This one is for all the people who take the time to email, comment or vote on my little drama, without you writing this wouldn't have been as fun as it has been. XOXO
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"Viv, you've already done so much. Let me take that?" Brad asked, as he came up behind me. I was holding a tray of mini cucumber sandwiches. We were having drinks and nibbles at the farm. The whole town seemed to be there. I was worried that there wouldn't be enough food and I was right, though their always seemed to be plenty of drinks.
"I'm fine Brad. Go be with your family." I pointed at Brad's wife and kids across the lawn.
"You are my family." He was not backing down, as he took the tray out of my hands. "Go have a lie down sis, you need it." I knew I looked tired and as Brad mentioned having a lie down I immediately felt sleepy. If only I had a fairy godmother to put me asleep until prince charming could kiss me awake and we could live happily ever after. But, since that was unlikely to happen I would take the opportunity to have a nap.
I made my way around the various people to the house, carefully trying to avoid all conversation. I made it to the house without any transgressions. I breathed out a sigh of relief and slipped through the back door into the house.
What I didn't expect was to run into a very familiar solid body as I entered the house. "Jay," I gasped, placing my hands in front of me.
"Whoa, sorry." Jay grabbed my hands to keep me steady.
"Jay can you let my...," I said looking down at my hands that he had in a firm grasp.
"Oh right of course." He let go of them slowly. His grey eyes bore into mine keeping me in place as he began to speak. "Can we talk Viv?"
I immediately snapped myself away from those eyes as he spoke. Wasn't it the girl who usually wanted to talk? I had no intentions of talking in the immediate future; all I wanted to do was sleep.
Sideling past him I yawned out, "Can we talk another time Jay, I was just going to take a nap."
I could see the compassion in his eyes from everything I had been through in the past year. "Sure go take your nap, we can talk another time." Then stepping closer to me he gave me a quick peck on the lips, before going outside with the rest of the people.
I was really hoping Jays talk didn't involve anything about his 'new' feelings for me. Well as far as I was concerned they were new, he had never mentioned he had loved me before.
Sighing I slowly made my way up the stairs to the second floor, where my old room was located. When I walked into my room I was careful to sidestep a few boxes next to my bed. Besides the fact that my old bedroom had become a storage room, it was still pretty much the same as I had left it all those years ago.
A smile spread across my face at the familiarity of it all. The same oak desk that I had spent many an hour at, carving words and pictures into, a few of those words happened to do a lot with Anna. I pushed that thought to the back of my mind, dealing with my emotions wasn't the objective, sleeping was.
Then I looked at my big comfy queen size bed. I quickly zig-sawed through the rest of the boxes and flopped down on the big fluffy flowery comforter. Closing my eyes I was ready to sleep the sleep of the dead, when I felt the bed dip next to me.
I presumed it had to be mum, since she was also supposed to be in bed resting, after her tough day. So, I kept my eyes closed and was content to drift off to sleep.
Her hand came up and lightly swept a few strands of hair from my face. Then I felt the bed sink in more as she bent down to place a kiss on my forehead, but when she said 'I love you,' it wasn't mum's voice. It was Anna's.
My eyes flew open. I was so surprised to see her here. I managed to avoid Anna all day with success, which was a hard feat as I knew she was looking for me. But, Anna had finally found me.
Her sky blue eyes locked onto mine and she seemed to be in as much shock as me. Obviously she expected me to be asleep. I pushed myself up into a sitting position on the bed, so we were more level with each other. Anna's hand went back up to my hair that was no longer long, but chin length and placed a few misplaced strands behind my ear.
I couldn't help but lean into her touch. I had missed her so much.
Slowly my eye's travelled along her body. She was still the same Anna, but older, though the years just seemed to make her look more sophisticated and beautiful. She was wearing a casual black silk dress, that went a little beyond the knee. It glided perfectly over her every curve, so I could see just how fit and toned she had kept herself. She still had amazing breasts, that were plainly visible. The only thing that had seemed to change about her body was her tan. It looked like it had faded a bit, which was to be expected as I couldn't imagine her spending that much time outside, with her job and studies keeping her busy.
My eyes glided up her perfect heart face, lingering on her kissable pink lips and back to her eyes, that were full with love and lust as I looked her over. She had seemed to be doing the same as me, but looking over my body.
Her arm slowly came up to my face and the lust left her eyes as she traced the dark circles that had formed under my eyes, from my lack of sleep. Her pink lips turned into a frown as she looked at me. I'm guessing she just realized how poorly I was caring for myself.
