TIMELESS 7
Chapter 1
Giddy. It was the only word Sam could use to describe how she felt. She couldn't stop smiling.
When she had arrived home after Jake had left for college her family had looked at her in confusion. They had expected her to be sad. Instead, she was smiling. Not just smiling but almost obnoxiously happy.
"Jake get off okay?" Gram asked.
"Yes," Sam answered with a smile. She hugged her baby brother and dangled Dad's keys in front of his face. Cody tried to grab the keys and Sam kept dangling them.
"How was Maxine?" Brynna wondered.
"Crying," Sam said, still smiling.
Gram and Brynna glanced at each other.
"Oh, I need to charge up my phone," Sam ran up the stairs to her room.
"She's taking it a lot better than I thought she would," Brynna said to Gram.
"Yes," Gram nodded a thoughtful look on her face.
Upstairs, Sam plugged in her phone and fell backwards upon the bed, her arms hugging her middle as she let out a giggle. Yep, she was definitely giddy.
Jake had kissed her! Not just a quick kiss on the lips as they've done before, but a real kiss. A man kissing a woman kiss. And what a kiss. An icky kiss that wasn't so icky.
Sam played it over and over in her mind and couldn't stop smiling. She was sad that he was gone, but she knew she'd see him again. He couldn't kiss her like that and then disappear out of her life. That wasn't Jake.
He had meant that kiss, just as she had meant hers. Plus he said he would call later. Sam touched her lips with her fingertips, surprised that they were a bit tender but in a good way. It was as if Jake had awakened the feelings in her lips. In a way he had.
It had been so unlike him to grab her like that and pull her to him. If she hadn't been so surprised, she probably would have fought him. Wouldn't she have been a fool!
My goodness, he knew how to kiss. She hoped her kisses were okay to him. She worried about it, but he hadn't looked like he was complaining.
Sam threw out her arms wide as she lay on her back and bit back her laughter. Yep, giddy was a good word for her.
Now it would be worse though. She knew what she was missing with him gone. She rolled onto her stomach and hid her face in her pillow. Sam felt the wetness in her eyes.
She couldn't imagine her life without Jake close by. Sam had survived two years in San Francisco without Jake and it had been awful. She had six years now with just the summers together.
Sam gave a great sigh. Yeah, but how great would it be when he returned and they could kiss and kiss and then kiss some more. Giddy. She was definitely giddy with the thought of it.
She gave a squeal and put the pillow over her face to try and keep the noise to a minimum.