"You are not my friend, and you might be a little more than an acqenemy." I recovered the conversation by teasing him "The only explanation is that you want a piece of the Ella Éclair."

"The Ella Éclair?" His deep voice recited, his shoulders relaxing slightly.

"Shut up!" I laughed my words out "It had to be an alliteration and Ella Escargot does not have the same temptation."

He hummed in reply. I did not miss how his lip twitched again in a small smile. My attention fell on his lip and it had me wondering how I would manage to see him with a full smile.

A chuckled broke my train of thought and I stopped staring at his mouth.

"What?" I quickly said, acting like I was not thinking about him.

"You do know that you have been staring at me for the past five minutes."

"I was not!" I defended.

He smirked before he stood up from the bed and asked, "Can I take a shower?"

"I don't know." I muttered, still embarrassed I was caught staring "Can you?"

"Why?" He questioned, peering down at me as his lip twitched again "Do you want to come and help me?"

I crossed my arms over my chest and let out a sigh "Go and take your stupid shower, Rasputin."

"Rasputin?"

"Yeah. You are both tall and huge and evil." I explained, "I also want to assassinate you."

His dark chuckle was heard down the hall as he made his way through to the bathroom.

My feet swung off the bed and I slowly got up from the mattress. I walked out of my room and through the hall, passing the sound of running water.

As I made my way through to the kitchen, I tried not to think about the fact that Stone was naked in the room next to me.

The living room was clean when I entered it to get to the kitchen. The bottles of empty liquor were nowhere to be seen. It meant that Stone had gotten up during the night and cleaned it up.

Just as I was about to make myself some breakfast, my phone went off so I sat down at the kitchen island and answered it.

"Hey Barbie." I greeted my best friend, holding the phone to my ear.

"Ella, are you okay?" She rambled out her words in a rush "Why are you not at school?"

I pulled my phone away from me so I could look at the time. The screen read ten o'clock. I had been too busy thinking about the large man in my bed that I had forgotten to set the alarm for school.

"I’m sorry." I quickly replied to Lana "I'm not feeling that well today so I'm just going to stay home."

Lana sighed "Are you okay? Do you want me to bring you anything after school?