SLOW HANDS

Chloe : We said goodbye to each other. Why are you bringing it up again?

Timothy : As much as I loved the amazing way we said goodbye to each other, it doesn’t change the fact that we made a mistake. The silence and distance is killing me. I can’t seem to stop thinking about you. I know I want more from this and you do too. Don’t you think that we missed out on the years we should have been together? Now we have another chance. Somehow we have found our way back to each other. Are you really willing to let this opportunity go too? You want me too, Chloe. You know you should be with me.

Chloe : I’m not going to deny the fact that I do want you. I have been thinking about you a lot too and it’s not been easy for me either. I have my reservations and I don’t know what else to tell you.

Timothy : I want to see you.

Chloe : What? You just left a week ago. What are you going to do? Abandon everything you have to do and fly down here again just to be with me?

Timothy : If you say you want to see me too, I will. I’m not okay with letting things just end. What we have is just too special to let go off. I have heard your reasons. I just want you to give me a chance to change your mind. We could go someplace and spend a weekend.. Or a week. As long as we want to. I just want to show you that we could make each other happy… We could be happier than we are now…together.

Chloe : There are things to think about. We can’t just run off into the sunset together.

Timothy : Why not? What’s wrong with running off together? Sounds spontaneous to me, and from my experience, spontaneous is always the best.

Chloe smiled. Yeah he was right. But one of them had to think straight.

Chloe : What about work? What if people find out? I don’t want people to think that I got your company’s account because I was sleeping with you. That’s exactly what everyone would think and it could give people the wrong idea. My career could be at stake. We gotta think about these things Tim.

Timothy : If I fix that, will you say yes to spending some time alone with me?

Chloe stared at his last message for a while. Just minutes ago she was surfing through dating apps. Trying to find someone to match with so she could get over Timothy quicker, and yet somehow, now she was talking about going away with him for god knows how long. She almost laughed at herself. With Timothy, she seemed to have no atom of self control. She thought of Evan, and then decided that she would call and ask for some time off. Another message popped into her phone.

Timothy : I’m dying here. Please say something.

Chloe smiled, and then she let herself go. This was what she wanted, and she just had to take a leap of faith and hope not to get hurt.

Chloe : Alright

Timothy : That’s a yes? You gotta be specific Chloe.

Chloe giggled.

Chloe : Yes Tim. That’s a yes..

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“Oh God. Oh God. I can’t believe that I’m doing this” Chloe said aloud as she threw clothes from her wardrobe onto the bed. She was going to spend a week with Timothy.. Or more… God knows how long Timothy planned for them to be together. She was really going to do this. She repeated it in her head several times as if that would make her feel less nervous. It didn’t help. Instead, it made her overthink even more. A lot of scenes had played out in her head about how this could turn out … both good and bad. And yet here she was, still planning to go with him.

She had to tell herself the truth, and the truth was that she wanted to go with Timothy. She wanted to be with him. She missed him like crazy and the idea of spending some time alone with him was just too exciting to resist. She had even gone shopping, she thought as she stared at the clothes scattered all over her bed. Timothy had not told her where they were going to because he wanted it to be a surprise, but he told her to pack enough for one week or more, and he had told her to include swimsuits. Apparently they were going to be doing some swimming too.

It was only when she had gone through her stuff that she realized that she barely had any clothes for this kind of get away. Most of her clothes were office clothes and she knew she couldn’t wear those on this trip. She needed new swimsuits, and some sexy outfits. So she had gone out and purchased some bum shorts, crop tops, sexy nighties, new bikinis and swimsuits, and of course some sexy matching underwear. She was overthinking things. She knew that, but she couldn’t help it.

Her phone rang and she checked the caller ID. It was Ann, her friend from the office. Ann had agreed to help her with some things at the office when she was away, and she had also instructed Ann to call her if she needed her assistance with anything she couldn’t handle on her own. Even Evan had been very supportive when she asked for some weeks off and he had gladly given her his permission. Clearly he was still excited about what she had done with Packard Enterprises and also things seemed to be getting better between him and Christina so he was probably in a good mood.

“Hello” Chloe said cheerfully as she picked the call and lifted the phone to her ear.

“Hey girl, what’s up?” said Ann on the other end. “What are you doing?”

Chloe sighed. “Trying to figure out what clothes to take on this trip,” she replied. “You know, I have no idea how other people do this. It’s so stressful trying to figure out what to take, what’s important and what isn’t. I just don’t want to get there only to realize that I forgot something… Or worse still, realize that I didn’t bring something because I thought it wasn’t important only to find out that it is”