Pain and Love

Visiting

Hardin:

Monday a week later,

The past week has been such a great week for me and Tess. It was so great to see her in Vance publishing doing her thing and with uni she is less stressed with the way her timetable has changed. The one thing Ken has actually done right in a long time.

Anyways, I thought more about Tess's promise to Florence and I did say to Tessa I would go and visit her and Karen. So I decided I'm going to ask Landon if we can come around after uni today, hopefully he will say yes. We have English class together today so I guess that would be the best time to ask him.

...

Me and Tessa got to campus and headed straight to English class together and Landon was already sitting in his seat. We walked down to our seats next to him.

"Hey Landon" Tessa says to him

"Hey Tessa" he replies

"Hi" I say to him

"Hi Hardin"

Tessa and I then get our stuff out for class and put it down in front of us. I then realised that this is the best time to ask him since we still have a little time till class starts as usual Tess wanted us to be there early.

"Umm Landon, can I ask you something?" I say to him

"Yeah sure" he says to me

"I was just wondering if me and Tess could come around to your house after work tomorrow for a bit? It's just been so long since I saw Karen and Florence so I thought I best visit them but just wanted to check if that was okay" I say to him

After I'm finished, Tessa and Landon both look at each other and I know they are both surprised by how nice and polite I sounded. And I was surprised by myself too.

"Yeah that sounds great, I know they have missed you so I'm glad, they would be happy to see you" he says

Tessa then looks to me with a massive smile on her face and wraps her arms around mine and leans her head on my arm, I then place my hand on her thigh

"Now you will be sticking to your promise" I say

"Yeah I will be" she says and giggles into my arm

After class we talked about it, we decided that we will go straight after work and Landon would join us after he has finished at campus. It also gives me plenty of time with them before Ken would get home.

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Tuesday the day after,

We arrive at the house and are sitting outside in the car.

"Are you feeling okay?" Tessa asks me

"Yeah I am actually"

"Okay good, I know you hate being here because of Ken but I'm really glad you are here" she says to me with a smile

"I'm glad to be here after so long too" I say and lean over and kiss her lips

"Well shall we?" I say to her and she giggles

I get out of the car, I go over to her side, open the door for her, she takes my hand and gets out of the car. We then hold hands as we go up the door and I ring the doorbell. A few seconds later Karen opens the door and she looks surprised.

"Hardin" she says in shock

"Hi Karen" I say and she brings me in for a hug and I hug her back

"It's been so long Hardin" she says to me