Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Kady slid her thumb across the screen to snooze her alarm. She had it set to ring and snooze indefinitely in ten minute intervals, which was a better way to get her off her ass than have it shut up eventually.
So it went for ten more minutes until Kady turned around to slip her arms around Penny and murmur “Got to kiss an angel good morning,” before she did place a kiss on his shoulder.
Penny was used to her snooze alarm and generally gave her reasons to keep snoozing. Today wasn’t any different. He was curled up against her back when she turned towards him and he adjusted with a stretch of his legs and a sleepy smile.
“Did you just call me an angel?” he huffed out on a laugh. “Were you having weird ass dreams or something?”
“Thank God even crazy dreams come true.” Kady replied with a laugh, curling up against Penny instead of having her arms, now a little sore, around and under him. She sighed as her phone rang again. “Now it's mornin' and the phone rings…”
Okay, weirder, but it wasn’t necessarily Atlantis weird, was it? That little bit of twang when Kady said morning, okay, maybe. Penny squinted one-eyed at her and nodded towards the phone. “If you’re not expecting a call, just let it go. They can send you a message on the network if it’s important.”
Admittedly, Penny would answer it if it was his, even though he really just wanted to roll over and go back to sleep. But he was much better at telling people to just ignore shit than he was at actually ignoring shit himself. And snuggling closer to his girlfriend. He was really good at that.
Turning around, Kady hit the red button on her phone and then muted it, then curled up closer to Penny again. She laughed. “You gotta know when to hold ‘em.”
The calls, in that case. She too was catching up to how weird she was sounding by now, but a really long, drawn out yawn ripped the thought right out of her. “Baby all we need is just to be.”
“Riiiiiight,” Penny said on a long, amused exhale. “You sound like you’re being possessed by the ghost of a white boy from Texas, baby,” he teased. Of course, once the words were out, he wondered if that could actually be true and not just a joke. His eyebrows furrowed together and he pulled back to peer down at her. “You’re not, right?”
Frowning, Kady knit her brow as Penny’s question echoed around her brain and all she could reply was, “I walk the line…?”
Well, shit. There was some sort of aphasia happening here for sure, there was no denying it now. Kady looked up at Penny with wide eyes. “There’s your trouble.”
Penny groaned. “Country music? Really?” He had to laugh, but he was not looking forward to however long this lasted. At least it was better than when everything she drank turned into coffee. Death by country music was a lot less likely.
“I wonder if it works with writing?” He leaned over and grabbed his sketch pad off the nightstand and the charcoal pencil with it, handing it over with a hopeful raise of his eyebrows and an apologetic squint.
A roll of her eyes was all the response Penny needed to know Kady’s feelings on the matter. There was not an ounce of country in her, not the music or the lifestyle if that was a thing that existed. Okay maybe Johnny Cash was cool, but only because he was darker. She’d always liked Blues more, all those deals with the devil all those crossroads encounters. That was the southern shit she liked.
Rolling her eyes again Kady took the materials from Penny and tried to write down anything that wasn’t completely foreign to her, therefore Country. She failed. In the wake of her scribbles the paper said ’When the deck is stacked against me I just play a different game. 'Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep’
She dropped the paper and sighed.
Coughing out a laugh, Penny set the paper and pencil aside. “Right, well. This is gonna be a really long fucking day for us both, babe How about I grab us some breakfast. And some mimosas. And you--” He rolled out of bed, pointing at her. “--Stay here and think about the wife that left you? I hear she took the dog, and that’s messed up,” he teased, a crooked grin lighting up his face. Maybe he could have a little fun with this.
Kady wanted to be mad, and she was annoyed to no end, but staying in bed sounded great and the joke had actually been good. She shook her head, snickering, and laid back down in bed. It wasn’t like she was into talking all that much anyway. Instead of saying anything to Penny, she winked and smiled, endeared as only he knew she could look.