• They stare at each other, as they sit there, both at a loss for words to say. They were both wondering where did they were supposed to go from here. Neither of them had expected this chance meeting. She’d had a feeling, but she’d never really had high hopes for it. Finally, he broke the prolonged silence by clearing his throat.

    “I’m a little lost actually. How did you get here? What happened to Luis?” he asks.

    “Gone. We ended it along time ago.” She looked so depressed that it was all he could do not to leap around the table and take her in his arms. She shook her head. “Dammit, I’ve been dreaming about the actual moment I would meet you for months, but now that it’s happened…I just never thought it would be like this…God! I could really use a relationship that I don’t screw up.” Her voice chokes up.

    “I can give you that,” he says gently. “How long have you been here?”

    “Two days,” she says. “Trying to get up the nerve to meet you in person. I had a whole speech to make, but at the moment, it seems to have slipped my mind.”

    “Do you have a place to stay?”

    “Yeah. I have a motel room. Do you want to go there and talk?”

    He grins, making himself look years younger. “Are you sure you just want to talk?”

    “I’m not sure,” she says teasingly. “I’m willing to take the chance. I told you I wanted everything to do with you and I wasn’t kidding.”

    He grins again as he stands up, the grin turning into a grimace as he looks out the window. “It’s starting to rain,” is all he comments.

    “Funny how that kind of thing happens when there’s not a cloud in the sky,” she says grinning.

    He looks at her, puzzled for a second, then smiling as e finally gets it. “You did this?”

    “Yeah.” She stands up, taking a last sip of her coke. “I’ve been up for two days straight, so I don’t think I’m okay to drive.”

    “So how’d you get here then?” he says, frowning at her.

    “I waked. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. I took the train here, coming here on a whim, knowing somehow that you’d be here.”

    They walk out of the diner and into the freezing rain after she pays their bills. “How far away are you staying?” he asks, squinted into the distance against the drizzling rain.

    “Just a block down this way,” she says taking his hand and leading at a fast walk. In five minutes they were under the overhang to her room. She turns to him with a solemn look in her eye.

    “Are you sure you’re willing to take me for everything?” she asks softly.

    “Yes,” he says just as softly, pulling her into a tight hug. “I don’t say things like that lightly.”

    She tilts her head back to look up into his face. “I believe you,” she murmurs, just before she kisses him.