~My heart!

Esmene woke up at about ten the next morning to find herself in bed. "Wait, didn't I fall asleep on the couch? That's where I remember being last."

Changing her clothes for the day, there was a soft knock on the bedroom door followed by Alex walking in. Again, he didn't expect her to be up yet. He only came inside to wake her up when he accidentally saw Esmene pulling her shirt over her head revealing a bit of her bra!

Reacting quickly, she pulled the remainder of the shirt down while Alex quickly said, "Sorry! I'll leave now!" and pulled the bedroom door shut.

Inside, he was going crazy! He had no intention of walking in on her like that. He himself had only gotten out of bed a few minutes ago. What a way to wake up! It felt as though his twenty-five year old heart could hardly take it!

"Because she had finished changing, Esmene raised her voice and told him, "Its ok, I'm finished changing anyways. You can come in."

Slowly walking back into the bedroom, Alex felt his face heat up. His face had turned bright red! "I'm s-sorry, I was coming in to wake you up. Forgive me."

"Its ok." With a smile she continued to say, " No worries. Not like you saw anything interesting." Actually he did.

The rest of the morning, Alex stayed away from the subject and acted like the incident never occured. Soon he was back to his usual self.

While he was cleaning up the mess made from breakfast, Esmene asked, "Alex, when do you open up the restaurant again? I know you need to get back to work at some point and I hope I'm not keeping you from doing so."

"I told my employees that it would only be closed for about two weeks and then they could come back to work. Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering." Truthfully, Esmene didn't want him to go back to work. She was enjoying the time she spent with him and didnt want to be lonely. But they were adults. He would have to back to work at some point. She would too.

As Esmene was sitting on the couch watching the morning news, Alex chimed in. "Hey , I'm gonna go out in a few to get you house keys. Do you want anything?" Alex didn't invite her along because the doctors said she should rest as much as possible and stay off her feet for the first 3 weeks of the healing process.

"No, I'm good." Truthfully, Esmene was bummed she couldn't go along. She didnt want to be alone even if it was for just a few minutes.

After Alex had left, Esmene hobbled over to her room and pulled out her laptop. She decided she needed to kill some time. What better way to kill some time then going shopping online? Putting on her headphones, she put on some music and shopped away. On a budget of course.

Alex had come home around two thirty in the afternoon. He had returned later than expected because he decided to pick up some ingredients for a few of Esmene's favorite dishes.

"Hey, Esmene. I'm back!" he called. To his surprise, there was no response. "Esmene? You alright?" Alex started to get worried and ran into her room after he called her name several more times with no answer. Pushing open her door with an unnecessary amount of force, he called her name again only to see her intently looking at her laptop.

Seeing him at the door, Esmene was surprised. "Your back! I was starting to get bored...."

Noticing how nonchalant the girl was, Alex let out a big sigh of relief. 'Got myself all worked up for nothing.'

"Sorry I took so long. I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things before I came back."

This girl.....his heart really couldn't take it anymore.