Well Suited by Staci Hart

Author:Staci Hart [Hart, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

16

Big Spoon

Theo

17 weeks, 2 days

Zedd played over the speaker that night, the bass thumping as Katherine and I sat side by side on the couch. In her lap was a ball of pearly-white yarn, and in her hands was the beginning of a baby bootie. The TV played Love Cabana with closed-captioning.

It was a guilty pleasure we’d started watching as a joke but had turned into a nightly routine. We’d meant to make fun of it. Best-laid plans and all that. We were already on season three.

A week ago, she’d asked me for more in a Target aisle, tears in her eyes and a neat row of baby bottles in front of us. And, as promised, we held hands through Target for starters. The highlight of my week had been leaving that store with Katherine under my arm, her body against mine and her arm around my waist.

The door had been opened for PDA. And PDA had led to kissing. And kissing had led to heavy petting, which had led to Katherine naked in my bed.

And the world was suddenly full of possibility.

Subsequently, I couldn’t keep my hands off her. And she didn’t seem to mind.

Even now, her feet were in my lap, and my hand absently stroked her leg as Billy and Jeanine got into a screaming match over a spilled daiquiri. And by spilled, I meant Billy had dumped it down Jeanine’s back and into the hot tub.

Katherine shook her head as she wound the yarn around her needle. “I’m not big on immature displays, but Jeanine deserved that.”

“If they don’t get kicked off the island this week, I’m gonna be convinced this show is rigged.”

“It’s scripted. They’re all scripted. Reality TV is anything but real. Everyone knows that.”

I chuckled, my hand shifting over the delicate bones on top of her foot. “It’s so much more fun to imagine it’s real.”

“But it’s not,” she insisted, twisting the yarn again.

“So you’ve said.” For a moment, I watched her fingers, the click of the needles and quick motion of her hands as she assembled the tiny sole of the shoe. “How long have you been knitting?”

She gave me a blank look. “You watched me start twenty minutes ago.”

“No,” I said on a laugh, “I mean, when did you learn?”

“Oh. A few months ago. We have a knitting circle at the library, and I was the only one who didn’t know how. I’m glad I learned though. It’s coming in handy.” She held up her work in display.

I picked up the bootie she’d just finished, which sat on the coffee table. “This is the tiniest shoe I’ve ever seen.”

Katherine smiled. “I know. There’s a little sweater I want to make, too, and a hat and blanket to match. I decided on white since we don’t know the sex of the baby yet.”

“Just a few more weeks.”

“I’ll never understand people who want to be surprised by that information. There’s already enough we don’t know and can’t control. Why wouldn’t you want to know everything you could?”

I shrugged.

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