"My brother tells me you're going through a pretty hard time," Tasha says as she pours both of us a cup of coffee.
Helping her move all of her heavy furniture really made me feel better, a little less tense than when I first arrived. The physical workout gave me time to calm down and keep my mind focused on one thing for a little while. Tasha also helped as a distraction as we talking while she unpacked and I helped arrange her furniture.
Some much for distraction.
"Yeah, our little town has its own little scandal going on," I mutter trying to block out everything Sonya and Viktoria said this morning.
"I saw the news. Want to talk about it?"
I'm usually the one to preach about being open and honest and not to keep anything bottled up inside but this time I couldn't bring myself to do it. I didn't want to talk about it at all. Distractions were much better.
I shook my head, stirring surgar into my coffee.
Instead of bringing it up again Tasha brought up a different topic for which I was grateful for. "I want to thank you again."
I waved her words away. "It was nothing, really. Your furniture was pretty light and you have a lot less than Christian said you do."
"No not just for helping me today. I wanted to thank you for befriending Christian. Me and my mother worried about him when he came out here because I knew wouldn't be around a lot to spend time with him with work and all but I'm glad he has a job and you as a friend," she says resting her hand on my arm.
"Yeah he's a good guy. He helps a lot around the gym and he spends a lot of time with my family so he knows he's not alone."
I wondered if Rose was feeling alone since Christian had class today. I told myself I'd call and check in to see if she was okay. I'd been avoiding her but maybe all the weirdness would go away if we went again all of my advice and just pretended the kiss didn't happen. Or maybe we could take my usual advice, talk about it, straighten things out, and things would be okay again for both of us.
"...talks about your family all the time. I'd love to meet them," Tasha was saying as she straightened the ponytail her long dark hair was pulled into.
I suddenly rememebred what Christian had said about her wanting me to ask her out. I'd said no because I wanted to focus on the gym and helping Rose. Dating wasn't something I really did. Maybe dating isn't such a bad idea though. It'd be nice to have someone to talk to as easily I talked to Rose, someone to physically be with, to kiss and it'd be alright without any headache.
As Christian would say, I was thinking about this too much.
"Yeah we should have a get together sometime. Once things calm down," I added rememebring that things at home weren't exactly peachy keene.
"That sounds good. I like this, the idea of us hanging out. We should do it more often, " she said suggested hesitatnly, worried what my response would be.
Without taking even a second to think about I nodded and agreed, "Yeah, we should."
As her crystal blue eyes lit up and she smiled wide as she sipped her coffee, I wondered if ths decision would make things better or in some ways worse.