Chapter 7
singing. It took me a few seconds before I realized that it
was Bryan and not the radio. He hadn’t yet noticed me
waking up and continued singing against my hair, with
his arms close around me. “You lift me up on the wings of love
Taking me higher still with every touch When ever I’m weakening
You take me there again On the wings of love…”
“I hope for your sake that it’s me you’re singing about”, I
smiled at him and gave him a soft kiss.
“Oh, good morning sweetie! Did you sleep well?”, once
again his typical Bryan grin appeared on his face.
“The best! I’ve never slept better. What time is it by the way?”
“It’s just 7am and it’s Saturday, which means we, you
and I, have the whole day to ourselves. So what do you
wanna do…?”, he pulled me closer, put a hand on my
waist and softly kissed my forehead, this tickled so I started giggling.
“I know, that’s just what I had in mind.”, he said as he
heard me giggle. I shot him look and now saw that he tried his puppy eye look…
“You can’t expect that look to work every time!”, I
laughed at him as he cotinued looking at me that way,
but when I didn’t respond he finally gave up. I laughed
again, moved even closer to him and we fell asleep in each others arms.
The second time I woke up that morning wasn’t coz
someone was singing, I woke up due to the fact that the
sun was shining right in my face. I turned my head away
from the window and searched for Bryan’s body with my
hand, but he wasn’t lying beside me, the bed was
empty. Just then I saw him walking into my room and he
had his eyes closed. He mumbled something about he
‘didn’t have time to wax his dog coz he was busy
shining the cat…’ I walked up to him.
“Bryan…”, I said in a low voice, he didn’t wake up.
“Bryan, honey, wake up!” I put my hand on his shoulder
and gently squeezed it. “AAAAAARRRRRGH! DON’T TAKE MY DOG AWAY
FROM ME!!”, the sound of his own screaming woke him
up and it took him a couple of seconds before he
realized where he was, he looked completely lost. Me
on the other hand, was at this moment curled up in bed
laughing so much there were tears running down my face.
“OK, that’s enough, you can stop laughing now…”, he sat
beside me on the bed and just waited for me to get a
hold of myself. After a few minutes I did, but believe me that wasn’t easy.
“Is your cat nice and shiny now?”, his look told me that he
had no idea what I was talking about, so I told him about
what he said in his sleep. “Great Bryan, perfect timing to sleep walk and
scream…”, he said this more to himself then to me.
“Don’t worry about it hun, you can’t scare me off that easily.”
“I didn’t plan to scare you off at all…”
“Good, coz I wasn’t planning on going.” We lay down on
the bed and started kissing…
While I was in the kitchen washing up after our breakfast
(or maybe you could call it lunch, considering it was now
12:30pm) the door-bell rang. Bryan was in the shower so I had to open.
“Kian, hi! What brings you here?”, I gave him a hug and
let him in. Eventhoguh I’d only known him for less than
two weeks I already counted him as one of my best
friends. We got along really well.
“Oh, nothing special, I just wanted to see you…”
“Well, it’s not like you need a reason to visit your friend!”,
I smiled and turned around to walk to the kitchen. As he
was walking behind me, I didn’t see the sad look he had
on his face after what I just said.
“Have a seat and I’ll make you some coffee. Black
right?”, I made some coffee for us and sat down right
opposite to him. We sat there talking about everything
and nothing when Bryan came into the kitchen. His hair
was wet from showering and he was just wearing a towel.
“Eh, Egan, what a surprise. Good morning!”, he gave me
a kiss and poured himself some coffee.
“Oh, Bryan…hi… I didn’t realize you were here…”, I
noticed his facial expression changed instantly as he
saw Bryan and it got me a bit confused.
“Thanks a lot for the coffe Heléna, I just remembered that
I have to be somewhere… Bye!” He quickly got up and
left the apartment before either of us had a chance to
stop him. Bryan looked just as confused as I did.
“What’s wrong with him? One minute he’s as happy as
ever and then the next he gets this sad look on his face and just leaves…”
“I don’t know Bryan, maybe you should try talking to him.
It’s been going on for days now…”
“Yeah, I’m really worried about him. I promise I’ll talk to
him tonight when we’re all at the Tozer house…” The
twins had invited us all to dinner and then watch a movie.
“I hope he’s not sick or anything, he would tell us if he
was wouldn’t he?” I walked up to Bryan and put my arms around his waist.
“No, I’m sure he would tell us something like that. Try not
to worry too much sweetie, I’m sure he’ll be his old self soon…” “I hope so…”