I didn’t have any clue what he was talking about. It was like he was speaking in a foreign language. All I could focus on were his eyes which I was also seeing closer than I’d ever seen before. He had great eyelashes.
Those lashes moved when his eyes narrowed.
“You okay?” he asked.
Oh God. I had to get a hold on myself.
“Yeah, fine, um…the faucet’s in my master bath,” I told him.
He stood there staring at me. I stood there staring at him. Then his lips twitched and he lifted his arm slightly in the direction of my hall.
“You wanna lead the way?” he asked.
Ohmigod! I was such an idiot!
“Right,” I muttered, looked down at my feet and led the way.
When we were both in my bathroom which, with him in it, went from a normal-sized master bath to a teeny-tiny, suffocating space I pointed to the faucet and then pointed out the obvious.
“It won’t turn off.”
“I see that,” he murmured then I stood frozen with mortification as he crouched and opened the doors to my vanity.
Why was he opening the doors to my vanity? I kept my tampons down there! You could see them! They were right at the front for easy accessibility!
Ohmigod!
He reached in, I closed my eyes in despair and wished the floor would gobble me up and suddenly the water turned off.
I opened my eyes, stared at the faucet and exclaimed, “Holy cow! You fixed it!”
He tipped his head back to look at me then he straightened out of his crouch to look down at me.
Then he said, “No, I just turned the water off.”
I blinked up at him. Then I asked, “Pardon?”
“You can turn the water off.”
“You can?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh,” I whispered then went on stupidly, “I should probably have done that before I left for work this morning.”
His mouth twitched again and he said, “Probably. Though you can’t do somethin’ you don’t know you can do.”
I looked to the basin and muttered, “This is true.”
“There’s a valve under the sink. I’ll show it to you after I take a look at the faucet,” he said and I forced my eyes to his. “You probably just need a new washer. Where are your tools?”
I blinked again. “Tools?”
His stared at me and then his lips twitched again. “Yeah. Tools. Like a wrench. You got one of those?”
“I have a hammer,” I offered.
One side of his mouth hitched up in a half-smile. “I’m not sure a hammer is gonna help.”