Gio had woken me up, though I embarrassingly hadn’t even realized I had fallen asleep on his shoulder as we watched the film. The food long forgotten on the coffee table. I must have been knackered from my lack of sleep over the last few days. But his face when he realized what he said about having something for me in the bedroom was a picture, and I couldn’t help but giggle at him. He was the sweetest thing sometimes, without even trying, nor realizing it.
He shocked me earlier by telling me he loved me. But then, as I was about to panic and rush from the apartment, and demand to go home, I stopped myself, just for a moment as I considered his words, and realized that I couldn’t be angry. There were feelings within me for him I could not describe and could not understand. I think the mes
