The first hour into the movie was excellent, we both laughed when things were funny, and so on and so forth. I caught Roman sniffling a couple of times but didn't talk about it because I also cried while watching the movie the first time. Finally, the ending soundtrack resonated through my computer speaker and the movie came to an end. After a couple of minutes of silence and registering the masterpiece we had just watched I finally faced Roman.
"So what did you think?" I said turning towards him and giving him my undivided attention. After a bride moment of silence, he said, "It was really good, I feel like I have to rewatch it a couple of times to really understand the meaning," He said and I understood what he meant, the first time I watched it I was a kid, not really understanding the movie, I just liked watching the movie because I was obsessed with the romance between Sophie and Howl. Also, Howl was hot, can you blame me?
"That's fair, it took me a couple of watches to really understand the meaning of the movie, but I don't want to spoil that for you so," I paused, looking out my window I realized how dark it was and realized how late it was.
"Damn, I didn't realize how late it was getting," I said, "I think we should stop here for today, it's getting late and I don't want to be the reason you don't get enough sleep," I say standing up and picking up the discarded food bags on the floor.
"I don't really mind staying, we did say we were going to have a movie marathon right?" He says slowly rising up from the bed as well.
"You sure? I don't want to make it seem I'm keeping you captive or anything." I say putting all the trash in the trash can.
"Yeah, plus I think we're in a good groove so why stop now, if anything I could always sleep on Yon's bed if I get tired or anything." He says and I ponder for a moment.
"Ok cool, but I suggest you ask Yon about sleeping in her bed, I know I wouldn't feel comfortable having someone sleep in my bed without notice," I say while getting resituated in my bed and prepping the next movie. I see from the corner of my eyes that Rome is on his phone texting who I presume was Jeno since he was the only other person Yon would be with. Hearing a chuckle from Rome I look up at him with a questionable gaze. As if he sensed my gaze on him he quickly shut off his phone and climbed back into the bed.
"What was that about? "I ask curiously
"Just Jeno being Jeno, and he asked Yon for me and she said it's fine as long as I put her sheets through the wash after I leave." He says which makes sense.
"Alright then, let's get back to it." I say and start our next movie Ponyo.
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The feeling of a tight grip around my waist is what woke me up this morning. Turning around I look up to see a mop of curls and feel faint breathing on my forehead. What I was not expecting to see this morning was Roman wrapped around me like a koala bear. I tried to move his arms from me but to no avail he wouldn't budge. After a couple more minutes of struggling I decided to give up, it didn't feel bad at all, actually it felt nice to be embraced by someone other than Yon. No offence to Yon or anything.
About an hour later or so, I feel his hands finally loosen around me and his faint breathing become heavier. He rises from the bed and stretches before he stops abruptly finally processing where he is.
"Hi, " I said cheekily smiling, " Nice of you to join us this morning." I say while laughing because he looks absolutely ridiculous with his hair sticking up and flat in different areas.
"Did I" He hesitated, "Did I sleep next to you ?" He said and I answer him nodding. Not trusting my voice after hearing how deep his morning voice was to respond.
"Did I do anything weird, "He says, "I don't know besides snuggling up to me like a koala bear and preventing me from moving for the past hour, nah." I said jokingly
"Oh f*ck, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that," He said running his hand down his face and groaning. I giggle at his embarrassment.
"Nothing to be ashamed of, I just don't know how Jeno feels about you being a cuddler," I say getting off the bed and stretching walking towards my bathroom to freshen up.
"Please don't," He said getting off the bed as well and stretching his whole body and his shirt lifts up lightly and I can't help but stare, Roman is an attractive guy I won't deny it, but seeing him like this just does something to me. Before I say anything out of pocket I walk towards the bathroom and open the bathroom cupboard to hand him an extra toothbrush I have.
"Here, I'm going to freshen up and after you can use the bathroom, after we can get some breakfast, you cool with that ?" I say waiting for his response.
"Yeah, actually I'm gonna go back to my dorm and get ready then we meet up at the front if you're cool with that." He says and I nod.
"See you in 30," I say, " See you in 30," he responds.
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30 minutes later I'm ready and walking out my building waiting for Roman to show up. No less than 5 minutes later I see him slightly jogging towards me. He looked really good in his outfit, just a simple white shirt and some cargo pants.
"Alright let's go." He said.
The walk to the breakfast spot was really quick, we chatted about life and what not and before we knew it we were at the breakfast spot. We got seated at a both and skimmed through the menu.
"You made a choice on what you're going to get ? "Roman asks me, lowering the menu slightly to make eye contact with me, catching me off guard, his eyes were so magnetic.
" Uh-, y-yeah, waffles and chicken and some cranberry juice, oh and a fruit cup," I say quickly trying to hide my evidence of stuttering, what the hell. Why am I acting like a school girl with a crush.
"What about you, what are you thinking of getting ?" I say quickly looking up at him and down quickly. I can't be out here like this getting shy over a boy just cause he got some pretty eyes.
"I'll probably get the omelet with some hash browns with some orange juice," He says and I nod. Not long after the waitress came and took our order and I couldn't help but notice how she was paying more attention to Roman than she did with me but I couldn't really care less, I just wanted my food.
Finally, she left and I chuckled slightly looking up at Rome, " I think someone got a little crush on you," I say nodding towards the waitress who just left our table.
"I hope not, I'm not really interested in one-time flings, they bring me no satisfaction," He says, "Plus I don't really think I'm in the mental state to really have a relationship right now," He continues.
"Why is that? If you don't mind me asking," I say quickly letting him know that I would never want to pry into his business.
"I've just never had good experiences with them, my past relationship was a traumatic experience." He says and before he can utter another word the waitress arrives at the table with our food.
"Oh my days this smells so good," I say, "Quickly give me your hands and let's say grace," I say reaching over to grab Roman's hand. " Grace?" He replied confused.
"It's like a quick prayer, over your food, have you never said grace before?" I say curiously.
"I grew up in a non-religious household, I mean we went to church once or twice when I was a kid, but that's about it." He says.
"That's okay, grace is just when you pray over your food, thank God for it and what not, if you don't want to that's totally fine, I don't want to force you to do something you don't want to," I say quickly withdrawing my hands, but before I could he quickly grasped them and I almost fall out my chair.
"I-I want to try, I want to try saying the grace with you, if you'll allow me," He says sincerely.
"Aw Rome, of course, ok now bow your head slightly and repeat after me okay," I say to him softly.
"Ok," He replies in the same tone.
"Okay, dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this meal, bless us with this meal in Jesus name I pray, Amen." I say and I hear him repeat after. We both slowly raise our heads up and smile at each other, "Let's dig in I say," I say but pause. Rome was about to dig into his food but before he could I gave him a pointed look.
"Rome," I say and he stops, "Go wash your hands," I say and point towards the bathroom.
"But your hands aren't dirty," He tries to reason, but I stop him before he can continue. "We just touched a bunch of things before getting our food, now go wash your hands and come back quickly so I can eat my food,"I say sharply and with a defeated sigh he walks towards the restroom. I giggle slightly. I always win.