Fever Dream ~ Neymar Jr

Chapter 35

2015

When I woke up the next morning, I realized Neymar was right about the bed situation. There was no room to sleep, except in his arms and somehow that was the best sleep I had gotten in weeks. I felt him stir next to me too. Without opening his eyes, he leaned down and kissed my head. "Your hair smells so good. I missed this smell." He told me.

"How did you sleep?" I asked him.

"Like a baby." He smiled, opening his eyes and looking at me. The hazel in them was even more accentuated in the light of the dawn that crawled through the window. "What's the plan today?" He asked me.

"I was thinking breakfast and then I'll give you a quick tour of the lab? Technically I'm working today, but they all know my boyfriend's coming so they've given me some leeway."

"I can't wait to meet Brad and Dustin." Neymar mocked.

"It's Chad and Justin but I'm sure you know that." I told him laughing. I moved to get out of the bed but he pulled me to him again and swiftly turned us around so he was on top of me, the muscles in his arms flexing from holding his weight up. He leaned down and touched his lips to mine, but barely. I was impatient though, and pulled him down to me, kissing him passionately and running my hands up and down his body.

He broke the kiss to look at me. "I love you, so much."

"I love you too."

~*~

A little while later and significantly hungrier than before we headed to the dining room area for breakfast. It wasn't anything fancy, just a big table with chairs in front of a buffet style breakfast that offered a small selection of cereal and pastries and Russian-style pancakes called Blini.

"Is that your fellow?" Inessa asked me in her thick Russian accent when she saw Neymar and I enter. Inessa did all sort of jobs around the site, she was responsible for cooking and cleaning and she and her husband Vlad were the caretakers of the property. They lived here with their teenage son Anatoly.

I saw her size Neymar up, probably not loving the tattoos very much. "This is him." I told her. "Neymar this is Inessa." I introduced them and they shook hands.

"You're late. Everyone has already finished, but I saved you some." She said, winking at me.

Neymar laughed, because I had probably turned red.

"Sorry." I told her. "Tomorrow I'll come help."

"Help with what?" Neymar asked as we filled our plates with food.

"I've volunteered to help around wherever they need extra hands." Neymar looked at me quizzically. "You'll see tomorrow." I told him. After breakfast we headed to the main building and we took the elevator to the top floor. "Ready to meet everyone?" I asked Neymar as the elevator door opened.

Everyone was a bit of an overstatement. There were in fact at the moment only about 5 people in the whole building, since a team of botanologists had gone on a mission somewhere in the Siberian tundra.

"Hey guys!" I said, and poor old Joachim, the most senior member of the research team was so startled he almost fell off his chair. "This is Neymar." They all came around to greet him, Joachim, Chad and Justin as well as Anne-Marie and Andrew, two of the other physicists there. Anne-Marie was also an alumnus of Chromnia university, sent there by Dr. Jones.

"Hi Neymar." She greeted him. "What do you think of our little shindig?"

Neymar turned to look at me, bewildered. "Shindig is like a party. Or get-together. Anne-Marie, Neymar is Brazilian. No slang please."