Afterglow • Gideon Emery

18

Gideon walked back to the living room with a steaming bowl of soup wrapped around a cloth in his hands. Chloe was writing in her book again, she never lets that thing out of her sight. "Here you go love" Gideon says, he sits down next to her and sets the bowl down on her thigh.

Chloe relaxed herself and used her baby belly as a table for her bowl while she turned her head to the tv. She's a strange one, Gideon thought, but a wonderful one.

Dempsey laid against Chloe's feet, he's always been close to her since her pregnancy began. As if he knew there was a tiny human in there. Dogs knows everything it seems.

Gideon brought her chicken noodle soup to hold her over before the dinner he planned that night. Chloe wasn't aware of the dinner, she's been in her daydream lately thinking about her baby and always creating, wether it be drawing or writing. "Erm...a couple of buddies are coming over tonight for dinner, I'll make whatever you want; are you okay with that love?"

Chloe thought about the last time they had a group dinner, around the campfire roasting marshmallows with the dogs play fighting in the field. If Hannah and Jack wasn't gonna be here, it won't be the same... "will Joker be there at least?"she assumes it would be some of his other buddies that she never talks too.

"Joker, Will, and two other friends" Gideon smiled to her stroking her gently, he wanted to keep Jack and Hannah presence a surprise. "Alright?"

"Okay Jaguar." Was all she said, she drank the broth from the soup looking back at the tv. She still missed Hannah terribly, her mother figure she hasn't been separated from this long in their entire friendship.

• • •

As Gideon promised he made Chloe what she wanted, knowing him and the boys will have a whole rotisserie chicken Jokers bringing and Chloe wasn't about to get sick on that. She'd much rather keep as much of her fluids as she can.

She watched Gideon stand in front of the stove while he cooked. He is making her Alfredo Noodles with peppers. sitting down at the kitchen table she wrote down more notes, she had many things on her mind that she's incapable of saying with her mouth. Things are better said with the mind.

"If I leave here you're coming with me, and if you leave here I'm going with you"

Writing in dark magenta Chloe rested her head on her left hand while she continued to to write.

"I always needed time on my own
I never thought I'd
Need you there when I cry
And the days feel like years when I'm alone
And the bed where you lie
Is made up on your side

I've never felt this way before
Everything that I do
Reminds me of you
And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor
And they smell just like you
I love the things that you do"

"Whatcha writing about love?" Gideon broke the silence between the two, he came by with a bottle of coke for her. "Here's some pop"

"Thank you.." Chloe muttered under her breath, she grabbed the bottle and twisted the cap off then took a drink. "Is it almost done? Please say it is."

"Yes ma'am it is." Gideon said walking back to his kitchen, opening up the cabinets he pulled out one of the glass bowls. "If you still want chicken later feel free to take some."

"Noted" Gideon smirked with her sly sarcastic remark. He made her a bowl, the noodles steamed they were so hot, that's when it tastes the best.