Chapter Twenty Five

I wake up the next morning sweating, once again. I at least know why this time. I open my eyes slowly and the first thing I see is a mass of black hair in my face. I blow it away out of my mouth and face and look down on my chest. Jeff is laying next to me with his head on my chest and arms hugging my leg. This time I really won't be able to get up without waking him. My thoughts are interrupted by a snore. He is in a really deep sleep. 

I lay for a few more minutes, not wanting to interrupt him. I internally groan and finally go to move my legs. His grip seems to get a little tighter. I sigh. 

"Jeff," I say, loudly this time knowing how deep he sleeps. I hear him yawn. 

"No," Jeff says. 

"Jeff..." I say, slightly moving my leg again. His arms hold them in place. 

"Don't you dare." Jeff threatens. I go to move my legs more and I see the muscles in his back flexing as his grip gets tighter around them. "Mist." He says with a stern voice. I laugh loudly at him. 

He turns his face towards me, and I can now see the smile playing on his lips as he tries to stay serious. 

"You're not moving. This is a good spot." Jeff says, finally smiling back. Then I see his eyes glance down. "It would be better if you didn't have a shirt..." He lingers. I sigh.

"You ruined it..." I groan as I try to move away from him. His grip gets loose for a few seconds before he flips over very quickly and hovers above me, his knees on either side of me and his hands on either side of my head supporting his weight. He looks down at me, his smile growing wider, but not like his usual creepy smile. It's more playful. 

"Ah don't go. We were having a good time." Jeff says, his voice soft. I see his eyes look lower on my face, then back to my eyes. 

"You ruined it with your jokes," I say, slightly annoyed but liking his new mood. 

"See, there just that. Jokes." Jeff says and chuckles. "I mean unless you want them not to be," Jeff says, smiling again. He lowers his head down more closely to mine. I feel my face get red. 

"Of course I only want them to stay jokes!" I say, my face slightly cracking from his closeness. He laughs again and then looks down between us. 

"Your shirt is pulled up you know." He says. I quickly look down and gasp. I feel my face get heated as I realize you can completely see my underwear.  I pull it back down and keep my hand there, making sure it doesn't come back up. One of Jeff's hands goes down to my hand and lightly tugs at it. I hesitate before I move my hand away. His hand glides to the bottom of the shirt and slowly pulls it up again. He looks back up at my eyes again. No smile is on his face. He looks completely serious now. I can feel his hand on my lower hip, which is now exposed. 

"Mist--" Jeff gets cut off. 

The door to Jeff's bedroom slams open and a guy wearing green comes walking in, holding a bunch of game consoles. Jeff quickly jumps off of me and pulls the shirt back down to my thigh. I quickly throw the blankets over my legs and sit up. 

"Hey, Jeff! I thought we could maybe--" The guy starts to say until he looks up and sees us separate from each other. "Oh whoa! This is Misty right?? I didn't think she would be in here still, I thought she would be in her room by now... I'm sorry I didn't mean to interrupt... On whatever that was..." The guy says, a smile growing on his face now. "Actually... what WAS that?" The guy starts to laugh. Jeff sighs. 

"What do you want Ben?" Jeff says, wiping his hair out of his face. 

"I was just coming in to see if you wanted to game. As I said, I thought she would already be in her room by now, decorating since Slender already got the paint and bed in there this morning." Ben says. I speak up this time. 

"What do you mean this morning? What time is it??" I ask. Ben looks at me confused. 

"It's like 2 bro." Ben says and starts to laugh. 

"Jesus! Jeff, we slept wayyy in!" I say, frantically getting out of bed. Ben laughs. 

"You sure it was just sleep?"  Ben says and Jeff throws a pillow at him. 

"GET OUT ALREADY!" He yells. Ben runs before the pillow can hit him. We hear him laugh as he runs back down the hall. I close the door and look back to Jeff on the bed. 

"You were supposed to take me shopping today!!" I complain. Jeff stretches his arms above his head. 

"I still can. We can go tonight..." He says yawning and then laying back down. 

"Even if we do, you have to help me decorate my room!" I say. 

"I never agreed to that. I only agreed to shop. And I don't even want to do that." Jeff mumbles into his pillow. I throw the pillow on the ground at him. "No, I'm taking a nap."

"We just woke up!!" I say. "Come on you have to help me!" I complain. 

"I will do it later if you just let me take a nap. We can do it all later and stay up all night." Jeff gives in. 

"Fiiinnneee. Better than nothing." I laugh. Jeff laughs with me, then turns to me with his eyes closed and arm out. 

"Good. Now get back here. I'm tired." He says. I hesitate. 

"Jeff..." 

"Mist if you don't get back in this bed..." He lingers. I groan and give in. I crawl into the bed and his arm falls over my body. He hugs me close to him. 

I stare at him for a few minutes. His face is so peaceful when he sleeps. I want to feel weird about this, but it feels alright next to him. Safe. 

This needs to stop happening. 

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Things are starting to get steamy:)) Hope you enjoyed this little chapter!