"You need to see it. You need to sit down with your husband and watch it." The customer insisted.
"Well, I don't really have one of those anymore but I can watch it alon--"
"Watch it with your boyfriend then."
She caught a sigh mid-air, and said evenly "I don't have one of those either."
"Okay, your girlfriend."
She gave up. "Okay."
Later that evening she came home to the singles box that she canceled in January on her porch.
The universe was really hitting it hard how single she was. It was starting to sting. This was usually around the time that Nameless came around to pull her out of her slump. This time however, he also had a curveball for her.
"Well everything got pushed up. I have been making edits on my dissertation and at the same time working on my presentation. I really can't think of anything else. Been so tired. Company is also interested in me heading up a big project, so I might be moving again."
Two states over. He was moving two states over. Even though they hadn't seen each other in months, she was still a bit devastated. She suddenly realized how not alone she felt with his shadow, his non-existent existence, always in the back of her mind. For the next two days she was bummed out, processing the emotional hole he would leave in her life.
But he would be up once more, in a few days for his presentation and turning in his dissertation.
"Time for one final tryst?" She asked.
"Hahahaha...I don't know yet. I am trying to get my presentation done. I have to review it with my advisor and practice it. If he doesn't have any changes he wants me to make I might have a little time."
She curbed her expectations. What he was working on was a big deal and she suggested seeing him after it was over. "I wish I could stay," he responded "I am flying out Saturday to head back east for an experiment. I would really like to be able to grab a drink and have that final tryst (as you put it). If I can get this done I am down. I couldn't be an all night thing though. I have to talk for an hour and I will need to practice multiple times at night and early in the morning."
Her heart melted a little bit. He wanted her to stay over but knew he had to concentrate. It was really very sweet of him to be straightforward about her staying, which she never would have done anyway. As much as he was sweet about her staying, he was always running too hot to cuddle throughout the night, and he was always grumpy in the morning. Staying over was cute when they weren't having sex together, but ever since they'd started, it hadn't gone well.
The night he was in town he said he'd text. A little before 9pm he texted. "I am still fumbling around with this and need to work on it more. I don't think today is going to work unless I make some serious head way soon."
"I am sorry...I was really looking forward to one last tryst. But who knows I could be back sometime."
She smiled. It was bittersweet. She wasn't happy that the last time she saw him wasn't going to be the last time. This wasn't like with Piz, when it felt like she was neglected. He had kept her up to date and wanted to meet up, it just wasn't in the cards. She was really going to miss him.
She had decided she would finish her dinner, then text KSL and ask him where his was on his bus route and go pick him up. Before that could happen, he walked in the door.
"Hey, I was--" He cut her off. Apparently he had a rough day, his mom had picked him up and taken him shopping and dropped him off at home. She tried to ask him what had happened and he continued to cut her off.
Cool. What a masculine trade-off. Turns out in the end she wasn't alone at all. She was worse.
