Tough Love

chapter 32

After the event in the hot tub, everything seemed to go back to normal. You continued to talk to Paul everyday. you both didn't really mention it. There hadn't been much when it came to the phone sex either through audio or FaceTime.

After a long day at work you laid out on the couch in Paul's house and turned on the tv. Ever since he left on tour you had been staying at his house and going back to your apartment to get a few things every now and then, raid the fridge there to make sure nothing would go bad. You managed to get some food and bring it back to his place and put it in the fridge, intent on making yourself a favorite meal that you had been craving for awhile, italian salad. Simple enough to make.

You had been thinking about making that for dinner. But that had been motivated you from around lunchtime at work. Now, now you just wanted to decompress from the day and be a loaf on the couch watching tv and ordering takeout.

You clicked on the tv and it was on some talkshow as you glanced down at your phone. You had gotten out the office later than usual, but you didn't have any notification from Paul at all today it seemed. Even if you weren't sexting like you had been at the start of this whole complicated relationship. You had thought you would both keep in touch while he was on tour.

Especially after the bomb he dropped unexpectedly on you through that call. Definitely after that you would think he would check in. Yes, there was the time difference to think about especially if they were overseas at this point. You thoughts started to spiral as you got up and walked towards the fridge and opened the freezer and grabbed a bottle of wine that you had grabbed from your apartment on the way back here. The glass wasn't cool like you had wanted. It was only in for a few minutes at least. So she took a paper towel and drenched it in cold water and wrapped it around the bottle and placed it back in the freezer to get cold in a few more minutes.

You rolled your shoulders as you stood straight up from bending down to the put the bottle in the freezer, the tension in your shoulders was intense. Thank god its Friday, you thought with a small smile as you started unbuttoning your work shirt as you walked up to the master bedroom. Your mind completely on taking a nice hot bath to try and relax away all the stress from the week.

You started up the tub and put in the bath salts and the bubble bath. And grabbed your kindle from the nightstand. You had started making a habit of reading before bed since Paul was away not helping you with getting you to sleep in his usual creative ways, so you had to resort to something else.

You took out a change of clothes, silky pajamas that you would change into after the bath, as well as a fluffy robe that you put next to that on the sink.

You looked back at the bathtub and saw that it was already filling up with hot bubbly water. You got in gingerly and moved towards the front of the tub and turned off the water and put the plug on the tub, making sure none of the water went down the drain.

Grabbing your kindle you sunk down further into the tub and put your headphones in, intent on completely having your brain escape the stress of the entire week.

***1 hour later...***

You got up out of the tub, your entire body more relaxed then when you had gotten home earlier. You wrapped the fluffy robe around you and pulled the drain to the tub. You walked out of the bathroom, pajamas in hand to change into. You put your wet hair into a messy bun ontop of your head and proceeded to walk out of the master bedroom and down the stairs where your phone was as you scrolled onto the delivery app and decided to get some Chinese food for dinner.

Doing things that reminded of you of Paul helped when you were missing him. You ordered a few dishes that you both liked and sat down on the couch waiting for it to be delivered as you turned on the tv and switched it to a reality tv show that you had scheduled to watch. Along with some wine.