When I woke up the next morning I found that my arms were still wrapped tightly around Jessie from last night. Our legs were intertwined and there was basically no space between us. Her head was tucked underneath my chin and I could year her soft snores as she slept soundly. It was so quiet that I could just faintly hear the waves outside crashing into the sand. Everything was so perfect right now that I couldn’t help the smile that took over my face.
Jessie was clinging tightly to me as she slept and I could feel her grip on me tighten from time to time. I assumed she was dreaming as she often got fidgety when she did. Thoughts of yesterday were swirling around in my head and it was almost surreal at what was happening. I could finally feel a hundred percent comfortable with showing Jessie how I feel about her now that I knew that she felt the same. At least I hope she feels the same as I do. I knew that we weren’t anything official and probably wouldn’t be for a while but my hopes were high.
I was just about to close my eyes again to get a little more sleep considering it was early but I heard my phone going off across the room. I very, very carefully untangled myself from Jessie and loosened her grasp on me so that I could go answer it, assuming it was probably important if it was a phone call.
When I picked it up I saw that it was Lyd calling which reminded me that we haven’t properly spoken to each other since I left.
“Hello?” I answered quietly as I left the bedroom so that Jessie could sleep.
“Hi, Julie,” Lydia greeted cheerfully from the other end of the phone. Okay so at least I knew there was nothing wrong.
“Hey. What’s up?”
“I’m pooping and I’m bored. Are y’all doing the dirty?”
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I said, rolling my eyes as I sat down on the couch in the living room. I’ve probably said that exact statement to her a million times since we’ve known each other.
“Answer my question.”
“No, we are not having sex,” I answered under my breath.
“Why the fuck not?” she scoffed. I almost considered telling Lydia about mine and Jessie’s talk yesterday but I decided that it would be best to wait until I knew for sure what was happening.
“Because we’re going to enjoy our week by relaxing and not worrying so much about the complicated shit,” I said. That was half true anyway.
“I’m not getting any younger here. I at least want to be able to see my dozens of nieces and nephews before I die.”
“Yeah, yeah. So what’s been going on in Lydia Land this week?” I asked in an attempt to change the subject.
Lydia basically went on a big spiel about how some “little shit” had been fighting with her for days on her video game. I’m not really sure how those things work but I know any time Lyd’s on those stupid things you can hear never ending streams of curse words coming from the living room.
I was only half listening when Jessie came walking into the room, rubbing her eyes groggily. I gave her a smile as she sat down next to me and laid her head against my shoulder. She curled up into a ball next to me and draped her arm over my stomach as I continued to listen to Lydia talk.
“Yeah but anyway I’m gonna go get ready for work I guess,” Lydia said eventually.
“Okay, Lyd. I’ll talk to you later,” I said, knowing that she would be annoying the hell out of me all week. You had to love her anyway.
“I bet she misses you,” Jessie said once I’d hung up. I moved my arm so that I could wrap it around her shoulders as we cuddled on the couch.