[ It may be selfish, but she's not alone in her wanting.
He's had this conference booked for a whole year, the long weekend marked off in his calendar in green highlighter, and they've only been doing...this thing for a few weeks. Long enough to settle into a comfortable rhythm of meeting up regularly, their awkward little edges smoothed out through a growing familiarity, and he's stunned to realize that he does miss her, and not just in the idle way you might miss a close friend (or casual romantic partner).
He wants her here beside him, so he can turn to her and see the edge of her smile, so he can lean in and whisper something to her, so he can touch her wrist and smell her hair and feel her warm weight beside him in this horrible hotel bed. ]
I'm going to Chicago to talk at NIU at the beginning of December. If you're not busy with finals...
[ She could come with him. They could get her a plane ticket, and she could come to the city with him, where nobody knows who they are, and he could hold her hand if he wanted to, could take her to art galleries, or out for dinner, and they could play at being tourists in someone else's city for a little while. ]
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He's had this conference booked for a whole year, the long weekend marked off in his calendar in green highlighter, and they've only been doing...this thing for a few weeks. Long enough to settle into a comfortable rhythm of meeting up regularly, their awkward little edges smoothed out through a growing familiarity, and he's stunned to realize that he does miss her, and not just in the idle way you might miss a close friend (or casual romantic partner).
He wants her here beside him, so he can turn to her and see the edge of her smile, so he can lean in and whisper something to her, so he can touch her wrist and smell her hair and feel her warm weight beside him in this horrible hotel bed. ]
I'm going to Chicago to talk at NIU at the beginning of December. If you're not busy with finals...
[ She could come with him. They could get her a plane ticket, and she could come to the city with him, where nobody knows who they are, and he could hold her hand if he wanted to, could take her to art galleries, or out for dinner, and they could play at being tourists in someone else's city for a little while. ]