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We sat and ate kebabs from a Mediterranean restaurant on the couch with Friends on in the background. We didn’t talk much, as the food was so delicious that I wanted to stuff my face more than anything. But it was a comfortable silence.
When we were finished with dinner, Max took out the trash and offered me his hand to pull me up.
“I still have to give you a tour of my place,” he tells me.
“Right, I don’t want to get lost in here.” I grin.
His place is massive, too massive for just him.
“Well, you already know this area, the kitchen and the living room. That window has now become my favorite window,” he points to the one that he pressed me against when we first got inside.
Hand in hand, we walk down a hallway on one side is a bathroom, and the laundry room. Nothing fancy, just standard living spaces.
On the other side of the hallway is a bedroom.
“Master bedroom,” he says leading me inside.
There isn’t much in the room. Just a bed big enough for a family and a nightstand. There’s a picture over the bed adding a splash of color in the way of paint smatterings with the walls a muted white.
The bedding is charcoal gray with light gray pillow.
He’s silent as I observe his space. I turn around and there’s another bathroom. Obliviously there would be a master bath.
“We just started this tour, and I’ve already counted two bathrooms, what’s the deal here. Did the people who built this place figure that there needed to be a bathroom at every turn just in case you eat something bad?”
He laughs and shakes his head.
“There’s three more bathrooms,” he says grabbing my hand and leading me out of his room and down the hallway. “There’s a bathroom for every room, the one up by my room is the half-bath—which is you know—for the whole place, and so people don’t have to go into a bedroom.”
“Where are we to the space needle?” I ask.
“The other penthouse on this floor has the view from one of its bedrooms. I’ve got the bay, while the other has the city. I think I got the better end of the deal.” He grins.
Max shows me the other rooms, with one turned into an office and the other a small gym. As we walk back down the hallway to the main living area, he stops at the bedroom beside his.
“I’m not going to be presumptuous and force you to sleep in my room with me, so this can be your room. Since it’s the only one that is furnished as a bedroom.” I look to him, slightly disappointed, but also grateful.
We relaxed for the rest of the night. We were both exhausted from the long drive, but we didn’t want to part just yet. So, we lounged together on the couch while we talked for a few hours before we eventually fell asleep in one another’s arms.
* * *
“It smells here,” I scrunch my nose up at Max.
We’re on our way to Powell’s Seafood Restaurant for lunch before Max has to return to work.
“We’re walking through the market area, of course it smells. What did you expect, it to smell like roses?” he says with a smile.
“Oh shuddup. How do they keep the smell of fish contained in just this area? Do they put air fresheners outside of the Pike Place area?” I ask seriously.
He stops walking as I continue a few steps. I notice that he isn’t beside me and turn to look at him.
He looks amused. I walk back to him, tilt my head to look at him and smile.
“What?” I ask.
“Some of the things that you say,” he shakes his head, wraps his arm around my shoulders and begins walking again. “C’mon, I’m hungry for some calamari.”
Lunch was nice, and afterwards I walked back to his building with him. I recall standing in front of the building debating on whether or not to sneak a peek at him when I was here in town with my boss.
