Falling for Autumn by Topham Wood Heather

Author:Topham Wood, Heather [Topham Wood, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-04-10T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I flipped onto my belly as I tried unsuccessfully to find something to watch on TV. Since I had no hometown friends, it made spring break a very uneventful week. I had exchanged text messages with Casey and Lexi, but they were busy reconnecting with their high school friends. My parents and I spent a lot of time together, but by eight o’clock, they were unwinding for the night by watching television and getting ready for bed. Blake’s nightly phone calls were the one thing I looked forward to after the sun went down.

I shut off the television and took a minute to study my old bedroom. The reason I left my side of the dorm room bare was because I was trying to define college Autumn. I felt zero connection to the girl who had decorated my bedroom. There were cheerleading trophies and plaques next to pom-poms and sparkling hair ribbons. All of the furniture was the color of bone and accented with girlish touches like my pink frilly bedspread and a bedazzled lamp. The room was tacky and overdone and I decided it was time to redecorate. I supposed I never cared enough to bother changing anything after I quit cheerleading, but if I was going to spend breaks at my parents’, I should have a room that didn’t give me the urge to vomit.

My phone rang and my heart fluttered as I answered, “Hi, Blake.”

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Thinking I may have decorated my bedroom using every teen girl cliché as inspiration. It’s giving me a headache just looking at the walls. No wonder I left my dorm room plain for so long.”

At the dorm, after hanging up Blake’s print on my wall, I had picked up a few more posters at the bookstore. I picked simple and feminine art prints, relaxing images I could get lost in before I fell asleep at night. The Georgia O’Keefe print evoked the most emotion because I could attach it to the memory of my trip with Blake to the museum. I was trying to locate the print of the painting he had chosen for his term paper, thinking it would be nice if we both had a physical manifestation of the turning point in our relationship.

“What are you doing tonight?”

“Probably read for a couple of hours before bed.” I shrugged although he couldn’t see me. I had thought of making up an exciting itinerary of what I had planned at home, but decided to drop the pretense immediately. I wouldn’t pretend with Blake and be embarrassed over who I was.

“Why don’t we go out? I’ll come pick you up.”

I sat up in bed. “Blake, it’s an hour and a half drive.”

“So what? I want to see you and of course you want to see my sexiness.” I laughed and he continued, “Come on, say yes and I’ll hop in my car right now.”

“Yes, of course.” There was no reason to hesitate. Although I would see him again in a few days, I wanted the instant gratification of being near him right away.

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