Page 6 of Hurry Up And Wait
“Says you. I didn’t even know I was moving until five minutes ago! And what am I supposed to do there?”
“The same thing you do here, but in a nice, big house!”
“You decided an hour ago. You couldn’t possibly have someplace to live already.”
“Trust me on this.”
“Trust you, she says. You know, if I had a nickel for every time someone said that?—”
“You’d only have a nickel,” I grinned. “Now, let’s get moving.”
“Yeah, because you’re in such a rush to get out of here and move to the middle of nowhere.”
“Exactly.”
She held up a hand, taking a deep breath. “Before I commit to this, what exactly is in store for us in the Midwest?”
The smile on my face was instantaneous. “Kavanaugh.”
Her jaw dropped in shock. “Shut the front door!”
I shrugged, knowing I would have her the second I said his name. “I may have found out where he was?—”
“Wait, he knows we’re coming, right? You didn’t just decide on a whim to move us across the country for a man whom we haven’t seen in?—”
“A very long time. Yes, I know.”
“But does he know?”
“Are we going to move this?” I bent over and tried to lift, but it was sort of pointless to do so on my own.
“Isles, tell me he knows.”
“Why wouldn’t he know?” I said, avoiding the question.
“He wouldn’t know if you didn’t tell him,” she countered.
“That’s true.”
“Isles…” The warning in her voice was much the same as when I told her that Shawn slammed me up against a brick wall.
“And what is knowing? I mean, do we really know anything?”
She groaned, thunking her head against the armoire. “You didn’t tell him we were coming?”
“I wanted it to be a surprise.”
“We haven’t seen Kavanaugh since?—”
“I know it’s been a while, but do you really think he’ll care?”
“Yes! He’ll think it’s stalking!”
I cocked my head at her in thought. “Can you really stalk someone you already know?”
“Yes! If he doesn’t know we’re moving to be in the same town as him, then yes, you could very much consider it stalking.”
I thought about it for a moment, but was already moving on. “I suppose some would consider it that way, but I choose to think of it as moving closer to a friend.”