Love My Way by Kate Sterritt

Author:Kate Sterritt [Sterritt, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2017-05-27T18:30:00+00:00

The digital clock on the bedside table tells me it’s 6:19 in the morning, but something about the digital screen catches my eye. The one and the nine appear to be disappearing bit by bit. I shuffle closer and rub my eyes, still blurry with sleep. I am now inches away from the display and, to my astonishment, I can see a tiny person inside the clock painting over the numbers. When they’re gone, he, or maybe she, starts painting a two and a zero in red paint. What the hell? I’m sure I’m not imagining it, but I’m a little concerned I’m losing my mind. The voice in my head reminds me it isn’t completely ludicrous to be concerned by that. I watch for another ten minutes and sure enough, the little person I’ve discovered on closer inspection is an old lady using her paintbrush and a ladder if needed to ensure the correct time is kept. It is the strangest but coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

Dragging myself away from my little time-keeping friend, I get up and use the bathroom, then open my bedroom door to go and look for Josh. Outside my bedroom door are my clothes and underwear from yesterday, clean, dry, and folded. Grateful, impressed and a little embarrassed, I quickly take them and change. As promised, I found various toiletries in the bathroom cabinet, including women’s deodorant and a toothbrush, so I’m feeling completely human.

The house is quiet, and I would assume Josh is asleep except for my laundered clothes. In the kitchen, I find a note on the bench telling me to help myself to coffee and anything for breakfast if I’m hungry if he isn’t yet back from taking Leroy for a walk by the lake. From the kitchen window, I can see him by the water’s edge in the distance. Finding my shoes by the French doors leading onto the deck, I head outside into the fresh morning air.

Even though my need to be near Josh feels almost desperate, I stop at the railing of the deck and close my eyes, breathing in deeply. Opening them, I take in the panoramic vista. After the rain, everything looks and smells so fresh. I love the anonymity of the city, but I never consider myself a city-girl convert. I haven’t returned to my hometown since leaving five years ago, but that isn’t because I don’t still have great love for it. Thanks to Mereki, I had eight wonderful years there, filled with happy memories. In the space of no more than ten minutes, I was robbed of any desire to set foot in that town ever again. I was robbed of so much more than that, but it’s best I don’t think about that anymore. I’m happy here, and that seems to have a whole lot to do with the man I’m now walking towards.

He is getting farther away, but I can still see him and Leroy quite clearly. Like a moth to the flame attracted to the light despite its danger, I walk towards him.

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