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Instead, I pull out ot back froet shower and some shut eye Will call later

I set my phone on my rack while I sit down to take my boots off She usually responds back pretty quickly when she's not working, and I know she's off today We had briefly talked yesterday afternoon when she got a sone the way I wanted it to,in the break roouys that atching a baseball game on TV What I really wanted to do was tell her how much I missed her

Her smile

Her laugh

Her green eyes

Fucking that gorgeous body

But that's so not appropriate in a room full of firemen

Instead, I let her update me on her job hunt, which had proven to be futile so far This had been the subject ofmore dejected by the lack of prospects with every phone call we had together I tried to buck up her spirits, but that was hard because I was fucking dejected right along with her

But e talked yesterday, while she still had no good news, she didn't seem quite as bu ive me some dirty phone sex talk but she knew couldn't since I was at the firehouse I grinned into the phone, ly interested in the TV, but also knowing they kept one ear on my conversation I had been quite vocal uponwo me about her

Sadly, our call yesterday was cut short by the station speakers crackling to life and alerting us to another fire in progress I was only able to give her a quick, "Itoward the front bay to get suited up

Holly doesn't text htly The pure exhaustion I was feeling a o is replaced now by an even more desperate need to hear her voice I flip tothat I did have time for a quick conversation

The phone rings four ti to her voice mail

Well, fuck

I set the phone down on the small, square wooden table beside otten, I putto the soft snores of a few of the guys who already crashed

I think longingly about the day that Holly will be here, and we can finally start our life together

"Hey Davis," I hear fro quarters

Liftingthere "What's up?"

"You got a visitor out front," he says and starts to turn away

"Who is it?" I ask, without any real actual interest, but suspecting it one out with on and off over the past year It wasn't serious, and ould go weeks without seeing each other, but she would sometimes drop by if she was in the area to check up on me I haven't seen her in probably over a month, and of course, there's no real coht to call her and tell her that we couldn't see each other anymore

"No clue," he says as he turns back briefly "Flynn caught me on my way back to the head and told me to tell you"

"Thanks, e of my rack I stick my feet back in my boots and swiftly lace them

As I walk toward the front bay, I startwhat I need to tell Tashia She won't be upset or put out, but I still want to be nice and gentle about it

I push through the swinging door that leads into the bay where we hold the three engines that belong to our company A quick sweep of the area and I don't see anyone, but I hearfrom the far side of the bay behind one of the trucks

Walking that way, I hear Flynn's voice becos I could tell you about hiroan internally

I do not need hietting ready to cut things off And why the fuck would he do that? He kno I feel about Holly Other than Denise, Flynn is the only one that knohat truly went down between us and the entirety of our history I filled his one night after we got off shift

Rounding the front of the engine, I say before I even see Flynn and Tashia, "Now, quit filling her head with those lies"

I see Flynn first, his back to ht to Tashia His head turns toward lare at him

Flynn steps to the side, and I turn my face toward Tashia

Except, it's not Tashia

It's Holly, and my heart almost bursts out of my chest from the sudden explosion of joy with in me

"Hey baby," she says softly with a smile