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“She's kinda loud this morning.” I chuckled to myself. Finally rising out of bed I gave one last longing look towards my pillow, and then froze. Beautiful blond hair still lay across the opposite pillow. ‘If my wife is still in bed... who is downstairs’, I thought frantically. I looked towards the glowing red numbers of the clock. It glared 3:36 back at me. It wasn’t even time for me to be up yet. Another clang sounded from downstairs. My heart began to beat faster. I quiet groan sounded from my wife’s side of the bed.
“What’s all that noise?” She groggily asked, squinting up at my frozen form.
“I don’t know but I’m going to go figure it out.” I replied, putting my brave ‘cop face’ on.
“Someone is in our house?!?” She whispered harshly, her eyes growing round and scared. “We should call the police!” I laughed out loud, quickly covering my outburst.
“Babe, I am the police. Remember?” Slipping some pants on, I crept over to my police bag and extracted my gun from its holster. “Stay here, and don’t come out until it’s safe.”
I opened our bedroom door, cringing when it squeaked. Stepping past the door, I crept slowly down the stairs, my gun ready. I slid along the wall, drawn to the noise in the kitchen. Peeking around the corner, all I saw was a big butt sticking in the air. ‘Someone is snooping in my fridge!’, I thought incredulously. ‘Who breaks into someone’s house to look in their fridge?’
“Freeze!” I shouted. The man swung around, obviously frightened, last night’s dinner clutched in his hand. He looked very young. His face smudged with dirt, and his cheeks looked hollow, a sure sign of hunger. His eyes were wide and bloodshot, his mouth hanging slack in surprise.
Then the most unexpected thing happened. He opened that delicious dinner from the night before and threw it in my face. Spaghetti sauce stung my eye as the noodles formed a web over my face. I began to sputter as the noodles blocked my air passage. Flinging it off my face in a fit of rage, I smeared the sauce out of my eyes to find that my assailant had escaped. I ran to the open back door and peered outside, only to find a trail of fallen fruit smashed on the porch and then nothing.
“Are you kidding me?!?” I growled. Hearing a noise approaching from behind me, I swung around, ready to do battle with the food thief, only to find my wife frozen before me.
“Whoa buddy it’s just me!” she said, raising her hands out of instinct. I put the gun down, searching around the empty room for anything else missing. A giggle drew my attention back to my wife and I followed her gaze down to my spaghetti smeared chest.
“You think this is funny?” I asked glaring at her sudden mirth.
“No.” she said innocently, trying to hide her smirk behind her hand. Another giggle erupted. “I’m sorry sweetie. It’s not funny.”
I grabbed a towel and began cleaning my stomach, pulling a piece of meat out of my belly button. Another burst of laughter sounded from behind me.
“I guess it’s just a little funny.” She said.
With a growl I flung myself at my wife, giving her a huge spaghetti hug, smearing her pyjamas until she was as messy as I was. She screamed and laughed trying to escape my hold. Finally she broke free of my arms, only to be grabbed again. Suddenly, I slipped on the excess sauce on the floor and fell to the ground, pulling her down with me.
We erupted into another fit of giggles as we both lay sprawled on the ground, marinating in the day old spaghetti sauce. Finally regaining our composure, we picked the noodles out of each other’s hair and got to our feet.
“This gives a whole new meaning to feeding the hungry.” She said, and together we burst into laughter.
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There is much more to you than meets the eye!!!
I loved the phrases you used.
Conversation between your characters is very believable.
Good job and keep up the writing.