Sarah was sitting on the kitchen floor when I came in from the living room. The soaked living room carpet made my feet freeze, and ache for warmer weather.
It was a few days after the hurricane hit our tiny island in the Gulf of Mexico, and we were one of the lucky ones. Mostly we had a bit of damage to our patio and only our downstairs bathroom and living room. Sarah was just cleaning out the lower drawers and cabinets so the insurance agent could adjust the damage.
Sarah was wearing a pair of my old basketball shorts and a tank top, sitting indian style on the floor unloading pots and pans. She glanced up at me when she heard my feet slip against the tile floor and I had to catch myself on a barstool.
"You are probably the clumsiest person I have ever met." She said with a smile. I laughed it off and made some remark about her inability to wear her own clothes. Which I couldn't say much about as I was wearing one of her shirts.
Her chest was slightly smaller than mine, making my breasts more defined in her grey slim work out tee, the freezing weather forcing my nipples to stay erect. I sat down next to her to help clean out the cabinets.
Sarah and I moved here about a month ago, and neither of us were regretting purchasing renters insurance, which was a whopping $2 a month. We both came down here after we graduated from college in hopes of putting off growing up for another year or so. So far, it has been a success.
Sarah placed her arm around my lower back, sending chills up my back, since her hands were freezing from sitting on the tile all morning.
"I don't know what I would be doing down here with out you," she said.
I laughed and said, "You wouldn't be down here if I hadn't convinced you it would be a brilliant idea to not put your biology degree to good use."
She smiled and said "You know that you could have told me we would be stripping for dimes or cleaning houses down here and I still would have come."
"Ya but your mom would have killed me!"
She leaned in a tucked a bit of my hair behind my ear that had been getting in my face all morning. "I would have been able to persuade her. Besides, I couldn't imagine not being with you. Even before Jake broke up with me, I couldn't imagine living away from you." I agreed. "It just feels right."
We continued to rearrange the kitchen and move the living room furniture to the tile until mid afternoon, and there was nothing left to do but wait.