The fragrance she liked the most

From all the stress and fatigue that Zoey experience in the office, she instantly went to deep sleep after sensing the cool feeling from hugging Nickel's body. It was actually unusual for her to feel comfort from having intimate contact with someone else. Aside from her parents and Happy, Zoey tried to avoid any intimate contact with people other than those she was close with.

Nickel unconsciously wrapped Zoey from his embrace. It is his habit to keep one extra pillow for him to hug whenever he sleeps and his childhood term for this is "missy-ngan". Nickel had a defective speech when he was young that is why he usually ridiculed by his brother for being 'bulol'.

On normal days, Nickel wakes up around six in the morning. He has a morning routine for jogging around the condominium compound to keep his physique. He even enrolled in the building gym to exercise and his free time every day is every morning. This day is his usual wake up time.

At first, with his eyes closed, he smelled something like strawberry and spring. For him, the scent is so comforting that it easily sooth his feeling. "Did I change my laundry soap or fabric conditioner?" He asked himself but because of the soothing feeling of the scent Nickel went back to sleep.

Nickel felt strange after he tried to rub his hand to his hugging pillow, "Why is it to smooth?" he asked again with his eyes closed. His hands went up and up until he touched something. "Does my hair this long?"

As his hands went up and up, he already reached Zoey's head. With his big hand, he almost cupped Zoey's entire head but he still doesn't realize what was happening. "This is strange, how does my missy-ngan become this weird over the night."

Due to his flooding questions, Nickel slowly opened his eyes and got surprised when their faces were almost three inches apart from each other. His eyes grow bigger after realizing the situation. That is the time realized that the spring plus strawberry scent was Zoey's everyday smell. He became custom with this aroma from the time they share one office room. Before, he tried to find out her perfume or his hair shampoo. Even though he looked creepy from doing this, he just to know how he can imitate the scent. It was actually creepy to look at it but his reasons were just to feel that he is always with her all the time but unfortunately he cannot find her perfume nor her hair shampoo.

"How come Zoey ended up sleeping beside me? How do these things happen?" But before tried to seek answers to his questions, Zoey moved an inch from his embrace.

Deep inside, Nickel felt violated from the situation because he was wearing nothing other than his boxer shorts and he will come to realize that the girl from his last night's dream was here hugging and sleeping him all night. How come he didn't know about this? If in case he had knowledge of it he will surely savor the moment and will not wink asleep to look at her face.

Although he didn't do wrong, Nickel instantly closed his eyes and pretend that he is still sleeping. He thought that if he wakes up before her, Zoey will feel embarrassed and to help her save her face he will pretend to sleep.

After a few minutes, Zoey opened her eyes and is still wrapped from Nickel's embrace. His hands are wrapped around her body even his leg was above hers. His body was coiled around which make it hard for her to escape now that she was already awake.

"Oh my God!" She whispered. Zoey can feel Nickel's now hot body from his wrap, she can also smell his scent, that masculine fragrance that she liked the most; she can also feel his breath because of their small distance.

Nickel, on the other hand, can hear her words. He can also feel that Zoey is trying her best to escape from his. And with that, he hugs her tighter and moaned, just like saying that 'I still sleeping and stop moving'. His tease becomes a disadvantage from her escape plan. Zoey slowly holds his hand and pokily put his forelimb to his side. It took her a long run to successful remove one from her.

Nickel doesn't want her to go but to help her save her face from this scenario; after she successfully removed his arm he pretentiously released her from his hold. There was a weird feeling building inside him. It was like losing a part of you.

Zoey leisurely gets out on his bed and into his room. After he heard the clicking sound that his door creates he immediately open his eyes.

And a bright smile appeared in his face as if he won a billion dollar lottery.