Love Kinection by Jennifer James

Author:Jennifer James [James, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Decadent Publishing Company, LLC
Published: 2012-07-28T05:00:00+00:00

It took forty minutes and three operators, but I finally got someone to change my number. I spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon unable to make a decision about calling Tom. Too soon and I’d look desperate, wait too long and look like a bigger bitch than I am. The right thing to do would be to thank him for the date and apologize for being an ass. My cowardice won out, so I focused on making soup instead.

Cooking and stripping the meat from the chicken took tons of time. And I didn’t bother to get the food processor out to chop the vegetables. Instead I did everything by hand. The mindless repetition gave me time to think about a lot of things I’d been avoiding in the last year. What did I really want to do with the rest of my life? How would I handle being Aunt Abby to some little baby with complete jerks for parents? I couldn’t avoid them all the time.

The sadness still hunched in a corner of my heart and I realized the ability to trust a man might take time to reappear. Especially a gorgeous one, but I thought maybe I could try.

Tom was so different from Charlie. The sides of a coin, all similarity ending at the looks department. Tall, nicely built, and great lips turned my head every time. But Charlie made fun of my “nerd gear,” as he called it. Tom teased me to come see his own collection. Charlie would be chubby around the middle in ten years; already going soft in the belly. It didn’t bother me all that much; I’m not a workout fanatic. But it seemed to imply deeper insight to their personalities. Tom would work whereas Charlie would take the path of least resistance.

When everything on the stove simmered lightly, I changed into my workout clothes and got on the treadmill in the spare bedroom. A long walk to keep me from calling Tom and babbling like a fool. The exertion felt good, positive movement forward. I wondered what he would say when he saw my collection of geek paraphernalia wasn’t isolated to the shelves in the living room and smiled.

Every wall held posters and shelves crammed with scale models, books, ceramics, themed board games…. The spare bedroom—regardless of my thigh torture device—is my favorite room in the house. One corner held an overstuffed arm chair with a reading lamp next to it and my favorite blanket hung half on the floor, half off the chair. My friend Stephanie had given it to me for Christmas a few years ago. No idea where she found a blanket with a cartoon zombie on it, but I love it.

The delicious man candy posters on the walls around me as I walked didn’t keep my mind from examining the way I’d been living my life. Why had I gotten so derailed by grief over a failed relationship? The reasons for being madly in love with Charlie seemed stupid now.

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