The Pace by Shelena Shorts

Author:Shelena Shorts [Shorts, Shelena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780982500507
Publisher: Lands Atlantic Publishing, LLC
Published: 2009-08-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

CHRISTMAS

I knew exactly what I was going to buy him for Christmas. The first thing would be inexpensive, but the second thing would require a little bit of savings. I couldn't imagine what I would do if I didn't have my own income. Asking my mom for money to shop for my boyfriend's Christmas present was absolutely unappealing.

I'd worked at Healey's for a few months, so I had acquired some savings that had virtually gone untouched. In the entire time we dated, Wes never let me pay for anything. And, I still owed him $500.00 for fixing my car, which he had yet to let me pay him back for. So I was more than willing to spend a good chunk of my savings on him. In fact, I welcomed Christmas with open arms. It was the first time I'd actually be able to spend money on him without him being able to refuse.

For the first present, I tricked Wes into visiting me at work one afternoon after I asked Dawn to "spontaneously" take our picture. It worked out perfectly. I met him in one of the aisles, and she acted as if she was taking pictures of the outside of the store while stumbling upon us on her way to the back. She casually suggested that we take a picture together. Wes was a great sport about it.

We were standing in front of shelves of books, and Wes put his arm around me, which led me to put my arms around his waist in return. He, to no surprise, took a great picture with the smile I love, and I was pretty pleased with the way I turned out. I looked happy and "in love," as Dawn described it, and given the fact that we both had connections with bookstores, I thought the picture was perfect.

I ended up getting two copies of the photograph made--one for me, and one to go in a picture frame for him. I figured since his house was so void of pictures, I could start to liven it up with memories for him.

The second gift was going to be harder to find. I wanted to see what kind of advance technology watches were out there. The watch I'd seen him wear was an older-looking watch that had the time, date, and an alarm, but that was it. I thought that surely the 21st century would bring in better technology than that, and I was right. I searched online and found a Suunto Stealth Watch. It was all black, and sleek looking. I thought it would look nice with everything he wore, but more importantly, I bought it for the functionality. It had time, of course, but it also had three different alarm settings, altimeter readings, barometer readings, a compass, and most importantly, current air temperature readings and temperature predictions. What I found amusing about it was that it was scratchproof, waterproof, and had preprogrammed calendars up to the year 2089.

Since I'd already crashed

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