know, once a week or so. I need to blow off steam after work. You work eighty hours a week and see if you don’t need to do the same.”
Jaci is an intern at the local hospital which does keep her very busy so I can assume this would be a great way to end an eighty hour work week. Lena, Jaci, and I drink our Margaritas then head to the dance floor. I almost forgot how freeing it feels to dance. Just moving around without a care in the world, it’s very accelerating. Half way through the tenth or so dance I feel my thigh vibrate. I walk over to the bar, order another drink, and check my phone. It’s a text from John.
“Hope you’re having a good time. Thinking of you.” That same smile creeping on my face I’m sure.
“John just texted Ava.” I look up to see Jaci and Lena looking at me.
“What?”
“I was just telling Lena that John texted you and that is why you have that big goofy grin on your face. Are you going to go meet that guy or what?”
“I don’t know. The more I think about it the more I want to but I’m just worried about Nicholas finding out.”
“How would Nick find out? He’ll hardly notice if you don’t show up at home.” Lena looks at me and I can see the question on her face that she soon expresses out loud,
“Aren’t you scared that John just wants a fling? Do you want to have a fling? You just don’t seem like the type Avalon.” Of course Jaci vocalizes her opinion quickly as well.
“What’s wrong with a fling?! Hell, as far as I’m concerned every woman needs a fling every now and then especially when their boyfriends are assholes.”
I think about it and think about it but I just don’t know.
“I really have no idea what I want to do. It would not be a fling. We’ve been talking too long for that. Sometimes I think he knows me more than I know myself. If I do meet him it will not be a fling. Although, I am scared of what it will be if I do meet him.”
“Ava, I say go for it. Fling or not go meet the guy. See what happens. Live a little.” Jaci always had the same answer for everything. To be honest I really did want to meet him. Before I knew it Jaci grabbed my phone.
“Here I’ll text him for you and tell him you want to meet.”
“JACI!” I yank the phone back before she could text him all kinds of sex invites, then text him myself. “Would love to meet. When and where?”
I figured I was just drunk enough to do it so why not? Within five seconds I got a response. I held my breath while I read it:
“Ava. Are you sure?” Finally I decide to meet him and he wants to second guess me? What a man.
“Yes I am sure. Now tell me when and where before I change my mind.”
“Right now. It is not too far from you. It is off Two Lights Road. I will text directions to you in a minute." Jaci was reading the text and immediately grabs her keys.
“Alright, I’m not drunk whereas you and Lena are so I guess that means I’m driving. Let’s roll ladies!”
Before I knew it we were all in the car and as soon as we received the directions from John, Jaci types them into her navigation, and we are on our way. The closer we get to the little arrow on the screen the shorter my breath becomes.
The snow is falling harder and harder the closer we get to his house. Am I crazy for meeting him at his house? Should we have chosen a more public place to meet? What am I saying? I know this man. Looking out the window it looks like a typical winter day in Maine, snow two feet high all around but luckily the roads were okay. Although with the way the snow was falling the roads wouldn’t be okay for long until they come through with the snow plows again. All the trees look naked with icicles hanging off of them and the clouds in the sky look translucent almost ghost like. The farther we drive the fewer houses we see. My heart begins to beat out of my chest and I am so nervous I can feel my body shaking.
“Calm down Ava.