Feels So Right

There were nights when she wanted to reach for the phone and call him…except pride was a hard thing to overcome. She had broken his heart too many times for him to still be waiting by the phone. That was what she told herself anyways. Then she heard the phone ring in the dead of night and she knew it would be him.

"Robert," she questioned, her voice still half dazed from sleep?

"I thought it was too much to hope that you would still be answering my calls in the middle of the night but I missed you love…I needed to hear your voice…know that you were okay."

She took a deep breath as she allowed the smile to form on her lips…Had he been feeling it too?

"I guess I feel a lot better now that I can talk to you…I wanted to call you so many times but I thought for sure you had moved on and I didn't think I could stand to know that...I'm the one who made you go away."

Robert sighed as he listened to Anna's heartbeat over the phone…it matched his own. "I would never leave you twisting in the wind…you know that don't you? You had to go away for a while…find yourself, as they say. But you know what? Maybe we needed that time to grow. I always thought someday we'd end up back together. But maybe that was just me and my wishful thinking. I never could bring myself to love anyone like I loved you."

Anna stretched out on the bed and smiled a little wider as she imagined Robert doing the same. "I have a little confession to make…I feel the same way about you. I think I was just too scared to admit it. My feelings for you…they consumed me. I was so sure it would be the death of me…except then you went away and everyone else…they just paled in comparison. I would rather fight with you then make love to anyone else. Does that sound corny?"

"Maybe a little," he said, but then smiled. "But I'm glad to hear it. I miss you Anna Devane. "

"I miss you Robert Scorpio. "

They spent another hour on the phone, talking about mundane things and saying how sorry they were for all the pain they had caused each other…and then they drifted off to sleep, the phone still clutched in their hands…it wasn't until Anna heard the dreadfully bad singing of Robert's voice that she realized she was still on the phone with him when she woke.

"Now I know this is real…Only you could sing that bad and still make me laugh first thing in the morning?"

"Then why don't you get dressed and come down to the airport. I have a surprise for you."

"Why the hell not," she said, and hung up the phone? Robert couldn't wait to see Anna's face when she got there.

Robert was waiting at the airport with flowers and a jet. She ran into his arms and embraced him tightly…" I missed you so much," she said, as she accepted his kiss. There was still something about him that set her soul on fire.

"Does that mean you'll accept my invitation…one week Anna…I know how hard it is for you to take a vacation but you need one…and so do I…One week together in the tropics…to see if we can somehow recapture what we lost…"

"And if we can't?"

"Then we can chalk it up to bad timing and walk away knowing that at least we tried…. I don't know about you but I could never live with myself if I didn't at least try…"

She looked into his eyes and saw what she never thought she would see in them again…she saw love. If this man was willing to risk his pride one more time for a chance with her again then she supposed she could risk a little of her own for that same chance with him…

"Alright Robert…I'll give you one week."

She smiled that smile he missed so much and he captured her lips in his just as he was picking her up into his arms…he didn't care if the world saw them. In this moment, the only thing that mattered was that his one true love was back in his life…and he had one week to convince her to stay forever…he had a good feeling about this trip. Everything just felt right. Finally.

The End