I am a changed woman.

I can now say I've had sex and mean it.

I think it was the best I've ever had, well probably cause it's the only sex I've ever had.

I fell asleep right after, He really wore me out but I won't admit that to him. His ego will only get bigger. Although, I've now seen bigger things than his ego.

I woke up before Heath, I sit on my knees and face him watching as he lightly snored. I would wait for him to wake up on his own but I just didn't want to.

"Heath..." I whisper lightly, poking his shoulder. His back was facing me and I see him tense a bit.

"Wake up" I whisper closer to his ear. He opens one eye and clenched the blanket closer to him.

"Are you dying?" His voice comes out raspy but it's just from how sleepy he was.

"No but"

"Then let me sleep a little." He says and closes his eye. That went well.

I sigh and roll back over my side of the bed. I guess if I shut my eyes really tightly I can fall asleep again.

"Help. I am dying. I-I can almost see the light! Heath, wake up." I practically do the best performance of my life and he still doesn't move an inch.

"Heath?" I look over at him, still nothing.

"Well thanks for nothing." I pout my lips and stare at the ceiling.

"Hmm" I only hear him mumble and he falls silent after that.

I try my best to stay quiet and let him sleep and manage to fall asleep myself while doing so. When I wake up again, Heath is the one gone. I sit up and my throat feels dry, I'm thirsty.

I walk into the bathroom and judge my appearance before fixing myself up, making myself all dolled up for the day. I wore my usual shorts and a nice white sweater over that.

"Heath?" I call out for him as I walk down the steps of stairs.

I look out the door to the yard and see the dogs outside. I make my way over there and notice Heath out there too. What a sight, Im starting to like seeing Heath without a shirt on more and more as the days go on.

Sweat dripped down his forehead causing his hair to stick to his face a little, he got on his knees as he continues to dig. His pants and hands were filthy with dirt and I could just tell he's been doing this for a while.

"What are you burying down there?" I ask, apparently startling him because he whips his head back so fast I'm surprised it doesn't break.

"You if you scare me like that again." He looks back at what he's doing with his hands and I bite my tongue.

I turn around to see Beau digging something on his own.

"Beau's messing up the flowers" I tell him and he curses under his breath as he stands.

Heath walks towards Beau and Beau runs away once he sees Heath striding toward him. Heath groans as he crouched down to fix the now, slanted flowers.

I watch him awkwardly, just standing there. I still had no idea what he was doing.

"So, what have you been doing?" I ask him and he stands, going back to his other spot.

"Digging" He tells me and grabs the shovel. I stand behind him in his crouching position.

"That's cool. Ben." I put my hands behind my back innocently.

"Ben?" Heath looks over his shoulder at me.

"Ben Dover." I lightly kick him which makes him lose his balance on his knees and fall on all fours. His hands hold him from landing face front and I let out a laugh.

"You're too easy" I hold my stomach as I laugh, dramatically.

He wipes his hands off his pants and stands. He turns around, hovering right over me. I watch him all over and see some dirt on his face.

"Is this a new shirt?" He asks seriously, pinching the end of my white sweater.

"Yeah actually! I got it on sale-" I'm rudely interrupted once a pile of dirt hits the corner of my mouth and down my new sweater.

Heath wipes off the dirt from his hand. The corners of his lips turn into a sly smile as he watches me wipe off any dirt.

"Jokes on you, I read dirts actually good for your skin so thank you." I didn't read that from anywhere but it'll make me feel better about having dirt on my face.

"Didn't think you could read" He basically just roasted the heck out of me right then and there.

"I didn't know you could think for yourself." I reply and purse my lips after.

"I think you just got roasted." I point at him and he crosses his arms, sucking his top teeth as he tries to hold in a smile.

"Whatever, Thalia." He walks back over to his dug up hole.

"Can you answer my question now and tell me why you're digging up a hole?" I stand right beside him.

"I'm planting an orange tree" He finally tells me and I furrow my brows.

"What for?" I hold my hands up before they fall back down.

"Why not." He says and he's got a good point.

"I do like oranges." I think to myself.

"Alright, continue." I agree even though he doesn't need my permission for it.

"I'm gonna go eat a banana" I point towards the house and go inside.

I grab a banana and return back to Heath outside, chewing on my banana. I glance over at Buddy, he's just resting in the sun.

