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“I don’t remember much,” she said. “Just that I’d joke and Chloe would roll her eyes. Maybe Roni laughed at me once too when I saw her in the building. It’s like I was only arguing with myself and hoping if I said it enough I was right. That maybe I wouldn’t have fallen for it either.”
“You didn’t fall for it,” he said. “You fell forme. Everyone who knows you knows that you won’t do anything unless you want to.”
She let out a sigh and picked up her coffee while he continued to eat.
He knew he was giving her a lot to think about.
Hell, he’d spent their time apart trying to come up with all these things to say. Then he realized to just let his heart do the talking.
Seemed to be working for him now.
“Another valid point. We know I’m stubborn and I would have let that hinder what we’ve got. Then I would have regretted just one more thing in my life.”
“No regrets,” he said. “No more. You got it.”
“I do,” she said.
“If it makes you feel any better, Grant called me last night. He was pretty upset. They said they’d apologize to you too. By no means did they think this was going to happen.”
“No,” she said. “I’ll reach out to Grant myself. All of them. I’ll be honest and tell them I’m an idiot and more clueless than I thought. That maybe love blinded me. They’d get a kick out of it.”
His heart was racing. “Only if it’s the truth.”
“It is,” she said. “I think I spent so much of my life looking for the negative in a relationship because I figured no one would put up with me.”
“You do have some bad habits,” he said.
She snorted and looked around his kitchen. The room she’d cleaned up in five minutes. “No comment.”
“I know,” he said. “We both have our faults and yet the other puts up with it without much fuss. Have you thought of that?”
“I have,” she said. She pulled the plastic spoon out of the bag. Looked like she got her appetite back.
“People in love tolerate those things too.”
Her mouth was full and she was chewing. “Yep,” she said. “I’m starving.”
“Which means you’re good now?”
“Only if you’re good,” she said. She leaned forward and took a bite of his sandwich. She was always stealing his food and he let her. He found it adorable. Others might consider it a rude bad habit.
He kissed her, then wiped the egg from the corner of her mouth. “Don’t ever doubt it. Life is about ups and downs. I’ll pick you up when you’re down and I hope you do the same for me.”
“I can’t lift you, but I can feed you. I know what makes you happy.” She reached for the buttons on her shirt and undid one, then showed him the white lace bra, not the sports bras she wore most times.
“You do,” he said, laughing. “If we eat fast we can run up to my room and have some makeup sex.”
“I’d love it,” she said. “But you know what? I think this is one of those times I shouldn’t be spontaneous. I should give it time to process that we are definitely good so I have no regrets.”
Her words made sense. He was actually proud of her for saying them. “That’s probably the right decision,” he said.
She burst out laughing. “Come on now, Gabe. I’m joking. I planned it out. No sports bra, see? Let’s go.”
He laughed and grabbed her hand, the food staying on the table, and they raced to his room like they had the first time they had sex here.
This time, there would be no regrets when they were done.
She wouldn’t rush out the door and he wouldn’t have to worry about trying to stop her.
