I shake my head. Of course he did. The bastard. “What did you tell him?”
“That we’re seeing where this goes. Like any new couple.”
New. It doesn’t feel like it fits us. How long have I known Brooks? Is that his way of already letting me down easy? That this might just be one big experiment for him now that he can do it?
But why would he say that we’re dating if it’s an experiment? I need to push these thoughts out of my head.
Brooks pulls me out of my spiraling thoughts.
“I can’t tell you the last time I stayed in to watch a movie.”
“Did you want to go out?” I ask Brooks. “The night’s still young. We can.”
Brooks shakes his head and drops down onto the couch. With it being a Sunday night, my regular night off, we both opted for a quiet night in. Especially after skating, I didn’t want to do anything.
“Nope. I do not want to move from this couch.”
Passing a bowl of popcorn over the back of the couch, I grab two mugs of hot cocoa and a bag of peppermint chocolates and take a seat next to Brooks. Comet is spread out on his bed in front of the roaring fireplace, snoring loudly.
“Good.” I snuggle up next to Brooks, both of us in plaid pajama pants and sweatshirts. “I’m quite comfortable here.”
Brooks presses a kiss into my hair as he wraps an arm around me. I grab the remote and press start on one of the movies we found to watch.
Something about a man going home for Christmas and bringing a fake boyfriend to impress his family.
“Do you think they end up together?” Brooks asks.
I throw a piece of popcorn at him. “Of course they do. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a Christmas movie.”
“Hey, you never know. What if a farmer from another town comes in and steals his affections and they run off to the big city?”
“Please never write movies.”
Brooks shrugs. “I’d watch it.”
“Well, shut it, Brooks, so I can watch these two idiots realize their feelings for one another.”
Not unlike the two of us, it seems.
As the two men on TV do indeed realize their feelings for each other, it has my thoughts turning to the man whose arms I’m curled up in.
Brooks.
It’s still hard to believe that we’re together. The last ten days or so have gone by in the blink of an eye. I don’t know what the future might hold for the two of us, but it’s easy to imagine this being our life.
Curled up on the couch watching movies. Coming home from work and having dinner together. Spending our nights wrapped up in each other in bed.
I snuggle even closer to Brooks.
I want it. It’s hard to rein in my feelings for this man now that I finally get to show him what I’m truly feeling.
“Okay, this is pretty cute,” Brooks whispers as he reaches across me to grab a piece of the peppermint candy.
“I always like when they realize they’re in love.” I tilt my mouth up and press a kiss to the underside of Brooks’s jaw.
“Mmm. Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
