Chapter 8

Cooper kept thinking about what had happened earlier that day as he stood in her closet, whether he wanted to admit it or not he cared about Maxie…probably more than he wanted to. He sighed as he remembered what had happened between them earlier that day in the hotel suite…

"Look I'll give you some time to think about it okay?" Maxie said and started to walk away but turned back around to face Cooper. She leaned up to kiss him slowly wrapping her arms around his neck, as the kiss got deeper Maxie slowly pulled away. It was as if she was trying to show him what he would be missing if he wasn't with her.

Cooper was brought out of his thought by Maxie's voice as she entered the room.

"You can come out now,"

Cooper slowly opened the closet door and stepped out, leaving the closet door open because in the past week he had spent in Maxie's room he quickly learned she always picked out her outfit for work the night before.

Maxie looked at the clock. It read: 8:15 P.M. Cooper sat on the bed and watched as Maxie did her nightly routine: look through her closet until she found what she thought was the perfect outfit. Tonight it was a white short sleeve shirt that tapered in at the waist along with black embroidered jeans.

As Maxie was trying to find a pair of shoes to go with her outfit she thought about the two times she and Cooper had kissed. She sighed as she remembered how natural it felt. After finding a pair of slip on shoes with silver sequins she put them next to her nightstand and plopped down on the bed next to Cooper. After a few minutes of silence Cooper spoke up.

"We can't avoid talking about what's going on forever, we have to talk about it eventually," Cooper said gently.

"I know," Maxie said quietly.

She knew he was talking about the kiss the previous night and the one earlier that day but, she knew he was also talking about him finding a place to live.

With that they sat in silence as they watched the T.V.

Later that night Cooper laid awake thinking about the same thing he'd thought about all day: Maxie and the kiss in the hotel suite but, also the girlfriend he had no commitment to. It should've been a no brainer because what he had with his girlfriend wasn't what you would call a relationship; she just used him to get money. With Maxie it was different because he genuinely cared about her. Coopers thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his cell phone vibrating. He picked it up and opened it, careful not to wake Maxie. He had a new text message. It read: Miss U----Chasity.

Cooper knew even if she did miss him she was still angry at him for testing into the army and leaving her when he was eighteen. He didn't blame her for being mad at him----she had every right to be.With that Cooper shut his phone and tried to sleep.

A/N:You can try and guess who Chasity is but she might not be who you're thinking.