Both Sides Now by Shawn Inmon

Author:Shawn Inmon [Inmon, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Women, Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B00DV5GQ54
Publisher: Pertime Publishing
Published: 2013-12-05T06:00:00+00:00

Tonight’s the Night

Mom was happy to see me back so soon. “Well, that was quick. Are you going to see each other later?”

“No, I’m babysitting for the Garners tonight, remember? I think Shawn’s going to a movie or something. It was just nice to be able to see him.”

I wasn’t sure what I wanted. I knew I wanted to see Shawn, and I definitely wanted to spend some time alone with him, but I was scared we would get caught if he came over. The Garners’ house had a big window that opened out to the road, and you could see right into their living room if you drove by the house. I decided to just take it as it came. If he came over, I could always send him away. Or so I tried to tell myself.

I got to the Garners’ house a little after dinner. When they left, they said they would be home late, but that I should put their little girl to bed by 8:30. By 9:00, the house was quiet except for the television. I was watching Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, which seemed like a great idea right up to the moment that Jessica had found a body floating in the lake. Then I wished I had found a Gilligan’s Island rerun or something. I heard a rhythmic tapping coming from the back of the house, so I got a butcher knife from the kitchen and went to see what was causing it. Of course, it wasn’t the boogeyman. It was just Shawn, knocking gently on the back door.

When I let him in, he had that wide-eyed Did I do something wrong? look. He knew I could never be unhappy with him when he had that goofy look on his face. I opened the door to let him into the hallway but whispered, “You can’t go into the living room. What if Mom and Dad drive by and see you?”

“I have thought of everything,” he said. “C’mon.” He dropped down onto his hands and knees and crawled down the hall, stopping to look over his shoulder and smile. I followed behind, wondering what kind of a man-child I was in love with.

When he got to the living room he sat down on the floor with his back to the couch and patted the floor beside him. “See? They can’t see.” He was always his own best audience for his jokes, but I sat down close beside him and rested my head on his shoulder. We started out watching the movie, but eventually we figured out that no one was really trying to scare Jessica to death and that it was just a cool-sounding title. Then I realized that I was sitting really close to the person I loved, that I hadn’t seen him in a long time, and that we were basically alone together in the house.

I haven’t mentioned it yet, but during all the time we were dating, Shawn wore Jovan Musk cologne.

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