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I turn my cart around and head for the register so I can head home. I know some would say I was rude for not engaging in conversation with her, but I literally despise that woman. She was always so skeptical about my marriage and how I ended up with such a good-looking man. Like I wasn't good enough for such a handsome guy. Trust me I thought this every day of my life the whole time I was with Andrew but having someone else from the outside add more to the doubt doesn't help.
I pulled into the driveway of Isabelle and Jeremy’s house and put the car in park. I sit there for a few seconds because my legs don't want to move yet. I'm preparing myself for having to bring in all the grocery bags myself, it's been two months and I've still not gotten used to doing some things on my own. I finally reach for my door and get out to start bringing the groceries into the house. After what feels like a million trips into the apartment, I have all the food inside and put away. I set the dishwasher to wash and vacuum really fast, that's all the apartment needed, I guess. Time to whip up something fast for dinner because this lady is wiped out.
I decide on pasta for tonight, I get the water boiling for the noodles and grab a wine glass from the cabinet. I pour my red cat into the wine glass and sip on that until my dinner is done. It's so quiet now that I live alone, and I'm not joined by Andrew at the dinner table. I put my plate together with my spaghetti and wine and sit down.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to eat this meal without thinking of Andrew. This was the very meal we had on our first date and soon it became our tradition even though alfredo is my favorite.
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Andrew texted me two days after I met him, and we talked nonstop for two weeks. We bumped into each other here and there on campus, but we always were so busy with homework that we never got to hang out. He finally called me on a Saturday morning which I thought was a bit strange because he never calls. It was eleven and I was still sleeping because I had stayed up late the previous night to binge all my schoolwork for the week.
“Hello” I say with a groggy voice rubbing my eyes trying to wake up.
“Good morning, Sunshine, or should I say afternoon? Were you still sleeping?” I finally register that it's Andrew that I'm talking to, and I instantly sit up and try to not sound like a 14-year-old boy going through puberty.
“I had a late night, everything okay. You usually message me. Are we at the stage of calls now?” I chuckle a little and can sense his smile through the phone.
“Everything is fine, open your door so I don't look like a creep standing out here for too long.”
“What? You're at my dorm?” I start to panic because I'm a mess with my hair all knotted and in flannel pajamas and probably have morning breath and need to shower today.
“You can't come in, I just woke up Andrew, I still need to take a shower!”
“Allison Marie Pierce, I've been out here for...now 8 minutes. You're going to make me wait even longer? Open the door now.”
I don't know if it's the way he says my full name or the way he is demanding me to do this that makes me give in. I open the door and surprise; Andrew is standing there in Levi jeans and a plain dark blue t-shirt with coffee and breakfast in his other hand. I am grateful for the coffee and food, but I know that I look like a gremlin right now. I can’t help but be embarrassed because he looks so damn good. He takes me in from head to toe and I can see a little smirk start to form.
“Don't you dare smile at me right now mister. I told you I needed to shower and just woke up.”
“You weren't lying.”
He starts laughing and I hit his shoulder and drag him by his arm into my room. I was a very self-conscious person about the way I looked especially around boys growing up, but with Andrew, it felt different. He always made me feel beautiful and I was still in complete shock that he was interested in me. He was my confidence booster, and I knew that I didn't want to lose him even if we were just friends.
“So, what are you doing here? I thought we would plan a day together when we were not busy?”
“I was sort of hoping to surprise you with that day today. You're not busy, are you?”
I can see the smug look on his face when he asks because he knows I'm not, especially since I slept until eleven and I'm always up early. Andrew and I have been talking for a while and we know so much about each other but I'm trying to be patient with him and waiting for him to ask me. I'm continuously going back and forth in my head on whether I’m friend zoned with him or if he wants more, but I know that I won't be the one to initiate the first move.
All I know is that I want him to ask me to be his girlfriend so badly but maybe he needs more time to actually see me in person. We have only hung out at the party and then walked with each other to our classes, but all the rest has been through the phone on facetime and text messages.
“I am in fact not busy today, what did you have in mind?” I am trying to use my hands to calm my crazy hair and look semi presentable to him, but I know it isn't doing me justice.
“First you're going to get in the shower and get ready for the day and I'll be out here waiting for you.”
My cheeks turn red when he says that. There's something that sets me off when he is so straightforward with his words when he tells me what to do. I do however love to tease him when he acts all macho with his demands. He hasn't even tried to kiss me yet, so I love getting him all heated. I walk closer to him and eye him up and down and bite the bottom of my lip when I look into his dark coffee-colored eyes.
“Are you getting in with me sir?”
I stop biting my lip and push my tongue to the top of my teeth and then start laughing and turn around to head to the bathroom. I hear Andrew put our food down on my desk and walk toward me. He grabs my hand and whips me around, so we are face to face and our noses are touching and our breath is on each other. I was a bit shocked because he has never actually done this the other times I teased him, but maybe since we were in the hallway at school, he didn't want to cause a scene. We have only held hands in the hallway, and I know that sounds childish since we are in college now, but I thought that it was cute that he was trying to take things slow with me. To be honest, I've been waiting for him to kiss me and that has partly been the reason I've been teasing him and trying to break him.
He puts one of his hands on the back of my neck and the other is on my waist and he holds me close to him.
“You keep tempting me Ms. Pierce, I'm going to take you up on oneof your offers! Then what are you going to do?”
I gulp because I've never been this close to him. I bring my hands from my sides up to his face and run my hands on the side of his cheeks. I take in how his stubble feels under my hands, and I can feel his jaw tense with my touch and his eyes flutter. I’ve never had sex with a man before being official but right now at this moment, I would throw that moral out to be with Andrew.
I’m not sure where this courage is coming from, maybe because I haven’t had sex in months or because this bent up sexual tension between us. I take one of my hands and slowly slide it down his torso without breaking eye contact with him until it's on his cock. He is rock hard, and it is then that I realize he wants me just as bad. The question is, will he make a move because we've already established that I'm not making the first move. I guess technically I already have with my hand on his erection through his jeans. He closes his eyes and lets out a large breath as he says “Allison.” He makes this so hard to not take him right then!
