Spreading Our Wings
Four
Later that night Charlie lay in Jody's bed, his arm around her. Jody smiled and rolled over to rest her head on Charlie's chest. She draped her arm across the sheet that covered his chest and sighed.
"Do you ever miss this?"
"Miss what?"
"Just lying here in the middle of the night… next to each other… and just falling asleep like that."
"Yeah, I do. But what I miss most is just you. You're voice, you're face, I miss being able to see and talk to you everyday."
"Do you ever think about moving back?"
"Sometimes. But there's always at least 10 reason's for me not to move."
"Oh. I love you Charlie." Jody whispered.
"I love you too Jody." Charlie glanced down a while later and saw that she had fallen asleep. He smiled and turned off the lamp.
Charlie spent 2 more days with Jody and then went off for his usual 5 mystery days. He told all his other old friends excitedly that he was going to propose to Jody one night while they were at the beach. Everyone was happy for them, except of course for Anna, who had liked Charlie the second she saw him. He had been her date for the gala at the beginning of ABA, and she still liked him. But she also knew that Charlie was madly in love with Jody, so she just smiled and wished him luck.
Charlie returned to Jody's apartment on July 13th- a Monday- and they headed off to meet Charlie's friends a little after 12noon.
