I woke up to someone FaceTiming me and my phone was ringing on the nightstand next to me. I noticed Eli wasn't beside me and picked it up.

"Hello?" I answered sleepily.

"WHERE ARE YOU?!!!" Kendall shouted through the phone.

"Why are you yelling?" I asked and rubbed my eyes then swung my feet off the bed.

"Leyla. Where. Are. You?" she asked again.

"I'm at Eli's," I said and got out of bed then took my phone and walked to the bathroom.

"How early did you wake up to get over there? It's 10 o'clock."

"No, I slept over." I explained.

I heard a thud and the crashing down of some objects. "Umm...Kendall?" I called worryingly.

"Please don't tell me you're still a virgin." she said.

"I am not still a virgin..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" she screamed through the phone and I laughed.

I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I'd slept in my makeup. I washed it all off the best that I could. When I was done I buttoned only three buttons on the shirt I slept in after remembering Eli had popped it open last night.

"Oh my God, how was it? Was it bad? Was it good? Was he small? Pfft of course he wasn't small he's fucking 6'4. How are your insides? Can you walk?"

"Kendall, shut up." I demanded.

"I'm waiting for answers," she claimed.

"Yes, it was very good. No, he is not small..."

At all.

"My insides are fine. Yes, I can walk. He was very gentle and didn't rush anything." I answered and looked around the bathroom. I opened a drawer and found two extra unopened toothbrushes from a pack that was missing one, which I figured was his. So I took one of the extras and started to brush my teeth.

'I'll pay him back.' I thought to myself.

"Why do I get the feeling that's his first and last time being gentle?" she said and I froze.

I spit into the sink and rinsed my toothbrush then slid it in the waistband of my underwear to hide it.

"Don't say that. You'll scare me." I said as I grabbed my phone and headed out of the room.

I walked into the hallway and the further I got the prettier it looked. The sun shining through the windows just made his home even more beautiful.

I got to the kitchen and propped my phone up so Kendall could see me.

"ARE YOU WEARING ONE OF HIS SHIRTS?!" she shouted.

"Don't you get tired of screaming? Secondly, what else was I going to sleep in?" I asked and grabbed an apple from his fruit bowl on the counter.

"That's probably how you got in that situation," she stated.

I snickered and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Look at you. The shirt isn't even buttoned all the way so your tits are all out. You seduced him," she hypothesized.

I laughed. "I did not seduce him!"

I heard the door open as I said that and stayed completely still after taking a bite of my apple.

"Hi, Eli!" Kendall greeted and I gave her a look that said to shut up.

"Hi, Kendall." he responded and his deep voice gave me goosebumps. I could hear him walking up to me and he stood behind me while his arm wrapped in front of my waist and he kissed my neck.

"Good morn-..." he began then started feeling my waist and I got nervous. He turned me around to face him and lifted my shirt up. He snickered a little then grabbed the toothbrush out of my waist band and held it up at me.

"I invite you into my home, give you water, and a place to sleep and what do you do? You steal my toothbrush. Unbelievable. I thought we had something special." he joked. "I feel used." He walked away.

"I'M SORRY!" I shouted.

"No, keep your apology." he said as he turned the corner.

He popped his head back into the kitchen. "I'm crying. Just an FYI," he said then disappeared back around the corner. I laughed at his silliness.

"You guys are so cute. SO CUTE!" Kendall yelled. "Okay, I have to go to work, I was just checking in to make sure you weren't kidnapped and dying." she stated.

"Okay." I laughed.

"Bye, tell your boyfriend I said if he hurts you I'll gut him like a fish," she said and blew kisses at the phone.

"He's not my boy-..." she hung up before I could finish.

I walked back into the room and looked for Elijah. I heard the shower running and slowly backed out and went back into the kitchen.

After a few more minutes of me playing music that I kept at a low volume to not disrupt him and dancing around the kitchen with my apple in my mouth, Eli came in with wet hair, no shirt, and black sweatpants.

"What are you doing?" he asked and I stopped the music with my apple still stuck between my teeth.

"Hm?" I asked.

He chuckled and walked towards me.

I stripped the apple from my mouth then asked, "Are you tired of me being here?" then put the apple back between my teeth.

"Not at all," he lifted me by my hips onto the counter and took my apple to give me a soft kiss. I waited for him to give it back but instead he took a bite and walked off.

"My apple?!"

"You'll be all right." he said and took another bite while walking to his room so I hopped down and followed.

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I was back at home and got my clothes ready for work tomorrow and for training with Eli.

'I wonder if he's tired of us constantly being together, we have been hanging out a lot recently...' I thought.

'Maybe I should give him some space...'

'But if I give him too much space he might think I'm trying to avoid him...'

'WHAT IF HE THINKS I JUST USED HIM FOR SEX?!'

'No, he wouldn't think that...would he?'

I heard the door open and realized Kendall was home so I went to greet her.

"Hey!" I shouted.

"Hi!" she laughed.

"I need advice..." I began.

"Hit me." she said as she started to take her shoes off and then sat on the couch.

"Okay so," I sat next to her. "Eli and I have been hanging out a lot recently, right?"

"Right." she agreed.

"I don't want him to get tired of me. Should I back off? Or do I keep going? Because I feel like if I back off then he'll think I hate him but if I keep going I'll annoy him..." I explained.

"Well the question here is whose idea was everything?" she wondered.

"Well...the first date was Eli's. Training was Eli's. Sleeping over was Eli's. The mall was mine. The dinner party was also Eli's." I couldn't tell her about my idea to go with him to the fight ring.

"So most outings were his idea? So it sounds like to me he should be having these thoughts not you. It also sounds like he can't get enough of you," she snorted. "At some point he's going to need to slow down though because I need my bestfriend and I was here first but the point of the matter is, I don't think he's tired of you by a long shot," she figured and the statement made my heart happy.

"And you say he's not your boyfriend. Tsk." she said and side eyed me.