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“Well, yeah. I thought you already figured that out,” I said with a chuckle. “Wait, did you think you imagined me? Do you often talk to imaginary me out loud?”
Her head fell back as she laughed uncontrollably.
“Tell me why?” she asked, wiggling out of my hold and taking a step back to look at me.
“Why I’m here?” She gave me a little nod. “Because I missed you?” While it was true, it came out sounding more like a question because I wasn’t sure what she was hoping to hear.
“Mmmhmmm.”
“And… I really wanted to see you?”
“Okay, yeah.”
“And…”
“And?” she asked taking a tiny step closer to me.
Fuck it.
I was just going to lay it all out there.
“And I’m going insane without you. I want you to come back with me and stay, like for good. I want to be here to kiss the new year hello with you. I don’t want to spend another day with this distance between us.”
I waited for her to tell me that I was nuts. Maybe even call me stalker-crazy or something.
“Okay,” she said with a shrug like she hadn’t just made this big decision and agreed to uprooting her life.
“Wait,” I said, my eyes finally moving around to take in the chaos that was her apartment.
Neatly boxed up chaos.
“Oh, didn’t I tell you…” she said cocking a half smile at me. “I’m moving.”
I pulled her into me.
“I know this little garage that is in desperate need of my organization and filing skills,” she went on, and there was that twinkle in her beautiful eyes again.
“Oh, I think I might know this place. And yes, you are very much right, they definitely need you there.”
My lips were on hers a second later and I kissed the hell out of her.
“Please tell me you still have a bed somewhere in here,” I breathed out as I tore my lips from hers.
“I don’t know, maybe you should find out,” she said playfully.
Then she was breaking away from me and running across the apartment.
What was I supposed to do other than follow behind her, right?
After a quick round one, we ate a frozen pizza that she had in her freezer.
Then came round two, which lasted much longer.
We watched the ball drop while eating pistachio ice cream in her bed. Naked, of course.
And when the countdown hit one, we kissed like we were in a movie.
I started the new year exactly how I wanted to spend every night with her. In bed, naked, and sexed out.
