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I burst out laughing. “He’s desperate then.”
“Maybe,” Cal replied. “Mom and Dad home?” He asked.
“Mom is. Dad is at work.”
“Come home with me,” he said. “Nobody is home. I just want to hold you.”
“Where is Blythe?” I asked.
He continued to wheel me through the door to his car. At the Impala, he settled me in the front seat. I put my seat belt on and watched him collapse the chair before storing it in the trunk.
Cal climbed behind the wheel and started up the beauty that was all his. His dad had signed the title over to Cal during this trip home.
“Cal, where’s Blythe?” I asked.
He shot me a look. “Mom kicked her out after Dad left.”
“Oh no.”
“It was bad. She and Dad had an argument about it over the phone but she’s sticking to her guns. Blythe is staying with some friends who insist that she get a job or go to school. She’s not laying around all day doing nothing like she did at home.”
“Is everything okay now with your parents?”
He chuckled at that statement. Then he rubbed his neck and steered with the other hand. “Kind of.”
“What does that mean?”
“That means I’m glad that Dad won’t be home for ten or eleven months. He’ll have time to cool off and see Mom was right.”
“That bad?”
“That bad,” he replied.
In his driveway, Cal carried me to his house, so we didn’t have to deal with the wheelchair. The front door was always unlocked so I could open the door for him.
“Where’s your Mom?”
“She’s got a part time job,” he said.
“Seriously.”
He nodded at me as he carried me down the hall to his room. I opened the door there and he kicked it shut with his foot. I wasn’t small but he had no trouble carrying me in his arms.
He laid me gently on the bed and kicked off his shoes. Cal always liked to be comfortable, so he went to the closet and changed into sweatpants and a t-shirt. “Want something to change into so you’re comfortable?” He asked.
I really did but if his mom came home, she might not like that. I shook my head no. I kicked my shoes over the side of the bed, and he crawled across to me and laid down. I snuggled into his side and couldn’t stifle the sigh that escaped me.
He laughed.
“When do you think I’ll get my strength back?” I asked.
“I don’t know Ab. You will though. We have lots of things to do together.”
I glanced up at Cal and nodded. “I want to be with you forever like you promised me at the hospital when you put this ring on my finger,” I said.
Cal frowned at me. I could tell he wasn’t sure how I had known what he said. I was still in a coma. “Cal, I heard the stories you read. I heard every whispered I love you, Abby.” I saw tears gather in his eyes. I caressed his rough cheek. “I heard your promise. I want to love you forever too.”
His lips brushed across mine. So tenderly I melted into his warmth and his embrace. “Abby, it won’t be easy. We’re only sixteen and seventeen.”
