The Wonder of You by Harper Kincaid

Author:Harper Kincaid [Kincaid, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Wonder of You
Publisher: Harper Kincaid
Published: 2018-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear:

she got up in great disgust, and walked off;

the Dormouse fell asleep instantly,

and neither of the others took the least notice of her going,

though she looked back once or twice,

half hoping that they would call after her . . .

―Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Dare

Like clockwork, I’m always up with the sun. No matter what. I could be sick. I could have stayed up most of the previous night.

Doesn’t matter.

At one point, I even had black-out curtains put in my bedroom, hoping I could fool my Pavlovian brain into getting the rest my body needed.

It didn’t work. Neither did pills, booze, weed. So, I gave them up as forms of self-medication a long time ago.

Of course, my ma said my early rising was God’s hint to get my lazy ass out of bed and back to church. She was Italian Catholic and went three times a week. She said the extra visits were meant to compensate for my piss poor lack of attendance.

Yeah, she’s a pistol.

My building faced east, which meant I was able to attend my own version of church every day and bask in God’s glory, each rising sun a unique creation that I could fool myself into feeling was just for me.

This morning was another beauty, but this time it was the brunette with the big blue eyes sleeping next to me, taking all my attention. Her long, thick hair was splayed across the white pillows, as she slept on her back. The sheets were at her waist, so I was treated to watching her beautiful, bare breasts slowly rise and fall with her soft snore.

“Alice . . . Alice?”

“Hmm?” she mumbled, still half asleep.

“Want to sleep in or come down to the studio with me?”

She turned, mushing her face into the pillow. “If you are a sadist, you should’ve told me that from the get go. This is wicked early.”

That made me laugh. “Then sleep, baby. I’ll make some coffee. Come down when you’re ready. It’s the third floor.”

She grunted and nodded.

I made myself a big mug and took the elevator down to my studio. I was surprised to see Ingrid already there. She also wasn’t a big fan of early mornings.

“Is it the end of days or something?” I asked, being a smartass.

“Good morning to you too, sunshine,” she said, not taking her eyes off her work, paintbrush in hand, the same piece from the other day. “And I’m the only one who can make Book of Revelations jokes around here.”

“That’s fair,” I said, taking a sip of coffee. “So, what’s up?”

She frowned. “I have the group show at Sean Kelly at the end of the month, remember?”

“Of course, I do, ‘grid,” I said smiling down at her, trying not crack a smile at the sight of her. That blue hair of hers was all over the place and she was wearing her favorite unicorn onesie. Yeah, the kind with the pajama feet and the flap in the back, just like they make for little kids.

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