The day after the kiss

It was a beautiful morning and kitty had woken up with a huge grin on her face. She kept picturing tom and couldn't stop thinking about their first kiss: it was perfect. She had started her day early as usual and got onto her jobs however the mood was less positive in miles and tom's tent and the silence had become unbearable for tom, he was much more used to an energetic and happy miles.

"Is everything okay, only you seen to be..."

Miles interrupted before tom could even finish his sentence "I'm fine!"

"Okay okay.. I was only asking, I am here if you need to talk" he said sympathetically

"Well I think I'll be just fine" he said his words getting quieter as he began to leave the tent.

Tom had no idea what all that was about but he had not the time to think about it, there were patients that needed treating and with that he put on his tie and threw his jacket on. While walking to the wards he passed kitty. A smile grew on both of their faces and he felt himself blushing she had that effect on him. As they walked past each other she moved closer so her body brushed past him and whispered "meet me this afternoon about one usual place". Tom nodded and carried on walking he knew he had to be careful when he was around kitty because if anyone was to speculate over them they could be in serious trouble.

Tom arrived into theatre where miles was waiting, he seemed to be in a much better mood now and when tom smiled at him miles greeted him with a hello. Miles had been thinking about seeing kitty and tom together and he was angry this morning because he had liked kitty and he though she had not only beautiful looks but a fascinating personality and when he had seen them meeting his heart broke a little but miles had given himself time to process everything and when he had thought about how he was towards tom that morning he felt ashamed. He was happy for tom, tom never got the girl he was always to interested in work and for him to be having a 'secret' meeting with kitty in the woods he knew that tom must really like her.

Kitty had finished her jobs and asked matron if she could have her break. Matron agreed and kitty quickly ran to her tent, she was conscious of the time as she knew she had run over. She got into the tent and brushed down her apron and made a few adjustments to her hair and with that she made her way into the woods. She arrived at the place where they had only kissed yesterday and for some reason she had butterflies, she never used to get butterflies but tom made her get them constantly. She was surprised to not find tom there when she got there so she leant against a tree and waited. After ten minutes had passed she heard the sound of leaves crunching she jumped up quickly and to her relief it was tom.

"I'm sorry I'm late they were running over in theatre" he said, his Scottish accent sounding out of breath as though he had run there.

"It's okay I haven't been here long" she said fluttering her eyelashes she knew tom liked that. "So…..what do you want to do?" she asked.

"I don't mind" he said moving his body closer to hers, he wanted to kiss her he always wanted to kiss her. To him she was perfect and he loved how today the sunny weather had brought out her freckles.

She moved in closer which gave tom the sign she felt comfortable, he had presumed things hadn't gone well in her previous relationship and therefore didn't want to make kitty ever feel uncomfortable. As their bodies got closer so did their lips and before they knew it there lips were pressing together, she put her arms around his neck and he pulled her closer towards him. Kitty felt safe in tom's arms and that was something she hadn't felt for a long time. They spent the next half an hour talking about life and kitty told tom some storied about Sylvie as a child, she loved the way he only seemed to care about what Sylvie was like and not about her ex-husband. They also spent a lot of time kissing each time they kissed was like their first. Before they knew it they realised there breaks were over and it was time to be heading back to the wards. They were slowly walking back and tom took kitty's hand locking his fingers into hers. Kitty looked up to tom and kissed him on the cheek, "thankyou" she whispered.

"What for?" he questioned

"An amazing afternoon" she blushed a little

He had a huge grin on his face and squeezed her hand reassuring her he felt the exact same way.

Tom had not felt this way for a long time. The feeling of being nervous to say the wrong thing or the worry of her not feeling the same way but with spending more time with kitty and her sharing stories and of course kissing made him feel happiness, was he falling in love?

As they got closer to the ending of the path out of the woods their hands fell apart.

"You go first, I'll follow in a few minutes" he said.

She smiles "same time tomorrow captain?"

He laughed and looked straight at her with his beautiful blue eyes "of course"

She turned back around and started walking out of the woods; tom couldn't help himself but look at her as she walked away, how someone could be so perfect he didn't know.