Love In Touch by Lennox Lucy May

Author:Lennox, Lucy May [Lennox, Lucy May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dev Love Press, LLC
Published: 2013-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Kassie found herself increasingly frustrated with the routines of her life. Up every morning, try to look professional, or at least presentable, for a long boring day at work. Nancy, her boss, had threatened, only half jokingly, to send Kassie back to Dyanne if she didn't start getting her work done more efficiently, so she didn't dare IM with Jake at the office anymore. Monday and Wednesday evenings she had ASL class, Thursday nights were yoga class, and Tuesdays she met Dave and the others to train for their next run. She felt less and less like running lately, but since they had agreed to meet on Tuesdays to fit her schedule, she couldn't easily blow them off. All that activity meant she rarely got online before ten pm, and then it took all her willpower to sign off and go to bed by one am, leaving her tired and cranky the next day.

By the weekends she was exhausted, but it was her only time to see Jake, that is, if Erik let her have the car. He usually did, but if he had a client, that was that, they had to wait for the next week. Kassie could not bring herself to ask Jake's parents to drive him to her house and pick him up again, like they were children. She had looked at some used car listings in the paper, but anything even halfway decent was far more than she could afford, and she would not ask her mother for help, not with the huge debts left after her father's illness. She still had not brought herself to mention Jake to her mother.

Riding the bus back and forth from work each day, Kassie found her thoughts drifting toward Jake, reliving the moments when they were together: his sensitive fingers on her skin, the look of his mouth split in a rare grin, his intense concentration when they signed together. Just reliving those moments gave her a warm rush, but soon after doubts would come creeping in. When they were together, there was no one else she wanted to be with more. But there was no denying that it was hard. Communication had gotten easier--he was learning more ASL from her, and she had gotten faster at fingerspelling. But the logistics of meeting up wore her out. And she felt depressed and annoyed whenever she thought back on the disastrous party. Would they ever have a normal relationship, she wondered. Was it even possible?

Kassie knew Ms. Hansen would tell her that thinking in terms of "normal" was ableist. Kassie should meet Jake where he was, not expect him to adapt to her. But doing that all the time was exhausting. She hoped it would get easier the longer they were together, but what if, like Carter said, she just got more and more tired until she couldn't take it any more?

Whenever Ms. Hansen brought up disability rights in ASL class, Kassie couldn't help talking about deafblind issues. She had been a little hesitant at first, after the lecture she had gotten about the deafblind alphabet.

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