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We both kicked our shoes off by the door. “Are you saying that it’s normally dirty?” I asked.
“No, I’ve just never seen it so polished.” She walked around, taking in the spotless kitchen.
“Yeah, well, I had a lot on my mind so I stress-cleaned yesterday,” I said, shrugging. My floors had never been so shiny.
“I ended up pulling everything out of my closet and then putting it back in,” she said.
That made us both laugh.
“I can make some eggs or salad or something,” I said.
“Eggs would be great,” she said.
I cooked up a pan of scrambled eggs, some hash browns, and bacon.
“Mimosa?” I asked, pulling the bottle of champagne that Esme had given me out of the fridge.
“A little one,” she said.
I went light on the champagne and topped it off with orange juice.
We both sat on the couch and ate. I kept scooting closer to her.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Getting closer to you?” I asked. “Is that not okay?”
“No, it is,” she said, smiling and then moving closer until our legs were touching.
Neither of us seemed to know how to behave, but at least we were in the dark together.
We finished our food and I washed the dishes and put them in the dish drainer.
It had just started to rain, so my initial plan of sitting outside by the lake was off.
“Want to watch a movie?” I asked.
“That would be great,” she said.
I let her pick, and then we got under my favorite blanket, sitting on either ends of the couch.
“Come here,” Natalie said, holding up one end of the blanket.
She lay down horizontally and I joined her, until we were laying together, with her as the big spoon and me as the little. Being around the same height worked out, because we could have swapped easily.
Natalie pulled the blanket over us and sighed happily.
“This is cozy,” she said, adjusting herself a little bit behind me.
I was so warm under the blankets, but the cabin was chilly today, so it was ideal.
Natalie shifted her arm so it was slung over my waist.
This was a lot of contact all at once. Sure, we’d snuggled when we were kids, but now we were adults and on the heels of kissing yesterday, it made a simple snuggle into something a lot more.
Natalie pulled me closer.
“Are you comfortable?” she whispered in my ear.
