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Date Posted: 14:21:07 01/13/09 Tue
Author: Odelle
Author Host/IP: CPE0013f7f24246-CM0013f7f24242.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com / 99.234.121.213
Subject: When A Time Comes (Chapter 12)
In reply to: Odelle 's message, "When A Time Comes" on 13:16:05 01/08/09 Thu


Stage one was patience. Waiting, plain and simple. After much laboured strategizing, Michael had delayed second contact for a full 48 hours.

She needed time, she always needed time.

And she was a busy woman, after all. She wasn’t exactly waiting around for him to call.

Instead of doing the natural; phoning her repeatedly, following her around, watching the house – or worse, staying at home and pining – he had gone to a condominium complex on the water, and purchased a semi-furnished unit. A bed, a couch, a chair, and a dining table were available in it, and, since that’s all he’s ever needed, he took it.

But since that activity had hardly occupied yesterday at all, he had begun to question his plans. He had soon found himself at a bookstore, figuring it couldn’t hurt to hedge his Section Valentine training with what real people thought about how to conduct initial re-relationships. But they were all useless; clearly his extensive, deeply complicated relationship with Nikita didn’t fit into the mould of The Moron’s Guide. And the annoying redhead clerk trying to flirt with him was getting on his nerves. He went to the safety and distraction of the philosophy shelves, until they closed and kicked him out.

Tonight, as he sat in a high-backed chair near the empty fireplace, the phone clutched in his hands, he felt completely nervous again. It was as if his mind couldn’t help telling his heart that the evening two nights ago may have been a dream – a perfect, enchanting, surreal dream.

Blinking, he turned the phone over and dialled.

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Replies:

  • When A Time Comes (Chapter 13) -- Odelle, 14:34:15 01/13/09 Tue
  • Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 13) -- Lina, 23:27:32 01/13/09 Tue
  • man or man.... -- steph, 00:07:09 01/14/09 Wed
  • Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 13) -- BJ, 07:41:44 01/15/09 Thu
  • Re:Good chapter! Can't wait for the next one! (NT) -- signme1, 13:24:16 01/15/09 Thu
  • I'm enjoying your story and looking forward to the next chapter! (NT) -- Sheila, 03:24:41 01/19/09 Mon
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