“Okay,” he mentioned, leaning all the way down to kiss me. I kissed him again earlier than he stood up, smiling, and turned to move out the door with Bucky.

I pulled my hair out of the bun it was in and tied it up into a brand new ponytail. After I seemed over to the door, although, I noticed that Dillon’s cellphone had fallen out of his again pocket as he’d walked outdoors, so I went to go decide it up.

I knew that I shouldn’t do it. I knew that if I did name my mother, I’d be breaking his belief and probably putting us at risk.

All of that was overridden as I unlocked his cellphone, utilizing the password I’d seen him use, and dialed my mother’s quantity in San Luis Obispo.

“Macy!” My mother’s glad cry nearly made me begin crying. “What’s happening, sweetie?”

“Not an excessive amount of,” I mentioned, selecting at my nails. “Dillon’s out strolling the canine proper now.”

“How is he?”

“Good! He’s been cooking a variety of good meals for me.”

“Good,” she mentioned. “How are you, although, love? You sound just a little odd. Are you okay?”

I chuckled. “How have you learnt when one thing’s off?”

“It’s a mother factor. You’ll study it someday. What’s happening?”

“I’ve really caught a abdomen bug,” I mentioned, putting my hand on my stomach. “It’s okay; Dillon’s not sick. I’ve simply been throwing up recently.”

“Oh, sweetie,” she mentioned. I closed my eyes and bent my neck again, leaning into the sound of her voice. “I’m sorry you’re sick and that I’m not there to handle you. Do you may have ginger ale? Is there a spot round there the place you may get good hen soup?”

“No to ginger ale—I solely have Gatorade that Dillon bought for me this morning. However he did make hen soup immediately, and it was superb.”

“Wow,” she mentioned, her voice swelling. “I’m jealous.”

I giggled. “Yeah. It’s scrumptious.”

“Nicely, watch out of getting an excessive amount of Gatorade when you’re not shifting an excessive amount of, okay? It might probably make you are feeling actually bloated, and then you definately may really feel extra nauseous.”

“Nicely, I’m already bloated, so at the very least we’ve already checked that off the checklist,” I mentioned. “My interval needs to be beginning any day now, although, so I feel I’ll really feel higher as soon as that comes.”

“It hasn’t come but?”

“No. I feel the stress has been holding it up, really.”

She bought quiet for a couple of minutes, to the purpose the place I believed the decision bought minimize off. “Mother?”

“I’m right here.” She was quiet once more earlier than asking, “I’m simply curious—have you ever slept with this loopy engaging man who cooks for you, but?”

Sure, sure, sure, sure, and sure. A lot sure. And I hope to proceed doing it. “No, Mother. I haven’t slept with him.”

“Oh,” she mentioned, her voice shocked. “Nicely, why not?”

“Mother, I’m not speaking about this with you.”

“Fiiiiiine,” she mentioned, sounding quite a bit like a young person, and I laughed. She joined in with me, and we took one other minute to talk earlier than I advised her I wanted to go.

“I like you, Mama.”

“I like you too, sweetie,” she mentioned. “Keep in mind to ask him for ginger ale, okay?”

“Okay.” I hung up and deleted the quantity from off the latest calls earlier than going and putting it on the ground the place it had fallen after which going and moving into mattress with my e-book. All of the whereas, although I didn’t actively consider it, there was just a little voice lingering in my thoughts, reminding me of what my mother had requested. I shut my eyes, making an attempt to maintain the phrases from changing into actual.

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