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Setting myself straight again, I can see Rocco’s beaming smile in the huge mirror he’s in front of, watching every inch of me from every angle.
“Nothing I haven’t seen before,” he comforts me, ignoring my orders to keep his back turned. Taking me in his arms, and after asking if I’m alright, he gives me the best good morning kiss I’ve ever had.
Okay, it’s the only good morning kiss I’ve ever had, but, my god, what a start to the day.
What a memory from last night.
What a….
“I gotta go…to the bathroom,” I tell him urgently, remembering the second thing that woke me up suddenly.
With neither of us actually knowing much of the way around, it’s decided in a moment that we’ll go together.
No way am I creeping around this place alone, and I know Rocco only left me long enough to bring me my glasses.
Which he slips into my hands.
I slide them on my face, instantly more confident because I can actually see where I’m going.
I didn’t tell him beforehand, out of worrying he’ll think there’s something wrong with me. But I really can’t see anything well enough unless I have my glasses on.
“Better?’ he asks me, holding me back while he studies me.
Then he pecks my nose.
“I’d forgotten how cute you look with those on,” he remarks, moving past me, but keeping hold of my hand as I turn a shade redder.
I grip a couple of his huge fingers, and we start to explore the old place that looks like it’s getting the modern touch.
But Rocco doesn’t forget our mission.
“Finding a bathroom, not just having a look around,” he smiles once we find ourselves standing in the middle of a giant, empty hall-type room I assume used to be a ballroom or something.
I’m wondering what we’d each do with a huge place like this ourselves?
“I think it’sthisway,” I end up declaring.
Using my female intuition, I discover a bathroom in moments while Rocco hovers near the door I’m about to close.
“I’ll only be a minute,” I tell him, feeling my flattered self getting embarrassed if I’m gonna have to hold my pee every time I need to go so Mr. Wonderful here can give me a private escort.
I love Rocco, but I can go to the damned bathroom by myself….
There. I said it.
I love him. No other way to say it.
Because in my heart of hearts, it’s the only way to describe how I feel right now.
Now and forever, no matter what happens next.
Saying it to myself as I wash my hands, I smile. But feel uncertainty creeping in as well.
It’s all well and good for me to have a crush on him, even more than that.
And I know he’s big on the family angle.
But the ‘L’ word?
