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“It’s my fault. I should have watched where I was going.” I tried to grab a napkin from the table and pulled down my water glass, spilling it on myself and the floor, drawing another gasp from the server.
“Ma’am, please, there’s no need for you to trouble yourself.” He was practically begging me to get up, saying it was no problem, accidents happen.
“Savannah,” Chris said, cutting through the whooshing noise filling my head. “They’ll clean it up.”
I stood, my heel tilting as I did and causing me to bump into the server and knock his chin with the top of my head. He cringed in pain and covered his mouth with his hand, his eyes wide. Two or three people gasped and sounded like they were trying not to laugh too loudly.
“Sorry,” I said again, then grabbed my purse and ran out like the place was on fire.
19
CHRIS
My first realdate with Sav had been a shitshow. I’d texted Sav after I dropped her off, promising that next time would be better, but she hadn’t replied.
I still couldn’t believe that Katelyn happened to work at the new restaurant I took her to. Last I’d heard, she lived in Denver. Not a tiny town super close to Carswell.
I hadn’t realized how shaken Sav was until she got up to leave. After the fiasco with the server and the spills, she hadn’t been hungry anymore and wanted to go home.
I looked at her hands, worried she’d really burned herself, but she said it had been too fast to do any damage.
I didn’t want the night to end that way.
I didn’t want her to, I wanted to go somewhere else and start over, but she’d clearly been thrown by Katelyn and embarrassed by what happened after. There was no saving the date after that, and I didn’t want to make her feel worse by acting too disappointed.
I’d dropped her at home. She hadn’t even kissed me goodnight.
I needed to do something to cheer her up, so I stood outside her door a few minutes before nine with her favorite breakfast sandwiches and iced coffee. I shuffled everything into one hand and knocked.
I glanced around the neighborhood, and there wasn’t much movement. It was early Sunday morning, so I assumed many of her neighbors were sleeping in or at an early church service. No movement came from Jackson’s house, but I wasn’t too worried about him seeing us.
The door opened, and Sav was on the other side, wrapped in the purple comforter from her bed. She blinked sleepily at me, but she held a cup of coffee in one hand, so she’d been up for at least a little while. She was so cute with the red splotches on her face from her pillow and the messy hair atop her head.
I couldn’t stop myself from grinning. “Morning, beautiful. Can I come in?”
She sighed heavily and stepped back, letting me into her apartment. She put the coffee on the table, then went straight for her bed, flopping face down on it while I placed the food and drinks next to her cup.
“How are you feeling?” I asked as I crossed her small living room to the bedroom. I stood in the doorway, watching as she rolled herself into a tight burrito.
“Terrible,” she mumbled so quietly I almost didn’t hear it. “Like I stumbled my disaster self through a fine dining restaurant and probably now have my face on the wall in the back room to keep from entering the premises.”
“Makes sense. It was a little bit likereptile amphibianGodzilla, not lizard Godzilla in case you were wondering, rampaging through Tokyo.”
“Hey!” she said with a laugh.
“And I’m sure you’re absolutely right that your photo is now on their keep-out wall where they throw tomatoes and eggs when frustrated. But since we’re not going back there, who cares?” I grabbed the edge of her blanket and unrolled her.
I shoved off my shoes and crawled onto the bed with her. She attempted to cover her face with her blanket. I pulled it down, and she pulled it back. We both kept pulling until it slipped from her fingers, and she punched herself in the face.
“Ow,” she whimpered.
“Poor baby,” I whispered, lying beside her and cupping her cheeks with my hands. She blinked at me, looking vulnerable and adorable. I kissed the tip of her nose and then her cheek where she’d hit herself. She sighed softly as her eyes slowly drifted closed.
I gently kissed the corner of her mouth, and she turned her head, connecting her mouth to mine. We kissed how I’d needed to kiss her since last night, and she melted into me. After a few seconds, I pulled back, brushing my nose against hers.
“Don’t let last night keep bothering you.”
“I’m not awake enough to let it bother me too much, but thanks for reminding me to get on that.”
