Found Missing

by Lily Jill

We hear it outside again. Tentative steps. Contemplative. Calculating. It's the sound that tells me it's him. It's the sound that tells me he's found me. Except he doesn't find me dead like I wanted him to a year ago when I left him. It doesn't matter now. I'm no longer missing. I'm found. And now, I'm as good as dead. DRABBLE.

6. Chapter 6

I'll always warn you all if the chapter holds sensitive subject matter. This one does not, but I will always warn you in advance, lovelies. :)

THE FIRST MEETING

I despised the rain.

It was messy. Annoying. Saturated me with a heaviness I felt in my bones. It left its tracks in my foyer and on my skin. It made me slip and stumble against all surfaces.

…Until he walked into the coffee shop.

And then, just like that, there was something sexy about the rain.

The way it slid down his cheek. The way it pulled the casual black tee he wore taut against his chest. The way I felt it … like steam coming off his body while he stood next to me in line as we waited for the barista to take our orders.

The way my umbrella opened inside the coffee shop unintended, splashing water in every direction, including his.

"How do you take your coffee?" I managed to say to him once the excitement was over and everyone had moved on from my unfortunate blunder. "With sugar or rainwater?"

He stopped brushing the offensive droplets off his face and turned towards me, really looking at me for the first time.

"I'll take it any way I can get it," he answered, shooting me a smile that weakened my knees and quickened my heart. "As long as it's with you."

When his eyes looked me up and down, I knew I'd be having more than just coffee with him.

Now we know how it started, and we know how it ends...just not how or when quite yet.

Thanks to Fran and Dani for everything.

See you tomorrow!