Impatient

Audrey

I wrapped my arms around Jesse’s waist as he pressed me back against the counter, kissing me heatedly. It was exactly where I had felt the whole evening building to. At the same time, there was something surprising about it. Maybe because this relationship with Jesse was still so new. Maybe because I still couldn’t believe that somehow, we were finally here.

I had never really thought that he would think of me as anything other than his good friend. I had never really thought that he could like me the way that I liked him.

There had been something so comfortable about tonight, though. Being there in his house, sharing a meal that he had cooked, laughing about how different we were from the kids that we had once been? It made me wonder why I had been so desperate to get the hell out of Aberdeen. It made me think about what I had said to the director, about the pace of life being slower here. I found myself wondering if that was really such a bad thing.

I trembled as Jesse’s hand