Oh The Places You'll Go (II)
AN: This is kind of a sequel, but not really. Just more words on paper.
Disclaimer: This is all just my crazy mind trying to deal.
Waiting was never her strong suit. She was always fighting an inward battle with it. Never enough time passed. There was always a little bit more that had to tick away. She always had to grow up a little more
They never talked about it. They knew what they had. It had been a year. A year since the show and they were still doing everything possible to make each other the focal point in their lives. They didn't have to speak. They didn't need mindless chatter or "that" talk, which would probably be filled with awkward silences and stuttering words anyway. All they needed was to look into each other's eyes and they knew.
She knew there were other women once in a while. She knew that he went out, got drunk and made out with women in skimpy looking outfits that had had too many tequila shots. Just like him. She knew all this because he told her. Every time. And it wasn't him bragging. It wasn't him threatening her, telling her that she better get a move on and realize that he might be gone if she didn't tell him she was ready. No. This was his way of telling her that he was waiting. That there might be drunken hook-ups to release pent up frustration and sexual energy any man in his 20's might have. Because that's life. And she knew. And she understood. Just as she knew that he understood her. He knew that her reluctance didn't come from a place of doubt. It didn't just surface when she got those late night drunken texts where he would, very sloppily, lay all of his emotions right the for her to see until Maks, Alex or Serge inevitably wrestled the phone out of his hands. It came from the fact that she was still, at least deep down, a child trying the best she could to fake her way into his version of an adult world. And he knew that. And that's why he would wait. And she knew him, hat's why she grabbed as many chances as she could to get to experience new things. So that one day she wouldn't be faking it in his world anymore. So that one day, she would be his world.