One Step at a Time

I woke up fairly early compared to what I normally would wake up at. I slept better than I ever have, the bed was more than amazing, I was warm, had a ton of pillows and blankets. Just perfect. I guess someone either came in to see if I was awake or something since my dogs were out of my room. I got out of bed and went to get dressed. I threw on a light blue ruffled crop top, with a pair of shorts and my zip up hoodie to wear around the house when I got cold. I worked my way into the bathroom where I freshened up, threw my hair into a messy bun, and swiped a couple of strokes of mascara on and put a long necklace around my neck. I heard something going on downstairs so I left my room and followed the sound to hear Pat cooking breakfast. I walked over to the breakfast bar and sat down. I must have scared him because when he turned around to grab the eggs off of the counter he jumped. I laughed and teased him about being easy to scare and he just glared at me. He was looking pretty shabby, musta had another beer filled night, or he was super tired, simply because his short hair was messed up and he just look tired. Yeah, probably tired. We messed around with each other for a bit until I then decided to help him cook and get stuff ready for breakfast. I went ahead and set the table while he was finishing cooking. I got the orange juice out of the fridge then coffee out of the pot and poured everyone a glass. Kane came over and set all of the food in the middle of the table so we could help ourselves. I saw he cooked up some pancakes, with eggs, biscuits, sausage and bacon. I’ll admit, I was surprised. We both sat down at the table and talked. We caught up on everything, he told me about what it’s like to be inside the team, what training camp will be like, and so on and so forth. Once Kane and I both finished our food, he offered to take my plate and cleaned up. We left some food out for Jon who just began walking down the stairs. He looked at me, smiled, and came to sit next to me at the table.

“Good morning sunshine.” He quirked. I looked at him and rolled my eyes,

“Good morning to you too, glad to see you’re up before Kane and I finished all of this food!”

“Eh, you wouldn’t be able to do that.”

“Yeah, you’re probably right.”

He laughed as he took a drink of his warm coffee I laid out for him, “No, I know I’m right.”

Jon began to eat and I pulled my phone out of my pocket and made a face time call to my mom, who answered it almost immediately, we talked and talked about the guys, mom met Jon and said hey to Kane. Afterwards I called my grandparents, and sent a text to Tris. I was finally done, and Jon had already cleaned up the breakfast table and came to sit next to me. He just sat there and stared at me. I looked up at him, rolled my eyes, and went back to my phone.

“Wow.”

I looked up, “Wow what?”

“Okay, lets solve this problem,” He said as he grabbed my iPhone out of my hands. “There, much better. Now hey, I have plans for you today.”

“Asshole, give it back.”

“No, listen.”

“Ass. What do you want? Besides my phone.” I glared at him.

Jon smirked at me, “Wow, you’re so kind. Any ways, I was thinking, maybe the 3 of us, well, depending on what Kaner has planned, could head over to the beach. Then we could grab a late lunch, early dinner type thing and sightsee. Just something I haven’t done for a while and something you might like. It sounds pretty relaxing for the both of us. Sound good?”

I looked around wondering where Kaner was, I heard the scratch of paws and claws running against the wood floors upstairs, as well as footsteps. I saw Pat walk down the stairs and grab his keys,

“Hey, I’m going out with Shaw, Keith and Sharp. I guess we’re gonna go see a movie. I’ll probably be back for dinner, if you’re out and wanna get something to eat, shoot me a text and I’ll see what I can do.” And with that he grabbed the keys to his hummer and left.

I looked at Jon who was scrolling through my phone. I saw him laugh at something but I didn’t know what.

“What are you doing?”

“Tris said hi, but I guess it’s just you and I today… Is that okay?” He shot me a crooked smile and went back to texting Tris. I laughed at him as I watched him text her. The faces he made. They all looked confused somehow, but it was funny watching him. He would keep looking up at me and back to the screen.

“That actually sounds great. Now can I have my phone back?” I said as I reached out to grab it. He quickly pulled away and looked at me. Then he smiled.

“After this,” he said as he stood up and walked over to me. I looked at him confused.

“Jon what are you do-?”

“Take a picture with me. I’m disappointed with your choice of picture for my contact.” He said as he bent down to my height and wrapped one arm around me. We took a nice picture and then a few funny ones. I looked horrible in all of them but I didn’t care. He then stood up and walked to the kitchen to grab something to drink.

“Can I have it back now?”

“Sure, just don’t let the guys see me being weird. They know I can lighten up some times, but this will kill the serious rep!” He said as he slid my phone to me. I checked the time and saw he changed my wall paper to one of our funnier pictures. It consisted of us sticking our tongues out and winking at the camera. I smiled at the picture and put my phone in my pocket.

“I’ll try not to let it out.” I laughed as I began to walk up the stairs to get dressed.

“Wow, for some reason I don’t believe that.”

“You catch on quick don’t you?”

“Eh, I try.” He shrugged as he followed me and turned to go to his room. I just rolled my eyes and walked to mine. I decided to keep on the same thing I had on, only throw on my blue and black tribal bikini, my personal favorite, and make up my beach bag. I went into the bathroom and grabbed my towel; sun tan lotion, sunglasses, hair ties, then walked to my bookshelf to grab a book, and then completed the mess with my head phones. I threw everything into my denim backpack, locked the dogs back up, and went down stairs to find Jon, already ready to go. He had on a pair of black swim trunks and a white tee shirt. I ran downstairs to meet him and he laughed.

“Well, you ready to go?”

“Let’s go, I wanna get out of here.” I laughed. He opened the door for me and smiled.

“After you.”

I blushed and thanked him. We decided to walk since the beach was right there and we could walk around Chicago and if need be take a taxi home. I smiled as the warm sin hit my face and we both walked outside to begin our day.

Notes

Wow, two months since I've updated this...
I am so sorry! I've been insanely busy, however, its almost October!!! Thanks to everyone who is still reading this, I'll try and update more, I'm so sorry once again D: