Not Looking for Love: Episode 4 by Bourne Lena

Author:Bourne, Lena [Bourne, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-04T08:00:00+00:00

I wake up at ten the next morning. Scott's still sleeping and I slip off the bed, making sure not too wobble it too badly. He's actually got milk in his fridge today, and food, but most of it is the stuff I bought when I was here last and it's spoiled by now. I toss the green mold infested cheese in the trash, and spread some butter on a cracker, thinking maybe I should go down to the bakery and get some breakfast. But then I might not be able to get back inside.

The air is chilly and smells of snow. I hear Scott get up and go into the bathroom and I have two cups of coffee ready on the kitchen table by the time he comes out.

I wish he'd hold me and kiss me, but he just sits down, wrapping his fingers around the steaming cup of coffee, goosebumps rising on my legs.

"Can we turn on the heat?" I ask sitting down across from him. I have to move a pile of laundry so I can see him.

"It is on," he says and stretches, yawning loudly. "It's the windows, they need to be replaced."

I scan the apartment. Maybe there are fewer cardboard boxes than when I was last here, but he's still using his suitcase as a closet. "You need some furniture too."

"Stop being so bossy," he says and smiles at me, so I can't even get mad.

"I thought you liked that about me," I say and stand. The skin on my legs is turning blue now and I need to either put on my pants, or get back into bed. I choose the latter.

"Yeah, but there's a time and place."

The bed's still warm, and I wrap the blanket around myself. "Are you coming?"

He checks his watch and sighs. "I should leave soon."

My throat knots up at his words. Why can't we just be together? Why does there always have to be something?

He comes over anyway, like maybe he knows what I'm thinking, and climbs in beside me. I scoot over and wrap my arms around his waist pressing my legs into his for some extra warmth.

"We could go away this week, just the two of us," I say. "It's going to snow, and my family owns a cabin upstate that's empty now. We could spend the whole week there."

His arm is wrapped around my back, his palm resting against my stomach. "I don't even have a winter jacket, Gail."

It's a no, and I don't know why. A weekend upstate would be perfect, just the two of us, snowed in, warm by the fire in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

"We can get you a winter jacket. I could get it for you like as an early birthday present." I'm speaking into his chest, my voice muffled because I'm pressing my cheek into it so hard.

He laughs, the sound loud in my ears. "It'd be more of a late present. My birthday was a couple of weeks ago.

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