A little after one o’clock D was done packing for the weekend and more or less ready to go. She had been hyperactive since Joe had left. She had watered the plants, vacuumed the entire place, dusted a bit, cleaned the bathroom, stuffed the curtains for Sarah in an Ikea bag and unloaded the dishwash
“Man, Sun, you were really drunk Wednesday night,” Jack said as he leaned forward from the back seat. “You may wanna watch it a bit tonight.” Sun giggled, sounding a little embarrassed. “Yeah, I know!” She glanced at him over her shoulder. “You don’t even want to know how I felt the next morning!
There was no one else on the remaining elevator ride. They were alone and Jack inevitably brought up what had probably been bothering him since it had come up during the car ride over. “I didn’t realize Joe took Sun home first,” Jack said without any introduction. Feeling his eyes on her, D shrugge
Stepping into the hallway right behind Sarah, his bag over his shoulder, Joe just shook his head and gave D a quick look and a roll of his eyes behind Sarah’s back. “You better ask for something for your headache, Sarah,” he said and squeezed by behind Sarah. “Because with that mood of yours…” Inst
“Danny…” She stopped in her tracks and whisked around when she heard his voice. The door to his room was cracked open and he was peeking out, one hand on the door, the other on the doorframe. D shot a nervous glance up and down the corridor and then back at him, her mouth suddenly dry. “What?” “
Joe shrugged. “A whole weekend of keeping an unsuspicious distance just doesn’t sound real great, I guess.” he said. Looking back at him, D could clearly feel the effects of that look he was giving her and the thing he had just said He shrugged again. “But then that’s just me, of course…” D stare
How in the world had she gone from initially really looking forward to this weekend, to dreading it because she had found out that Joe was going to be there, to now almost wishing it could be only him and her? This was just sick. Really! And it was crazy and totally unfair to all the nice people do
The dining room was bustling. There seemed to be quite a few people from town who came just for Saturday dinner. A lot of couples, some families. D tried to stay around Tony and Kim while, from the corner of her eye, she was aware of Joe talking to Gerry. She just couldn’t seem to get him off her r