12-Having A Lazy Day
Sunday: the only day of the week that whose name would bring a contented smile to Cole's face. Sunday meant no training, cake, cuddling with Nya, video games, and food. Today was Cole's kind of day. He smiled lazily, hearing a sound he often never heard: silence. Pure silence. No footsteps running down the hall to get to the kitchen first. No one shouting about anything.
Silence.
Cole loved it when it was just him and Nya in the house. They had their own little system when it was just the two of them at home together. He paused his match with Pom-Pound the Great in Fist-2-Face 2, then he listened. She should be up by now. Cole knew that every Sunday, the water ninja would sleep in until nine o' clock. Then, Cole would be waiting for her in the recliner with an XBox controller in his hands and a huge bag of individually wrapped chocolate at his side.
Just then, he heard the shy little pat-pat-pat of her feet down the hall. A few seconds later, she appeared at the doorway. Cole had to crane his neck to see her. She was dressed in blue and red polka-dotted pajamas, and her hair was tied up in a messy bun. She smiled tiredly when she saw him.
"Morning, Sunshine," Cole said. She yawned, then stretched, walking over to him.
"Good morning, my earth worm. How did you sleep?" She asked.
"I slept okay," he responded, "and you?"
"Fine," she responded. She climbed into his lap after she had made the both of them a cup of coffee, then he wrapped the blanket around them both. She watched him pick up his controller and continue to beat up Pom-Pound the Great. He won the match after he gave the fictional character a taste of one of his uppercuts.
"You try," he said, dropping the controller in her lap.
"But I haven't had my coffee!" She protested. "Just play!"
"I want to see you play." He said. "Come on, just one round..."
She huffed, blowing a loose strand of hair from her eye. "Fine. One round." She picked up the controller, then selected her opponent, which would be Fistus Strikeius. The arena they'd be battling in was in a crater somewhere on the moon, apparently. Nya smirked as her avatar took a battle stance.
"3...2...1...FIGHT!" The announcer on the game said. Nya began by punching Fistus in the face, then flipping over him and kicking him from behind. She kept bombarding the character with punches and kicks until his HP went down to zero, and he collapsed.
"Happy?" Nya asked, setting the controller down on the armrest. He curled his arms around her slim waist, then he kissed her forehead, tucking her head under his chin and holding her tight.
"Yes," he said. Nya could feel the beat of his racing heart underneath his hot skin. The heat that radiated off of his skin warmed her. She smiled, kissing his collarbone.
"Now, to celebrate the defeat of your enemy," Cole said, "we shall celebrate with chocolate!" He grabbed the bag of chocolate, then he poured it over Nya, who squealed. A shower of bite-sized, heart-shaped chocolate rained over her. The chocolate landed all over her.
Cole smirked as she wiped her face off. He plucked a piece off of her head, unwrapped it, then popped it into his mouth. Nya giggled, then she picked on up from her lap, then unwrapped it, discarding the wrapper on the floor. Holding it between her thumb and pointer finger, she was about to eat it when Cole stole it from her and ate it.
"I was going to eat that!" She yelled, throwing one at his face. She stuck her tongue out at him, but Cole only placed another unwrapped piece onto her tongue. She laughed, then chewed it. He gazed at her as she chewed.
"You're beautiful," he whispered, "even when you have heart-shaped chocolate on your head."
Wrapping her arms around his neck, she kissed him, her heart racing. He suppressed a giggle, then pulled her closer to him. They separated.
"You taste like chocolate." Nya said.
"So do you!" Cole shot back.
She shrugged as he plucked another piece of chocolate. Nya stole it, then ate it.
His lips were in a thin line. "Woman, I don't know what I'm going to do with you."
The water master only grinned. "Well, figure it out, 'cause you're kind of stuck with me now."