As always I greatly appreciate comments and insight. This is part of the continuance to the first piece. Helpful criticism wanted!!!
I'd forgotten what it was like to love someone. But being with Matt reminded me. Since that morning, Matt and I hadn't spent enough quality time together for me to repay him for the positively amazing wake up, though we did try to see each other outside of work as much as possible.
With classes and work schedules, we were lucky to see each other once a week. And the times we did see each other, we were both so stressed. He was working almost every day and whenever we spoke he was exhausted. But we still always found a way to make each other smile.
I was surprised when I got a phone call in the middle of class one night. Matt and I weren't exactly phone people. Usually I would have ignored it, but I figured if it was worth interupting my class for, I'd better answer.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm in class, like I am every Thursday," I replied, slightly annoyed. He interupted my class. And it was obviously not an emergency.
"Come over."
"What, now?"
"No, next week. Of course now!"
I didn't know whether to be angry that he interupted, or flattered that he wanted me to come over.
"Matt, I'm in class. I can't just leave."
"It's an emergency."
Emergency my ass, I thought to myself.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. My parents will be gone for the next couple hours, I thought you'd like to spend some time with me since we haven't been alone in a month. But I understand if your class is more important."
It suddenly became an emergency.
"Give me fifteen minutes."
"Cara, it's a half hour drive."
"You heard me."
I quickly hung up the phone, gathered my things from class and ran to my car. I wasn't about to pass up alone time with him for anything in the world. All I wanted was to see him outside of work. To finally be able to be with him and not have to be concerned about what our coworkers thought. I cherished the few moments we had outside of work. I was suddenly giddy.
I reached the apartments in twenty minutes and bounded up the stairs. Before I could even knock on the door, it flew open.