True to his word- for what was possibly the fist time in his life- Duncan tried to stay away from Courtney, he really did. He even managed to maintain this grand feat for a whole month!
"Courtney? Princess?" Duncan called as he entered her house. It was exactly how he remembered it; wonderful and perfect. "Princess? Look, I'm really sorry. Please come out... I need to talk to you." Duncan yelled in vain.
He searched the whole house top to bottom, finding absolutely nothing. There was no sign of Courtney anywhere in the large house. He wasn't able to tell how long she'd been gone since there was no dust, and nothing else that would tell him anything about her whereabouts.
Finally Duncan's search led him to Courtney's bedroom. He entered and immediately noticed something was wrong; Courtney's jewelry box was gone. "No, no, no." Duncan murmured. He sprinted across the room and flung open the doors of what he assumed, correctly, was Courtney's closet. The spacious area was empty; the space that had once been occupied by her clothes was now barren. "No." Duncan said, denying the pain that her leaving made him feel. "Not Courtney! Not Princess." Duncan said, refusing to believe she would have abandoned him just like everyone else in his life had.
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That night Duncan ended up staying in Courtney's house. Lucky for him, the following day just so happened to be his one day off. If it hadn't, Duncan would have been in major trouble since his work place was on the way opposite side of town. Far from any clean and well groomed houses such as the one Courtney owned.
The next day came and Duncan found himself only leaving Courtney's bedroom to walk- zombie style- into the kitchen or the bathroom. Courtney's refrigerator also told him nothing about how long she'd been gone since the only things she had left in the stainless steel appliance were two tubs of ice cream in the freezer section.
Duncan ate the chocolate ice cream for breakfast and the strawberry tub for lunch.
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Finally, when the when darkness fell on the second nigh, Duncan decided to take a shower. Afterwards he marveled at the fact that he was actually clean, not semi clean like the way he got from the near public showers in his apartment building. Courtney's shower had felt so much like heaven that Duncan literally had to drag himself out from underneath the steamy jets of hot water; but not before spending almost an hour using ever kind of soap Courtney had available to scrub several layers of skin off of himself.
The night Duncan fell asleep in Courtney's bed, he had changed the sheets since he didn't want his new freshness to become contaminate from the sheets he'd spent the night in when he was still filthy.
Courtney's bed truly was the most marvelous thing Duncan had ever slept in. It had Egyptian cotton sheets (not that Duncan would actually know what those were) feather pillows galore, and it smelled like springtime. You know, fresh grass and flowers, stuff like that.
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When Duncan woke up the next morning he took another shower- a much shorter one- before putting the clothes he put threw in wash the night before, back on. He then turned off all the lights he'd turned on and left for work.
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Duncan returned that night in hope of finding Courtney there... needless to say, he didn't.
This pattern of him leaving and returning to spend the night continued for almost a month when Duncan gave up and just moved out of his apartment and into Courtney's empty house. He bought food and put it in the empty refrigerator, and he slept in the bed that had previously never been slept in before (he didn't know this of course). Everything he did brought him closer to Courtney, at least in his mind it did.
Duncan was living in the house of a girl he'd only recently met and fallen for… hard. It had taken him some time to realize that he was indeed in love with the little slip of a woman- it was about the time he came back to her that it dawned on his why he just couldn't stay away. But his returning only made matters worse because Duncan was just in time to find out that the girl he wanted to spend the rest of useless life with, was gone.
Sorry about all the brakes in the story with the dots. It's suppose to show time passing.
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