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One second, he was sitting next to me, all the way across the handicap stall, and the next he was holding ht I felt like I couldn’t breathe

But this ti part

“I ruined dinner,” I moaned

“You ruined nothing,” he disagreed “You’re doing what you have to do to survive We’ll go back out there and order, and nothing else will ht now”

I sed hard

“The rolls are super good,” I whispered into his neck, not realizing that I was so close to his pulse untilaway “Do you think Banger can get me the recipe?”

He chuckled, brushing his lips against er likes you, so the likelihood would be high if she knew the recipe”

“Does she?” I wondered, idly strokingthe inside of his bicep

“Banger knows a lot of things,” he ads are rather vast There’s only one way to know, and that’s to ask her”

It took five h to stand up on my oo feet

By the time I arrived back out in the restaurant, it ell past e left

This one was a long one

Nobody commented on our absence, and our table was just hoe left it, minus the old drinks and cold rolls

The moht to us, as well as a house salad withand more rolls

My eyes filled with tears as I realized Rook -wise

I started to eat, and surreptitiously looked around to

They weren’t

Their gazes were all couitar

I didn’t have to think about who that person was

“That’sthe crowd,” I found it prudent to say

He curled his hand around ainst my lower lip “Let’s eat and I’ll take you home Then we can watch TV and rot our brains”

For so my brain with him sounded fantastic

And he was right

By the tiot to dessert, I was so full I could barely eat another bite