Kaleo bet that she was the first kind of person rather than the second.
She stopped by the arm of the couch and then turned back to look at him, a little lop-sided smile on her face. "Uh... I need to go to the restroom. Are you okay here?"
He nodded. "I'll behave."
She had started out of the room through an open doorway and turned back around to laugh at him. "There's a few bottles of water somewhere. Nothing really in the fridge, sorry."
"I can get a glass of water from the sink if you just point me to the..."
He saw the way she was looking at him, and he shook his head. "No cups?"
She looked at him strangely before she nodded. "I forgot. You just moved here from Hawaii." She gestured at the sink. "We don't drink from the sink. The water is okay for most stuff, but I used to have one of those Brita water things to filter the water from the sink, but..."
Kaleo held up his hands. "Sorry, I'll wait until you get back."
Her smile showed her relief in more than one way, and she disappeared into the shadows.
He took the time to look around a little.
There was a window over the sink in the kitchen, and he walked over there to look out.
He remembered seeing an awning over the windows near the lawn in front of the apartment building, so the first floor... or whatever they called it, was sunken. Like a basement floor.
Huh. Cool.
He looked out and saw the light from the lamp near the corner and nodded.
This apartment was probably pretty cool even in the summer.
From there, he moved across the main room to the back of the apartment and saw there was a patio area in the back.
It looked like a table and benches and even though it was pretty dark in the back, he thought he could see some kind of grill area in the corner. It looked like a nice place to hang out, but the depth of the patio area compared to the ground at the front of the building made him a little curious about the average rainfall in the area.
It likely couldn't compare to the average rainfall on the Windward side of Oahu. The wall of the Ko?olau mountains made for a perfect storm of rain pretty much all year around.
He didn't remember seeing mountains anywhere near Center City.
Hills, sure.
But mountains?
A door opened and he heard a little creak of a hinge.
"I probably should tell you that there's a bathroom you can use in the hall. It's next to my bedroom rather than being anen suitebathroom. Feel free to use it. You don't have to ask.
She walked up beside him and looked out the back patio door.
"It doesn't look much different in the daytime," she explained. "Greener, but that's about it. I put some plants outside when I moved here but something, probably dogs in the area, spilled everything out of the pots and that's the last time I did that."
She gestured to the couch. "Go ahead and sit down. I'll get some bottled water."
He nodded. "Thanks."
He made his way to the couch and sat down. The cushions on it were overstuffed, but that made it comfortable and gave him a feeling of being a kid again.
Lexie dropped down onto the cushions beside him with two bottles of water and set them on the coffee table.
The way she'd dropped down had made a wave of sorts in the cushions, but he wasn't going to say a word about it.
