Branch Two Hundred and Two

"Wake up Jessica" a hand shook her out of her sleep. She stirred and turned away from the direction of the voice.

After they had gotten takeout they went ahead to have a lovely dinner and spoke about nothing and everything at length too late at night. She felt it was still too early and she considered this a vacation so why was he waking her up so early?

"Come on stand up. You were the one that said you want to exercise with me" he said turning to the direction she turned to.

"What time is it? Isn't it too early to be out in the cold air exercising?" she asked trying to think of all the excuses she might be able to use to escape reality.

"It's already a few minutes past six a.m. and I know that this is the best time to exercise" he responded.

"I did not bring any wears I can use to exercise" she replied happy that she had seen a valid excuse.

"That's why I bought a series of new ones for you when I went out yesterday," he said tapping her lightly.

"Oh my gosh," she groaned as s