Into His Love

Thirteen

     "Are you stalking me?" I tease. She seems to be everywhere that I am. I'm not complaining though.

    "Ahh. You scared me." She jumps. "And no ..I didn't know you worked here."

"Yeah. I've been here for a while now. Are you adopting a pup?" I ask her.

"No. I just came to look." She says rubbing the puppy laying in her lap.

   "You came alone to look at pups?" I ask.

    "No. I'm here with my mom. Well, not here. She's at the boutique across the street and the clothes were a no for me so I came here."

    "Oh. Your mom's home. That's good."

    "Yeah, she came home Wednesday." She studies my eyes. "Are you okay?" She asks after a few seconds of silence. How does she know that something is going on with me? Part of me wants to lie and say that I am perfectly fine. The other part of me wants to just tell her the truth. I go with that part of me. I'd feel too bad lying to her.

   "Not really. I got into this argument with my mom. It was pretty bad." I admit.

    "If you want to talk about it..." I love how caring she is. Why aren't there more people as selfless as she is?

"As much as I'd love to talk about it right now... I'd better start cleaning before I lose my job." I smile, holding up the cleaning supplies.

"Oh r-right. Duh. I was getting ready to leave anyway." She puts the pup on the floor.

"But maybe we could go get some food later tonight?" I offer. She steps out of the kennel and locks the latch.

    "I'll have to make sure my mom and I aren't doing anything." She says slowly standing a few feet away from me.

   "Okay. I'll text you when I get off to check on things."

       "Yeah. You do that." She takes a step to leave and I notice that I am blocking the exit.

    "Sorry." I laugh nervously. I step out of her way and run my hand over my hair.

    "Bye."

Kimberly

"Of course. Go out with your friend." My mom insists when I ask her if it was okay once we get home.

I specifically leave out that it's a boy because then she would want to know every single detail about what's going on between us and that'll just be too confusing. Well, he likes me. And I kinda like him, too but I'm too scared to commit. So we're friends and just flirt all the time. I mentally roll my eyes.

"Okay. I'm going to go and put all of this stuff away." I lift my bags.

"Mhm. Go ahead." She is distracted by her phone vibrating. She smiles as she reads whatever is on the screen.

    Just as I am finished putting all of my things away my phone vibrates and I dart to it hoping that it is Isaiah. I realize that I am way more excited to be going out with him than I realized. I just feel like a completely different person when I'm around him. I have yet to figure out if that's a good thing or bad. I'm also really interested in what has him so upset. I saw a darkness in his eyes today that I haven't seen before so it must be something bad.

    The text is from Isaiah just as I suspected.

*Are we on for tonight?*

*Yeah* I respond. I watch the three dots in anticipation.