The bathroom tiles were cold under my feet but cleaning/aftercare was always my favorite part. In the mornings we shower together and in the evenings we take a bath. I turn on the shower , slightly warm water flows from the showered getting hotter as it goes.
“Come on honey, its time for your shower” I take his hand and guide him along testing the temperature of the water with my hand. It’s significantly warmer, maybe almost too hot but the morning chill feels like it wants to seep into my bones. The day can’t get warm soon enough.
I look at him precious in all of his ways. Soft in the way his eyes trace my face looking for something; the scalding heat I woke up to is now the comforting and simmering warmth of the boy in front of me.
“ It’s already warm.” I step under the shower-head and hug him to me. He is pliant and a little bit sleepy his eyes closing and his head leaning on my shoulder when I hug him to me. I can’t help but kiss him on his neck in the space just behind his ear and caress his lower back.