Chapter 208: A Good Man
Derek had taken the longest shower possible. Making sure that all of the shower heads were hitting him full force. The warm pressure welcomed as he let the water slide down his skin. Once he had finished.
Derek had headed to his room and gotten dressed. Not at all surprised to find it empty. But the surprise had come when he had gone downstairs.
At the top of the stairs he had looked down and Emily had been there. Flipping pancakes in the kitchen without a care in the world. For a brief second Derek had frozen where he stood, torn between turning around and heading back to the room. And just swallowing his pride and heading towards Emily. In the end, he had decided to go to her. Doing so despite knowing the fact that Emily might want to use the opportunity to talk. Sure enough, the moment that Derek had gotten comfortable enough to take a sip of his tea. Emily had come out with it, and admitted that they had to talk. That the elephant in the room had to be addressed.
Rather than sit there, and hear from her about how uncomfortable he had made her. Derek had decided to just nip the whole thing in the bud. And so being as calm as he could manage given the situation, Derek had let Emily know without beating around the bush that she was free to go. That he would not hold her to something that she was uncomfortable with. Sure, his decision meant that they were both going back to the sleepless world that they had existed in before they had discovered that the two of them somehow cancelled out each other’s sleeping problems. But it had to be done. Morning wood was a normal part of every healthy adult male’s life. It would not change no matter what Derek did. So rather than keeping Emily bound by the unofficial contract.
He had decided to just let her go.
But to his surprise, instead of taking the out, and just leaving without there being any hard feelings. Emily was refusing to listen to reason.
"Emily, what do you mean you are not leaving? I have literally just told you that this will not go away. Most likely, now that my body is almost fully recovered from the effects of lacking proper sleep.
I will be popping boners almost every morning. It is not something that is going to go away. Are you sure you can deal with that?"
"Not just dealing with it in a sense of enduring simply because you want to get some sleep. But in a sense of will you be able to look at me the same, knowing about that side of me," Instead of treating the situation with the seriousness that it deserved. Emily looked over at Derek and smiled.