6. 1 Sticky notes, breakfasts and New friends

"I love how my kitchen smells of butter and you in the mornings. It is such a welcoming aroma." - Logan.

(Logan)

Logan woke up with a grunt and a huge yawn. His eyes were burning.

It had taken him so long before he could finally get rid of her from his brain and go to sleep.

And then she haunted him in his dreams. He wondered if this all would go away with a kiss or if it would only grow more with that kiss.

He was not ready to find out. Somehow he knew the answer wouldn't be easier to swallow.

He took a shower before he walked to the kitchen. He rummaged his fridge for something to eat and that was when he noted the post-it note stuck to the right side of the refrigerator door.

He picked it up and smiled when he read it and then he picked up another paper and scribbled a note before he folded her note and put it inside his wallet along with her eight bucks.

When did she wake up and made it all for him?

Somehow the thought of her doing it all just for him made him warm all over. He took a sniff and he could smell butter and her in the air. And he loved it.

For the first time in so long, he was going to have a proper breakfast at his home. Yes, whenever he visited mom, he would get this kind of Royal treatment, but today was much more special.

He walked to the table she didn't like very much and opened the tray to find a plate of scrambled eggs with veggies and French toast and a glass of orange juice. There was also a muffin.

His mouth watered. He clapped enthusiastically before he sat and ate everything. Except broccoli. Oh, he hated that.

As he walked inside his office, Tom, his assistant stared at him with wariness.

"What?" Logan asked.

"Am I going to get fired, boss?"

"Why would you ask that?"

"You are like... Smiling."

"And so?"

"I don't know. It is just weird. And I am scared." Tom said as he opened a file and pushed it in front of Logan. "You want coffee?"

"Nah, I am good."

"You are going to work without coffee?"

"Yes?"

"What is it, boss? You can tell me anything. Are you kicking me out? Or are you dying?"

"Dying? Where do you come up with these ridiculous ideas?"

"You are still smiling, boss. Do you want to look at yourself in the mirror? You will see the difference." Tom said as he scanned Logan again.

"Ok, Tom, stop bothering me and get me Aidan Masters file. When is the meeting, again?" He asked as he scanned the papers. "Umm, everything is almost to the proposed cost except the light fittings." He talked to himself as he opened a book and scribbled a reminder to himself to call Lowell Lightings. If they weren't going to agree to the proposed budget, he had to look for a new supplier.

"It is at nine. Oh. I am not fired, then. Thank God. I have a wife and kid to take care of and they are thanking you, as well, boss."

"Have you forgotten your filter at home? The one between your brain and mouth?" Logan asked as he signed the documents Tom had placed in front of him.

"Jokes. Did you just learn that world is going to end tomorrow? I can not bear the suspense." He asked. "And boss, Melissa Meyers called. She was done with the other project and she wanted to know if the offer for M-field project still stands?" Tom asked and Logan tapped his pen against his lips as he thought about that.

"Let me think about that for a day." Logan said and looked up at Tom. "If you don't move now, I am really firing you. I need the file I asked in five minutes."

"Moving. Moving." He walked away and Logan shook his head before he went back to his file.

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(Alexandra)

She woke up after ten, still groggy, still feeling sleepy. As she walked towards the bathroom, she bumped her head in the door. "Ah." She muttered. "Don't antagonize me. I am not feeling myself today." She said to the door before she pushed it open.

Her eyes burned.

She hadn't had a good sleep, even though the bed was all cuddly and spongy. What's a girl to do when she was constantly tormented by a sexy ghost!

She woke up early in the morning at around five, and it was all Logan's fault.

He was there in her dreams and what the hell was he doing in her dreams, kissing her? It was very disturbing to say the least and she woke up, feeling hot, sweaty and bothered and after that she couldn't sleep at all.

So she went for a jog and decided to make Logan's breakfast. Once she did that, though, she felt sleepy again and so went back to the warm embrace of her bed once again.

And here she was, still feeling so sleepy. She wrapped a towel around her hair before wearing her old sweat shirt and a track pant.

She walked to the kitchen and noticed the broccoli was still there in the plate. Everything else was gone. She smiled to herself as she picked up the dishes and loaded it inside the dishwasher. He had already told her not to do that, because Esther would be there at eleven every morning to do the chores, but she was bored.

And then she walked to the refrigerator to get a carton of milk and that was when she noticed his sticky note.

She laughed as she finished reading it and then safely put it inside the book she left it on the table.

And time dragged on and on and she was very bored. So she decided to bake cookies.

She searched his refrigerator and thankfully there was everything there, including chocolate chips. So she went about making the cookies.

It was eleven when Esther came. She was a round woman with a very sharp nose. Also, she hated Alex at first sight, or it seemed so as she pointed a finger at Alex's face and shook her head with an amazing speed that Alex wondered if her neck was made of something like rubber.

"You did the dishes? I did dishes." She pointed to herself.

She shook her head again, looking disgruntled. Alex tried to placate her with a smile, which didn't work out very well.

"Sorry, I was bored."

"Bored, watch movie. Don't do chores. Mr. Forr-the only like me cleaning."

Uh-oh. Someone is very possessive of Mr. Forte. Alex thought with a small smirk and decided to make fun of Logan with that when he returned home.

She really missed him already. The easy banter. The friendly chatter.

It was all so easy with him and she was so surprised to realize it had only been a day since she met him.

Oh, yes, it was all so easy, except that weird buzz in her skin whenever he was near to her. He was like her very own brand of electric wire, alive and thrumming and she needed a shock proof vest. She needed to stay away or she would get the shock of her lifetime.

And Alex wasn't that stupid to do things that was probably going to hurt her just because they felt so deceptively easy.

She was not in the market for a heartbreak. No thank you, Logan Forte!

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