Page 47 of Color Chameleon
“Uh… yes?I mean you did mean homemade, right?”
“Of course.”She said it like she couldn’t believe Darcy thought she’d offer any other kind of cookie.
“I haven’t had a homemade cookie in so long I can’t remember what they’re like,” Darcy told her.
“Oh, sweet boy.”She wrapped him in a hug and kissed his cheek.“I will go home and make cookies.I’m coming back to deliver them tomorrow,” she warned.“I won’t be here before 9 am, but I will be expecting you to answer the door without worrying me.”
“Yes, ma’am.”Charma figured over twelve hours without having to check in was a big concession on her part.
“You don’t have to do that,” Darcy protested.
“Of course I do!You don’t even know what homemade cookies taste like.That has be fixed as soon as possible.”
“Let her have this one,” Charma told Darcy.He knew Darcy was just trying to be nice and not make his mom work, but he also knew that she loved it and would be more than happy to spend the rest of the evening and possibly more, baking a shit-ton of cookies for him and Darcy.
“Well, if you insist, that sounds yummy.”
“Homemade cookies are.”She finished her tea and set her mug down on the coffee table.“Well, I’m off.You boys catch up on your sleep.”
He managed not to laugh, though it was a close thing; now that she had a mission—make all the kinds of cookies for Darcy to try—she was eager to leave and get that started.
She hugged them both before seeing herself off.Charma got up and locked the door, not because he wanted to make sure she didn’t come back or anything, but because he felt safer doing that.Sitting back down on the couch, he sighed.
“Sorry about that.”
“She means well.”Darcy leaned against his shoulder and twined their fingers together.“She just didn’t think we’d still be in bed.”
“I know.It’s still frustrating—that’s why I asked Nik to tell her I’d turned off my phone so she knew we didn’t want to be disturbed.”
“The banging was a little bit scary,” Darcy admitted.
“Yeah, a little.I hope it’s okay I made the decision for us not to go live at the compound.”
“You knew how I felt about it.I mean your family is great and they’ve really welcomed me like one of your own, but I don’t want to live with them.Or in the middle of them.If you know what I mean.”
“I totally do.I wouldn’t have said it before I’d moved off the compound, but I don’t want to, either.”
“But before then you liked it, eh?”
“Well, it was all I knew.Moving out was the hardest thing I’d ever done, to be honest.I had no idea what it was going to be like.Turned out not to be as scary as I thought it was.And it led to you, so I’m so glad I did it.”
“I’m glad you did, too.”Darcy let go of his hand and slid his arms around Charma’s waist, cuddling in tighter.“You wanna just sit here for a while?”
“Sounds good to me.”And it sounded like Darcy could probably fall asleep out here like this, so he wasn’t going to discourage it.
“Should I turn the TV on?”
“Sure.”Darcy already sounded more asleep than not.
Charma grabbed the remote without moving too much, and he turned the TV on to find something mindless to watch.
Darcy was already asleep when he settled on The Challenge and started the first episode.
Sunlight was just beginning to creep in when Darcy woke up.He was disoriented and for a moment thought he was in the back of a vehicle again, but then he realized he was on the couch, lying on top of Charma.The panic that had tried to take him over subsided and his more than full bladder made its presence known.
He did his best to get up without jostling Charma and he must have been successful, because Charma didn’t wake up.Go him.He went to the bathroom and relieved himself, before washing his face and downing a couple of glasses of water.For someone who’d peed like a racehorse, he sure was feeling dehydrated.
He drank another glass of water down and wandered back to the living room.If he joined Charma on the couch, he’d probably wake him for sure.Besides, he wasn’t feeling very sleepy anymore.He’d pretty much slept since yesterday morning with a brief wakeful period when Charma’s mom had come.He was glad Charma was on the same page as him in regards to moving to the compound.He just wanted to live his life with his lover on their own terms.
