I was running late today. This is one of the days that makes me hate this damn leg and David more then I normally do. When it is cold outside it makes it harder for me to get around, and it makes my leg ache a lot more. I live within a five-minute walk of my lecture hall. I quickly buttoned up my red peacoat I then grabbed my cane and messenger bag. As I walked as quickly as I could down the one flight of stairs in my apartment building I checked my phone to see if Rafael had sent me a text message or had called me, but he had not. I huffed out air and took a deep breath to calm myself down. As I was shutting the main door to my apartment building my brown skirt got caught in the door. I turned around and tried to open the door but the damn thing had locked behind me.

"Are you kidding me?" I said aloud. I had to take a deep breath to keep from screaming. I pulled my keys out of my messenger bag and unlocked the door to pull my skirt out. I had to hurry up if I wanted to be there in time for class. On the walk to my class I couldn't help but let my thoughts wonder to Rafael. Its been two days since I saw him and I was hoping that maybe he liked me the same amount that I liked him.

I hadn't felt this way since I met David and I haven't wanted to feel this way since him. It took me a very long time to get over him. It took me almost ten years to get over him and everything that he did. I was really hoping that Rafael would contact me because he was the first person who made me feel comfortable in my skin. He didn't stare at my leg and give me looks of pity or disgust. Most men don't want a 32-year-old woman who has a cane.

"Dr. Jones!" I turn around quickly to see one of my students for the class that I was going to be late too.

"Yes, Mr. Reed?" I said as I stopped for the student to talk to me. I was glad that he had stopped me because I needed a distraction from my current thoughts.

"I was wondering if you had time after class to talk about some of the myths that we read for class today?" He asked me.

"Sure Mr. Reed I have some time right after class if you are alright with that?" I asked him.

"Yes that would work perfect, thank you Dr. Jones." He said.

"Your welcome, meet me at my office door after class." I told him.

He held the door open to the academic building that my classes and office was located in. "Thank you, Mr. Reed." I said as I walked in. I headed to my class with Mr. Reed walking behind me.

"Good morning everyone." I told the class as I set down my messenger bag and unbuttoned my coat and took it off and draped it across the chair. I walked to the lecture podium.

"Alright class, last class I asked you all to read chapters 10 and 11 in the textbook. I want you all to tell me what some of your favorite myths are." I told my class as I walked up to the blackboard. I picked up a piece of chalk ready to write their answers down. There was no one who spoke up for a minute.

"Come on guys, please tell me that you read." I waited, and nothing happened again. "Ok. Do you have a favorite god that was in a story?" I asked them. "My favorite is Athena."

"Hades." Someone who I believe to be Mr. Reed yells.

"Alright." I said as I wrote that down.

"My favorite myth is about the creation the world in Norse Mythology." A student said. I wrote 'creation of earth/midgard-Norse' on the board.

"Ms. Johnston why is that your favorite?" I asked her as I turned around.

"I think, that it is a good example of the culture of the Vikings." She said.

"Good. That is a good observation." I told her, "who else has a favorite myth?" I asked the class. More students started to answer the question that I had asked them.

"Alright class," I said as I set the chalk down and walked to the desk and set down on it. "Why do we need myths? What makes them important?" I asked the class.

"Well, I think that myths are important because they show us their culture." Said Mr. Martin.

"Good, Mr. Martian." I said. "Myth is the history of culture, it lets us see what society was like in the time that these myths were recorded or told." I told the class.

"I think that it is important for us to remember that myths are more then bed time stories. They are something that shows what ancient societies believed in and what they valued. For example when we look at Greek mythology what can we see what the society was like? I want you all to write a 1200 word paper on the importance of myths in helping us understand the society that the myth was from. I will email you the prompt for the paper, which will be do one week from today, don't groan it was in the syllabus. Alright guys I will see you all Wednesday." I told them. I stayed sitting on the desk until the last student left. I remembered that I was going to meet Jackson Reed at my office to talk. This is going to be a long day. I thought to myself.

I was sitting on my couch in my apartment in my favorite Yale hoodie and a cup of tea when my phone started playing Radioactive. I picked it up and saw that it was Rafael. I couldn't wipe the smile from my face or get rid of the lump in my throat.

"Hello?" I said answering the phone.

"Adelee?" He asked on the phone.

"Yes?"

