What Lies Ahead

{ Angelique }

I don't know why I was so nervous and so mortified about my gift, I should have assumed this would make Elliot happy, he's a very basic man.

I still wish I could have given him something else, but it was hard enough to get the pizza in here. Luc got in trouble with his dad for going out to buy it. But it was worth it because Elliot liked it.

"Okay, it's time to eat," I announce, sitting down on the blanket and waiting for Elliot to do the same, "I'm starving. Thanks to someone, I haven't eaten anything but paste."

"You deserved it," he replies, without any kind of apparent remorse, sitting down next to me and opening a box.

I end up eating four slices and would have kept going except that I couldn't force the pizza down my throat anymore. I really needed something delicious in my system.

As time went on, we somehow ended up lying on the blanket together. Now we're both on our backs, my head on Elliot's arm. We've been here, just talking, for a while. It feels good.

"Ho