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“Why are you so nervous?” Theo asked her a few days later on Thanksgiving.
Heather and Luke left yesterday for New Hampshire and would be back on Saturday. Heather said it was the most she’d be able to handle being there and was just happy that they had a hotel room regardless of her mother wanting them to stay in Heather’s old room.
Daisy wasn’t sure she could do that if she wasn’t married either. Stay the night with a man with her mother there.
Though that was going to happen tonight. Sort of.
Her mother was staying the night in her room with Charlie and she was going to stay in Heather’s room. Theo would go home.
“Because I’m positive my mother is going to be embarrassing,” she said.
“So?” he said. “Mine will be too. You won’t judge me based on my mom and I’m not going to do it to you.”
She breathed out a sigh. He was so much more reasonable than she was. “I know. When you say those things I feel like an idiot.”
“Don’t,” he said. “People who love each other look past those flaws.”
She snapped her head up from where she was putting snacks on a charcuterie board. “What did you say?”
He laughed at her and moved closer. Confident like he always seemed to be and she wasn’t.
No, that was wrong. He was confident in his job but not always around her. Not in the beginning.
She’d tried to show she was confident even when she wasn’t feeling it.
This time though, he was grinning and at ease. “I said people who love each other look past flaws.”
“Are you saying you love me?” she asked.
“I might be,” he said, tapping her on the nose.
“Not funny, Theo. You don’t mess with a woman when it comes to those things.”
He kissed her on the lips. “I am saying it. I love you. I want to say I know you love me too, but you haven’t said the words. I’m a smart guy and taking a risk here.”
“It’s a great risk,” she said. “Because I love you too. And you did a very good job at distracting me from my nervousness.”
“It’s your mother,” he said. “Don’t be nervous because I’m here. Or are you nervous about meeting her boyfriend?”
She let out a sigh, then grabbed his face and gave him a big kiss on the lips again. “You’re great for me.”
“I know I am,” he said. “But you didn’t answer my question.”
“I think it’s a combination of both. This is the longest my mother has dated someone. I know she likes him but not enough to move in with him even though he’s asking. And I’m also worried that she is going to embarrass me with things she says.”
“Like telling me secrets about your childhood?” he asked. He was tugging on her ponytail now that she was out of his arms and back to preparing their snacks.
“I’ve told you more about my life than I have anyone else,” she said.
“I’m glad that you have,” he said. “So no reason to worry.”
“I’ll still worry. She’s not like you. She doesn’t know what wine glass to use.”
“Neither do you,” he pointed out with a smirk.
“Good point.”
“And I still love you. I don’t care about those things. Don’t be harsh. Okay? I’m not going to judge.”
