It's the feeling of the duvet cover that's lying over them suddenly feeling too heavy, probably due to the humid LA weather, wakes up Rose. Her half assed kicking off the cover in frustration is what wakes up Noel from his somewhat shallow slumber.
Rose rubs her eyes wishing for nothing but to fall back asleep but fails, instead turning her head to see if Noel was awake.
"It's hot" she says matter of factly.
"I know" he says equally sleepily.
Rose sighs, playing with the hem of a t-shirt that's not even hers trying to hold back a smile after the memories of last night flood back.
She looks back at Noel once again, only to find him trying to fall back asleep.
"Are you watching me sleep?" he mumbles feeling her eyes glare into him.
She laughs into her pillow, "have you got a fan or something?"
"Um, in that cupboard in the hall" Noel tells her, still holding onto the last piece of sleep he has left in him.
Rose groans thinking about the awful task of getting out of bed.
"You know if you're that hot just take off your top" Noel states only half jokingly.
Rose snatches a pillow from the end of his bed that was discarded and chucks it at him, "you're so annoying."
Noel finally opens his eyes now fully aware he won't be going back to sleep, "c'mere" he asks her, his arms outstretched.
"Uh ah it's too hot" she tells him, opting to hold his hand instead.
"That's even worse" he argues at the fact they'll get sweaty within 5 minutes. Rose eventually compromises and moves closer to him so they're face to face.
"Hey" he says.
Rose grins, "hello."
"You okay?" he asks just in general, still not awake enough to dive into his actual question. He knows she'll understand what he's talking about though.
She huffs a little smile still on her face, "yes Noel, are you?"
"Yeah."
They lay there in silence for a while, both taking the time to replay last night now they're somewhat on the topic of it. Rose absentmindedly traces random patterns onto his arm.
"Did we leave our phones out in the lounge?" she asks randomly, wanting to know the time.
He sighs, "yeah I think so."
Noel sits up, "I'll get the stupid fan if you get our phones?" he asks, a laugh in there somewhere.
Rose grins, "deal."
The ache between her legs doesn't go unnoticed by her or Noel by the way she grimaced when she stood up, "don't even!" Ross warns already feeling the heat rise to her cheeks.
He shakes his head, a stupid grin on his face before dropping it.
Rose sighs when she checks her phone, seeing that it's 11:28 am. She yells it out to Noel knowing he was probably wondering too. The feeling is shortly gone when she sees a few texts in the groupchat she has with just Cody and their roommates.
taco tuesday but its everyday since we're roommates 🤙🏻
Devon: Surfs up this morning or what???
Cody: For sure but later tho I'm not even awake lol
Marcus: yes 👍
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the beach | noel miller
Romance"if I told you that I loved you, tell what would you say? If I told you that I hated you, would you go away? now I need your help with everything that I do, I don't want to lie I've been relying on you" OR when rose kolodziejzyk an uptight ballerina...