"Can we just talk about last night really quick?" I accidentally talk with food in my mouth.

"Not to toot my own horn or anything but I'm better at sexing than I thought." I pull up a chair and sit besides Heath.

"I agree with you" He replies without looking at me. Sweats trailing down his exposed chest now making it harder to focus on anything else.

Good god.

"Good. Now hear me out, all that sex talk before was completely fake. I would just say how I liked having sex so much so that when I was actually having it, I'd feel experienced already." I take another bite of my banana.

"I never eat bananas and for a reason" I point my finger at his face.

"I don't like bananas" I cringe at the after taste. Never again.

"Last time I try something new." I gag lightly but dramatically.

"But you ate it all." He makes a point, stopping to look at me as he talks to me.

"Doesn't mean I enjoyed it" I shake my head at him.

"How's your tree making going?" I ask, swinging my legs back and forth slowly.

"I finished" He stands up with a grunt and wipes his hands on his pants once more.

"I can practically smell the oranges already." I stand up too to be at his level.

"They haven't grown in yet." He tells me something which I knew.

"Oh." I bite my top lip and slowly turn on my heels to walk back inside.

"You got dirt on your neck" I hear Heath say behind me.

"And who's fault is that?" I put my hands on my hips.

"I don't know" He acts clueless which is kind of cute.

"Well You're dirtier lookin than me anyways." I point to his whole self.

"Shower with me" He strides over to me but only to walk around me and into the house.

"Will you please shower with me Thalia? Would be the right way of asking but no I will shower with you." I mock him in my impression of him.

"Thalia, hurry up." He calls out and I zip it before following after him.

"I'm Coming!" I said and look up at Heath when he was just standing there.

"Again?" He says and I actually caught on to that quickly.

"Uh" I stop right in front of his chest.

"Wow you make me nervous." I chuckle nervously.

"Stop staring at me like that Heath" I avoid eye contact like it's the plague.

"I mean it!" I point my finger up at him. He keeps that smirk on his face as he looks down at me. Even with dirt on his face he still manages to look hot.

"I cannot right now." I put my hands over my eyes and walk around him.

"I'm not doing anything" He says calmly, but he's a liar. He looks at me like he wants to eat me.

I slightly trip over a chew toy on the floor but I play it off. Definitely meant to do that. I open my eyes and turn back around to look at him.

"I'll shower with you on one condition" I hold up one finger and wiggle my brows.

"Im not letting you do my makeup again." He shakes his head and crosses his arms. That only makes his muscular biceps show off more.

"Not that. You just gotta give me a piggyback ride up to the room. That's all, I don't ask for much." I was just lazy and wanted him to carry me.

"Fine." He turns around, his back facing me and I hop on the couch to get on his back.

"Better hold me tight, I can't afford breaking anything." I wrap my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck.

"I like you enough to not want to drop you." He reassures me and I snuggle into his neck as he starts walking upstairs.

"This is just great, I feel great. Why haven't we done this before?" I exclaimed happily, feeling myself slipping off of him by how much I've moved.

"Then again, we haven't done much together. But don't worry when we get married we'll have seen and done everything by then." I kiss his back quickly.

"Possibly." I add in case maybe he wasn't thinking that far ahead, like I was. I really hope he was though.

"Then you can give me my 5 kids." He adds and that's where I draw the line.

"Yeah, let's not think that far ahead bud." I pat his back. There is no way I will be able to push out more than 1 baby out of me.

Heath carried me all the way to the bathroom and gently sets me down on the counter of the sink. I swing my feet back and forth as I watch him without him knowing.

He turns on the water and grabs two towels for the both of us. He stands in front of the sink right besides me and splashed water all over his face to get rid of some of the dirt.

"I can feel you staring at me." He says, not looking at me. He runs his fingers through his hair as he stares at himself in the mirror.

"Im fine with you knowing that I'm staring really hard right now." I tilt my head to get a better look. He turns his head towards me, before moving to stand right in front of my legs.

"You're so beautiful." He then says, pushing hair out of my face.

"Even with dirt on my face?" I ask and his eyes eye my whole face.

"Maybe a little less" He spoke gently, I squint my eyes at him.

"Way to ruin the moment" I let out a chuckle and watch him smirk a little.

