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on a longer,
equally hot cycle,’ I smiled. ‘So did Doug reply?’
    ‘ Mia ,’
he grumbled. ‘I’m still inside you, less of the Doug talk please.’
    ‘Sorry, I
just want to know how it went, I’m so excited for them.’
    ‘Baby your
legs are really cold, come on we’re going to have a hot bath to warm you up and
I’ll dig you out something warmer to wear.’ He slid me off the machine, still
inside me, my legs wrapped around him and walked out and started up the stairs.
    ‘Gabe, our
phones, I need to see.’
    ‘Bloody
hell Mia.’ He turned around and carried me down to the kitchen and I leaned
back in his arms and grabbed them off the island. ‘Can we go up now?’
    ‘Yes please.’
I smiled and kissed him and hung onto his shoulder with my one arm as he carried
me back up the stairs again. ‘Gabe, I’ve changed my mind I’m hungry after all
can we go back down again?’ I asked as he reached the top. He looked at me and
saw me smiling and realised I was pulling his leg.
    ‘One day I’m
going to make you carry me around and see how you like it.’
    ‘Well you
do it to me so often you obviously love it.’
    ‘I do,’ he smiled
as he lifted me off him, groaning as he set me down by the toilet.
    ‘Are you
ok?’
    ‘Yes, I
hate that moment when I pull out of you too Mia. Right I’ll start the bath and go
and sort some clothes for you and put the heating on.’
    I sat on
the toilet and watched him with a raised eyebrow until he laughed and shook his
head as he left me to it. I cleaned myself up again and took off my socks, put
my hair up and went to check on the bath. I sat on the edge as I checked my
phone and smiled to see she’d replied.
    Only 4?
Slacker ;-) Gud ta. Tell G e can stop txtng D 2. Nosey buggers! Tell u bout it
Mon. Luv sund of cin. Njoy wkend x
    You’re
so miserable making me wait Lexi Clarke and as you’re taking English, you
really ought to learn to speak and text it. I’ll need to come back early Monday
morning as I’ve no bloody clothes, so wait for me and we can go in together. I
need to organise my cover notes. Love you x PS It’s five times now.
    <3 U2
x PS Stop rubin it in!
    You
didn’t say how you got on with the rabbit. Didn’t it arrive?
    Damn
it!!!!! :-(
    You
forget to check the box again didn’t you?! I give up with you Clarke x
    I heard a
knock at the door.
    ‘Can I come
back in?’
    ‘Yes of
course. Check your phone, Lexi isn’t giving anything away. She says she knows you’ve
asked Doug too and says to back off.’
    ‘You’re way
too excited about this Mia,’ he said as he looked at his screen ‘Hmmmm … great.’
    ‘What, tell
me?’
    ‘He says to
mind our own business and that he has Alan so I can log into his network and
copy it over.’
    ‘Damn them,’
I sighed. I really wanted this to work for Lexi, it would do her the world of
good to go steady with someone and have them care for her the way Gabe did for me.
‘Ok I think the bath’s done.’ I turned off the taps and watched as he dropped
his sweats and climbed straight in.
    ‘Come on
then bashful, ditch the shirt,’ he said waving a finger at the buttons. I
smiled at him and undid them before dropping it down and climbing in quickly
and sinking below the bubbles so the water was up to my shoulders.
    ‘Hmmm that’s
so nice,’ I said as I lay opposite him and hooked my legs over his. I smiled at
him and saw he’d a slight frown on his face. ‘Gabe, what’s the matter?’
    ‘Well I’ve
been waiting patiently for you to talk to me all day, but unless I start the
conversation now I’ve the feeling that you’re not going to.’ He fixed me with a
disapproving look and I sighed, I thought I’d got away with it.
    ‘Gabe, I
already apologised for my outfit last night.’
    ‘That’s not
what I’m talking about.’
    ‘Then what?’
    ‘Mia, you’re
going into hospital on Tuesday. You haven’t mentioned it once since you put the
phone down on me mid conversation on Friday, which