Chapter 242

Chapter 242
"I'm a sleep cuddler- Jessica usually slaps me awake but I'd appreciate it if you just let it happen and let me sleep, thank you," he explained, and despite my remaining irritation, I chuckled a little.

"Sure thing, Kev." I said. Of course he was a sleep cuddler. That didn't surprise me in the slightest.

"Night Carla."

"Night."

I didn't sleep very well that night.

Our little "break" only lasted five days, but they were five very long and painful days filled with endless awkward stares between us from the rest of our group and stubborn stand-offs shared by the two of us.

I'd say we were both very mature for our age... but most definitely not during those five days.

On the last day of our trip, and after trying to put up with Kade's relentless sleep-cuddling for the last time, I carefully pried his arm off of me to not wake him up and left the room. Asmodeus and I had been practically going out of our way to be distant from one another, only voluntarily around each other during our group meals and the time we all spent at the beach together.

At first, our break had been genuine, and we were both somewhat upset about it. But then only a couple of days into it, it almost felt like a game as we started to purposely rubbed it in each other's faces and get under each other's skin as much as humanly possible.

And weirdly, I don't know if I'd ever wanted to screw him more than after those five days of mutual rudeness and unwarranted sexual tension.

When I pounded my fist on the door, and he opened it looking just as wide awake as me, all he said was, "Please tell me someone broke your sleeping pills again," and my lips were on his.

I shoved him backwards, slammed the door, and we all-but-tore each other's clothes off as we then had the best make up sex to ever exist.

"Let's never take another break," he spoke as he caught his breath, his voice a deep rumble under me as I caught my breath on top of him.

"I don't know, this might have been worth it," I replied against his skin. And the two additional rounds we had after almost made me believe that.

We obviously talked a lot about everything afterwards, but we weren't in any rush to finish the fun part of our making up at all.

\[end of flashback\]

It was safe to say that we had matured a lot more since then.

We had saved each other a year ago by relying on each other, and then slowly started learning how to rely on ourselves. And it only brought us closer together the stronger we grew individually. We each had our own ways of dealing with certain things, but that didn't really pull us apart ever again after that.

By now we really understood each other on a deeper level, and knew that our differences were nothing at all to be ashamed of, but rather embraced so that we could each become individually as strong as our relationship always had been.

However, I draw the fking line when you mess with my French fries.

"Are you a goddamn animal?! Who even are you! You disgust me!" I freaked out on Asmodeus as he innocently looked back at me like a child getting yelled at my his mother. My scolding didn't stop him from slowly lifting one of the French fries into his mouth, though.

We were all out at the burger place up the street, since break was now over and a lot of us had classes within the next few days.

Christmas this year had been a million times more magical than it had been last year, if not just for the fact that I wasn't in a hospital chair this year, then for the fact that I spent it with Connor and my mom- and then we had everyone over at night for a little Christmas party. Jake and Connor played with their toys together, and then attacked Kade after I told them to. Not that he minded, he just attacked them right back.

Everything was so amazing... until Asmodeus decided to butcher my French fries by drizzling the ketchup directly on top of them instead of leaving it on the side to dip them in.

"I have always done this with my French fries," he defended.

"No you haven't, because I wouldn't have dated your sadistic ass!" I tried to save a few of them from his wrath, but they were all goners- covered in the red sauce. I scowled at Layla when she started laughing.

"These are my French fries, anyway, what does it matter?"

"They're not yours, they're ours," I rebutted, "We decided to only get one order of bottomless to save money."

"Yeah, and I got that order," he grinned, popping another fry in his mouth.

"You're truly insufferable." I told him, aggressively taking a bite of my burger.

"Why thank you," he grinned again, and I had the urge to slap it off of him.

"You two arguing like middle aged parents reminds me- you should totally name your kid Kade. It would make him like already 10% cooler than all the other babies when he pops out," Kade chimed in matter-of-factly, and both Asmodeus and I raised an eyebrow as we turned to look at him.

Layla started laughing loudly again, and snorted as Jessica tried to quiet her down a little bit since other people were now staring. He should have known that his efforts would only make her laugh harder, though.

"Absolutely not," Asmodeus replied, making Kade raise his hands as if to say 'why the hell not?'.