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“For once, no,” I admitted, snuggling up to him.
“Got any plans today?” he asked as we both lay there, watching the sky get brighter with each passing moment.
“Yeah.”
“What’s that?” he asked.
“Staying here in bed with you,” I told him.
“I can get behind that,” he agreed, leaning down to press a kiss to my head.
“With short breaks for food,” I added.
“We could make that easier and order in. Then eat in bed.”
“I like the way you think.”
“I like your everything,” he said, fingers sliding over me.
“That was the right kind of corny,” I told him, angling my head to smile up at him.
“Mean it, though,” he said, tucking some hair behind my ear.
“I like everything about you too. Well, except one thing.”
“Yeah?” he asked, forehead wrinkling. “What’s that?”
“You don’t use fabric softener on your towels.”
“It reduces their absorbency,” he insisted.
“They could stand up on their own,” I shot back.
“Fine. I’ll use softener next time,” he agreed as Vernon woke up for the morning, doing a big stretch, then jumping down off of his tree stand and up onto the bed.
Riff was quick to flick the covers over our naked bodies, and Vernon moved up on top of both of us, doing biscuits on me, then Riff, as we each took turns petting him.
“Riff?”
“Yeah?”
“What happens now?”
“What do you mean?”
“About this,” I said, waving between us.
“Whatever you want, darlin’,” he said, clearly choosing his words carefully.
“I just mean… do we tell everyone? And what happens when you go on the road again? That kind of thing.”
“Don’t think we need to tell them shit since the kiss,” he said, shrugging. “Def don’t need to announce that we’re having sex,” he added. “Unless you want to talk to someone about it. That’s fine. I won’t be, just so you know.”
I would be telling my therapist, that was for sure.
But I didn’t want to be sharing it with anyone else. This felt like it was just ours. I didn’t want to share it.
“And as for me going on the road… that depends on you, I guess.”
