The One She Needed. **complete**

Chapter 43 **Saying Goodbye

That night when Scott had taken Kelsie home and they were having their nightly phone call, Kelsie began to pout.

"My bed is cold." She said sadly. "I love my dog, but his heart doesn't beat."

"Do I need to find one with a heartbeat?" Scott ask

"No. It still wouldn't be your heartbeat." Kelsie said with a sigh.

"My bed sucks too." Scott said sadly. "But, at least we can play 'truth' now."

"Yeah!! Let's play!!" Kelsie said bouncing. "Me first!!"

"Ok". Scott chuckled.

"Did you really like the thing I did with my hand, or were you just being nice."
Kelsie ask nervously.

"I loved the thing you did with your hand!" Scott said. "In fact, I can't look at your hand now without Little Scott causing trouble. My turn truth."

"OK". Kelsie said

"Have you really been looking into that other thing?" Scott ask. His voice going lower as Kelsie was discovering it did when sex came up.

"Yes! I know you think it's dumb," Kelsie said, "but I can't just jump into that stuff. I need to feel like I have some clue as to what I'm doing."

"Why are you studying it though?" Scott ask, "do you think you'll enjoy it?"

"Oh Heavens no!!" Kelsie said with a laugh. "Every girl I've talked to says its gross, but for some reason it's important to guys so I figured I'd try it."

"Kelsie,". Scott said sternly. "There is no way I could enjoy something that I thought made you unhappy or uncomfortable. So you can stop thinking about doing that."

"OK." Kelsie said softly. "My turn?"

"Yeah" Scott said.

"Everybody says you've changed for me. Is that true?" Kelsie asked. Finally having the nerve.

"Which parts?" Scott asked. "I've changed a lot the past year."

"OK". Kelsie said, "then, first of all. You gave up pot."

"Well." Scott said taking a breath. "Yeah. I guess in a way, the reason I did it now was for you."

"Ummmm. Can you clarify?" Kelsie asked.

"I always knew I'd have to stop." Scott said matter of factly. "All the decent jobs test. Then I started thinking about dating you and I knew you'd hate it. Plus, I knew that if I ever got stopped with you in the truck you'd go down too. That couldn't happen. So I stopped. When I came back from Mom's, I told everybody I wouldn't do it anymore."

"But that was before me." Kelsie said softly.

"No Sweetie." Scott said in a sure voice. "You had me long before then."

"How long?" Kelsie ask

"Nope!" Scott said "you're trying to take two turns! My turn! What color are your underwear?"

Kelsie began to laugh. "Blue, did you really just ask that?"

"Yep!" Scott said, then added "that was a question. My turn! Are you wearing a bra right now?"

"No." Kelsie said. "I don't sleep in a bra."

"You did the first couple of nights I stayed." Scott said. "Then you stopped."

"Oh umm" Kelsie floundered. "I also wore makeup to bed the first couple of nights. I didn't want you to think I wasn't as cute or something. I don't know. Then I stopped the make-up because it looked awful the next morning."