Eternal Blossom

Waking up, Aiyana yawned and stretched as much as she could. She was stiff this morning, but hoped that with a nice hot shower her muscles would relax enough for her to get moving.

She heard her text tone go off, and she rolled onto her side to check her messages.

From Matt:
Hey, beautiful. It’s Saturday. Would you like to go with me to the LA Kings game tonight?

Aiyana closed her eyes in thought, and shook her head. Matt. She hadn’t thought about him at all or his offer of a date since she saw him at Johnny’s. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings, so she put her phone down and rolled onto her back again, trying to think of a way to let him know she was dating Brian without rubbing it in his face that he’d missed his chance.

Monster covered arms wrapped around her and pulled her into a firm chest, causing a smile to spread over her face.

“Good morning, babe,” Brian said in a deep morning voice close to her ear that sent shivers down her spine.

“Good morning, handsome,” she responded with a giddy smile stuck in place.

“Who’s messaging you so early,” he asked with a yawn.

“Brian, dear, it’s noon. We slept in,” she said as she turned her head to face him. He was disheveled and absolutely breath taking first thing in the morning.

“You kept me up all night. It’s not my fault,” he told her matter-of-factly, a smirk on his lips.

She laughed and snuggled into his chest, wrapping her arms around his torso. He smiled and kissed the top of her head.

“So, what do you have planned for today,” he asked her after a few minutes.

She thought for a moment, and then looked up at him. She wasn’t going to hide anything from him, and she figured he might be able to help her let Matt down easy. He knew Matt better than she did, after all.

“Nothing, really. Matt wanted to take me to the LA Kings game tonight, apparently, but I don’t know how to tell him I don’t want to go, since we’re together now without it coming off like I’m spiteful, you know,” she rambled.

Brian leaned back a little so he could see her face as she rambled on, and he nodded. That she was trying to spare Matt’s feelings even after how he’d disappeared and then made out with Kristy in front of her was endearing to him. She cared enough to not want to hurt him back.

“Just tell him you’d love to, but your man would have to come along too,” he shrugged. “That is, unless you don’t want to go watch hockey, which I know you do.”

She grinned up at him, “But you don’t. You aren’t a big hockey person, Bri.”

He kissed her nose cutely, and then wiggled his eyebrows as he responded, “You can make it up to me later.”

She laughed and snuggled back into his chest, her arms tightening around him. She was a little scared as to how Matt would respond, but if Brian was sure, that’s what she would do.

She rolled and text Matt back before finally getting out of bed to go brush her teeth and take a shower. As she let the hot water work it’s magic on her shoulders, she heard Brian turning on music in her living room, and smiled to herself.

She quickly washed her body and hair before rinsing off.

“Don’t turn the water off,” Brian said as he climbed into the shower, “I need one too.”

She nodded and kissed him before they traded places, and she got out. She listened to him hum along to the sounds of Duran Duran coming from her living room as she dried off and brushed her hair.

She dropped the towel and looked in the mirror. Her hips had bruises, and there was still a faint bruise on the side of her neck. The easy bruising her condition caused was never fun to deal with, but at least she could enjoy where she got these from.

She got a towel out for Brian and walked into her bedroom to put on a pair of dark green lacy underwear and matching bra set under a San Jose Sharks t-shirt that she’d cut into her signature style, and a pair of light wash skinny jeans.

Brian walked into her bedroom a few minutes later and took in her outfit, a towel wrapped low around his waist. He smiled and ran a finger under the exposed bra strap on her shoulder, causing her to look at him.

“We leaving soon,” he asked.

“Yeah, I’m going to have to do some grocery shopping to feed us, so I figured we could go get breakfast at Denny’s before,” she answered, resting her hands on his taunt stomach just above the towel.

He smiled down at her and kissed her softly, his finger sliding out from under the strap and to the edge of her cut shirt neck to pull it out so he could look down it.

“Or we could stay here, and you could be my breakfast,” he said as he gave her a sexy smirk.

She groaned low in her throat at his words, and shook her head.

“As much as I would love that, my stomach is beginning to eat through my spine. I need sustenance,” she replied. “But if we get done fast enough, I don’t see why we couldn’t have a little fun before Hockey.”

He nodded and placed a quick kiss on her lips before he rushed to put on the clothes he’d brought with him when he’d stopped at home for his guitar.

While he was getting dressed in a pair of black jeans and a grey v-neck, he put on a black beanie, and turned around to strike a pose for her, causing her to laugh when her text notification went off again.

From Matt:
Your man? Who would that be?

“Hey, ‘hurry up’ means I can’t do my hair, so lets go,” Brian laughed as he smacked her ass on his way past her for the door.

She shot off a quick text as she followed him, grabbing her purse on her way out the door.

To Matt:
Brian of course.

As soon as they got into her jeep she heard her text go off and Brian picked up her phone, reading the text out loud to her, “Matt says that he has two tickets, and for me and you to go instead. He says he’s sorry that he took too long to make up his mind, and blah, blah, blah.”

She looked over at him and held her hand out for her phone, wanting to know what the blah’s were for. When he handed it to her, she read it over.

From Matt:
I see the better man won. I’ve got two tickets to the game tonight with ya’lls names on them. I’ll leave them in your mailbox in about an hour. I’m sorry it took me too long to make up my mind as to what I wanted. It was wrong of me to just expect you to wait while I figured everything out. Hopefully we can still be friends.

She sighed softly, and looked over at Brian, not sure how to take his text. She felt a little bad about Matt, but she really wanted to still be his friend even if she hadn’t picked him. Biting her lip, she glanced back down at her phone.

To Matt:
Thank you. I’d love to still be friends. You sure you don’t want to come with us?

Aiyana felt Brian’s hand on her thigh, and she put her phone down in one of the cup holders as she looked over at him. A weak smile played on her lips, and he just shrugged back to her, giving her thigh a squeeze. He knew she felt bad for Matt, but Matt had dug his own grave, and Brian wasn’t about to let go of Aiyana now that he had her.

She nodded and pulled out of the driveway to take them to breakfast, feeling like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders now that Matt knew, and she was happily with Brian. His hand ran up and down her denim covered thigh reassuringly, and she felt herself sliding into a better mood. Even just Brian’s calming touch made her feel better.

Notes

Just a short update before I upload the bigger chapter tonight.

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