Author note:
Thanks to Joko (Joko44 on Lit) for his magnificent help, especially as he wrote most of the second.... scene. You'll know.
Also to neegan for his!
Enjoy reading. If this is not your cup of tea, please move on.
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It was the very next evening. I was sitting in bed, Kim laid beside me. We had, at her suggestion, come to an agreement. No more fooling around with Toby the last few weeks he stayed at our house. I knew Kim was very much curious about Toby, so it was just as well to call it quits before anyone did anything stupid. She probably felt like that too, as curiosity can be a killer for anyone. Especially with me leaving soon. On Monday a week from now I would go to Italy and on the Friday it was planned for Kim to come over and join me, then we'd 'tour' Italy while popping buns in Kim's oven.
So now we were back to our normal. I was reading some novel about an unruly knight who had begrudgingly picked up a squire, and Kim was watching some European CS:GO tournament on her phone. I kinda wondered if she had any urges to go down to Toby at first, but as she was enthralled by Natus Vincere versus some Danish team, I concluded that Kim was perfectly fine with not playing around. Maybe she too didn't like how far it had almost come last night. She had said as much, and from how she acted I had to guess it was true. Not that I think Kim would ever lie, but your body can sometimes betray your logical interpretation.
"Maybe we should get a flat screen up here, too," I joked, turning off the lights at my headstand.
Kim grunted impatiently, trying to mostly focus on the match.
"G'Night," I yawned and turned to sleep.
I slept deeply that night, and woke up suddenly as if I had
just
fallen asleep. I realized I had had a dream about being thrown into prison. The horrible truth is that in the dream I had never done anything bad, but the fact that I was in jail made me feel guilty nonetheless. After shaking my head I realized that I wasn't actually in said prison. I was still in bed, Kim was sleeping beside me. So why couldn't I shake this feeling? Fucking dreams, man.
"Shit,"
I thought, and rolled outta bed.
"I must've been really tired."
I went down to the kitchen and started making coffee, finding two mugs. When I came back into the bedroom with each our mug, Kim was already awake, looking at me with a sleepy smile.
"Morning, handsome," she said.
I looked over my shoulder then back at her and we shared a chuckle.
"Me? Good morning yourself, then," I replied.
We lay in bed together for a bit, listening to each other breathe. Just soaking in the warm early summer morning, looking out at the scenic yard we had. Maybe we one day could get a gardener to something else than a giant lawn, but the green grass looked pretty good too. The smell of cut grass in the late spring, early summer was something I had come to love while moving to Indiana, contrary to our growing up in the trailer suburbs outside of Detroit.
After a while, Kim spoke.
"How are you, mister?" she asked.
"Fine," I said, and she nodded. "And you?"
"Me too," Kim answered, sipping her coffee. She reached over to me and squeezed my hand.
"Do you know what I woke up thinking about today?" she asked.
"What did you think about, babe?" I asked.
"The trip to Italy," she answered, still smiling.
I chuckled. "Yeah, you're right. We'll have so much fun together over there!"
"Yes, we will," she said determinedly, squeezing my hand again.
"I wonder if we could spend the whole day at the beach..." I said.
Kim giggled. "Oh yeah, that sounds great! I could lay in the sun all day long! And all the quality pizza and pasta right at our fingertips! Josh, we're gonna get fucking fat over there."
I chuckled again. "And you'll love it," I said.
After that I got dressed and went downstairs. I poured us each a new cup of coffee. Turning, I was greeted by Kim descending the stairs, wearing a pair of white shorts and a tight white tank top. She looked like she was already ready for the Italian riviera. Kim gave me a kiss and a hug.
"Are we ready to set sail?" I joked.
"Yes, mate," she said with a smile. "We're ready to go."