Blood is thicker than water

Chapter 24

Adelina POV:

I had woken up alone in the bed for a second time an hour ago. This time, it didn't take much for me to readjust to my surroundings. I found that Sebastian had swapped our places and he was the one sound asleep on the couch instead of me.

My eyes lingered over his features for longer than than I would've thought.  I was almost expecting him to wake under my gaze but he slept soundly. 

I watched him, more than I would admit. My thoughts were not consumed by him but my sight was definitely unmoving. A strange sense of peace washed over me even as my mind grazed the more touchy subjects of my life.

It was only when he finally did wake and pushed himself up while stiffling a yawn in the most attractive way possible was I conscious of the smile plaguing my lips. Once he realizes my presence his face breaks into a matching grin. 

And for whatever reason, it filled my heart a little more. His normally perfectly placed messy hair was tousled and out of order. 

I wasn't ready to go back to the house and I could sense that Seb didn't want me to leave quite yet. We decided on watching a show, one not too long but also wouldn't be cutting our time together that short. 

We still hadn't moved from the spots we had woken up in and the only problem was that we couldn't agree on anything. With every remark I'd make, his smile would grow. I could sense he was enjoying our bickering and I hadn't noticed my smile growing with his. 

No, we couldn't agree. We fussed over it for a couple minutes and while his demeanor stayed the same, I started to get riled up. 

I stood up and he copied my actions. We met in the middle, so to speak. Not in our argument, god no, but we were now standing in the middle of the room. Our tones were raising, eyes blazing. 

He cut me off mid-sentence, I would have normally just continued right on with what I was about to say. Only louder, and a glare on my face.

It was what he said that caught my attention. "Alright, you're right. It sounds cool, let's watch that." Amusement shone clear in his eyes. I was startled, then I realized what he had done. 

And I wasn't upset. 

He took my hand in his before a word left my lips and he pulled me onto the bed with him. Without thinking much about it, he lay me flat on with back against his chest. Sitting between his legs, I didn't feel uncomfortable. 

He turned on the tv to the show I wanted to watch and we sat there for a good portion of an episode while he played with my hair. 

"You're fully sober now, right?" he asks while twirling a strand between his fingers. I simply nod, not seeing the reason to be distracted from my show. "Addi?" he asks. This grabs my attention and I shift to look up at him. 

"Yea?"

"I wasn't lying before..." he trails off and I patiently wait for him to continue. "I do quite like you." He takes a moment to gauge my reaction, but my face goes completly hard and everything in me stills. I don't let him read anything off of me. 

"Seb, I don't know what you-" I try to give him an opportunity to back out of what he's about to say. 

"Adelina," he interrupts "I feel something for you. There's no point in me hiding it and if I haven't misjudged your feelings, so do you. I just want to explore those feelings, so I'm asking if you'll go out with me, a date."

I don't know how to respond at first, I hadn't taken the time to understand my feelings  previously and simply dismissed thinking about them. 

"We don't know anything about each other."