Beth moves in before her next heat. Sean helps her pack up most of her furniture and move it into storage, with a few of her friends lending hands. She hands in her keys for the apartment and replaces them with the keys he had made for her, and for a few blissful moments, all is right with the world.
Their schedules don’t overlap well. She works four nights a week at one job, and two to four mornings a week at the other, depending on when she happens to get scheduled. He works his two jobs and has one day off a week, where he sometimes sees her and sometimes doesn’t.
There are quiet moments, too. Sometimes they just cuddle on the couch with a movie; he’s slept with his head in her lap, and she’s slept draped across the front of him. He teaches her how to play Mario Kart— she’s still no
