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She shook her head, “It’s not that extreme. It was just a text and it could be anything,” she said but deep down, it did bother her a little.
Their wedding was in less than two weeks and somehow, fate had decided to her fiancés old ex-sauntering into the picture. And while Hannah was okay with Samantha having a side part, she did not want her to take over the entire show and dominate, cutting Hannah out the picture.
She took a deep breath.
“Hannah,” Hayley said slowly, “Don’t worry about anything okay? You’re going to be married to this guy soon. I’ll snoop around and hound Samantha – I’ll find out if she has any bad intentions oaky?”
Hannah nodded, her words having provided some form of relief to her that she did not even realize that she needed properly.
“Thanks, Hails,” she said in gratitude, “you’re honestly the best.”
“Oh and I am about to get so much better,” Hayley replied with a small wink, “Don’t forget your bachelorette weekend is this Friday! We are going to have a really good time,” she announced excitedly.
“Honestly, I do not want you to go to such great lengths to organize this,” she told her best friend.
“Hush,” Hayley dismissed her at once, “You will have the best time of your life and you do not get to have a single say about it, miss!”
Chapter 4
Hannah had decided to surprise Nick with Take Out food from his favorite Chinese place – they had not seen each other properly since the entire event with Samantha took place. Hannah realized that she had been inadvertently avoiding him, using the guise of work to mask her unwillingness and she realized that she needed to fix things once with him properly before she jetted off to her bachelorette weekend in Vegas this week.
Clicking the little lock button on her keychain for her car, her hands fished inside her purse for the keys to their shared apartment. Stealing one last glance in the glazed car window, she gave herself a quick once over and then headed upwards inside the building. She reminded herself that she had no reason to behave this way to him and the Samantha thing did not mean anything.
One of the perks of having been together for so long meant that they did not have to put up a lot of pretenses in how they looked around each other – she could be walk over to him clad in nothing but a messy bun and sweat pants and he would still think that she is the most beautiful person to walk this earth.
“Babe?” Hannah called out in the empty foyer, as she entered their apartment, “You home?” she asked, and even though she knew he would be home anyway.
“In here,” she heard his voice coming from the distance – he was in the living room.
“Hey,” she greeted him with a chaste kiss over the top of his lips, walking over to him, “I missed you,” she admitted sincerely.
She had missed him – they were a couple that almost never fought and always found it in to communicate whenever they were having issues. So it was quite strange that she had been keeping the Samantha thing to herself – but mostly the reason for that was deep down, she felt as though her mind was playing tricks on her and she was making it to be a bigger deal than it was.
He smiled, “So do I,” he said and then turned up his nose as if to inspect the air, “Is that what I think it is?” he said grinning, his eyes now following the trail to the box of food in her left hand.
His giddiness was contagious and she was smiling along with him soon enough, “It is exactly what you think it is,” she said, returning the same grin.
“Oh babe,” he said, laughing, “Let me at it!”
The duo ate their food in silence – but not the awkward kind of silence that leaves you racking for your brain to find words to say; more of a comfortable ease - one that could only be achieved by two people who had known each other as long as they had.
She knew that this was a good sign – this stupid passive aggressive thing they had going on was on its way to being resolved and Hannah was wondering why it hadn’t come any sooner.
Afterwards, Nick suggested they snuggle in and watch a movie and Hannah was only happy to comply – pleased to know that he also wanted to spend time with her just as much as she did.
Hannah had just gotten out of the shower – with her hair that smelled of strawberries wrapped up in a towel and her body snug in her most comfortable t-shirt. She had only made a few steps out of the bedroom when she noticed Nick was standing in front of her with an arm full of popcorn and what appeared to be a DVD in his hands.
“I thought the Chinese take-out thing was really sweet of you,” he said, “so I decided we should take the rest of the day off as well and just chill; watch a movie.”
“Is it another one of those Kevin Mason comedies you like so much?” she asked him with a raised eyebrow.
“Maybe,” he bit back his tongue and grinned at her, “Come cuddle, I’ve set it all up.”
She rolled her eyes at him but she was laughing as she walked over to him. Once close enough, she bopped his nose, “let me dry my hair first and then I will join you.”
His mouth twisted into an expression that could only be defined as a pout, “Okay,” he said, “I’ll be watching you the entire time, though.”
“Creep,” she laughed as she ran the blow dryer along the lengths of her hair.
