not in the same way || c.h.

18

  When I woke up the next morning I felt a weight on my stomach and a warm breeze hitting my shoulder, which wasn't normally there. I looked over to my right and saw that Calum had his arm around my stomach and his face was rather close to my shoulder.

  I don't think he meant to get this close to me, mostly because he fell asleep before I did. He also didn't strike me as the cuddling type either so this was rather surprising. He was loudly snoring which is what woke me up in the first place, and his hair was a complete mess. It was kinda funny, and actually really cute too.

  I decided to get out of bed and get us some breakfast. There obviously wasn't any food in our room so unfortunately I had to go down the street and get something. But it wouldn't take took long I know that.

  I got dressed in a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt and put my hair up in a messy bun before walking out the door and out of the motel. The walk to the coffee place wasn't far, maybe a few blocks away at most.

  When I came back he was still sleeping. I don't know how because it was like 11:30 but whatever. Usually I never woke up this late so I'm kind of glad for this mini vacation.

"Calum wake up." I said and threw a pillow on his head.

"What?" He asked and lifted his head from his pillow which made the other one fall off of his head. He looked so adorable after just waking up, and his confusion was only making this funny.

"I brought you food." I said and gestured to the food I left on the table.

"Oh thanks." He said groggily and rubbed his
eyes. He slowly got out of bed and stretched a bit before walking over to come eat. We were pretty quite while we ate but that was fine with me. He had just gotten up and I had only gotten up like an hour ago, so we were both still kind of asleep. And I knew that no one wanted to have any sort of conversation with anyone when they first wake up.

  So we were in a comfortable silence until he went to shower and get ready for the day. I had no idea what he planned on doing but I didn't really care that much. While I waited I went on my phone and answered any texts I got. Everyone was wondering why I was even here anyway. But obviously I couldn't tell them what he told me, so I just said that he wanted to tell me some personal stuff.

  They were confused as to why we had to be two hours away for him to tell me but I just said he wanted a break from home. I felt bad for lying to them since I've never lied to them before, but I had to. I couldn't tell them or else we'd all get hurt.

  I thought about Noah, and how he'd probably like Calum a lot. And I felt like maybe Calum would like him too. But I was nervous for them to meet each other just because I didn't want Noah to get hurt. If Noah got hurt I wouldn't be able to live with myself, especially if it's partly my fault.

  I knew that if me and Calum actually started dating he had to meet my family at some point. But I was a little scared that something would happen to them. I don't know why I'm thinking about this now. We aren't even dating, we probably won't be for a while. I just always jump ahead and think of the long term plans for everything.

  My thoughts got interrupted when Calum came out of the bathroom with just a towel on. His hair was still wet and he had small droplets of water dripping down his chest. I never noticed the tattoos on his chest before, but I guess I've never seen him without a shirt before so that could explain it.

  He was making it really hard to want to wait for the right time. I mean looking at him now all I wanted to do was jump him really. I had to force myself to look away and pretend I wasn't staring or that I wasn't thinking about all the things I wanted to do with him.

  Luckily he didn't catch me staring, or else I'd never hear the end of it and his ego would only get worse. I could hardly deal with the cocky remarks he was making now, I don't want him to think I was losing my mind over him.

"What's the plan for today?" I asked as he picked up some clothes and headed around the corner and in the bathroom.

"I don't know, what do you want to do?" He asked and walked in with his jeans on and threw on his t-shirt.

"I don't know, what is there to do around here? You seem to come here a lot." I said and put my phone down.

"I guess we can just walk around until we find something interesting." He said and shrugged his shoulders.

"Alright." I said and slid my shoes back on so we could go whenever he was ready.

After a long day of exploring and finding new things to do all around, we went back to our room to head to bed. Tomorrow we'd be going back home. I hoped things would be the same when we got home. Obviously things might get more complicated but I hoped we'd be the same when we got back home.

I mean we weren't really together, but we casually flirted from time to time. And I was so comfortable with him. No matter where we were or what we were doing I was safe and comfortable because I knew he was with me.