Post by emmaleepearson on Jan 30, 2011 0:03:17 GMT -8
you're the only one i would take a shot on
keep me hanging on so contagiously
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She left his side and went to the laundry room, pulling on her clothes, noticing Charlie watching her out of the corner of her eye. “Peeping tom,” she accused, as she pulled her shirt on over her bra.
He laughed. “It’s not like I haven’t seen it all before...” he said, throwing her a knowing smile when she called him a peeping tom. Maybe he needed to bring up this moving in thought up now, before she made up her mind on a new apartment, and before he decided, or got the impression it wouldn’t be a good idea. “I was thinking...” he started, voice trailing off as he tried to figure out how to word it properly. “Well. I was thinking...maybe you could move in here...if you wanted to, that is. It would save you having to look for another apartment...and you’ll probably be over here most of the time anyways...and I’d really like it if you did,” he ended, a little lamely, knowing that he had ended up rambling through it. He couldn’t help it, asking her to move in was a big step, even though they had been together for years now it didn’t make him any less nervous about asking, nobody wanted to be rejected over that sort of thing.
“I'm sorry, I didn't catch all that. But minus all the pauses and the ums, did you just ask me to move in?" she said, a smirk on her face. “Did Charlie Cordell just ask me to move in with him?" she started chuckling, her laughter building as he just awkwardly stared at her. “After almost five years, it's finally happened?” she walked back over to him happily, knowing he had probably been over analysing the thought ever since they moved to the new town. She had been open to the thought, and never wanted to be the one to suggest it. She had wanted him to make the step. “I'd love to,” she said, hugging him lightly. She smiled into his shirt, and stayed in his arms for a minute before letting go. “But no seriously, the mention of sock puppets...such a turnoff!” she said and laughed happily, running away from him, into the kitchen.
Charlie sighed, rubbing one hand over his face, stifling a yawn. The memories seemed to come back more when he was tired, and he was tired right now. He had been working for at least fourteen hours, and he hadn’t been able to get a decent sleep in beforehand. It was late before he got left off his shift, and he had to stop at Safeway before he headed home, since he told Lena he would do some grocery shopping before he came home, to save her having to drag both kids out to do it herself. Probably a bad idea, he needed sleep.
Lost in reminiscing thoughts, he realised he was pretty much just pulling random things off the shelf, throwing them into the cart regardless of whether he needed them or not, occasionally realising before pulling them back out and replacing them on the shelves. What was this thing he had been thinking about, to do with distractions, when he had been riding with Arielle a few days ago? That’s it...he needed distractions or he was going to lose the plot, he thought. He hadn’t thought about Alexa at all when he had been riding with her, well, it had gotten easier to stop thinking about it after a while, but now it was just him by himself, and he was beginning to dwell on it again.
Leaning his elbows on the shopping cart, he dropped his head into his hands, groaning tiredly. “This...is not working,” he said out loud, mostly meaning it to be to himself but he wasn’t really paying attention to make sure there wasn’t anyone around him who would be able to hear it.
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[/font][/center][/size][/color]Tagged Open
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Outfit Err...police uniform? xD
Muse Stay With Me - Train
Notes *pats Charlie*