A knock on the door of the library where I sit waiting for the rain, sketchbook in hand. I haven't been drawing, I can't get out of my own way long enough, but I had been planning to do a little.
The knock startles me and I cry out. SHIT!
Sorry, Bee. I'm wondering if I can borrow you.
I jump up. Right. Ben doesn't have to ask. Where's Caleb?
I set him free for a bit. He doesn't need to hover.
He's just trying to make things up to y-
I know he is. I do like the fact that this gives you and Loch a chance to rest so let's leave it as it is for now.
Okay.
Come with me. Ben takes my hand and we leave the library and head downstairs and then turn right and go straight down another hall and then he turns and winks at me and opens his studio door.
Can you stick around while I tune my guitar?
Are you going back to work?
No, I'm going to play a song for the love of my life, if she'll have it.
I might have jumped up and down and done a little happy dance. He thought it was funny anyway but I got a song and it's the best Friday afternoon I've seen in a while. I texted Loch at the end and he came down and got a song too and this is now the best day we've had since Before.