Tell me you love me, come back and haunt meWe finished the chores with time to spare, lamenting the gorgeous property without decent landscaping because anything you do out here is going to be blasted by wind and salt and Bridget's Big Feels anyway. I can erode iron with my mind, or so they say. Imagine what I do to the grass.
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Lochlan peeled off his t-shirt and let his milky white redhead flesh meet the sun for the first time this year. He stretched out on the big wooden double lounge chair and patted the space beside him. I curled up against him, fell asleep and found the time machine that took me back to a scrubbly, sunny hillside with a big wooden lounge chair just like this, a day off and a pale Lochlan who was much younger than he is now.
This is the perfect day, he said then and he says now and I am switched back to the present. I nod without opening my eyes.
Shush...I'm dreaming of the last chair we slept on in the sun.
Sam breaks the euphoria anyway because his curiosity is almost as dangerous as mine.
I'm assuming you're remembering better times?
Better? Loch is surprised. No. They weren't better. It was just the two of us. We had followed a group overseas and then found ourselves alone and I took Bridget to stay at a house I had been given the address of from someone else on the show who took in performers but it was difficult. It was a beautiful property but we didn't speak the language and they were less than pleasant. They thought I had kidnapped Bridget because she was so young.
Did you?
Maybe. He smiles.