You awake slowly to the sound of a rather stringent alarm. After some groping and fumbling around, you find an alarm clock on a nearby nightstand. A couple of slaps later and you find the switch to turn the alarm off.
“Keep it down...I'm trying to sleep.” You roll over to see smiling up at you, her hair all frumpy and matted and her face creased with sleep lines and marks from her pillow. She laughs as she looks you over. “Wow...I hope I look that sexy.”
You smile with her...as you find yourself leaning over a bit...down towards her lips...and you softly kiss her lips. The warm, slightly chapped flesh of her lips, and the light scent of left over wine and morning breath makes her human somehow...more tangible than just another face from work or a person you've had a few drinks with. So you kiss her again, lightly, sampling the flavors of her mouth as you softly stroke her creased face.
After a few seconds the kiss is broken and the two of you examine each other's eyes to try and discover what just happened. raises up on her elbows as her bewildered, confused eyes stare you down until you are lying on your back. With that, she hovers over you for a moment before kissing you in return, repeating the same ritual you performed on her.
Once the kiss is finished, the two of you watch either other in stunned silence. Finally you break the silence with an eloquent, “So...what now?”
“I don't know...” replies.
“Take our time, then?” you ask.
“Yeah...I guess...” she nods.
“Um...you know I'm bound for three more days, right?” you comment, almost loath to bring it up.
“Yeah...” she starts as she rolls over and climbs out of bed. “You've been such a good sport about it, and it's really piqued my interest...not that I wasn't interested before now...”
“Really?” you ask as you raise up to a sitting position on the bed and arch an eyebrow at her.
She blushes instantly. “Yeah...and I feel like a real bitch for the way I treated you.”
You find yourself laughing. “Yeah, you were a bit of a bitch about it at first.” The offhand comment and your laughter brings an unexpected smile to her face. “But there's not much we can do about it now...we'll just have to go with the rest of the week and see what happens...”
“Yeah...like being late for work if we don't get our asses in gear,” walks over to your side of the bed and playfully swats at you. “Get up, lazy bones.”
After a couple of quick showers and some running around each other to get dressed, the two of you gather the files from the previous night and jump into 's car. Just as you clock in and walk past 's office, Natalie approaches both of you. “I was wondering when you would show up. We've got a busy day for .”
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