Tempting Fate by A N Busch Page B

city through his eyes. When he was done she just stared at him. There was nothing she could say.
    “Which one is your favorite?”
    “The one of the beach near Coney Island I think; although, they are all beautiful. Thank you for telling me about them.”
    “I developed them in black and white so they would look older. There is something almost romantic about the city at night. I think you would like it there.”
    “You took me there with you tonight, I did love it.”
    “How is the food?”
    “Oh, it’s good,” Abby had not even realized that she had stopped eating, “You should give yourself more credit for your cooking skills.”
    Abby finished her last few bites and then asked to use his bathroom. She wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything in between her teeth before he saw it.
    “Yes, I got lucky and don’t have a suite mate, so it’s all yours.”
    Abby excused herself and went in to the bathroom; everything inside was dark blue. She closed the door and turned on the water to wash her hands.
    When she came out of the bathroom, he was sitting on the futon and he had cleaned up the table and put it away. Westly reached out for her hand as she walked toward him. She sat beside him and he put an arm around her.
    She looked into his eyes and smiled, “I can’t believe you did all this just for me.”
    “Do you like the roses?”
    Abby glanced around and found that he had moved the small vase onto the desk, “They are beautiful, where did you find them?”
    “They were hard to find I’ll tell you that much! But I was very happy when I did.”
    “Why were you happy?”
    “Because Abs I knew that you would like them, and I wanted this evening to be perfect. What makes it perfect for me is that you were here and that you are happy.”
    “Westly, are you…” Abby paused this was going to sound stupid, but she had to ask. “Can you even really be real? I feel like I’m going to wake up any second, in another time and place, and then you’ll be gone. I was not even looking for anything and here we are. I know it sounds cheesy but I just keep thinking that you are too good to be true.”
    He said nothing for a moment and just touched her cheek. His thumb lightly caressed her bottom lip; then he kissed her deeply, a sweet kiss that that kicked up every butterfly that had settled down to rest in her stomach again.
    “Abs if this is a dream, and I’m pretty sure it’s not, I don’t want to wake up either.”
    Abby curled into his chest and stayed there for the longest time. What did he have planned now, anything? She would be happy just to lie there in his arms again all night.
    “Would you like to go for a walk? It’s a nice night out.”
    Abby looked up at him and smiled. She nodded but did not move.
    A few minutes later they stood up and were going out the door. They walked around campus for awhile holding hands but mostly with his arm around her keeping her warm. They walked around campus, mostly silent, only talking from time to time about nothing in particular at all.
    By the time they arrived back at her dorm, it was nearly two in the morning. Paul was in the lobby of her dorm pretending to read. Abby waved hi to him and he looked annoyed at them, answering with just a nod. When they got to her room, Abby invited him in and he accepted. The doorway barely closed when Abby was back in his arms and kissing him again. If he was a dream, he was the most perfect one she had ever had.
     
     
    Chapter 10
     
    That night and most of Sunday morning was spent just lying in his arms. They watched a movie in the early afternoon, not that either of them had paid much attention to it. They went to lunch in the cafeteria. She saw Melanie and Jamal sitting together across the room and just smiled at the two of them, she could only imagine what Melanie was telling him. Abby wasn’t quite ready to share Westly with her friends. Plus she should get to be the person to tell her friends about him, and she was