She lingered in the hallway for a while, before walking through into her living room and sitting on the chair instead of next to him on the sofa.
"Fancy telling me the truth now Sandra?!" Gerry asked her.
"I told you before."
"Sorry but I just don't believe that."
"Oh come off it Gerry. It's not as if you're irresistible to all women."
"Yes I know, but am I that bad that you're embarrassed about your feelings?" she looked at him shyly; she knew this was going to be a long night.
"Drink?" she asked after they'd been sat in silence staring at each other for a few minutes, she had just spoken to break the tension.
"No. Sandra stop avoiding this conversation and just tell me the truth."
"Fine then Jack was right. Now I've told you can you go?"
"Is that really what you want?" Gerry asked her calmly. She slowly shook her head. "What do you want then?" he continued.
"That's just it Gerry, I don't know." She got up and positioned herself next to Gerry on the sofa. She reached forwards and wrapped her arms around his neck, he immediately moved, putting one hand one her waist and the other at the back of her head, gently pushing her lips closer to his. Their noses were touching, when they both stopped, just looking deep into each others eyes before finally closing them and closing the small distance.
Sandra spoke as she pulled back, the smile on her face bigger than he'd ever seen it. "Okay, that stays between us. Anyway I'll see you at work tomorrow." He leaned in and kissed her again, it soon became obvious he wouldn't be leaving hers that night.
Sandra woke early the next morning, the sun flooding in as she'd forgotten to close the curtains. Instead of getting up to close them she decided to bury her head into Gerry's chest. She'd never expected this to happen and it was all Jack's fault. Not that he'd be finding out for a very long time.
Gerry woke grumpily, he was not a morning person and was not at all happy to be woken at half 4 by the soon. Looking down at Sandra curled up lightly snoring into his chest made him smile. He stroked her arm and as she suddenly jumped back to being fully aware of what was going on.
"What the hell? Oh it was you." Sandra spoke but sleepily. "Why'd you wake me up?"
"Well the sun woke me up and I needed you to move so I could close the curtains. Anyway now you're awake, how about some breakfast."
"You do realise what time it is don't you?!"
"Yes. Quarter to 5." She yawned. "Come on, up you get lazy." She just managed to hit his arm as he jumped out of the bed, throwing on his clothes from yesterday. "Come on, I know you women take ages to get ready."
So out they went for breakfast at some little café Gerry knew with pancakes, waffles, crumpets and any other breakfast pastry you could think of.
"You know Gerry I think I could get used to this, as long as you tell no one."
The End
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