A/N - A longer chapter to end my day. Reviews in my inbox make me grin!
She wandered to the window.
Her heart jumped when she realized she could see right into his room across the courtyard.
She giggled as she watched him sitting there, legs stretched out before him.
The giggle turned into a laugh as she watched him click his shoes together.
"He has to hate those." She said aloud.
They had spent an entire morning scouring stores for his wedding shoes at the mall.
"I'm buying my own shoes." He'd announced months before. "There is just something wrong about wearing rented shoes."
They'd agreed on the shiny black dress shoes. She made him try on three pairs, all in different sizes. She'd wanted him to be comfortable.
After nearly an hour in the department store he assured her they were fine, and they spent the rest of the day drinking smoothies and making fun of other mall patrons.
She watched as he stood and walked to the mirror, adjusting his jacket and smoothing his hair.
She smoothed her own hair subconsciously as she watched him through the window.
She had told him to wear his hair the way he always did.
Seeing him with his hair meticulously coifed on their wedding day wouldn't have been right.
In return, he'd asked her to pull her hers half up, in a clip, the way she had before she had gotten her hair cut shortly after their first date.
They would be wearing their hair much the same they had that fateful night a few years back.
The night she told him, "I can't"
She glanced at the clock.
Thirty one minutes until she promised him she would.