I climb back into the bed; the moans from the other room becoming louder. I can feel their bed slamming against the wall. I can’t handle this anymore; I have more built up sexual tension than anyone right now. I climb off the bed and grab my iPod, maybe music will drown them out. I climb back in bed, place the headphones on my ears and fire it up. The first song that plays is “Is This Love” by Whitesnake; the song Shadow and I listened to the second time we made love.
I yank the headphones from my ears and throw the iPod to the end of the bed. As soon as the headphones leave my ears, Bobby and 'Moaning Chick' fill them with animalistic sex noises.
“Are you kidding me?” I yell, flopping onto my stomach and covering my head with as many pillows as my flailing hands can grab.
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I wake up to the sound of giggles from the next room. My head is still buried deep under a mound of pillows. I have no idea what time I finally fell asleep last night; Bobby and “Miss Moans-A-Lot” had me up all night. Every moan and growl coming from the next room made me think about climbing on Shadow and humping him into tomorrow.
I roll over on my back and look up at the ceiling. I don’t feel like getting up, or showering, or eating. I just want to lay here and stare at the ceiling. So I do; thoughtless and emotionless for at least a few hours.
My stomach yells and screams at me to get out of bed. Giving in, I climb out of bed and throw my hair up in a messy bun. I walk out of the room in just the big MC shirt and panties; maybe showing a little skin will bring Shadow around.
I walk into the living room and Shadow is sitting on a stool at the island. He looks sexy as hell in just a pair of gray sweatpants. He looks up from his bowl of cereal and his eyes go wide at my appearance.
I round the island to pour myself a bowl and spot Bobby whispering sweet nothings into a blond's ear. She throws her head back and laughs; her voice is familiar. She looks up at me and my breath is stolen from my lungs.
“Doc?” I think out loud.
“Oh, good morning, Dani. How are you feeling?” she asks, jumping straight into professional mode. I nod my head avoiding eye contact; a little embarrassed I heard her climax twice last night.
“Can you take me to the book store? I would like to buy a few books,” I ask Shadow, who is still looking at me like he wants to eat me.
He gains composure and goes back to his cereal.
“How long are we going to do this?” I ask him, pissed with the childish games he is playing. “I don’t think this has anything to do with me getting on the back of someone's bike; something I didn’t even know was a law. So, what is it?” I nearly yell, ready to drown his ass in his cereal bowl.
“Don’t push me, Dani,” Shadow says, grimly.
“Fuck you!” I yell, grabbing my cereal bowl and stomping back to the room. Fuck him. Fuck him and his arrogant ways. Fuck me for falling in love with him, even when I was warned.
I eat my cereal then lay down looking out the window; people who live normal lives walking the streets. Families, laughing and smiling, walk together. I hate them all.
I wake up with my head pounding from all the sleep. Sitting up in bed, I see a black box with a red bow attached to it at the end of the bed. I grab the box and open it up.
“What the...”? I ask myself out loud.
It’s a Kindle Fire. What the hell was he getting at? Treat me like shit, then reward me with gifts? I love it, but he isn't going to know that.
I look at the clock and see it's 6:30pm. All I have had is cereal and I'm starving for some actual comfort food. I toss the Kindle on the end of the bed and go in search of food, still in just a t-shirt and panties.
Shadow is watching a movie instead of playing video games. I glare at him and walk into the kitchen.
I grab some angel hair pasta and pull some meat from the fridge. I look in the cabinets and find some pasta sauce; spaghetti it is.
After about an hour of cooking and burning myself with boiling pasta sauce, dinner is done. I have watched enough cooking shows, being locked down in my house in New York, to pick up some tips and I have to say my sauce is tasting pretty yummy tonight. I start throwing some spaghetti in a bowl when Shadow enters the kitchen.
“Hmm,” he says, dipping his finger in the sauce.
He opens the freezer and pulls out a tub of chocolate ice cream, grabs a spoon from the drainer and flips the lid with his thumb onto the floor.
“Yeah, I think I’ll just eat this,” he says, snidely. My eyes bug out and my mouth drops open in disbelief, did he just dis' my cooking?
My face turns into a scowl as my blood begins to boil hotter than my pasta sauce.
“Damn this shit is thick. Dani, grab me a beer,” Shadow demands as he spoons another scoop of ice cream.
I bite my cheek and nod my head. I'm so pissed I can’t even see straight. I open the fridge and grab a beer bottle by the neck. “You want a beer, huh?” I say coyly. “Here, have a fucking beer!” I throw the beer bottle at him. Shadow ducks just as the bottle collides with the wall and shatters into a million pieces.