This Kiss

Chapter 23

The next few days passed by as normal. The Spencer-Rivera house falling back into routine. This particular morning was a rare day, Natalia left for the office by herself. Olivia was taking the day off, at Natalia's instance, for some much-needed rest. She was ironing one of Emma's shirts and couldn't take it anymore. She needed to hear Natalia's sweet voice. She grabbed her phone from the counter as she poured another cup of coffee.

Natalia answered smiling. "I was just about to call you."

"I'm trying to make Emma's lunch for tomorrow and I need to know, what is Rafe's super-secret sandwich?"

"Oh yea, it's Wednesday. Um, it's peanut butter and banana. And it's on whole grain bread and you cut the crust off."

"Ow."

"What are you doing?"

"I burnt my thumb. I'm ironing. Is Wednesday also wear pink to school day?"

"What is wear pink to school day?"

"You didn't know about that either, did ya? Oh, I was hoping for like ham and cheese ya know. Something simple."

"Well nothing good is ever simple. I miss you."

"I miss you too. What if um, you know you came home, and you gave me secret sandwich seminar?"

"You want me to make you lunch."

"You got me."

"See ya soon. I love you."

"Love you too."

Olivia finished ironing and waited for her lady love at the kitchen table. Natalia came in and brushed her lips to her fiancé's. "Mmm, I think I like coming home early."

"Me too. I missed you."

"You were just bored."

"Maybe." Sitting down at the table where Olivia had already placed the supplies needed they started to make Emma's lunch. Natalia supervised while she spooned peanut butter into her mouth.

"This sandwich is more like a desert."

"Well yeah when you put that much banana on it. Don't use all that."

"Well, you're hogging all the peanut butter."

"I'm not hogging it. Just a little.."

Olivia laughed and made mumbling sounds at Natalia as she licked peanut butter from her fingers. "You got peanut butter on you."

"I know, I'm a mess. I'm sorry."

Olivia walked around the table. "Let me see." She ran one hand along her jaw and cleaned the peanut butter off with her other thumb. Bringing the digit to her own mouth and sucking it off. Natalia's breath hitched and she reached up, pulling Olivia into her lap and kissing her wildly.

Olivia pulled back and looked at her. "I think we should just get away you know, from the world for a little bit. Figure some things out."

"That's not possible."

"Might be. I just, what if we left Springfield for a couple of days? Just the two of us. I mean, Emma has this overnight field trip, and um, I've been thinking about it. Unless you think it's impractical, to just go away like that."

"No, um,..."

"It doesn't have to be a big deal you know, we can just spend sometime together. Make sense of what's going on in our lives."

"I would love to make some sense."

"I'm not trying to run away, I just feel like there is always something. Seems like daily sometimes."