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“Doesn’t make sense.” Joe swigs back some of his beer and runs his fingers through my hair. The electricity I felt earlier from his touch is gone. I no longer feel the romantic connection, but the crack of heartbreak.
“He’s thinking with his dick, not his heart.” Landon polishes off his beer. “Sorry, Mady, I’m out of line. I’m going to head back to the cabin and call my fiancé. Perhaps I’ll be in a better mood.”
After Landon says his goodbyes to Joe and leaves, I pull away and ask Joe, “Do you agree? Do you think one week is too fast to truly fall in love?”
“Are you asking about us, or Drew? Because I do think one week is too fast.”
“I see.” My heart sinks. Standing by the dance floor finishing our drinks, everything has shifted. I feel an incredible urge to flee this resort. It’s time to move on. “Thank you for the dance, Joe. I’m going to head back to my room.”
“So soon?” He looks panicked and tries to hold my hand.
“Yes. Thank you, Joe.” I turn to leave and he reaches for me.
“Mady.”
“No, Joe.” I step back away from him, with my hand on his chest. I hold him at arm’s length. “I didn’t come here to find love, or find a man, and I don’t need one. You’re free to go. Find your friends. Seriously, you have no obligation to me, and I prefer you go now before it gets any harder.”
“Madelyn,” Joe calls out to me as I walk away, head held high, shoulders back, holding my breath, and refusing to cry.
Chapter Eight
Joe
“Dude, you’re back already. I was just going to bring some beers down to the lake.” Landon holds up the cooler in hands as evidence.
“Ah, you go ahead. I’ll meet you there in a few minutes.” I brush past him, beeline to the couch, and open my laptop on the coffee table, tapping my fingers anxiously on my leg, waiting for it to complete system updates and connect to the internet. “Come on, come on, come on.” I grumble.
I’m not sure what happened on the dance floor back there. We were having an amazing time, really connecting, and then she went cold. Just because I said it was too soon for Drew to have found love… and was thinking with his dick… am I the dick?
It is too soon for love, isn’t it?
Maybe I missed something in her blog, and there’ll be a clue there as to how she’s feeling.
“Finally.” The computer boots up, and I scroll down to find her most recent postfrom an hour ago. “August first, dear readers….”
August 1
Dear readers,
This appears to be a season of confessions and revelations. With death (Big Blue), comes birth (my new year’s baby), and new love. Yes, I said it. I’ve met a man that makes my heart sing. I’ll call him “J.” My aura is lit from within when J is around. He takes my breath away and gives me life simultaneously. It’s a feeling like none I’ve experienced before.
Is one week too soon to find true love? Is there such a thing as love at first sight?
Could it be pregnancy hormones talking? Perhaps. Or maybe I’m just thinking more clearly than ever before. I’ve not even slept with J, and I may never get a chance to experience that with him, but I’m grateful for him, nonetheless. The universe has taught me a lesson in opening my heart, and made me realize that love is possible despite any circumstance. I realize now that what I had with baby’s bio-dad was a relationship of convenience and comfort. We sought solace together while alone on the open road. What we had was purely physical. And trigger warning, this may be TMI, but my body has never felt so alive and turned on, as it has with J. I can only imagine how our souls would have joined together, had we been given the chance.
But don’t be sad for me, fellow readers, friends, family. The truest of all love is that between a mother and her unborn child. I have all that I need in the world, and I wish J the best his future. Tomorrow, I leave the Virginia mountains, and Mountain Ridge Resort. Be sure to follow my social media accounts for pictures and videos of my upcoming adventures. I’ll write soon.
Much love as always,
Mady.
“WOW! Dude. No wonder you’ve been in knots for the past couple of days. Is she writing about you?”
Spinning around in my chair, I see Landon and Rob standing behind me reading over my shoulder. I was so intent on my reading; I didn’t even notice they had entered the cabin.
“Uh, yeah. Yes. I guess so.”
“What are you still doing here? Go get her!”
