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He woke up on her couch. Again.
He wasn't lying on his back nor his side. He was just sitting, neck bent backwards and mouth open wide, arms spread to the sides.
He moved his head a little to warm-up his neck and licked his lips as he looked around… then he realized he had fallen asleep on Miss A.’s couch. Again. Dammit!
He jumped to his feet so fast he nearly felt dizzy, looking around frantically. What time was it? Where did he have to be? What was he doing before he fell asleep?
It came back to him slowly, for some reason. ‘Hold on a minute,’ he thought. He had been cleaning, because he lived here now! That's right, wasn’t it? Yeah, Miss A. kept insisting she had an extra room and he should take up on her offer to become her roommate, and after a series of, let's call them happy accidents, he had taken that offer. He had been sleeping in the guest room, which felt unearned, and weird after so long on the road and sleeping in a car. So he had been cleaning the bathroom, and the kitchen, and…
THEN he fell asleep on the couch. Which was okay, because after all that work, and with him living here…
He was living here. Woah.
He sat back on the couch and looked around. It was a lovely place. Spacious, well-lit, nicely decorated… He couldn’t believe he lived here.
How long until he messed it up?- Don’t think that.
Miss A. Think of Miss A. Miss A. insisting for weeks for him to come live with her, and how her face lit up when he finally agreed. How worried she looked when he had the accident.
Miss A. walking around the house in her pajamas, listening to the music on the radio with her eyes closed and just talking to him with a teasing smile.
He sighed. He wanted to hold her hand gently, like a gentleman and a lady, and kiss all of her hand, up her arm and shoulder. He wanted to kiss all of her. He wanted to tickle her with his whiskers and make her giggle. He wanted to hold her and never let go.
But he was getting ahead of himself. She let him live with her and that was already a lot.
He had to earn it. He had to prove he deserved this trust! And he wouldn’t let her down.