I hop off the counter and clap my hands loudly.

"Alright, are we gonna do this or what? I need to get this dirt off me" I tell him and start removing my clothing before he follows my lead too.

"Ay, you can't try seducing me. This is a friendly shower." I look back to see him staring at me, again like he wanted to eat me.

"There's nothing friendly between you and me after last night." Heath brings up the sinning we did last night.

He gets in the shower and I follow in after him. The water is warm and steaming hot, just how I like it. It feels great on my back.

Heath doesn't do anything more sin worthy other than making out with me in the shower. My usual showers are shorter than with Heath but I guess that's because we get distracted by each other.

His fingers run down my wet hair as he bites on my lower lip, gently but rough. My chest is against his as he pushes me against the wall, the water fell over his back at this angle and the room only got hotter because of what he was doing to me.

"You are simply not a friendly guy." I smile at him when I back away to breathe.

"Not when you look like that." He answers, wrapping his hand around my neck slightly to attack my lips again. Good god, he does things to me.

"I guess I am pretty hot, but-" I just decide to stop talking when his lips fall on my neck and he starts placing kisses all over again.

"I love you." His lips trail over my ear as he whispers this before moving back to my neck.

This makes my cheeks go hot and my breathing hitches.

"I'm in love with you too" I gather myself up to reply to him before going completely silent, letting him kiss me wherever he wanted.

After Heath and I's shower we spent the rest of the time on the couch, eating snacks, gossiping and having deep conversations. Like he admitted to being very fearful of ladybugs, what a loser.

"I'm not scared of anything, people fear me." I said nonchalantly that maybe if I said it I'd believe it.

"You don't have to give me that look, you know I'm kidding." I roll my eyes at the fact that he can easily tell when I'm lying.

"Scarecrows. That's what. They have the word scare in them so they're practically bound to be scary." I put some m&ms in my mouth.

Heath reaches for a bag of sour patch kids, good choice. He tears the small bag open and starts chewing them, the way his jaw tightens when he chews captures my attention for a while before I break away from that.

"But anyway, how have you been feeling?" I ask in all seriousness now. I've made it a priority to ask people this now because you never know how it can help them just by asking.

"Like I'm in love. Its a fucking weird feeling." He tells me.

"Love makes you feel weird things." I shrug like I'm a love expert. Which I am not.

"Its only weird how much I enjoy the feeling of loving your annoying ass." He compliments and insults me in one sentence. Only Heath could be capable of doing that.

"Gee thanks." I purse my lips at him.

"You ever been skiing?" I randomly get the idea to ask. He shakes his head no, just as I expected.

"Me neither." I admit and come together with a plan. I sit with my legs up on the couch and face him to look at him better.

"Pick a country. Any country in the world." He looks confused for a second.

"Why?" His arms are crossed now, meaning he's interested or maybe not.

"Just do it." Man was he asking a lot of questions.

"Fucking Canada" He finally comes up with one.

"Canada. That's where we'll go. We'll go there together this summer." I am a genius.

"Neither of us have ever been there so that's where we'll go. I want to go everywhere with you. I want to experience new things with you. So I pinky promise I'll take you there this summer." I hold out my pinky for him.

He stared at me with an expression I couldn't read but I knew it wasn't a bad one.

"I'll save up money. And plus, you're basically rich so you can pitch in too." I nudge him a little.

"I would take you anywhere you wanted to go, Thalia. Because I fucking love you that much to do anything with you." He expresses his feelings. Well that really did it, I want to cry.

He attaches his pinky with mine and we seal our deal. I never break my promises.

"Good to know that you'd do pretty much anything for me." I start to get ideas.

"I want to watch the sunset in all the countries with you. I'd never get tired of that." I tell him and I actually mean that.

"Then I'll take you." Heath promises and I believe him because he has that look on his face where I know he's not joking.

I honestly didn't care where we went just as long as I was with him. But I'm mostly doing this for him because I know how he grew up and all the things he never got to see or experience. I want to be the one to show him all of that. And I will.

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A/N

Hey guys, so I know I've been gone for a bit but I am back so TA DA! 🥳

I've literally just been lazy and had been lacking motivation to write or practically do anything so that's my reason.

But I hope y'all enjoyed and here's a little secret... this story will soon be ending. ☹️😢

11/3/22