He hugged her tightly as she let out a small yawn.
'Tired guv?' Gerry asked her.
'Don't call me guv', leave that for work. My name will do. But yeah I am.' He laughed.
'Okay Sandra.' He said over exaggerating her name, she scowled at him. 'Go back to sleep.'
'Gerry, it's half one in the afternoon.'
'What difference does that make? He asked her.
'Half the day's gone.'
'Sandra, I've known you nearly 9 years, I never knew you were one of those 'live every day like it's you last' kind.'
'I'm not.'
'Okay then, go back to sleep. Can't have you falling asleep in the restaurant tonight.'
'Gerry, I don't remember agreeing to go out tonight.'
'Well you are. So sleep now.'
'What are you going to do?' she tried to argue, but was too tired to fight her point properly.
'I'm going to lay right here, and hug you tightly while you sleep. Sound okay guv?'
'Gerry we've spoken about this 'guv' thing already. Alzheimer's creeping in already old man?' they both laughed.
'Sorry, it's a habit.'
'Well a habit you better stop, but yeah it strangely does sound good.'
She fell asleep not long later, her arm around Gerry's waist and his arms curled around her. To Gerry this was heaven, having Sandra tucked up against his side, sleeping. She let out a slight snore, to which Gerry couldn't help but laugh at. This was perfection.
It had now reached three o'clock, they were still in the same position and Sandra was still fast asleep. Gerry decided he had to wake her, otherwise she wouldn't sleep tonight.
'Sandra?' he tried as he gently stroked her arm. She didn't awake. He pressed kisses to the top of her head and she still didn't awake. But she did wake up when he tried to move out of the bed.
'Where are you going?' she asked him sleepily.
'Well I was trying to wake you up and you wouldn't. So I was going to get some water to through on you.'
'You wouldn't have dared.'
'Well considering you're awake, we'll never find out.'
Sandra looked more awake now as she climbed out of her bed and walked over to Gerry. She wrapped her arms around his neck and reached up a bit to kiss him, as she was a little bit shorter than him. They both pulled away for air, not long after, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. Her head resting on his shoulder. Both happy to just stay like this forever. That's when Gerry decided to say it.
'Sandra, I love you.' She immediately stepped away from him. It was her normal reaction to anything like this. Even though she felt the same way, it's not the same as hearing it. Sandra had never let anyone in, she'd never let herself into the position that anyone had said that to her before. So she had no idea what to do.
'Sandra, it's okay. I know you aren't used to this sort of thing, but I'm going to get you used to it.' He told her as he took that step towards her, that she'd taken to get away from him.
'Erm…?' This was unusual for Sandra, she had no idea what to stay. But when he kissed her and she kissed back, then he knew how she felt. Her kiss said what she was too scared to.
'Come on Gerry, let's go see what we can have for a late lunch.' She said choosing to ignore what he'd said. He wasn't at all bothered by this, that kiss had told him everything he'd wanted to know. He smiled at her.
'Okay Sandra, but do you actually have any food in?'
'Yes. I do eat in occasionally you know' He walked down the stairs in front of her and made his way into the kitchen. She followed and just stood there while Gerry searched her cupboards for food.
'Super noodles and tinned soup? Sandra you aren't a student anymore.'
'Yes I know. But I happen to like them and they're easy to cook.' She added.
'Oh, I'll never understand you babe.'
'You don't need to. Anyway it's not babe, it's Sandra. My name is Sandra.' He just laughed at her.
Whatever happened next, he knew he wouldn't stop until he found a loving name that she liked, or didn't complain about at least.
Okay, so I don't know yet, this might be it for this story. Tell me what you think. Do you want another chapter?
Please tell me what you think because I'm really worried about this story, I wrote the first chapter when I was in a really bad/low mood and this one at half 5 in the morning.
Love Beth xxx
