“Not yet.” I placed my phone back down, feeling guilty for ignoring his text.
She snuggled into me.
“Did you sleep okay?” I asked.
“Strangely, I did.”
I smiled. “I do have that effect on girls.”
“What girls?”
“The only one that matters.”
“Damn straight,” she said.
“Let me take you out today,” I said.
“A date?” she asked.
“I think it’s about time we did something the right way, don’t you?”
“I do,” she said.
“Let’s go by your house and talk to your parents. They need to know what happened in Florida.”
She groaned. “Why is reality always getting in the way of us being happy?”
“Speak for yourself. I’m completely happy.” I turned and pinned her to the bed. “You make me happy.”
She grinned up at me, her eyes dancing with excitement.
“And I love the way you’re looking at me right now. It’s like for the first time you actually see me looking at you.”
“I’m sorry it took so long,” she said.
“Nothing to be sorry about. You’re here now.”
Giselle
“You ready?” Thayer asked, taking my hand as we walked up my parents’ driveway.
“Yeah,” I said as I pulled open the side door to the kitchen.
“Hi,” my mother said as soon as we walked inside, her eyes shooting to our linked hands. “This makes me so happy.”
“You?” Thayer asked with a smirk.
She hurried over and wrapped us both in a hug. When she finally released us, she looked to me. “Are you okay?”
“I have no idea,” I said.
“Can we sit down?” Thayer asked, ready to tell her everything. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
“Yes, of course,” she said.
“Is Dad here?”
“He’s upstairs.”