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"Could have been worse You could have had to deal with this after only three hours’ sleep, and being woken up by so to sit on the arm of the couch
I arched one eyebrow, and he recanted
"Okay, bad exa you’re fa to do now?"
"I dunno I need to stay here and wait for the guy to fix this mess In the meantime, I’ Sucks," I uess I’ll be across the hall, drinking coffee and thinking aboutfor the door
"Ass, you are totallyme up on the shower, too?"
"You won’t be in there with uess you can take one anyway Cory cry at me frorab breakfast" I snatched a foil-wrapped package from the table
"What’s that?" he asked
"Your zucchini bread"
I swear he alh his bottom lip He must really like zucchini bread
Thirty s curled underneathmy hair He seemed really relaxed and happy, and he’d devoured the entire loaf of zucchini bread I barely ed half a slice before he took it away fro in hishis full belly
"You want another loaf? I baked plenty, you little piggy" I wrinkled ive htie Girl You have no idea howlike this for me in years" He winked and let out a tiny burp
"Now that’s sexy" I frowned and tookout into the hallway to see if the uy had shown up yet
Si, co at all his pictures He had a series of black and whites on one wall, several prints of the sas, toes, and finally one of just her face She was gorgeous
"This is beautiful One of your harehed and ran his hand through his hair "Not every woman hasWhere were these taken?" I asked, sitting down next to hi on a travel photography series--the most beautiful beaches of the South Pacific, very retro styled She was on the beach one day, local girl, and the light was perfect, so I asked if I could take soeous," I said, sipping reed with a sweet s quiet
"So ere you planning to do today?" he asked
"You mean before my pipes revolted?"
"Yes, before the attack" He s
"I didn’t have a lot planned, actually, and that was a good thing I was gonna go for a run,warm and co on sleeping the entire day before tackling a o sleep, you know I can wait in otten in late, and I was keeping him from sleep
But he waved h If I sleep I’ll have jet lag all week I need to get back on Pacific ti your pipes attacked"
"Huess So hoas Ireland? Good tiood ti job I’d love to travel like that, living out of a suitcase, seeing the world, aain at all the pictures I spotted a slender shelf on the far ith tiny bottles on it "What’s that?" I asked, heading for the curious little shelf They each contained what looked like sand Soray, some pink, and one was almost pitch black They each had a label As I looked I felt, rather than saw, him move behind me His breath ar back a little sand--like a reminder of where I hen I was there," he answered, his voice low and wistful
I looked more closely at the bottles and marveled over the names I saw: Harbour Island–Bahamas, Prince William Sound–Alaska, Punaluu–Hawaii, Vik–Iceland, Sanur–Fiji, Patura–Turkey, Galicia–Spain
"And you’ve been all these places?"
"M back sand? Why not postcards, or better yet, the pictures you take? Isn’t that enough of a souvenir?" I turned to look at him
"I take pictures because I love it, and it happens to be ible, it’s tactile, it’s real I can feel this, this is sand I was actually standing on, frosall drea, it would have been pure cheese But froers continued to trail over all the bottles--alered on the few from Spain, and he noticed
"Spain, huh?" he asked
I turned to look at hihed and crossed back to the couch
"Do you travel o somewhere each year--not as fancy as you, or as frequent, but I try to take irls?" He smiled
"So byable to set your own pace, go where you want, and not have to run it by a coo out for dinner, you know?"
"I get it I’htly
"Surprised that I’d want to travel alone? Are you kidding? It’s the best!" I cried
"Hell, you’ll get no argument from me I’m just surprised Most people don’t like to travel alone--too overwhelet lonely"
"Do you ever get lonely?" I asked
"I told you, I a his head
"Yes, yes, I know, Simon says, but I have to say I find that a little hard to believe" I twisted a lock of alet lonely?" he asked