She cleaned up and dressed and found her bedroom empty. Kevin’s clothes were gone and she worried that he’d taken off without saying goodbye. Then she shook her head. He wouldn’t do that, especially now that he’d confessed how important a simple goodbye was to him.
She found him in the kitchen, unwrapping the sandwiches she’d bought for lunch. “I thought you had to leave.”
“I have a little more time before anyone starts wondering where I am.” He grinned. “We did have a lunch date after all.”
She sat at her small table across from him at a loss for where to go from here.
He swallowed a bite of sandwich and then asked, “Are we okay?”
Nodding, she said, “Yeah. I’m just—” She waved her hand, still not finding the words.
“Yeah,” he said quietly. “Surprised me, too.”
Looking into his eyes
