Chapter 4
Jessica decided to wake up very early, so she set an alarm to 8am. When she woke up, she got dressed, brushed her teeth and ate breakfast and around 9am began to work.
"Ugh, doing this is the only disadvantage in my work, yet it's a huge one." She said out loud when she looked at all the files in her office, when she heard a familiar tune coming from her laptop. It was an incoming Skype call from Lacey. Jessica just rolled her eyes and answered.
"What do you want at 9am, Lacey?" she asked.
"Just to see what you will be wearing to your date with Sportacus." Lacey simply answered.
"Lacey, stop it, it's not a date! I mean, I wish it was, but it's not. And I have many things to do, so I'll hang up on you now like you did yesterday. Bye!" Jessica said and pressed the "End call" button.
"Ok, I will do this – in these two weeks I will work on the History material, and after that I will work on the Literature material which leaves me two weeks of vacation!" she thought out loud and grabbed the History files from the shelves.
Around 3:30pm, Sportacus was on his way to Jessica with Joshua in the stroller, when he met Stingy and Trixie.
"Hey, guys! How are you doing?" he asked.
"Pretty good, and you?" Stingy asked.
"Actually, I'm doing great." He simply replied.
"Great? Really?" Trixie asked surprised.
"Yeah... I'm just trying to be as much happier as I can, and not being stuck with the fact that Stephanie's gone. You know, life goes on..." he explained.
"Right. Anyway, where are you two going?" Stingy tried to change the subject.
"We're on our way to meet Jessica. As much as I know, she's your new neighbour. Have you met her yet?" he asked the two.
"Yes, we did. So what, is she helping you to 'move on', Sportacus?" Trixie asked and gave him a cold look.
"What? No, no! She's just a friend, and she's helping me a little with Joshua, that's all!" Sportacus defended himself.
"Oh, ok. See you later, Sportacus." Trixie said and the two left.
When they were far enough, Sportacus whispered to himself "She may be just a friend, but I actually wish she would help me to move on."
When he finally arrived to her building, he got a little trouble with carrying Joshua in his stroller, but finally made to the second floor. He found Jessica's apartment and knocked on the door.
"Coming!" He heard from the other side of the door.
Jessica looked from the pip-hole and opened the door.
"Hey! Welcome to my place!" she happily said and let them come in.
"You're apartment is really nice, I must say." He said.
"Thank you. So over there it's the bathroom, next to it there's my bedroom, and the other room is my office which I would like to show you but my files are all over the place, so..." she explained.
"That's alright." He just smiled.
The Joshua held out his hands to Jessica again, like he did yesterday.
"Oh, hi to you too! Yeah, I missed you!" she picked him up from the stroller and hugged him tight in her arms.
Again, Sportacus just smiled. Joshua was happy with her, and that made him happy. But like Joshua, he himself felt happy with her.
The two sat on the couch and began to talk.
"So, have you met any of your neighbours yet?" Sportacus curiously asked.
"Yes, I have. I met this nice old lady, Gladys, who has this cute little dog. She seems very nice and she invited me over on Friday for a coffee." She said.
"Oh, yeah, Gladys. Everyone loves her. And her dog too." He said and smiled.
"And I also met this young couple, Trixie and Stingy. For some reason I don't think they like me." She told him.
"Oh, yeah, they're my friends... I actually met them on my way here. Apparently they are still not over Stephanie's death, because when I told them that I feel great today, that I'm trying to move on and that I coming over to you, they immediately thought that something is going between me and you and that I'm forgetting about Stephanie." He explained to her.
"Oh... And did you say to them something about it?" she curiously asked.
"Yes, that we are just being friends and that you're helping me with Joshua..." he said.
"I feel there's a 'but'." She smiled.
"Well, there is a 'but', but I don't know how you'll react to this..." he quietly said.
"Try me."
"Ok, then... Even that I told them that we're just friends, I really wish we could be more than that..." he directly told her.
"Sportacus, I..." she began to say and giggled a little.
"Yeah, I knew you would laugh or something." He lowered his head.
"No, I want to say that... I kinda feel the same..." she said and gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze.
"R-Really?" he turned back to her.
"Yes. I would like to be with you, Sportacus." She smiled. Joshua was looking at her, not understanding what's going on between her and his father.
"Although I think that we should wait a little. I mean, the school year is about to start soon and I'm very busy with it, and your friends are still in the sadness and depression of Stephanie's loss and I don't think they would like to see with another woman right now." She said.
"You're probably right... Although... I would like to do something that will signify that we're officially in a relationship." He said and moved closer.
"And that would be..?" she asked, and then he moved even closer, cupped her face with one hand – and kissed her. And boy, he was and amazing kisser! She didn't want the moment to end, and kissed him back. And all this time she could only think about how amazing he kisses and how her last boyfriend barely kissed her when they were together.
When they drew back, they were silent, they smiled and couldn't stop looking at each other.
"All I have to say is... wow." Jessica laughed a little.
"I'm glad you liked it." Sportacus laughed too.
"I did. Very much."
Now Joshua was sitting between them on the couch, and looked back and forth at them. He decided to crawl back to Jessica's laps.
"Oops... We kinda forgot he was here!" she said and held him closer to her chest.
"And you're officially part of the family now." He looked at Joshua, and then gave Jessica another little kiss.
For the past two hours they sat and talk, and once in while kissed. He told her wonderful stories about Stephanie, and she told him funny stories about her jerk ex-boyfriend. In two hours they concluded they were made for each other.
When Jessica needed to get back to work, neither of them wanted Sportacus will leave. But since he would distract her more, they just kissed and hugged, and then he left and she got back to work.
Tired from the long day of working on the History material and kissing Sportacus, she decided to Skype with Lacey. She was eager to tell her about her meeting with Sportacus.
"Lacey!" she screamed from happiness to the screen.
"What?! What happened?!" Lacey freaked out.
"Sportacus happened!" she smiled.
"OH! So how was it?" Lacey asked curiously.
"It was great. We talked, he told me about Stephanie, and I told him about my ex, we played with Joshua... Oh, yeah, and we kissed." Jessica told her.
"Say WHAT?! You kissed?!" Lacey screamed.
"Yes! And god, he's such an amazing kisser!" Jessica said.
"Aww! I'm so happy for you, Jess!"
"Thanks. Although we kinda need to keep our relationship in secret, because his friends don't like me around him, they will think he forgot his wife already..." Jessica said.
"Oh, bummer... But at least you got him."
"Yes, I did." Jessica smiled and victorious smile.
"Soooo... Is there any chance for a... date at his place, soon?" Lacey asked.
"I really hope so." Jessica laughed.