Sophie!
Granny
Double votes for Sophie!
Ford
Yeah, sorry, Si. Sophie for life!
Duncle Silas left the conversation.
CHAPTER 21
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Anna’s back was smashed tight against my chest, my arms encircling her middle as we studied the brownie mixes in Food Lion. I pushed a lock of hair from her neck and placed a soft kiss right behind her ear. “Thanks for coming to my game last weekend.”
“I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.” She reached backward, hooking her hand around my neck, pulled my head down, and kissed me.
“Get a room,” an elderly lady mumbled as she drove by in a motorized cart.
“We can’t!” I hollered as she zoomed away. “We’re waiting for marriage.”
Anna giggled.
The woman glowered over her shoulder. “Not if you keep that up, you’re not.” Then she disappeared around the end of the aisle.
Anna shook with quiet laughter in my arms. “She’s probably right.” She stepped away. “We might need to ease up.”
“Not a chance.” I pulled her back against me. “I only get you once a week. My hands are going to be on you the entire time. Get used to it.”
We’d been doing the long-distance thing for a month and it was rough. Wonderful, intense, what I lived for every day…but rough. Right now, it was eleven a.m. on a Sunday. We’d played Notre Dame Friday night and spent all day Saturday coming home. The second I got to Knoxville, I jumped in the car and drove to Sweet Grass, arriving at two a.m. When Anna got up at eight to go to church, I got my exhausted behind up and went with her. No way was she leaving me for a second. So yeah, I was beat. Happy but beat.
Anna had told me it was okay if we couldn’t see each other every week. But it wasn’t okay with me. I had an entire Sunday free and I was going to spend it with her. Well, spend it doing homework, eating brownies, and making out. With her. And then I’d hop back in the car at four in the morning and head home.
But Madden was with me. We could take turns driving. He and Tally had hit it off from minute one. They were back at the apartment right now. Alone. Maybe they were “getting a room”? I didn’t know what Tally’s thoughts were on that kind of thing these days. Regardless, I was happy for Stilts. He’d been waiting a long while for a decent girl to come along.
I pointed to the mix with Reese’s peanut butter chips. “That one looks good.”
“Oh, I love Reese’s. Let’s do it.”
I grabbed the box and we headed off down the aisle. “Do we have milk back at the apartment?” I asked.
“Hmm, probably curdled.” She laughed. “Let’s go grab some.” She pulled me by the hand. “I still can’t believe you got us matching sweatshirts.”
“You can’t?” I looked down at my hoodie and then at hers. They were Knoxville colors, baby blue with the words Team Blupree printed in bright orange. “I mean, if anyone should wear these, it should be us. Amirite?”
She looked back and tossed me a wink. “You’re right.”
I grinned. “Does that mean you’re gonna do it?”
“Change our last names to Blupree when we get married?” She snorted. “Heck no.” Then she turned, pirouetting into me, and pecked me on the mouth. “I cannot wait to change my name to Bishop.”
My hands were on her hips. “Is that right?”
“Yup.” Another kiss. “And have all your babies.” She poked a finger into my cheek. “And every one of them will have that dimple. And be lefties.”
I nipped her nose with mine. “And have your smile and amber eyes.”
