Jess woke up feeling sad and hungry. She had fallen asleep early last night thinking about her life and what the hell she was doing thinking about Nick. She felt a bit betrayed by his decision to leave as if she should have been part of that decision. That were pretty close and it seemed like such a whim.
She was doing it again. Analyzing it all over. She was gonna need something to keep her mind off Nick being gone. She ate some breakfast and mulled it over. She wandered around the loft looking for inspiration. Ridiculously she found herself hovering near Nick's door.
Nick had slept horribly last night in the back seat at a truck stop. All night long trucks came and went with their engines running and lights flooding his car. His neck hurt and he was a little nauseous from too much coffee. He had bought some cheap sunglasses at the last gas fill up to keep his impending headache from the sunlight at bay.
And then he got her text
What are your favorite colors?
He pulled over. Immediately. He had to pee anyway but he noticed his heart was beating a bit faster when he saw her name pop up.
Why?
I just never asked you that before. What kind of friend doesn't know that kind of thing? I should know that about you.
He smiled. Red and grey.
Cool she wrote back.
I am gonna guess your favorite color is blue?
Why, cuz all my dresses are blue?
Yeah, and ur pajamas and you always draw blue flowers and there are no blue flowers so it looks weird.
Well, there should be blue flowers. The world would be better.
The sky is so blue today. Look outside.
She walked to the loft windows and gazed up at the big blue sky. Yes it was a beautiful big blue sky and the day somehow felt better all of a sudden.
Jess had stared at Nick's room for a long time smiling at his stuff all around. He had made his bed and picked up all his dirty clothes on the floor. That's when inspiration had hit her.
She walked back into her room and took out a bunch of boxes in her closet. She found what she had been looking for and began to sketch out some pictures. Oh, this was gonna be good.
Nick was feeling tired from driving all day. He had enough money to stay a few nights in hotel rooms and thought tonight would be a good night to sleep well after last night's fiasco. He stopped at a market and bought a six pack and some more sandwich stuff. He found an ugly looking hotel and realized it had Nick Miller written all over it. His room smelled a bit like cigarettes and the carpet was sooo dated but he didn't care. The bed was comfortable enough and there were no trucks around. He drained his beers fairly quickly, ate some food and settled in for some cable tv.
This was living man. It was good to be alone. Nobody to tell him what to do or eat or how much to drink. And then the funny commercial came on that Jess loved where the cat falls for the neighbor cat who is all sexy and hot cuz she eats sexy skinny food.
Nick picks up his phone and texts Jess sexy cat food
Wha?
Your stupid cat commercial is on with the sexy cat
Where are you watching tv?
In a hotel in the desert.
Sounds lonely.
It's not. It's great. I can watch what I want and eat what I want. Although I did hear your voice telling me to eat fruit earlier. It was annoying.
Jess smiled. He was thinking of her on his trip. I am glad I can still annoy you from this far away.
He smiled. She was always doing that.
So did you?
Did I do what?
Eat fruit?
Maybe.
Ooooh, tell me all about it.
Nick feeling flirty watching HBO after a six pack it was juicy and sweet and I slurped it all up.
Jess's face turned hot and her mouth dropped open. She didn't know what to say.
Sorry, that was probably too weird. I may have had a six pack.
She regained her composure after a moment and felt giddy
Sounds tasty she wrote back
It was, I wish I had more
She put the phone down as she crawled into bed. Whoa. Did he mean for that to come out so sexy she thought.
Nick smiled to himself thinking about her face with a smile on it. Hoping that didn't come off creepy but instead as kind of pervy cute. Man he needed to just get to bed. He was so tired.