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Chapter 10 Shop talk
The morning sun shone brightly through the gap in Melinda's curtains causing both her and Jim to slowly awaken from their blissful sleep. Mel couldn't remember the last time she had slept this well, even whilst staying at Andrea's her sleep was still plagued by bad dreams and disturbances from the other side, but not last night.
"Morning." Jim said with a huge smile on his face.
"Good morning." Melinda replied as she rolled closer into Jim's arms, the heat from his body warming hers.
"What time is it?" Melinda asked then let out a huge yawn.
"11, I have to go home soon, I have a shift at 1." Jim said sadly.
Mel pouted a little then attempted to pull away from him so she could take a shower and get herself ready too.
"Jim let me go." She giggled as she fought against his grasp.
"What if I don't want to?" Jim added playfully.
"Well then you'll never get home in time for work, you need me to give you a ride remember." Mel replied.
"Fine but first I need a good morning kiss." Jim said sweetly, he hoped that it would be the first of many kisses in the morning.
"Can I go shower now I have to go help Andrea in the store, we should be ready to open in a few weeks." Mel beamed, she was so excited about the new store and the antiques, she really did love antiques.
"Mel you promised me, Andrea and the doctor that you would take it easy, you shouldn't be rushing around." Jim said lovingly as he stroked her hair.
"Jim I am so fine you wouldn't believe and I haven't seen the ghost since the accident I will take a shower, drive you home and then when you get a break we can meet, Andrea will look after me." Mel replied trying to put Jim at ease, she really wasn't used to someone caring about her as much as Jim did.
"Alright fine but whilst you shower I'm making breakfast, do you like omelette?" He asked sweetly.
"Of course." Melinda replied then placed a soft kiss on his lips before they parted to go about their separate chores.
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2 hours later
Melinda opened the door to her new shop smiling brightly, her brown hair hanging in soft curls by her shoulders, her features beaming in the wonderful sunlight that illuminated the store.
"Well don't you look chirpy this afternoon, you had a good evening I take it." Andrea said, this was basically a clean way of asking if anything sexual happened last night.
"Yeah I had a really great night and before you even say anything nothing of that nature happened." Mel added knowing exactly what Andrea's next question would have been had she not cleared the air.
"What are you suggesting, that I would ask anything suggestive?" Andrea said with mock innocence in her voice.
Melinda just rolled her eyes and made her way around back to begin inventorying the large piles of stock she had been collecting for the last few months.
"When you say nothing happened do you actually mean nothing, he stayed the night and you did nothing." Andrea said again as she followed Melinda into the back room carrying a pile of folders and other pieces of paper.
"Andrea we talked then I fell asleep on his knee so he carried me to bed, nothing happened, now would you help me with this box Jim said I'm not allowed to do any heavy lifting and this box is heavy." Mel replied as she attempted to lift a box that was at least half her size.
"Come here." Andrea laughed then took the box from Melinda.
"Jim's right, the doctor said relax, take it easy, now where do you want me to put this thing?" Andrea asked as she wondered around with the box in her arms.
"Right there by the desk will do." Mel replied then walked over to take a seat at the computer, there was some kind of spread sheet on the screen that allowed her to log in all the stock.
"Anything else boss?" Andrea asked as she was now standing around doing nothing.
"No I'm good here clicking things, you can pass me stuff or draw out some plans for the layout of the shop front, you're good at art, much better than me." Mel replied complementing her friends skills.
"Okay I'll work up some designs for the shop front." Andrea replied then the two women set to work.
A few minutes of silence passed before Andrea broke it, asking yet another question about Mel and Jim, she really couldn't help herself.
"So nothing happened with you and Jim this time but what about next time, is he going to be staying over again?" Andrea asked cheekily.
"Andrea really?" Mel said shyly.
"What I just want to know, I mean he's hot and nice and funny and HOT, why wouldn't you want to sleep with him?" She replied in her defence.
"Okay first of all he's mine so don't be getting any ideas." Mel joked.
"And secondly I didn't say I didn't want to sleep with him, I just said nothing happened last night because I was so tired, I'm staying at his place tonight." Mel added playfully.
"Oh it's like that is it?" Andrea replied laughing as she did, if the pair carried on like this they would probably never get any work done.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with the monotonous task of logging items on a computer and placing them in coded boxes ready for display, by the time it reached 5 Melinda really did just want to get the hell out of the store and she was expecting Jim to stop by any moment.
Andrea had left the store early to go and pick up some decorations and scour for the best deals on paints and paper ready to decorate the shop front, she already had some phenomenal ideas for the main room and Melinda couldn't wait to see the whole thing when it came together, it wouldn't be long now.
Just as Mel had finished placing the last item into one of the boxes at the far end of the room, she heard the shop bell ring.
"Mel it's me where are you?" Jim called as he walked around the shop floor looking for her.
"I'm back here, wait there I'll just be a second." Mel replied. She was standing on top of some kind of step ladder trying to retrieve her jacket that had somehow moved it's self up there.
She fumbled around stretching her arm as far across the shelf as she could be to no avail, she couldn't reach the coat in a last ditch attempt she jumped a little and swung her arm causing a glass vase to fall from the shelf and shatter at her feet.
"Ahh." Mel screamed and jumped a little, she wasn't expecting that.
"Mel, Mel are you okay." Jim called as he ran into the room.
"I'm fine I just can't reach my blasted jacket I swear I didn't put it up here." Mel replied gesturing toward the shelf she was still standing in front of.
Jim reached up and retrieved the coat with ease and then lifted Melinda off the stool and over the shattered glass so she didn't cut her feet, her shoes were open toed.
"Here Mel, you really should be more careful we wouldn't want you getting hurt now would we." Jim said sweetly and pulled her into a tight hug placing a soft kiss on her lips.
"I was fine honestly I just need a taller ladder that's all." She joked then started to pull her jacket onto her arms.
"Right I'll just clean this up and then we can get out of here." Mel added.
"Where's the dust pan and bush and I'll clean it for you?" Jim said lovingly.
"Jim I can do it you don't have to." Mel replied feeling a little bad that Jim was so good to her, she felt like she didn't deserve him sometimes.
"No I want to Mel." He replied then Melinda passed him the equipment and he cleaned up the mess.
"Shall we get going then?" Jim asked as he took Mel's hand and laced his fingers in between hers.
"Yeah I think that is a brilliant idea." Mel replied and they made their way out of the store toward Mel's car where they would drive back to her apartment.
She had already gathered her things for Jim's house in a bag and just needed to collect it plus Jim needed a ride home due to his lack of a vehicle for another 24 hours but she was surprised at how nervous she was about staying at his apartment. Mel knew that Jim would never push her into doing anything she wasn't comfortable with and she felt as though she could completely be herself around him, she didn't have to hide any part of who she was and he accepted her, but part of her was still afraid. She was scared that Jim would get tired of her and just leave, she was scared that she might lose the one person that understood her so well and that made her nervous.
It wasn't long before Melinda had driven home and collected her things, the next stop now was Jim's place where the couple had an eventful evening ahead of them in ways they definitely weren't expecting.
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Okay this is where I need the opinion on my avid readers, here I could do a M rated chapter and update the rating of my story or I could sensor it and keep it as a T rated story but I would like you to give your opinions in reviews as I don't want to offend any of you. Please let me know and let me know what you thought of this chapter too, it was kind of a fill in chapter but there you go. x