His gravelly demanding voice repeating "We are skipping."

"Fine," I gave in, thinking to myself that there were worse ways to spend time than with an irritating giant "But I get to pick what we do today."

Stone nodded once in agreement.

Getting up from my seat, I sauntered over to the kitchen cabinets to get some cereal. The cupboard with the cereal just had happened to be the tallest one.

I climbed onto the counter and reached upwards to grab the box.

I almost had the box when I got pulled off the marble unit and lifted by a large set of bare arms. I was set on the ground before Stone grabbed the box without effort and handed me the cereal.

"I almost had it." I argued with a huff.

He looked down at me with a scowl as he gritted out scoldingly "Be careful."

As I fetched a bowl, the larger one of us went to sit on the barstool at the kitchen island. He watched as I poured some cereal. He also never let his gaze wither away from me as I got the milk out of the fridge.

"Do you want some?" I asked while I dipped my spoon into my bowl

Shaking his head, he remained silent.

"I know what you want." I told him with a mouthful of cereal "You want apple pancakes. I am a mind reader."

"You are a mind reader?" He raised an eyebrow while challenging "What am I thinking about now then?"

I twirled around twice before I joked to him “You are thinking about how good I look in my Princess and The Frog pyjamas."

Stone did not answer. He was too distracted looking at something else. I followed his heated stare to my bare legs.

After a minute or two, his gaze roamed back up my body so that he could meet my eye as he asked “What do you want to do today?"

I jumped up onto the countertop to sit on it so that I could face him.

"Who says we have to stay together today?" I pointed out with a taunting smile "I'm already stuck with you at school."

His stare was intense. Even more intense than normal.

I looked down at myself and the realisation hit me.

The last time I was on the countertop top with him was when we nearly kissed.

I pushed myself off the surface and stood up as I started to distract myself by counting the colourful contents in my bowl.

He followed every one of my little movements with his dark eyes.

"What are you thinking about?" The deep voice spoke up.

"I'm thinking about how I can kill and hide a very tall person."

The giant rose to his full towering height as he made his way over to me.