Timing is Everything

Chapter Sixteen

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                                Chapter Sixteen

    Brooke looks up at me with wide eyes. The look on her face tells me that I’m going to regret telling her this information for a long while. But before I even have a chance for her to start asking questions regarding Jamison, I tell her about the bad news. I let her know about Meredith’s situation, including Hudson staying with his parents.

Her smile disappears instantly. She frowns and says, “This is the same Hudson who is crazy in love with Meredith, right?!”

    “That’s exactly what I thought. I offered to talk to him. Meredith said to go for it. I’m scared though. What if he’s changed his mind about her? I don’t want to be the one to tell Meredith that.”

Brooke’s frown turns into complete anger. “I can’t imagine them breaking up. I just can’t.”

I nod in agreement. “Do you think I’m rushing things with Jamison? There is just so much that I don’t even know about him. I feel like he’s hiding something from me. Am I just being crazy?”

    “Talk to him. Talk to both of them.”

Both of us get back to work. As I do what I’m supposed to, my mind flies through just all of the things I need to do. It jumps through all of the hoops of things I don’t know; all the things I should know at this point.

After eating the dinner Jamison cooked last night, we talked about little things. He made sure to be very, very careful about what he talked about. Most of the past was off-limits. He did talk about his college days. He talked about the huge risk he took once he graduated with his now partner Brian. And here he is. Wealthy and successful due to a great business idea that took off.

It’s easy to get lost in Jamison. It’s always easy to psych myself out. All of my insecurities really love to come out at the most awkward, unexpected moments. And most of those moments include when I’m talking to Jamison about something important.

Knowing that Jamison is so intelligent and successful makes me nervous. I hate to be that insecure girl, but why would he want to be with me when he could do some much better?

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    I went straight home from work. I didn’t feel like I could muster up all of the courage to go talk to either Jamison or Hudson tonight. But as I sit in my living room there is a knock at my front door. Just the thought of Jamison being here makes me both excited as hell and scared to death.

    “I brought take-out,” Jamison walks straight into my place with a wicked grin. Seeing him makes me weak in the knees. It also gives me more of those naughty thoughts I’ve been replaying in my mind for the last couple of days.