"Hi it's Rafael." He said, he sounded a little nervous.

"Hi, it's good to hear from you. How have you been?" I asked smiling.

"I've been very busy with a case and I want to apologize now for not calling you earlier." He said.

"That's fine I understand that you have an important job." I told him. I was honestly really glad that this was the reason that he had not gotten back to me.

"Good, um not to sound forward, but are you home?" He asked me.

"Yes." I told him unsure of where this was going.

"To make up for not calling you I have dinner with me that I would love to share with you, if that is alright?" He said unsure, I think that this is the least confidant I have ever heard from him.

"Ok great, I'll be there in fifteen minutes?" He asked.

"Ok great, I'll see you soon." I told him. I hung up the phone and took a drink of my tea. I smiled into my cup and giggled. I don't have pants on or a bra. Shit! I thought as I set my tea down. I gotta get pants! I thought. I jumped up the best I could, and walked to my room to find pants and a bra.

Five minutes later I managed to find leggings, a bra, and I put on a pair of nude flats. I stopped to look in the mirror in the bathroom. "My hair looks like Hagrid's," so I hurried up and put my hair into a braid. It looked better then before, but there was still a lot of tiny baby hairs that were sticking up. "Stupid curly hair."

I walked out of the bathroom through my room to get to the living room. I walked around to make sure that there wasn't anything embarrassing. I am glad that I did check because I found my bra from earlier, my tights from today, and a shirt that I thought that I had lost. I was in the process of throwing them in my hamper when I heard a knock on the door. I went to go answer the door.

"Hello Rafael. It's nice to see you." I said as I opened the door. He was standing there in a brown coat with a gray suit and a light blue shirt on with a navy and pink tie. He looked handsome and it made me feel very underdressed. "I like your tie." I told him

"Hello Adelee. Thank you. I like the sweatshirt." He said smiling. "I brought food."

"Come in." I told him. He walked in and I led him into my living room.

"Wow, it's very white." He said.

"I know. I wanted to paint the walls but I am not allowed to." I told him smiling.

"I like it though, its very bright." He said.

"So what did you bring?" I asked him pointing to the bag.

"I brought Chinese. I brought you Ginger Chicken with Broccoli." He said holding up the brown paper bag.

"That's my favorite." I told him.

"I know," I think that he realized that that sounded creepy so he back tracked. "Your grandmother told me. I swear I am not stalking you."

"Oh thank God. I thought I was going to have to try and beat you to my taser." I said smiling.

"You have a taser? Remind me not to make you mad." He said smiling.

"So you talked to my grandmother?" I asked him I as I walked over to the couch. "Come join me on the couch."

He took of his jacket and laid it on the chair and he walked over to the couch. He set the food on the coffee table and set next to me. "Yes, I went to see mine and yours was there."

"There always together Rafael." I said smiling and laughing.

"I know I think that there are attached. I went over and your grandmother asked me how our date went." He said. I leaned back on the arm of the couch and put my hands over my face.

"Oh no." I groaned. "She didn't force you to call me did she?" I asked him.

"No, I wanted to see you again I promise. She just gave me some advice on how to 'win you over'." He said.

"Oh Lord." I groaned.

"Its ok I think its sweet, I believe my abuela will be doing the same thing to you." He said to me. I laughed and set up.

"Food?" I asked to help change the subject. He pulled out the containers of food and the chopsticks. "I'll get drinks." I told him, "what do you want?"

"Let me get it." He said to me. "Where's the kitchen?"

"Through the dinning room." I said.

"What would you like to have?"

"Water." I told him and a couple of minutes later he came back with waters.

"I didn't just bring food." He said, he opened his briefcase and pulled out two DVDs. "I brought movies. I brought Breakfast At Tiffany's and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I thought that we could watch them together, so we could see each others favorite movie." He told me. That was so sweet.

"Yeah I think that's great." I told him smiling.


Hi guys! I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. It took me all weekend to write this. This was a longer chapter because I am not sure when I will be able to update since I am back in classes again. I hope your holidays were great. I want to thank you all for reading this chapter and this story, it means a lot to me that you all are reading this. If you all interested in seeing what outfits Adelee wears in the story I have on my profile page some URLs for you all to follow so you can see the outfits and things like that.

For all of you in school, I hope you have a great semester!

MS