Charlie

My heart sank a little bit in my chest and I wasn’t sure what to say now. Of all the ways I had played it out in my head, that wasn’t the response I was hoping she would give me. I thought that she would wrap her arms around me and tell me how much she missed me. I had hoped that she would miss me as much as I missed her. I felt like I was dying without her every night when I laid down. That’s why I was here, but how was I supposed to put that into words that didn’t make me sound like an idiot?

“I’m here for you.”

It was all that came out.

“Here for me? I haven’t seen you in months. What do you mean that you are here for me?”

She wasn’t going to make this easy and she wasn’t jumping into my arms.

“I missed you and wanted to see you.”

“You could have called.”

Yeah I could have. I think I was thinking I should have when it came down to it now. The way she was acting, she had a point. I have a feeling that it would have been easier if I didn’t get rejected face to face.

“Yeah, I could have. I wanted it to be a surprise. It went better in my head. I thought you would be happy to see me.”

“I am.”

“Then come here.”

She moved towards me a little slower than I would have liked. She wasn’t that far away, a mere few feet, but it felt so far away and when I got her into my arms, a sense of peace that I hadn’t felt since she was in my arms last time came over me.

“Fuck I have missed you Merle. I mean, damn you are a sight for sore eyes.”

“I didn’t think I would see you again. I was just thinking about you a little while ago.”

That was all I needed to hear and a part of me was sure that it was going to take a long time to make her see the truth. I couldn’t wait any longer and I kissed her right there in front of her door. It wasn’t at all the right way, but I couldn’t wait any longer to have her lips on mine. I missed that touch more than the soft curves that were pulled against me.

Her tongue was responsive and swirled with mine, making me hard as hell. Pinning her against the door, she made a sound of need and my hands started to move down her hips and I grabbed a part of her ass and squeezed. “Where can we go?”

The question pulled her from the moment and it was like she was remembering something.

“Nowhere around here.”

“Why not?”

It was then that someone from behind her called her name and I remembered why she was there to begin with. I had gotten ahead of myself and I felt like such an idiot because of it.

“No sorry, my mind was elsewhere.”

Her eyes moved to the hard knot in my pants.

“I can see that.”

I growled under my breath and that only made her giggle a little more. I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be too much to coax her out with me. I’m sure that it wouldn’t be too complicated to find somewhere to take advantage of the need in her eyes.

“Let me check on her and I will be back in a minute. Come in. You can wait down here or upstairs; first door on the left is my room.”

I stepped inside of the older two story house and I smelled potpourri that reminded me of my own parent’s place. It was strong and hit me in the face. Merle stayed for a minute and then went off into one of the rooms down the hallway and I was left to stand there by the door.

Confused and filled with different emotions, I wanted to get her back in my arms and figure something out. I hadn’t really come with a plan for when I got here. I had thought about it a lot and fantasized about it, but now that I was here I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to come of this. I knew the basic idea was that I wanted her back in my arms and life, but there was no real thought on how it was all going to work out. She was here and I was in Alaska. How does that work?

I didn’t have long to dwell. She was back quickly and she had a smile on her face.

“I was hoping that you would be in my bedroom.”

My body perked up and it was like I knew that I was going to get what I wanted and what I needed, finally.

“Yeah?”

She nodded her head and started up the stairs. There was a look before she turned around and I wasn’t going to have to be told twice. I was throbbing for her and there was a look of mischief in her eyes that I had seen before. I liked that look, a lot.

Watching her ass on the way up did not help my constitution. She was delicate and I knew that, but if I watched it much more, I was only going to be thinking of smashing her. It was an instinct that was hard to deny and each twist of her hips pulled me in deeper.

She pulled me into a room off to the side when we got up the stairs and started to pull her clothes off. “Can you be quiet?”

“I’m not the one that was screaming last time.”

Her face turned a lovely shade of pink as I advanced on her. I didn’t come all of this way to watch. I wanted to participate and have the option to pull it all off myself.