Adore

Chapter 47

A/N just a cute fluffy chapter, enjoy! Xo

Don't get me wrong, I was glad that Mary had decided to close the store over the weekend to spend some time with her family before what was sure to be another long week. But all this time off with nothing to do was making the days drag on at an extremely slow pace.

I was starting to get frustrated because if I was at work I knew I wouldn't get the chance to sit think about how soon Tom was coming home.

I tried to keep myself busy by taking Archie out and cleaning my house from top to bottom. I even finally took the moving boxes to a recycling centre which I had been putting off for way too long.

Theres only so many times you can arrange and rearrange your cupboards and pantry before thinking you're going slightly mad.

I did my grocery shopping on Friday, taking my time with it trying to kill as much time as possible. I'd also posted off some Christmas presents that needed to back to Australia. I almost keeled over and died at the cost of the postage. My family better like their frigging presents thats all I'll say..

After my grocery shopping trip I stumbled through the front door, knowing I was carrying too many bags, but I was too stubborn to do two trips from the taxi.

I connected my phone to my bluetooth speaker that I decided to get myself and selected a playlist on Spotify.

Doing tasks as boring as putting away groceries was always way more fun with music blasting. I was singing at the top of my lungs while shoving things into the cupboards and fridge.

It was later in the afternoon that I realised and I began prepping stuff for my dinner. I danced around the kitchen cutting veggies, measuring spices and seasoning having a blast.

The music cut out and was replaced with the shrill ringing of a facetime call coming through.

I answered the call and positioned my phone so I was still in view but didn't need to hold it.

"HI BITTCHHHH" My sister all but screamed into the phone.

"Jesus, thanks for that, I'm now deaf" I said furiously pressing the volume down button on my speaker.

"Sooooo, how was Paris?" She asked. I bit my lip slightly to hide my smirk but she knows me too well.

"Oh my god, spill it" Kelly shouted at me. I recounted the details of the trip. Sparing her from the intimate details the first time Tom and I had sex, but she could tell what I was alluding too.

We spoke on the phone for what felt like forever, I gave Archie his dinner and was just about finished cooking mine before Kelly said she had to go. We said our goodbyes and I took my plate of dinner over to the couch, hitting play on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns.

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My phone chimed from the other side of the room and I rushed over to check it.

Hey gorgeous, can we FaceTime? X

I read the message from Tom and my face light up with a big smile.

Hi! Sure, just let me get dressed xo

I replied quickly, pulling a random shirt from my closet and shoving it over my head. I stepped into some comfy trackies before running my towel through my hair again.

I'd prefer it if you didn't ;)

I rolled my eyes at his messages but couldn't wipe the smirk of my face. I tapped the contact info for Tom and selected FaceTime, the ringing only lasted a second before he answered.