Joe let out a relieved breath when he heard the front door close and Sarah was gone – off to work. It was close to four o’clock. Eating the rest of his apple, he absent-mindedly flipped through a magazine. The conversation Sarah and he had had this morning and that had dragged on until half an hour
He had meanwhile started heating up some water for a soft-boiled egg and pushed a piece of bread into the toaster. And when Sarah got up from the table now, put away her dishes and went upstairs to her room to get dressed, he was almost relieved because that meant the discussion was over. So he tho
There was a short pause. “Joe!?!” “No!” He shook his head. “I don’t think that’s funny. Never did. I’m dead serious.” “You can’t be…” As he looked back at her, Joe saw her expression change from anger and disbelief to some sort of hesitant acceptance. “How do you know?” she asked almost breathl
D got off work already around three. It was the start into a long weekend. She had taken Thursday off, and Friday was a public holiday and therefore off as well. On her way home she went by the bakery in her neighborhood and got two loaves of white bread that she had promised to bring for the part
“Well, I sure don’t trust Gerry,” Anja chuckled, “or Jack…” “Yeah, that’s definitely not one of Jack’s many qualities,” D said and handed Anja the bag with the two loaves of white bread. “Can I give this to you for right now? I’ll just say Hello, drop off my salad and then I’ll cut my bread.” As A
From where she was standing D didn’t have the best view of the hand in question, but it almost seemed as if there were some kind of a brace around it. “Argh. That looks painful,” Sun moaned, still holding Joe’s hand. “Stupid accident,” he said with a dismissive shake of is head and pulled the hand
D had so far kept her eyes on the bread. Now her eyes darted up at him, and she had it on her tongue to tell him to stop calling her that. It just stung to hear him say it. “Medium, right?” he asked. It was a normal harmless question, friendly even. Nothing wrong with it! She should have just said
From the grill behind her she could hear Joe announce that the steaks were done as well. The metal lid of the grill was closed and she could hear his footsteps approach on the gravel path. To distract herself and ideally seem calm, she reached for a piece of bread and started buttering it. The foo
“Let’s try,” she whispered and moved her hand down to his stomach.“Okay,” he put his hand back ontop of hers and slid his fingers between hers.It took only minutes until her breathing slowed down and a slight twitching of her hand told him that she was asleep again.Listening to her breathing and
Joe woke up around three, feeling really thirsty.It took him a second to grasp where he was (not in the cabin anymore) and that he was not alone.The realization caused a flash of excitement.D was sleeping far on her side of the bed.He remembered how she had always used to do that. No matter how
He was going for a mind-sweeping kiss here – one that would swipe her mind of any reservations there might still be. Even if, right now, she didn’t seem very reserved anyway. But he’d rather be absolutely sure…His own reservations were all gone by now. And having her so close just confirmed that ke
Three minutes later Joe returned, a chocolate bar in his left hand and a glass of milk in his right.“I see chocolate,” D chirped with a greedy grin. She had sat up and was leaning against the headboard. “Come here…” Like a lazy princess she waved for him to come over.Stopping at his desk, Joe set
“I don’t wanna mess this up…” he said, his gaze on the bedcover beside her head, his hand tracing one of the lines in the pattern.“Didn’t exactly feel like you were in the process of messing things up,” she said softly and reached out to touch his face.“You don’t think so, huh?” He leaned into her
Joe pushed himself away from the windowsill.“Guess I’ve really earned a jerk medal,” he contemplated as he stepped around the bed to her. “I’m sorry I didn’t pick up.”“Mhmm,” D growled, trying hard to unwaveringly hold his gaze as he came closer. “And you’re hopefully also sorry that you didn’t ca
He shrugged and kept glaring out the window. This had become kind of a habit - turning his back on people and staring into space. It was a bad habit he had developed thanks to Liz. It just helped him focus or stay composed, and it made it easier to get through situations he would rather avoid altoge
What she had before her, was part of the job ads from Saturday’s paper. One of the ads had her company’s swan logo on it. It was the ad for one of the jobs in London.Joe had gotten up from the bed again and returned to his desk. He pulled out the chair and sat down on it backwards so he was facing
D was rising from the bed with the intention to follow him. Only that she was momentarily strangely overwhelmed by something. Something indefinable that affected her more deeply than anything had in a long time.When it only got worse once she stepped out on the landing, a moist wave from the bathro