No kiss at night

When the sun started to sink, it started raining, both Leo and Andrea retired to bed early.

Leo had fallen off to sleep almost immediately, but Andrea struggled. She wasn't too worried about the divorce because she knew once she tells him her feelings about him, there will be no divorce. But, she was disheartened by what he thought about it in the first place.

Andrea was enjoying listening to the pitter-patter of the rain outside. It was succeeding in calming her down.

Unfortunately, the light rain became heavier, indicating a storm. Within minutes, a massive bolt of lightning lit up the sky and that was followed by a tremendous roar of thunder.

Andrea jumped off her bed in fear. Though she loved the rain, when it is accompanied by the brothers of Thunder and Lightning, she despised it. She wrapped her gown over her nightie, pushed her feet into her slippers, tucked her pillow under one arm, and headed out of her room.

She walked over to Leo's room and after failing to open his locked door, she knocked.

It took a while for Leo to open. Through sleepy, half-opened/ half-closed eyes; he looked at the person standing before him,

"I want to sleep with you!" Andrea said in low voice but she didn't hear any responses from Leo, so she repeated again, "Leo I want to sleep with you!"

Leo was in a very sleepy mood. It took him some seconds to process what Andrea just said.

When he finally figured it out, his eyes opened wide.

"What!" He needed her to repeat herself one more time just to make sure.

But when he looked again at the doorway, there was nobody there.

"I knew it, it was just a dream!" he thought to himself. He turned to go back to bed but froze on the spot as he saw Andrea remove her slippers and get comfortable on his bed still keeping her gown over her.

Well, Andrea being impatient Andrea wasn't going to wait for Leo to give her permission to share his bed; so she just pushed past him and got under the warm comforter, leaving poor Leo shocked and dazed. He eventually made his way to the bed.

Leo very carefully balanced himself on the edge of the right side while Andrea slept on the left. Leo faced Andrea and she faced the window. Leo's sleep had vanished and he knew that there was no use trying to make his fall asleep because how can he sleep when the woman, who he dreamt about every night, was sleeping like this bed was her so he didn't even think of sleeping when Andrea was so close. He watched her tremble each time the thunder sounded. He slowly moved closer to her and put a comforting hand on her upper arm.

With her free hand, Andrea clutched his hand and pulled it more close herself. He got shocked but smiled at her action, but didn't want to think too much about it. It was clear to him that she was afraid of the storm and was only looking to him as protection.

Leo wanted to know the time, but unfortunately, the alarm clock as well as the headboard's night lamp was on Andrea's side.

Luckily, the brightness of the garden lamps light was illuminating in his room and with a slight lift of his head, he saw that it was 10:30.

Leo sighed to himself. This is going to be a long night. Andrea had soon fallen off to sleep, but even in her slumber, she shook each time it thundered and ended up holding onto Leo's hand even tighter. He wasn't allowed to move away from her. However, he was quite enjoying having Andrea in his arms. She felt so warm and soft. She smelled like strawberry. 'strawberry? must be her shampoo,' he thought.

Leo knew that soon it would be 12 o'clock and his darling sister would phone to wish him. She always did so, at this time; every year without fail.

He knew that the ringing of his phone will definitely wake up Andrea but on seeing their very cozy position, all hell will break loose. She'll probably accuse him of trying to get physical with her while she was sleeping. He shuddered at the thought.

He realized that Andrea wouldn't even know about his birthday, so he shouldn't expect a wish from her, not even a sarcastic one.

The storm soon subsided. It was still drizzled but nothing serious. Leo tried to remove his arm and distance himself from Andrea, but she held on tight. He forcefully pulled it, risking waking her up.

The jerking action did break Andrea's sleep.

Andrea murmured in her sleep, "Leo, please let me sleep."

Leo very sternly replied, "Andrea, the storm is over, I think you should go to your room now!"

Andrea didn't like Leo's tone and was about to say something when she noticed the time. It was exactly 12 'o clock.

She turned to Leo's side, he had his eyes closed. She moved closer and closer to him. Her breath was falling onto his face when he opened his eyes and saw Andrea's face, a mere inch above his. Andrea touched his lips with hers. Leo was taken aback by Andrea's sudden display of love. She gently sucked on his lips while her one hand was lovingly caressing his face.

Leo just started to get into a rhythm with the kiss. He put his hands on her waist and was slowly moving it to her back; when Andrea suddenly broke the kiss.

Leo just looked at her in confusion whilst she stared at him in anger.

"But this wasn't the reason you woke me up! Right?" she grunted. "You woke me up to kick me out of your room! Fine, I'm going!".

Andrea looked one more time towards him and said "you will never get kisses at night from me, hmph."