Along Came Baby by J. S. Cooper

Author:J. S. Cooper [Cooper, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-10T18:30:00+00:00

“Hey.” I stood up as Lila walked into the restaurant. She walked to me with a wide smile and a light in her brown eyes. It was then that something hit me. A weird feeling in my stomach that twisted and turned and burned through the blood in my veins. I swallowed hard as she approached the table and reached forward to give me a hug.

“So sorry I’m late. I was running from the train station and then I went down the wrong street and got so lost.” She giggled and gave me a wry smile. “I suck with directions.”

A brief joke popped into my mind about sucking something else, but something in my brain dismissed it. That was an immature joke. I didn’t want her to think I was immature.

“I’m glad you made it.” I gave her a big hug, and she gave me a quick kiss on the lips and rubbed the top of my head.

“I need a drink and lots of food. Give me all the food.” She grinned. “It’s good here, right?”

“The best,” I said and waited for her to sit down before I sat. “What would you like to drink?”

“Red wine?” She shrugged. “That goes well with pasta, right?”

“Yeah.” I nodded and called the waitress over. “I’ll order some appetizers as well, okay?”

“Sure, sounds good to me.”

“Was work fun today?” I inquired truly wanting to know everything about her day, her life, everything there was to know.

“It was okay.” She shrugged and stifled a yawn. I looked at her face closely, and I could tell that she was tired. She’d had a long week; not helped by me and all our late nights. I bit my lower lip. Maybe it was selfish of me to be seeing her when my schedule meant I could only really see her late at night. My job as a musician would always have odd hours. There would be very few nights that I’d be able to actually see her and take her on dates. I couldn’t give her any sort of normal dating situation even if I wanted to, and I was thinking that I wanted to date her. And not just as a test to see how it went. This moment felt momentous. I wasn’t sure why, but I knew that Lila was someone special. It scared me slightly. I didn’t want to think about it too deeply. This was going to be our fourth night in a row together. Surprisingly, that didn’t scare me. What worried me more was how I felt at the thought of not spending a night with her? How had she become so important to me so quickly?

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