GaMM – a Morning Moment
She startled for only a brief moment, suddenly remembering with a quick smile how she found herself this morning curled up in his arms in the dim light as the sun began to rise.
Peeking up through her lashes, she also smiled to see he was sleeping soundly. 'So he CAN sleep, I must have worn him out,' she thought with a self-satisfied gleam in her eye. Contentedly, she settled down and went happily back to sleep in his embrace.
When the alarm sounded, they reached out for it together, bumping heads in their haste to keep the other from waking. Reeling from the sudden impact, she took the lead and finally turned off the buzzing. "Last night was perfection," she said gently, pausing to rub her head again, "but clearly not every moment can be that, can it?"
Lying back on the pillow, he looked almost sheepishly at her, "Seems not, I wanted to save you from a sudden awakening, but nearly knocked you unconscious instead." She rolled onto her side, caught up in the mystery and joy of being in bed, in their bed together, after months of unlikely hoping and wishing.
"How do we keep this private?" she asked, "Things won't change now for everyone else, but I can't imagine they won't sense, won't feel a difference after today." "True," he said reaching out to rub her head, "but no matter what they think or imagine, they can't know the why of it, unless we share that information."
"So, that means," she said, happily caressing the spot on his head where they collided, "some of our conversations, the things we cannot resolve in the daytime, in open conversation, mean we must set them aside until we can 'work them out' here in our bedroom."
"So, borrowing from the Sheila and Scruffy episode," he grinned, "we may quarrel and disagree but know that the real, the true feelings are always there?"
Leaning over, she gave him a soft, gentle kiss, and with a raised eyebrow, said quietly, "I hope you don't think loving you means I will automatically agree with everything you say or suggest?"
"Honestly," he said with an unwaivering expression, "I'd be disappointed if you did."