The Hookup Mix-up

Perry

Theo is breathing softly beside me when I wake up the next morning. He has his cute little mouth open the way he always does, and it takes everything in me not to lean in and take it. I heard him come back to bed late last night, so I don’t want to wake him. I’m not sure where he was or what was going on, but when I mumbled at him, wondering if everything was okay, he told me it was good and to go back to sleep.

I leave him resting, get out of bed, and sneak from the room. There’s noise coming from the kitchen, so his family must already be up. I go to the bathroom first and take a leak before making my way down the hallway.

Theo’s parents and sisters are in their small kitchen, cooking breakfast. For a moment, seeing them like this steals my breath. With it being just me and Mom, I’d never had this. Yes, the two of us would do these same kinds of things because we were close, but there’s so much laughter here and so many more people, and I swear, I feel the love in the air.