Chapter 10
Interrogating Love(Shownu)
It had been a while since we got together with each other. It was easier, even more so than before. I never knew that relationships could be so easy moving. I didn't want to believe that we would be forever, I wasn't as naive as she thought I was but, I guess, I still hoped. A-Ri often looked at me like I was a crazy piece of for loving her. But, I wasn't. She deserved the love more than anyone else I knew. It was easy for her to lose perspective but it was goddamn difficult for me to do that. Of course, I loved her more for her ditzy nature. She seemed to get a bit more careless as we grew closer, it showed me that she relied on me a lot more and that she needed me. Of course, I needed her too. More than she'd ever know, more than I could express. We'd still not had our huge fight and that was weird, I think. People say every successful relationship has fights or at least, arguments, but we had had neither. She looked at me like she was in love but she was yet to say it when she was sober.
The cheesy stuff aside, I was making dinner and it was the weekend and A-Ri was sitting on the couch looking through the new case that was assigned to her. She had returned to working for the firm once she finally gave her bar exams. Of course, she was still refusing to take the exam, some things never change, but she was basically considered a consulting lawyer for her team now. I always thought it was her crippling fear of being too blunt on a public forum that kept her out of the profession.
"Hey," she said, wrapping her arms around my waist and rested her head on my back. "What are you thinking abou
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