babe. I'll take it when I can get it."
"So what do you think we should do today?"
"I don't know. Maybe just hang around here and be lazy before we have to go back to work." She suggested, looking at her girlfriend sweetly.
"That sounds perfect! First things first though. Breakfast. If you're good, I'll make you something." Shay offered with a smile and a kiss on the cheek.
"I am always good." She stated matter of factly, causing Shay to smile brightly as Troian sent her a wink.
An hour later, the two were making breakfast and trying to plan out the rest of their day together.
"So should we redbox something?"
"Eh, I don't know. How about we just watch something on Netflix instant? That way we don't have to go anywhere." Troian suggested, wanting to just hang around at home for the day.
"Sounds good to me. Oh, Lucy was telling me all about this TV show, 'Breaking Bad,' on the flight back. We could give that a shot."
"Yeah, why not." Troian smiled happily.
"Okay, I really did not foresee this happening." Troian admitted sheepishly as she looked at her girlfriend.
"Same here. Who knew that the show would be this addicting? It's so good. Like crazy good."
"That is for damn sure. I can't believe it's already time for dinner. You hungry?" Troian asked suddenly while the credits were rolling on their latest episode.
"Yeah, kind of. Oh, can we make pizza?" She asked excitedly, instantly putting on a pouty face for Troian when she saw her girlfriend hesitate slightly.
"Yeah, that sounds good. I think we have all the ingredients here. Let's go check!" She answered with a smirk, helping Shay up off the couch.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?" Troian asked once they slid the pizza into the oven and took a seat at the dining table, linking their hands along the way.
"I told Ash that I would chill with her before she has to go to work, then I should probably go home and see Michaela. I haven't seen her since before the trip, so I figured I should spend the night at my house."
"Well that sucks for me." Troian joked as Shay shot her a fake glare, "Have fun with Michaela though, I'm sure she missed you a lot while you were gone."
"Yeah. I bet she can't wait to hear all about my trip. Hey, what time are you heading into work tomorrow?"
"I need to leave at like 5:30, I have a 6am call time." She replied with a slight frown, sad that she wouldn't be able to spend another full day with her girlfriend.
"Well if you wake me up, I'll make you some coffee while you get ready and sit with you when you have breakfast." She offered sweetly, just wanting to be together.
"You're sweet, babe, but you don't need to do that. I want you to get as much sleep as you can before you have to start back at work."
"Are you sure? Because I really don't mind."
"I'm positive. Thank you though." Troian said, leaning slightly forward to place a soft kiss on Shay's cheek, smiling when Shay grabbed ahold of her face and kissed her passionately.
"I guess you should get to sleep right after we eat then. It's already almost 8."
"Yeah, I'll eat and then head to bed I guess. It's a crazy life I lead, isn't it?" She said sarcastically as Shay smiled.
Almost an hour and half later, both the girls were done getting ready for bed. Troian crawled into the middle of the bed, smiling contently when Shay curled into her and sighed happily.
"Have a good day at work tomorrow. I love you." She said sincerely, blushing when Troian smiled at her lovingly.
"I love you too. Have fun with Ash. Will I see you at all tomorrow?" The brunette asked once she turned off the light next to her bed.
"I hope so. Let me know when you get off set though and I'll see what I'm up to."
"Sounds good. Alright, I'm going to try to sleep." She added, leaving one more kiss on her girlfriend's lips.
"Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow for sure. Love you." She said one last time, giving one quick kiss before she settled into bed, ready to fall asleep.
"Love you too. Don't get into too much trouble with the Benz." Troian joked, knowing how many different pranks the blonde liked to pull on people.
The next morning, Troian smiled happily when she saw her girlfriend curled up with her pillow, sleeping comfortably. The brunette leaned forward to place a gentle kiss to Shay's forehead before she left for work.
The raven-haired girl unconsciously moved in and slightly smiled when she felt the lips touching her forehead.
"I'll see you tonight, gorgeous." Troian whispered before she stood up and left the room.
"Shannon!" Ashley screamed as she opened her front door, revealing one of her best friends.
"Hey Ash! How are you?" She asked as she brought the blonde into a strong hug.
"I'm good. How are you? How was Brazil? I see you ripped yourself away from your girl long enough to see me." She winked happily.
"She's at work, remember? And I'm good. Glad to be back, but I had a great time. Brazil was incredible and so gorgeous. The fans were crazy; there was so much love there. It was remarkable." The taller girl gushed, still so shocked that she got to go to Brazil and was greeted so kindly by everyone.
"So what do you want to do today?"
"I don't know. Want to go somewhere for breakfast? Or juices? Or both?"
"Hungry there, Shannon?" Ashley asked with a smile.
"So hungry. I've missed the food places here." She admitted as they stepped out of Ashley's house and walked towards her car.
"Worked up an appetite from all the sex you've been having, Mitch? Well I'll go wherever, it's up to you!"
"No comment." She said firmly before she looked down at the ground and quietly offered more information, "We may have had sex after every episode of 'Breaking Bad' we watched. And believe me, we watched a lot of episodes."
"Oh, lucky girl." Ashley said with a huge smirk as Shay blushed even more.
"Oh yeah. Miss Bellisario is always the overachiever and fabulous at everything she does."
"Really?" Ashley said, shocked that Shay was giving her that much info.
"Believe it."
"So how many scenes are you doing tonight?" The tanned girl asked once they placed their orders for breakfast.
"I'm only slated for three actually. All are with your girl." Ashley smiled brightly as Shay blushed.
"Well I hope you two have a fun night. I guess I shouldn't expect to see her tonight, then if you're not going in until 7."
"Actually, I got the times mixed up. I have to go in at 5, and we should be out by 10 or 11."
"Oh cool. Hopefully you won't be there all night then."
"Seriously. Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Of course."
"So while you were in the bathroom a few minutes ago, I went on Instagram and saw a picture that Keegan put up of him a Troian like an hour ago. And all these comments are talking about how people think they're dating in real life. Why don't you guys just come out and tell everyone what's going on?"
"Because then people would comment on those pictures and say that we're cheating on each other, just because we took a picture with someone else. You know what I mean?"
"I guess. I just though it would be nice if you two could be a couple in public."
"I guess, but I don't know. See, we've always been together just for us and for our happiness. We think that it's nice to have the privacy and I like being able to put up a picture of the two of us and not have anyone suspect that we're together. People think I'm dating you, or Michaela, or Keegan, and that takes the heat off of me and T to be perfect and always happy and touchy feely with each other in public."
"I guess you have a point. You're not ashamed of her or anything though, are you?"
"What? Of course not! She is such an incredible person, inside and out. There is honestly nothing wrong with her in my eyes. She's perfect. And she's perfect for me. We're just enjoying 'us' time out of the public eye and out from under a microscope. We'll come out eventually, it's just a matter of time."
"Well all the cast and crew are rooting for you two."
"Thank you. See, that means the world to both of us already. We will let everyone else know soon, I'm sure."
Around midnight that night, Troian walked into her house, smiling when she saw a pizza box and a note lying on the table.
Babe,
I hope you had a good day on set; I missed you. I'm back at home tonight because I've been neglecting Michaela, but I will see you on set tomorrow. Enjoy your pizza, I know you prefer it if it's left out instead of put in the fridge. I'll see you soon.
I love you. XOXO
S
Troian smiled brightly as she got a glass and filled it with water before sitting down at the table and eating some of the pizza.
Tomorrow, or any day where she got to see her girlfriend, would be a great day.