Riding it out

My summer was coming to an end and classes were starting next week. Ever since the incident with Meg I have been a little leery as to how my other friends are going to take everything. Between Meg, J., and I we have all our friends in common. I was afraid people would start taking sides in something that there was no need to take sides in.

After about a couple weeks of mopping around my apartment, I decided it was time to get out and hang out with some of my other friends. I decided to give Emma a call. Emma, Megan and I were usually inseparable. I gave her a call and we decided to go buy our books and meet up for lunch as well. It was so nice to sit and chat with her. She already knew what had happened between Meg and I, and I was hoping she could give me a little insight into a situation that had completely blindsided me.

We went to our favorite sushi bar after we had made a stop at school to buy our books for our first semester of our second year. Once we had our drinks in front of us I decided it was time to bring up the subject. I was a little worried as to how to bring it up, and thank God she made it easy for me.

"Ok A.," she said. "I know what happened and I know its killing you. I'm here for you if you need to talk. I just need you to know that."

I was so relieved to hear her say that, and I took that as an okay for me to talk to her about it. "Emm, I have no idea what happened. I didn't know she felt anything for him or was even interested. You know I would never do anything that would hurt her."

"Oh, sweetie of course I know that. What you need to understand is that Meg for some reason got it into her head that it wasn't fair for you to have J. at home and then Aaron in London. I tried to tell her you and J. had broken up. I told her J. was not good for you and that it was good for you to move on. She never even mentioned anything to me about her interest in Aaron."

I had no idea what to think anymore. Meg knew that J. and I had broken up and now I learn that she never even mentioned her interest in Aaron to Emma. I was beyond confused. All I knew was that I needed to give her time and hope that things would eventually calm down and we could talk. I missed her and I knew all I could do was wait.

After lunch Emma and I decided to do a little shopping. It was so great to hear all about her summer and her many boys. There were always lots of guys when it came to Emma.

The next week flew by with spending time with Aaron and classes starting I had no time to dwell on the argument between Meg and I. The third day of classes I finally had a class with her. That day had started out bad, with me spilling coffee all over myself, and had only gotten worse after having her ignore me every time she saw me. I was ready to go home and collapse and forget about the day.

While I was getting my stuff ready to head home I felt Aaron's arms wrap themselves around me. I turned around and wrapped my arms around him.

"I had such a horrible day," I said to him, while I stood on my tip toes and gave him a kiss.

"Well let me take you home and we could celebrate today," he said as he wrapped his arms a little tighter around me.

"Celebrate?", I asked. As I asked I realized that today was our two month anniversary and I smiled. I had forgotten that I had a gift for him in my car. From the look on my face he knew I finally knew what he was talking about.

We headed over to his place, but not before stopping at my place to grab an overnight bag for me. When we got to his place he told me to lay on the couch and watch some TV while he made dinner. Half way through the movie I had put in, I could start to smell the food he was working on. I wandered into the kitchen and he literally pushed right back out. Half an hour later I was being called into his kitchen.

He had the table all set up and had candles on the table. He pulled my chair out and helped me settle in. He poured a glass of wine for me and brought the tray with the food over to the table too. On it was my two favorite foods. Steak and shrimp scampi. I was touched that he always seems to remember my favorites. After dinner we took the bottle of wine and headed to the living room. I sat in his arms we drank our wine.

We eventually headed to his bedroom. We were laying in bed after making love when he suddenly said, "I need to give you a space for you to leave things here."

"Really?," I said and turned my head to face his.

"Yeah, it would make it easier. Besides it would make me smile to see little things that remind me of you around the apartment."

I smiled bigger then I've ever smiled before. I know its only been two months, and it may seem like we are moving way to fast. But everything has always felt so right between us.