Looking In by Michael Bailey

Author:Michael Bailey [Bailey, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Michael Bailey
Published: 2017-09-02T23:00:00+00:00

Running errands was not typically the way I liked to spend my days. I preferred to either veg out in front of the television or be outside either playing basketball or running. I had been an avid runner in high school. I’d even made it onto the varsity track team my junior year. I found that the practice I had from track came in handy when I joined the Marines. I only wished the coaches had made us lug fifty-pound bags when we trained for track. That would have really trained me for my future service. With all of the time I had spent at the hospital recently, I found that the time I spent running had been cut significantly. Ryan and I had spent hours every day that we were allowed at Lucas’s bedside. By the time we left, I would be so emotionally and physically exhausted that I had little energy to do much of anything else.

Running errands with David was an entirely different experience. It felt domestic, like we were just every other ordinary couple on the planet. Somehow, what should have felt mundane instead felt right. Having never been part of a serious couple, I was somewhat surprised.

Which brought me to an interesting question that I had been trying to hold at bay. Were we a couple? It certainly felt as if we were, at least to me. But David was so closed off that I often wondered how he felt. He wasn’t very forthcoming, and I knew that going in. He was guarded, for whatever reason, and played things very close to his chest. But every once in a while, he would do things that would show me what he felt, like what happened in the hallway, or his request of me to stay with him.

Truth be told, the prospect of staying with him again had me giddy. Not because I thought we were having sex. That idea was the furthest from my mind. No, the very fact that he had asked. That, in itself, spoke volumes to me, and helped to answer the question.

Yes, we were a couple, albeit a tentative one.

We stopped at the pharmacy first because David needed a prescription refilled. He told me that he wouldn’t be long, and I waited in the car. Then we went to the grocery store, and I had to remind him that he didn’t need to worry about how much he needed to get because he wasn’t taking the bus.

My fingers itched to touch him as he pushed the cart up and down the aisles. I wanted to hold his hand, claim him as mine, and show the world that we were a thing. But I didn’t. I had to restrain myself, which I found it difficult. The feeling that I had earlier blossomed further with the simple act of grocery shopping. I know, it sounds ridiculous, but it was true.

I tossed a few things into the cart of my own. If I was staying with him for the night, the least I could do was treat him to a nice, home-cooked meal.

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