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It was the first time he’d texted her cell phone and she only knew it was him because she’d put his number in her phone so she wouldn’t be caught off guard.
Yet here she was with her heart frantically racing that he was reaching out.
He’d said Merry Christmas, so she returned the same greeting. Maybe he was trying to see if she was busy or not.
Yep, next text asked how her day went and if she was home.
Since he started this she was going to assume he could talk and she didn’t really want to text.
She pressed the button to call and it rang four times and she figured maybe that was a miscalculation on her part.
“Hello,” he said right when she thought it’d go to voicemail.
“Did I catch you going to the bathroom or something?” she asked, laughing.
“Actually,” he said, “you did. I didn’t think you’d call.”
“I hope you washed your hands.”
There was silence and she figured she might be pushing it, but he laughed. “Always. Are you home?”
“I am. And glad of it. I saw more people than I cared to today.”
“The same,” he said.
“I didn’t think I’d hear from you,” she said. It’d been three weeks and yet he decides to reach out on Christmas Day. That made no sense at all to her.
“It’s been busy. Or work has. Then family. A long day too.”
She could tell by his voice that maybe he didn’t have that pleasant of a holiday. “Everything okay?”
“It’s fine,” he said. “Do you have plans tomorrow?”
“I don’t,” she said, grinning. “Do you?”
“I was hoping maybe we could discuss these ground rules some more.”
She laughed. “Gladly. I think I need it after today.”
There was a sound that made her think he was snorting and trying to cover it up with a cough on the other end. “We might have felt the same way today. I had to visit my mother and that is more than trying for a day. But the good news is, I shouldn’t have to do it again for a year.”
He didn’t normally talk about personal things in his life and she was shocked he was too. “I wish I could go that long with my parents. I love them and all, but there is a time when you can only be criticized so much.”
“Hey,” he said. “Sounds like our days mirrored each other. I know the perfect thing to overcome that.”
“What’s that?” she asked. She knew she was smiling as her face felt like it couldn’t be stretched anymore.
“Sex,” he said.
“The no-strings-attached kind,” she threw in there.
“You’ve got it,” he said. “We just need to get those rules meshed out.”
“Are we going to need a contract?” she asked. She was joking and when he laughed she assumed he knew that.
“I hope not. Unless it’s just between the two of us. I thought first and foremost no one else would know about this.”
She didn’t remember saying no one else would know, just the Fierces. But then maybe she did say that.
