Cravings

Six

"What's your Favorite color?" Harry asked as he continued to help her dust sugar on the cookies. They had finished eating and were now finishing up the cookies. 

"I tend to like all colors, but I always use Black. I know it's cliche, but my favorite poet is Edgar Allen Poe, and I think Wednesday from the Addams family is my spirit animal. So can you blame me?" She asks biting into a cookie. 

He eyes her and then nods, "No, I get it." He says before grabbing a cookie and taking a bite. You are right, these are good. A little addicting..." He grabs another cookie. 

"See, I told you, I'll pack some for you to take," Hailey says before boiling water for tea since she couldn't indulge in coffee. "So, what exactly do you do Harry?" She asks turning back to face him. 

"You know those people that can hack your information from you through your phone or computer?" He asks and smiles when she nods, "well I hunt them down and shut them down. It's not an impressive job but the pay is good. There is never a shortage in jobs either someone is always hiring you. What about you Hailey what is it you do?" 

"I work at an editing company. I like my job a lot maybe because I do love to read. They are flexible with me especially now that I'm expecting." She answers as she fetches to cups for them to have tea. 

"Somehow I see it." He answers as he adds sugar to his steaming cup of tea. 

"What can I say I like to read. Now come on let's have some cookies with tea in the living room." He nods and follows her to her living room with an excited Lulu following them. "So, I don't know much about you any siblings?" 

"Well yes I do I have an older sister. I'm the youngest and when I was younger it was always mum, Gem, and me. Then there were times where we would go see dad. My parents divorced so yeah. But my stepfather was great not going lie." he states taking a sip of his tea right after. "What about you I know you have a sister but any other siblings?" 

"I have Noemi the oldest, then it's my brother Max who is also married and lives in Wisconsin. Then there is me the baby of the family." She rolled her eyes. "I really was spoiled but it never went to my head." 

He chuckles at her comment, "you look like you are spoiled," he pokes her shoulder before shaking his head, "kidding you seem to have a good head on your shoulders. I mean look at you being selfless and doing this for your sister." 

"I don't see it that way; I just want to see my sister happy. She wants a baby and if I can help her then why not? Plus, now I look at it as an experience, I can now say I do know what it feels like to be pregnant and yet have no kids. Well only for a little bit because I do plan to have some of my own... maybe. Depends." She shrugs. 

"I understand I would do anything for Gem too well except loan her my uterus. I don't have one." He states before leaning in and wiping some sugar with cinnamon from the corner of her mouth. "Sorry I just had to get that." he says shyly as she watches him lick his finger after. 

"Thank you? Even though I can get myself." She sighed stretching, "what I hate about being pregnant is the aches I'm having. My feet are killing me imagine when they are cankles."

Harry only laughed before picking up her feet and began to massage them, "here I got you." He took of her shoes and began to massage her feet. 

Hailey wanted to complain that her feet were dirty but then she couldn't. She just closed her eyes and enjoyed the massage. He was doing wonders, "your good with your hands." She mumbled. 

He chuckled as he continued his massage, "we should do something one of these days. Maybe go to a carnival or take a stroll at a park. Just something my treat." he said. 

"Sounds fun how about Sunday? Theres this fair I really would like to go to again. It's the Scarborough Fair it's like if are put back into the medieval times again. It would be fun. I can invite some friends, and you could invite some too." She suggests, "we can take my car if you want." 

"I have a Range Rover I think we can fit in there. How about we go just the two of us this first time?" He asked her as he needed one of her heels. 

"Okay sure let me just make sure it's still going on if not we can always do something else." She chuckles when he accidentally tickles her by rubbing her toes. "Okay I think that is good enough on the massage," she says pulling her feet away. "How about I pick this up and you go to the restroom and wash your hands." 

He cleared his throat, "okay. Which way to your restroom again?" 

She pointed to her right as he disappeared toward the restroom. She picked up the dirty cups and took them to the kitchen where she washed them. She had begun to put the baking sheets into the dishwasher as well as she put the rest of the cookies into a cookie jar and some in a Ziplock bag for Harry to take home. When she jumped a bit when she felt him behind her. "I put some cookies in this bag for you to take well if you want." 

Harry hummed and nodded, "thank you I will have them with coffee tomorrow." He smiles and helps her clean up, "so we never finished twenty-one questions... I believe it's my turn to ask, what is your guilty pleasure?" 

Hailey sighed and bit her lip, "I might have a couple. Which is less embarrassing?" She asked herself as she put some kibble into Lily's bowl for her to munch, "Okay when I feel lonely or want to concentrate on a task seriously, I will put the Backstreets Boys on and sing while I do my task. I literally know the lyrics to all their tracks. I secretly love them. I blame my mother she is a huge fan even now." 

Harry chuckles, "interesting. I didn't picture you as a boyband groupie." 

"I'm not. But I appreciate that one boyband due to my mother's upbringing. In general, I love music though, not going to lie I'm more of an eighties hair band kind of a girl." Hailey says shrugging. "What about you? What's your guilty pleasure?" 

"I don't think I can beat the Backstreet boys though. I have to talk to my mother at least once a day. She's my best friend so I'm always texting her or calling her. I know it might be silly being the age I am but I love her." Harry says shyly. 

They were now standing in front of each other and Hailey was smiling, "that is actually sweet." 

He smiled, "my turn again. I might get slapped but it will be worth it, I hope. Can I kiss you?" He asked in a whisper as he got closer to her his hands inching toward her. "I've been wanting to kiss you since I saw you again at the coffee shop." 

Hailey didn't know if it was the baby or the butterflies in her stomach, but she only nodded as she inched closer to him. She took a deep breath just as his lips got near her and her eyes closed slightly as their lips touched. It was a sweet peck at first but then he licked her bottom lip and that is all it took for her to allow him in. Next thing she knew her arms were wrapped around his neck as his hands wrapped around her waist. She forgot everything around her as she indulged on this kiss. She was in heaven. She hadn't been kissed like that in a while. She was feeling her hormones take over, so she ended the kiss. "That was nice." She whispered. 

"It really was. Wouldn't mind another one." Harry states and smiles at her. 

"Harry, you understand that I am pregnant right now and I'm going to bloat and probably get crabby. My feet are going to swell, and this is going to be a crazy roller coaster for me. Do you really want to be part of this?" She asked him not wanting to catch feelings for this man if he was just going to break her heart when she was as big as a balloon. 

"I understand and I think I'm okay with that. It will only be a few months. I like you Hailey and why not? I can take care of you during this time. Let's take it slow..." He says before he kissed her again catching her off guard.