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The first thing I noticed was the pain. Uncomfortable, continuously pounding-under-my-skin pain. My lower lip hurt badly, so did my shoulder after last night’s unfolding activities. I could feel I had been more flexible than the stitched had allowed, I just hadn’t felt the discomfort. Maybe because of the satisfaction I had felt, or maybe it had been overshadowed by another pain.

Again, I was awake before Jake. I was actually relieved, I still had to take in the situation and the fact that we had slept in the same bed. This was again different from the other nights. This was a king sized bed after all. A lot of different in the last three days, I seriously had to get a little normal– I stopped myself when I thought back on the new normal situation.

I laid my eyes on him, he looked so peaceful when he was asleep. I hadn’t noticed that before. The constant worrying line between his eyebrows was gone.

I got up, found some painkillers, and fo